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The Meltdown
2014-08-31
Long piece by Bret Stephens at Commentary catalogs Champ's epic foreign policy failures in depth. Worth the review.
Posted by:Steve White

#8  What no mo uro said.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-08-31 10:19  

#7  The Logo for the last years left...

Posted by: Guillibaldo Bumble9343   2014-08-31 09:46  

#6  That was a surprisingly critical article. He couldn't have made his bias any clearer even without the mandatory slams at Rick Perry and Sarah Palin.

Trying to damn Obama as "too professorial, rational and prudent" was hilarious. This, the author, is a man torn by the realization that his worldview is a chimera and not a unicorn, grasping at straws to construct a new view that doesn't require the open admission "I've been an ass".
Posted by: AlanC   2014-08-31 09:04  

#5  Not meaning to be overly critical to a paid writer, but it seems he asked a whole lot more questions than he answered.
Posted by: badanov   2014-08-31 08:13  

#4  Or Academia
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-08-31 07:02  

#3  .....pseudointellectuals who have convinced themselves they are a more highly evolved life form,...no mo uro.

I see you've had at least some exposure to our national Intelligence Community.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-08-31 06:50  

#2  When a nation is ruled (not governed or served, but RULED) by a coalition of public employee and welfare thugs who would destroy the nation to maintain the illusion of a never-ending gravy train plus self-superior NPR listening pseudointellectuals who have convinced themselves they are a more highly evolved life form, an Obama presidency and the accompanying level of real world incompetence is the ultimate result.

Obama and his policies are the symptom, not the cause.
Posted by: no mo uro   2014-08-31 06:27  

#1  Excellent article. My personal favorite paragraph below:

Should any of this have come as a surprise? Probably not: With Obama, there was always more than a whiff of the overconfident dilettante, so sure of his powers that he could remain supremely comfortable with his own ignorance. His express-elevator ascent from Illinois state senator to U.S. president in the space of just four years didn’t allow much time for maturation or reflection, either. Obama really is, as Bill Clinton is supposed to have said of him, “an amateur.” When it comes to the execution of policy, it shows.

Posted by: Besoeker   2014-08-31 01:01  

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