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When I read stuff like this, I can't help thinking of Obama's change candidacy.  What many people do not see is this:  While Obama claims to represent change, the change has already come!  

"Where, pray tell?", someone might ask.  

Within the Bush Administration!

Out went Rumsfeld, Bolton, Rice of the "Birth Pangs" persuasion and Feith and in came Robert Gates and Rice of the "Negotiations instead of confrontation" persuasion.  Diplomacy has replaced confrontation (to some extent) within the Bush regime, plus it also embraces US troop reductions in Iraq.

Obama will just build on these already made changes.  In a sense, both he and McCain (whichever of the two wins) will give continuity to these changes that have already occurred.  The difference each candidate represents will be marginal in terms of substance, although their styles will be different.

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne

by maracatu on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 04:25:40 PM EST
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Maybe if Bush were in office for another decade or two, he would gradually figure out how to run a country...
by asdf on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 01:00:14 AM EST
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Ha!  He might destroy the world in the process...

Bush's own changes show how bankrupt his [original] policies were from the beginning.

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne

by maracatu on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 08:20:13 AM EST
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