Mentioned last week that Wick fell out of love with Obama. Andrew Sullivan, he of The Dish on the Daily Beast, might also be called an “Obamacon.” Â He’s still got a little thing for the president:
I’m as dismayed as Wick on Afghanistan, state secrets, Gitmo, and the failure to lead on the debt. But I think he exaggerates.
If McCain or Clinton had been in office, I think we would have already bombed Iran and invaded Libya with ground troops. As for the fiscally ruinous policies, surely we have to make an exception for the biggest downturn since the 1930s. It is one thing to ramp up spending on war and entitlements when you are not in a depression, it’s another to back a stimulus to prevent the bottom falling out of the entire world economy.
I would have been more enthusiastic about Obama’s foreign policy if he hadn’t been trounced by the Bibi faction in Washington, hadn’t completely gone wobbly on Libya, and hadn’t capitulated to Rahm on fear of terrorism. But compared with McCain? We are very lucky to have a calm hand at the top.
