Last night President Obama did something former President Bush never did. He admitted a mistake. It’s pretty easy to underestimate just what this says about both men. And how important and good for the country it is that Obama can do this.
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This isn’t a dig on the President. I mean, I voted for him, and I campaigned for him. Even met the guy once way back when he was a University of Chicago guy. And I have to say, W T F. I mean, we already knew the Nobel commitee harbored some hardcore “America Sucks” opinions, but this is just pretty much completely confirms it. Yes, we didn’t abrogate our constitution to give Bush & Torture/Graft Inc. another term. Yay us. But that’s not a reason to hand out the world’s formerly most prestigious award to someone 20 years early.
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Obama’s Vietnam. That’s the cover of the new Newsweek. Really? I mean REALLY? The media was all over the whole “it’s Vietnam again! Yay!” thing during the initial stages of Iraq. Then given overwhelming and continuous evidence that there weren’t really any similarities at all, they gave up on it when it became clear the rubes weren’t going to buy into it. Apparently electing a new president, who’s been in office for a whopping 12 days, is enough to tansfer ownership of the war and revive a dead and discredited meme. The biggest and most obvious difference between Vietnam and Afghanistan is that while there wasn’t a clear and simple path to victory in Vietnam, there is one in Afghanistan.
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I always thought one of the most underreported stories of the Democratic primary was the Obama campaigns absolute, straight up refusal to pay out walking around money in Philadelphia. For the uninitiated, walking around money is when you literally give tens of thousands of dollars to random dudes to walk around and pass out to supporters to get out the vote. Because its filtered through political machines and “activists” it isn’t legally classified as the blantant bribery and vote purchasing that it is.
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1996 was the first presidential election I was eligible to vote in. The contest was between Bob Dole and Bill Clinton. Living in Missouri at the time I was lucky enough to get to vote in a state where my vote actually counted, unlike California or Texas where it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion. Anyway, I voted Dole/Kemp because I thought Clinton was a lying dirtbag who was gutting the military and would spend the next four years mired in scandal and corruption.
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