Sunday, November 8, 2009

The Brit's Observe Us...

Toby Harnden of the London Daily Telegraph writes:
A year into his presidency, however, Mr Obama seems a curiously bloodless president. If he experiences passion, he seldom shows it. It is often anyone's guess as to whether an event or issue truly moves him.

He has spent more than two months considering a troop increase but do we know how he really feels about the Afghan war?

In a sign that the Obama honeymoon truly is over, I began to hear this week the first stirrings of a wistfulness about Mr Bush. "I never thought I'd hear myself say it," one Democrat told me. "But Obama makes you feel that at least with Bush you knew where he was on something."

I hear this general sentiment a lot from friends and co-workers.  But that is a biased sample, to be sure (my friends are self-selected, and my co-workers are all professional high-tech workers in Southern California). 

Is the Telegraph accurately reporting a general trend?  I sure hope so...

1 comment:

  1. "He has spent more than two months considering a troop increase but do we know how he really feels about the Afghan war?"

    I think the fact he has spent more than two months considering a troop increase, requested by the theater commander, but has done nothing shows us exactly how he feels about the Afghan war. Unfotunately, it seems he is willing to leave our troops in a quagmire. I can then only presume that his intention iis to let them languish until the American people tire of the effort and demand their return. Unfotunately, letting the situation continue as is, abandoning the forces in the field, assures the unneccesary loss of American lives in a conflict their Commander-in-chief doesn't support.

    Larry

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