Registered Voter Wrote:
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> Well, again - they could have defused this issue
> if they made it clear what they were going to
> actually discuss. But the first most folks hear of
> it is the questions they are going to ask the
> kids, without any context as to the message.
>
That's putting the cart in front of the horse, though.
So you're saying that Obama and his team should carefully couch their words because they know there are very partisan and angry groups just itching to make an issue out of every action he takes or word he utters? That they are responsible when one of the legions of right-wing alarmists finds a way to twist something around to make it sound fascist and scary?
> His team seems to have a communication problem.
> They like everyone else to tell them what is going
> on, but they have a problem in telling everyone
> else what they want, or what they are doing.
> Things like
flag@whitehouse.gov and such - just a
> bunch of idiotic things to do. Maybe folks won't
> get as outraged over some of these kinds of things
> (moderates that is) but the impression is still
> building strongly to the negative. That, and the
> Afghanistan situation - that is just going to keep
> getting uglier - there are no good ways for him to
> deal with that.
The impression is not building strongly to the negative. The people that are going to view him negatively already do, it's just a matter of how rabid they'll become.
As far as Afghanistan, what should he have done? Should he have pulled all troops out on January 21st? The situation was shit before he took office, before he was even elected, before he even announced he was running.
It may be worse now, but not by his policy. Well, I guess, in a way, it is since he sent more troops there, forcing the taliban and al qaeda forces to redouble their efforts. I still say balkanize that place -- just split it up into little tribal territories. Once each tribal council is in sovereign control of their tribal region, they are not going to support or aid the taliban or al qaeda. The ones that do so now only do so because they resent foreign troops and the, in their eyes, foreign imposed central government.