The dumbasses at NYT ask a dumbass question:
Is Obama a Wimp or a Warrior?WASHINGTON — Like every Democratic president since John F. Kennedy, President Obama is battling the perception that he’s a wimp on national security.
It’s not just coming from Republicans (for example, Dick Cheney’s accusation that Mr. Obama is trying to pretend that the country isn’t at war). Now barbs are coming from the center too. This week’s Foreign Policy magazine has a provocative cover: Mr. Obama next to Jimmy Carter with — gasp — an “equals” sign in the middle. New York Times/CBS polling shows that public approval of Mr. Obama’s foreign policy dropped 9 points to 50 percent between last April and November. Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote on the Daily Beast blog two weeks ago that Mr. Obama needs to toughen up with his adversaries. “He puts far too much store on being the smartest guy in the room,” Mr. Gelb wrote. “He’d do well to remember that Jimmy Carter also rang all the I.Q. bells.”
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Some experts say that the weakling label is more about this city than Mr. Obama — that every political cycle brings with it the opportunity for pundits and politicians to try to prove they were right all along. “I think the problem is much less Obama than the audience,” said George Perkovich, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “This is about talk radio and punditry; these are the absolutes that the bloggers deal with: wimp or macho? This is the new caricature, but it doesn’t withstand any analysis.”
But labels can stick, as Mr. Carter himself found out so well, and as the Republicans also know from their experience parrying the opposite stereotype — of cowboy-style recklessness, first under Ronald Reagan and later under George W. Bush (whose own father, oddly, was said to have suffered from a “wimp factor”).
All of which raises the question of what, exactly, it is that Mr. Obama has to do by the end of the year to turn around the impression that Democrats are cream puffs on foreign policy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/weekinreview/10cooper.htmlLike, what kind of a question is that? :mad:
Don't these "Journalists" have anything better to do?
Would be nice, if she received about 50 or so letter telling her that perhaps the title of her article should have been,
"Obama, one more Democrat who's not a Wimp!",
and that in essence, her entire piece is encouraging a meme and begging a question that should be discouraged in this day and age. We have had enough we Death and War, and we already know the NYT did their part in getting us there. This really isn't even remotely "amusing"....
You can make your own views known by writing to the "author"
here --->
http://www.nytimes.com/gst/emailus.htmlI encourage us all to drop her a little note.
I think it would be "useful".
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