Slowly but surely, as we get closer and closer to the general election, Obama is going to have to get more concrete with his stances, because while tired rhetoric and optimism!!!!!!! might work with the liberal base during the primary season, the population will expect more during the general election. And, as we know, when we make Obama actually talk about what he wants to do,we get bizarre statements (he would meet with rogue leaders without preconditions, he admits he would have to raise taxes on virtually everybody to pay for his programs, he admits his plan to increase personal savings would actually be “optional” and thus probably wouldn’t increase any savings, he admits your 2nd Amendment right is subject to his “common sense,” he has his three “anti-America” moments, and his business/jobs plan would subsidize inefficient companies that promise to not move overseas).

Here’s his latest brilliant moment:

McCain criticized Obama for saying in Tuesday night’s Democratic debate that, after U.S. troops were withdrawn, as president he would act “if al-Qaida is forming a base in Iraq.” “I have some news. Al-Qaida is in Iraq. It’s called `al-Qaida in Iraq,’” McCain told a crowd in Tyler, Texas, drawing laughter at Obama’s expense. He said Obama’s statement was “pretty remarkable.”

Obama quickly answered back while campaigning in Ohio. “I do know that al-Qaida is in Iraq and that’s why I have said we should continue to strike al-Qaida targets,” he told a rally at Ohio State University in Columbus.

“But I have some news for John McCain,” Obama added. “There was no such thing as al-Qaida in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq. … They took their eye off the people who were responsible for 9/11 and that would be al-Qaida in Afghanistan, that is stronger now than at any time since 2001.”

Whether or not terrorist groups existed in Iraq prior to the war is neither here nor there. Who cares? Obama is not running for President in order to be transported back to the year 2001. He’d be President in 2008. Al-Qaida in Iraq exists, and Obama will have to deal with it. But what’s his plan? Withdraw the troops and pledge to, er, “strike al-Qaida targets.” Not sure how he would do that if he withdraws the troops, eh?

While he praised McCain as a war hero and saluted his service to the country, Obama said the Arizona Republican was “tied to the politics of the past. We are about policies of the future.”

Noting that McCain likes to tell audiences that he’d follow Osama bin Laden to the “gates of hell” to catch him, Obama taunted: “All he (McCain) has done is to follow George Bush into a misguided war in Iraq.”

More complete emptiness. Rather than answer the obvious questions that come along with his competing stances (”I’ll withdraw all our troops, but continue to strike al-Qaida”), he just attacks Bush and his “proxy,” McCain, for the past. How do Obama’s comments help us understand what kind of President he’ll be?

And how about this from Stop the ACLU. Obama basically says he would gut our military and remove our nukes. Pretty damn absurd:

If you needed any reason to bite your lip and support McCain, I just gave you about a dozen.

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