Obama's "National Security Leaks"

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

What a bunch of disingenuous, dishonest @ssholes.

You shouldn't talk that way about DiFi:

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/artic...ks-3619424.php

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

You shouldn't talk that way about DiFi:

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/artic...ks-3619424.php

You should be smart enough to know that when you have 4 Congresscritters announce something like that, it is all about optics. DiFi is just playing along to show that the Dems are tough on national security issues. It's all kabuki, Whell.

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

You should be smart enough to know that when you have 4 Congresscritters announce something like that, it is all about optics. DiFi is just playing along to show that the Dems are tough on national security issues. It's all kabuki, Whell.

So, in reality, Dems really AREN'T tough on national security?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

So, in reality, Dems really AREN'T tough on national security?

Obama is tougher (or at least smarter and more effective) than Dubya on national security. Yet, the narrative is that the GOP is the party of national security (and family values and fiscal responsibility, among other fictions) and the Dems are always running scared about being labelled soft on national security, despite objective evidence to the contrary. Conventional wisdom and perceptions often drive politics and the parties fight to support the favorable conventional wisdom and dispel the unfavorable, and that's exactly what is happening here (on both sides).