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A Rare Public View of Obama’s Pivots on Policy in Syria Confrontation
New York Times ^
| September 12, 2013
| By PETER BAKER
Posted on 09/12/2013 2:03:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
...Over the last three weeks, the nation has witnessed a highly unusual series of pivots as a president changed course virtually in real time and on live television. Mr. Obama’s handling of his confrontation with Syria over a chemical weapons attack on civilians has been the rare instance of a commander in chief seemingly thinking out loud and changing his mind on the fly.
To aides and allies, Mr. Obama’s willingness to hit the pause button twice on his decision to launch airstrikes to punish Syria for using chemical weapons on its own people reflects a refreshing open-mindedness and a reluctance to use force that they considered all too missing under his predecessor with the Texas swagger. In this view, Mr. Obama is a nimble leader more concerned with getting the answer right than with satisfying a political class all too eager to second-guess every move.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arabspring; failure; leadingfrombehind; obamasyria; putinsyriacheckmate; syria
Slimes covering for the punk.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/12/2013 2:05:44 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/12/2013 2:05:49 PM PDT
by
henkster
(democrats will sacrifice the lives of our servicemen so 0bama doesn't look bad.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
RARE???
The public would see a WHOLE LOT MORE, if the NYTimes folks would do the job of actual JOURNALISTS, instead of propagandists.
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posted on
09/12/2013 2:07:01 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Didn’t the swaggering Texan get congressional and UN approval first? Didn’t he form a coalition of dozens of nations, before attacking? Didn’t he say what he meant, and mean what he said?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
0bama has Pivoted so many times, he's positively pirouetting...
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posted on
09/12/2013 2:09:59 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Why haven't we heard from the 30 Benghazi survivors?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
To aides and allies, Mr. Obama’s willingness to hit the pause button twice on his decision to launch airstrikes to punish Syria for using chemical weapons on its own people reflects a refreshing open-mindedness and a reluctance to use force that they considered all too missing under his predecessor with the Texas swagger. In this view, Mr. Obama is a nimble leader more concerned with getting the answer right than with satisfying a political class all too eager to second-guess every move.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
...do not engage mouth before putting brain in gear....
That cowboy wrangler, Bronco Bama, shooting from the lip again. Somebody is gonna DIE, in all that ‘lead rain’ that is being thrown up there.
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posted on
09/12/2013 2:10:43 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Those who deny natural climate change are forever doomed to stupidity. AGW is a LIE.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Typical nauseating liberal spin. They eat this doo-doo up and grin about it. Sickening.
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posted on
09/12/2013 2:12:44 PM PDT
by
JT Hatter
(Who is Barack Obama? And What is He Really Up To?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
He is a regular God Dam Ballerina
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posted on
09/12/2013 2:13:34 PM PDT
by
woofie
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well trained myrmidons to the rescue!
To: Oldeconomybuyer
see, I read it quick and thought it said "A Rare Public View of obama's Privates"......
I thought to myself, why would he show his privates but not his actual birth certificate?
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posted on
09/12/2013 2:32:18 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: henkster
Pivots or divots?Trivets?
To hold up the blivets?
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posted on
09/12/2013 2:33:38 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/12/2013 2:45:24 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
09/12/2013 3:07:31 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Nimble? Open minded?
No, a bumbling idiot in well over head. The tactical errors on this are enough to write book.
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posted on
09/12/2013 3:08:09 PM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(I'm not yelling, just... just talking enthusiastically..)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
09/12/2013 3:23:13 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: Travis McGee
Vs.
Why so, Syria - U.S.?
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posted on
09/12/2013 6:16:55 PM PDT
by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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