I stretched nothing. You said it and I responded to it. People made parallels on more than a comparison of oration and I cited specific characteristics and the Senator's words or actions.
It's not obvious what he was referencing.
The only
obvious thing about the comment is it's out of place and the Obama Campaign did not wish to clarify the statement he made. While the statement is made while mentioning reopening foreign consulates and doubling the Peace Corps, the comment
simply doesn't make since with it.
It seems to reference the costs associated with reopening consulates and doubling the Peace Corps, but that wouldnt come close to matching what we spend at the Pentagon. The phrasing of it a civilian national security force sounds much more like a quasi-military organization operating within the US under the control of the federal government.
So it must be taken in full context of what the Senator talked about. The Senator discussed increasing our Military and calling young people to join the armed forces in addition to current and new organizations he wishes to form such as an Energy Corp, an Expanded AmeriCorp with new focuses and a Civilian National Security Force.
We have always been faced with energy crisis, unemployment, housing problems and security internally and externally. I believe Bush massively exacerbated all the problems with his terrible policies. Just like after Reagan and Bush the first, Clinton had to clean up after them with programs that get the economy going in the right direction and supports the middle class instead of depleating money out the Nation which defeats ourselves. This is
not a new concept. This is a Democratic concept. Obama is
not the great knower of The Way.
During the Clinton administration we as a nation had a surplus and experienced one of the longest periods of prosperity this nation has known. Bill Clinton created AmeriCorp. Bill Clinton created the Hope Credit. These are programs that Obama wants to jump on the bandwagon to expand. In other words, this is nothing new. The only thing new is his "Civilian National Security Force." And if what you
speculate is true, then all he did was take ideas already in place and call it something else perusual and/or worst he meant something else he has yet to explain.
If you drill down on specifics...Obama has no idea how to solve the actual individual outstanding problems. Our borders? The Fence? Immigration? He can't take a complete position until after the election, NAFTA again switch, Gun Control Switch, Welfare, Switch. Education and Social Programs, Obama can promise to spend money but not talk about how to specifically pay for it. And where there are numbers, Obama increases the deficit not reduces it. I trust Sen. Hillary Clinton to accomplish what we need more than someone like Obama who is so inexperienced and hasn't been there before.
No, I don't know...what you really mean here.
I know you did. You posted a thread and invited responses to your statement. Many people do not agree with you. Outside of what you asserted there are those who see parallels and I just posted some examples.