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Posted by calimary in General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009)
Sat Oct 31st 2009, 02:51 AM
I think he's far more likely to make a good decision than his God-forsaken predecessor. For many reasons. And I'm glad he went to Dover. I think it's called the Dover Test. I read about something along those lines once, in the context of the bush era when his selected lordship refused to take time out from his busy day to greet the returning soldiers' remains. Something about a leader who has the grace and courage to go to Dover AFB to meet those returning body cases personally, up close and first-hand. Something about how - if you're in a position of that kind of power, in which you can wage war - you need to come face-to-face with the immediate, most personal, and most intimate consequences of war waging. And in this country, it behooves you as leader to go to Dover AFB, because that's where the bodies arrive. Find the cost of freedom - directly there on the tarmac of their return. And that's what Obama did. That's what Clinton did, too. That's what selfish, arrogant, cowardly, excuse-making weasels like bush and cheney didn't do.
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