I read a very interesting encomium, and a hoped for epitaph for the republican party by a very bitter Bob Schrum, who never won a presidential race as mgr for the democrats.
He sees the republicans as what the democrats were about 3 years ago. Leaderless, rudderless, simply obstinate and in opposition to anything Mr. Bush had to say. He sees them as a tiny minority bereft even of their 'moderate republican' wing.
He is wrong.
I remain independent but I have to tell you, there is a strategic reminder of republican ideas.
Barack Obama.
This man has turned out to be to the left, not of what he represented himself as during the campaign, but to the left of where he was as a Senator - the most liberal in the club. Of course his actions are couched now in the crisis which is now turning since he got his way with the congress and is enjoying a post coital smoke. So far his domestic actions remain somewhat within the realm of FDR-land of the early-mid 30's (a time fraught with fear of either a communist revolution amid 25% unemployment or fascist takeover ..search on Smedley Butler)...BUT
But what will turn the tide is the human nature of our enemies overseas
FDR recognized the nature of man, Obama is blind to it.
FDR, when the presidents of the 1920's (republicans), went to sign treaty after treaty limiting navies, limiting sizes of ships, limiting arms and finally outlawing war itself, expounded that such ideas would render the democracies unable to face reality when the issue was drawn AS IT MUST BE SOONER OR LATER, and supported hard headed policies AS EARLY AS 1928 (Stimson) which he was ready to stand behind even if they lead to war, and said just that.
Oh and coincidentally...
The cynical leaders overseas smile.
And I haven't even mentioned Waziristan or Swat
He sees the republicans as what the democrats were about 3 years ago. Leaderless, rudderless, simply obstinate and in opposition to anything Mr. Bush had to say. He sees them as a tiny minority bereft even of their 'moderate republican' wing.
He is wrong.
I remain independent but I have to tell you, there is a strategic reminder of republican ideas.
Barack Obama.
This man has turned out to be to the left, not of what he represented himself as during the campaign, but to the left of where he was as a Senator - the most liberal in the club. Of course his actions are couched now in the crisis which is now turning since he got his way with the congress and is enjoying a post coital smoke. So far his domestic actions remain somewhat within the realm of FDR-land of the early-mid 30's (a time fraught with fear of either a communist revolution amid 25% unemployment or fascist takeover ..search on Smedley Butler)...BUT
But what will turn the tide is the human nature of our enemies overseas
FDR recognized the nature of man, Obama is blind to it.
FDR, when the presidents of the 1920's (republicans), went to sign treaty after treaty limiting navies, limiting sizes of ships, limiting arms and finally outlawing war itself, expounded that such ideas would render the democracies unable to face reality when the issue was drawn AS IT MUST BE SOONER OR LATER, and supported hard headed policies AS EARLY AS 1928 (Stimson) which he was ready to stand behind even if they lead to war, and said just that.
If I am Iran, I am smelling a shot at throwing America out the middle east, suborning Euros with a few contracts, cowing the Sunni Oil states into frank sending of tribute, arming HAMAS and Hizballah and authorizing them to use their Iranian supplied missiles to make all of Israel into Sderot, uninhabitable under a sudden rain of missiles at random, whim and caprice, controlled by the spirit of Farfour, possibly triggering another exodus, and timing that, so that when Israel is finally provoked to strike at Iran, Iran responds to this 'aggression' with their new nuclear weapons. And not only do I like my chances thru at least 2012, it is Allah who has ordered the universe into this configuration for me.NYT: The Obama administration and its European allies are preparing proposals that would shift strategy toward Iran by dropping a longstanding American insistence that Tehran rapidly shut down nuclear facilities during the early phases of negotiations over its atomic program, according to officials involved in the discussions.
Oh and coincidentally...
SEOUL, April 14 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it saw talks on ending its nuclear weapons programme as "useless" and it planned to restart a plant that makes arms-grade plutonium, state media quoted its Foreign Ministry as saying. The comments came in response to the U.N. Security Council unanimously condemning North Korea's long-range rocket launch nearly two weeks ago as contravening a U.N. ban, and demanding enforcement of existing sanctions against Pyongyang.
One man rescued by three
skilled snipers is NOT a foreign policy.
skilled snipers is NOT a foreign policy.
The cynical leaders overseas smile.
And I haven't even mentioned Waziristan or Swat
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