That's Been My Experience

Obviously, when a theory is confirmed by my personal data, it looks pretty solid. Instapundit notes that President Obama's popularity goes up when he is largely out of sight and goes down when he is in the public spotlight.

For me, my sympathy goes up when I don't hear from him. And my sympathy drops when I actually hear him speak with his overtly partisan rhetoric.

And true to form, as I listen to the president on TV with Prime Minister Cameron, I get furious at his posturing. At moments like this, even The Donald seems like an improvement over The One. This time, he brings up the silly idea that Iraq "distracted us" from Afghanistan.

Yet the president was once more lenient than I was in determining the period when the Taliban rebounded and you could say that we could not commit more forces to Afghanistan because we were fighting in Iraq.

And by the time you could say that we had this dilemma, the dilemma was less than it really was because Iraq was the central front in the war on al Qaeda since al Qaeda itself had decided to make Iraq the main front in their war on us.

What would have been the point of pulling up stakes while we were fighting al Qaeda in Iraq hammer and tongs in  order to patrol Afghanistan where al Qaeda had not yet returned? The real war against terrorism was in Iraq!

Lord, he's infuriating.