There was some interesting punditizing today that caught my attention. Early this morning, well, like “Early Today,” which comes on at 4:30 am on WPSD, and then the Today Show, and even the local Today show that comes between them, reported that Obama was about “to make a decision” on Afghanistan, and that decision was going to be to send an additional “tens of thousands” of troops there, even if it wasn’t going to be the full 40K that was being requested.

However, just a few minutes ago, I heard on the NPR news at the top of the hour, that Obama was not going to be rushed into a decision, and that a decision on Afghanistan may be made within the next few weeks.

Those are two totally different stories, and the media has no explanation at all for the gap between the stories. That is interesting.

Also interesting would be the fact that Obama, in large part can attribute his presidency to being the “anti-war” candidate, and now would be seen as an escalator of war. Can Obama afford politically to alienate his anti-war base? We’ll see. But if I was him, I would get cold feet at the notion. Perhaps that is why the messages changed so drastically during the course of the day.