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Barack Obama Strangelove Backing A Weapon Too Crazy For Bush/Cheney
Some key points from the post, by Tom Maguire
My cynical guess - Obama is backing this now in preference to maintaining a nuclear stockpile; later, the obvious problems with this weapons system will become obvious to him.

This is bait and switch by Obama - a guy who couldn't back a missile defense system because it is too destabilizing will never back this, not too mention that his base will howl, but it may be expedient right now to pretend to be a tough guy.
And in the comments:
The larger point is the usual Obama scam: Install poison pills in programs he does not like, but at the same time back a flawed "even better" idea so as to dodge the political pain. We see it everywhere: dropping the missles in Poland etc for a "cheaper faster more relaible alternative" that somehow escaped that idiot Bush. Or: let's install a new and better insurance overlay to healthcare so existing arrangements can be abrogated, know full well that the new plan will crash and burn soon so he can get the single payer plan he wanted all along.

This story is just another one of those.

So far the muddle and the media let him get away with it.
Dhimmicratic standard policy is always to endorse the next, unproven weapons system and disparage the currently being developed system as unproven, impractical, destabilizing or too expensive (since we need to spend more on free health care). When the next pie-in-the-sky system comes to the point of being developed, repeat the cycle.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-04-23
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=295214