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NYT‘s Thomas Friedman Gives Obama High Marks For ‘Fulfilling Bush’s Foreign Policy’

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The New York TimesThomas Friedman told The McLaughlin Group host John McLaughlin that he gives President Barack Obama high marks… for following through on a certain previous president’s foreign policy plans.

Can you guess whose?

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Said Friedman:

I’d give Obama high marks for fulfilling Bush’s foreign policy. I think he’s been very good at executing Bush’s foreign policy, particularly the war on terrorism. Been very focused. He’s I think brought power to bear in a very smart way. He’s gotten the people he needed getting. In terms of his own foreign policy, I’d agree with Mort. I think it’s TK. I think the issues that he’s taking on himself whether it was Arab-Israel diplomacy, or building a different relationship with China, still to be determined. I think the key thing here is leverage.

Have a look at Friedman’s comments, via PBS:

h/t NewsBusters

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  • Anonymous

    Well, the only policy I know of that Obama stuck to was Iraq… what was the others?

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I’m so glad Barry followed the plans Bush implemented – God knows he had none of his own.

  • Anonymous

    I can’t believe people are still putting Mr. FriedmanUnit on T.V. as any type of expert.

  • Anonymous

    You mean like Killing Osama? 

  • Kid Dynamite

    Tommy has finally reached his level on the McLaughlin Group.

  • Anonymous

    But I thought Bush and Cheney were morons and evil because of their domestic and foreign policy?? Apparently the left has once again shamefully admitted that the policies were not what mattered, but rather who implemented them.

    To the left, Bush/Cheney were war mongers, morons, infringing on civil liberties, inhumane etc..

    But now Obama is smart, decisive, wise for killing without due process, right for ignoring congress on US military intervention etc…

    LOL…Liberals are lunatics

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Checkmate!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Obama is apparently kicking ass on the War on Terrorism!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I think we could all agree that what Bush failed to accomplish… Obama has succeeded!!

  • proud2teabagu

    Idiot

  • proud2teabagu

    Not closing Gitmo. Checkmate? You idiot.

  • Anonymous

    Yes… I support his foreign policy very much. Hillary has turned out to be an excellent choice.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Republicons don’t want Gitmo closed, so you’re actually complaining about something you don’t want to see happen!!

    Double checkmate!!

  • SYSPROG

    why yes…because when you start crap in the Mid-East the next president and oh yes, he’s a DEMOCRAT should just walk away.  JHC your head would have exploded.  It’s so nice that you can try to have it both ways.  What a jerk.

  • Anonymous

    Fulfilling Bush’s foreign policy is about the only thing that Obama has done right.  It’s sort of like painting by the numbers.  If he has to think for himself he fails.

  • Anonymous

    Now he’s pulling out of Iraq, against the wishes of his military commanders, purely for political reasons.  He wants to find a way to keep his job.  He’ll do anything to maintain Michell’s large staff of beauticians.  It’s a giant task, and tax payers need to subsidize his efforts.

  • Anonymous

    I second that!

  • Anonymous

    You sound so silly.

    Obama he did not stop the Patriot Act or merely ”continue it”, he “expanded it” to include monitoring all electronic communication (skype,facebook,twitter,blackberry, email,and everything that has to do with the internet). Maybe you only recently started following politics , but Bush has been called an evil dictator since 10 years ago when the law was implimented, and there was huge outcry about Bush infringing on civil liberties. The ACLU challenged the DOJ, while every left-wing lunatic fringe like Michael Moore attacked Bush’s administration. But when Obama took office, the patriot act was no longered considered a threat to civil liberties and he actually retained and EXPANDED it without any outrage, meanwhile Obama had TOTAL control of the White House, Senate, and House of Rep, for 2+ years, so you cant even make a lame excuse about walking away; he would stop it instantly if thought Bush did the wrong thing but he didn’t.

    Bush was also called evil for keeping prisoners in Guantanamo and running CIA secret prisons, but frankly both of these are still operating and you dont hear any outrage. Obama even signed executive order to close it less than 48 hours after taking office, and he would close it if he wanted to because he has the power to do it.

    Seriously I cannot continue to list all the things Obama campaigned about and ridiculed Bush as if he was a moron for his policies, yet after taking office he continued those same policies he made fun of and criticized.

    You left-wing lunatics sometimes dont realize how funny and silly you sound with your illogical arguments, and that’s why I think most of you here are quite young folks. When you are asking if I think Obama should have just walked away, I can clearly see that you only recently started following politics in the past 2 or 3 years. You wouldn’t say that if you were following since the Reagan administration or earlier.

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