more cnn bullshit: The Obama Doctrine: Inarticulate or disengaged?

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Edgartown, Massachusetts (CNN) -- It sounds like advice offered by parents to teenagers on prom night: Don't do stupid stuff. But it also is an important guiding foreign policy principle of the President of the United States.

Ever since the President uttered the phrase during an off-the-record discussion with reporters earlier this year -- the actual words were a bit saltier and later confirmed privately by administration officials -- foreign policy critics have seized on "DDSS" as a crystallization of the Obama Doctrine.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is only the latest critic of the "DDSS" comment, describing the remark in an interview with The Atlantic magazine as too simplistic.

"Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle," she said.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/13/politics/obama-doctrine/index.html?hpt=po_c1

[NightWatcher]

1. the "Obama Doctrine" if there is one has been to clean up shit and put out fires.

Like a parent coming home to find their teenager has thrown a kegger while they were gone.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Then "it's the economy, stupid" is ALSO not an organizing principle.

I have no idea why Hillary latched on to this. It's not the sum of Obama's foreign policy philosophy, and wasn't offered as such.

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3. If some other administration followed "don't do stupid shit"

We wouldn't be having conversation about this now.

Because 70% of Obama's foreign policy effort consists of trying to clean up the stupid shit that the Cheney/Bush crowd did.

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5. +1. n/t

[malaise]

4. CNN?

They are always wrong

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6. hey malaise!!!! and you are always right!