Confused Obama canât remember if he promised to end, or start more foreign engagements
Suffering from a memory lapse that could happen to anyone, really, President Obama said he couldnât recall if he had promised to end U.S. military involvement abroad, or increase it. âI know while I was campaigning in 2008, I said something about wars in the Middle East, but for the life of me I canât remember what,â Obama said in a speech on Wednesday. âYou folks at home would be amazed, but being president is very difficult because you have to say a great number of things, then itâs like everyone literally takes notes, and if you donât do exactly what you promised to do, theyâre all, like, hey.â White House press secretary JoshÂ Earnest said the public shouldnât be surprised if Obama starts behaving in a manner suggestive of starting a long-term military campaign against, say, some militant organization operating in Iraq and Syria, because even if Obama did promise to end to foreign military engagements, the U.S. public âknew what he meant, right?â