Transformation Complete
Obama = Bush on Iraq. Bush/Obama SecDef Gates explains. NYT:
When asked specifically if he considered himself “at odds” with Mr. Obama on a withdrawal timetable, the secretary replied, “I think that I would subscribe to what the president-elect said yesterday in Chicago.”
“He repeated his desire to try and get our combat forces out within 16 months,” Mr. Gates acknowledged. “But he also said that he wanted to have a responsible drawdown, and he also said that he was prepared to listen to his commanders. So I think that that’s exactly the position a president-elect should be in.”
Now, he just needs to get on board re the mullahs, also, stop trying to drum up war between India and Pakistan, and everything’s good.
In current, actual leadership, Rice urges Pakistan to get on with it. via Yahoo News.
In the rearview, via Hot Air, Fox’s Chris Wallace lectures “Frost/Nixon” filmmaker Ron Howard on history. Bush, Nixon, different:
“Richard Nixon’s crimes were committed purely in the interest of his own political gain,” Mr. Wallace told Mr. Howard before an audience of a few hundred after viewing the filmmaker’s new film, “Frost/Nixon,” which is about the only U.S. president to resign from office.
“I think to compare what Nixon did, and the abuses of power for pure political self-preservation, to George W. Bush trying to protect this country — even if you disagree with rendition or waterboarding — it seems to me is both a gross misreading of history both then and now,” Mr. Wallace said.
Wallace’s remarks followed these by Howard and presidential historian Robert Dallek:
Mr. Howard was the first to comment about the film’s connection to Mr. Bush, saying that he had told friends in 1977 that an abuse of power similar to Mr. Nixon’s would “never happen again.”
“So that led to some frustrations that I’ve experienced over the last few years,” said Mr. Howard, an Oscar-winning director.
Mr. Dallek followed Mr. Howard’s comments.
“It’s just as Ron says. We’ve been, back in the past eight years, through this anguish about an imperial presidency,” he said. “This has, I think, in a sense, made this film and the play so timely, and why it’s really commanding so much attention.”
It’ll be interesting what they have to say after Obama sets up a new special court system for jihadis or, barring that, leaves them to rot in Guantanamo. And as he continues the war policies of the hated Crusader regime of Chimpy McHitlerburton. Then there’s that weird domestic security force.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:00 am on Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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December 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
That is a shame. I kind of liked Ron Howard’s films. Now he is just on more Hollywood idiot I have to boycott.
BTW, what exactly have any of these people suffered in the last 8 years?
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Terrye: Falling box office receipts, ridicule from their audiences over their cherished, but borrowed, beliefs, incontrovertible proof that they are largely irrelevant to the real world. It’s brutal, I tell you.