TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

The New York Post is reporting that while meeting with Iraqi officials, Obama tried to convince the Iraqis to delay the withdrawal agreement, and said the Iraqis should negotiate with Congress rather than the President because he is weak and politically confused:

‘He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,’ Zebari said in an interview.

Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops – and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its ‘state of weakness and political confusion.’”

If this report is true, this goes beyond election politics — he is directly undermining a sitting president’s negotiations with an ally during wartime, and may be a violation of the Logan Act. Whether you agree with the President’s policies or not, acting to diminish the president’s — and thus the U.S.’s — negotiating power is beyond words.

I hope that this is false. I strongly disagree with Obama’s domestic policies, but tend to agree with his stated foreign policy, and I think he is a good man. But if this is true, this is quite close to sedition. If it is true, Obama in no way deserves to be president, or serve in any office at all.

Update: Obama’s campaign has denied the report.