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I am certain that your original post could not have been more sappy than this hiney-kisser to Obama. Mumbai is not a test of America's latest Empty Suit, because we still only have one president at a time. Mumbai is probably somehow tied to the folly in Kashmir, and I seriously doubt that it's really much of a 'test' for the leadership of a man whose eyes didn't radiate much in the way of contented confidence after he saw the classified intelligence and national security reports that he made his specious campaign promises in ignorance of. The real test will come, if and when he finally figures out that we can't be all things to all people and nations, and reins in our bloated and overburdened foriegn policy machine to the point that Monroe would smile.
He's not got it in him, and Mumbai is probably a precursor to something convenient, and on American soil. Thus, I am cheered only by the fact that I live in a state with enlightened gun laws--because Barack Obama will not be there to protect me and mine frompeople bent on harming Americans since Clinton started his cruise missle diplomacy.
