re: #313 albusteve

by what measure can you convince me that BOs strategy is not in ruins…as in like, how can it be otherwise?…they did not unclench their fist, they mocked him for his Cairo speech, they have bitchslapped him and told him to butt out of their affairs….how is it otherwise?

Let me answer that in theory. The approach Obama is pursuing is not his alone, it’s of a generic type, and consists of letting the correspondent rant and rave all they like, but attempt dialog with it anyway, under the hope and assumption that most of the noise is just bluster and not exhaustive of content, and even that you might talk through the noise to the real powers behind it.

Likely to work? Probably not. Reality-based? Arguable.

FWIW