Another stunning about face today from the NYT:
(after proclaiming ‘no more settlements)
Obama Pivots in His in Mideast Peace Bid
By HELENE COOPER and MARK LANDLER
President Obama is largely setting aside his demand for a full freeze on settlements in the West Bank.
And yesterday another one :
(after already expanding the war, adding 17,000 troops)
Obama Considers Strategy Shift in Afghan War
By PETER BAKER and ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: September 22, 2009
WASHINGTON – President Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.
June 4th:
(after promising no mandates in the campaign)
Obama Open to a Mandate on Health Insurance
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: June 3, 2009
WASHINGTON – President Obama said Wednesday that he was receptive to Congressional proposals that would require Americans to have health insurance and oblige employers to share in the cost. But he said there should be exemptions for people who cannot afford insurance and for small businesses in general.
Obama: ‘Nobody’ Considers Health Care Mandate a Tax Increase
January:
Anti-War Activists Disappointed With Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal Plan
President Obama’s plan will take three months longer than he promised on the campaign trail and will leave a residual force of between 35,000 and 50,000 troops, which many Democrats say is too many.
I could go on and on. The ‘exchange’ is actually the McCain ‘plan’ which he argued against.
Crazy, delusional, Stupid?
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They should withdraw, and provide massive reparations.
This bullshit that they think they can leave, provide nothing for the people they screwed up, but keep bombing via drones etc is just plain evil.
than the people who think he’s playing eleven dimensional chess.
You know?
not even weak just a pol a corrupt corporate tool. One that is the master of the bamboozle. However I think his bamboozle will not work as it does not at all match what his agenda or policies or even loyalty is. We all have to live under what this administration is calling progress change of reform. It won’t be change you can believe in or even compromise with and it seems to be empowering the corporations at a increasing rate. The fierce urgency of now doesn’t seem to be going anywhere in fact it’s screaming down the road at an accelerated clip. An intolerable status quo that we’re asked to pony up for in a world that offers no jobs, no peace, no future, and no reality and calls this compromise or change, or good.
include much of his staff.
IMHO, he listens to too many contradictory voices of “wisdom” and apparently isn’t able to make up his own mind decisively and with principle and conviction.
He let the “commanders on the ground” tell him what to do in the Middle East, instead of assuming the mantle of Commander-in-Chief.
McCain’s idea was actually a good one. He took a good idea for bipartisanship’s sake. (McCain also had a good idea about the government buying out people’s mortgages and publicly administering the loans instead of giving money to the banks for them to not-loan. Wish Obama had borrowed that one and credited McCain.)
The mandate is horseshit without a Medicare-like public option. With the public option, if it’s affordable, it makes some sense.
lazy, disengaged, and thoughtless in decision-making! Recall Judd Gregg appointment?
He looked good, has a dazzling smile, gives great speeches, that someone else writes.
But he doesn’t know jack about what to do with the power he has.
And he doesn’t seem to care.
It seems like he’s all “beer talk” and does absolutely nothing for real.
I mean, what has he done? Other than piss off EVERYbody?
What has he actually accomplished? Nothing.
links about Obama’s reverse speech?
Yes we can=thank you Satan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…