In an exchange with Terry Moran, Obama had this to say:
"So the point that I was making at the time was that the political dynamic was the driving force between that sectarian violence. And we could try to keep a lid on it, but if these underlining dynamic continued to bubble up and explode the way they were, then we would be in a difficult situation. I am glad that in fact those political dynamic shifted at the same time that our troops did."
Sounds kinda like Lewis Carroll translated via Babel Fish into Finnish and then back again.
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"I am glad that in fact those political dynamic shifted at the same time that our troops did."
And, apparently, the current success in Iraq is coincidental.
Thanks, Obama. I'm sure the troops appreciate your nuance.
Political dynamics often shift with troop movements.
Did "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" get a run on American TV?
Obama seems to be channelling Sir Humphrey Appleby to perfection.
It seems you're all about to experience what we have been listening to for the past 8 months in Australia.
We call it Krudd speak. It's a form of language that is forged in the committee rooms of Australian Governments by those who have spent their careers doing very little else. Like our plasticine Prime Minister.
At least your man doesn't pick his ears and chew the wax. Mehaul
As a humourist, I thought you deserved this, Paco, in return for many laughs at Timbo in the old times..
My Herobambi.
Let me make it clear from the start, Senator Obama is a genius in so many ways that many often misunderstand him, and get confused by what he says and does.
He's wise beyond his years, much more so than, say, Senator MCain, who is only old. In fact, he's a fully-matured World Mind. Those close to him know that. Indeed all who just hear him once own that view, and love him for it. Just the sound of his thrilling voice gives people hope where they have lost it.
His judgement, for instance in always opposing the military in Iraq, is courageous and right, and only hindsight makes it look bad. Obama values foresight instead. His love of Change means that he's always coming up with exciting scenarios, intoning them indelibly with his powerful voice, and changing all of them as the situation allows his flexible, creative mind to do.
He's always been a Christian, since well before he was forcibly taught to recite the Koran in Indonesian Muslim primary school. Fortunately, his two absent Muslim fathers had no influence on him, one way or the other, especially after he wrote about them in his books. His white maternal grandparents raised him well for years, and gave him an exclusive
education, but that is all they contributed. Because his own parents are dead, these white living relatives stay well in the background.
His ancestry and race are not an issue, except for his African blood, which is vital for leading America out of its sin-filled past, which his two autobiographies teach us is his
manifest Afro-American destiny. At Harvard he left a record of stellar achievement which is unfortunately not well enough documented. It is true that he learnt much from radical leftist teachers and marxist colleagues in Chicago, but it is to his credit that he magnanimously remains on good terms with most of them today.
It's natural that he tried many other lifestyles for years before he started practising his Christian faith in his late 20s [who wouldn't?], after hearing a very strong Black Power
preacher in Chicago, who impressed him so much he followed him as his mentor until 2008, when he repudiated all the pastor's sudden extremist views [and some unfortunate local heroes], and left the church with his family. This proves how seriously he takes his faith.
As senator, Obama has achieved so much in a short time, and has impressed as a key leader despite a small footprint in his actual attendance. His record as the most left-wing Senate voter in Congress is a slur that misreads his sincere record of achievement against him, but he is always prepared to forgive the Republicans. His decisions, whatever they are, do not get to the real heart of this Man of Unity. Though not 'old school Washington' like Hillary Clinton, he is a centralist to the extent that he has adopted many of her positions since defeating her. He knows that practising Change is never going to be easy. Hillary only thought she could make changes.
Obama stands for Newness and the Future, so the past, including his own, is irrelevant to the Transformative Energy, Style and Eloquence he offers to The More Perfect Union, as well as Faith, Hope, Change, Audacity, and other things of great value. But they must be used with dialogue and empathy, sadly so little known today.
A New America stands before us, in the future we were made for and are going towards, not the old mean one we all know. This Person from Chicago is the obvious choice to transform the old cynical politics that is Washington.
Not only does he offer all this, but his wife confirms that it will be enforced by him, so they are not idle promises like a normal candidate makes.
The most attractive quality Senator Obama has is that, while he will transform the world and the USA in every way, including lowering world sea levels [which everyone wants] and making Americans very popular again after a very bad eight years, he has stated his profound belief that he is the most humble Man of Peace alive, or at least since Abraham Lincoln strode the Earth.
Anonymous (whoever you are): that says it all.
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