Presidential Honesty

December 11, 2009 - byGary Pearce
President Obama did something remarkable for a President in his speech to America about Afghanistan and in his Nobel Peace Prize speech.
 
He told the truth about war.
 
Bush misled us into Iraq. Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon misled and lied us into Vietnam. Even the sainted FDR misled Americans before WWII. (“Your boys will not be sent to fight foreign wars.”)
 
Like his policy in Afghanistan or not – and I don’t – Obama shot straight with Americans. He essentially said we have no good choices – and he judged this the least bad choice.
 
Then he had the courage to tell a bunch of Europeans what they didn’t war to hear: Wars are sometimes necessary.
 
We’re not used to that kind of honesty from the Oval Office.
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Presidential Honesty

December 11, 2009/Gary Pearce
President Obama did something remarkable for a President in his speech to America about Afghanistan and in his Nobel Peace Prize speech.
 
He told the truth about war.
 
Bush misled us into Iraq. Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon misled and lied us into Vietnam. Even the sainted FDR misled Americans before WWII. (“Your boys will not be sent to fight foreign wars.”)
 
Like his policy in Afghanistan or not – and I don’t – Obama shot straight with Americans. He essentially said we have no good choices – and he judged this the least bad choice.
 
Then he had the courage to tell a bunch of Europeans what they didn’t war to hear: Wars are sometimes necessary.
 
We’re not used to that kind of honesty from the Oval Office.
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