drsmooth wrote:jerz, you left this tweet from a balls-out lefty off your impressive list of who the fuck anyway:Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC
Do you really believe the president doesn’t have a strategy yet? Call me crazy but I don’t want the President showing his hand to ISIS.
The question was about whether he was going to go to Congress for authorization before ordering strikes in Syria. Chuck Todd didn't ask him what his plan was. Rather than answer the question, he did a song and dance, and said we don't have a strategy. I don't really care if Obama signals his plans a bit to ISIS (certainly saying "we don't have a strategy yet" is showing your hand to ISIS in the short term) in the context of debating the pros and cons of actions with the branch of government that declares wars and whatnot. The question was about him going to Congress, and his lack of wanting to commit one way or the other there led him into sticking his foot way down his throat.
The reason the quote is gonna stick is the same reason Romney's 47% comment stuck. It rings true. Obama has looked adrift on foreign policy, especially over the last year plus. Reacting to events as if they catch him and his administration completely off guard. Not staying on the same page as Hagel and Kerry on major issues. Going back on some things he has personally pledged (the red line). It has looked like there has been no real strategy or overarching theme to any of his foreign policy. And now he's saying they don't have a strategy on one of the most important issues of the moment.
As for Scarborough, he's a professional contrarian at this point. Everyone on Twitter zigs, he zags.
