Here are some reactions to Obama’s West Point speech that may surprise you.

“Reporters love a deadline — we’ll hound him over it. Just wait until next year. There will be flashy graphics on our screens saying, ‘Countdown to Drawdown.’” That might sound like sarcasm from Sean Hannity, but it actually came from CBS’s Kimberly Dozier.

“How do you on the one hand say: ‘We need to send these troops over there; it’s critical; this is in our national-security interest to do this.’ But then say: ‘But we’re only going to keep them there for 18 months; we’re going to start to withdraw them after 18 months’? I just don’t understand the logic of how that works. …This is not a football game, where the time runs out. To win this war, you have to defeat the enemy.” Glenn Beck? No, that was veteran CBS anchor Bob Schieffer.

Here’s one more: “Where’s the hope? … It sounds more Rube Goldberg than ‘Remember the Alamo.’ … If I were with the Taliban right now, I’d put a little Post-it up on that month in 2011, and say: ‘This is when we do OUR surge.’” Rush Limbaugh? Believe it or not, that was MSNBC’s Chris Matthews speaking Tuesday night, after he had thought more about the substance of Obama’s remarks.

If liberal media elites are starting to second-guess Obama, I suspect millions of Americans are too!