Obama Watch
I think Pres. Obama is within the right not to respond too quickly to the Iranian situation. It's a gamble either way. Yes, the Iranian people want to know the rest of the world is behind them; who in their situation wouldn't? And there is the argument that doing the right thing is more important than not making the mullahs mad so that they reciprocate tenfold. On the other hand, there is a little irony to me that the country that held our citizens hostage thirty years ago wants our support now. Maybe it wasn't the same people in the protests who took over the embassy. Maybe it was. Now that they have lived under Islamic rule, maybe they have had a change of heart.
It's complex, so I don't think he's wrong to be circumspect. But I respect the arguments on the other side.
On another matter, he admitted today that he still occasionally smokes and that's why it was important to pass that sweeping nanny/mommy state legislation yesterday--he knows how addictive it is and he started as a teenager and still struggles, etc. Empathy rules again, I suppose. Yes, this was the choice we had--a man who survived five years in a Vietnamese prison without betraying his country, and a man who can't stop smoking. Humm. And who won?
Granted, smoking is gross and horrible and addictive, no argument there. But the allure of smoking isn't going to go away; we've been preached at for forty years, increasingly every year, on the evils of smoking and people still do it. Liberals are such hypocrites. The drinking age should be lowered to 18 so that it won't be such a forbidden fruit to 18-21 year olds; smoking should be made even more difficult to do. HuHH?? And these are the same people who don't mind if a 13-year-old who was seduced by a 25-year-old gets an abortion in the eighth month without her parents' knowledge.
It's complex, so I don't think he's wrong to be circumspect. But I respect the arguments on the other side.
On another matter, he admitted today that he still occasionally smokes and that's why it was important to pass that sweeping nanny/mommy state legislation yesterday--he knows how addictive it is and he started as a teenager and still struggles, etc. Empathy rules again, I suppose. Yes, this was the choice we had--a man who survived five years in a Vietnamese prison without betraying his country, and a man who can't stop smoking. Humm. And who won?
Granted, smoking is gross and horrible and addictive, no argument there. But the allure of smoking isn't going to go away; we've been preached at for forty years, increasingly every year, on the evils of smoking and people still do it. Liberals are such hypocrites. The drinking age should be lowered to 18 so that it won't be such a forbidden fruit to 18-21 year olds; smoking should be made even more difficult to do. HuHH?? And these are the same people who don't mind if a 13-year-old who was seduced by a 25-year-old gets an abortion in the eighth month without her parents' knowledge.
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