On 8: Sounds like the "crisis" was overblown. I admit, I'm not that educated on it, but again: how does this matter? He delayed a policy by four months. He gave it more money. But the number of viewers affected is something like 2 in 1000. (since the "still unprepared" rate of 1.9 is in only .2% higher of "never plan to convert" rate) I'm sure those 2 elderly pensioners will have real distress over this. But I am skeptical given the aggressive advocacy of AARP that money to get converter boxes for this handful will not be a major horrible crisis. Bush was willing to accept the delay of his baby, the Western Hemisphere Security Initiative. I'm far from convinced he'd have insisted on immediate, as is implementation of the HDTV transition.
(Btw, -_that's_ going to cause real headaches in six weeks. Obama hasn't done a thing about that for fear of being found "soft on terrorism".)
On 9: Did he commit to disengaging from these pointless military actions? no. The amount of military activity is staying the same. The army and marines continue to get closer to breaking (this is the opinion of the PENTAGON and he's ignoring it just like Bush did). He isn't WITHDRAWING from Iraq either. He's reducing forces. http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5910 Besides, the Iraqis demanded the troops be withdrawn. No one's said what happens when the US air force and the 10-20K troops needed to maintain the megabases the US spent billions on are still there in 2012.
Re: Ah, you're missing the point (goes on)
On 8: Sounds like the "crisis" was overblown. I admit, I'm not that educated on it, but again: how does this matter? He delayed a policy by four months. He gave it more money. But the number of viewers affected is something like 2 in 1000. (since the "still unprepared" rate of 1.9 is in only .2% higher of "never plan to convert" rate) I'm sure those 2 elderly pensioners will have real distress over this. But I am skeptical given the aggressive advocacy of AARP that money to get converter boxes for this handful will not be a major horrible crisis. Bush was willing to accept the delay of his baby, the Western Hemisphere Security Initiative. I'm far from convinced he'd have insisted on immediate, as is implementation of the HDTV transition.
(Btw, -_that's_ going to cause real headaches in six weeks. Obama hasn't done a thing about that for fear of being found "soft on terrorism".)
On 9: Did he commit to disengaging from these pointless military actions? no. The amount of military activity is staying the same. The army and marines continue to get closer to breaking (this is the opinion of the PENTAGON and he's ignoring it just like Bush did). He isn't WITHDRAWING from Iraq either. He's reducing forces. http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5910 Besides, the Iraqis demanded the troops be withdrawn. No one's said what happens when the US air force and the 10-20K troops needed to maintain the megabases the US spent billions on are still there in 2012.