Obama 2005 Flashback: Bush Foreign Policy Is Dumb & Only Rewards Halliburton and Homophobia
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 5:59 AM
As we watch the far left this week squirm to defend President Obama’s embrace of Gitmo, renditions, military tribunals, and endless war we are reminded of the rhetoric from the not too distant past.
It wasn’t that long ago that Senator Barack Obama was posting on the Daily Kos and bashing Bush and conservatives for their dumb foreign policy that only rewarded Halliburton and the homophobes.
Pundit Press dug up this little jewel from the Daily Kos archives.
Here’s part of Obama’s ridiculous leftist rant:
I am not drawing a facile equivalence here between progressive advocacy groups and right-wing advocacy groups. The consequences of their ideas are vastly different. Fighting on behalf of the poor and the vulnerable is not the same as fighting for homophobia and Halliburton…
…The bottom line is that our job is harder than the conservatives’ job. After all, it’s easy to articulate a belligerent foreign policy based solely on unilateral military action, a policy that sounds tough and acts dumb; it’s harder to craft a foreign policy that’s tough and smart. It’s easy to dismantle government safety nets; it’s harder to transform those safety nets so that they work for people and can be paid for. It’s easy to embrace a theological absolutism; it’s harder to find the right balance between the legitimate role of faith in our lives and the demands of our civic religion. But that’s our job.
This week the Obama Administration announced that they would resume the military tribunals at Gitmo.
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johnathon commented:
Well ya better get used to it. Hes guaranteed another 4 years with the unlectable clowns we got.
dwd commented:
Wow, so there’s “religion religion”, “environmental religion”, and now “civic religion” …
Callipygian1 commented:
(Man in pool room) “Is this an honest game?”
(W.C. Fields) “Not the way I play it, no….”
patman commented:
So much ammo for my liberal demorat neighbors. they’re gonna love me at the next party…
get in their faces and argue…
Ruebacca commented:
Sit them down in front of 5 majors then stand them up in front of 9 privates.
SSBN 627(B) commented:
Three “harder to’s” listed, this bozo and his groupies have failed miserably at each. “But that’s our job.”
You did not know your job when you got there, you know less now. Lying on the resume. Anybody displaying this level of incompetence should have been fired long ago.
GTFO.
Valerie commented:
Jurisdiction. It’s part of the rule of law.
FreakyBoy commented:
Funny. Don’t hear much about Halliburton anymore.
RickZ commented:
The Great Pretender is a lying sack of sh*t with the spine of a jellyfish. But we already knew that.
Ol’ Barry’s finding out the job of being a backbencher critic is a helluva lot easier than sitting in the hot seat. Of course, he’s too dense to even contemplate such a thing. Now it’s all ‘we must work together’ after his hubris was exposed during the HellCare meeting with Congress and his famous, “I won!”
He needs to be evicted from The People’s House ASAP.
Joe's Garage commented:
The Left have been hurting lately.
Obama lied us into War #3.
Keeping GTMO trials going.
Busted giving tons of cash for healthcare help to GE, UAW, WaPo, GM, other companies.
Economy in shambles.
Foreign policy a disaster.
Nuclear accident reaching our shores largely ignored.
Now with a government shutdown looming, he’s off to a weekend of relaxing fundraisers with filthy stinking rich corporate Democrat pals.
gus commented:
This buffoon got 65 million votes. We are fukked.
Gerry commented:
Can’t wait to see this on MessNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, following an Obama2012 commercial, leading into an Obama2012 commercial.
And monkeys might fly out of my butt!
#1AMERICAN commented:
It’s time the Repubs grew some balls and start running these as adds…we are F’d if we can’t even come up with a candidate…4 more years of this idiot and we are truly F’d
dunce commented:
We can hope that obama will embrace bushs foreign policies as he has so many of his other policies in recognition of reality. Apologizing and bowing are hard habits to break. He will not have to stop insulting our friends because we have none left.
Chippy commented:
Travelling with Obama on Air Force One to Brazil was James T. Hackett, CEO of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Director of Halliburton Company.
Also,all of Halliburton’s no-bid contracts have been renewed under Obama.
rbosque commented:
It’s the “poor and the vulnerable” that the left has continually screwed for decades. How’s that “war on poverty” going Dems? Poor all gone? Perhaps we have more poor now especially since the left has a penchant for importing more of it. So long as they can take our tax money to give it to them. Nothing says “democracy” than a perpetual dependency class to make sure you remain in power eh?
StrangernFiction commented:
“civic religion” = putting your faith in The Chocolate Jesus
Jaggededge commented:
When the President visited Venezuela guess who was on the flight with him? A member of Halliburton!!
Jaggededge commented:
Jaggededge……. My mistake…Halilibuton rep was with Obama on his most recent trip to Latin America and NOT Venezuela.