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In reply to the discussion: Sensible Woodchucks understand drone warfare. [View all]I think I'm supporting the president's position, or at least taking a perspective of understanding on it.
on edit - looking at how that might have been misunderstood, there was a great deal of talk in the RW camp in 98-99 about how a "technocrat" was not who we needed for a president, as they hated Clinton's competence as much as any other aspect. They wanted a regular guy; he didn't even have to know what was going on or be qualified, as long as he understood who he worked for (corporate profits, basically). And the RW media hammered on the government incompetence, hammered on corruption, and hammered on the "government is the problem" memes so much that people bought the idea you could elect any schmuck and we'd all be fine, as long as he left business interests alone. Which is how we got 8 years of * incompetence in the WH, and eventually one of the stupidest congresses in history.
If there is something that makes people take government seriously (and the state and congressional level are most important currently), something that makes people sit up and deliberately elect people who are competent and serious about good government, then that's a good thing.