He's tough enough, Ted; he just doesn't take people into the guttersniping arena on trivial, or knee-jerk political, grounds. Why not? Doesn't he want to, you know, win?

Well, he does, but he wants to win at a better game. That's the difference between them in some respects; Hil's claws come out unnecessarily, and it makes her look as though it is winning first with her, and the quality of the game an afterthought.

When you lie down with pigs, you stand up smelling of slops; and when you scrap with rabid badgers at their own level, you look pretty rabid. But the mission of that office is not street fighting. We do not need a President who can jump into any battle that comes along; rather, we need one who tries and succeeds at making battles sublimate into diplomatic evolution and a quest for better solutions, even though willing to put on the gloves when the case is unavoidable.

This is the difference between Pearl Harbor and the invasion of Iraq.
I suspect it is also the difference between HRC and BHO.


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