Barack Obama Has 300 Foreign Policy Advisers To Tell Him What To Think About World Events
I knew his campaign was bloated, but this is ridiculous:
WASHINGTON — Every day around 8 a.m., foreign policy aides at Senator Barack Obama’s Chicago campaign headquarters send him two e-mails: a briefing on major world developments over the previous 24 hours and a set of questions, accompanied by suggested answers, that the candidate is likely to be asked about international relations during the day.
One recent Q. & A. asked, for example, whether Mr. Obama supported the decision by Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to include a timetable for American troop withdrawal in any new security agreements with the United States. The answer, provided to Mr. Obama with bullet points, was yes — or “a genuine opportunity,” as he put it in a speech on Iraq this week.
Behind the e-mail messages is a tight-knit group of aides supported by a huge 300-person foreign policy campaign bureaucracy, organized like a mini State Department, to assist a candidate whose limited national security experience remains a concern to many voters.
One of the left’s most popular meme’s about President Bush is the idea that he’s just a talking puppet. The not-so-bright public face of his adviser’s. Well note that Obama apparently gets emails from this gigantic campaign bureaucracy telling him whether or not he supports certain world developments.
Not exactly what you expect from a leader, no? I mean, shouldn’t the advisers provide advice and information so that the leader can decide for himself whether or not he supports something? Do we really want a leader who doesn’t make up his own mind but rather relies on a support staff of hundreds to grind out his decisions for him?
If you could even call such a person a “leader” to begin with.
Regardless, you’d think Obama would take a clue from the old “too many cooks in the kitchen” adage. But then, when you’re a candidate with a thin resume and little more than pretty-but-vague rhetoric that aspires to be all things to all people you need a vast network of bureaucrats to tell you how to think.
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