The Bush Doctrine as endorsed by Obama

Source: Yahoo The Associated Press 8/17/09

"He said U.S. troops are working to secure polling places so the elections can go forward and Afghans can choose their own future.
Attaining that peaceful future "will not be quick, nor easy," Obama said.
He said the United States still has a deep interest in the long-term outcome. "So this is not only a war worth fighting. ... This is fundamental to the defense of our people," he said.
He told the veterans that the U.S. didn't choose to fight in Afghanistan but was forced to invade that country to stop future Sept. 11-style attacks." (emphasis added)

So President Obama embraces the Bush Doctrine. Not surprising that he assumes this doctrine to be his and doesn't cite Bush as the originator of it.

Where are the main stream media press on this?

Pelosi is ruunning the country

President Obama talks a lot about “his health care plan”. Ok –well where is that plan? So far what we have is the House bill plus about five versions of a plan in the Senate. So where is Obama’s plan as manifested in a bill?

That’s right. It’s nowhere to be found.

Which brings me to my central point – Nancy Pelosi is running the country. Not President Obama, not Rahm Emanuel, not anyone in the White House.

Nancy Pelosi is the puppet-master and President Obama, the White House staff and Harry Reid are the puppets.

In some ways, it’s an effective strategy. It gives Obama a Teflon coating to his overall strategy. He can sit back, take credit for the part of the bills he likes and distance himself from those parts he doesn’t like. The defective aspect of the strategy is that he cedes control to Nancy Pelosi.

It’s the House bill that’s being debated now and that’s the bill being excoriated by much of the country. So while Pelosi doesn’t care if she’s liked or not, President Obama does care if he’s liked. But that is proving harder by the puppet on a string.