Learn How to Do an Obama

Here is how it works: Contradict your administration all the time.

An example:

President Obama tells Anderson Cooper from CNN that he will look into an investigation of an Afghan massacre involving U.S. soldiers and possible war crimes: “I think that, you know, there are responsibilities that all nations have, even in war; and if it appears that our conduct in some way supported violations of the laws of war, then, I think that uh, we have to know about that.” [My transcript from the interview.] (See this section from the interview on YouTube.)

Of course, this is contrary to the official standpoint of the Obama administration just two days earlier: “Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human rights groups allege were killed by U.S.-backed forces,” CBS News.

Just one example of many such cases that now have become a typical Obama-administration phenomenon.