Obama: Year 4
December 17, 2011 - 4:20pm
DaveW brought us Obama one year later and Obama: year 2, but I couldn't find a "year 3" thread. Perhaps Dave ran out of nice things to say about Obomba.
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President Obama Richly Deserves to Be Dumped
by John R. MacArthur (not exactly a member of the "looney left")
True enough. He's on side with the lunatic right wing fringe when it comes to Elvis bin Laden sightings. Just another deluded person by what I can tell.
All this talk about how they are pulling out of Iraq but leaving 12,000 contractors there with an embassy the size of the Vatican. And they just moved a whole bunch of troops to Kuwait.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/17/world/meast/iraq-troops-leave/?hpt=wo_c1
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/17/no_the_u_s_is_not_leaving_iraq/singleton...
DaveW brought us Obama one year later and Obama: year 2, but I couldn't find a "year 3" thread. Perhaps Dave ran out of nice things to say about Obomba.
Thanks for remembering me
ummm, where do I start? A decent but uninspired record, but of course the ideological periscope through which the leftward side of Babble views the world is not the view of mainstream US society or voters: As a result, in that world: 1. Obama will be re-elected. He faces a weak Republican field, and has several political pluses. And no Nader in view to elect another Bush. 2. He inherited 2 wars; he ended one, is leaving other. (Stepped aside for overthrow of Ghaddaffi dynasty; rightly so, France took the lead in supporting rebels.) 3. The US economy will continue slow but steady recovery from a deep fall, 2 per cent growth now the baseline. Unemployment will continue to fall. Too slowly, but visible. 4. Again, incumbents get re-elected, barring a disaster. No, not especially "nice things" , just mainstream US politics. I would certainly vote for him.Hm. All of DaveW's points could pretty well be made about Harper. Just sayin'.
Obama's "Mission Accomplished"
"An aggressive prosecution strategy, aimed at prevention as much as punishment, has sent away scores of people. They serve long sentences, often in restrictive, Muslim-majority units, under intensive monitoring by prison officers. Their world is spare," announced the paper.
DaveW brought us Obama one year later and Obama: year 2, but I couldn't find a "year 3" thread. Perhaps Dave ran out of nice things to say about Obomba.
Thanks for remembering me
ummm, where do I start? A decent but uninspired record, but of course the ideological periscope through which the leftward side of Babble views the world is not the view of mainstream US society or voters: As a result, in that world: 1. Obama will be re-elected. He faces a weak Republican field, and has several political pluses. And no Nader in view to elect another Bush. 2. He inherited 2 wars; he ended one, is leaving other. (Stepped aside for overthrow of Ghaddaffi dynasty; rightly so, France took the lead in supporting rebels.) 3. The US economy will continue slow but steady recovery from a deep fall, 2 per cent growth now the baseline. Unemployment will continue to fall. Too slowly, but visible. 4. Again, incumbents get re-elected, barring a disaster. No, not especially "nice things" , just mainstream US politics. I would certainly vote for him.I think it might be an interesting line of research to compare the setup Obama is leaving in Iraq with one of the Princely States in India during British rule or any of the other forms of colonial government where the locals were nominally in charge but not when it really mattered.