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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Current Events Quiz: Understanding President Obama's Syria Speech [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)There IS a difference, and people who minimize and pretend that they are all the same perhaps don't appreciate the basic differences between the parties when it comes to essential beliefs about caring for people, education, voting rights, the social safety net, etc.
If Obama=Bush, you wouldn't be crabbing about vague sentiments in this thread. You'd be crabbing about the boots that were already on the ground in Syria, the missiles that had already flown, the carriers that were clustered in the Med launching a/c around the clock, the recalls to active duty that all the demobbed servicemembers were receiving in the mail (never mind that Obama drawdown, now, War Without End, Amen!) and the body bags coming home. No one would have asked Congress for shit, no one would have been interested in a diplomatic outcome (and I notice that many people here, griping about POTUS, failed to notice that USA has been after a diplomatic solution for Syria for OVER two years)--it would have been a very different situation if Chimpy was running the show.
Obama is letting Putin and Syria and every other asshole know that we haven't lost our moral core--we have a leadership role in the world, like it or not, and part of that includes speaking up when people slaughter little kids in their beds. We want these matters to be resolved diplomatically, but when someone doesn't listen to reason, we'll break his toys until he comes to his senses.