Consider this: does a campaign’s scrubbing of its website of all mentions of a candidate’s opposition to the surge mean that candidate never did oppose the surge? The Obama campaign seems to think so.

Over the weekend, as first reported by the New York Daily News, the Obama campaign website changed language from declaring “the surge is not working” to that which instead states: “despite the improved security situation, the Iraqi government has not stepped forward to lead the Iraqi people and to reach the genuine political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge.”

An older Obama campaign “fact sheet” from Fall 2007 states more unequivocally that “THE SURGE IS NOT WORKING” since “the Iraqi government has not stepped up.”

George Orwell would be proud.

When Congress set up a number of benchmarks to measure the political progress in Iraq, democrats used the finding of success on only 8 of 18 counts as proof of failure.

“Today’s report from the president confirms what many had suspected — the war in Iraq is headed in a dangerous direction. The Iraqi government has not met the key political benchmarks it has set for itself and Iraqi security forces continue to lag well behind expectations. Our courageous troops continue to bear the burden for securing and rebuilding Iraq, while Iraq’s factions fight a deadly civil war,” Reid, D-Nev., said in a statement.

Now, however, 15 of 18 benchmarks have been met. Will democrats now apply the same standard and admit success? Fat chance. It seems the democrats intend to stubbornly play their violins right until their Titanic crashes into the ocean floor.

But McIntyre and other Democrats said only a few benchmarks has been actually met.

Senator Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, said there is no military solution to the Iraq problem, no matter what White House said about the progress in Iraq.

At some point you’d almost think reality would at least force some honesty from the Obama campaign. He is, after all, supposed to be a new kind of politician, one who will bring Hope™ and Change™. But alas, intellectual honesty is probably too much to expect from a candidate that PowerLine convincingly suggests is the most dishonest in history.

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