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#96 Raszaron –

“[Reagan] never placated to any foriegn official or idealogy (or the media). He said he was going to do something and he went out and did it.”

That sounds like Bush II as well, although it was done a lot more poorly in the second case. Which means it isn’t just the strategy, but the man. I still believe (wavering a bit) that Obama the man can push his strategy through to the right ends, but time will tell.

And Obama didn’t cut the military, he actually increased spending by about 3-5% as I recall. The Republican talking points say that he cut the military because he cut (Gates cut) some of the programs they like, such as the missile defense.

According to Hannity, Carter started the housing bubble based on that bill in 1977 that tried to get poor people to be able to buy homes. Even if that were true (which is crazy) does that mean that the Republicans were so incompetent that in 32 years they weren’t able to solve this problem? They certainly weren’t screaming about it until well after the bubble broke…

And only time will tell how sage Bush kept us. One domestic attack under Clinton, one under Bush. I’ll wait and see, but there isn’t any public info available yet on what was being planned in LA so who knows how much of a miss that was. And if you believe Ron Suskind (and all of his well cited sources in the Bush administration), Bush played politics with the London trans-atlantic plot and forced the Brits to move prematurely (against their strenuous objections) to help in the elections over here(and some of those plotters had to be released due to insufficient evidence).

Jack