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Bethnai -> RE: A bit disappointed (11/10/2008 6:06:10 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or
I grow weary of people talking about race and it's play in this last election. Let's get down to nuts and bolts.
I saw Obama's "first" news conference or whatever you call it, and I was not impressed. He sounded more like a politician and less like,,,,,, Obama. I am not making snap judgements here, just reporting my observation. I really hope he does not fall into the same hole as the rest of them. It wasn't as bad as Bush, who I actually refused to listen to toward the end, but it still wasn't the same as when Obama was running and hadn't won yet.
Perhaps it was the tone of his voice, which makes me wonder just what he's been told now that he is PE. I surely hope it's not complacency and I am not making that charge in any way. Perhaps it was the questions that were asked, maybe some of those points are something he did not yet focus upon. I don't know.
He seemed more calm, but not more self assured. Perhaps it is merely my perception, but it seems pretty real. Perhaps it is just that he has relized the enourmity of the tasks before him. It almost seems like he was not as confident. That's not so bad because I'm sure he has been told things he did not know until AFTER winning the election. Like reality is upon him. Perhaps he just found out that there are a bunch of things he just can't do.
At least that's how it seems to me.
I wll do the usual, prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Maybe I am more perceptive than most, maybe not, but I was wondering if anyone else noticed this. I am one of those people it is very hard to lie to, I can almost smell it in a face to face conversation, but this was not a face to face conversation. I downloaded a book called How To Get The Truth Out Of Anyone and when I read it I realized I already knew what it said. The problem is I was not alone in a room with the Man. It's a one way thing. Getting the truth is not difficult when you ask the questions. Getting the truth on a TV screen is quite another matter.
I will remain optimistic until I have reason not to be. Perhaps he is trying to say, via attitude, inflection and even body language that we simply can't expect the land of milk and honey overnight. I'll buy that. He could shake the tree by it's roots and I would not expect any significant positive results for at least a year.
One thing that doesn't please me is that he intends to go ahead with the missile plan in Europe, which is pretty much asking for another Cuban missile crisis. Hopefully it is just a bargaining chip for upcoming meetings with the Medvev/Putin administration. Even if he does it, just don't spend billions a month and don't push that button. However I say if you're never going to push the button, why have the missiles ? Perhaps Russia is thinking the same thing.
I hope Obama realizes that the other big kids on the block have been putting up with our antics and even supporting us during these times when we seemed hell bent on pissing everyone in the world off. In other words, I hope he knows how to use the word NO.
NO more. Get out of Iraq, Afghanistan can happen later, you remember what happened to Hitler when the Nazis fought a multi-fronted war. Their reach overextended their grasp. We are on the brink of something like this. Any warrior needs a rest period, and if you think of the US as an entity, we are due. We need to recoup, to rebuild the machine, to actually rest. To heal. Perhaps that's my tribal instinct talking, but it makes sense to me.
Yes I recognize what that is, like a mental throwback, but see it worked. My tribal instincts are that of a Polak hillbilly. Yup, like the Clampetts on Beverly Hillbillies, sans the money and we don't shoot quite as well. No way I could shoot flies off the wall at thirty feet, but we ain't bad.
So did anyone see what I saw ?
T
I did not see the same thing. I heard him say twice that he was not the president, yet, and that Bush was still his president and that he still supported him. He had his first briefing and I'm thinking, it is smarter to keep ones mouth shut in order to receive future information. That would be a common sense thing. There is nothing at the moment that he can do but what he is doing. Now, the journalists (I use that term loosly) tried to ask questions that would say that with the new knowledge did he change his view and he told them he would not answer the questions.
Now, here is the kicker, he said many months ago that he thought that he thought that Afghanistan was were we needed to be. So, the world cannot act shocked if he does that. He wants the troops out in 16 months of Iraq.
I would keep all foreign policy on hold till after he takes office. Another thing to keep in mind, some countries will flat out be unwilling to enter negotiations until after this man is in office.
I think he is pretty much aware that people are going to watch him and make a big toodoo over what can be accomplished in the first 100 days. Podesta has spoken about things that can be accomplished as quickly as possible.
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