It would be nice to talk about the differing approaches to policies, but Barack keeps making himself the issue. Narcissism, intentional and not.
First, the padding of his already thin resume. It turns out the ‘consulting house’ job where he had revelation about becoming an organizer was badly inflated in his book, ‘Dreams from my Father’: he was essentially a copyeditor for a newsletter publisher, certainly without a secretary. The guy who writes this is a professed Obama fan, but he no longer trust him with facts:
And yet I’m disappointed. Barack’s story may be true, but many of the facts are not. His larger narrative purpose requires him to embellish his role. I don’t buy it. Just as I can’t be inspired by Steve Jobs now that I know how dishonest he is, I can’t listen uncritically to Barack Obama now that I know he’s willing to bend the facts to his purpose.
And then there’s the report that Obama tried to get the Iraqis to suspend negotiations with the U.S. with the security agreement. If verified (and the sourcing could be better), this is a clear violation of the Logan Act.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but the problem with this scenario is that it seems to be what the current administration wanted. If Obama made these statements they would have been in agreement with what George Bush wanted right?
Dave, what ‘statements’ are you referring to?
If you bring up the Logan Act our government will be apt to ignore it immediately. There are Republicans who have violated the Act and no one has ever done anything about that.
Statements such as we should not draft a new agreement with Iraq but continue for another year under the original guidelines.
Unfortunately, Since he is already a member of the US Senate, he is exempt on this charge. The precedent has already been set when in 1975, Senators John Sparkman and George McGovern visited Cuba. The State Department has already ruled that Senators had the right to engage with foreign governments. If the Logan act had teeth, which it does not, it would require pre-approval by all citizens by the president.
DIGEST OF UNITED STATES PRACTICE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW 1975, p. 750
Let’s find a real issue and stop making the party look like a bunch of idiots.