I understand the point you're making, but let's be grateful that he is in fact the oportunistic pragmatist I guessed him to be - at least in terms of national security. I really hope that in a couple years the same people who called Bush a trigger-happy cowboy will be saying the same thing about Obama.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/world/asia/15pstan.html?hp>
>Summary: 30 people killed in Pakistan from airstrike called by Obama. What give Obama the power to employ capital punishment on these people? Did they all have federal trials before being punished? I thought that's what he was all up in arms about regarding Gitmo.
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>I would expect the media to be harsh on Obama. Oh wait, the media is liberal-controlled. Obama is a savior while Bush is a blood-thirsty cowboy.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
