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In reply to the discussion: Obama's staff is rewriting his speech because of what happened today. That's how planned this was [View all]Skidmore
(37,364 posts)15. Honestly don't know how to respond to such
naivete. In what world does anyone live where situations involving many players do not require some adjustment of course? The only thing your post suggests to me is that you are engaging in a certain rigidity of thinking and are trying to force the flow of events to fit your script. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that appears to prevail DU these days, not everyone in the world is privy too or involved in the grand conspiracy for world domination and destruction. Putin responded. Hence the rewrite. The speech will be adjusted to accommodate new information as events unfold.
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Obama's staff is rewriting his speech because of what happened today. That's how planned this was [View all]
dkf
Sep 2013
OP
LOL, keep trying to spin it your way. Most of us know what really happened! n-t
Logical
Sep 2013
#61
The Game, the Go board, indeed, is much larger. Putin's judo, karate, intelligence-
Ghost Dog
Sep 2013
#12
If Kerry's statement was a trial balloon, which I think, how would he have known
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#14
Obama is fortunate to have found an exit strategy for his hugely unpopular Syria strike.
Comrade Grumpy
Sep 2013
#37
In these situations, keep a bunch of possibilities going, hope one breaks your way, and jump on it.
Hoyt
Sep 2013
#26
It's really, really important to you that Obama not take any credit for this, right?
randome
Sep 2013
#28
I give him credit for rolling with it. But I'm not going to credit him for something anyone
dkf
Sep 2013
#31
It should be obvious to you that Kerry didn't mean to make a proposal that would stop the bombing.
dkf
Sep 2013
#34
Of course it will linger. Even when Saddam got rid of WMD it lingered. Ask Qaddafi how well
dkf
Sep 2013
#40
I'll give him credit if he can resist the impulse to sneak excuses for a war into the agreement
kenny blankenship
Sep 2013
#54
I haven't heard anyone imply it was "planned" They said it was thought of and discussed
FedUpWithIt All
Sep 2013
#30
Oh god, now you are spamming threads with the same cliche ass copy/paste sentence.
phleshdef
Sep 2013
#44
Only conservatives think in terms of black and white. No nuance. No flexibility. No reason...
Liberal_Stalwart71
Sep 2013
#48
His actions lead to this reaction from Russia and Syria, you sound disappointed (nt)
The Straight Story
Sep 2013
#51