[Peace-discuss] Eight years too late...

[C. G. Estabrook]

No -- it's impossible to make a correlation between what's said/done by 
a president -- not even a negative one. They're just skewed.

In 1932 FDR campaigned on a promise of a balanced budget and may well 
have meant it; in 1960 JFK campaigned against a "missile gap" that he 
knew didn't exist; one was a conscious lie and the other just false.

And you know from reading Obama's THE MENDACITY OF HOPE that he 
generally does "a good job of saying nothing while still moving his 
mouth and pen."  That's his charm.  --CGE

Karen Medina wrote:
>> Of course, as with all successful presidential candidates, their
>> platform has zero correlation with what they did in office -- or
>> intended to do.
> 
> So the ideal candidate would be the one that during the campaign says
> nothing or the one with whom we most disagree.
> 
> Obama is doing a good job of saying nothing while still moving his
> mouth and pen.