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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (19876)	9/28/2009 5:59:51 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

I'm not concerned what "view" you or anybody else holds of me. Do you think these boards meet anything in the real world? Far too much groupthink exercised here. And if you want to discuss Afghanistan, let's do it in detail. Are you speaking about the response to the elections? To the recent intelligence report? To the troop requests by our military leaders? What exactly do you classify as "ludicrous handling"? Did you see Gates and the crew on the talk shows yesterday? Do you agree with Gates assessment of the situation?

To: Bill who wrote (19876)	9/28/2009 6:08:56 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 103300

Do you agree with this? ____________________________________ Folks in Massachusetts still favor RomneyCare A joint poll conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and The Boston Globe finds residents of Massachusetts relatively pleased with the results of former Governor Mitt Romney's health care plan. Public support for Massachusetts’ closely watched health insurance overhaul has slipped over the past year, a new poll indicates, but residents still support the path-breaking 2006 law by a 2-to-1 ratio.... 59 percent of those surveyed said they favored the state’s multimillion-dollar insurance initiative. A full 79% wanted the law to continue, although there are concerns about the plan's rising costs. .... residents were nearly evenly split over whether Massachusetts could afford to continue with the law as it stands: 43 percent said the state could not, and 40 percent said it could. Before the reform took effect, 90% of Massachusetts residents had health coverage, and now a national-best 97% do. gop12.com

To: Bill who wrote (19876)	9/28/2009 6:55:32 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

Do you agree with this? _________________________________ No Time For Nation-Building Posted by Michael Cohen Over at FP's Af-Pak channel, I offer a few thoughts on the McChrystal review and recommend a new strategic course for the US mission in Afghanistan: The debate over troop levels is a distraction from the real problem in Afghanistan -- a dubious counterinsurgency strategy that is based on faulty assumptions and unrealistic expectations of what can be achieved. McChrystal's leaked review only provides more evidence of the desperate need for a new course in Afghanistan. . . . Instead, the president should demand his commander go back to the original objective for the mission -- disrupting, defeating, and dismantling al Qaeda. This means discarding the dream of nation-building in Afghanistan and focusing instead on targeting al Qaeda in Pakistan (a process already occurring through successful drone attacks on terrorist leaders there) and moving toward a more realistic containment approach of the Taliban in Afghanistan. democracyarsenal.org