Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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Barack The Bumbler
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Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt at
5:39 PM
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First he's for meeting with Kim Jong-il, Ahmadinejad, Castro and Chavez without preconditions. Then he's for invading Pakistan. And now Senator Obama is blasting the U.S. military for not fighting on the ground in Afghanistan and for the indiscriminate bombing of civilians:
Asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere, he brought up Afghanistan and said, "We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."
(HT: Instapundit.) Geraghty the Indispensable remarks:
Nope, no ground troops currently fighting, just a bunch of "air-raiding villages and killing civilians."
That's it. Too many foreign policy gaffes in too short a time. Goodnight, Senator Obama. Thanks for playing.
Can Senator Clinton afford to have such a loose cannon on her ticket?
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Is Slick-Willie's slick willy, which for the time being is flacidly esconced behind Mr Hillary's zipper...but just you wait 'til he becomes our "roving Ambassador" (how fitting a description!).
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Was the DNC's hedge against the GOP making inroads with African-American voters who have been waking up to the fact that no matter how many Dems they vote for year after year their lot in life has not been significantly improved.
Blacks in America want a level playing field but the Dems have consistantly offered more of the same ol' same ol' and a growing number of black voters have started seeing through the smoke-screen.
Government handouts designed specifically to keep them on the plantation and in line have been losing their appeal over the past few election cycles, thus Obama!!!
That the DNC chose to "exploit" the least qualified black politician in the land should trouble the African American community more than just being ignored (as they have been for decades) by their supposed "protectors" (in Dem circles "protector" translates to "massa"). It was pandering to the extreme, while Howard Dean and the boys had only to sit back and let the empty suit come apart at the seams on it's own.
The DNC's message will then be - "Well, we tried." as they name 'Wild' Bill Richardson to be second chair.
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(if not also in the head)
Of course he can longer be considered as a running mate for HRC. He's a loose canon, and his two years total experience in national office is showing like a hip hopper's boxer shorts over his sagging pants.
He is frankly unqualified at this early stage of his political career, and its a very fortuitous thing (for the democrats) that he imploded as early as he did-before he got coronated by the msm.
Its also a shame that his ego got the better of his good judgment when David Brooks disingenuously suggested in a NYT column that he run for president.
(Barack: never trust a republican journalist to give you (a democrat)good advice. Doh!
What a bumbler. Its possible that he may have permanently disqualified himself as a viable presidential candidate. |
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Hugh hopes and prays Barack is NOT on the national ticket. That's the motive behind the above post... |
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"So we see, yet again, that anti-Bushism is merely the neurotic gasping of those who felt themselves misused in the PE locker room."
Or those who believe in limited government, fiscal restraint, freedom from intrusive government, and non-interventionism.
"Well, assuming the alternative was Kerry (although I got one for Gore, too) at the least we avoided having an anti-American servant of international Communism being CinC;"
I would think Republicans would be more forgiving of Kerry. He’s pretty much the only reason Bush still has a job.
"The Left is the monster."
No, the State is the monster, and the left is only a little worse than the right when it comes to worshipping the power of the central government. (Although frankly, I don’t know which is more misguided, thinking that you can provide universal services from cradle to grave for every citizen and illegal alien in the borders or thinking you can use the blunt instrument of military power to force the world to join hands in a field and sing Kumbaya.)
"I await breathelessly the commencement of La Revolutione. Viva Hugo!"
Replace Hugo with Hilary and clear your schedule on January 20, 2009. And then we can all join hands and thank Bush for inflicting her on the country while we’re all waiting on a long list to see our doctors.
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Chrissy-boy soundly.Saved me the honor...Toss in
Sunny & the endlessly flatulant LeP for good measure.
The sad & astounding thing(of many)about vacuous,
runny-nosed-highchair-pounders like Chrissy-boy,is
that it will never occur to them to apply those
desriptives..."Monster" & "Punk" to the Islamist Sewage whom our "Frat Boy" is killing at a mighty fine clip. The Left--personified by emotion governed nitwits--inhabits a Moral Wasteland.
Pathetic & Bleak. |
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Mcenroe comes close. Obama is ensuring himself a spot on Hillary's ticket. Life insurance, like Dan Quayle. |
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So we see, yet again, that anti-Bushism is merely the neurotic gasping of those who felt themselves misused in the PE locker room. Well, assuming the alternative was Kerry (although I got one for Gore, too) at the least we avoided having an anti-American servant of international Communism being CinC; a cowardly slanderer of better men; a vapid, self-obsessed scarecrow with no more wit or decency than a cockroach. Like that stuff? Betcha did. The Left is the monster. Always and everywhere. Monstrously stupid. Monstrously vile. Monstrously venal. To call you weasels scum is an insult to algae. I await breathelessly the commencement of La Revolutione. Viva Hugo! And yes, Obama is a moron. A perfect leader for the Democrats, therefore. |
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Compared to 6+ years of W'isms, Obama is a breath of fresh air.
God forgive us for allowing this little monster/punk/frat boy remain in office. |
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Hugh, those words don't work as lyrics in "Puff the Magic Dragon," but he's sure earned that moniker. I still think of the poor slob I almost ran off the road upon hearing Obama explain his foriegn policy qualifications as having lived abroad and being an international relations major in college. Huh?? What??? It's still hysterically funny. The guy is a complete lightweight. He's not an empty suit like Harold Ford, just an unfilled suit. Depending on what he gets filled up with will determine whether he becomes a fever-swamp pol or one who actually uses that gray-matter the seems to be between his ears.
As for the Rovian conspiracists on this thread suffering from RAME (Rovian Associative Madness Effect) compounded BDS (you already know what that means): "pop-pzzz, glug, glug, glug, glug, ahhh, GA-REEP." Lots more beer in my fridge for watching y'all blow corks and gaskets over Rove's move back into campaign politics. Damn yer entertaining!! |
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jtb-in-texas writes:
"The problem with Obama is that he's never actually had to sit down and create a coherent, rational, sustainable approach to fighting the Jihadists.
So, his dhimmicrat knee-jerk response is to attack the only Muslim member of the Nuclear Club and defame the folks he'd expect to carry out his insane ramblings (one can hardly call his statements a plan).
Good.
Well, bad for him and good for Hillary and Silky.
What a moron this guy turned out to be. Less depth than most blog comments!"
You can call Obama a moron after almost 7 years of Bush?? If it weren't for Rove and all of Bush's handlers, heaven only knows what Bush would have done and said during his time in the White House. Guess we will find out since his "brain" is leaving. I suspect Bush does not even understand some of the words Obama uses - since Bush has such an intelligent grasp of the English language. |
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Obama's defenders would be as hopelessly clueless as he is?
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... in southern Afghanistan said in recent weeks that he had asked that American Special Forces leave his area of operations because the high level of civilian casualties they had caused was making it difficult to win over local people."
You know, like they did in Basra...oh, wait... |
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...there wouldn’t be much of an anti-war sentiment in the country. We could easily have continued shock-and-awe tactics indefinitely. American planes and ships could stay out of Iraqi range and subdue the whole country via saturation bombing (like FDR and HST did to Germany and Japan in WW2). That was the Clinton way. Keep American troops out of harms way (dead soldiers are bad publicity), just saturation bomb the Serbs and whoever else is in the vicinity (including the Chinese embassy).
The Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns have deliberately not been fought that way. 3,000 Americans have been killed and thousands of others maimed or wounded in order that thousands of Iraqi civilians didn’t have to die due to indiscriminate warfare. By in fact doing the exact opposite of what Obama falsely claims we have done, the administration has done the humane and responsible thing, even at the cost of American lives and a great political cost to the president and his party. |
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Let's ask the British and the Russians what it's like moving massive numbers of troops into Afghanistan. I think they were both pretty successful there recently.
Hell, we might as well call it a quagmire before we even begin. |
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Never mind Obama's foreign policy ignorance, look at his beliefs on our own country. He is a faithful member of Trinity Church of Christ in Chicago. He describes his spiritual journey in this way:
"It was ... at Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago that I met Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who took me on another journey and introduced me to a man named Jesus Christ. It was the best education I ever had,"
Here are some of Rev. Wrights comments that have apparently influenced Obama's thinking - - from an article in Newsmax that anyone even considering him as a President should read:
"White America got their wake-up call after 9/11. White America and the Western world came to realize people of color had not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns." On the Sunday after the attacks, Dr. Wright blamed America.
"The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism."
He has used the term "middleclassness" in a derogatory manner; frequently mentions "white arrogance" and the "oppression" of African-Americans today; and has referred to "this racist United States of America."
Wright apparently blames ‘white arrogance” for all the ‘woes of the world’ and refers to the United States as “United States of White America” while every in the congregation nods approval.
Romney is attacked for being a Mormon, but Obama gets a free pass for his extreme religious views believing in racist and anti-American ideas.
He would be the worst kind of President, a bigot and racist who has believes American is the problem.
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Hillary has won, by showing she is the only truly serious candidate.
She is wrapping this up so quickly that she is already beginning to move back to the middle, where she is most comfortable (I know this makes many of you laugh but it's true). She will not choose Obama, she will choose someone who will help with swing voters.
Of the current crop of presidential candidates, only Bill Richardson fills that bill. She might go with a fresh face such as Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana. Or someone with a military background such as Sen. Jim Webb. Whoever it is, it will be a center-left Democrat, not a wild-eyed lefty.
And she's going to be damn tough to beat. |
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to Afghanistan, but by the time you got there, the enemy would have either left or standing around acting like your friend, waiting for you to leave. Either way, it would be a total waste of time and money. Iraq is where the game is. |
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British Criticize Air Attacks in Afghan Region
By CARLOTTA GALL
Published: August 9, 2007
NY Times
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SANGIN, Afghanistan — A senior British commander in southern Afghanistan said in recent weeks that he had asked that American Special Forces leave his area of operations because the high level of civilian casualties they had caused was making it difficult to win over local people.
In just two cases, airstrikes killed 31 nomads west of Kandahar in November last year and another 57 villagers, half of them women and children, in western Afghanistan in April. In both cases, United States Special Forces were responsible for calling in the airstrikes. |
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Here we go again people - talking to governments like Iran, Cuba, etc. are bad, and here is why.
For example, let's consider Iran. Is talking to the Iranians going to stop them from sending arms and bombs into Iraq to kill our soldiers? No. Under no circumstances. It is in their interest to attack us, and to kill our troops. This is because the Iranian government (but not the people of Iran) is made up of a bunch of Islamic fundamentalist oligarchic thugs, with no interest in the well being of their people. Their interest is actually in keeping the Middle East in turmoil, so as to facilitate the spread of Islamic fundamentalism throughout the region.
In fact, it is even worse than this - talking to Iran actually hurts us. Iran acts bad, kills Americans, and you guys want to talk to them, listen to their concerns, and give them center stage. This is called positive reinforcement, people - we are encouraging them to act against our interests and in destructive ways towards us. This will lead to the deaths of more Americans. The correct way to deal with such people, as a true realist would know, is actually through a "negative reinforcement" either a physical attack on the country's military, a funding of the Iranian opposition, or real and strong economic sanctions on the country.
Human beings, and the countries they rule, are always the same; you need to provide positive reinforcement (i.e. talking to governments, providing benefits to them, etc.) when they act "good," and provide negative reinforcement (as described above) when they don't.
For an example of using "talking" as a positive reinforcement, look at how we "talked" to Libya when it agreed to drop its nuclear program. |
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Hillary and LA Mayor Tony Villa! Besides all of the mindless gaffes, Obama won't work because he sounds just like Michael Dukakis. Villa is the kind of guy she has plenty of experience with. A guy who can't keep his pants on and lies with sincerity every time he opens his mouth. |
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In the eyes of the modern Democrat Partisan, this may be music to their ears...
He is after the DNC nomination, not seeking the General Election as of yet.
Ironically, Hillary and the rest of the Democrat Party believe similar ugly thoughts about our Military and express the same implied thoughts.
It is the nightmare of the Liberal insanity...
And some are willing to bail on the GOP, for not being perfect, enabling this nonsense.
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Can Senator Clinton afford to have such a loose cannon on her ticket?
I vote YES. Why, barack Obama is America's first black Dan Quayle! Compared to him Hillary! will look like Marget Thatcher and Golda Meir.
Instead of just weighing as much as the two of them. |
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The MSM had Obama walking on water, the man of purpose and vision who was above the fray and would unite us all to common purpose. Hey, maybe they even believed their own scribblings.
Its hard to walk on water with two lead feet. |
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I don't think he is making gaffes, this is the standard Democratic line, its what Obama has been hearing all is young life from his party. He is following in the long tradition of Kerry (troops of Ghengis Khan), Durbin(US soldiers are Nazis) and Murthra (called the Haditha GI's murderers.
The Dems have been anti war and anti military since McGovern. A vote for a Dem is a vote against our brave soldiers.
Strange when the only superpower has one of its two political parties opposed to our own military. In this dangerous world, one would be crazy to vote Democratic. |
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Which was that we have dealt with and talked to far worse people than the trio mentioned in the reply to my initial comment.
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Cave. And...since Stalin was our one time allie
and...and..like bin Laden, was absolute ruler of a
vast land mass...and...and...
Wait a minute! When,after Potsdam in '45,did we have "Dealings" with Stalin? Unless you wish to call the Berlin Airlift & The Korean War "Dealings". |
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then maybe the Government should with all of these irational statements!...............Mrs. Oboma, save yourself and run away! |
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"We have always been able to meet with sane enemies who have some regard for samity and reason."
Beyond their bombastic tones and speeches, these people aren’t nearly as crazy as some of the other lunatics we have dealt with. We dealt with Stalin. Nixon met with Mao who backed both North Korea and North Vietnam against us. Heck, we used to deal with our last ultimate evil Saddam.
If you really want to argue that any of that group was sane, feel free.
"Obama wants us to give up not only first strick nukes but missle defense. Laying down both sword and shield make no sense"
Give up missile defense altogether or just give up our ambitions to place the missiles next to Russia?
As to actually using nuclear weapons in a first strike scenario? It would be impossible to justify the wholesale slaughter of millions that would follow such a thing under any contortion of the Just War theory, and it should be rightly condemned.
"Willing to order a strike on OBL in Pakistan is like ordering a Swat team into a neighbors home during a family reunion."
Meh, you’re probably right. Far better to let the guy who’s been our committed enemy for years escape and rebuild his organization in a safe haven while we focus on killing the jihadi’s-come-lately in Iraq.
"Wants Bush to send more US soldiers to get killed on the ground in Afghanistan. Something the former more aggressive Democrat president wold not do in Kosovo or Serbia. Obama would never do that himself."
Well, I think you’re underestimating him. Starting, bungling and escalating wars is an equal opportunity past-time among our fearless leaders of all political parties.
I for one, remain confident that our next Democratic president will keep us in Iraq and Afghanistan and will probably also drag us into Darfur and Iran. |
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It had NOTHING to do with "Air Power"...
It was "Air Raiding Villages & Killing Civilians."
(**Ya know, just like them Rooskies did 25-27
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Except that we really ARE using air power in Afghanistan and Iraq, and this is a remarkably blunt, ineffective instruments in populated regions.
Obama has a slippery grasp on foreign policy and is properly trashed for it. But once again, the GOP faithful here at Townhall smirk in undeserved (and increasingly strange) triumph.
DU
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...Senator Bazama's intelligence & nimbleness.
I firmly believe that he's got the depth & abilities &,verily I say,INSIGHT of...Well...
Briggsy+rae+brob+LeP+Manny combined. Bringing him near the sleeping thought level of one good neocon. :-)
Sometimes it is just TOO Good Being,well...Me. |
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"Just air raiding villages." I've heard of that strategy somewhere before. If memory serves me, the President did that somewhere in the Balkans. But I think that was the strategy of the previous President. |
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Dread writes: "Obama souns reasonable"
Let's remove the euphemisms and look at you list more realistically.
Let's look at you list more realistically and less euphmistically.
!. We have always been able to meet with sane enemies who have some regard for samity and reason. The leaves out Hugo, Castro, and Abin-a-wack-job.
2. Obama wants us to give up not only first strick nukes but missle defense. Laying down both sword and shield make no sense
3. Willing to order a strike on OBL in Pakistan is like ordering a Swat team into a neighbors home during a family reunion.
4. Wants Bush to send more US soldiers to get killed on the ground in Afghanistan. Something the former more aggressive Democrat president wold not do in Kosovo or Serbia. Obama would never do that himself.
This guy is not Harry Truman or JFK.
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Briggsy writes: "I have never met an ad hominem argument I didn't like."
Briggsy is exactly like the carpenter whose only tool is a hammer. Everything looks like a nail. |
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Watching Obama diminish himself with each passing verbal gaffe reminds me of the scene near the end of the movie "Poltergeist" where the family home implodes until there's nothing left.
Every time he opens his mouth, he diminishes himself a little more.
But for Democrats, with such a shallow talent pool of presidential wannabes, this was predictable, especially given the separate and lower standards they maintain for black politicians. It seems in the lexicon of Dem presidential qualifications:
- Glibness = intelligence
- Wittiness = wisdom
- Passion = persuasiveness
- Logical fallacies = logic
No one can deny that Obama is glib, even witty. But as anyone paying attention to what he says must inevitably conclude, these characteristics don't make him particularly intelligent or wise.
Being an articulate black man must've seemed like the ticket to the White House when Obama began his run, but not everyone's a Democrat, and not all Democrats are so easily satisfied.
So, to the tune of "Dandy Don" Meredith back in the olden days of Monday Night Football, an anthem for Obama's fading hopes:
"Turn out the lights, the party's over..." |
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It cannot be denied that Obama is a nice fellow with a deep, comforting voice. Why shouldn't that be enough? |
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for Mitt - some might call his cuban speech, his reponse to his son's lack of enlistment (see ponnuru's comment on NR as well) and other gems as bumbling, but these are pearls of wisdom..
ofcourse Hugh as posted on Barack allegedly bumbling. Things are done in TH these days without Hugh's maid Dean using several thousand words to say the same thing..sigh! |
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But I fail to see why:
1. Suggesting that we meet with our enemies to discuss our foreign policy differences (meet with, not capitulate, not grovel);
2. Removing nuclear first strikes from the foreign policy table;
3. Being willing to actually give the order to pull the trigger the next time we have OBL in our sights;
4. And suggesting that more manpower should be directed to Afghanistan against a resurgant Taliban and minimizing air raids near civilian areas;
qualifies the guy as a moron.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. If he wasn't committed to big government, I would be tempted to vote for him. |
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Those demi blogs really show the lack of depth of understanding about the war, the soldiers, the terrorists and it's down right frightening. They are trying to minimize the civilian casualties and that is why whole villages aren't wiped out. That would be a lot easier to just have the bombers come in and level it - no fighting, no IEDs etc. I surely hope BHO is toast. You know you call the President all these names and those who know him and have associated with him feel he is way smarter than the "smartest woman in the World (the dem world that is)"
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Just to provide my bipartisanship boni fides (he he) I do have to say that, although I don't think Obama is at all qualified for the Presidency, and although I don't agree with his liberal issue positions, especially on the war, I do think that the guy is 1) principled, 2) not a phony, and 3) not corrupt. And in this, he is quite better than both Hillary and Edwards.
PS: Glad you got back to your talking points, Briggsy. And I should congratulate you for toning down your language. |
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look like Henry freaking Kissinger.
Apparently there's no foreign policy gaffe he's not willing to make. I'm waiting for him to next borrow from Gerald R. Ford and boldly proclaim there's no Communist influence over North Korea or similar.
Sam Nunn, where are you when your party needs you the most?
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Obama is verbally adroit but lacks the depth of understanding when he makes such pronouncements as he did about Pakistan. He wants desperately to sound authoritative just as he did when he said he would meet unconditionally with the leaders of Iran, Cuba et al. But that too was no less naive and reflects the fact that his appeal is his freshly minted charisma not the lengthy resume we have come to expect from a potential chief executive of the most powerful nation on earth.
Not unlike the middle manager who is promoted beyond his means to upper management, Obama is simply out of his league. That effectively eliminates him from a VP spot as well.
The Obama phenomenon also reflects a kind political naivete in the Democratic Party for courting him to begin with. Do they seriously think that a man with two years of senate experience is ready to take the reins in the Oval Office?
This Kennedy-esque infatuation will fade quickly now and Hillary will be their just deserts.
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and fumbles the ball.
The problem with Obama is that he's never actually had to sit down and create a coherent, rational, sustainable approach to fighting the Jihadists.
So, his dhimmicrat knee-jerk response is to attack the only Muslim member of the Nuclear Club and defame the folks he'd expect to carry out his insane ramblings (one can hardly call his statements a plan).
Good.
Well, bad for him and good for Hillary and Silky.
What a moron this guy turned out to be. Less depth than most blog comments! |
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"Can Senator Clinton afford to have such a loose cannon on her ticket?"
YES, she will choose him for his color not his brains or lack thereof .... NEVER underestimate the Clinton's. |
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Obama has virtually no chance to win the presidency in 2008. Hillary should demolish him (and Edwards) relatively easily; she has been the only Democrat to escape major errors so far.
BTW, Obama deserves slams for this stupid statement. Our army isn't doing this, which he should know, and I suspect he will apologize quickly.
Obama also has no chance of being on the ticket as VP. Hillary doesn't like him, and she doesn't need him. As a woman, Hillary already makes history; she doesn't need to diversify anymore.
Obama can only hope that he gets seasoning from this run, and that Hillary loses in the general. Considering her shrill personality, her total lack of charisma, and her excessive corruption, Obama may yet get another crack at the Presidency four years from now.
PS: Nice way to contribute to the conversation, Briggsy, but shouldn't you be foaming at the mouth about Karl Rove now? That Bush crack is not in today's Kossack talking points. |
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What an incredible gaffe. Could you imagine Franklin Roosevelet saying that as long as Hitler hid in Saudi Arabia, that the United States would take no action to secure his capture? Yeah, Barack is not ready for prime time because he has the audacity to tell an ally either give up Bin Laden or we will go get him. Thank goodness 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers did not come from Saudi Arabia....oops, never mind. |
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with one screeching scream. Barrack Obama will go down via a thousand little paper cuts, all self-inflicted. His naivite (or however it should be spelled) knows no bounds. But this is possibly the worst of the statements, because it's so terribly badly aimed at our service men and women who struggle so hard and who deserve ALL of our support and gratitude. What a spoiled little brat Obama is. He does not deserve to be protected by the caliber of armed forces that we have in the U.S. |
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The 'problem' with Obama and McCain is that they actually answer the questions. |
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What a joke this man is. Sounds like John Effen Kerry wannabe at work. |
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