So now the bush administration comes out with a timetable, and the MSM is silent

[still_one]

It was only a few months ago they said that a timetable would be the worst thing they could do

[eshfemme]

1. Yeah, it looks like the Bush admin's been phoning it in while copying off of Obama's notes.

Why doesn't the MSM actually notice that some of Obama's ridiculed suggestions have been instated as national policy already? Oh wait, I know, it's because then the MSM would need to eat crow.

[still_one]

4. Not because they would need to eat crow, but because they are not journalists

for the most part

[BadgerKid]

8. Just up now: "Obama: I Welcome Bush Coming Around On Iraq"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6695684

[babylonsister]

2. I hope Obama makes this a HUGH!!11! issue; he was right! nt

[still_one]

3. You are soooo right. mccain was preaching the same BS about no timetable /nt

[PATRICK]

5. Becuase then

they would have to admit all foreign policy, all the lives risked, comes second to oil and election ploys. The MSM job is plainly only as a WH propaganda machine.

[madokie]

6. If it is true that they plan to pull the troops back a ways

then that means the oli-garchs have their wet dream.

[Philosoraptor]

7. A cheap ass election year stunt using our troops as props, how Nazi-like

[still_one]

15. I agree, and I don't believe them for a minute, but they should be made to eat those words

[moondust]

9. Timetable = surrender.

Just ask BushCheney or McBombs.

[gratuitous]

10. No, no, no, it's an aspirational timetable; completely different

Nothing at all like what we were ridiculing Obama for a few weeks ago, so stop saying that.

[ColbertWatcher]

11. I thought they called it a "Time Horizon"

http://www.wikiality.com/Time_Horizon

[Trillo]

12. This is one of the worse aspects of the "king of the hill" society we have.

When jockeying for position, if the opponent finds a message that resonates, the message is copied. Truthful belief and its enunciation takes a backseat the message that's perceived to win.

This is by no means limited to political campaigns, as our pyramidal society seems to be filled with many local hills each with local private kings, but in politics, one manifestation is campaigns where either promises are made, or more cleverly, the appearance of promises, then when somebody's in office, the exact opposite of what they said in the campaign is done.

It can be discouraging.

[Progressive_In_NC]

13. This is an attempt to disarm Obama, he will now half to rewire parts of his stump speeches

And run on more domestic issues.

[sourmilk]

14. Shhhh...it's a time HORIZON, remember?

John Stewart correctly pointed out that a horizon is something you approach yet can never actually reach...