Obama Abroad

Latino voters are coming in masses to the Democratic nominee Barack Obama. Sorry about your luck McCain. Independent votes and Swing states will follow suit after Obama crushes McCain in the debates. We support the troops 100% in all they do as my family members and friends in the war zone, we are praying for you day in and day out. God Bless you guys. End the War. Bring them home.

Barack means "blessed." With him we will have a new birth of freedom. Real freedom. The freedom that comes from being united by him under one common purpose. He loves us and understands us. We hunger for meaning and he will provide it. With malice towards none and charity towards all, he will reconcile us with the world. However, to whom much is given much is expected and Barack will expect that we will all give according to our abilities and receive according to our needs. That we have found him is the miracle of our lifetime. That he has found us is our good fortune. Onwards to victory. As to McCain, old soldiers never die, they just fade away. Oh what joy awaits us. Cubs win the World Series in October. Obama ascends to the Presidency in November.

I like this one....apparently Obama decided it was better to go to Paris than visit Troops in Germany.

???The senator decided out of respect for these servicemen and women that it would be inappropriate to make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign,??? Mr. Gibbs said.

But it's okay when he is spending Tax dollars for essentially a campaign trip? No one will argue that Obama's World Tour is a campaign trip....so why the discrepancy? Why is it okay to be photographed making a 3-pointer, but not okay to take a photo with a soldier that lost his leg from a IED?

Semi-Senile on the "Surge"

The major Sunni sheik who John McCain said was protected by the surge and subsequently helped lead the Anbar Awakening, was actually assassinated by an al-Qaeda led group in midst of the surge.

On Tuesday evening, McCain falsely claimed that the downturn in violence in Iraq's Anbar province was a result of the surge, when in fact the surge began months afterward. Moreover, he said, if it weren't for the work of U.S. forces, the major Sunni figure leading that awakening wouldn't have had the protection he needed.

"Colonel MacFarland was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks," said the Senator. "Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening."

The Arizona Republican's campaign went further the next day, claiming that the major figures that turned around Anbar province would have been killed had the surge policy not been in place. "If Barack Obama had had his way, the Sheiks who started the Awakening would have been murdered at the hands of al Qaeda," said spokesman Tucker Bounds.

Sadly, that murder took place even with the surge underway. In September 2007, Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, the sheik widely credited with persuading Sunni leaders to turn against al Qaeda in Iraq, died in a bomb attack in Anbar. His work, prior to then, was held as a major effort in transforming the province from one of Iraq's deadliest areas into one of its safest.

It was in a September 2006 interview with UPI, when U.S. Army Col. Sean MacFarland first spoke about Sattar's efforts. "Some of the sheikhs have begun to step forward and some of the insurgent groups began to fight against al Qaeda," he said. His reference was Sattar, according to a Reuters article published upon the sheik's death.

Below is more from the Reuters article on Sattar's death:

"When U.S. Army Col. Sean MacFarland, working in his Pentagon office last Thursday, heard that a tribal leader had been killed in Iraq's Anbar province, his first reaction was: "Please don't let it be Sattar."
His fears proved well-founded. A bomb had killed Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, the founder of a movement of Sunni leaders who turned against al Qaeda in Iraq, who are also Sunnis, and transformed Anbar from one of Iraq's deadliest areas into one of its safest.

MacFarland is in a unique position to offer insights into the movement Sattar led and how it may develop without him. As a brigade commander in Iraq, he was present at the alliance's founding and worked closely with Abu Risha for months.

"I owe him a lot," MacFarland said. "He was a young guy with a great vision of the future and he was a fast friend of the United States."

Mr. Ethics, Obama needs to take a refresher on campaign contributions....it appears that his gala in Berlin might not be legal in the US.

Title III: Miscellaneous??????.(Sec. 303) Amends FECA to revise the ban on campaign contributions from foreign nationals to include donations, expenditures, independent expenditures, disbursements for an electioneering communication, as well as contributions or donations to any political party committee.

Did his campaign pay for the security or bands or balloons in Berlin?

Z, I left you replies to your posts way down below the page. Thanks. Later.........

This is during the Bush Admin!!!!!!!! There are nuclear weapons being flown across the nation by these people. The reason our soldiers are falling asleep (with launch codes) is because our troops are spread too thin. They are having to work triple shifts because there are not enough staff to fill in.

The war was unnecessary and now we are in threat from this Administration's incompetence by soldiers falling asleep with tactical information and nuclear launch codes, Nuclear missiles being flown across the country (Lord knows what would happen if one of them were "accidentally" dropped).

And then there is McCain, Bush's BFF, trying to take over the reigns. There is no national security!!!!!! The main thing we have to fear is McCain since he believes in Bush policy. He has stood behind Bush from the beginning and will continue his Gestapo style policing of the American people. I can't believe there are people willing to vote for this type of governance.

This man Obama is the most fabricated used car salesman (with a nice smile and good delivery) the media has ever tried to shove down our throats. And the European "peace at any cost" mentality is playing right into this fraud. America is not fooled by this.

Obama's lead is down to only 3 points (oh no!) in today's Gallop poll. Hello? Kerry had a 6 point lead over Bush in July 2004. The media's love fest is quickly killing Obama's campaign. (And the TV spots about his racist friend, Rev. Wright, are not even on yet)

Remember, this is the same nation that re-elected an unpopular George W. Bush in 2004....during....an unpopular war.
- McCain will win in November.

Man, the Europeans are really gonna hate us now. (weep, weep)

Semi-Senile John McCain on the the Bush Administation having Positive Effect on the Lowering of Gas prices, though in Fact it is the (Speculators) that Dictate Price Increase or Reduction. The Speculators are now Worried about the Congress, Senate, IRS and FBI Probing and Prosecuting them, thats why you SEE a Lowering of the Price at the Pump, Not the Bush Threats of Offshore Oil Drillings....Duh !!!

Earlier, campaigning in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., McCain credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of a presidential ban on offshore drilling, an action he has been advocating in his presidential campaign.

The cost of oil and gasoline is "on everybody's mind in this room," McCain told a town-hall meeting.

He criticized Obama for opposing drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf.

Bush recently lifted the executive order banning offshore drilling that his father put in place in 1990. He also asked Congress to lift its own moratorium on oil exploration on the outer continental shelf which includes coastal waters as close as three miles from shore.

"The price of oil dropped $10 a barrel," said McCain, who argued that the psychology of lifting the ban has affected world markets.

NOTE: The White House didn't go that far. Presidential SpokesWoman Dana Perino said the PRICE DROP also could reflect diminished demand.

"I don't know if we fully deserve the credit," Perino said.

Bush Administration: "We don't PREDICT what HAPPENS in the MARKET," she said. "We can't really tell. Certainly, taking that action would send a signal that at least the executive branch is serious about moving forward and increasing the supply we have in America."

A barrel of light, sweet crude fell $1.86 to $126.56 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That's down from more than $140 a barrel earlier in the summer. There are 42 gallons in each barrel.

OBAMA Takes Credit for passing a new bill and referring to the committee that passed it ( Senate Banking Committee) as HIS committee

OBAMA was not in any part a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (which he called HIS committee) when speaking to people on his Rock Tour. Talk about audacity. He has a record in the Senate for taking credit for other legislators work. This blatantly proves that case:

Oops, NoBoma:
http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Information.Membership

Oops, another NoBama:
http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Information.Subcommittees

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjzb61wfyN0

AUDIO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWNKO982ZEc


The closest he can claim anything about this new bill passed last week is that it included some provisions that he and 2 other senators in the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2007. That is it. Talk about being bombastic. It is amazing the levels he will go and tactics he will use for political expediency.

Fellow Viet Nam Vets Chime in on John McCain and his so called "Torture" at the hands of the N. Viet Namese !!!

A declassified DOD document reports an interview between POW McCain and Dr. Fernando Barral, a Spanish psychiatrist who was living in Cuba at the time. The interview was published in the Havana Granma in January 1970.

According to the DOD report, the meeting between Barral and McCain (which was photographed by the Vietnamese) took place away from the prison at the office of the Committee for Foreign Cultural Relations in Hanoi. During the meeting, POW McCain sipped coffee and ate oranges and cakes with his interrogator.

While talking with Barral, McCain seriously violated the military Code of Conduct by failing to evade answering questions "to the utmost" of his ability when he, according to the DOD report, helped Barral by answering questions in Spanish, a language McCain had learned in school.

1973 - McCain was released from the Hilton on March 15, 1973.

Two Former POWs Say They Doubt McCain Was Physically Abused

1999 - March 25, 1999, The Phoenix New Times: Ted Guy and Gordon "Swede" Larson, two former POWs, who were McCain's senior ranking officers (SRO's), at the time McCain says he was tortured in solitary confinement, told the New Times that while they could not guarantee that McCain was not physically harmed, they doubted it.

"Between the two of us, it's our belief, and to the best of our knowledge, that no prisoner was beaten or harmed physically in that camp [known as "The Plantation"]," Larson says. ". . . My only contention with the McCain deal is that while he was at The Plantation, to the best of my knowledge and Ted's knowledge, he was not physically abused in any way. No one was in that camp. It was the camp that people were released from."

Big Note: In 1993, during one of his many trips back to Hanoi, McCain asked the Vietnamese not to Make Public the Records they hold Pertaining to Returned U.S. POWs.

His travel abroad was a travesty. Can you imagine RFK pulling the same stint because he was "just" Attorney General under his Brother's Administration. When I visited the wailing wall, ( I am Christian, as Obama claims he is ) I stood at a great distance and did not approach, nor pretend to pray, or understand the sacrament that is the Wailing Wall. I felt it was my place to stay reverently at a distance and observe. The straw that broke my camel's back was seeing Barry Obama at The Wall, with a cap, observing, praying, or whatever the photo-op he was getting. Shame on you Obama. Stay at home, and do your work here, where it really counts. You are a feather-weight abroad, and everyone, but you, seems to know it.

As for Malaki's recent remarks concerning troop withdrawls....I think I'll stick with what the Generals want...we all know what happens when Politicians start dictating Military strategy. (ie Bush failed attemps in Iraq until the Surge started).

But Maliki's public utterances do not provide a reliable guide as to when it will be safe to pull out U.S. troops. Better to listen to the military professionals. The Post recently quoted Brig. Gen. Bilal al-Dayni, commander of Iraqi troops in Basra, as saying of the Americans, "We hope they will stay until 2020." That is similar to the expectation of Iraq's defense minister, Abdul Qadir, who says his forces cannot assume full responsibility for internal security until 2012 and for external security until 2018.
What would happen if we were to pull out much faster, on a 16-month timetable? Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond, commander of coalition forces in Baghdad, says that would be "very dangerous" -- the same words used by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202550.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Malaki is a politician who has been saying he can handle Iraq for the last 3 years....he like Obama never wanted the additional Troops from the Surge....yet he like Obama is trying to reap all the benefits....Without the Surge and its successes, Obama nor Malaki could even talk about a troop withdrawal right now.
Who has the judgment to lead...John McCain, who put his political life on the line for what he believed in.
Getting into Iraq was a mistake but don't double down on a mistake by punishing the Iraqis. What has Obama put his political life on the line for? Anything?

Here's our pal Barack Obama, saying that the Senate Banking Committee....."which is my committee,"... he says they passed some bill about something. Problem is, HE IS NOT ON the Senate Banking Committee at all. Maybe he meant to say he's on the SENATE LIARS COMMITTEE where he passed a bill about MAKING SH*T UP.

Hussein Obama....Liar Liar Pants on Fire. Well what can you expect from a CROOK and a FRAUD.

NOBAMA!!!

How many more articles in Newsweek do we have to endure about the new messiah, Barack Obama? Looking on the website, I see one Obama article after another. Some want to give advice to Obama, some want to laud his wonderful trip, etc. How many covers of Obama has Newsweek run versus McCain?
The media is becoming quite an embarassment to themselves. It seems instead of covering a Presidential campaign, most media outlets seem to think we are voting for the next American Idol.