Obama Afghan strategy "clearly geared toward having a victory for his radical leftist base"

Matt Barber is Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Counsel and also serves as Associate Dean with Liberty University School of Law. On today's Brain Trust segment, Barber talked about the president's Afghanistan strategy.

Anything that you know about the president's speech last night that changes the course of what we ought to be doing?

My problem with his whole strategy here is that it's so obviously politically based.

His plan draws down 33,000 troops by September 2012.

That's not even subtle. It's so clearly geared toward having a victory for his radical leftist base to be able to tout.

He is going completely contrary to the direction and advice of his generals and boots on the ground.

Here we're talking about a constitutional law instructor and former community organizer saying that he knows better.

The guy's arrogance and narcissism really is staggering.

If you're the president and have his economic record, wouldn't you do something this baldfaced?

Well he's gotta do something. His ratings are falling faster than MSNBC's.

He's falling faster than a shotput in a bathtub.

He has the homosexual activists. You cannot appease this homosexual activist appetite.

He's losing them. So the more he tries to throw the radical left a bone here and there, it's never enough.

It's like Jimmy Carter on steroids...everything is based on a political calculation. His move in Afghanistan is clearly, not even subtly, based on political calculation.

The Democrats say what we need is more spending, because of this debt crisis!

It's just mind-boggling. Truth is stranger than fiction. This is really surreal.

Here we are driving towards the cliff's edge, with Harry Reid and Obama driving the car. Instead of hitting the brakes, they're pressing the accelerator.

We're looking at a future in fairly short-term here that the Great Depression could pale next to.

I don't see anyone on either side of the aisle willing to do what needs to be done.

What's going on out there in the presidential sweepstakes?

This is the drama associated with the presidential primaries.

I wrote an article: Bachmann - Reagan in pumps.

Here we see that based on her performance in New Hampshire...she had jumped based on a Zogby poll to the top of the pack.