Predictions on Team Obama's focus for 2014
Does anyone recall an instance of a foreign-policy success by Team Obozo?
They backed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, even after the Egyptian people said "no thanks."
They backed the rebels who overthrew Libya's crazy colonel, only to find the newly-liberated country joining the fanatical al-Qaeda stable.
Obama famously announced his "red line" in Syria, then got in deeper by declaring that he didn't need permission from congress to order a military strike, then said that even though he really, truly didn't need congressional authorization, he'd ask for it anyway.
But then he didn't.
Oh, and right after the 2008 election there was that business of giving the queen of England an iPod with his speeches on it. And returning a bust of Churchill that had been loaned to the White House by our British allies.
So it's hard to believe foreign policy going forward will involve better decisions. Which brings me to some political predictions for 2014:
I suspect Obama and his supporters will *strenuously* avoid foreign-policy initiatives, and mentioning anything about Obamacare. Instead they'll focus on income inequality, raising the minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits and possibly on a thing called a "guaranteed income"--a much loftier-sounding re-packaging of welfare.
And Nancy Pelosi and Nuclear Harry will be fawning all over the idea.
At least that's how I think it'll go.
They backed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, even after the Egyptian people said "no thanks."
They backed the rebels who overthrew Libya's crazy colonel, only to find the newly-liberated country joining the fanatical al-Qaeda stable.
Obama famously announced his "red line" in Syria, then got in deeper by declaring that he didn't need permission from congress to order a military strike, then said that even though he really, truly didn't need congressional authorization, he'd ask for it anyway.
But then he didn't.
Oh, and right after the 2008 election there was that business of giving the queen of England an iPod with his speeches on it. And returning a bust of Churchill that had been loaned to the White House by our British allies.
So it's hard to believe foreign policy going forward will involve better decisions. Which brings me to some political predictions for 2014:
I suspect Obama and his supporters will *strenuously* avoid foreign-policy initiatives, and mentioning anything about Obamacare. Instead they'll focus on income inequality, raising the minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits and possibly on a thing called a "guaranteed income"--a much loftier-sounding re-packaging of welfare.
And Nancy Pelosi and Nuclear Harry will be fawning all over the idea.
At least that's how I think it'll go.
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