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Jen the Michigander


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One of my old high school friends with whom I recently reconnected with on Facebook refers to Newsweek as Newsweak. They were probably the biggest bot magazine of 2008. But now who are they calling upon to save That One's sorry skinny little behind? You guessed it!

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Well, not only are things not getting fixed, they may be getting more broken. What was justly considered Bush's mess in all these places is rapidly becoming Obama's mess. In the Mideast, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have outmaneuvered Obama, forcing him to retreat publicly from a call to freeze settlements. Iran has so completely spurned Obama that the president's careful and patient call for diplomacy and avoidance of sanctions is beginning to look like appeasement. And in Afghanistan, while a decision on troop deployments appears imminent, the public display of mixed signals by senior military and U.S. officials over many months has created a dangerous power vacuum, further undermining America's already low credibility.

The one hope for forward movement on all these issues may be to rethink them entirely—not just the strategy but the personnel, too. That's not to say Holbrooke, Mitchell, and Co. should go, but their efforts should be subordinated to higher-level engagement, especially from Clinton. The secretary of state must play a much more active role on a regular basis; only Clinton, apart from Obama himself, has the necessary political star power, acumen, and gravitas to make a difference. It's clear that she can no longer afford to allow herself to remain at a strategic distance or to be sidetracked on women's issues, only occasionally parachuting in for ill-briefed appearances as she did in the Mideast.

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"Ill-briefed appearances"? That's news to me.

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If Obama wasn't so wishy washy and had not bowed to BIBI Hillary wouldnt have had  to spit that crap out in the Middle East.    Hillary is doing great and now Obama and the mainstream media are crying for her help.  I read one article where the author was made that people werent blaming Hillary.   He basically said that  she wasn't doing enough to help Barack cause she was still mad.  Looks like Obama is not ready to sit at the grown up table yet folks and people are just gonna have to let it play out because again the American people made a mistake and hired the wrong person for the job.

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It seems the media is always calling for Hillary to save Obama and I am glad the special envoys are not doing well.  So much for being marganilized.

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Oh yeah, knew this was going to happen. Those jerkwads at Newsweak (your friend is right in their assessment, Jen), had their heads buried up Omoron's butt and now that he's proving to be exactly what we all knew long ago they are screaming for Hillary to save him. What a bunch of dickweeds - predictable dickweeds at that.

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