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  • Posted By: Tom_G @ 07/20/2008 1:22:59 PM

    I don't really know how serious people can look at a series of photo ops in another country as a qualification for anything. The whole thing is absurd and the fact that the evening news is doing there nightly broadcast from Obama locations should be troubling for everyone regardless of political ideology.

  • Posted By: plutocrat @ 07/19/2008 2:19:53 PM

    4or 5 years in a prison camp does'nt qualify for commander status/there were plenty more in those camps who would qualify if that was a prerequist

    • Posted By: Galasso @ 07/19/2008 2:54:19 PM

      Where has it been stated that McCain's time in a prison camp "qualifies" him to be the Commander in Chief? McCain has a complete military career plus the Naval Academy and a family legacy in the military which all total in itself does not "qualify" him to be the Cdr in Chief either. But it does give him the broad historical and institutional background to make the right decisions when using military force. This will also be important in sustainment and refitting after the drawdown in both theaters. Obama is just now discovering the military and some of his rhetoric like "I will stop all future weapons development" in one of his first addresses on the subject demonstrated his lack of understanding in how the country is defended. McCain would be the first President who retired from active military service since Dwight Eisenhower. Even if he only serves one term, it would be appropriate for that kind of experience in the interim period between the cessation of the involvement overseas and a peacetime Army. I believe he fully intends to end the war in Iraq but there will have to be a residual force for the Diplomatic Corp and possible training scenarios for the Iraqis much like we have in other countries. McCain't time in a prison camp may not "qualify" him to be POTUS but it certainly does give him gravitas in the decision making process when it comes to military troop deployments - something Obama is sorely lacking.

      • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 07/20/2008 12:11:56 PM

        You have it backwards - being in the military gives one the historical and institutional background to make all the WRONG decisions when using military force.

        All McCain can see is military solutions. He was a fine warrior, (emphasis on WAS) in the best sense of the word, but that isn't what we need in 2008 - we no longer live in a world where our military power alone will get the job done.

        Obama isn't perfect, but he has a bigger view of how the world interconnects. And he understands that we cannot separate our domestic policies from our foreign policies, or our economic policies from our national security policies.

        McCain thinks if we win a military victory, everything else will follow accordingly, but this is not 1945.

        McCain was a war hero, and we owe him a great debt for his sacrifice, but that doesn't include awarding him the presidency.

        I don't want a warrior in the white house; I want someone who sees the bigger picture.

    • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 07/19/2008 9:43:42 PM

      No one claims being a POW and tortured qualifies anyone for President but it is biographical information of a presidential candidate.
      But if you want to Swift Boat some politician make sure he is LIEING about his military service first! And about being captuered and going threw no small amount of hell, McCain and his fellow POWs are not lieing or liars!
      Those camps? Seems you don't like the military very much. Senator Kerry joined a discrimination campaign against vets and serving Armed forces members and when discrimination campaigns are waged the truth and facts get dismissed! Kerry lied.
      And if McCain was a POW at one time,why would anyone be upset about that?

  • Posted By: jp6815 @ 07/19/2008 9:46:43 AM

    Mr. Obama has made a central basis of his candidacy the 'judgement' he showed in opposing the Iraq War in 2002, even if it was a risk free position to take as an Illinois state senator. But the 2007 surge debate is the single most important strategic judgement he has had to make on the more serious state as a Presidential candidate. He vocally opposed the surge. Without the surge and a new counterinsurgency strategy, the U,S. would have suffered a humiliating defeat in Iraq. Yet Now Mr Obama wants to ignore that judgement, the campaign erased from its Web site. It would be nice if Mr. Obama could at least get his facts straight. All through out the primary and now on to the general election Obama has shown over and over how he lacks good judgement.

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 07/19/2008 10:59:08 AM

      Please note....... democrat controlled congress
      Please note....... the president does nojthing without the approval of congress
      Please note.......OBAMA has voted YES to funding a war he opposes everytime it has come across his desk.
      Please note all of Obama's flip flops
      Please note that it is easy to say you oppose a war when you never had to actually make a desicion a vote on it so people really do not know if you would have or wouldn't have supported it.
      Please consider.....Obama just might have voted for the war and then flip flopped like every other Democrat did around election time.
      The man has shifted positions of damn near every issue he stood by in the primaries.
      Only a sheepish moron would believe that AFTER he flip flops on every issue he has stood by in the primaries and STILL believe his eveery word as written law.

      • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/20/2008 11:12:34 AM

        go back living under a rock, you will feel better there when Obama is the next POTUS. On a one through ten scale of being an idiot, you exceed the ten mark.

      • Posted By: GoHomeFascist @ 07/19/2008 1:55:52 PM

        You must be living in a parallel universe SPORTLOCK09! Where have you been living the last 8 years? Resident Bush does WHATEVER he wants with complete disregard for Congress. Don't you remember just this last week he vetoed the new Medicare bill that was passed with overwhelming BIPARTISAN support. His veto was meaningless since both Houses had over 2/3 of each body supporting it!

  • Posted By: an obama girl @ 07/19/2008 11:39:11 PM

    I loves these posts!

    I spent 20 years in the military. My brother was in too!

    Wow! I guess I'm ready to be the president now!

    • Posted By: lillea @ 07/20/2008 1:04:20 AM

      Oh, do we hear the sound of air blowing through an empty head?? I don't think calling yourself "obama girl" gives you any credibility. I bet your favorite color is "clear."

      • Posted By: yupik1 @ 07/20/2008 11:11:05 AM

        Bet it's not as clear as the space between your ears!!! Anyone who openly professes to have more credibility than others, usually has little or no credibility themselves!

    • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/20/2008 11:06:34 AM

      Idiot

  • Posted By: Spacer @ 07/19/2008 10:27:05 AM

    "McCain has rightly hammered away at Obama's failure to visit Afghanistan at all and not to have traveled to Iraq since January 2006."
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    McCain "rightly" attacked Obama only in your biased corporate media opinion, All that can be gathered on such trips are anecdotal evidence about what's going on.

    And McCain, despite his many trips to Iraq, still doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shia. That goes to show that it doesn't matter how many places a politician if he's more interested in warmongering than in learning about the culture of the countries he visits. The events in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan prove that Obama has learned more about what's going on in the world while staying at home than McCain has in all his taxpayer-funded junketeering.

    This line of attack on Obama is really stupid, so I'm not surprised the corporate media are starting to parrot it.

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 07/19/2008 10:45:53 AM

      oh boo hoo,
      They finally said something about my savior without their lips on his azz. Whaaaaaaaa
      Cry me a river sheep, cry me a river.

      • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/20/2008 11:10:58 AM

        cry you as trailer trash

  • Posted By: abfabinri @ 07/19/2008 10:47:03 AM

    He can't persuade me he can even lead America never mind the rest of the world. If the world is looking for a black person who has lead a prosperous nation, they will not find one as there has not been a black person, man or woman who has led a nation that was even close to being prosperous. War, famine, corruption and ethnic cleansing is the norm for black leaders...I suppose I must be a racist for saying this? History is history and I can't change that. If only he had some experience or a history of making decisions, he has neither and half the time he voted "uncommitted" to avoid political fallout. He is just another politician...nothing more nothing less.

    • Posted By: no bigots here @ 07/20/2008 11:09:49 AM

      go back to your trailer trash residence, put your head between your legs, and cut a whole out of your chest to see the world

    • Posted By: larocco @ 07/19/2008 11:27:29 AM

      Since you're asking - Yes you are racist - and stupid, /abd Sen Barack Obama is not just another politician - He is a superb politician that graduated at the top of his class at Harvard - unlike Bush how "was gradusted" as a favor to Papa Bush, and Mr McCain - 5th from the bottom.
      Isn't it time that we had a really smart President??

      • Posted By: dmcs @ 07/19/2008 9:46:24 PM

        I guess the Americans who strongly approve of McCain, as being a leade,r probably graduated at the bottom of their class also. Americans do seem to have become dumber, especially, after electing a class
        clown for president, twice!

    • Posted By: the-commish @ 07/19/2008 8:44:42 PM

      Nelson Mandela. Nuff said.

    • Posted By: summer1216 @ 07/19/2008 12:40:22 PM

      You ARE unfortunately racist for saying that. Black leaders have not had an opportunity to hold the highest office in countries where war, famine, corruption and ethnic cleaning are the order of the day, but they will. I`m surprised you didn't see that yourself.

  • Posted By: amendment2man @ 07/20/2008 9:41:59 AM

    It is a test that he cannot pass as his background reflects. when compared to Mccain; obama is vastly deficient in the worl leader department and this recent whirlwind world tour is an attempt to convince the American public(excluding his blind and deaf suport base) that he is leadership material.

    Sorry obama but you get a D+ not quite a failing grade but close to it. he is most unpricincipled and blows with the wind of percieved public opinion. you cannot be all things to all people. principled individuals take a stand. in the end he will be another george mcgovern who lost by a landslide after being touted as a winner thru the "youth" vote.

    He thinks that visiting these places is going to give him credentials well sir it takes more than 1 trip but an immersion in the processes and factors which make up this complicated patchwork of tactics and deft negotiation. obama you just dont have it.

  • Posted By: Perusing-through @ 07/20/2008 5:54:15 AM

    Sorry Mr. Michael Hirsh, I don't see it the way you portray it. I definitely don't agree with the article's last sentence: . . "It is a test that Obama must still pass, starting now".

    In the eyes of the wise and independent thinkers, Senator Obama has already passed that test. It is with short-sighted political ideologues and Limbaugh/Hannity ditto-heads that the struggle remains for Obama to illustrate his world-class leadership skills. The ditto-heads resistance is often fueled by unfounded fears and masked hatred.

    Senator Barack Obama impresses me as a very WISE leader, and with good logic & smarts to boot. These are virtues not seen in a U.S President for a very long time. McCain is too reckless and quick-tempered to match Obama's good judgment which is tempered with wisdom. If McCain was to win the presidency, he would not only exacerbate the Iraq & mid-east mess brought on by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld; he would also worsen the Nation's energy & economic woes.

    Senator Obama has already proven his metal when he stood alone as a lowly field mouse against the vaunted EXPERINCES of hawks like McCain and Cheney, and audaciously pronounced the Iraq offensive as foolish and atrociously conceived. McCain waited 4-years until 3,500 soldiers were killed and $400-billion was spent before he began to register real complaints about the direction of the war.

    For Independent thinkers with a love for wisdom, its pretty clear Senator Obama is "The Chosen One". Wisdom dictates Obama should be the next Commander-in-Chief to return U.S. from its chaotic stupor back to the hope of the world. But whether the uneducated Billy Bob's of West Virginia or the 65-year old Iris O'Shaughnessy of Pennsylvania sees it that way is between GOD and the uneducated Wal-Mart shopping ditto-heads West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

  • Posted By: jeffwtux @ 07/18/2008 2:56:22 PM

    The reality is American's who are losing their healthcare, paying over $4/gallon for gas don't really think "the success of the surge in Iraq" is the ultimate issue that the media or GOPs do. Whether it 's a success or not doens't change the fact that we have wasted $600 billion of OUR MONEY that SHOULD BE SPENT IN AMERICA IMPROVING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, NOT THEIRS.

    • Posted By: summer4077 @ 07/18/2008 3:59:47 PM

      Couldn't agree more. I think most Americans are getting pretty sick and tired of building up Iraq, having the war lords destroy it, building it up again, etc etc. That area of the world has been embroiled in conflict since before Christ--what makes us think we're going to change it? All we're doing is depleting our financial resources that are desperately needed at home. We need the troops, and our dollars, home now.

      • Posted By: pastorvm @ 07/18/2008 5:07:22 PM

        I apbolutely agree. We need to improve our situation in this cou;ntry and we cannot do that if we are constantly taking our rescouces elsewhere. Bring ou;r troops home and use the billions of dollors to improve our country.
        Vern, Richmondm, VA

        • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:32:37 PM

          Obama???s background activities for his supporters to consider!!

          It is very apparent that most Obama supporters have relied on Obama???s rhetoric and think they know him, but really they know nothing about him, and even in some cases, they prefer not to know anything about him. Many are so blind and caught up in his ???hope and change??? message that they just will not listen to the real truth. I feel so sorry for them, but I feel even worse for this country and future generations if this UNKNOWN is elected. Below are facts that Obama supporters need to think deeply about and to be sure that they are satisfied that this is the person to whom they are ready to trust the presidency of their country and the commander-in-chief of their brave military men and women.

          . Obama sat in a church for 20 years listening to a minister who hates America, as well as, white Americans. He was close enough to this minister to call him his ???uncle???. This minister of hate married the Obamas and baptized their children. Obama also exposed his children to the hate messages. Use your heads; when Obama said he had never heard these hate messages, do you honestly believe him?

          . Obama was close friends with William Ayers, a known domestic terrorist in the Weatherman terrorist group who tried to bring down our government by bombing federal buildings. The Weatherman???s philosophy was, ???Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that???s where it???s really at.??? In 2001, Ayers told the NYT, ???I don???t regret the bombings.??? Well, if domestic aren???t enough reason for you to raise a red flag on Obama, former Sandanista Rebel Leader, Daniel Ortego praised Obama???s campaign as revolutionary. Also, during an interview, a top Hamas political advisor essentially endorsed Obama.

          • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:35:24 PM

            . William Ayers and Obama were paid directors of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that described itself as a group helping the disadvantaged. Obama , along with Ayers gave speeches together. They lived in the same neighborhood and their children attended the same school. Ayers also help Obama jumpstart his political career. Ayers contributed $200 to Obama???s senatorial campaign fund and served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements. Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

            . The Woods Fund provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) in 2001, for which Rashid Khalidi???s wife, Mona, served as president. The fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002. The pro-Palestinian movement on Columbia???s campus is led by Rashid Khalidi, who holds the Edward Said Chair for Middle East Studies and was director of the official PLO press agency, WAFA from 1976 to 1982 (this was at the time that the U. S. State Department considered the PLO a terrorist group). Columbia University has become a hotbed of pro-Palestinian, anti- Israel, and anti-American activism. Khalidi has been a major supporter of calling for Ahmadinejad, the Iranian radical president, to speak at Columbia???s campus, which Ahmadinejad did on Monday, September 24, 2007. Both Ahmadinejad and Khalidi call for the destruction of Israel, with Khalidi praising the 4-year Palestinian second intifada which left hundreds of Israelis dead. Khalidi has also called Israel an ???apartheid system in creation??? and a ???racist state???.

            • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:37:48 PM

              . Prior to going to Columbia, Khadili was a Middle East professor at the University of Chicago where he befriended none other than U. S. presidential candidate Obama. In an unsuccessful bid for the U. S. House of Representatives in 2000, Khalidi held a successful fundraiser in his home for Obama where he developed the admiration of another Palestinian activist, Ali Abunimah. In 2000, Abunimah recalled, ???He came with his wife. That???s where I had a chance to really talk to him. It was an intimate setting. He convinced me he was very aware of the issues and critical of U. S. bias toward Israel and lack of sensitivity to Arabs. He was very supportive of U. S. pressure on Israel. In addition, at a going away party for Khalidi in 2004 to celebrate his new professorship at Columbia, Obama gave a testimonial on his behalf.

              . Obama has established ties with Sojourners, a liberal Christian group (with emphasis on liberal) as a way to burnish his religious credentials and gain political strength. This very same group is supportive of Hamas, a vicious Palestinian terror group responsible for the deaths of many innocent people and a group that indoctrinates it???s youth to hate, not to mention to the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews.

              • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:41:30 PM

                Nadhmi Auchi is a controversial Iraqi-born British billionaire who, ???set up a variety of deals with Saddam Hussein???s regime prior to the 1991 Gulf War, and was one of the largest private shareholders in BNP Paribas, the bank that trafficked most of the funds involved in the U. N. Oil-for-Food scandal. He also admitted taking kickbacks from the French petroleum company, TotalFinaElf in the 1990s (Auchi later sued Elf for Entangling him in their criminal activities, according to Forbes.) Just weeks after winning the Democratic U. S. Senate primary in 2004, Obama was the guest of Antoin ???Tony??? Rezko at a party for the controversial British billionaire whom Rezko was trying to lure into an investment, a witness testified Monday at Rezko???s corruption trial. ???Stuart Levine, the government???s star witness, said Obama and his wife, Michelle, were among the guests at Rezko???s home on April 3, 2004, for the party honoring Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born tycoon currently appealing a fraud conviction in France.??? The (London) Times discovered state documents in Illinois recording that Fintrade Services, a Panamanian company, lent money to Obama???s fundraiser in May, 2005. Fintrade???s directors include Ibtisam Auchi, the name of Mr. Nadhmi Auchi???s wife. Mr. Auchi???s spokespeople declined to respond to a question about whether he was linked to this business.

                • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:42:59 PM

                  Obama is weak and ignorant when it comes to terrorism as indicated in an interview with CNN. Obama said, ???What I think that we have to do is transfer them to military prisons and make sure that they are receiving the due process that is necessary. Those who we have tried and we find are not culpable, we need to release. Those who have committed terrorist acts or helped terrorism, we need to imprison. And ??? and so, you know, we have experience dealing with these issues. We ??? we???ve, very effectively, tried and convicted those who were responsible for the first attack on the World Trade Center. There was no sense that somehow or other we were getting soft on them. But it was done in a way that was consistent with our ??? our belief in due process and the rule of law. And it sent a message around the world that, even under duress, we???re going to stay true to our values.??? As you know, not all the terrorists involved in that bombing was not caught, tried, and convicted. The terrorists, that were not caught, immediately laid plans to completely destroy the World Trade Center, which they did on 9/11. The Clinton administration did nothing to capture the remaining guilty terrorists. Obama doesn???t get it. All terrorists throughout the world must be captured or destroyed.

                  . Obama???s wife, Michelle, gave her opinion of the United States many times. She stated clearly that she ???I am proud of my country for the first time in my adult life,??? and that, ???In 2008, America is a mean country.??? These are not slips of the tongue. These are the kind of things that are taught by Reverend Wright. When you sit in his church for 20 years and listening to his ???hate America??? speeches, you have to be agreeing with at least some of his feelings.

                  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:44:38 PM

                    Obama does not know this country very well and he wants to lead it as president. When he said, ???We have been to 57 states and we only have one left to go,??? that should have been a clear signal of his lack of knowledge of this country. I am sure most of his supporters just let that go and that is scary. He never came back and acknowledged the mistake, corrected it, and explained why he said it.

                    . Obama said that he was embarrassed that Americans visiting other countries didn???t know other languages. I don???t know about you, but I am not embarrassed. It is good that Americans know other languages, but it shouldn???t be mandatory and you should not be embarrassed by not knowing anything, but English. He should be more supportive of immigrants coming to this country and learning English. It would make them more competitive in the job market and help them blend into our society and our customs..

                    . Obama said that it looked bad around the world when the United States had 3 % of the world population and used 25% of the energy. He said that we looked bad to other countries if we didn???t drive fuel efficient automobiles and set our thermostats on 78 degrees. He doesn???t consider that we are the most developed nation in the world and we are automated. I think it is good that we conserve where we can comfortably do so, but he should not be trying to set our progress back a few years. He should support more oil drilling, nuclear power plants, renewable energy, and new energies so that we can maintain our standard of living. The poor people are suffering, yet Obama says that the high price of gasoline is good because it will force Americans to conserve energy. Poor people will starve because they can???t get to the store or can???t afford the high prices of goods caused by the high prices of fuels. And, really, who cares what other countries think about how we use energy?

                    • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:46:17 PM

                      . Obama wants to weaken our military. This is what he said, ???First, I???m the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president, I will end it. Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems???and I will institute an independent Defense Priorities Board to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending. Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal I will not develop new nuclear weapons???I will seek a global ban on the development of fissile material???and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off of hair-trigger alert???and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.???

                      . As a state senator, with no power to vote on national issues or without access to any privileged information, Obama was against the going to war in Iraq. But, why was he against the war? On what information was he basing his decision? Do you want a president to make decisions because of his feelings or inner beliefs, or do you want him to make decisions based on privileged information and knowledge? Was Obama just lucky? I think not!! I think his decision was based on his association with shady characters. I think he was trying to protect their interests.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 07/18/2008 4:13:04 PM

      Supporters of the war say the surge is successful becuase the bar for success has been lowered below the floor. Since when is a war that is costing us just as much in money, number of troops, and casualties, with little measurable political progress a "success" ?

  • Posted By: lillea @ 07/19/2008 4:58:43 PM

    Isn't if kind of funny that obama is against drilling for oil off shore to solve our foreign oil dependancy crisis because it won't develope immediate results...YET he feels that a speed course in foreign diplomacy will create immediate results. In light of this why should kids go to college and wait 4 or more years for a degree...this doesn't create immediate results.
    The guy is SO inconsistant in his reasoning. He depends ENTIRELY on circumstanscial ethics. The only things that work are the things that benefit him personally. America would never survive a presidency under his leadership. We need someone with core values and shows some consistancy.

    • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 07/19/2008 10:02:25 PM

      Well said and right on! Obama is all over the place, and does whatever is expedient. What does this guy stand for? What does he believe in? What are his core values? I cannot answer any of these questions and neither can his rabid followers.

  • Posted By: lordmi @ 07/19/2008 3:09:06 PM

    Well. To make more short and powerful statement here, just try to draw a picture of McBush coming same places. ( in fact - he did).
    The WORLD would be indifferent. ( And it was). And will, and will.
    It is our media, who develops that Tale about a hero. Come on. That's where from he was watching the war. So , how much could he see? And HOW that qualified him for Commander???s role?
    No more, than washing dishes experience qualified someone to run First Class restaurant,
    You name it other parallels. just last week we saw those people released from Cambodia. So - did they get experience ALSO to pretend to be Commander? We heard, what did the see. Do You really propose it matters? To lead the World? After 6 years isolation out of the World ?T hat is to show how much experience McBush got from Vietnam war. He missed that war. So where GOP is trying to refer ??? to that little window of prisoner? (With all respect to courage of his and those Cambodia prisoners).
    That is why , from a Distance the World is NOT confirming ANY ability of McBush to lead, to win and to be taken into account in World Politics. He just has NO records for that. No experience and NO Judgment, that were confirmed with further development ??? in most he was wrong. That is why he dooes not have role in Global politics and No One expects him to get it.
    Period.

    • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 07/19/2008 10:00:58 PM

      Huh? That is perhaps the most unreadable post in the history of the internet.

  • Posted By: collegevoter @ 07/19/2008 1:38:52 PM

    What the heck is wrong with you conservatives? Look we let you tear up the country for 8 years. If anyone was a Messiah-like figure it was that moron Geroge W. Bush who you all clung to with a weird religious devotional intensity based on the fact he blabbered on about how he was "born again." It's not our problem your Party is: a) an utter failure and b) incapable of doing anything right.

    What do you want the American people to do? You morons screwed all of us over. We now have to fix it. Deriding Obama as "Nobama" or "Barry" or "Hussein" or "BHO" doesn't get us even ONE step closer to fixing our problems. So either come up with something substantial to say or SHUT UP!

    Why can't any of you ever give us reasons to vote FOR McCain instead of just AGAINST Obama? Could it be because you don't have any?

    • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 07/19/2008 9:53:52 PM

      The Congress under DNC "leadership" is in single digits ...and THAT'S really "fixing" it. The DNC leadership is way too buisy waging an AMERICANS SUCK FIRST campaign to pay attention to what Democrats at home want! Or anyone else!
      They got a bunch of suporters who they know believe if you hate someone--like Bush; Like Christians, like achievers or guno wners YOU CAN BEECH IN NIRVANA TONIGHT! And so AMERICANS SUCK FIRST is all you are going to get from those clowns!
      It's not a really good hate you got...but a programed one, from sevral poor discrimination campaigns. Thats why the Democrates can't lead...for now!

    • Posted By: GoHomeFascist @ 07/19/2008 2:17:31 PM

      While I agree with you 1000% you are wasting your time trying to reason with fascists. They will just call us communists or some equivalent which automatically ends the discussion, which is their whole point. If we were all to sit down and discuss our problems as a whole then we may actually SOLVE them, which fascists have absolutely no desire to do. The fact that we are all Americans makes no difference to them.

  • Posted By: Spacer @ 07/19/2008 2:51:31 PM

    The Prime Minister of Iraq has just endorsed Obama's 16-month timeline for US troop withdrawal:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/19/iraqi-pm-backs-obama-troo_n_113751.html

    That's sure to get McCain's knickers in a twist, I expect most of the corporate media will ignore this major news story, though, because it doesn't fit their "narrative" about how Obama is a foreign policy novice while McCain is a big foreign policy expert, never mind that he doesn't know the difference between Sunnis and Shias.



    • Posted By: Galasso @ 07/19/2008 2:57:49 PM

      Do you think they will "bump knuckles" when Obama meets Maliki for the very first time?

  • Posted By: plutocrat @ 07/19/2008 2:34:21 PM

    to be a commander reqires an up to date knowledge of of current events and national positions politically and militarily of the nations of this world/ mccain has none of this

  • Posted By: totheprint @ 07/19/2008 9:00:10 AM

    "Mission Accomplished", a phrase associated with completing a mission, is in recent years particularly associated with a sign displayed on USS Abraham Lincoln during a televised address by United States President George W. Bush on May 1, 2003 . Now McCain says "we've succeeded". Uh-huh and what will McCain say 5 years from now about Iraq if he is elected president? I imagine it'll be something like "Mission" is continuing to "Succeed". Once you enter into the devil's playpen you'll be forever obligated to win your way out of "hell". Terrorism is not a state, a region nor a place. It is a mindset and all the U.S. military we have to offer cannot change the mindset that is terrorism. Obama has the right vision for the U.S.A. McCain does not because he has the same vision as Bush "win at any cost" even if it takes "a 100 years". Oh and this war was all in the name of taming terrorism? No sir, this war was orchestrated by Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and their cronies, all for the sake of oil. McCain is an appendage of the Cheney-Bush legacy.

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 07/19/2008 11:01:43 AM

      Never ever stated 100 yrs of war. Manipulating the truth a tad I see.
      Must be desperate...

      • Posted By: GoHomeFascist @ 07/19/2008 2:04:56 PM

        No one said it was 100 years of war. Mcclone said "Make it 100" when referring to how long we will OCCUPY this foreign nation. Even if there are no casualties (which he did specify) we are still paying $10 Billion a month to stay there. Even a child can see that this is unsustainable. THAT is the problem that most people have with what he said. I am not a left wing radical but I'm sure in your opinion anyone to the left of Jesse Helms is a left wing nutjob...

  • Posted By: ndrock @ 07/19/2008 1:33:14 PM

    The sky must be starting to fall!! Look out!! Newsweek has printed a story on their God Obama that might have a slant to it!!! Stand back, the *** must be hitting the fan in the newsroom today!!

  • Posted By: citron16 @ 07/19/2008 1:32:26 PM

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

  • Posted By: dunnhaupt @ 07/19/2008 1:31:00 PM

    McCain has only himself to blame by harping about overseas travel. Now Obama is the candidate who most recently visited the Middle East., and McCain's pathetic Iraq visit is past history..

  • Posted By: benvictor @ 07/19/2008 12:58:00 PM

    With less than 4 months until the election, General Obama has landed and in ONE week will try to gain foreign policy/national security experience and to try to show some semblance of being a commander. Worse, he has 300 foreign policy advisers, no two of whom can agree on anything. Pray for America.

    • Posted By: Dollared @ 07/19/2008 1:09:00 PM

      Benvictor,
      Pray that America will have the wisdom to take advantage of this opportunity to move in new, more Christlike foreign policy with a leader that hasn't spent his whole life in the military.

  • Posted By: Dollared @ 07/19/2008 1:07:07 PM

    Wow. Fake media narrative? Check.
    Dramatic overstatement of value of visitng US-controlled spaces in two countries the US can't control? Check
    Dramatic overstatement of McCain's credibility despite the fact that he has been wrong on Iraq since 2003? Check

    Hirsh is just echoing McCain talking points. Pure stenography.

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