Makes it tough to argue that Barack Obama has been consistent . . . or honest. What’s amazing is that this hurts Obama without regard for whether you’re pro-war or anti-war. It’s the inconsistency, the attempt to have it both ways, the opportunism, the “just another lying politician” factor that hurts him. And it hurts him on the one issue where John McCain has been rock-steady from Day One. Obama ran as the anti-war candidate. He won the Democratic nomination as the anti-war candidate. And he has subsequently forfeited whatever value there was in being the anti-war candidate on Nov. 4.
