US kills carefree son of a Saudi billionaire

FluffyMcDeath said:
metalman said:
The election and Republican criticism of Obama will be over domestic policies. Obama has reversed his election promise to shut down Gitmo, and shifted of the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed back to a military tribunal, changing his position to agree with Republicans on these issues now.
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That's exactly what I was talking about. Now the Republicans have to say : Congrats (for continuing the Bush policies ergo Obama isn't bad on foreign policy) and fight him on domestic policy for doing what the Republicans would have done. It's lose-lose for the GOP. Obama took their political territory and he's waving their flag - they can only criticize him for being too much like a Republican. If they want to criticize him on domestic policy they either have to move to the fringes on the right or double back and go left of Obama. Either direction will shrink their base.
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President Obama is to be congratulated for disavowing his campaign pledges and continuing those George Bush policies in Iraq & Afghanistan that he had previously repudiated.

Obama's own foreign policy initiatives have been a disaster. Those initiatives are driven by Obama’s personal ideological commitment to moral relativism and anti-colonialism.
 
metalman said:
President Obama is to be congratulated for disavowing his campaign pledges and continuing those George Bush policies in Iraq & Afghanistan that he had previously repudiated.
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Right. He took the Republican flag and now he's waving it.

Obama's own foreign policy initiatives have been a disaster. Those initiatives are driven by Obama’s personal ideological commitment to moral relativism and anti-colonialism.
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Tough one to sell to "the people". It looks like a militaristic foreign policy and once again he has taken the GOP playing field. Even you are sort of stuck with having to give him some kudos and that's a terrible position for the GOP and yet the Democratic voters don't have a damn choice - he's still the only guy that even bothers saying stuff the Democratic base wants to hear even though it's not as much as it was and everyone knows he's not going to live up to it anyway.

Now, don't get the mistaken impression that I'm praising Obama. I'm sort of in awe of the devious underhandedness of his game but that isn't the same thing as approval. But just in terms of the game everything is just screaming out for a third party right now because the traditional Republicans have snookered themselves to a certain extent. This is where the "Tea Party" can start taking on life of it's own - mostly by fracturing to try to grab the little patches left by the gobsmacked GOP, but it's also a place where a truly different candidate can get more of a look-see if only to throw in as a spoiler. Trump, nah, not so much. Jese Ventura, maybe. Ron Paul, he's a guy that reach across Obamas base and pick up a slice of the "cut the war budget" & "cut taxes" crowd but he'd have to go against his instinct and let folks keep their social security and medicare.
 
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