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who's "detached from reality"?

Pub Date：2008-05-08 00:00:00 Author: Click:7 Category: meal planning

In an an editorial today the hawkish Washington Post argues that "The president at least recognizes, from "hard experience," how quickly progress in Iraq can unravel". They proceed to castigate the Democrats for being "as detached from reality as they accuse Mr. Bush of being when he decided on the invasion."

They're forced to say, grudgingly and with qualifications, that there might be a sign the Democrats know plans for the Mid-East are never written in stone:

If there was a glimmer of sense in Mr. Obama's speech, it lay in his acknowledgment that "we will have to make tactical adjustments, listening to our commanders on the ground, to ensure that our interests in a stable Iraq are met and to make sure our troops are secure." Ms. Clinton conceded that "the critical question is how we can end this war responsibly" and added "it won't be easy." In fact it will be terribly hard -- and it can't be done responsibly in the way or on the timeline the two Democrats are proposing. We can only hope that, behind their wildly unrealistic campaign rhetoric, the candidates understand that reality.

But it's the Post that's out of touch with reality. When was the last time any President took office and did just as he pleased? Even the ones who carried out their major campaign promises had to negotiate with Congress and defer to reality.

Campaign promises are at best a sign - an indication of how the candidate is leaning. McCain will keep us in Iraq for "100 years''. Obama or Clinton will try to get us out.

That's really what it's about.

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