http://www.democracyandsociety.com/blog/2011/03/28/obama-our-conflict-in-libya/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obama-our-conflict-in-libya Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:59:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.democracyandsociety.com/blog/2011/03/28/obama-our-conflict-in-libya/comment-page-1/#comment-5316 Imara Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:52:17 +0000 http://www.democracyandsociety.com/blog/?p=5427#comment-5316 I don’t really agree that said commentary should have made the speech useless. The economic woes and ongoing conflicts left by the Bush administration have been a Democratic party talking point for pretty much the whole of Obama’s presidency, and I don’t know that the talking point has had much negative impact overall. Are they annoying? Definitely. Do they give political pundits fodder to rage over? Obviously. But we’ve definitely got something of a short memory as a nation, so perhaps these reminders are useful even if they ring at this point as future campaign trail rhetoric.

]]> http://www.democracyandsociety.com/blog/2011/03/28/obama-our-conflict-in-libya/comment-page-1/#comment-5196 Chrystal Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:17:53 +0000 http://www.democracyandsociety.com/blog/?p=5427#comment-5196 Obama’s speech was probably useless, because he brought up Iraq a couple of times and just had to slam W. Bush for the costs….

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