Ben.
Ben
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« on: February 11, 2008, 12:02:06 PM » |
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What George says as far as foreign policy goes is irrelevant... he's a deeply unpopular incumbent who's credibility (especially on foreign affairs) has been shot to pieces.
Having said that, he is still the President of the United States and the effective leader of the GOP, so his remarks are worth noting…
What it does suggest is that Bush (and perhaps more importantly the folks aligned with him within the GOP) would be uncomfortable with Obama as a president.
Furthermore it suggests that the narrative the GOP would likely adopt in a race against Obama as being a very similar ‘experience vs inexperience’, ‘risk vs certainty’ to that adopted by Clinton.
The remark also underlines the total intellectual exhaustion on the right and the political collapse of the GOP… which (when combined) make ’08 a very tough cycle for the Republicans.
The problem for the United States as a whole is that while the Democrats are politically ascendant, their seems little in the way of intellectual power behind that ascendancy (in the way in which there was behind the GOP in 1980 or 1994 or the Dems in 1932 or 1964), instead they are benefiting from the GOP’s woes rather than their own strengths.
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