Posted on 02/21/2009 7:50:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama's first TV interview was with the Dubai-based, partly Saudi-funded Al Arabiya satellite channel. In passing, he faulted past American policy for too readily "dictating" in the Middle East. He had better things to say about Saudi King Abdullah's "courage" in trying to solve the Middle East crisis.
Vice President Joe Biden likewise has promised the world a sharp break from the prior Bush administration that, from his references, was apparently to blame for bouts of anti-Americanism abroad. He assured the Europeans at the Munich Security Conference that it was time to press the reset button in foreign policy, and pledged a new chapter in America's overseas relations.
On her initial tour abroad, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton re-emphasized the Obama and Biden message, announcing she would follow an approach that "values what others have to say." And then Mrs. Clinton elaborated on this now well-worn "blame Bush" theme: "Too often in the recent past, our government has acted reflexively before considering available facts and evidence or hearing the perspectives of others." America, Mrs. Clinton promised, from now on would be "neither impulsive nor ideological."
Contrast such admirable talk with recent events:
North Korea has just announced it plans to launch a new Taepodong-2 missile capable of reaching the United States.
China, which holds hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. Treasury bonds and will be asked to loan us billions more, advised the Obama administration to drop the "buy American" talk in the new Democratic stimulus program.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently bragged that his country would soon go nuclear, and that President Obama's offer to talk without preconditions revealed a new passivity in the West.
Russia just announced it had developed a new strategic relationship with Iran, and_warned_that American-sponsored missile defense for Eastern Europe was unpalatable.
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The presidency was not created to be an affirmative action job. Obama is driving us to bankruptcy one executive order at a time. He has no idea how the world turns outside of the Chicago democratic machine he knows so well.
I heard something about the Bubba Factor recently and it came from a military man. It sounded like we are headed in that direction.
Anyone want to clarify exactly what the Bubba Factor is?
Thanks
I'm still having trouble coming to terms with this reality. Senator Clinton was disturbing enough.
I heard about that on the Glen Beck special last week.
It’s bs, but here’s a def:
“The ‘Bubba factor’ is what many in politics use to refer to the working-class-white-man who lives in rural America - in other words, the “good ole’ boys” who still fly their rebel flags and would never vote for a black man.”
source: http://media.www.thevoyager.net/media/storage/paper977/news/2008/10/09/Opinion/The-bubba.Factor.Not.An.Issue-3477022.shtml (found via google)
Match meets gas tank! Sumpins’ gonna get blowed up real bad!
That does not seem to be the way it was portrayed on the Beck show. The way that I understood it was, it refers to the people that will band together to fight the government and their policies.
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