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Presidential Pettiness-Does taking swipes at predecessors make a foreign policy?
Frontpagemag ^ | 3-30-11 | Alan W. Dowd

Posted on 03/30/2011 5:49:12 AM PDT by SJackson

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1 posted on 03/30/2011 5:49:16 AM PDT by SJackson
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Inept, classless people have a tendency to smear others. It’s a protection thing to ward off well earned criticism that should be leveled on them. Affirmative action types have that gig down to a science. Scream victim.


2 posted on 03/30/2011 5:55:08 AM PDT by AlphaOneAlpha
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Obamugabe is so full of himself he’s overflawed...................


3 posted on 03/30/2011 5:55:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 1,698 threads and 63,835 replies, as of 03-29-2011......)
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To: SJackson

Did the author just get around to noticing this? Obama has been consistently graceless and classless all along. His immense self-regard comes through in everything he does.


4 posted on 03/30/2011 5:56:04 AM PDT by rockvillem
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To: SJackson

It is always easy to criticize someone else. To rip apart a policy bit by bit and twist things into negatives. The real sign of a LEADER (to me) is to be able to see an issue/problem and come up with a way to fix it. To learn from other’s mistakes or successes and readily learn from them. Sadly, O does not possess true leadership for this Country. IMHO


5 posted on 03/30/2011 5:58:24 AM PDT by momtothree
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What, pray tell, can one expect from a simpleton who spends millions of dollars concealing his past from the even more ignorant who voted for him?

This elevation of a true orphan minority to the office of president is eerily reminiscent of another fatherless rat’s ascendency to the White Hut. Both speak volumes about how the selection of candidates contributing to the ruination of a nation works.

The experiment of electing a negro to demonstrate our lack of bias has been a dismal failure; moreover, it has set back the gains made by minorities back fifty years.


6 posted on 03/30/2011 5:59:38 AM PDT by IbJensen (Grab your pitchforks!)
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We all know Obama has a chip on his shoulder....that he believes he is specially gifted (how, we do not know)....that he does not see the United States in the same way as his predecessors (which he believes is a strength).

The man is nothing short of delusional, insane and very dangerous.


7 posted on 03/30/2011 6:02:25 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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"...that he believes he is specially gifted (how, we do not know)"

I think we do know how he considers himself specially gifted. He thinks he can influence people and events by the sheer force of his personality. Good luck with that, Hussein.

8 posted on 03/30/2011 6:07:30 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name now that we have the most conservative government in the world?)
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To: SJackson

I’m this close to rooting for Khadafy.


9 posted on 03/30/2011 6:08:54 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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To: AlphaOneAlpha

The compulsion to denigrate one’s predecessors speaks of a deeply rooted inferiority complex. This trait is not surprising considering he was handed everything as an “Affirmative Action” baby and he hasn’t accomplished a thing in his life other than run for and win office using slimy, underhanded tricks.


10 posted on 03/30/2011 6:12:32 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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regime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives and nearly a trillion dollars.”

So, to save the lives of millions of Iraqi's has a time & dollar limit?

Is this POS saying we should only do what's right if the time & costs associated with it are palatable?

11 posted on 03/30/2011 6:13:05 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Red Badger

That’s the truth — what comes out the bottom orifice of all others comes steaming and rushing out of his topmost.


12 posted on 03/30/2011 6:14:23 AM PDT by bvw
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To drive home the point, he needed to contrast his record with the lesser men who sat in the Oval Office before him: “To lend some perspective on how rapidly this military and diplomatic response came together, when people were being brutalized in Bosnia in the 1990s, it took the international community more than a year to intervene with air power to protect civilians. It took us 31 days.”

Taking chickens**t swipes at Bush is one thing...ridiculing the Bubbas is not very smart.

13 posted on 03/30/2011 6:31:23 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Obama; a skid mark on the undershorts of American history.)
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bump. 587 days until we make Ogabe a future “predecessor”


14 posted on 03/30/2011 7:01:10 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (Public Service Announcement. As of 3/30/11, 587 days 'til we take out the trash. (November 6 2012))
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To: Cuttnhorse
“Taking chickens**t swipes at Bush is one thing...ridiculing the Bubbas is not very smart.”

Perhaps the Clintons will get their 2nd shot at Numb-Nuts. I'd bet money that they have loyalists who will help them depose “the one”. (lower case intentional)
This country is in crisis and danger. It should be enough to unveil Obama’s ineligibility to hold the office he stole.

15 posted on 03/30/2011 7:05:31 AM PDT by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: SJackson
Barry boasted that the Libya operation “carries with it a UN mandate and international support…

So did the mission in Iraq.

To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq…regime change there took eight years

No it did not you dumbazz. Regime change, ridding the country of a brutal dictator, actually only took 3 weeks. In May of 2003 L Paul Bremer became head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) for 13 months to prevent a vacuum in which the terrorists could fill, such as what is happening in Egypt today.

On July 22, 2003, the CPA formed the Iraqi Governing Council and appointed its members. Its duties included appointing representatives to the United Nations, appointing interim ministers to Iraq's vacant cabinet positions, and drafting a temporary constitution known as the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), which would be used to govern Iraq until a permanent constitution could be written and approved by the general electorate.

Sovereignty was returned to the Iraqis on 6-28-04 and power was transferred to the newly appointed Iraqi Interim Government. The CPA was disbanded and Bremer left Iraq the same day.

The Iraqis voted for the National Assembly of Iraq on January 30, 2005. The National Assembly were charged with writing the new Constitution of Iraq and to perform legislative functions until the new Constitution became law. The Constitution was adopted on October 15, 2005 in a referendum of the people. On December 15, 2005 the Iraqis once again went to the polls to elect a permanent government.

One year and nine months or 21months for “regime change” to be completed with new leadership installed.

If we are to play this game then it must be said that “regime change” in Germany has taken 70 years as we still have troops in Germany. The declared war on Japan also took 70 years and counting, as we still have troops in Japan. America’s foreign policy of the "containment" of communism led to the Korean War in 1950 and we still have troops there 61 years later. Then of course there was Vietnam…ummm…ahhh…nevermind...we let the communists have Vietnam because the communist DemonRats chose to abandon the Vietnamese.

Now the communist DemonRats, many of the same people that paved the way for the slaughter of 3 million+ Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laosians, have been trying for a replay of their successful mission by declaring Iraq a quagmire like Vietnam, demanding we bring the troops home and even forming a congressional caucus called the “Out of Iraq Caucus” which only serves to prolong the war and get more of our troops killed.

16 posted on 03/30/2011 7:25:07 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (Beware the ENEMEDIA ... Never Again! Support our Troops!)
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Just watch what happens when Ghaddfi does not go. The President has spoken, Ghaddfi must go!! what if he doesn't?

On Fox News last night they had other facts. 16 countries have signed onto the Libya bombing. Clinton had 24 and Bush had 48 countries with him in Iraq.

17 posted on 03/30/2011 7:31:31 AM PDT by thirst4truth (The left elected a mouth that is unattached to an eye, brain or muscle.)
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To: SJackson

The first thing I thought of when Obama criticized Clinton was if he did such a horrible job why do you have the other half of the Clinton Power Team running the Libyan war? We all know Hillary Clinton had major input on Bill’s decisions and if they were so wrong why is Obama letting her make the decisions in this situation? Either he is clueless or just doesn’t give a damn.


18 posted on 03/30/2011 7:38:52 AM PDT by jerseyrocks
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Obama’s Pettiness is just more proof that he thinks like a child and acts like a child,you can’t fix inept.


19 posted on 03/30/2011 10:01:53 AM PDT by Vaduz
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I’m this close to rooting for Khadafy.

Feel similar, if only for him to kill every danged enemy civilian to put a jink in the fast moving machinery of ME and N African(etc)shar'ia democracy, then Khaddafi killed himself. I just want totus to suck rotten eggs. Seems the "shellacking" he took in November and since shows such incredible arrogance and lies I have NEVER ever heard nor seen in any president of the United States. He makes Jimmah Carter almost tolerable.

20 posted on 03/30/2011 12:58:41 PM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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