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Originally Posted by bgibbs42
Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger compared President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office to those of President John F. Kennedy—and not in terms of their youth, good looks or oratory.
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Eagleburger's critic is about as unsubstantiated as anything else coming out of the Republican Party past or present.
"Obama’s diplomatic overtures have invited foreign leaders to view the new president as timid and untested."
What foreign leaders? What have they said? What have they done? In short who, what, when and where?
As for his specific observations... how successful was Bush in either keeping the "Coalition of the Willing" on the ground in Iraq, or adding to foreign troop levels in Afghanistan? Neither of those two issues were matters of naiveté. As for nuclear proliferation... the record of the world much less the U.S. isn't exactly steller and that state of affairs has nothing to do with Obama.