An ugly revelation about Obama by an advisor: he doesn't really mean it when he promises to pull out US troops within 16 months

Samantha Power, who resigned from the Obama campaign on Friday, evidently told BBC reporters Obama’s talk about withdrawing troops isn't realistic. And the Obama campaign admits it. From Politico, here is what Power said about Obama's promise to withdraw US troops within 16 months:

"You can’t make a commitment in March 2008 about what circumstances will be like in January of 2009," she said. "He will, of course, not rely on some plan that he’s crafted as a presidential candidate or a U.S. 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 – it would be the height of ideology to sort of say, 'Well, I said it, therefore I’m going to impose it on whatever reality greets me.'"

Obama makes promises that he knows he probably can't fulfill? Folks, forget Change; this development turns Obama into a typical say-anything-to-get-elected DC insider. You can read Obama's plan for Iraq (which we now know is phony) here.