Barack Obama lifts the spirits, but he’s not ‘The One’

 

1. The Truman Doctrine. And it won the Cold War. Horry Clap! I think even the conservatives over there are lefties. No. Sorry. At best the TD just kept things on simmer for generations, allowing every mud crusted flyspeck of a country to get loads of cash from Uncle Sugar Stupid Sam.

   The Truman Doctrine - ie., send loads of money to prop up weak countries that might fall under the commie spell - was designed by the Congress at the time. The Republican dominated Congress. Not that it’s much to be proud of; it amounts to outright bribery. Truman didn’t write his doctrine, and Marshall had very little to do with the Marshall Plan. They just happened to be in charge of things at the time.

   Posted by Drew458       07/24/2008  at  09:48 PM  



2. "Iain”? Geez, what a pussy.

   For those Britons sick of the old-time religion of the Bush years, the arrival of “The One”, as the McCain team sarcastically refer to their rival, is accordingly a glorious, shining moment.

   It follows years of misery in which Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their pupil interpreted the nature of the threat correctly but bungled the response.

   Bush policy is religion? Ah, “old time” religion: confront your enemies and defeat them. Is that it? And a general “fuck you” to Iaiaiaiaiaan’s “Bush as the student, the puppet at the end of the string” meme. Suck my left nut, Nancy Boy. What a sycophant this guy is, and he’s one of the few who can see through even a little of the glory mist that surrounds the Magic Negro.

   The Obama doctrine, such as it can be divined, seems to be that an America under his leadership would rebuild its alliances, deal with energy security and climate change, end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan successfully and bring the struggle with al-Qaeda and the Taliban to a close.

   a) any alliances we have now are just fine. The ones that went downhill we didn’t need anyway.
   b) Energy Security? WTF is that? By the time Black Jesus assumes the position, the whole damn country will be in favor of drilling everywhere, side by side with windmills. But he’s going to take the credit?
   c)Climate Change? Oh, just fuck me dead already. Even the Obamessiah can’t stop the planet from warming up or cooling off. But I hear Obama can make the tides go out, although it usually takes him 12 hours to do that trick.
   d) Iraq is 98% over and we won. Afghanistan is about to get surged, and we’ll win there too. Again, the NFN will come into power just as it’s over, so he’ll get the credit. What a phallic gulper.
   e) AQ and the Taliban? Easy. Nuke their scabby asses. Nobody gives a shit. It’s Afghanistan and Pakistan. The whole world would breath a sigh of relief if there were ten to twenty million collateral damage casualties. But seriously, see d) above.

   The need is for a great foreign policy president of the quality of ... Reagan. To win a long war begun by our enemies, we are going to need more than an attractive but essentially empty vessel.

   Gosh, a nugget of truth. How did that sneak in?

   Posted by Drew458       07/24/2008  at  10:05 PM  

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