Does sort sum up the Bush foreign policy doesn’t it?
Anyone who wanted a new programmatic statement is going hungry. This is an acceptance speech, not a State of the Union. The theme is contrast, not policy wonkery.
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Does sort sum up the Bush foreign policy doesn’t it?
Anyone who wanted a new programmatic statement is going hungry. This is an acceptance speech, not a State of the Union. The theme is contrast, not policy wonkery.
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Masterfully. Also well describes Mitt’s recent foreign travels and foreign policy statements.
Oh. I thought this was a POLITICAL convention.
After watching Clinton’s speech the other night, it occurred to me that the R’s didn’t invite any of their former Presidents to speak at their convention. That’s got to be pretty rare, as far as conventions go, but who are they gonna call? After all the “are you better off now” talk, the last thing they needed was a Bush to remind everyone of how things really were after their last turn at the wheel, and they knew it.
Since I was one of the few calling for a policy agenda beyond protecting the progressive legacy, count me slightly disappointed. Obama will (probably) be reelected as a Sphinx: nobody will know what his real priorities are. The same was true for the first term – there was little reason from the primary and final campaigns to think he would bet the farm on health care.
PS: Ezra Klein goes into what agenda there was, and is no more impressed than I am. 600,000 more jobs in natural gas? Jesus.