MORE FOREIGN-POLICY EMBARRASSMENT FOR OBAMA: “For all the chatter about Obama adviser Samantha Power’s calling Clinton a ‘monster,’ another set of remarks made on her book tour in the United Kingdom may be equally threatening to the Obama campaign: Comments in a BBC interview that express a lack of confidence that Obama will be able to carry through his plan to withdraw troops from Iraq within 16 months. . . . Power downplayed Obama’s commitment to quick withdrawal from Iraq on Hard Talk, a program that often exceeds any of the U.S. talk shows in the rigor of its grillings.” Like Obama’s NAFTA doubletalk, I actually find this reassuring, but it’s still a problem for the campaign. Is it free-fall yet?

UPDATE: Retreat, at any cost. Well, so much for the reassurance.