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Originally Posted by Pornwolf
I don't see how Ghaddafi (or bin laden, or Hussein) is any of America's business. It's all a side show to feed the war money machine. Without them there would be a lot of soldiers out of work and on the street.
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Obama has turned out to be a very good foreign policy President (and Hillary definitely deserves some of that credit) at a time when the country desperately needs a very good domestic policy President. His big successes have been getting Bin Laden, thwarting terrorist attacks, working out backroom deals with Pakistan and other key players in modern international security and so on...
However, that doesn't excuse the fact that he allowed the energy sector to continue being virtually unregulated... a problem that started with Bush but was allowed by Obama to fester to the point where BP flooded the gulf coast with crude oil. It also doesn't excuse the fact that Obama has failed to restore the rule of law and in particular Habeas Corpus by keeping Gitmo open and even allowing American Citizens to be targeted for assassination without any due process. Unemployment continues to officially hover around 10% and unofficially closer to 30% even as many hundreds of thousands of American citizens are about to lose their unemployment benefits.
The red shirts and blue shirts will spend all day cherry-picking individual accomplishments or failures to claim he is a total success or a complete failure. The fact is he is neither, just like every other President in our history with the possible exception of Grant and W. Bush who were absolute failures or Lincoln who did pretty much everything right.
Obama has proven to be the right man at the wrong time from my point of view and that's a slogan any truly savvy Republican candidate ought to seize for campaigning purposes. The thing he has going for him the most heading into 2012 is the fact that no meaningful GOP challenger has emerged and it seems likely they may even run a religious zealot against him. If Bloomberg or someone of his level were to enter the race he would be a one term President, if its Bachman or Perry he will still win in a landslide. Not because he is doing enough to solve unemployment but because 'somewhat helpful' is still much more desirable than 'batshit crazy' in an oval office candidate.
