Obama’s Priorities
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Mark Noonan
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October 23rd, 2009 at 08:03pm with
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Tags: Afghan Campaign.
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From NRO’s Campaign Spot:
With his attendance at fundraisers for Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts today — boy, there’s a pair of popular incumbents — President Obama has now attended seven fundraisers since General Stanley McChrystal submitted his request for additional troops in Afghanistan.
Boy, it’s a shame Gen. McChrystal isn’t an unpopular incumbent Democrat; if he were, Obama might be more eager to help him out.
Your job, Mr. President, is to lead the nation – not bail out failing Democrats.
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13 Responses to “Obama’s Priorities”
Caucus of Corruption
Are you suggesting that a president shouldn’t attend fund raisers when the country is at war?
Casper,
Not at all – but seven while the troops wait to see if he can spare a moment for them…that just isn’t right…
Hey, we have all seen Obama’s attitude. He has remained on campaign mode, even though he won the election. He seems to feel that he is still trying to win an election that is past, or that he has to work on winning one not even being run.
this clown is in wayyyyyyy over his head, he doesnt know what to do or how to do it.
This is what happens when an empty suited sock puppet with a 3 word resume is put in control….the movie king ralph comes to mind.
casper, you really ought to work on posting something other than these feeble bleats. Mark said no such thing, and you know it. kjs says it best: Obama is still in campaign mode.
Why? Well, for one thing, campaigning is the only thing he has ever succeeded at. Of course, most of his campaigns were rigged by the Chicago Machine, but still, he is pretty good at bamboozling people. It’s his comfort zone.
Obama is all about narcissim, about being center stage. Being President is hard work, so he focuses on the parts he likes, which put him in front of crowds and cameras.
And it’s easier to hedge your bets in a campaign—see his preemptive dismissal of Deeds for an example. You can always cheat, a la ACORN, and/or you can make excuses, like the way the Dems hired those phone bank callers before the 2000 election to call people in Florida to tell them they may have been fooled by the Dem-created and approved ballots, just to throw the vote count into chaos. Campaigns and elections are much easier to manipulate than wars, and it’s much easier to shift blame when things go wrong.
Kotkai has fallen.
Sergei,
Good for the Pakistani forces…of course, I hope that we, on our side of the border, are making sure that we’re not just sending the Taliban from Pakistan to Afghanistan…
Mark,
“Not at all – but seven while the troops wait to see if he can spare a moment for them…that just isn’t right…”
So what would be the right number? Five? Two? Understanding that Bush had seven years to get Afghanistan right and attended hundreds of fundraisers over that period, how is what Obama doing any different.
“Are you suggesting that a president shouldn’t attend fund raisers when the country is at war?”
No casper, but it does show that one of the most outspoken critics of Bush, namely the Obamateur, has not made Afghanistan as high a priority as he expected Bush to make Iraq.
It is hard to fight a war when you are trying to appease your leftist constituents and other leftists of the world.
I think we are. The Secretary-General of NATO said a few days ago that ISAF ““will take sufficient measures to deal with a possible influx of Taliban fighters.” The next day, Pakistan asked NATO to close the border and assist them with intelligence; I don’t know how much progress has been made with the first request (it’s not an easy border to close), but we’ve apparently deployed our Predators to give them real-time data.
casper—–BUSH IS GONE. Bush-bashing is just so yesterday. Why don’t you man up and take a position and defend it, instead of just sniping at anything a conservative says?
Oh, right—it would take effort, initiative, research, and above all the establishment of a political philosophy which goes beyond mere umbrage at any criticism of anything Barry is up to. It would take a spine.
Even a doddering old school teacher ought to be able to figure out that Barry is in a pickle. For one thing, he is not a leader, but is an empty suit masquerading as a leader, and now that he is facing real decisions, with real consequences, he is trying to tapdance around them. For another, he has the snarling anti-war movement, which put him in office, ready to pounce if he ever does act like a Commander in Chief.
But as you try to conflate the actions of the two presidents, are you trying to say that you think Bush was indecisive? Dithering?” I thought the complaint about Bush was that he was “arrogant”, a “cowboy” charging ahead in what the RRL thought was a reckless manner. Make up your minds, you career Bush-bashers—-now it sounds like you are whining that he was not arrogant enough, not enough of a cowboy.
You see, a decisive Commander in Chief can make decisions and also do other things. It is the fact that Barry is doing these other things WITHOUT making decisions that is the point of the comment. That he is going to fundraisers INSTEAD of making decisions.
Duh………..
Amazona,
“casper—–BUSH IS GONE.”
Wow, you found the CAPS key (One would think you were being overly emotional). Of course Bush is gone, which means that it’s ok for you to attack Obama for the same things you were defending Bush for doing a couple of years ago.
“But as you try to conflate the actions of the two presidents, are you trying to say that you think Bush was indecisive?”
No, only that he didn’t really have a strategy for after he invaded Afghanistan. Otherwise, why would we still be there eight years later.
“It is the fact that Barry is doing these other things WITHOUT making decisions that is the point of the comment.”
Actually, he is making lots of decisions, about health care, the economy,etc. The fact that you don’t like his decisions, doesn’t mean he isn’t making them.
casper, do try to get a grip, take a breath, and keep up.
For one thing, you can’t support your silly claim that I am “attacking” Obama for the same things I “defended” Bush for doing. Oh you can make up some silly stuff, but you can’t support such a contention, because it is false.
You have no idea of whether or not Bush had a strategy or not, after he invaded Afghanistan. To know that, you would have to actually do some research and find out what the hell you are talking about, instead of just inventing stuff. In fact, there was a strategy for Afghanistan, as I know because I know people who served there, and because I always cared enough to fact-check and find out what was going on after hearing the moronic Olbermans and Rhodeses of the airwaves bleat their lying nonsense.
Your total (though not surprising) ignorance of the Afghani campaign as well as war in general is brilliantly illustrated by your silly whine of “Otherwise, why would we still be there eight years later”? You can’t be serious. Not even you can possibly be that dense.
Wait—yes you can. As conclusively proved by your statement that Obama IS making decisions all the time. Well, the thread is about his indecisiveness IN AFGHANISTAN (found those caps again, not emotional but just emphatic…) so your naive belief that he is really making all sorts of major decisions about health care and the economy and that oh-so-important etc. is totally irrelevant.
Yes, he has made decisions. He decided on a whole slew of commissars, to whom he gave lots and lots of power without having to have any of them approved by Congress—that was quite decisive. He may have made the decision on who he wanted to write the bills he has pushed—the jury is still out on that, as he apparently has quite a mob of Chicago Machine people doing a lot of that work for him.
He did finally choose a dog.
He seemed to decide that Congress was nothing but bunch of feeble-minded wimps he could stampede over one cliff after another by yelling “FIRE!” or the equivalent, panicking them into, among other things, passing a bill giving the Executive Branch a massive blank check.
He decided to put the census under the control of the White House, and to put old political cronies in charge of a lot of it.
You see, casper, I do keep up with the decisions Barry has been making, and my disapproval is not based on ignorance of what they are but on understanding of what they are, and of what they mean.
And I know he is dithering on Afghanistan.