When President Obama was faced with the situation in Libya, he didn't actually have any good options. If he and other wealthy countries decided not to intervene at all, multitudes of people in rebel-held cities would have been slaughtered on their watch. That's the sort of thing that tends to happen in civil wars, but still. If he decided to invade Libya all-out and depose Gaddafi, he would have plunged the country into another quagmire in a foreign land with no end in sight, even though doing that apparently gets you re-elected. The choice he made, a compromise to simply shoot some Gaddafi targets from the air and just hope, privately, that he eventually falls, is not a good decision either, and that's why it's easy for just about everyone, from this blog to a
I hate to be the turd (sandwich) in the punchbowl, but I think Barack may not have been the one to drop the t-bomb. The first time I heard about this last night, maybe on Maddow, it was an aide or someone who supposedly made the quip. And if you read what Savannah (or Charlotte or Murfreesboro, or whatever her name is) said, her referent seems to be dangling. Or at least ambiguous: <blockquote>&lsquo;And the President is obviously not happy with his set of choices. One person told me, in a meeting he called this military action in Libya a &lsquo;turd sandwich&rsquo; but he was quoting one of his national security aides who likes to use that term.&rsquo;</blockquote>
<blockquote>And you know what would happen if Obama did that? Many, many people would totally understand!</blockquote><br /> I don&#039;t think so, Jack. If John McCain did that, many people would think the old straight-talker was back. If W did that, people would be surprised but impressed. But if Obama did that, it would be EXACTLY like it is now. Because Americans either think he is a Kenyan moolie, or they think he should be Dumbledore.
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I hate to be the turd (sandwich) in the punchbowl, but I think Barack may not have been the one to drop the t-bomb. The first time I heard about this last night, maybe on Maddow, it was an aide or someone who supposedly made the quip. And if you read what Savannah (or Charlotte or Murfreesboro, or whatever her name is) said, her referent seems to be dangling. Or at least ambiguous: <blockquote>&lsquo;And the President is obviously not happy with his set of choices. One person told me, in a meeting he called this military action in Libya a &lsquo;turd sandwich&rsquo; but he was quoting one of his national security aides who likes to use that term.&rsquo;</blockquote>
What did Jon Stewart call a turd sandwich? A &quot;bread-based feces delivery system&quot;?
<blockquote>And you know what would happen if Obama did that? Many, many people would totally understand!</blockquote><br /> I don&#039;t think so, Jack. If John McCain did that, many people would think the old straight-talker was back. If W did that, people would be surprised but impressed. But if Obama did that, it would be EXACTLY like it is now. Because Americans either think he is a Kenyan moolie, or they think he should be Dumbledore.