When we look back at Barack Obama, what will we say? I think it will have to do with the way we wanted to believe that the old parental "use words" admonition was the best advice and we conned ourselves into seeing him as the embodiment of that fantasy, and he tried to be our dream.
"Using words" is often good advice. What I think that the "dreamers" fail to understand is that people who advocate something other than words do not do so because they *prefer* something other than words.
So now it's... You're pro-war, why don't you want to bomb Syria?
"Using words" does explain Obama's seeming need to *talk* about everything. He's been talking tough since the 2008 campaign about how he'd be doing this or doing that and boy he'd make Pakistan toe the line. (And if one cared they could go to TOP and find where I said so at the time, too.)
You're going to carry that Big Stick you've got to remember the effing "talk softly" part of it. You don't make threats, you don't talk tough, you don't "use your words" in the place of your Big Stick because you're inevitably going to do something incredibly stupid like drawing a big red line that you're going to be called on later or else have your man-creds revoked. Do we have to "do something" in Syria to solve something in Syria or do we have to "do something" to shore up the credibility of our Head of State?
Do a lot of "talking" and at some point you realize that you've got to put up or shut up and THAT is a game that should never be played with our military or with the lives of the people on the receiving end of our military.
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Great song Lem.
When we look back at Barack Obama, what will we say? I think it will have to do with the way we wanted to believe that the old parental "use words" admonition was the best advice and we conned ourselves into seeing him as the embodiment of that fantasy, and he tried to be our dream.
Ann Althouse.
"Using words" is often good advice. What I think that the "dreamers" fail to understand is that people who advocate something other than words do not do so because they *prefer* something other than words.
So now it's... You're pro-war, why don't you want to bomb Syria?
"Using words" does explain Obama's seeming need to *talk* about everything. He's been talking tough since the 2008 campaign about how he'd be doing this or doing that and boy he'd make Pakistan toe the line. (And if one cared they could go to TOP and find where I said so at the time, too.)
You're going to carry that Big Stick you've got to remember the effing "talk softly" part of it. You don't make threats, you don't talk tough, you don't "use your words" in the place of your Big Stick because you're inevitably going to do something incredibly stupid like drawing a big red line that you're going to be called on later or else have your man-creds revoked. Do we have to "do something" in Syria to solve something in Syria or do we have to "do something" to shore up the credibility of our Head of State?
Do a lot of "talking" and at some point you realize that you've got to put up or shut up and THAT is a game that should never be played with our military or with the lives of the people on the receiving end of our military.
Well said Synova.
Garbage in, garbage out.
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