Comments on: Obama Strikes Better Tone Than Biden

By: Feizal Mansoor

Feizal Mansoor — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:13:49 +0000

Has no one read the Gates/Brezinski paper on Iran?

By: TutuG

TutuG — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:52:47 +0000

Like all his predecessors, the choice before Obama now is between whether he adopts policies which will assure him a second term or which are, what he believes to be good for the American economy, the global and local environment and America’s international standing.

By: Abbas Khalil

Abbas Khalil — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:35:26 +0000

Irregardless of our opinions of Obama [I, for one, would have voted for Ralph Nader], he is in an unenviable situation trying to fix (in a short period of time) what took decades to be systematically destroyed. It is not an easy task. For his economic stimulus, I think one year will be the test; His foreign policy should start showing some results within six months.

I must admit I am not an optimistic considering the team he has amassed both around him and around Hillary Clinton. I really hope I’m wrong!

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:43:24 +0000

Well said Gordon. I guess we are a desperate nation searching for a savior and hero. Obama is a politician first and we shouldn’t forget that. I am very skeptical about him but I’ll give him the benefit of a doubt. I’ll wait and see what he does and not what he preaches.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:09:57 +0000

Good cop, bad cop indeed. As if he wasn’t fully informed of Biden’s speech.

I was shocked by this piece. Within a few short paragraphs we find : ‘I thought his extemporaneous answers to the few foreign-policy questions he was posed were pretty impressive; But I was particularly impressed by the way…;Again, if these were a prepared speech, it would have been much less impressive’.

All this school-girly hero worship from a renowned cynic over a man who has achieved nothing beyond empty rhetoric. How desperate are we for a saviour?

To quote Benjamin Franklin: “Well done is better than well said.”

Why was he not asked how his Clinton retreads are the recipe for change we can believe in; why was he not asked to comment on his opinion on the slaughter in Gaza, now that he is President; what does he think about bombing villagers in Pakistan – did he give the orders and what is he trying to achieve?

Impressive indeed in being able to skirt around answering a few patsy questions that were not followed up. Why not address Israel’s nuclear armory?

Pathetic.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:14:20 +0000

I’m somewhat persuaded by your take on the Prez’s response to Helen Thomas, which irritated me when he said it. (Why deny that Israel has a big nuke arsenal, and that Iran’s quest is influenced by that?)

By: DR

DR — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:19:05 +0000

“Good” cop, bad cop?