Word: clintonism
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President Barack Obama isn't as great as he thinks he is. To be fair, neither were Presidents Bush or Clinton - or Washington or Lincoln, for that matter. The same can be said for every general who ever commanded an army or every boss who ever ran an office. The fact is, if there's one thing that defines people in powerful positions, it's that they overestimate what they can do with that power...
...default swaps," but when you work on Wall Street and people call you a "master of the universe," you think you can make the things pay off. Even nonpartisans would agree that George W. Bush waded into the Iraq mess with more certainty than strategy. And Bill and Hillary Clinton might actually have achieved health-care reform if they had tried negotiating with the opposition instead of steamrolling it. (See George W. Bush's biggest economic mistakes...
...North launches what it terms a "satellite intended for peaceful purposes" - in truth, a long-range missile capable of reaching Alaska - it will be the North's most provocative act since it tested a nuke in the autumn of 2006. Bosworth and, earlier, his boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have already beseeched the Chinese to intervene with the North, and diplomats in Seoul say that Beijing has done so. If Pyongyang ignores that counsel, says Victor Cha, former director of Asian affairs on President Geroge W. Bush's National Security Council, the Obama Administration will face two key choices...
...possibility of conflict with North Korea is remote to nonexistent. It has fired missiles before and threatened war on many occasions. Even Kim knows that such a war would be disastrous for his nation, which barely functions economically even in peacetime. Clinton and the state department must let North Korea know that we are sick of playing the “cry wolf” game. Our military exercises will continue, and the government in Pyongyang can either grow up, or issue another statement to deaf ears. For now, North Korea has given the world no reason to take...
...that light, the staffing woes look particularly bad. Treasury isn't empty - Ted Truman, a former assistant secretary for international affairs, started last week, and Lee Sachs and Gene Sperling, top officials under Bill Clinton, have been on the job for weeks. But in the midst of an economic crisis, the demands on staff are so great - work frequently goes all night and during weekends - that a lack of bodies and minds more than looks awful: it's irresponsible...