Yesterday senior Obama advisor Samantha Power resigned from the Obama campaign after calling Hillary Clinton a "monster." Gutter name-calling doesn't work when your candidate says he wants a "new politics" that avoids name-calling and smearing. But before she left, Power gave an interview with the BBC's Stephen Sackur about Obama and his promise to withdraw all US troops from Iraq within 16 months. That interview is causing shock waves across the Internet. Thanks to The American Mind, the transcript is now available.STEPHEN SACKUR: Let me stop you just for a moment. You said that he’ll revisit it when he goes to the White House. So what the American public thinks is a commitment to get combat forces out within sixteen months, isn’t a commitment isn’t it?
POWER: You can’t make a commitment in whatever month we’re in now, in March of 2008 about what circumstances are gonna be like in Jan. 2009. We can’t even tell what Bush is up to in terms of troop pauses and so forth. He will of course not rely upon some plan that he’s crafted as a presidential candidate or as a US senator. He will rely upon a plan, an operational plan that he pulls together, in consultation with people who are on the ground, to whom he doesn’t have daily access now as a result of not being the president. So to think, I mean it would be the height of ideology, you know, to sort of say, well I said it therefore I’m going to impose it on whatever reality entreats me –
SACKUR: Ok, so the 16 months is negotiable?
POWER: It’s the best case scenario.
Power admitted to the interviewer that Obama's plan to withdraw US troops in 16 months is "the best case scenario". Later in the interview Power acknowledges nothing in Iraq has ever gone according to the best case scenario. Which means Obama's promise is empty talk. Change? (Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.)
