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killing with kindness; watch out GOP
Topic Started: Nov 17 2008, 06:29 PM (155 Views)
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Obama is killing the GOP with kindness

Now that Barack Obama and John McCain met on Monday, it's looking increasingly as though McCain will be offered a position by Obama. Where will Obama's team of rivals idea end? Will Dick Cheney be offered a post as well?

Maybe Hillary Clinton and McCain won't serve in the Obama administration, after all. Bill Clinton's manifold business activities, if that's the right term, may render it too complicated for Hillary to pass muster. And whether she really wants the post remains an open question.

But it's clear that Obama is taking a radically different approach to the presidency than George W. Bush. Where Bush sought to polarize, Obama is taking the opposite approach. He wants to embrace the opposition in order to create his own kind of stealth presidency. Instead of trying to crush an already enfeebled Republican opposition, Obama is seeking to further weaken it by depriving it of an enemy -- himself. Democrats who worry that Obama is selling out to the opposition may have it backwards. His ingenious approach could end up marginalizing the GOP for decades. Tapping Cheney might be going one step too far, but could a post for the Decider himself be far behind?

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Mikhailoh
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Whereas I will applaud Obama if he actually reaches across the aisle for whatever reason, that is the weakest, silliest piece of political analysis I have read in all the election cycle. I hope it is intended to be humorous. It fails at that , but not as badly as if he is serious.

But that is what one might expect from Huffington I guess.
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Obama may well need the Republicans in order to effectively govern. His own party may end up being his worst liability.
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Mikhailoh
Nov 17 2008, 06:35 PM
Whereas I will applaud Obama if he actually reaches across the aisle for whatever reason, that is the weakest, silliest piece of political analysis I have read in all the election cycle. I hope it is intended to be humorous. It fails at that , but not as badly as if he is serious.

But that is what one might expect from Huffington I guess.
i kind of thought that briefly.. still, it is interesting to read perspectives across the spectrum..

it is indeed a different view.
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keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
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Nov 17 2008, 07:07 PM
Mikhailoh
Nov 17 2008, 06:35 PM
Whereas I will applaud Obama if he actually reaches across the aisle for whatever reason, that is the weakest, silliest piece of political analysis I have read in all the election cycle. I hope it is intended to be humorous. It fails at that , but not as badly as if he is serious.

But that is what one might expect from Huffington I guess.
i kind of thought that briefly.. still, it is interesting to read perspectives across the spectrum..

it is indeed a different view.
So is eating babies as a form of population control.

I doubt many lend it much credence, though....
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JoeB
Nov 17 2008, 06:36 PM
Obama may well need the Republicans in order to effectively govern. His own party may end up being his worst liability.
Exactly. Reid and Pelosi may cause Obama no end of headaches.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

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I actually think there could be something to this analysis. It could be political calculation (Obama seems very aware of how he is perceived) but I think he could certainly be trying to make it hard for Republicans to get a bead on him. Remember how Clinton co-opted some of the Republican middle ground. However, this:

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Where Bush sought to polarize, Obama is taking the opposite approach.


made me :rolleyes2:

I also think as far as Hillary is concerned, there is a lot to "keeping your enemies closer".
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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