Obama: “I would reach out to the first George Bush.”
March 22nd, 2008Imagine my shock.
Via: CNN:
KING: A couple of quick things, Senator. Would you, in your administration, make use of Bill Clinton?
OBAMA: Absolutely. I think that, you know, Bill Clinton is a brilliant statesman and politician, and I think that any president would want to use his skills and his relationships around the world.
By the way, I would reach out to the first George Bush. You know, one of the things that I think George H.W. Bush doesn’t get enough credit for was his foreign policy team and the way that he helped negotiate the end of the Cold War and prosecuted the Gulf War. That cost us 20 billion dollars. That’s all it cost. It was extremely successful. I think there were a lot of very wise people. So I want a bipartisan team that can help to provide me good advice and counsel when I’m president of the United States.
What an *sshat. But isn’t everyone inside the beltway pretty much an *sshat? OTOH, lesser of two (or three, depending) evils, and all. To be fair the current Iraq debacle has cost 25 times as much ($0.5 Trillion and counting), 4000+/- U.S. and 1,000,000 iraqi dead with no end in sight. And that doesn’t even count Afghanistan (with its bonus resurgence in production of sweet lady H :o).
And it’s not like 1) he said that gulf war I was a good thing, or 2) had anything to do with those sanctions, esp. as he was elected in 2004.
Given the options, I’d likely vote for him over “4 more wars” McCain.
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lol.
The word “surge” was contained in my previous comment.
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