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Obama's French Lesson

Brian2580 Wrote: Oct 03, 2009 7:36 PM

Our conversation was about naiveté and the President's first 9 months in office. I was comparing Bush's first 9 months with Obama's as that is the way onceandalwaysmarine set it up. If the Bush Administration was going to be a success you most certainly would have not guessed in in Oct. of 2001. We hoped, but the indications were not good. On Sept 10, Bush's popularity was at 51%. By October it was at 90% merely because we were unified by hope and because we recognized that our President could not fail.

P.S. It must be very easy to make strong arguments when you are able to set up your own metric of success (i.e., Bush kept us safe after he didn't and the economy was good until it wasn't). The economy was successful because of a...

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Obama's French Lesson

"President Obama, I support the Americans' outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing." -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Sept. 24

WASHINGTON -- When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom. Just how low we've sunk was demonstrated by the Obama administration's satisfaction when Russia's president said of Iran, after meeting President Obama at the U.N., that "sanctions are seldom productive, but they are sometimes inevitable."

You see? The Obama magic. Engagement works. Russia is on board. Except that, as The Washington Post inconveniently pointed out, President Dmitry Medvedev said...

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