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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) OBAMA: And if George Bush doesn’t listen, then we’re going to make him listen because it’s time for us to bring our young people home.
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GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It can be tempting to look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude our best option is to pack up and go home. That may be satisfying in the short run, but I believe the consequences for American security would be devastating.
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KING: Senator Obama, you disagree with that. He says it would be devastating to leave now. You say no. Why not?
OBAMA: Well, first of all, I don’t know anybody who’s been talking about packing up and going home.

Hot Air gives him some top cover (support).

So who says conservatives shills aren't fair to Democrats, huh?!?!

But I think even Hot Air isn't exactly right. I think the salient difference is in the "pack up" part. Obama says, "Bring 'em home", but he doesn't say "pack up and go home", which has more of an air of immediacy, haste, conceding defeat, complete withdrawal. "Bring 'em home" just says they shouldn't be there, it doesn't say when or how.