Acutally, I think Obama is trying to "Punt" on the Iran strategy.

B+

"What explanation do they have for being surprised here? "

What explanantion do you have for saying they are "surprised?"

In fact, who's to say that US intelligence forces aren't behind the insurgency?

(See. I can make up bullshit too, just like you!)

If they were not surprise then they are incompetent. They came out on one side then later switch. They gave one message then almost immediately do a 180.

Pivots like these really should be assisted by a gyroscope.

Otherwise the dizziness factor is insurmountable.

Morrissey also notes that this is the second time official white house communications have used the term pivot.

Didn't "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" have a dance (on politics) called "The Sidestep"?

That could be the meaning of "pivot" here.
("I think that's a possible maybe.")
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Fellow Texans, I am proudly standing here to humbly see.
I assure you, and I mean it- Now, who says I don't speak out as plain as day?
And, fellow Texans, I'm for progress and the flag- long may it fly.
I'm a poor boy, come to greatness. So, it follows that I cannot tell a lie.

Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don't-
I've come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,
cut a little swathe and lead the people on.

Now my good friends, it behooves me to be solemn and declare,
I'm for goodness and for profit and for living clean and saying daily prayer.
And now, my good friends, you can sleep nights, I'll continue to stand tall.
You can trust me, for I promise, I shall keep a watchful eye upon ya'll...

Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don't-
I've come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,
cut a little swathe and lead the people on.

Now, Miss Mona, I don't know her, though I've heard the name, oh yes.
But, of course I've no close contact, so what she is doing I can only guess.
And now, Miss Mona, she's a blemish on the face of that good town.
I am taking certain steps here, someone somewhere's gonna have to close her down.

Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don't-
I've come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,
cut a little swathe and lead the people on.

Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep...

And, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step...

Cut a little swathe and lead the people on.

"PIVOT" Does that mean Barry WAS GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION?

Hmmmm.....PIVOT on Iran. PIVOT on jobs and the economy. PIVOT on health care.

Jp, SAUD, Bryan D, Stevie, VIC. Care to comment?

sabre[5 percent of a brain cell].... "In fact, who's to say that US intelligence forces aren't behind the insurgency?"

Are you saying when obama said in June after the much disputed Iranian election that refusing to "meddle" in those elections was the proper policy?

Adding that "It is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran's leaders will be. We respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran,..."

Was he lying then and the CIA etc was actually meddling in the election and it's politics?

"PIVOT" Does that mean Barry WAS GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION?

Hmmmm.....PIVOT on Iran. PIVOT on jobs and the economy. PIVOT on health care."

Just call it Flip Flopping...

I'm getting nostalgic for the old high school marching bands days. I want to see more "Right Spins."

As if it wasn't bad enough that an "education"-defined-down-to-fit quota "qualified" coke-headed commy cretin took a week while meanwhile loafing around the beach to be coached to perform as if he'd noticed there'd been another contemptuously carried out Islamanazi Terrorist-War attack on the American homeland, we are now -- more than six months and innumerable innocent lives into the Iranian War For Individual Liberty -- to believe the Hitler's-little-helper-Soros/Socialist International-steered marijuana-mumbling mobbed-up Mussolini-modeled modified-Marxist murtadd-Muslim multiple-mothers'-milquetoast empty-galabiyah glove-puppet has noticed it?

Get real.

Neither this s**t-stirring, Alinskyist street-agitating natural-born-British/Kenyan/Indonesian pretender to what these days passes for a "presidency (who says he sat through 20-years of the rancid rages and rantings of a rabid racist ratbag, yet didn't hear a word) -- nor even one of the lock-stepping Goebbelsesque propagandists and pamphleteers who pose as "the press," could unassisted find Iran on a map.

0zero is the creation of the kind of illusionists (delusionists?) who "marketed" the Immaculate Golfer, Cheetah What's-His-Name -- and like the image on a failing TV there are so many vertical lines and ghost images on his screen that Humpty Odumpty has already had his great fall -- and now amount of prostrations before other tyrants and all the kings' men will never put Odumty together again.

(And his loathsome and fearsome spouse's seething contempt and his own Narcissism will soon reach critical mass and will see to his implosion -- and to his post-2010 mid-terms resignation!)

Put a fork in him.

PALIN/PETREAUS/2012.

Brian Richard Allen
Lost Angels - Califobambicated 90028
And the Very far Abroad