Barack Obama will assume that just and rightful authority at noon on Tuesday. After a dinner with him that I attended last week, as we said our goodbyes, I overheard one of my fellow conservatives say softly to the president-elect, “Sir, I’ll be praying for you.” Obama seemed to pause as they shook hands, and to thank him more earnestly than he did those of us who simply — and sincerely — wished him well.
The incoming president is the ...
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From the title of this piece I expected this story to be about Obama (perhaps expounding on the dinner with conservatives). It was not, rather it is mainly about Bush. Kristol is either misleading (or being naive) when he states: "Bush stood with Israel when he had no political incentive to do so and received no political benefit from doing so." Further he implies that America was on the verge of accepting defeat in Iraq in late 2006--certainly a view that is in need of definition and is open to debate. In sum this article was not what I expected and I was not impressed by what I read.
