Obama: "It's time we focus on nation building here at home."

[Drunken Irishman]

:applause:

[tekisui]

1. Actions speak louder than words.

[DJ13]

10. +1

He's over 2 years late.

[DCBob]

25. words precede actions.

[great white snark]

36. +1

[MissDeeds]

28. Yep

He's great at making speeches during election time.

[Dawgs]

38. +1. Kind of stupid thing to say considering he's been President for 2 and half years.

Not surprised that the apologists love the comment.

[tekisui]

44. No joke. The time to focus on nation building here at home was Jan. 2009.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Then why continue keep 70,000 troops in Afghanistan....twice as many as when he took office?

And continue to spend billions upon billions of dollars in the longest war in US history?

[RBInMaine]

9. You can't withdraw overnight. He's drawing down. Can't you at least be a little happy about that?

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[Cali_Democrat]

17. In a year and a half, we will still have 70,000 troops there as we continue to spend loads of $$$$$

Twice as many troops as when Obama took office. The war will continue to set records as the longest war in US history.

I'm supposed to be happy?

[Myrina]

41. Halliburton, Lockeed and Dynagen are extremely happy ...

... you should be too. :sarcasm:

The President has shown he is committed to continuing to protect their profit margins ... uh, err ... our freedoms. :hide:

[tekisui]

18. After his tripling of the troops, drawing down only a third.

Sure, I can be happy for those 33,000 that are ostensibly coming home, over the course of a long year. But, still profoundly disappointed in where we are and where we will still be for at least the next 3+ years,

[gkhouston]

22. I'm hoping those 33,000 are truly coming home, instead of being

sent to another theater.

[tekisui]

23. Me too. We already saw some of them get diverted to the Kuwait/Iraq border.

[provis99]

30. going to Yemen, perhaps? Or possibly Libya.

[DCBob]

26. Bush-the-idiot ignored AF to focus on Iraq which is why troop levels were so low there in 2008.

Obama refocused to AF and troops increased as would be expected. Now the primary goals have been accomplished so he is reducing the troop levels. Sounds reasonable to me.

[bahrbearian]

43. What has changed in AF since 2008?

[DCBob]

48. we got a new President who realized AF needed more attention.

you been living under a rock?

[StarsInHerHair]

35. massive "Food & medicine Drop" ONLY, & buy up the opium poppies-shortage

of morphine is happening, that's an opportunity right there.

[RandomKoolzip]

3. Talk talk talk talk talk.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Do you understand what a speech is? Did you expect him to do hand puppets?

:shrug:

[RandomKoolzip]

7. What is this "speech" of which you write, Earthling?

[tekisui]

8. I understand what a speech is. It buys time by propelling the pretty propaganda.

It gets a few clapping for awhile and gets many people from recognizing the reality.

While the rhetoric was warm, the reality is he just sold us a lost war for at least another 3 and half years. Not much to cheer about, really.

Still no real exit strategy.

[RandomKoolzip]

13. Yup. +1.

It's like he WANTS to lose in 2012.

[Drunken Irishman]

14. I think you didn't listen to his speech.

[tekisui]

19. I read the transcript.

[Dawgs]

39. Well said. I'm wondering why I continue to stick with a party that supports a 13.5 year war.

:(

[DJ13]

12. That might help

:rofl:

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[Autumn]

5. Does Obama realize we are broke? " But we must be living

within our means. " Nice words. Must be in campaign mode. Cause there is no chance in hell we are going to get to build our nation, not with compromise.

[Peacetrain]

11. K&R...

[fascisthunter]

16. another pretty speech

how about standing up for the unions, you know, the folks who created the middleclass! How about taxing your friends, the fucking rich!!!!?

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[indepat]

20. The time for the administration to have focused on nation building at home was on

January 20, 2009 imnsho. :patriot:

[paulk]

27. +1

[emilyg]

31. +2

[DCBob]

24. nice line! .. a jab at Bush the idiot.. love it!..

:thumbsup:

[polichick]

29. Once again, he says one thing and does another.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

32. Good!

[WiffenPoof]

33. Whatever n/t

[StarsInHerHair]

34. ILL BELIEVE HIM WHEN HE DOES WHAT HIS WORDS SAY

[great white snark]

37. Use the bully pulpit! Why? So serial whiners can whine "just words?"

Hypocrites.

[Dawgs]

40. I don't think you know what "the bully pulpit" means.

Announcing a weak withdrawal of troops from an unpopular, costly, unnecessary war is not using the bully pulpit.

[tekisui]

45. The bully pulpit refers to supporting and pushing legislation.

This was the announcement of a unitary executive decision. A tepid one at that.

BTW, who are the "serial whiners"?

[Armstead]

46. It's the content of the words and the action that matter

When one is just reiterating and justifying what is an increasingly unpopular (and increasingly wasteful and needless) policy then it's a misuse of the bully pulpit.

[treestar]

51. Exactly!

Some day I'm going to catch a poster doing both!

[tk2kewl]

42. 'ya think?

:eyes:

[BlueIris]

47. Kinda late for this kind of thing now, Sir.

I don't believe you anymore.

[avaistheone1]

49. Too little.

Too late.

No cigar.

[UnseenUndergrad]

50. Kick & Rec

Sometimes I just don't understand this place.