Do you think this makes us any safer? What would Sean Hannity say?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Definitely makes the world safer; good for OBama, good for America, good for the Mideast, good for the planet. Therefore, Hannity is most assuredly po’ed since he is most happy when things are most dark. Tough luck, Sean, the world seems a much better place now that we have a mature and sensitive human being in the White House.
and the poll numbers also show what seems to be ignored here in the USA: that the President does not equal the country.
Good to see a more favorable view of Obama than of Bush (looks like we need to work on a couple places still), but the views of the United States as a nation are still considerably less favorable.
The RW noise machine will see Obama’s numbers, note they’re higher than Shrub’s and jump all over that as proof that he’s ‘One of the brothas’….
It sure beats the hell out of “Bring it on!”
Wanda Sykes re: Sean Hannity & Torture:
“I can break Sean Hannity just by giving him a middle seat in coach.”
How favorably is he/us viewed in Pakistan?
Safe from what?
The boogyman that the Republicans are always trotting out.
Republicans are always afraid of scary things in the closet and under the bed.
And scary things in bed.
All other things being equal, Obama’s favorability rating in the Islamic world definitely makes it harder for extremists to demonize us, so yes, it makes us safer. Provided it lasts and is followed by concrete policy reforms visible to the inhabitants of the Middle East, it also makes it harder for the dictators of mukhabarat states to blame all of their problems on the US, and so provides a leg up for reformists — which is definitely an improvement over the way Bush’s policies pulled the rug out from under Khatami’s reform faction in Iran.
As for Hannity and his fellow travelers, authoritarian personality types never feel safe in the absence of a leader modeled after their own abusive fathers. The irony, of course, is that no one on the right need fear the government the way the left did when the right was in power. An exception probably can, and should, be made for the genuine whackos on the secessionist/militia fringe, but it is unlikely that the Obama DoJ will direct the FBI to assemble dossiers on rightists who do nothing more than talk and wave teabags.
Winning hearts and minds the world over-
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/10-6