They're really scared aren't they?

The RW pundits and politicians are terrified Obama will actually succeed where Bush failed, in regard to armed intervention. They are talking him down on every network and you can hear the desperation in their voices. Republicans have always wanted to be seen as the "war party", and they can't let a democratic black man succeed where they failed.

If only Bush had been.............smart.

why we can't intevene in Libya. Why didn't we intervene in 2002 in Sudan and blah, blah... duh, ask w.

First time I heard him speak I coldn't help but, wonder 'are they serious, the guy is dumber than a box of rocks.'

Look what happend. :crazy:

The problem is if enough voters get chumped , it makes it that much easier to twist the outcome.
I'm half expecting anytime a presidential election is anywhere close from now on, it'll be an automatic GOP win.

Political rhetoric isn't even rhetorical anymore, it has become a boringly predictable farce playing to hysterical and/or drunken masses of lamebrains.

My guy is great your guy sucked. An I will readily admit that I fall into it constantly. Bush did suck and I root for Obama daily. But, reality sets in that anyone in that position has to make some legitimately awful decisions that will cost lives at the end of the day. If anything, it gives me more respect for people that I once considered enemies of the state.

people by Ghaddafi - the same group that is criticizing him now for going into Libya would be criticizing him for not going in. Especially the media as that would probably make a better story for them.

Look - Obama is the President. He's on a tightrope all the time and any decision he makes he realizes he will have to take lumps for from somebody or some group.

Bottom line - in my mind is - he's a good and decent man and because of that I trust him to make the right decision for this country.

Will he make a mistake from time to time? Sure - he's human. Humans make mistakes. But for the most part I believe that he'll make more good decisions than bad ones.

With respect his Libya decision. I'm going to back his judgment on this one.

1. He should have gone to congress in addition to the UN
2. He should have made the traditional announcement from the Oval office.

I was disappointed in Rachel that she tried to spin those things away as somehow unimportant because "this president is different." Yeah well, he should have done them because without those two things it seems like he's trying to get away with doing something he'd rather not be associated with.

and read the war powers act. He has acted appropriately.

"He's getting UN approval but not the Congress... blah blah blah", all day long. Meanwhile, at the same time they complain that he took too long to bomb them. LOL

As congress is the branch that declares war, many people here still would disapprove.

It was McCain-O-Rama. The nasty, old fuck was on bitching about how the President was "too slow to act". He may have used the favorite new repug word of the day, "dithering", but I turned him off after about 45 seconds.

I believe this was a very difficult decision.

where our laws of nature and common sense are not valid. In this one? Highly unlikely.

He is pretty good at picking his battles in a figurative sense. Now we shall see if he is good at picking his battles in a literal sense.


I am betting he accomplishes enough to declare victory and get out. Victory has not been defined beyond saving civilian lives and he can already claim that has been achieved.

operations have been. There is no way he can declare victory with Gaddafi still in power
and there is no way he can remove him without full scale military invasion and occupation
of Libya. If history teaches us anything, it is that such an operation cannot be "successful"
in public's mind no matter how it turns out. Unless, of course, he can warp the fabric of our
universe and negate the natural laws with awesome power of his mind. Which he seems to think
he can do.

Obama is President, and I will support our troops in their ordered duties as well as the President, but getting involved in this was complete folly, and I will not hesitate to say as much. Obama would have been far wiser to tell the UN to have fun with their no-fly zone, but we would have nothing to do with it.

Can someone tell me whose side we're on? Because so far, all I can tell is that we're bombing Libya in order to support someone who is ... not Qaddafi. Whoopie! They're not Qaddafi! Who are they? Hell, I don't know, but who cares? They're not Qaddafi! Hooray!



Not smart. Not smart at all.

Especially when it comes to important decisions.

People treat politics like a piece of cheap entertainment with no connection to reality. Reverse the jerseys, and the people who are now booing would be cheering, and vice-versa.