As soon as President Obama set a timetable for getting out of Afghanistan, the Republicans started sharpening their knives.
Under the agreement Obama signed yesterday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, American troops will stand down from a war footing in 2014, but the U.S. will continue to support Afghanistan through 2024.
Senior administration officials tell the Washington Post that U.S. trainers and Special Operations troops that remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014 will live on bases, sending "a signal to the Taliban that they cannot 'wait out' the international presence, which is supporting a fragile Afghan government."
But former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who has virtually no foreign policy experience and had to drop out of the presidential race after failing to beat fellow Minnesotan Michele Bachman, knows better than the team that got Osama bin Laden.
"Gov. (Mitt) Romney said 2014 may be an appropriate timetable, but let's not announce it ahead of time so those who don't have America's interests at heart can plan around it," said Pawlenty, who is now a surrogate for Romney.
"Don't give them the blueprint in public, with timelines attached to it. That's what President Obama has done. Gov. Romney would have taken a different approach and planned and executed those plans in private."
Is Pawlenty referring to the "quiet" rooms where Romney thinks we should use to talk about economic inequality?
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and if President Obama didn't announce a timeline for getting out of afghanistan, they would have disagreed with him on that, too.
anything will do, as long as it is an opportunity to disagree with or slam President Obama.
repubs are unembarassable in their "joyful obviousness" to disagree with the president.
Damned if he does damned if he doesn't!
LOL..Exactly TM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=BD75KOoNR9k&feature=endscreen
Once and for all for all the the Democrat and Liberal posters on this site regarding the B..S. that President George Bush had nothing to do with the the finding Osama Bin Laden!!!
Right from the horses mouth!!
President Obama about how it felt to look at the image of Osama bin Laden's dead body, and what it was like to place a call to George W. Bush after the terrorist was killed.
and then you place a call to george w. bush 43 on whose watch the attack happened. what was that like?
>> well, i think that it was an important symbol of who we are as a people. we get into these partisan fights. administrations come and go, but there's a certain come continue uity about who we are and what we care about, and what our values are. for me to be able to call my predecessor and say a lot of the work that you did under your administration was continued in my administration and there's that constant thread that ultimately leads to justice being done. i think it was symbolic of how our government should work.
Bush broke up the CIA Bin Laden unit in 2006 the majority of the credit for this and afghanistan goes to obama.
Deal with it.
You should know by now this president has a desire to try and please everyone, he's far too much of a good sport. So unless you can name some of the specifics of the work that was continued, restarting the unit is continuing you wouldn't call that starting the hunt, then I don't care what anyone says including this president. So you want to make a claim show some evidence, conclusive evidence of that claim. Otherwise I advise you drop because fighting over this is only digging the right into a hole.
Kennedy started the work on civil rights for hte democratic party but who gets credit for passing the civil rights act? Johnson because he got it done.
cynical,
i hear what you are saying when you say that President Obama has a desire to try and please everyone.
i used to feel the same way, but now i see that the President has the big picture in mind. initially, i feel he did give in too often. i was very upset when he gave in on the bush tax cuts, but from what i have learned about that whole situtation, President Obama was operating in good faith with the repubs, believing that they were sincere about reaching a big deal, and he did give in on the tax cuts so the unemployed could keep benefits, and he also put his foot down on other things.
i believe he did not know how difficult it was going to be to work with repubs. everyone needs to participate in order for there to be progress. did he know about that meeting that the repubs had while he was inaugurated? i don't know, but something tells me by the debt ceiling debacle that he should have figured out that the repubs were not interested in working with him.
i believe it was Obama's sincere desire to work with the repubs, but mcconnell asked that President Obama not be involved with details in regard to the debt ceiling. he wanted Obama "hands off". the repubs then complained that Obama wasn't doing anything, when they asked him not to.
he doesn't want to please everyone, he just wants to get stuff done. initially, he gave too much. the repubs complain they want a leader. but no one can lead those who REFUSE to be led.
my humble opinion.
It sounds like "melinda" believes she's on a right wing blog. But we know, regaurdless of facts, she will argue just for the sake of looking stupid. she's done it on every thread so far. she's been given links, articles and all the other sources and came back disagreeing with it all and calling Democrats stupid. She just wants to argue about everything this President has done or will do.
So Larry you are disagreeing with President Obamas own words?
President Obama about how it felt to look at the image of Osama bin Laden's dead body, and what it was like to place a call to George W. Bush after the terrorist was killed.
and then you place a call to george w. bush 43 on whose watch the attack happened. what was that like?
>> well, i think that it was an important symbol of who we are as a people. we get into these partisan fights. administrations come and go, but there's a certain come continue uity about who we are and what we care about, and what our values are. for me to be able to call my predecessor and say a lot of the work that you did under your administration was continued in my administration and there's that constant thread that ultimately leads to justice being done. i think it was symbolic of how our government should work.
Melinda do you mind not copying the same text over and over and maybe compose a new comment please, thanks.
President Obama has said Dodd/Frank will stop the financial sector and big banks from creating the situations that lead to the '08 collaspe. It will not really do that.
So Obama like all politicians can say things that aren't really true which is you're view in fact since you think he's wrong to say he got Bin Laden. So unless you can show some facts to show that it was Bush primarily and not Obama then I don't care what anyone says.
Back up your claim with facts I don't care for hearsay. If you are correct this should be very easy to do.
Like I said did Kennedy help start work on the civil right act? Yes, but Johnson was the one who signed it so he gets most of the credit that how reality works. I don't think the right serves itself well in the eyes of the public applauding GW's foreign policy strategies.
I know the obama derangement syndrome forces the far right righties to attack anything obama could say, he may say the sky is blue which the far right will attack and say the sky is turquoise. Problem is that does not make independent voters happy.
Obama's in this very small called the living US presidents they all in reality are friendly with one another what was going to do call George and say "guess I got him you suck ha ha"? I don't that's the type of comment a president is going to make especially not Obama who even until recently refused to throw house republicans under the bus for their craziness.
First off I never stated primarily
"Once and for all for all the the Democrat and Liberal posters on this site regarding the B..S. that President George Bush had nothing to do with the the finding Osama Bin Laden!!!"
I stated that President Bush played a part
Second I was responding to Larry 74
Melinda thanks for the good laugh. Bush ran away from finding BinLaden.
Yes T Paw the president is emboldening America's enemies and setting a time table that immediately withdraws forces by not setting a time table that immediately withdraws forces.
Gov. Romney would have done something different and wouldn't have done something different he's on both sides of every issue so no one knows what he would have done.
Romney is a coin flipping in the air there is equal chance as to which side he'll land on
Im sure Blackwater and the rest of the contractors appreciates 'lil Timmay's support.
T Paw destroy MN and know we have Tea Party congress who are doing the same thing.
I don't get it. Let's see. We don't tell anyone when we plan to leave Afghanistan, and then one day we will just sneak out under the dark of night? Come next morning we will be gone and everyone will wonder what happened to the American military that was here yesterday? I think everyone will know when we are leaving, because it will take months, once the process is started.
Ah yes, Tim Pawlenty, America's foremost expert on foreign policy. Who gives a rat's patootie what Tim Pawlenty thinks? President Obama is doing just fine thank you. Timmy should stay in Minnesota and go shopping at the Mall of America. He's one of the few with enough money left to GO shopping!
We don't want him.