Sorry, I meant to comment on your question. IMO, O’ma will be too indecisive. His bumbled conversation with the Poles about the installation of anti-missiles, where public disagreement with a friendly government occured, is the first example of not being able to make up his mind. Say things in private, and then divorce from them once revealed. Not a good indicator. See John Bolton in WSJ.
tom

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tom

At least in Truman’s case, a consider amount of evidence would suggest he would be to right by a considerable amount of every national level Democratic politician.

What truly is maddening about current Democratic politics is that, since they’ve pretty much ceded the field of battle of serious ideas, they’ve decided to run national popularity contests, in the manner of pre-civil rights Southern Democrats.

Since everyone that “matters” pretty much agrees on the big topics, we might as well vote for the most “clean” and “articulate” (their words, not mine) candidate.

Even Democrats can’t run on their handling of foreign affairs since 1973. So, excuse me if I think all the “Maybe Obama will be a hawk” happytalk is so much whistling past the graveyard.

Who was the journalist during in the 60′s and 70′s who won a Pulitzer reporting a totally false and ironically a “leaked” story?

That is what is scary about this whole mess.

Derek

The next time something happens they will look more and more like the 9/11 truthers.

Reality has a nasty way of intruding. Count on it.

Derek

I mention this twisted comedy because I think this is the key to Obama’s personality, and to his singular, almost eerie lack of either achievement or shouldered responsibility in his life heretofore, and that is he has got by entirely by conning people.

The successful con artist, as playwrights who dealt with “con artist” comedies such as Ben Jonson and Machiavelli demonstrate, must never, ever believe his own con. And I think Obama is stupid (N.B. I didn’t say he isn’t clever) enough to believe his own con.

Look at his “public service” initiatives: he’s got his operatives out there calling in and herding the drones, and he knows he can do this because they are drones.

The real disaster in this country is not that Obama is president, but that there are so many terminally silly people out there willing and ready to vote for him.

None this is nice to contemplate, but I think those of us who are going to refuse to be conned by this charlatan, are going at least to incorporate this sort of information into their judgments, responses, and actions. For one thing, I think it is necessary to stand up and tell this Obama story in public and without pulling punches. I think we’re going to see that utterly new thing under the sun: marches and demonstrations by conservatives. And one of the truths we need to say to the Obamaniacs is that we are not stupid, that we do see through this charlatan, and that we refuse to allow our country to be taken away by his robotoid operatives.

This is only part of what I’d like to see, but it’s a start.

For confirmation of this meme, see any recent issue of the Economist, and check the adjectives applied to the Bush administration in general, and Iraq in particular. In no time at all one finds “abysmal”, “failed”, “botched”, “mismanaged”, “insufficient” and “ill-conceived”. These at a time when even the MSM (now that the sacred Obama has safely won his election) is admitting that the Iraq war is indeed won.

I think the prevailing sentiment here is correct. In fact, it is already underway, the tone of the press in its reports involving W have lost a lot of their sharply hostile edge. I get the feeling the only Republicans/Conservatives the left respects are dead, outgoing, docile, or losing ones. In fact, the gushing over John McCain’s losing speech would have been much different had McCain gave a victory speech instead.

Early on, it was said by W that much of this fight would be in the dark alleys and shadows, successes may not be publicized for years or decades later and failures would find their way into the public eye quicker.