A Comparison

Barack Obama tonight in an interview with Bill O'Reilly:

As recently as July, the Democratic presidential candidate declined to rate the surge a success, but said it had helped reduce violence in the country. On Thursday, Obama acknowledged the 2007 increase in U.S. troops has benefited the Iraqi people.

“I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,” Obama said while refusing to retract his initial opposition to the surge. “I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”

This quote from Obama in which he basically refuses to admit he was wrong about the surge made me think of the movie Jaws.Remember when the shark first bites through the piano wire when Hooper thought it was some sort of game fish but then refused to admit it was a shark? Quint said, "Well it proves one thing, Mr. Hooper. It proves that you wealthy college boys don't have the education enough to admit when you're wrong."