Obama and buyer’s remorse
I did a google search for Obama+”buyer’s remorse” for the last week and came up with 500 entries. Let’s hope.
Ross Remarks on Middle East Could Signal Trouble Ahead for Obama
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But some recent comments by one of his senior foreign-policy aides, former State Department Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross, hint that many of these Jewish voters could eventually face buyer’s remorse about voting for Obama. In a little-noticed interview with the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz published October 28th, Ross suggests that the United States should support stepped-up diplomatic efforts to engage Tehran, Damascus and the shaky Palestinian Authority in an effort to achieve “peace.” Taken together with some of Obama’s controversial comments during the campaign, Ross’s remarks suggest that Washington and Jerusalem could face a tumultuous four years – especially if Israeli voters elect peace-process skeptic Benjamin Netanyahu when they go to the polls in February.
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By JOHN WALSH, COUNTERPUNCH
In the latest issue of The Nation, an “open letter” appears in which the signatories position themselves as abject supplicants to Obama, begging him to revert to his earlier stances in his primary campaign.
Thus the letter states: “Since your historic victory in the primary, there have been troubling signs that you are moving away from the core commitments shared by many who have supported your campaign, toward a more cautious and centrist stance……” Several paragraphs later, the letter finally gets around to mentioning “withdrawal from Iraq on a fixed timetable” as one of the positions that Obama “embraced” during the primary. [..]
Anti war groups showing buyers remorse with Obama
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Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama’s national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues.
