David Gergen actually said...

You've promised that you're going to get out. Iraq has been on simmer. George Bush is going to give you something that looks like it's doing better.

Gergen explains the political implications for Democrats regarding their promise to withdraw from Iraq.

02/06/2008

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It has been American foreign policy for some time now to support and strengthen Ukraine, to come to the aid of those leaders.

Instead, what the president listened to with Putin and Orban and Giuliani and it soured his view on the Ukrainians.

He clearly acknowledged it. He clearly was under instructions from others, including the president to walk it back.

I think the White House feels he has been out a lot on television, as Maggie said, but crucially, he is not effective.