Monday, May 26, 2008

O'isms

clipped from hotair.com
Barack Obama continues his quest in demonstrating just how feckless he can be on foreign policy.

First off, I hate to correct a man who ran the Harvard Law Review on vocabulary, but the proper word is fomentation, not fermentation, unless one wants to start marketing Anti-American Sentiment Beer. Imagine if George Bush had used fermentation in such a context. The media would have a field day pointing out that Bush once belonged to a fraternity! And that he had a drinking problem! It would end up at Slate’s “Bushisms” column within hours.

The ferment/foment issue is just a gaffe, although one Obama should correct soon. The policy statements aren’t gaffes but an example of the confusion and weakness inherent in Obama’s foreign policy. He wants to talk to terrorist sponsors while pretending to be tough on terrorism — and when the contradiction gets pointed out, he shifts in favor of defending the terrorist sponsors, insisting on some Perry Mason level of proof
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