We all remember the debate, I watched a clip of it recently, in response to a youtube question Obama said he would meet with the leaders of Iran, North Korea, Cuba & Syria in the first year of his admininstration.
Recently, the Obama campaign has begun backing away from such talk, nuancing for the sake of not appearing naive to the Jewish voters about Iran, a nation who he also distained recently as comprising a puny threat.
So, the campaign starts up & the first salvo comes about Nazis marching into Poland and Obama backing away from his previous position.
It looks weak, it is weak, it is an admission that the position taken by Obama in the debate was, well, a foolish one, one that all the Obama supporters seemed to relish and delight in, showing how different Obama would be.
Well, how different is it, flip flopping, I mean? That is what it is, right out of the starting gate, not reassuring is it?
What other positions taken to seem different will fade like a mist on a hot summer morning? I hate to repeat this, I know, its all over, Obama won and all, but to this date, I am still not certain what one or two major issues drive the Senator from Illinois.
My reflections on great Presidents lead me to believe that unless you have some such major goals, issues, principles that you want to protect or pursue, you are just going to muddle...and muddling is not really a good idea, in today's world.
I am waiting, I do not yet think we have seen the rationales we need to see..and these kind of flip flops, so so late in the day, I say, it really is unsettling.
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