The thinking has already been done. Repeating the process would simply be inefficient.
“Thinking” needs to be qualified.
Perhaps, “processing” is more appropriate. “Digesting”, even more so, considering the end result.
The public thinks the PResident made a mistake by trading for Bergdahl. Veterans are overwhelmingly negative towards the deal:
Your post insinuates a uniformity of opinion that your cite does not support. While it is true that more people think the exchange was a bad idea than otherwise (43% to 34%), with a big chunk uncertain (23%), that hardly supports saying “the public thinks…”.
Nonetheless, I would be remiss if I didn’t congratulate your citation upgrade from Washington Times to RealClear Politics. As sources for tighty righty glurge, it is definitely a positive move, in much the same way that smallpox is an improvement over cholera. We must remember to be positive and affirmative as we encourage you as you stumble from the path of political error.
And how many of these were eyewitnesses to the events in question? Now, if you want to insist that facts are something people get to vote on, I’d be more than willing to start a poll to see exactly how low an I.Q. you really have.
I’d like to open the bidding at 75.
You are WAY generous.
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Seems low, actually. After all, adaher is capable of writing coherent and grammatically correct sentences. The problem is that while he has a reasonably decent brain, he turns it off when it comes to politics. Perhaps, like Mrs. Richards, he’s worried about running down the batteries.
Yes, like with GWB, the problem isn’t that he’s stupid, it’s that he’s lazy.
The President is demonstrating his usual class again:
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel – not President Obama – executed the administration’s final call to proceed with the prisoner exchange of five ranking Taliban detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, administration officials told Congress today in a classified briefing today.
“They indicated [it was] Secretary Hagel [who made the final call],” House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon, R-California, told reporters following the briefing Monday evening. “It was the president of the United States that came out [in the Rose Garden] with the Bergdahls and took all the credit and now that there’s been a little pushback he’s moving away from it and it’s Secretary Hagel?”
The buck always stops below him.
Says Buck McKeon, most widely known for receiving a special VIP loan rate from Countrywide Financial.
Why do you bother posting this stuff as if it’s anything more than political blather and spin of the highest order?
Please stop posting Hannity news alerts. It’s pathetic, and getting more and more tiresome.
I’m glad to hear your assurance that no matter what happens in the Bergdahl saga, the President will not try to pin it on an underling.
Your mind truly works in mysterious ways. Like most of your conclusions, I have absolutely no idea how you came to this one.
Did Hagel disagree? Did anyone? The stench of desperation is in the air, as the Pubbies flail about looking for an issue to run on. The ACA isn’t all that popular, sure, but its not like the nation is seething with rage and chomping at the bit to go vote against it. Benghazi? (Yawn). They need a Level One outrage and they need it yesterday.
Objection, your honor! Assumes facts not in evidence.
You dispute that the President is trying to fob this off on Hagel.
I have no idea if he’s trying to do this. The only ‘evidence’ that this is so is an oddly-phrased statement from Buck McKeon. And taking the reporting of your link at face-value, SecDef ‘executed the administration’s final call’, which is exactly how one would expect a prisoner exchange like this to go down – the WH makes the decision, and the SecDef executes it.
If he was trying to “fob this off” on Hagel, why would he be doing it at a congressional briefing where there are no reporters?
And anybody using their brain (a category likely including Obama but definitely excluding adaher) would have realized that once you’ve held a Rose Garden event to make your announcement, it’s a little too late to successfully pass the buck.