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Even allowing for the Overton Window in the US, this is a right wing position, sketched out by someone who either doesn't understand the last fifty years of foreign policy at all, or

Wikipedia: Obama's early life and career

After graduating from Punahou, Obama studied at Occidental College for two years, then transferred to Columbia University, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.

or is playing to the mil-ind complex to reassure them that he's not going to take their toys and profits away.

He probably knows he needs to pander to the Military-Industrial complex if he wants to look presidential and (more importantly) be allowed to win.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 27th, 2007 at 08:07:57 AM EST
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I have this feeling that whoever's elected president [...] when you win, you go into this smoky room with the twelve industrialist, capitalist scumfucks that got you in there, and this little screen comes down... and it's a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before, which looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll.... And then the screen comes up, the lights come on, and they say to the new president, 'Any questions?' ...

[President]: 'Just what my agenda is.'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks



Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Fri Apr 27th, 2007 at 08:45:38 AM EST
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Oh, no, it's easier than that. The agenda is internalised and if you haven't you won't be allowed to win, the media will destroy your campaign.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 27th, 2007 at 08:52:05 AM EST
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