Wasted

This is what happens when your rhetoric gets too far ahead of your brain...

During his first press conference as a presidential candidate at Iowa State University, Obama, discussing his opposition to the Iraq war, said the war "should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and on which we've now spent $400 billion, and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.''

Those first press conferences as a presidential candidate are always the hardest...

You have to wonder when politicians get caught fumbling while talking off the cuff, it's a mistake or the brief glimpse of the truth?