Posted on 06/24/2010 1:58:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
General Stanley McChrystal’s interview in Rolling Stone Magazine will do a lot to damage further President Obama’s standing among liberals and Democrats and will undermine his chances of keeping control of Congress in 2010.
To conservative voters and commentators, his comments underscore doubts about Obama’s competence. To the Administration’s spokespeople, the interview shows a lack of proper subordination in the chain of command. But to the voters of the left, the key import of his comments is that the general in charge of the war in Afghanistan basically said the war is not being won, and perhaps cannot be won.
Obama’s decision to fire McChrystal guarantees that the story will now share page one with the Gulf oil spill, focusing liberal attention on Obama’s two cardinal sins in liberal eyes – the oil spill and the war in Afghanistan. Relieving the general of command sends a message that Obama is thin-skinned, arrogant, and easily offended.
Coming at the same time that the failure of the Obama Administration to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf is already rankling liberal voters, the McChrystal comments will add to their doubts about Obama. They already are against his decision to send additional troops there and have long believed that we should not be fighting in Afghanistan. By calling attention to how badly the war is going and the disarray in the president’s foreign policy apparatus, the McChrystal interview can only highlight and underscore these concerns and further dampen liberal enthusiasm for Obama.
Neither the oil spill nor the Afghan War will drive any liberals to vote for conservatives or induce Democrats to vote Republican. But they both will hold down Democratic turnout and reinforce cynicism about the Obama presidency on the left. Those initially attracted by Obama’s charisma will be driven away by these twin failures.
The Democratic Party is really a synthesis of environmentalists and peace advocates with a few gay rights activists and public employee unions thrown in. Now, Obama has alienated both the green and the anti-war segments of the party. And the continuing spillage from the Gulf oil well and from the General’s mouth will further damage his standing with his political base.
Whatever the fate of General McChrystal or of the American involvement in the war, the mounting casualty lists will drag down Obama’s prospects in November still further and depress his ratings in the days ahead.
“Hoist on his own petard -— literally!”
Okay 2ndDivision Vet, that is the second time in two days I have seen that saying...what does it mean? Thanks in advance... :)
Alvin Green agrees.
Undoubtedly she’s called lots of people “f>cking jew b>stards, but the time it was confirmed was when Hillary called campaign aide Paul Fray an “F>cking Jew B>stard” not Dick Morris.
This is nothing new for a U.S. Secretary of State. There are recordings in the Library of Congress of Thomas Jefferson also calling people “f>cking jew b>stards. (sarc. I know for sure there are no recordings of this. this paragraph is a joke.)
Obama is going to sign an Executive Order for OPEN GAYS in the Military!! That will then mean that the DRAFT, FEMALES INCLUDED, will HAVE to re-instated!!! Straight, good, Godly men will FLEE......but since there are NO JOBS available, maybe they won’t be able to!!
The loyal opposition would do well in making a plan rather than betting November on rankled liberals. I doubt they are as rankled as we like to think. Where, after all, are they going to go?
Any war can be won. For us, its a question of having the will to enough firepower to break the enemy’s will. Clearly, we don’t. From the accounts I’ve read, the current rules of engagement have turned out troops into a laughstock in the eyes of the Afghani locals. It does not engender respect when you know exactly where the insurgents are and then you let them escape. When the locals don’t respect you, all the aid and jawboning in the world won’t help.
Thank you...I get it now, to hurt oneself with a device meant to hurt others. Kind of like shooting oneself in the foot...
But this was true back in the Clinton days as well, Mr. Morris. To my observation, it's been that way at least since 1968.
dick is no ally... he is an opportunistic dim.
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The Democratic Party is really a synthesis of environmentalists and peace advocates with a few gay rights activists and public employee unions thrown in.
But this was true back in the Clinton days as well, Mr. Morris. To my observation, it’s been that way at least since 1968.
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For 5 years under Bush we heard the liberals saying that Iraq is a distraction from "the real war".
Now that Iraq is not an issue, they oppose "the real war".
Bush would have given the troops he needed and the ROEs to win the war. Course he worried about the lives of the troops more than his image.
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I think he’s applying too much rational logic to libtards. If anything, they’ll look at Obama’s decision to fire McCrystal and say...
“Look! He’s sticking it to the military.”
In his unending incompetence and inexperience the community agitator has been outmaneuvered by hos own general!
In his unending incompetence and inexperience the community agitator has been outmaneuvered by his own general!
The author is a bit narrow in his view of the big tent. He left out the redistributionist racists and the illegal alien lobby, for starters.
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