Rachel Maddow on Obama ending Bush's war

The Obama Iraq–pullout speech received mixed reviews.

Martin Wolf called it "too cautious" in the Financial Times. The NY Times editors were more positive ("There was no victory to declare last night, and Mr. Obama was right not to try") but then wondered "why he talks to Americans directly so rarely and with seeming reluctance." The Post's Dan Balz wrote about the "tension inherent in his Oval Office address." Bill Kristol liked it; that's a mixed review all by itself, in my opinion.

But I think the best evaluation belongs to Rachel Maddow. During MSNBC's post-speech chat, Rachel Maddow went easy on Obama's Team Looking Forward act and offers this interesting thought:



Then on her own show she clearly tweaks Obama for not looking back, by showing what he's not looking back at. Here's Rachel, refusing to "go down the memory hole" with some other unnamed person. Nice work:



"On the day the war ends, what the war was for is sort of the elephant in the room."

Thanks, Rachel.

GP