Is that a direct quote from Sarah Palin? Kinda of a culture war remark if you ask me.

Anyway…you would be surprised to know that even urban people like myself, have family serving in Afghanistan. I even have German friends over there.

So not all of us forgot. And even some of us fully support our efforts over there.

Maybe so but not everyone got distracted. I live in a small town and we have soldiers there, we did not allow it to leave our consciousness. When we saw the mothers, wives and children of our veterans serving over there we were constantly reminded. Maybe in large urban areas where people hardly know each other the issue was forgotten, but at least in the small corner of the nation it was not.

Also, stuff like this doesn't help:

“I think it is serious and it is deteriorating, and I've said that over the past couple of years — that the Taliban insurgency has gotten better, more sophisticated,” said Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

It is the truth and needs to be said, but it surely doesn't help opinion polls.

we go right back into Afghanistan

no we don't we never left it.

It is no wonder that support is starting to dwindle, especially on the left.

There is a certain portion of the left that Obama will never get…they simply do not support war in almost any form…your code pinker types. Then you have others that see the war effort as a detriment to other policies…say health care. You also have others that simply do not want anything that W started, to turn out well.

Obama is going to have to rely on his liberal allies and Republicans. I don't think he is going to win a lot of support from his typical base on this.

Obama actually has it tougher than John McCain would have (and not just due to having less Foreign Policy experience), since Obama is up against the progressives to a significant extent on this issue. He can probably count on blue dog and conservative support (although he needs to make sure he keeps an eye on wastes in spending which will be a valid criticism) but the liberal wing of his own Party is becoming more and more problematic for his agenda despite all the catering he has done to their interests with the Stimulas, the Omnibus Appropriations bill, and the climate change legislation all greatly increasing the deficit during a time of economic hardship which many moderates in his own party cringed at.