Kitchen table.
As in “I know hard-working Americans are sitting around the kitchen table…” That legendary “kitchen table” has appeared In at least six speeches over the past two weeks and in countless op-eds. That is one hard-working, sober, anxiety-filled, and yet oddly comforting piece of wood.
Maybe Americans worried about their futures are sitting around it as Joe Biden goes zooming past on Amtrak. More plausibly, they’re sitting in Barca-Loungers in front of a flat screen TV, and they discuss their worries during the commercial breaks.
Oh, the latter, I think.
When Republicans win a battle against Obama, then maybe they can question his strategic thinking. Until then, you have only a perfect track record of failure and empty claims of superiority.
But J-Pod said Barack was brilliant!
Personally I think it is way too early to tell. Any economic popularity from Barack is only going to come if the economy recovers.
Oh, Swampfox, please! – Abe’s reading of the situation was Hillary’s reading of how not to deal with rogue regimes until she made the colossal mistake of signing onto Obama’s team.
Obama’s belief in the endless smile and extended hand, regardless of what our enemies actually say and do, combined with his faith in his self-scripted role as the great healer, is setting the U.S. and its allies up for confrontation and confrontation with our enemies.
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Please choose another handle. You are besmirching the name of someone who actually knew something about strategy.
“When Republicans win a battle against Obama, then maybe they can question his strategic thinking. Until then, you have only a perfect track record of failure and empty claims of superiority.”
What if American voters in 2008 were wrong on the issues, on balance, and House Republicans were right? Evidence points to that. SwampFox’s point is only an amplification of Obama’s “we won” argument that speaks power to truth.
The United States has deemed North Korea’s behavior “unacceptable.” I can just see Kim sitting in his office and thinking, “Damn, I hadn’t expected that. Now what am I going to do?”
“Reading Bret Stephens’s Wall Street Journal piece today, you get the sense that Obama is not so much due to be tested by this or that bad actor, but on the verge of getting ambushed by the lot of them.”
Yeah – and maybe we’ll find those WMDs! Neo-Cons have about as much credibility on foreign affairs as they do…
anywhere.
Sorry, guys, listening to Abey lecture on what North Korea and Iran REALLY mean – as opposed to what they SAY they mean – REALLY MEANS…
nothing.