Barack Obama owes a lot to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Back in 2004, this group revealed more truth than they intended to. The problem with American discourse today is that we have a large segment of Americans who are living in the past.
America can’t solve its present problems, let alone address the challenges of the future, when its rhetoric is stuck back in the 1960s. A generation that’s still stuck Vietnam is unqualified to lead us home from Iraq.
What’s needed is a new generation of leadership. Experience, while beneficial, becomes a liability when it means trying to solve problems with the same old methods that never worked before. Not only is Obama from the post-baby boom generation, but he’s left handed, a trait often associated with creative and innovative ways of problem solving.
In a YouTube video from a group called MyFox that I assume is affiliated with Fox News, a reporter attacked a young Cuban Obama supporter. The title of the video was “Obama Supporter, Che Guevara Shill”, though I doubt the woman, let alone the typical YouTube viewer, was old enough to remember Argentinean revolutionary Che Guevara.
Hello! The Cold War is over. I’m 49. I’m not even old enough to remember the Cuban missile crisis. CSU students in my classes can’t understand why America is the only nation in the world whose citizens don’t have the freedom to travel to Cuba.
In a speech before the Israeli Parliament, George W. Bush accused those like Obama who want to sit down with Middle Eastern leaders of being appeasers like Neville Chamberlain. But Bush has plenty of his own appeasers. Fox News is the Monica Lewinski of journalism, always ready to provide lip service to the president.
Diplomacy is not appeasement. Diplomacy was practiced by U.S. presidents like Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. I understand that, for all his tough talk, President Bush is too timid to sit down at a table with his enemies, though I can’t understand why John McCain is. Diplomacy is one element of America’s past that’s worth embracing.
America can’t solve its present problems, let alone address the challenges of the future, when its rhetoric is stuck back in the 1960s. A generation that’s still stuck Vietnam is unqualified to lead us home from Iraq.
What’s needed is a new generation of leadership. Experience, while beneficial, becomes a liability when it means trying to solve problems with the same old methods that never worked before. Not only is Obama from the post-baby boom generation, but he’s left handed, a trait often associated with creative and innovative ways of problem solving.
In a YouTube video from a group called MyFox that I assume is affiliated with Fox News, a reporter attacked a young Cuban Obama supporter. The title of the video was “Obama Supporter, Che Guevara Shill”, though I doubt the woman, let alone the typical YouTube viewer, was old enough to remember Argentinean revolutionary Che Guevara.
Hello! The Cold War is over. I’m 49. I’m not even old enough to remember the Cuban missile crisis. CSU students in my classes can’t understand why America is the only nation in the world whose citizens don’t have the freedom to travel to Cuba.
In a speech before the Israeli Parliament, George W. Bush accused those like Obama who want to sit down with Middle Eastern leaders of being appeasers like Neville Chamberlain. But Bush has plenty of his own appeasers. Fox News is the Monica Lewinski of journalism, always ready to provide lip service to the president.
Diplomacy is not appeasement. Diplomacy was practiced by U.S. presidents like Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. I understand that, for all his tough talk, President Bush is too timid to sit down at a table with his enemies, though I can’t understand why John McCain is. Diplomacy is one element of America’s past that’s worth embracing.
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