‘Ich bin ein Commander’

When will Newsweek openly proclaim its support for John McCain? This piece of fluff looks it was written by McCain's PR staff.

I don't have to go to Iraq to know I don't want to spend $10billion a month to protect Israel! That's all the Iraq war is about...protecting Israel. What good has come out of the Iraq war for the US? Nothing...0...zip...not one good thing. But Israel has one less enemy and they haven't spent money or lives! We did all for them.

Americans really like dumb leaders. They get scared everytime they have to listen to one who speaks in words of more than 2 syllables

Here you go toe tappers, let me just spread your propaganda and innuendo for you so you can take a break from inhaling "neo-con" gas under Rush Limba ba's desk.

The economy has made great progress. Obama supporters are welfare sponges. Democrats are traitors. Republicans are patriots. America is admired around the world. The constitution is for weaklings. Everyone to the left of Dick Cheney is a socialist. We now own Mexico and China. The Saudis beg us for more oil. The millions facing foreclosure are whiners. The largest income inequality since the Great Depression is meaningless. Al-Qaeda has been destroyed. Iran has been weakened. Federal spending over the last 8 years has reduced by a trillion dollars. Scientific facts are a liberal conspiracy. 82% who think the country is on the wrong track drink kool-aid. 66% who disapprove of Bush are communists. Upper-income tax cuts during war make sense. The dollar has never been stronger. NAFTA creates jobs. Only greedy poor people and the media bellyache about skyrocketing gas prices.

After 8 years of the greatest president of all time, Obama will destroy America.

" . . . for many voters, [McCain] has already passed this test."

True, but he never passed it from the point of view of the Navy, which in his 23 years as an officer never gave him a sea command, or command of a combat-ready unit. Why not? Come on, Newsweek, there's a story here. Do some reporting instead of stroking your chin and re-stating the obvious.

Incompetency breeds insecurity. Thus Obama and camp's defensive posture of playing the race card at every scrutiny. America is not ready for a hyphenated (-) American as President. Our heritage is not color or tradition, although often molded by such. Our heritage is the reality of who we are in our generation. Obama does not have enough life experience to pass the "Commander-in-Cheif" test.

Incompetency breeds insecurity. Thus, Obama and camp's defensive posture of playing the race card at every scrutiny. America is not ready for a hyphenated (-) American as President. Our heritage is not based on color or tradition although molded by such. Our heritage is the reality of who we are in our own generation. Obama does not have enough life experience to pass the "Commander-in-Cheif" test.

Anyone who claims to still be suspicious that Obama secretly harbors or sympathizes with the extremist views of Rev. Wright after actually listening to Obama's now famous speech was never going to vote for Obama in the first place. All the anti-Obama voters are jumping on the lynch-wagon because they see it as a way to bring Obama down, not because they honestly believe Obama to be an extremist. So let them rant and rave. The polls show their fury is barely even fraying Obama's support at the edges. And in a way, they have actually helped Obama (1) by reminding everyone that Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim and (2) by dispelling any notion that Obama can not stand up to the Republican attack machine.

Not only will he stand up, he will do it with grace, courage and brilliance and I would be honored to call Barack Obama President.

Evax

If Wrights all you toe tappers got then I can't wait for Nov.

This is just a bunch of faked media narative trying to add drama to the election. Why? So we don't realize that it's over, Obama will win, and that will probably reduce readership because there will be fewer crises and wars.

They want to keep us on the edge of our seats. Net effect: the media covers for McCain and attacks Obama. Totally biased and unprofessional, but they are not in it to inform us, only to make money

"Ich bin ein Commander" are you serious? If you don't have knowledge of the language, don't try to be witty. It makes you look foolish. There is an ignorance in some circles where some believe the term "Führer" means "Adolf Hitler." It doesn't. Führer simply means leader. "Ich bin der Führer." Get it right!

Obama finally making it to Iraq, Israel, Europe.....about time. Maybe this is the new way of the modern man - certainly very typically men, that go for jobs far beyond their experience and expertise, while a woman would only apply for the job, when thoroughly prepared for it. We see it in everyday work life, and we´ve seen it in the primaries; men jump at things more easily, and seemingly with more self-esteem, while women gather more information and skills first.
Sometimes it works out for you, sometimes it don´t.
Sometimes you´re a great addition to the company, sometimes not, as the "pretend to know"/fake becomes obvious.

It can work in an everyday job......but when applying for the job as President of the United States of America?

Obama now rushing to Europe - after being leader of a committee for European affairs for over a year, without conducting a single meeting, nor having gone to Europe - and talking bravely and confidently about the Iraq war, without military experience, and without having been on site and talked to the generals...

This sounds to me like someone who has applied for an important, big job, saying he can do this and that in his job interview - and is now hurrying over to some evening class to catch up, and learn quick as in the hot place, so he at least know which words to use when on the board meeting.

A PR stunt. But - if really, really interested in a job career - wouldn´t you just take the classes and get the experience first, if for nothing else - just out of sheer interest? And THEN speak about things and your convictions in big words?

I do feel Barack Obama is doing things a bit backwards - jumping where he is more or less forced to jump, when pressure is on, more than having built a solid base before diving into this. Again, the terms "work horse" vs "show horse" comes to mind.....

Mr. Obama: A case of missing identity


While Mr. Obama attempts a remedial course in foreign relations within a campaign of European public relations, the American people know better than to buy this steaming heap of propaganda.

We remember JFK.
We remember RFK
And we remember Dr. King.

Mr. Obama, sir? You are not one of them. Not even close.

Who do you take us for, anyway?

So stop trying to ride their coattails every which way with your feigned "statesmanship," rolled white shirtsleeves, retro-stylized PR, and weekly reinventions.

Run a campaign on substance, not subliminals.

In fact...

Try developing a legacy of your OWN instead.

What a concept.

Amazing that the corporate media didn't hold Bush-boy (who had no foreign policy experience) to the same high standards back in 2000 when he was running for president, as it now holds Obama. Had the media done so, we might have avoided the disasterous foreign policy that Bush-boy has lead us into, which has made us enemies all over the world and nearly backrupted the country.

The choice is clear. Oppose Bush - McCain and Iraq vote Obama. Obama has nothing to prove on foreign policy judgement, McCain does.

McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has attended zero of his committee's six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years.

Meanwhile, Obama attended the full Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan in March 2007, although he used the opportunity to ask Gen. James L. Jones, then the commander of NATO, about Pakistan.

Jones also came before the Senate Armed Services Committee that week. But McCain was a no-show.

The findings are surprising given the fact that the McCain campaign loudly criticized Obama this week for failing to schedule any hearings on Afghanistan in the last year and a half. Obama chairs the European Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has oversight of military operations in Afghanistan.