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Desperately seeking substance - from Obama : Comments

By Ted Bromund, published 1/5/2009

Barack Obama will find - as Jimmy Carter did to his cost - that appeasing your enemies doesn't calm them down.

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What rubbish! Pure political BS.
The title describes the article: No substance.

Reversing the disaster of the last administration is taking up all his time.
Name another president that has had to handle the immanent destruction of it's monetary system and the loss of all allies trust!
Where were you when Bush was lying, torturing, stealing and murdering his way around the world? (this makes you an accomplice, one of many political "institutes")
I'd say he is dong better than Rudd, who has stuffed up on Afghanistan, ETS, cash bonuses and an endless banking profit guarantee. Kevin, we'll forgive cuts if needed, but we will *not* forgive wasteful handouts to the wealthy which the poor (ex-middle class) will pay for.
Posted by Ozandy, Friday, 1 May 2009 4:13:58 PM
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And this is what passes for "informed" opinion by those on the right side of the USA culture wars!
Posted by Ho Hum, Friday, 1 May 2009 4:26:30 PM
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Ted Bromund,
It's reassuring to hear the voice of reason in contrast to the usual media fawning.
How the American people could have allowed themselves to be duped by this dangerous demagogue defies determination.
Hugo Chavez got it right the first time when he described Obama as a "poor ignoramus" but I hear they've made up since.
Posted by KMB, Friday, 1 May 2009 4:41:23 PM
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President Obama was described in an Australian Editorial (27/4) as being "more willing to compromise" on foreign affairs. That's not necessarily a good thing - cf Neville Chamberlain. Recalcitrant regimes in Russia, Iran, North Korea et al will seek to exploit this for their own ends, and the test will be whether offering compromise to unreasonable despots will in fact achieve better outcomes than a harder-line stance. It's never worked before.

The scope for foreign policy might be constrained by economic problems at home - cf General Motors, which is proposing that in return for $US27 billion funding being considered by Obama, the government gets 50% of the shares in a worthless company facing increasing competition. The massive government injections will be paid for through higher tax and interest rates and slower growth in incomes and employment (the same fate that awaits Australians from Rudd's splash-the-cash approach).
Posted by Faustino, Friday, 1 May 2009 7:12:13 PM
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A photo of Obama that tells it all about the latter’s ‘substance.’ Has anyone seen Obama’s photo in The Australian, April 29, 2009, when he was given the cap of the FBI at his visit in its headquarters? His expression is that of a toddler who has been given an ugly toy for a present. This photo will haunt Obama for the rest of his term.

The legendary stork has brought an unloved child in a basket to the American people. Abandoned as a toddler by his father, dumped as a child by his mother on his grandparents, he has been searching for love ever since. And finally he has founded it in the initially warm embrace of the foster parenthood of the prattling classes, the politically disgruntled from the previous administration, and all the poor. And being laid in this ‘public’ bed of love and indulging its pleasures to the full Obama will eventually have to pay its high price. As to continue to be the recipient of this love, so existentially necessary for him, his agenda perforce has to be focused in satisfying these three groups simultaneously. That is why his grand social policies of universal health care, education, foreign policy, and climate change, are so important to him. But this is a task for one endowed with superior qualities and Obama has the ordinary qualities of a ‘community organiser’ dressed in ‘ivy clothes leaves.’ And in this inability to accomplish the great change that he promised to the American people the presently smitten with love public for Obama will turn against him and the latter will find himself bitten by the adder on his path to failure.

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Posted by Themistocles, Friday, 1 May 2009 7:43:42 PM
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Themistocles,
I wish I could write like you!
Posted by Psychophant, Friday, 1 May 2009 7:47:50 PM
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