Bush Loyalists Grade Obama’s Foreign Policy: A ‘Pathological Proclivity To Apologize’ For America
Bush Loyalists Grade Obama’s Foreign Policy: A ‘Pathological Proclivity To Apologize’ For America
Foreign Policy magazine “asked some of the best foreign-policy minds in Washington and beyond” to rate President Obama’s first 100 days in office. “The result? 11 As, 16 Bs, 7 Cs, and a D,” Foreign Policy noted. Some of these “best foreign-policy minds” also included a number of neoconservatives and President Bush’s staunchest defenders. Surprisingly, not all of them trashed Obama’s first 100 days:
– Meghan O’Sullivan, Bush’s deputy national security adviser: Grade – B+ “President Obama deserves the high marks for his treatment of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in his first 100 days. [...] On Iraq in particular, he deserves kudos and gets an A-.”
– Robert Kagan, Carnegie Endowment fellow: Grade – A-/B+ “President Obama scores high on Afghanistan and Iraq. [...] His policy toward Iran makes sense, so long as he is ready with a serious Plan B if the negotiating track with Tehran fails. His policies toward Russia are sound.”
While Kagan’s opinion of Obama’s Iran policy appears slightly enhanced from just last month with the added caveat of “a serious plan B,” he later said he would have given Obama an A- had he not “thrown a bouquet” to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the summit of the Americas last week.
But the rest of the Bush loyalists on Foreign Policy’s list weren’t so friendly. Much of their displeasure with Obama seemed to center around the notion that Obama has somehow been spending his first 100 days in office apologizing to the world:
– Elliot Abrams, served on Bush’s National Security Council: Grade – D “The ‘apology tours’ are not the administration’s worst offense, and would only merit a C. The D reflects the abandonment of brave men and women throughout the world fighting for human rights and civil liberties.”
– Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute: Grade – C “Some will be tempted to inflate their grade, as Obama has fashioned himself the anti-Bush. But ‘I’m not him’ is not a foreign policy, nor is an almost pathological proclivity to apologize for American power and leadership. [...] Obama looks increasingly desperate.
– Peter Feaver, Duke University Professor: Grade – B- “What will matter is not whether Chávez says nice things about Obama, but whether the revived soft power brings real results. And it will get harder and harder to win applause lines by apologizing for the policies of your predecessor when you continue them in important respects.
“I think it expresses confidence,” Vice President Joe Biden said of Obama’s interactions with Chávez during an interview that aired last night on 60 Minutes. He also specifically took issue with critics who say Obama is apologizing to the world for the U.S. “I don’t know what he’s apologized for. For example, saying we should close Guantanamo is not an apology. That’s not an apology saying…we don’t engage in torture. He didn’t go out and say, ‘Oh, my God, the fact that the last administration did these things — we’re so sorry.’ He did say – he just said, ‘We don’t do torture any more.’”
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But, but, but that really smart guy Hannity gave Obama a F-.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:04 pmAIO grasshopper Says:
But, but, but that really smart guy Hannity gave Obama a F-.
ObamaNation is the Apologizer in Chief.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:06 pmAIO grasshopper Says:
But, but, but that really smart guy Hannity gave Obama a F-.
Please don’t use “smart” and “Hannity” in the same sentence. You wanna make my head explode?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:07 pmTo a Bush Loyalist, diplomacy means “never having to say you’re sorry.”
April 27th, 2009 at 12:07 pmSince when has apology been viewed as a weakness?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:09 pm.
“I’m sorry…”
“We don’t wire tap without warrants”
“So sorry…”
“The US does not torture people…”
h/t Brenda Lee
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:11 pmBush Loyalists Grade Obama’s Foreign Policy: A ‘Pathological Proclivity To Apologize’ For America
This was always the problem with Bush supporters. They thought George W. Bush was America.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:15 pmElliot Abrams, served on Bush’s National Security Council: Grade – D “The ‘apology tours are not the administration’s worst offense, and would only merit a C. The D reflects the abandonment of brave men and women throughout the world fighting for human rights and civil liberties.” So tell us, was the Bush admin really so concerned with “human rights and civil liberties”? Sorry but I just didnt see it that way.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:15 pmSeeing as how Bush Loyalists have gotten EVERYTHING wrong for the past 8+ years, their dislike of it must mean that Obama’s foreign policy is correct and will be effective.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:17 pmOh those silly NeoCons, sensible foreign policy upsets them so…
…no one threaten to bomb or exploit for profit, must be a sad time for them.
Fcuk the Republicans
April 27th, 2009 at 12:18 pm“I never had sex with that women…not once…hahaha
…and B.O. is already making us a laughing stock around the world…showing the muslims how weak and puzzified he is!
April 27th, 2009 at 12:19 pmI leave for Germany tomorrow and I have a feeling I’m going to be apologizing for the last eight years of a chimp running the zoo (no offense Zooey).
April 27th, 2009 at 12:20 pmThe key to not ever having to apologize is to avoid doing things that need an apology. Most rational people know this is sort of impossible.
If invading other countries on trumped up charges, indulging in state sanctioned torture and causing a world wide economic depression are not things requiring many apologies, (to steal from Jeff Foxworthy)…you must be a Republican.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:20 pmOh please… Remember when Bush practically groped Merkel? What about Bush’s faux pas? Remeber he looked into Putin’s eyes into his soul? Give me a break. In Germany, they still call Bush ‘Herr Groper’.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:21 pm.
Dear RealityCheck,
What’s a racist?
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:21 pmRealityCheck Says: …and B.O. is already making us a laughing stock around the world
No, only in your pathetic little corner. The rest of the world sighed in relief.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:21 pmhttp://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0409/obama_gets_ahead_of_prompter_3813cbcb-1e4a-44c6-b1e7-26017e7b70c2.html
…another example of B.O.s great skill at making speeches for George Soros.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pmHey reality check: your account is insufficient funds!
April 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pmI don’t know where this “Apology” stuff the Right-wing neocons are ranting about came from? I think they have a short memory when being so disgruntled by Pres. Obama shaking hands with Hugo Chavez, they simply forget that Republican presidents have shaken hands and smiled having a good laugh with some of the worst dictators in history too. But that isn’t really the issue is it…? As Sec. of State Hillary Clinton said last week during her hearing in the House Foreign Affairs Committee..that the Bush administration has ignored Chavez and the people of Venezuela for eight years…shouldn’t have been so surprised by a handshake; Pres. Obama is not Bush, and this is a different foreign policy…one of inclusiveness….whether the leader is dislik able or not. For Obama to bravely make it known that bickering back and forth between the USA and the European continent about blaming each other and the lack of trust that has been brewing for a long time and getting stronger the last eight years, this is a very honest heroic thing to do and Pres. Obama deserves much praise for that…and he did get that praise from the folks who heard his words overseas and to many here in the USA as well….I guess that really is the problem the neocons are having with Obama…not the fact that he is forcing America and the world to see the light and the errs of their ways, only to make the world a better place, because we have to share it….They just can’t deal with the fact that the era of Ronald Reagan is long gone…CHANGE HAS DEFINITELY COME TO AMERICA!!!! Thanks President Obama!!!
April 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pm…and B.O. is already making us a laughing stock around the world…showing the muslims how weak and puzzified he is!
Your right, but I don’t think many people outside the right wing love fest watches or listens to Bill O’Rielly. Still, Bill is a puzzi! (whatever that is.)
April 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pmYeah, and these are the brain sturgeons that alienated us pretty much from the rest of the world. I take it as a compliment that they don’t agree with Pres. Obama.
Pres. Obama has intelligence and intellect on his side – he doesn’t need the phony cowboy bravado. Bush on the other hand didn’t have the intellect or intelligence to punch himself out of a wet paper bag – he needed all the chest puffing he could muster.
Brushing them off…
April 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pmReality Check Obama is not apologizing for America hes apologizing for ‘go it alone smirk and swagger’ Dubya.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:24 pmI see the Bushitler neo-Nazi apologists are out in force today
April 27th, 2009 at 12:24 pmgeorge w. bush was a brain dead moron and they all LOVED his crap policies.
when you consider that, why would you give a rats ass what they think?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:24 pmRealityCheck Says:
…and B.O. is already making us a laughing stock around the world…showing the muslims how weak and puzzified he is!
Memo to RealityCheck: You were already a laughing stock when Bush was in charge. But you don’t laugh out loud at the bully with the handgun.
You rather be hated than liked. And yet you complain that the muslims hate the US because of your freedoms.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:25 pmA Real Laughing Stock Around the World
April 27th, 2009 at 12:25 pmRealityCheck Says:
“I never had sex with that women…not once…hahaha
…and B.O. is already making us a laughing stock around the world…showing the muslims how weak and puzzified he is!
Very good. Now try saying it through your mouth.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:25 pmlanet oals? obama ?rkc?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:25 pmWe’re not looking for apologies, RealityCheck, Atonement is meatier. The Republican dine-n-dash foreign policies have failed. Contrary to what you think, all-brawns-no-brains is not soldered into the motherboard of America. It is a chip to be replaced.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:25 pmRC is living proof of the link between the statistics that approximately 28% of the American population suffers from some sort of mental illness or disability and 28% are Republican die hards.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:25 pm# 3, Easter Bunny:
LOL, I get your drift, Hannity makes my head want to explode all the time; notice I did put really in italics.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:26 pm“an almost pathological proclivity to apologize”
Seems fair, considering that Obama is following an administration with an almost pathological proclivity to lie…..
April 27th, 2009 at 12:26 pmLike many Cowards, these people fear “others” and “other ways”, and fervently believe that Fear = Respect.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:27 pmLook, the righties can say what they want, but nobody is buying it. Obama is getting high marks for his foreign policies.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:27 pm.
Dear RealityCheck,
… But Hitler gave good speeches, YES?
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:27 pmOf course I would expect Bush/Cheney Loyalists to say exactly that, since their failed foreign policies sucked and made Americans look like “tortures.”
The Republican’ts disliked FDR and Obama is no exception.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:27 pmLeeHope Says:@19. Really good post!!! 2 thumbs up.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:28 pmrealitycheck, don’t live your whole life in fear. get out of your momma’s basement and enjoy life!!
April 27th, 2009 at 12:28 pmI wonder if Reality Check has figured out that AEI/Koch and its adherents, like Pletka, are not conservatives but libertarians…
April 27th, 2009 at 12:29 pm.
When will (R)epublicans stop apologizing for
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002441—-000-.html
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:32 pmRepublicans hate everything in the world that doesn’t reinforce their money grubbing, warmongering, religious elitist ideals.
In other words, just about everything except themselves.
And I wonder about that one as well.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:32 pmRealityCheck Says:
AIO grasshopper Says:
But, but, but that really smart guy Hannity gave Obama a F-.
ObamaNation is the Apologizer in Chief.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:35 pm—————————————————————
blah blah blah…..
As to Bush’s foreign policy, does ‘blow the bastards up’ qualify?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:35 pm>>>>
reality christ,
it’s only monday and already
you’re having a bad week.
maybe you should kill yourself…?
:)
good luck.
:)
April 27th, 2009 at 12:36 pmShoeless @ 7 hammers the nail on the head.
President Obama is not apologizing for America, he’s aplogizing for the actions of the Bu$h/Cheney cabal.
This meme needs to be PLASTERED all over the airwaves and intertubes!!!
April 27th, 2009 at 12:36 pmThe sad thing is that if it wasn’t for people like those Bush loyalists, Obama wouldn’t find it necessary to apologize for this country acting like a bully for the last 8 years.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:37 pmRC, alias ReichCzech?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:38 pm…or, RiceCrispies?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:39 pmRealityCheck Says:
“I never had sex with that women…not once…hahaha
…and B.O. is already making us a laughing stock around the world…showing the muslims how weak and puzzified he is!
Gawd, you certainly are caught in a time warp. Just can’t give up on “Clinton did it”.
I’m sorry, but laughing stock’s don’t usually garner the kind of crowds that greeted President Obama when he was out there in the “world”.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:40 pmBilbo@46, Ironic ain’t it? They totally screwed up, and yet the American people are supposed to swallow this tripe. Now we know why Repugs are a dying breed. Soon they will be the way of the Whigs.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:42 pm.
When will (R)epublicans stop apologizing for
http://www.newsweek.com/id/195089
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:42 pmUncle Ho Says:
RC, alias ReichCzech?
More like Rice Chex. He got tired of trying to explain the Cheeto stains.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:43 pmReality.. Clinton?? That’s all you got! LOL! That is like, sooo Nineties!
April 27th, 2009 at 12:44 pmI went to google with the intention of posting a few pictures of Realitycheck’s BFF being effigized around the world but there were way too many shots to choose from. For a sobering reality regarding where Dubya left us, do an image search for “george w. bush effigy” (about 40,500 hits).
April 27th, 2009 at 12:46 pmHey reality, I don’t recall hearing of many burning effigies of President Obama internationally although I’m sure some of those teabaggers have had their own private parties (in hood off course). The only international group that I can think of that is sorry to see Dubya retire is al queda.
Hoodathunktick Says:
RC is living proof of the link between the statistics that approximately 28% of the American population suffers from some sort of mental illness or disability and 28% are Republican die hards.
That 28% is now down to 21%. Recent ABC/WP poll:
Generally speaking, do you usually think of yourself as (a Democrat), (a Republican), an independent or what? IF NOT DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN: Do you lean more towards the (Democratic Party) or (Republican Party)?
Democrat /Republican /Independent /Other /No op./Lean Dem./Lean Rep. /No Lean
4/24/09 35 21 38 5 * 18 16 10
3/29/09 36 25 33 5 1 15 16 8
They have dropped 4% in the last month.
Here’s what people think about the Republicans in Congress:
Do you approve or disapprove of the way (ITEM) are doing their job?
Republicans in Congress:
Approve/Disapprove/No Opinion
4/24/09 30 64 6
2/22/09 38 56 6
Here they have lost 7 points in the last two months.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_042609.html
April 27th, 2009 at 12:46 pmWas Reagan to the Russians and “apology”. Was Nixon to China an apology. Was Bush to Putin and apology. I’ll take a pathological proclivity to apologize anyday compared to invasion, death, and the abandonment of our principles.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:48 pmA’s from me on foreign policy, relations with congress & national security issues
B- on the economy (Geithner and Summers aren’t favorites). There’s still too much Wall Street deference and I’m starting to worry that too much pressure is being applied on the auto workers. Besides that, I can’t give an “A” as a result of events beyond the president’s control, such as staggering job losses. No doubt the stimulus is saving jobs in critical public services. And that helps curtail losses in supporting businesses.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:49 pmBHB, does this mean Americans are getting healthier, mentally speaking or that Republicans are getting whackier?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:50 pmNo, he is the apologizer for the previous chief.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:50 pmHoodathunktick Says:
RC is living proof of the link between the statistics that approximately 28% of the American population suffers from some sort of mental illness or disability and 28% are Republican die hards.
That’s down to 21%. See my post at #55.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:51 pmRealityCheck Says:
“I never had sex with that women…not once…hahaha
…and B.O. is already making us a laughing stock around the world…showing the muslims how weak and puzzified he is!
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It’s time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.”
- George W. Bush
At least he was telling the truth after 8 years…hahaha
…and Bush made us enemy #1 around the world and we still don’t have Bin Laden, showing the muslims how ignorant and stupid Bush really was and still is!!!
April 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pmHey RC: I’ll see your Clinton and raise you a George H W Botch. I seem to remember Pappy Bush’s foreign policy:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/XnOnDatqENo/0.jpg
Why does George H. W. Bush hate the Japanese Prime Minister?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pmMegaloptera McWars, you and I were both namejacked by brothabill or whatever his name is yesterday. What an idiot.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:53 pmThat headline should read “A pathological proclivity to explain that the Bush Abomination is at fault” Sounds about right to me.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:53 pmEliot Abrams gives him a D?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
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“Bush Loyalists Grade Obama’s Foreign Policy:”
That’s like saying the gentleman “C” student’s cheer leading squad grading him to a Harvard magna cum laude graduate.
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:55 pmSo Pappy Bush vomits on the Japanese PM. Little Georgie walks into walls, shows up drunk at the Olympics in China, gropes the German Chancellor, “adjusts” his schedule at the UN because he is afraid of the Iranian President, confuses Austria with Australia, and says farewell to an international energy conferance by yelling out, “goodbye from earth’s number one polluter!” all with his cowboy “ugly-american swagger. I can see why the neocons find President Obama embarrassing.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:59 pmRealityCheck Says:
…and B.O. is already making us a laughing stock around the world…showing the muslims how weak and puzzified he is!
You know, it’s kind of funny when you try to speak for the entire world, RealityCheck. I think the only ones that might agree with you and laugh at Obama are those that hate America, not just Obama.
But you really think he’s a laughing stock? Whatever happened to “laugh, and the world laughs with you?“
April 27th, 2009 at 1:00 pmI’m embarrassed to be from the same country that includes idiots like RealityCheck that thought W was brilliant and that Presidents Clinton and Obama are the dumb ones. Maybe homeschooling needs to be outlawed.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:02 pmThanks for that note, Shayne. I overlooked the thread and found that the troll had a couple posts in my name then started babbling in yours.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:02 pmDoodlebug Shayne Says:
Eliot Abrams gives him a D?
During investigation of the Iran-Contra Affair, the special prosecutor handling the case prepared multiple felony counts against Abrams but never indicted him. Instead, Abrams entered into a plea agreement that ultimately led to a conviction without imprisonment on two misdemeanors of withholding information from Congress.
You beat me to it :)
April 27th, 2009 at 1:03 pmMcWars, I emailed Faiz and he booted brothastupid.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:03 pmIs this the same Elliot Abrams who was caught up in another republican crime, Iran Contra? I have to ask everyone, what makes you think the cowboy diplomacy was so successful? In what regard do you think our not starting unnecessary wars is weak? Wingnuts got beat for a reason, you failed! The Republican party is a party of failed policies. Live with it.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:11 pmGood work, Shayne.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:12 pmIt amazes me that the conservatives think that Obama is “apologizing” for America, when he is going forth and showing the best about the USA. He has shown that we can move from an antiquated, oppressive administration which bullied other nations and its own people, to a progressive administration which tosses out such notions in favor of real, constructive negotiation and pragmatism.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:13 pmGod knows that the conservatives have much to apologize for, but it’s not up to Obama to do it. It’s up to the creeps who tried to ruin our country as well as the rest of the world over the last 8 years.
RealityCheck Says: …and B.O. is already making us a laughing stock around the world
You’re right! Bill O’Reilly embarasses the shit out of us.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:24 pmThat’s him kasinca. He was pardoned by Daddy Bush and then Jr. hired him although the Democrats fought his appointment because of Iran Contra. Here’s more:
Oh there’s lot’s of dirt the idiot: Eliot Abrams
April 27th, 2009 at 1:25 pmRUC, they never seem to realize that their idol’s initials are BO. Life is confusing for the reich.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:26 pmEven if he’s apologizing so what? After the last administration we owe it to the world. Adults admit when things go wrong and they accept responsibility. Children can’t admit they were wrong.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:26 pmIt’s like the idiot NeoClowns are too busy shouting ‘We’re number ONE! to realize that the world, isn’t agreeing with them, they’re flipping them the bird.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:28 pmI was going to respond with some combination of snark and logic to RC, but it looks like that job’s been thoroughly done. Good job, folks.
April 27th, 2009 at 2:06 pmHmm, its funny, they did not vote for Obama and he still won. So in essence, they are irrelevant.
April 27th, 2009 at 2:12 pmCleaning up the mess they made is apologizing?
they really need to STFU!!!!
April 27th, 2009 at 2:27 pmRealtiychick:
Read this and shut up:
When one offends someone, they’ve done the wrong thing; not to apologize is to refuse to do the right thing and compound the offense. Refusing to apologize is not a sign of strength but weakness. After all, one who refuses to say they’re sorry acts out of fear, but one who admits they were wrong and asks for forgiveness acts out of courage.
Now go read a couple books about life and grow up.
April 27th, 2009 at 2:28 pmPresident Obama has been very effective these first 100 days. Stem-cell research, closing Guantanamo bay and passing his stimulus. Time will tell how effective they are, but he’s been very productive. Foreign policy wise, he does have the pirate situation to tout. It was handled exceptionally. He has emboldened our enemies and appears to be weak to the world (see Al-Jazeerah) but I think he will be tough if he has to. We will see. His response to the swine flu has been excellent. Again, we will see. Overall, a solid B.
April 27th, 2009 at 2:59 pmChanging policies is not the same as apologizing for America. And now having said that. If Bush had not left us so much to apologize for, these Bushies would not have to worry.
They are part and parcel lovers of the Bush criminal enterprise. And now when Obama goes overseas, these Bushies know he reminds by sight alone, what Bush did in our name. And it bothers these Bush lovers. It bothers them because they have no longer the joy of seeing torture. They have lost the fun of watching the Constitution being shredded. And they know how other country’s now view our damaged Democracy.
And they wait in the wings. Hoping for the chance to resurrect their party and do it all over again. With a different outcome of course. It is not what Obama has said. It is the fact of him. And the fact that he is allowed to say anything at all. There is nothing no matter how innocuous that they will not leap on.
The Republicans hate him. He is a progressive, he is President. And most of all he is black.
April 27th, 2009 at 3:22 pmBush’s Foreign Policy: A pathological proclivity to do lots of stuff we’d later need to apologize for.
April 27th, 2009 at 3:36 pmThose wingnut morons can kiss my extreme leftist fascist liberal socialist tree-hugging A$$.
April 27th, 2009 at 3:54 pmElliot Abrams. Elliot Abrams. Hmmmm. Oh yeah—Iran Contra. Perhaps he’d give Obama a better grade if he were sending Iran’s most radical elements a cake, a bible, and some weapons.
April 27th, 2009 at 4:46 pmRealityPunk it is time for you to go kill yourself. You just come here, lie and make a fool out of yourself. We already know you are so stupid you suck IQ points from anyone in your vicinity. You need to do the world the only favor you are capable of. Go suck on your exhuast pipe
April 27th, 2009 at 4:47 pmElliot Abrams = ‘evil incarnate’
April 27th, 2009 at 8:32 pmdrew3rd Says:
President Obama has been very effective these first 100 days. Stem-cell research, closing Guantanamo bay and passing his stimulus. Time will tell how effective they are, but he’s been very productive. Foreign policy wise, he does have the pirate situation to tout. It was handled exceptionally. He has emboldened our enemies and appears to be weak to the world (see Al-Jazeerah) but I think he will be tough if he has to. We will see. His response to the swine flu has been excellent. Again, we will see. Overall, a solid B.
I didn’t expect that from you, drew3rd. Thanks.
The “emboldened our enemies” thing I would take some issue with, however. I think he’s emboldened the societies that previously supported terrorist networks to haev the courage to shut them down, but it’s a long slog ahead.
I’ve never been one to fall for that “emboldened” talk anyways. What matters is results, not who or who isn’t “emboldened,” or what “message we send” by taking necessary action. The actions are what matter.
Can you cite a link regarding whatever it was that Al-Jazeera said regarding emboldening?
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Libellula saturata Annie Says:
Those wingnut morons can kiss my extreme leftist fascist liberal socialist tree-hugging A$$.
You’re no fascist. Don’t let ‘em tell you different.
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