Newsflash: Every single President since FDR has been a "war time" President.
Non sequitur. If I want a history lesson, you'll be the first guy I'll ask.
And newsflash, nobody cares about the past. We're talking present here. He was supposed to be the one who ended war. He made that clear. So, such a contradiction will not go unnoticed. Being in a long list of wartime presidents does not erase the irony of Obama's words. He wanted to buck the trend, but became part of it.
No one takes campaign promises seriously, and no one actually thought Obama was going to "end war".
Pretending that Obama exists in a vacuum - that we've never had a President before him - is a really stupid way to frame an argument. No matter how much you don't "care" about it, the past is completely relevant here.
I bet he's regrets his 'campaign promises' now doesn't he? The best way not to be labeled a liar is not to lie, not to make promises you won't keep. That's the whole problem. Pigeonholing him in with a long line of wartime presidents is a way to defend him from his errant words, shielding him from the lies he spouted to the masses eager for change. That within itself is no way to argue either.
But since you insist the past is relevant, I will note the double standard that Democrats employed when they assailed Bush as if he were the only President to ever start a war in the Middle East; forgetting this long line of wartime presidents. They most certainly thought Bush existed in a vacuum then. Why don't you remember that?
The past is irrelevant here because his actions are affecting our future.
