grodscorp@grods.com“That worked out well”
 | Posted by John Surname on Friday 15 August 2008, 9:46 pm Categories: Blogosphere, Completely underwhelming, Media, Mundane Blogs, Politics Tags: Tags: TimBlair, wariniraq |
From Tim Blair’s electrifying popular* Daily Telegraph blog:
After his promising opening, Obama entered prediction mode:
I have no doubts that all across the country, from Florida to Oregon, from Washington to Maine, the people will rise up in November, and John Kerry will be sworn in as president, and John Edwards will be sworn in as vice president, and this country will reclaim its promise, and out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come.
That worked out well.
For once, he’s right. It worked out equally as well as these marvellous predictions Tim made in 2002/2003:
John Hawkins: If and when do you see the United States hitting Iraq? How do you think it’ll work out?
Tim Blair: It all depends on Iraq’s fearsome Elite Republican Guard. Why, those feisty desert warriors could hold out for minutes. Dozens of US troops will be required. Perhaps they’ll even need their weapons.
Don’t know when, of course. Wouldn’t expect it to last long once it happens.
John Hawkins: Here’s a theoretical question. After the United States topples Saddam Hussein, do you think we’ll hit Iran next if their government hasn’t already toppled by then?
Tim Blair: Hopeful answer: Iran implodes out of fright, and no attacks are needed. It could happen. They’ll have a great view of Saddam’s demise, after all.
That worked out well.
*Some of the comment threads now go into double figures!
