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His knowledge and understanding of history is also severely lacking. He recently commented about the “bomb that hit Pearl Harbor”. It wasn’t just one bomb, there were several bombs launched by the Japanese against Pearl Harbor. It’s interesting to note that not only does he have a good understanding and knowledge of history of his own country, he also has the same lack of depth when it comes to the state he lived in and spent most of his childhood in.
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The suggestion that Obama doesn’t know what happened at Pearl Harbor is as ludicrous as suggesting McCain doesn’t know where Iraq and Afghanistan are on a map. Both are ridiculous. In Obama’s case, it feeds into a larger and somewhat sinister right-wing whisper campaign that Obama is somehow un-American. It’s McCarthy-esque.
The polarized nature of our political discourse, the ad-hominem attacks and tainting through association, false mischaracterizations and outright lies, during a time of war and national emergency, has become morally disgusting. I used to be fairly laid back about it, libertarian, to each his own. Not anymore. Enough is enough.
The original post was about a Newsweek article that discussed how the foreign policy positions of Obama are actually conservative in nature. Your responses have consisted of ad-hominem attacks on Obama. You haven’t contributed anything about actual foreign policy.
Perhaps you’d like to say something about our overall direction in Iraq? Dealing with Iran? What our position should be vis-a-vis Syria or Saudi Arabia? Engagement on the Israel/Palestinian issue? And with each of these, what are the conservative positions on these issues?
The interesting thing about this to me is how Obama seems to be more aligned with foreign policy conservatives than Bush/McCain. That’s an interesting discussion, suitable for the off-topic forum on Piggington’s.
Allan, I’ll try to get to your excellent questions here this evening. Got sidetracked, obviously.
