He really must think we are stupid

Problem is; he is probably right. Enough of "we" are probably stupid enough to not remember his approach during the primaries.

"My 16-month timeline, if you examine everything I've said, was always premised on making sure our troops were safe," Obama told reporters as his campaign plane landed in North Dakota. "And my guiding approach continues to be that we've got to make sure that our troops are safe, and that Iraq is stable. And I'm going to continue to gather information to find out whether those conditions still hold."

From the Washington Post story today.

The first sentence is honest and correct, he did say he was concerned about the troop's safety. The second one is at the very least misleading: "And my guiding approach continues to be that we've got to make sure that our troops are safe, and that Iraq is stable. In the primaries, he was quite clear that he didn't care about what happened if we left Iraq--getting the troops home was his be-all and end-all. At least that is the impression he wanted to convey to the Democratic true- believers.

From his own website:

In January 2007, he introduced legislation in the Senate to remove all of our combat troops from Iraq by March 2008.