"The president.... staking out positions that at times seemed more comparable to those of his predecessor than many of Obama's more liberal supporters would like. He did not rule out the option of snatching terrorism suspects out of hostile countries....
Yes, I know! He's going to keep the renditions and torture going, despite the fart-mist about Gitmo.
Obama signaled that those on the left seeking a wholesale reversal of Bush's detainee policy might be disappointed. Obama said that by the time he got into office, the Bush administration had taken "steps to correct certain policies and procedures"
Had enough, lefty?
"Obama to reach out to some Taliban; He says US is not winning Afghan war" by Helene Cooper and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times | March 8, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was not winning the war in Afghanistan and opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the US military would reach out to moderate elements of the Taliban, much as it did with Sunni militias in Iraq.
Obama pointed to the success in peeling Iraqi insurgents away from more hard-core elements of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a strategy that many credit as much as the increase of American forces with turning the war around in the last two years.
"There may be some comparable opportunities in Afghanistan and in the Pakistani region," he said, while cautioning that solutions in Afghanistan will be complicated.
There he goes again! Once again, OMINOUS and SPOOKY!!!!
Rice: 9/11 an “enormous opportunity”
Rumsfeld: "Why Not another 911"In a 35-minute conversation with The New York Times aboard Air Force One Friday, Obama reviewed the challenges to his young administration. The president said he could not assure Americans that the economy would begin growing again this year. But he pledged that he would "get all the pillars in place for recovery this year" and urged Americans not to "stuff money in their mattresses."
"I don't think that people should be fearful about our future," he said. "I don't think that people should suddenly mistrust all of our financial institutions." As he pressed forward with ambitious plans at home to rewrite the tax code, expand healthcare coverage, and curb climate change, Obama dismissed criticism from conservatives that he was driving the country toward socialism.
After the interview, which took place as the president was flying home from Ohio, he called reporters from the Oval Office to assert that his actions have been "entirely consistent with free-market principles" and to point out that large-scale government intervention in the markets and expansion of social welfare programs began under President George W. Bush.
Obama exhibited confidence six weeks into his presidency, despite the economic turmoil around the globe and the deteriorating situations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He struck a reassuring tone, saying Americans should not be frightened of the future, and he said he had no trouble sleeping at night....
Neither did Bush!! This guy fooled you, America. There is not going to be any change.
The president spoke at length about the struggle with terrorism in Afghanistan and elsewhere, staking out positions that at times seemed more comparable to those of his predecessor than many of Obama's more liberal supporters would like. He did not rule out the option of snatching terrorism suspects out of hostile countries....
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Obama signaled that those on the left seeking a wholesale reversal of Bush's detainee policy might be disappointed. Obama said that by the time he got into office, the Bush administration had taken "steps to correct certain policies and procedures after those first couple of years" after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Turning to domestic affairs, Obama indicated that the end was not in sight when it came to the economic crisis and suggested that he expected it could take another $750 billion to address the problem of weak and failing financial institutions beyond the $700 billion already approved.
Are you ever getting a ROYAL FUCK-OVER, liberals!!
Get your heads out of his ass, will you?
Maintaining support for the additional costs of bailouts is quite likely to be among Obama's biggest challenges, given the anger that many Americans, including lawmakers, feel toward Wall Street executives who they believe are being unduly rewarded with bailout money.
Just keep pushing, a**hole!
The budget plan he released last month included a placeholder estimate of $250 billion for additional bank bailouts, an amount that represents the projected long-term cost to taxpayers of a $750 billion infusion into the financial sector, and in the interview Obama indicated that those figures were what he was likely to seek from Congress.
"We have no reason to revise that estimate," he said.
Addressing the fear and uncertainty among Americans as job losses mount and stock markets sink, Obama urged Americans to "be prudent" in their personal financial decisions, but not to hunker down so much that it would further slow the recovery.
Oh, WHAT a PIECE of WORK HE IS!!
Yeah, the ONLY ONES who DON'T HAVE TO HUNKER DOWN are the WAR-LOOTERS, BANKS, ISRAEL, and the elites of Washington!!!
How was the copter ride, 'bamer? Btw, YOU PAY for it ALL, America!!
"What I don't think people should do is suddenly stuff money in their mattresses and pull back completely from spending," he said....
Which is exactly what I'm doing.
As he settles into his new job, Obama said he has spent much of his time reading briefing books, but still tries to stay in touch by perusing newspapers and thumbing through weekly newsmagazines.
He won't get it done that way! What a self-serving statement from the newspaper!
But he said he does not watch much television, except basketball games.
Can't fault him for that.
Obama rode to the White House partly on his savvy use of new technology, and he has a staff-written blog on his presidential website. Even so, he said he did not find blogs a reliable source of objective information, citing the economy as one example.
Then SCREW HIM!!!! He's such a tool! When are you going to wake up, lefties!!!
"Part of the reason we don't spend a lot of time looking at blogs," he said, "is because if you haven't looked at it very carefully, then you may be under the impression that somehow there's a clean answer one way or another - well, you just nationalize all the banks, or you just leave them alone and they'll be fine." --more--"
I guess that's why I don't spend a whole lot of time on you, 'bamer.
