‘Ich bin ein Commander’

Obama has to persuade the public he can lead the free world.

By Michael Hirsh | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Jul 18, 2008 | Updated: 2:09  p.m. ET Jul 18, 2008

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  • Posted By: joyful3 @ 01/21/2009 1:52:35 PM

    ITS A SHAME WITH ALL YOUR BIG WORDS AND CRITISIM, THAT THE PRESIDENT IS IN OFFICE ONE DAY AND YOU CRITIZE HIM. I AM AN AMERICAN CITIZEN AND WAS TAUGHT SINCE A CHILD UP, DO NIT JUDGE PEOPLE, IF THEY MAKE MISTAKES, WHO IN THIS WORLD HASN'T, INCLUDING YOU. HE IS SMART, INTELLIGENT AND COMPASSIONATE, WILL HE MAKE MISTAKES, MAYBE AND PROBABLY BUT HE WILL BE JUDGE, NOT BY YOU, HOPEFULLY SO, BUT BY THE COUNTRY HE IHAS BEEN ELECTED TO REPRESENT. HOW DARE YOU TO CRITIZE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. AFTERALL BEING PRESIDENT STILL MAKES HIM A HUMAN BEING.. SOME COMMENTS IN THUS ARTICLE ARE SUPPOSE TO BE FROM INTELLIGENT PEOPLE WELL I'M A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE AND A SENIOR CITIZEN AN ASHAMED OF SOME OF THESE REMARKS.
    JOYCE VENTURI
    SCRANTON, PA.18504

  • Posted By: powin @ 08/06/2008 11:56:00 AM

    Barack Obama is funded by some of the most powerful groups in the world.

    If anyone does their research here, they will see that Barack Obama is funded by some of the most powerful groups in the world. Google, for example, was ranked as the 6th most powerful company in the U.S. The Goldman Sachs families like various other donors here are directly linked to the Rothschild Family, the most powerful family in the world. They created and own along with other foreign investors the Federal Reserve System. The Rothschilds were pivotal in the creation of the EU. Obama has the corporate interests backing him and this is undeniable. Here is a list of some of his highest donors. Cross reference these donors and you will see that it is irrefutable that Obama is backed by the most powerful and influential and has their interests in mind.

    Goldman Sachs $627,730
    University of California $523,120
    JPMorgan Chase & Co $398,021
    Citigroup Inc $393,899
    UBS AG $378,400
    Google Inc $373,212
    Harvard University $369,802
    Lehman Brothers $353,922
    National Amusements Inc $352,603
    Moveon.org $347,463
    Sidley Austin LLP $326,845
    Skadden, Arps et al $304,050
    Time Warner $298,972
    Morgan Stanley $291,388
    Microsoft Corp $276,925
    Jones Day $266,705
    Latham & Watkins $252,845
    University of Chicago $250,685
    Wilmerhale Llp $249,282
    Exelon Corp $239,061

  • Posted By: Anju Chandel @ 07/20/2008 6:47:02 PM

    Well, Barack Obama hasn't been into space or on the moon as yet. Therefore, applying John McCain's logic, he would not be able to steer American Space policies! But at least his globe trotting will help him acclimatise to various timezones and respond to that 3.00am call ! (I am sounding absurd but then I am only echoing Senator Obama's rivals !)

    • Posted By: busby @ 07/25/2008 2:31:24 PM

      Do you actually think that one little overly orchestrated trip overseas a world leader makes? I'm sorry for you. Only thing outstanding about that trek was its presumptuousness.

    • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 07/20/2008 7:13:30 PM

      No your just absurd.

  • Posted By: citron16 @ 07/23/2008 3:11:40 AM

    Obama should be saying Ich bin ein dumm kopf comandor ! That would be more like it!!

    • Posted By: Jack999 @ 07/24/2008 12:38:15 AM

      Let translate for you..it means "You're a FOOL AND DUMB"

      • Posted By: pyramid @ 07/24/2008 5:53:05 PM

        No that would be you!!!!

  • Posted By: OnlyCureJGK @ 07/21/2008 8:54:25 PM

    Homosexuals should not be aloud to spend time with children and corrupt there minds. Homosexuality is just as wrong as Murder they are both depraved sick crimes against what is natural.
    Both these crimes fly in the face of what is normal decient human behavior.
    Anyone that supports homosexual activity is a contributor to it.
    Homosexuality is wrong.
    Its is not diversity it is perverisity
    They should be given the mental help they need.
    It is not about left or right wing politics its about right and wrong.
    Homosexuality is wrong and always will be just because you say its not does not mean its true.

    • Posted By: catspaw @ 07/24/2008 5:26:52 PM

      You have no idea what you are talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 07/24/2008 11:28:20 AM

    " A GREATNESS OF A NATION IS MEASURE ON HOW WELL ITS CITIZEN TREATS ITS ANIMAL"

    Here too many "John Mcain PEST " ...Its becoming a nuisane

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 07/23/2008 10:57:40 AM

    What's up with this???? Must be a bunch of, bitter, uneducated, clinging to their guns and bibles, racists, moving to Ohio. OR...could it be.....people are starting to realize, that...
    .............Hussein Obama is a crook and a fraud............................

    Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Email to a Friend
    John McCain has opened a modest lead over Barack Obama in the key swing state of Ohio. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Buckeye State shows McCain attracting 46% of the vote while Obama earns 40%. Last month and the month before McCain held a insignificant one-point lead over Obama.

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: MartinCarmel @ 07/23/2008 4:52:14 AM

    Comment: Obama might as well say: Ich bin ein idiot. A portion of this nation has clearly lost its mind. Obama does not know anything about foreign affairs. He learned a lot from people who hate, however. Wake up America. Obama is a scam artist who has NO business being where he is. Give us a black President, no problem, but NOT this man. Here is the reality: Obama had a "close, personal, 20 year relationship" with a bigot named Reverand Wright......who is close friends with one of America's BIGGEST racists, Louis "I hate Jews and White Devils" Farakhan. Did Obama object when his OWN CHURCH gave Farakhan a lifetime achievement award? This is the conversation at the water coolers of the nation, folks. Most Jews and Hillary fans will NOT vote for Obama and the polls are showing it.
    The Obama Fever is wearing thin. Gallop now shows a 6 point lead. Remember, John Kerry had a 6 point lead over George Bush in 2004.....and he lost in November. Same with Dukakis and Bush-1 in 1988....a double digit lead in July. And he got smoked in November.
    This is the SAME nation that re-elected an unpopular President Bush during an unpopular war just 3 1/2 years ago. Translation? Watch it unfold and watch the accusations of racial bias when Obama loses. So predictable.- McCain will win in November.

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 07/22/2008 4:51:13 PM

    Ja ist Herr, Obama amerikanischer Wahrer Oberbefehlshaber

    JA KÖNNEN WIR OBAMA 08

  • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 07/22/2008 1:51:14 PM

    Obamas cult is the DNC and it wages sevreal hate campaigns against good Americans. And due to this campaign the Congress, under DNC leadership, has got a repley from Americans!
    Single digit approval! The American public has NO CONFIDENCE in the DNC-led Congress!
    What we do not see the cult doing is trying to create conditions for an Obama victory in November by forfeiting their nasty little AMERICANS SUCK FIRST campaign with it's supporting sub-campaigns of hate and fear, and insults to the Americans who make this country work.
    So the cult Obama leads is not following Obama! So, why should anyone else? He can't lead! His own cult agrees! Or the DNC members in congress would be doing a lot more to ensure conditions for an Obama victory rather than leaving it up to the American liberal news industry to do. Which worships him, like a cult figure indeed.

  • Posted By: cabebet @ 07/22/2008 12:02:17 PM

    Belker I have a question? What cult does Obama lead? None. And is your precious Washington so stupid as to allow a real cult, terrorist supporter, muslim in their midst in the senate?? If that's the case then were already doomed.....and since you know its not keep trying to convice the world of your lies and come November you will see just how opposed America is to your fearmongering and intolerance of anything or anyone that truly wants to better America.

  • Posted By: Belker @ 07/22/2008 11:26:42 AM



    The Cult leader-in-chief best describes Obama. Cult leaders who become commander-in-chief tend to end up destroying their countries.

    I don't want a cult leader or a president for life Obama.

  • Posted By: yupik1 @ 07/19/2008 4:36:56 AM

    It's laughable that no one notices that McCain has 0(ZERO) experience as Commander in Chief. He says he knows how to win wars....Which war has he won? The war on the middle class??? He's just a chump riding on his POW experience....That's the ONLY thing I respect about him was his service to this country fighting a war that was just as useless as the war in Iraq. McChump!!!

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 07/19/2008 11:18:08 AM

      I see you and Obama do share a common interest. AFRICA Arent you the one below stating we should be doing more in AFRICA and disregard the problem we have in our own country?

      • Posted By: yupik1 @ 07/20/2008 11:02:06 AM

        At least killing those SOB's in Africa would be FAR more noble than dying for those ungrateful people in Iraq who call us infidels! If we're going to waste billions in Iraq, it would be better spent sniping those cowards in Africa and YES spending more of that money right here at home. There SHOULD be a timetable to leave Iraq...ASA effin P!!!

        • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 07/21/2008 2:13:40 AM

          So an American dying for Iraq is nothing but an American dying for an African is much much more meaningful? Your a complete loon....just come out and admit that you hate Arabs....your statement just proves it....your a joke.

          • Posted By: yupik1 @ 07/22/2008 4:12:06 AM

            If Obama was Prez in 2000, we wouldn't have gone to Iraq in the first place and wouldn't have lost over 4400+ young American men and women in the first place you ignorant P.O.S.!!!! And they died for WHAT?!?!?!? Elitist Republican ideals??? WMD's??? We've been fighting that stupid, STUPID war longer than WWII at a cost of $$$TRILLIONS$$$ that we could've used to find Osama Bin Laden and keep our economy from going to pot. You've been Fu(|<ed up the @ss so long, you can't even think straight...Who's the loon for wanting McCain to continue this neo-con F-job. Republicans LOVE PUMA cause it really stands for Prop Up My @ss.

  • Posted By: yupik1 @ 07/19/2008 4:46:57 AM

    The surge is STILL a HUGE BLUNDER!!!! It's a HUGE FAILURE because we're spending $$BILLIONS$$ a month just to maintain it. Our opponent in Iraq is spending less than pennies on the dollar compared to what we're spending. We're only there to keep KBR swimming in money. Bush is just a Cheney puppet! Wake up out of your trance Zombie!

    • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 07/20/2008 7:14:42 PM

      Keep telling yourself that. It's easier than admitting you were wrong. If it was such a blunder, why did Obama wipe "The Surge Is Not Working" off his website?

      • Posted By: yupik1 @ 07/20/2008 7:47:24 PM

        That still does not change the fact that we shouldn't be in Iraq in the first place. Like the General said of Iraq, the gains made are tenuous at best. This could just be the calm before the storm. Even McShame said prepare for "Spectacular" attacks in Iraq....How's that for flip flopping?!? Do you work for KBR?

        • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 07/21/2008 2:12:13 AM

          That's all? You can't defend so you have to change the subject....yes we never should have been there but fact is we are...and we have to fix the mess we made....do you go to your neighbors house and crap in their living room then just leave? That's what you want to do in Iraq. Just leave and let them clean up the crap WE started.....
          Your right about one thing. Petreus did say they are tenuous so by drumming a 16 month pull out...all those terrorists have to do is wait out in Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia until the Great Obama pulls out the troops, then they can go back at their pleasure and kill anyone they want knowing full well that Obama CAN'T send troops because he might lose an election if he did that...we all know that Obama is a politician first and foremost....his ego is the only thing driving him. Not that McCain doesn't have an Ego....or Clinton for that matter....
          Nope don't work for KBR sorry....and sorry to tell you I voted for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 but I'll be voting for McCain this election. That's one less vote for Obama so a net of 2 for McCain....combined with the thousands and thousands of PUMAs out there spells trouble for Obama....who can't unify his own party so what do you think he is going to do if, Thor help us, he gets elected?

          • Posted By: yupik1 @ 07/22/2008 3:59:04 AM

            1000's of PUMA's....Holy SH1T!!! LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At least you Republicans are consistent....You Lie....Ummm...>SPIN things so much, it's no wonder our country is in the tank after almost 8 years of neo-con B.S. Even the Iraqis agree with Obama's 16month pullout plan....Afterall, they consider us infidels after all we've done for them. So let's leave our crap there and they'll be happy as Saddam with his 21 virgins in heaven.

  • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 07/20/2008 7:25:48 PM

    Obama first introduced legislation for a fixed withdrawal plan on January 30, 2007. According to that plan, all combat brigades would have been out of Iraq by March 31, 2008; that???s 14 months???more or less the same time frame he proposes now. He would have been wrong. Iraq would have seen chaos, not calm and not political reconciliation. That plan would have ensured a monumental historic defeat for the U.S. and a civilian slaughter of biblical proportions in Iraq. If in January 2007, you had asked Nouri al-Maliki how he felt about a 14-month U.S. withdrawal timetable, he would have thought you were mad.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013001586.html

    • Posted By: yupik1 @ 07/20/2008 7:53:06 PM

      hindsight is always 20/20...You know as well as I do that circumstances could have gone either way at the time. You conveniently forget about Bushies "Mission Accomplished!" Even McCain believed in that! I'll take Barack's judgment over McCain's experience any day.

      • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 07/21/2008 1:56:30 AM

        Of course you would. You just don't want to admit that Obama was wrong, his pull out strategy would have failed, Iraq would be in the toilet all for what? So he could say see I told you so? Trying to score some political points by letting Iraqis die? The Dems have been hoping that another attack on the US by Al-Qaeda for years now, they have been hoping for Iraq to fail for 6 years now....just so they could score some political points....its disgusting.
        Hindsight.....yeah Obama seems to be using quite frequently. Trying to make everyone forget what he originally wanted....Obama was wrong, face it. Obama was wrong on the Surge, he even took it off his website. He is wrong on Iraq, he is wrong on energy and he is wrong on FISA, he is wrong on faith based initiatives.... he is just wrong.
        McCain is no saint, he has plenty of skeletons in his closet, but he has superior judgment on military, foreign policy, and energy policies.....

        • Posted By: yupik1 @ 07/22/2008 3:44:33 AM

          Just like you won't admit that Bushie's Mission Accomplished was HUGELY embarrassing for the U.S. Iraq was in the toilet as soon as Bushie gave the orders to attack. You don't care about those black African children in Darfur, so why bother showing some concern for those Iraqis. Even the Iraqis want us out by 2010, McCain's economic advisor Pill Gramm gave us high oil prices when they de-regulated the oil market, I would trust Obama's judgment on handling FISA better than Bushie and McCain anyday. Bushie had a huge potential with enabling faith based initiatives and he blew it big time...Obama will get it right because he's just light years ahead of McShame who doesn't even know that Iraq does not share a border with Afghanistan, and thinks that Al-qaeda is in Iran....I guess he has superior judgement compared to your intelligence..IDIOT!

  • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 07/21/2008 11:31:59 PM

    A sign the Obama campaign is in trouble.....
    ... No Network is declaring Obamas poll numbers "are going up."
    The networks are such that if a daily quick poll or two showed a quivering 3 point improvment to Obamas' approval the "story " would be a '6 POINT" jump..so "significant!" ( Ohh...obama is going to win! ).
    Oh well...maybe by friday?
    Otherwize, the DNC has Obama chained to it and he to the DNC, which has taken the approval and credibility of the US Congress so low people stopped showing up to Congressional subpoenas!
    Ohhh, this is just too funny!
    Maybe Obama would care to lecture the Europeans to all speak Mexican Spanish so he won't be embarrassed when a German says "how are you today , sir" in English. Or proclaim Esperanto is to be the worlds most sought after language, so the Espiranticans are not offended, over in their little country,there...
    ...wellll. Maybe Obama used to know where Espirantica is on the map!

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 07/21/2008 11:26:21 PM

    ATTN......... ALL OBAMAMOHAMMEDS....BREAKING NEWS...HUSSEIN BIRTH CERTIFICATE FAKE...............

    Laugh it off. Ignore it. Whatever you like. THIS WILL get MSM coverage. For the entire story go to.......

    ....................... http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/21/forensics-expert-obama-birth-certificate-is-a-forgery

    Larry Johnson and others are going to FORCE an inquiry. Here is a snippet........

    The following report was written for TD/NQ by Techdude, who hurried to complete it after his tires were slashed and a mutilated rabbit was found hanging by his front door. He is currently working on another exclusive follow-on report.

    Who threatened Techdude, and why? And if his findings are correct, why did Barack Obama publish a fake Certificate of Live Birth (COLB) on his own website, FightTheSmears, and on DailyKos?

    Well, well, well....what's up with this??? We will all find out soon. Check out the entire investigation.

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: celeste47 @ 07/21/2008 5:16:17 PM

    Sportlock -- you big dummy -- Obama didn't have anything to do with MI and FL not voting in the primaries. That was the DNC. Thus your predictions are just as dumb.

  • Posted By: celeste47 @ 07/21/2008 5:14:38 PM

    Like the writer said, the policies of the White house and our foreign partners are doing exactly what Obama has been advocating. JUDGEMENT! Something MCSame is too old to have.

  • Posted By: lillea @ 07/21/2008 2:06:38 PM

    McCain has studied the methods to be used in winning in Iraq He took a stand against Rumsfeldt's methods and suggested a new method of action. The surge that McCain suggested has been very successful. The Iraq government has met 15 of the 18 benchmarks demanded by the Congress. Deadly fighting is almost non-existant. Combat troops may be pulled out soon as a result.
    ON THE OTHER HAND
    Obama strongly opposed the surge that McCain recommended. He even stated that the Iraq government couldn't meet even one of fhe benchmarks set by the Congress. If we had listened to Obama, Iraq would be back in the hands of terrorist control instead of a nearly peaceful country.
    NOW Obama is on his "Cliff Notes" trip to Iraq and acting as if he is responsible for all the success in Iraq. He is such a FAKE.Obama is that guy that critcizes co workers as they diligently research and work overtime on a project and then when the project is successful....he wants to claim credit for it. Do we want someone like that as our President?????????? I think not.

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 07/21/2008 4:23:46 PM

      Lillea,
      Im sorry hun, but the kool aide is apparently too strong for an Obama worshipper to hear the truth AND process the information your giving them. Good post though....Do you hear the crickets? You usually hear them when Obamas fan club cant say....Oh yeah, well McCain did this, McCain did that...lol

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