Wednesday, December 2, 2009

BUMMER WEDNESDAY PART DEUX

Obama is looking worse and worse these days, and it makes me = (. Across the board, with all of his policies it is becoming clear we did not elect the courageous liberal outsider who would do what his more politically concerned contemporaries were too busy worrying about staying in office to get done, after all. Instead, we have a president who is barely voicing an opinion during the most potentially historic health care reform debate in our nation's history, not just ignores but actually speaks out against gay rights at a time where national opinion on the matter has never been higher, and puts forth maximum effort trying to reform the pieces of a broken and morally bankrupt economic system rather than seize this great opportunity to restructure it.

And now the one area where those of us who wanted so badly to believe in him could point to for a genuine ray of light, his foreign policy objectives, has gone completely down the shitter with one devastating speech. Obama declared his plan to increase troops, as pointed out by Magical Fuckers below, and in his speech made use of (a lack of) logic that will be terrifyingly familiar to anyone paying attention during the Bush/Cheney years. Obama appears now to have fully embraced the Bush Doctrine, which for me, and many prominent liberals, officially puts an end to the ability or desire to give him the benefit of any doubt. In case you, like Sarah Palin, don't know what the Bush doctrine is, Rachel Maddow testifies with typical brilliance below.


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  1. sheilaownscommunismDecember 3, 2009 at 1:27 AM

    I don't think this really comes as a surprise at all. He was pretty forthright during his campaign about his plans to shore up forces in Afghanistan (and Pakistan):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vpCBpTbEds

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  2. Magical FuckersDecember 3, 2009 at 10:17 AM

    AMY GOODMAN: Why do you think Obama is expanding this war? And do you call it “Obama’s war” now?

    NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, this goes way back. I mean, the United States has sort of a comparative advantage in world affairs, namely, military might, not economic power, you know, not Treasury reserves. I mean, it’s a very powerful state, but, you know, it’s one of several. It’s comparable to Europe. It’s comparable to rising East Asia in, say, economic power. But in military power, it is supreme. The United States spends approximately as much as the rest of the world in military force. It’s far more technologically advanced. And when you have a comparative advantage, you tend to use it. So, policy decisions tend to drift towards where you’re strong. And where you’re strong is military force. It’s, you know, the old joke: if you have a hammer, everything you see is a nail. You know. And I think that’s very much of a driving force.

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  3. Magical FuckersDecember 3, 2009 at 12:29 PM

    rachel maddow kinda looks like annie brix, amirite??

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  4. WolfgarDecember 3, 2009 at 4:34 PM

    The fact that Obama is increasing troops in Afghanistan is not surprising, that is true, for anyone paying attention to his campaign rhetoric. However, on one hand I hoped that he was hyping up the war in Afghanistan in a comparative sense, in order to highlight the flaws of Iraq, and John McCain for supporting it. I hoped that once he actually got in office, and realized the senselessness of a nation-building war in this region that has never been a centralized nation, he would reconsider and recant.

    Secondly, what I was surprised and most disturbed by was his rhetoric in the speech, in which he clearly stated support for the concept of preventative war. This something that I hoped and expected, perhaps naively, would die with the Bush/Cheney administration.

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