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After umpteen times spouting off about his "red line" which Syria would be crossing if they used chemical weapons, he now decides that the red line was drawn "by the world". Right, Bam-Bam. That's why it's the UN Security Council taking a vote on whether or not to authorize action. Wrong! (Have you had Joe writing your press releases?
You're entirely correct that there is no good answer in Syria. I'm not sure where you get the idea that "BHO has spent the last few years telling half the country that we're ignorant aholes and everything that we stand for is worthless." Read Breitbart and InfoWars much? The Republicans are just as culpable as the Democrats with respect to any political division if not more so. American politics has become a game of screeching that the other guy is just terrible and fighting his policies with tooth and nail at every opportunity. The strategies employed in Congress over the course of this Administration would result in pyrrhic victories at best if the American people didn't have a pathologically brief attention span and willful ignorance of reality. Luckily for those in power on both nominal sides we greedily gobble our Big Macs while watching Honey Boo Boo and voting for American Idol, pausing only briefly to gather a few skewed soundbites from whatever "news" channel or website is willing to pander to our prejudices and exploit wedge issues to further the culture war that generates so much capital, both political and pecuniary.
But yeah, BHO is the worst, unlike our guys. Go, Team!
No - I don't - please read my post again - I said that he is partially culpable. To the degree he was lied to - I don't hold him at fault. To the degree that he did it out of hubris I condemn the action. NOTE that I said that "we will never know" what percentage was which.
I did not hear Reagan use the term "bitter - clinging to their guns and religion". He reached out to people that he disagreed with. I don't recall hearing such derision from Bush I either. For all of his faults, I don't recall hearing such divisive rhetoric from GWB either. And to give credit where it's due - Clinton started out divisive - but had the good sense to extend the olive branch. And he had the political capital he needed when he needed it. Obama has shown no such inclination. If you repeatedly deride people and don't work with them, and screw them over at every turn - sooner or later they get wise, pick up their marbles and go home. As for Breitbart and Infowars, no, I don't read them (any more than I watch PMSNBC or any other right or left slanted crap). THEY are not the President. THEY don't determine policy. HE does. The other Presidents, both D and R, seem to have remembered to not crap in their nest. Obama - unlike the others has been incessantly flinging manure like a chimpanzee with a mental disorder.
I do agree with your "Location".
