Former Obama advisor: Our foreign policy is a mess — especially in the Middle East

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• We have a foreign policy in the middle east? I thought Obama just threw shit against the wall to see what would stick and that would be our foreign policy of the day...On a related note too bad the Mooselimb brotherhood can't vote, they would be a solid lock for Obama.

  • Who said the other day that the FInns really like him? And with a foreign entity counting the votes, who knows where they (the votes) will come from.

    • With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work.

      Vice President Joseph Biden heralded the Energy Department's $529 million loan to the start-up electric car company called Fisker as a bright new path to thousands of American manufacturing jobs. But two years after the loan was announced, the company's manufacturing jobs are still limited to the assembly of the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car in Finland.

      When asked directly by ABC News if taxpayers should worry about the more than $500 million in federal funds on the line, he was emphatic: "No, I don't think they need to worry about it," Fisker said. When asked if Fisker might be the next Solyndra, he said, "Absolutely not."

      another source:

      Indeed, the very idea of sustainability permeates Fisker’s business plan, which is backed by venture capitalists and government agencies. On the heels of the low-volume, $100,000 Karma, there will be a more affordable car, the Nina, also built around earth-friendly technology. The hope is that these two plug-in hybrids will give Fisker global reach as a viable carmaking enterprise.

      100K
      for a car
      wtf?

      • I have seen this plan before. I really love fiskar scissors, but it is a long way from scissors to electric cars. And with all the car people here claiming they are out of work, why couldn't they find someone in America to build these freaking cars? My town has a huge Toyota tundran plant nad they had to fight off applicants to work there. Of course, Texas is a right to work state. . . .

        • "There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle," the car company's founder and namesake told ABC News. "They don't exist here."

          if they don't exist here, then how'd they get the loan in the first place?

          something stinks imo. granted i'm not smart in areas regarding loans, financing, automotive engineering etc. etc. but instinct, my gut, says it smells worse than moochelle's armpits after a day of power shopping in venice.

• Brooks missed the most important step: 0) Get a new president.

  Always happy to help.

  • @perlcat, can I bug you with a tech question on your day off? Should be easy I just don't know the answer.

    • Sure! glad to help.

      • And I still appreciate you going out of your way to help. Fighting the machine still, Windows doesn't wanna let me do it. I'll figure it out (I think it's a guy thing, "I can fix this!")

        • And I know you travel and are busy, but now I'm pissed, Windows won't let me uninstall Office & Money, I want the 400 or so mb of space. Is there a go around? Starting to really piss me off ( not at you, more a where'd I leave that hammer)

        • What is the error message you're getting when you try the uninstall?

          Try to reboot, press f8 on the keyboard while it is rebooting until you get into 'safe mode', then try uninstalling it. May have to futz around a bit to do it, as timing is important to getting in there.

        • And I know you were asking for specifics, was frustrated and couldn't remember, going to re-startsafe now, if it doesn't work this time I'll note the message so you can help me beat the beast.

          (about that desk-top... nah, it's toast I think)

        • Things that sound bad that aren't: "...you can help me beat the beast".

          heh

        • Oh, and sorry, {_}3, an outrageously $ cup of joe to you too.

        • Error message sounds right, never thought of doing it in safe, makes sense tho, if you can restore ought to be able to kill it there too. thanks. (Just wait, the desk-top one may stump you. Think it's trashed.)

        • With my morning Joe at that, this should not be this hard! T'anx for letting me vent.

  • Like Ron Paul.

    • Ron Paul sucks at foreign policy and could conceivably be worse than Obama (yes, har d to believe, but it could happen!) Since you know less than nothig about EVERYTHING, perhaps you could keep your nose out of the grown up conversations. I'm sure there are cartoons on somewhere.

      • What's wrong with his foreign policy. It's better then sending trillions in aid and financing wars for countries that hate us, or at the very least, could not give two shits about us.

        • Nuclear Iran. Calculate those $s Greedboy™. Game, set and match.

    • TD MO

• History does repeat. We can conclude from the O experiments that appeasement, weakness, groveling, and downright incompetence are not effective foreign policy credentials. Of course, if any of the geniuses on the left paid attention in the history classes they took at Haarrrvahrd, they might have already known this. Stupid is as stupid does.

• It appears that the kool-aid has worn off and now they have realized what a crock of shit they bought into they have remorse. What would be the next best thing for them to do is to go on TV and say the same thing. That way the cow cant run interference for him.

  • Thekool aid hasn't worn off everyone. I STILL hear people saying they will vote for him, that he has done a good job considering the mess Bush the younger left him, that they feel as bad as things are hehas kept them from being worse. I'm telling you, stupid is permanent.

• Obama: "Foreign policy, what foreign policy?" "Ask Jay Carney." "I'm late for my 'Fore'some."

• See why people were disgusted when "Dear Leader" went on his whirlwind bowing and groveling tour? Just about every other world leader, with the exception of Hugo and the hopefully soon to be departed Fidel think he's a spineless smuck.

  • PH, You are not being very kind to spineless schmucks by comparing them to Obama.

  • I'm sure Hugo and Fidel thinks he's a spineless schmuck as well, they're just too close to say it out loud yet.

    • Besides, they LIKE him a spineless shmuck!

    • Speaking of Fidel, I heard earlier he'd just had a massive stroke. Somebody has to have him in a dead pool.

      • Fidel Castro Stroke Reported: Physician Claims Former Cuba Leader 'Very Close To A Neurovegetative State'

        Meanwhile the kenyan continues to survive in a spiritualvegetative state, econovegatative state, and soybean-leadervegetative state.

• Which is why Ron Paul wants to pull out of these pointless foreign wars entirely. We waste trillions on wars that don't benefit us in the slightest.

• This would make a nice opening statement for Romney at next weeks foreign policy debate.