It is open season on President Obama. He is a weak president. He is too cautious, they say. Even Hillary Clinton has jumped on the bandwagon. Hillary Clinton seems to be using the international unrest to criticize the President’s policies. She told the Atlantic:
“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said. … This is what Clinton said about Obama’s slogan: “Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.”
Of course she is wrong. It is a continuum of doing stupid stuff and being presumptuous internationally that has cost us thousands of lives, cost hundreds of thousands of lives overseas, and depleted our treasury. Those who criticize President Obama for being overcautious should check history for America’s continuous blunders internationally that have kept us at war for decades with little marginal increase in security (Iraq twice, Iran, Panama, Grenada, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, etc.)
that could prove to be a big mistake for the Black voters to turn on her President to gain voter brownie points that's no different than republican rhetoric she could pay, I'm not feeling as warm and cozy as I was before I read this, you? his being cautious is a plus not like the other side who always ;leaps before looking to see if there is any water in the pool. and it does not make her looki hawkish just opportunistic.
This weekend a lazy, seemingly gullible reporter asked President Obama if he regretted not leaving troops in Iraq. That is a question based on Republican talking points and not journalistic inquiry. The reporter should have known that the U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement was signed by President Bush which specifically said all combat troops would leave Iraq in December of 2011. President Obama attempted to negotiate keeping more soldiers in Iraq but could not come to an agreement with the Iraqi government who wanted the soldiers out.
we also have a problem of attaching the negative to the wrong person even after the facts are revealed that is evidenced by 45% disapproval that sounds like less than half yearn for more blood and treasure losses, those same persons would be leading the charge if he did any of those things that could be deemed war. we are not who we've been telling ourselves or the world we are and nobody seems to focus ion that just what republicans say Pres. is and isn't doing.
