DaveW brought us [url=http://rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/obama-one-year-l... one year later[/url] and [url=http://rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/obama-year-2]Obama: year 2[/url], but I couldn't find a "year 3" thread. Perhaps Dave ran out of nice things to say about Obomba.
[url=http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/14-6]President Obama Richly Deserves to Be Dumped[/url]
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'.
[url=http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/16-3]Obama's "Mission Accomplished"[/url]
Obama ordered the construction and expansion of a new concentration camp at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan to house thousands of new and current inmates in the U.S. torture system. Now The New York Times has discovered that the Obama Administration has developed "the other Guantánamo, an archipelago of federal prisons that stretches across the country, hidden away on back roads" inside the United States. Hundreds of Muslim men have been imprisoned by means of the thinnest veneer of legality."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.
