BIDEN'S CHUTZPAH

Vice-President Joe Biden is now certain that Iraq will turn out to be one of the Obama-Biden administration's greatest achievements. Here is what he told Larry King on Wednesday during an interview on CNN: I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.

That’s some chutzpah, especially since before Obama was elected president, both Biden and Obama consistently opposed the war in Iraq and opposed the troop surge by the Bush administration. The Bush troop surge has generally been credited for our success in Iraq and the troop withdrawal Biden brags about was actually planned by Bush before he left office.

Here is The Washington Times’ take on Biden’s chutzpah:

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TAKES CREDIT FOR BUSH SUCCESS IN IRAQ
By Kerry Picket

The Washington Times
February 11, 2010

In the midst of weak polls numbers, the Obama administration is grabbing on to anything that will boost the image of a flailing presidency. Everyone from President Obama to Vice President Joe Biden to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs are more than willing to say the successes in Iraq are due to Obama administration policies without crediting the President Bush's foundational groundwork, like the surge (which Obama and Biden opposed) and setting up the military drawdown in Iraq with Prime Minister Maliki before he left the White House. The Fox News Channel details further the Obama administration's attempt to call any success in Iraq their own, while trashing the Bush administration in the process.

It remains amusing that the White House will continue to repeat they "inherited" the Bush economy, when Obama's economic policies continue to fail, while embracing any victory in Iraq that rightfully belongs to the prior administration's work with the U.S. Military and Iraqi government.

This is sort of like beating up on the class nerd everyday, demand he does your class work, score straight A's, still beat up on the class nerd, and truly believe you are some kind of genius for getting good grades. Unfortunately for President Obama, the teachers are the American people. He has not paid attention to them, and stealing the credit for someone else's hard work will not bring up his poll numbers.