The good news is he does not want to put American boots on the ground to get ISIS.
The bad news is he urged national gun control measures that failed in California, anyway.
He continues an excessive and false exculpation of Islam and is too resistant to measures targeted at Muslims, per se, all of them or some of them, reminding me of the mindset that insisted that airport passenger frisks examine Sweedish grannies flying to Chicago from Minneapolis as closely as young male Middle Easterners flying to Chicago from Cairo.
His continued insistence on getting rid of Assad may make as big a mess of Syria as democracy exporting made of Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
And his rhetoric supports rather than corrects the foolish errors that the problem is ISIS in particular rather than global Jihad, that America can somehow be made entirely proof against Muslim violence, and that America can in the foreseeable future finally stop engaging Jihad in a military fashion altogether.
All the same, he is not as bad as Hillary and all the Republicans are worse than her, in net, on the whole issue of Muslim troublemaking.
He is not the man he was in 2008, nor does he talk to America as he did then.
Nowadays, he sounds like a disappointed professor, unhappy his students mostly don't seem to see everything, or even many things, his way.
I am very unhappy with O, truth to tell, though he is still clearly the best of a bad lot.
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