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I still think he's surrounded by bad advisors. emmanuel was really a bad start and all along the way given the choice between the left and the centre right, he took the latter everytime in the hope of buying peace.

But you don't compromise with intransigence, it just takes what you offer and wants more.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Dec 22nd, 2009 at 03:29:11 PM EST
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Exiling Volcker and Bernstein and Goolsbee in favor of Summers should've been a big red flag.

Magnifico's quotes sum up the problem quite well, I think.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Dec 22nd, 2009 at 03:35:50 PM EST
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This is why I was concerned about Obama taking advice from Colin Powell.

I wrote a couple of years ago:

Obama did and it is one of the reasons I question his judgement too. If Powell is exemplar of the "wise" council any other candidate for president chooses, then I will question his or her judgment as well.

And:

A president cannot be an expert on everything, so I think whom he or she seeks as council is important.

Therefore, the company a president keeps and the advice he or she listens to is important to my decision making process.

Obama has bad advisors, but he chose them.

by Magnifico on Tue Dec 22nd, 2009 at 03:41:40 PM EST
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Obama is a victim of the insane American worship of "bipartisanship" which is predicated on the belief that the problem with politics is the fighting between two parties rather than the corruption within those parties.  

NOTHING good in American history was done without opposition. Unfortunately history is a subject often ridiculed as "unimportant" in the US educational system and thus...

by paving on Tue Dec 22nd, 2009 at 04:08:06 PM EST
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the belief that the problem with politics is the fighting between two parties rather than the corruption within those parties.  

..and the collusion between those two parties to maintain the system.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Dec 23rd, 2009 at 10:35:23 AM EST
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