<<And here, McCain was right about the surge, and Obama got it wrong. Yet, Obama's getting the pass.>>
Well, first of all it's much too early to say the surge has worked. The results are modest and tenuous. It will all come crashing down on the Americans' heads. Or at least, I certainly hope it will, but we'll have to wait and see.
However, even if McCain is right on the surge, it's virtually meaningless for a guy to be right on the small stuff and wrong on the big one. The big question was the wisdom of the war itself - - here Obama clearly showed the superior judgment, as most Americans now realize. Most Americans overwhelmingly recognize the war was a mistake. Even if America "wins," the cost was astronomical, way beyond any benefit of any kind the country could hope to receive.
Let me put it another way -- if you as a boss hired a manager who made a mistake that cost you three trillion dollars when another employee called him wrong from the beginning and opposed the entire project, correctly predicting the disaster that followed, and five years into dealing with the mistake, the manager proposes a way to save a million bucks out of the disaster, although teh other employee says it won't work, but it does - - what are you gonna do, keep the guy who cost you the three trillion dollars and fire the guy whose judgment would have spared you that loss, or hire the guy who could have saved you three trillion, and fire the guy who figured out how to save a million bucks after five years?