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Re: Average US citizen is too ideologically (none / 1)

Prior to Bush 43 there was more of an emphasis on coordination with our allies, both by Dems and Repubs. Reagan is the closest to W when it comes to disregard for the sensibilities of allies.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.

by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Tue Jul 15th, 2008 at 04:05:59 PM EST
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Re: Average US citizen is too ideologically (none / 0)

I dunno, seems to me LBJ wasn't the greatest at coordinating.

Nixon either. Or Carter, for that matter.

"C'est un scandale !"

by redstar on Tue Jul 15th, 2008 at 04:08:03 PM EST
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Re: Average US citizen is too ideologically (none / 0)

Well, "more of an emphasis," especially with Bush 41 and Clinton. And it was a different world prior to 1988. I am not saying any of them were great at consultation, although Bush 41 was able to build an impressive coalition and get lots of monetary assistance in addition to military assistance for Iraq I, once he figured out how to market it domestically.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.

by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Tue Jul 15th, 2008 at 04:16:26 PM EST
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