re: #153 flyers1974

The argument appears to be that Obama is a ruthless Chicago politician willing to do anything to win but at the same time, very weak. He is also a great cook, while at the same time a bad cook. Nothing wrong with being partisan, its America politics after all but do they really believe the campaign rhetoric, hook, line and sinker?

Ruthlessness in the face of unarmed domestic opposition is not a guarantee of strength abroad, anymore than strength abroad is a guarantee of effectiveness against domestic opposition (see GWB for an example of the last one). Building coalition groups around a common ideology in order to gain political advantage in a democratic republic requires a different set of aptitudes than those required to deal with an aggressor on the international scene.

And you know that perfectly well. You are correct, however, that BHO has become an object for projection by many in his opposition. Even as W was a bungling incompetent who managed to steal and election and deceive the whole world about Iraq and the war on terror.