As Jonah notes below, Barack Obama hands John McCain a real gift in his interview with Bill O’Reilly tonight:

“I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,” Obama said while refusing to retract his initial opposition to the surge. “I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”

Nobody anticipated the surge would succeed in these ways? Why does he think McCain supported the surge, and Bush pursued it? And even given the success of the surge he does not withdraw his opposition to it? I see a last minute speech edit coming.