While almost everyone in this country wants the neo’s (who put out so much propaganda on Iraq..and on Israel) out on their asses and marginalized..Obama has dinner with them and in doing so elevates their importance.

If this was Obama being slick…it was too slick by half.

Lao Tzu? Guy was an idiot, obviously. ;)

one or two good ideas — we still use ‘force protection’ which is a derivative of one of Tzu’s best ideas

BTW, did Obama agree to meet the Crazies without setting preconditions?

Is Obama cunning…in playing the neo’s?

Or is he one of those..he who tries to please everyone, pleases no one?

Or does he actually share some of their ideology?

Or does he want to prove the dems are as tough on security as the chickenhawks?

Or is he counting on his personality and bipartianship to overwhelm the neo’s and congress?

All I know is he has a 56 pick-up-sticks adm so far and if he listens to them all equally we will have policies that make the Three Faces of Eve multiple personality look normal.

We will see. So far I don’t like what I see. What I see so far is a guy who wanted to be president but has no actual concrete policy ideas of his own, just a vague wish list, and is unsure of himself and thinks he needs old hands to guide him. Unfortunately most of his old hands are the same people who helped put us where we are now.

it was ultimately an exercise in pacifying the DC chattering class who have shown they are willing to rip into a new President like a pack of wild hyenas if obeisance is not paid to them.

they will rip a democratic president, not a republican one