I am in no way condoning what the Bush administration did in Iraq – but when you grow up you will probably find out that while principles are key and must ultimately govern our lives the world is a complex place requiring savvy planning and posturing to try and accomplish your desired end. This is something many in the Bush administration failed at. Senator/Secretary Clinton didn’t make this mistake but people like you who don’t really know what you are talking about and the MSM have done a sadly effective job of making it so that the facts and truth don’t matter, it is only your perception that matters.

On a side note:

My recollection is that then state senator Obama had to give his speech twice, because the cameras weren’t rolling the first time he gave it. Might I remind you that he wasn’t in the US Senate to vote on the Iraq resolution. When he did become a US Senator he voted to fund the war. He was planning to vote for Justice Roberts to support Bush but was warned that this would cause him political damage so he changed his vote, he voted for FISA, he voted for the Energy bill, he voted for the PATRIOT ACT reauthorization. Funny, he had numerous problems and concerns with the final text of the PATRIOT ACT, without the amendments he wanted, but voted for it anyway because it came down to a choice to either vote for or against the final version. This is something you seem to allow him to do but are critical of Secretary Clinton about. That was when he was even there to vote. This doesn’t sound like the champion of principles that you gush on about.

Colin Powell lost all credibility for allowing himself to be misused and manipulated, he should have known better. Why he didn’t resign in protest when he discovered the truth shows a fundamental flaw in his character. Then as if he couldn’t get lower he let Senator Clinton take the fall for him and endorsed Obama and my bet is people like you ate it up.

I guess the Ugly Americans are nostalgic for the good old days of the Contras and murdering obstreperous anti-American Presidents– actions that have lead to our name rightly being despised by tens of millions in South America, and lead directly to people like Chavez.

Luckily instead of expediency we have a principled President who says plainly a wrong is a wrong, whether it serves our cheap short term interests or not. And this won’t stand as a result. And when Chavez tries to pull anything — we’ll actually have some credibility instead of our usual self-serving “American interests.”

Obama knows more because he is more principled and clearer about where we need to go. The welter of nationalistic or narcissistic self-interest that rules Hillary and the right wingers is a strategic loser in the long run and that is why Obama won, and Hill and McCain didn’t.

We will do ten times better under Obama than Hillary’s visionless equivocating and selling out for political gain. She now is dependant on Obama, and any future she has depends on backing him as he tries to change the rotten way this country has behaved since 2001.

Flick Obama off the tv, just like I did Bush. Both self-serving selected lightweights.

I have been a student and practioner of the art and science of negotiation for over three decades. Also, I have supervised subordinates in the exercise in that activity. I know what a good negotiation looks like, and yes, I know what a bad one looks like as well. As a general rule of thumb, you try to avoid bad result when the negotitiation is an important one. And, there are few negotiations which are more important than the one Bambi had last week with Putin. So how did the Messiah do in that meeting with Putin?

Not worth a shit. On a scale of 0-10 from worst to best, I would give him no more than a 2. Putin handed bambi his head. What exactly did Putin do. He was all 10s: i) he controlled the agenda, ii) he lectured bambi on his improvident remark about having one foot in the cold war, iii) he gave Bambi the history lesson he does not have, iv) he convinced bambi that America needs Russia, but Russia does not need America, ergo bambi will have to deal on Putins terms, v) he put Bambi in a box by linking offensive and defensive weapon systems, vi) he used bambis weakness to signal to Ukranians that they cannot count on America, vii) he used bambis weakness to make Poland wish they had Bush back, and viii) when the short meeting was over, he walked out–no sitting around schmoozing. The clear subtext was this: Obama, I have more important things to tend to than sit here and rap further with you.

Bambis best moment came when he told Putin he wanted Russia to be strong. His worst moment came when he set us up for a bad bargain whereby Russia would divest itself of cold war nukes which are degrading anyway, and in exchange he singalled a willingness to limit our offensive capacity (submarines, long range bombers, etc.) as well as the defensive shield eastern Europe wants. Worst of all he has no idea just how badly he got had.

The bottom line is this: whether you like Putin or not you have to admire what he did here. He is a tough disciplined bargainer. He knows a rube when he sees one. He picked up on Bambis little ploy to separate Putin from the president he handpicked. And he kept bambi on the defensive. Oh bambi will go back to his entourage and paper over his mistakes. Big media will print that lie to the American People. But believe me none of what occurred is lost on Putin. He will continue to roll over bambi insofar as it suits his purposes. He smells weakness and all his old KGB instincts will compel him to capitalize on it. Wouldn’t you?

You have put your finger on the pivotal concern going forward. When you join the enemy team for what you perceive to be the good of the country, as Hillary did, you run the inevitable risk that you will be marginalized. When you are secretary of state and the president does not allow you to be the chief diplomat, rushes around the world making bad deals for the country, and when there is a change in policy does not inform you so you can inform the department you lead, I say the handwriting is on the wall. The motive is equally clear. He cannot handle the truth and he is worried that her numbers will be better than his.

I have my own thoughts on what she should do in these circumstances, but she knows the landscape better than I do. Its her call. However, and here is where you and I differ, I think she would be a great president in 2012. I just hope he does not destroy her political capital in the meantime. Meanwile, the media whores are shadowing her ever more, censoring her successess, and looking for failures where there are not. Thanks to them the public knows more about the trivial resetting the relationship with Russia gaff, than they do about the critical leadership she has provided in this intance, while covering for the idiot boss.

Someone asked me when I will accept the fact that he is president. I told them the twelth of never, and after the uber corrupt primary, I am inclined to say that he holds the presidency by adverse possession.