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It seems a memory from a distant time: A charismatic Sen. Barack Obama, railing against the war in Iraq to rapturous cheers from anti-war voters; the campaign trail crowds overflowing with electrified activists, many convinced he shared their opposition to the use of force. A supremely self-assured Obama declaring he would hold face-to-face meetings with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Cuba and North Korea; his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, calling him "irresponsible -- and frankly naïve."
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He was supposed to be the "Kumbaya" president. Instead, Obama has come to embrace the use of force as much as any of his predecessors.
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This is not what his anti-war supporters had in mind or what the Nobel committee envisioned when it rushed to award him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. But Obama, too, probably counts himself among the disappointed. He had vowed to repair the damage America's image suffered in the Bush years through skillful diplomacy. But the effort has largely failed.
Is anyone surprised? Raise your hand.
And how about this humdinger?
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His Cairo speech to the Muslim world in June 2009 briefly improved America's image. By now, however, favorable ratings for the U.S. in most Arab countries have fallen below their disastrous levels at the end of the Bush administration, according to a poll conducted in July by Zogby for the Arab American Institute. Opinion of the president has plummeted into single digits in most Arab countries, says the survey. A Pew Global survey in May showed Obama remains deeply unpopular in every Muslim nation surveyed except Indonesia, where he lived as a child.
lol, if you take a poll of the People of all the countries, you would find that in reality nobody likes the USA. For various reasons. So how could Obama fix this countries image with other countries. And how the hell can we fix our position with other countries when we cant seem to work on our selves.
Simple solution, which really does not impact our relations to other countries, since they really all do hate us. Pull all of our foreign aid, and work on our selves. Simple psychiatric therapy resolution. You cant fix others if you dont work on yourself first. And this country is in crucial need of attention.
lol, if you take a poll of the People of all the countries, you would find that in reality nobody likes the USA. For various reasons. So how could Obama fix this countries image with other countries. And how the hell can we fix our position with other countries when we cant seem to work on our selves.
Simple solution, which really does not impact our relations to other countries, since they really all do hate us. Pull all of our foreign aid, and work on our selves. Simple psychiatric therapy resolution. You cant fix others if you dont work on yourself first. And this country is in crucial need of attention.
I agree with you. But it sounds like you've made an under the table attempt to absolve Obama of his sky high rhetoric. Can you clarify whether you believe Obama was naive or not?
It's pretty sad that you're so unable to come up with your own opinions that you have to paste those of others. I guess some people don't bother with personal responsibility and didn't bother to get educated.
By the way, didn't Reagan have face to face meetings with the Soviets?
It's pretty sad that you're so unable to come up with your own opinions that you have to paste those of others. I guess some people don't bother with personal responsibility and didn't bother to get educated.
By the way, didn't Reagan have face to face meetings with the Soviets?
LOL...can we say "deflection?"
Judging from your post I can pull together two things:
1) You bought into Obama's rhetoric and it pains you to have pie in your face. It appears that the author was talking directly to you!
2) You didn't really read close enough. Reagan did meet with the Soviets. The problem here is that Obama HASN'T met with his overseas counterparts that he so naively thought would melt at the mere assertion of meeting with him face to face. Not only has he not had face to face meetings, they didn't melt at his feet! OOOPS!
Whatever you're pulling is coming straight out of your rear end. I'm surprised you didn't have to look up an article and get someone else's opinions to post about what I said. That I think your post is infantile, poorly though out and gives some pretty clear indications that you're just an emotional partisan doesn't require that I'm of any political persuasion. An intelligent person would realize this.
Put together an intelligent post of your own thoughts and you'll get better responses from people than just pasting someone else's opinion that panders to your own bias and emotion.
lol, if you take a poll of the People of all the countries, you would find that in reality nobody likes the USA. For various reasons. So how could Obama fix this countries image with other countries. And how the hell can we fix our position with other countries when we cant seem to work on our selves.
Simple solution, which really does not impact our relations to other countries, since they really all do hate us. Pull all of our foreign aid, and work on our selves. Simple psychiatric therapy resolution. You cant fix others if you dont work on yourself first. And this country is in crucial need of attention.
Sad but true. But in a Crisis, what the hell Country do they call, yeah we know!
Whatever you're pulling is coming straight out of your rear end. I'm surprised you didn't have to look up an article and get someone else's opinions to post about what I said. That I think your post is infantile, poorly though out and gives some pretty clear indications that you're just an emotional partisan doesn't require that I'm of any political persuasion. An intelligent person would realize this.
Put together an intelligent post of your own thoughts and you'll get better responses from people than just pasting someone else's opinion that panders to your own bias and emotion.
Your hyperbole does not effect me in the slightest. I'm waiting on you to defend Obama. Can you do it? Can you criticize him? Afterall, he's the one who cast his Net of Naivete right over you. Did you find your way out of it, or are you still stuck?
Let's hear it.
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