The Obama Doctrine The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about Ameri

[evanovitch]

OBAMA ON ...

1. Why he’s proud of not striking Assad in 2013
2. The necessity of pivoting from the Middle East to Asia and other regions
3. Why Ukraine will always be vulnerable to Russian domination
4. Resisting John Kerry’s requests to attack Syrian-regime targets
5. Why Saudi Arabia should share the Middle East with Iran
6. How ISIS is like the Joker
7. Why Putin is “not completely stupid”
8. How France and Great Britain contributed to the mess in Libya
9. Why ISIS isn’t an existential threat, but climate change is
10. Why he resents Netanyahu’s lectures

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/?utm_source=SFTwitterThe Obama Doctrine

The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
By JEFFREY GOLDBERG
Photographs by Ruven Afanador

[lonewolf]

OBAMA ON ...

1. Why he’s proud of not striking Assad in 2013
2. The necessity of pivoting from the Middle East to Asia and other regions
3. Why Ukraine will always be vulnerable to Russian domination
4. Resisting John Kerry’s requests to attack Syrian-regime targets
5. Why Saudi Arabia should share the Middle East with Iran
6. How ISIS is like the Joker
7. Why Putin is “not completely stupid”
8. How France and Great Britain contributed to the mess in Libya
9. Why ISIS isn’t an existential threat, but climate change is
10. Why he resents Netanyahu’s lectures

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/?utm_source=SFTwitterThe Obama Doctrine

The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
By JEFFREY GOLDBERG
Photographs by Ruven Afanador

I believe his explanations were honest, but it also leads me to believe he wasn't and still isn't ready to lead the USA.

NBC/WSJ Poll: Obama's Foreign Policy Rating Plummets, Even Without Iraq


“Whether it’s [Vladimir] Putin, Ukraine, the VA hospitals, Bowe Bergdahl, the events have controlled Obama, rather than Obama having controlled the events,” Hart adds. “He may be winning the issues debate, but he’s losing the political debate, because they don’t see him as a leader.”
More oppose Bergdahl prisoner swap than support it

The poll was crafted before the instability in Iraq grabbed headlines, so it doesn’t contain questions on that subject. It also was conducted before the United States arrested a suspect in the 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya.

Read the full poll here

But it shows an American public that has grown dissatisfied with President Obama on foreign policy and national security decisions.





Just 37 percent approve of his handling of foreign policy, which is an all-time low in the survey, while 57 percent disapprove, an all-time high.

What’s more, by a 44 percent-to-30 percent margin, Americans disagree with the Obama administration’s decision to secure the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five imprisoned Taliban fighters.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/nbc-wsj-poll-obamas-foreign-policy-rating-plummets-even-without-n133461

[Tuff Gong]

I believe his explanations were honest, but it also leads me to believe he wasn't and still isn't ready to lead the USA.



http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/firs...ithout-n133461

He won the 1st Election by 8 million votes. The next by 5 million votes. no hanging-chads, no SCOTUS help necessary. He has turned around the USA from the destruction of the economy of the previous Admin. He is POTUS of the USA not the World. Enjoy low gas prices and the possibility of getting a job.

[evanovitch]

He won the 1st Election by 8 million votes. The next by 5 million votes. no hanging-chads, no SCOTUS help necessary. He has turned around the USA from the destruction of the economy of the previous Admin. He is POTUS of the USA not the World. Enjoy low gas prices and the possibility of getting a job.

Some will NEVER see pass his skin colour...the proof is in the support of The Donald who has started something that will eventually overrun him

[My Looh]

I wish he could run again.

I believe in limited presidential terms but it should be a three term maximum, not two.

[My Looh]

Some will NEVER see pass his skin colour...the proof is in the support of The Donald who has started something that will eventually overrun him

I totally agree! All these years of right wing bigoted, racist Obama bashing created a monster and his name is Donald Trump. Now the chickens have come home to roost.

[lonewolf]

Some will NEVER see pass his skin colour...the proof is in the support of The Donald who has started something that will eventually overrun him

Disagreeing with a persons political views does not mean that one disgrees with a persons skin color.

In my opinion the support for donald trump is simply people tired of the status quo of both parties.

[evanovitch]

Disagreeing with a persons political views does not mean that one disgrees with a persons skin color.

In my opinion the support for donald trump is simply people tired of the status quo of both parties.

let me guess...some of ur best frenz r Jamaican, aka black

[Tuff Gong]

In my opinion the support for donald trump is simply people tired of the status quo of both parties.

Herr Trump is running as an outsider?
Outside of where?
A. Hes is running on the Grand OLd Party's Ticket.
B. When he becomes the Party's Nominee he will need the RNC apparatus.
C. When he campaigns in the months following he will need to help elect GOP Members of Congress.
D. When he becomes Fuhrer he will need the Established Political Establishment to govern, unless the USA wants an Emperor.
E. The false narrative about Barry is what all the Right and some on the Left is campaigning about. Seems many folks are looking for a King from the Right?

Disagreeing with a persons political views does not mean that one disgrees with a persons skin color.

Herr Trump has a history of disparaging, women, minorities, handicap, folks not of a Christian Religious bent and his political enemies.
His campaign so far is totally without substance, except for a toxic mix of racial hate, violence against women and spoiling for a fight. He is not a racists but he courts their support, actively.

[lonewolf]

let me guess...some of ur best frenz r Jamaican, aka black

Ya know if you are going to go that route, you could at least be original.

[lonewolf]

Herr Trump is running as an outsider?
Outside of where?
A. Hes is running on the Grand OLd Party's Ticket.
B. When he becomes the Party's Nominee he will need the RNC apparatus.
C. When he campaigns in the months following he will need to help elect GOP Members of Congress.
D. When he becomes Fuhrer he will need the Established Political Establishment to govern, unless the USA wants an Emperor.
E. The false narrative about Barry is what all the Right and some on the Left is campaigning about. Seems many folks are looking for a King from the Right?





Herr Trump has a history of disparaging, women, minorities, handicap, folks not of a Christian Religious bent and his political enemies.
His campaign so far is totally without substance, except for a toxic mix of racial hate, violence against women and spoiling for a fight. He is not a racists but he courts their support, actively.

Yeah, ok, I agree with much of which you post

But, in my opinion, he is an outsider. That's why the status quo of the Republican party don't like him, correction...are scared to death of him. He is an outsider taking over their power and position in the Republican party...and the Donald recognizes that is the only way he could get elected... independents don't have a chance of winning a presidential election.

[evanovitch]

Ya know if you are going to go that route, you could at least be original.

Said way I think each time I venture into ur posting...'if u r going to go ur usual route'....have always thought u to b one of those whites ( I guess u R white) who like SOME Jamaicans because they have an accent n u can somehow excuse their being 'different' blacks...

[lonewolf]

Said way I think each time I venture into ur posting...'if u r going to go ur usual route'....have always thought u to b one of those whites ( I guess u R white) who like SOME Jamaicans because they have an accent n u can somehow excuse their being 'different' blacks...

Evan, please tell me how I've offended you on this thread. If I have, it was unintentional and accept my apology.

Otherwise, I don't know what you are talking about. I commented only on the topic at hand.