Barack Obama Is Aware Of Iraq And Regrets His Previous Stance On The Surge

As Politico puts it, “Surge meets Purge” at Barack Obama’s website:

The Daily News report by James Gordon Meek says: “Barack Obama’s campaign scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop ‘surge’ in Iraq, the Daily News has learned.”

Has the situation changed?  Certainly.  But Obama came out against the surge before it even had a chance to work, an uninformed and way too quick reaction that leads to lots of “regret”.  I thought Democrats were tired of knee jerk reactions to issues facing America.  I guess I was wrong…

UPDATE: How this came to light may be the long term story, though.  McCain’s campaign used a service called Versionista to track changes to Obama’s website:

The service, which launched two months ago, allows users to track and cache changes to specific web pages up to an hourly basis, depending on the level of filtering requested, says Peter Bray, its creator in Portland, Oregon.

“I’m an avid reader of blogs, so I thought this would be a good tool for campaigns and activists,” he says. “This could be a good tool in their arsenal. ”

Bray says that he got the idea from Wikipedia, which shows people the changes made to its entries. Versionista is a subscription service and allows people to track minute, detailed changes on web sites.