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Thursday, December 09, 2010

Odama Revives WTF?

Running on empty - but no!

“ Few commentators have expressed less confidence in the ability of the Obama administration to rebound than I have, but the five weeks since the shellacking have been the most successful this president has had. The clear message of the WikiLeaks fiasco is that American diplomats and foreign-policy planners recognize that China is engaged in an insidious and unsubtle process of asserting itself in as disagreeable a manner as possible, without being dangerously belligerent; that Russia is a Mafia state run by a thug; and that the engagement policy with America’s more vocal critics in the Muslim, African, and Latin American theaters has not accomplished anything useful. Obama Revives, National Revue Online

Running on empty

"Who would have thought that sanity and maturity would emerge?" 

If I've properly caught Charles Black 's curious drift, the old scoundrel is heaping praise on Obama for, somewhere along the line, figuring all this out.  Russia is a Mafia state run by a thug.  Chinesecommiemotherfuckers are bad. Muslims are duplicitous brigands.

"The clear message of the WikiLeaks fiasco is that American diplomats and foreign-policy planners recognize ... ."
“ Hillary Clinton recognizes that Saudi Arabia is bankrolling Islamist extremism, and she and the president she serves are aware that North Korea is a puppet state of China. Despite his salutary electoral comeuppance, Mr. Obama appears as a serious and sober head of the American state and government.

But Connie ... what did the administration do with this knowledge? Where's Obama's parry ?  What advantageous moves after finally realizing what everyone else on the planet has known all along? 

Hoot Mon, is it possible that  Obama's duplication of Clinton's 1996 triangulation tour de force can be as easy as this?  Props  from the National Revue, and a few ef-yous from democrats?   Say it isn't so Joe.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous12/10/10, 2:58 AM

    “The clear message of the WikiLeaks fiasco is that American …
    State Department and Pentagon depend on Information Technology providers who either have backbones of jello or technical savvy of the late 1980’s or all of the above.
    The demand of “user friendly” security for technically inept and dysfunctional diplomats, elected oficials and military officers is a possible excuse for lax criteria resulting in such a massive leak.
    So much data in one place, soft security and no detection/prevention of massive downloads is another possible excuse.
    Nailing a PFC is stopping the buck at the lowest possible point of responsibility and heaping blame on the messenger is a great way to protect the civil servant, politician or military officer who individually or combined made the bad choices that allowed the mess.
    No doubt, our Maginot Line is still in place and its creators are well hidden.
    A Mudgeon from Texas

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  2. Anonymous12/10/10, 10:41 AM

    My opinion of this at first was based on pitchfork and rope, then it gravitated to, sadistic glee at the plight of his "victims". By next Monday I will be shopping for files to bake into cakes for the guy. He may have been the biggest gift to American citizenry in a long time. He has guillotined our ruling class. Can't wait to read the insurance file.

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