Karl Rove is quite happy that Obama is embracing Bush policies.

[BlueJessamine]

via BarbinMD @ Daily Kos


Flip-Flops and Governance
Our president isn't quite as advertised.

by Karl Rove

Barack Obama inherited a set of national-security policies that he rejected during the campaign but now embraces as president. This is a stunning and welcome about-face.

For example, President Obama kept George W. Bush's military tribunals for terror detainees after calling them an "enormous failure" and a "legal black hole." His campaign claimed last summer that "court systems . . . are capable of convicting terrorists." Upon entering office, he found out they aren't.

He insisted in an interview with NBC in 2007 that Congress mandate "consequences" for "a failure to meet various benchmarks and milestones" on aid to Iraq. Earlier this month he fought off legislatively mandated benchmarks in the $97 billion funding bill for Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mr. Obama agreed on April 23 to American Civil Liberties Union demands to release investigative photos of detainee abuse. Now's he reversed himself. Pentagon officials apparently convinced him that releasing the photos would increase the risk to U.S. troops and civilian personnel.

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Mr. Obama ran hard to the center on economic issues to win the general election. He has since discovered his campaign commitments were obstacles to ramming through the most ideologically liberal economic agenda since the Great Society.

Mr. Obama either had very little grasp of what governing would involve or, if he did, he used words meant to mislead the public. Neither option is particularly encouraging. America now has a president quite different from the person who advertised himself for the job last year. Over time, those things can catch up to a politician.

[babylonsister]

1. Who GIVES A SHIT what Rove says? Seriously? nt

[TwilightZone]

5. Seconded

Rove, Cheney, Fleischer. To the general public, they're has-beens. They should be treated as such here.

[snowdays]

7. Its a hard truth to swallow--that Rove is right about this (for the most part

anyway).

[babylonsister]

8. It's an easy truth-I didn't even read it, and don't give a crap

about what this criminal is spewing. How 'bout that?

[lamp_shade]

2. Ari Fleischer says the same thing at every opportunity.

[MarjorieG]

3. So why do we have to keep spouting that's what Obama is doing. Could be Bush just left us hard to

extricate mess.

[BlooInBloo]

4. It's funny when DUers approvingly quote Rove....

Talk about your "Rovian plots".

:rofl:

[Kahuna]

6. This is just a ruse to cause dissent within the base. We're on to you

rove. Even though, some of our more gullible brethren readily buy into it.