ES OBAMA KNOWS WHAT'S HAPPENING

Empty Suit Obama, running to lead the American people "into the future" still manages to not have a clue as to what's going on around him.

In an Op-Ed in — my heart be still — the Washington Post (yes, Post, not Times), writer Charles Krauthammer takes issues with Obama's "first we have to leave Iraq because we're not accomplishing anything" stance.

Krauthammer goes onto note what's been happening in Iraq over the past few weeks:

"1. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent the Iraqi army into Basra. It achieved in a few weeks what the British had failed to do in four years: take the city, drive out the Mahdi Army and seize the ports from Iranian-backed militias.
2. When Mahdi fighters rose up in support of their Basra brethren, the Iraqi army at Maliki’s direction confronted them and prevailed in every town—Najaf, Karbala, Hilla, Kut, Nasiriyah and Diwaniyah—from Basra to Baghdad.
3. Without any American ground forces, the Iraqi army entered and occupied Sadr City, the Mahdi Army stronghold.
4. Maliki flew to Mosul, directing a joint Iraqi-U.S. offensive against the last redoubt of al-Qaeda, which had already been driven out of Anbar, Baghdad and Diyala provinces.
5. The Iraqi parliament enacted a de-Baathification law, a major Democratic benchmark for political reconciliation.
6. Parliament also passed the other reconciliation benchmarks—a pension law, an amnesty law, and a provincial elections and powers law. Oil revenue is being distributed to the provinces through the annual budget."

Oh, yeah, Obama's got the handle on things. For Krauthammer's complete column go HERE

On another not, the Obamaists at Newsday relegated ES's 360-degree turn around on campaign financing to page 28a. After all, it's not really news ... it's just our erstwhile leader looking to tomorrow.

Jeez.