"WaPo lefty Greg Sargent is really excited that Obama took a swipe at Bush while in Chile:
Crucially, Obama also took a tacit shot at Bush, comparing his own multilateral approach favorably to the former president’s:
“In the past there have been times when the United States acted unilaterally or did not have full international support, and as a consequence typically it was the United States military that ended up bearing the entire burden.”
Again, this is simply argument by assertion. When did Bush act unilaterally? When he had far more nations supporting the US in Iraq and Afghanistan than Obama does in Libya?"
I become more and more convinced that Obama is possibly one of the most ignorant people in the national government. He argues like a college student who only gets his information from the Daily Show. Doesn't he have fact-checkers and staff writing his speeches? Isn't there someone in the West Wing who could just re-word these statement so they aren't outright lies? But I'm not convinced Obama knows he is lying. I think he believes every word he says. He's just too ignorant to know any differently, because he gets his information from useless sources. It's like the show is being run by those children who protested the Michigan capitol this week. They don't want to hear about state budget deficits and unemployment. They refuse to argue cogently about options other than raising tuition: cutting down administration costs, removal of tenure, adjustment of fees across a need scale, giving up their free gym access and football tickets. They certainly don't want to hear that giving them what they want will result in higher debt and higher unemployment, in addition to the increasing realization that your degree is worth less than the paper it is printed on.
"We deserve free tuition and no fees!" Why? Because they've been told they deserve it. "Bush acted unilaterally" even though he had the approval of Congress, the support of the UN, a multitude of coalition countries, and a launching pad from Qatar. Why? Because he has been told it was so. There is no deeper thought process. Evidence only gets in the way. They have been told this, and believe it, because it all seems so much simpler that way.
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