Obama Abroad

OBAMA SAYS: Dont tell me words dont matter!


OBAMA WORDS: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela -- these countries are TINY compared to the Soviet Union. They DONT pose a serious threat to us!


TWO Days later . . .


OBAMA WORDS: Iran is a GREAT threat! Iran is a GREAT threat (REALLY)! Iran is a GREAT threat (I AM NOT KIDDING HERE)!


WHAT does Obama really believe?? What are we supposed to think if he tells us words DO matter and he flip flops on such a major belief issue??.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lx-QcstDcU

John MCCain is a Biggest LIAR.?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19451.htm

check yourself HOLY....everybody already know WHO's real John MCain only People like still sleeping....Wake up !!! and smell the rose..

Great article. Thank you. Restores my belief in the value of journalism to inform and engage.

Nothing is more critical to Our Own National Security than assuring that future generations of leaders around the world think of America as a progressive force that will benefit their lives rather than an "evil empire" intent on dominating them and preventing them from achieving their own aspirations. Like it or not, it is this latter message that George W. Bush has sent to young people world-wide.

The Bush years have convinced vast numbers of young people around the globe that America is the country of neo con unilateralism and preemptive war. It will be very difficult for us to change those perceptions as the current generation of young people ages and takes on responsibilities for running their countries. When it comes to public perception we will pay the price for George W. Bush for years to come. Those perceptions will damage our security for many years.

We can't afford to lose another generation. Barack Obama's election -- especially if it is decisive -- would go some distance to shock even those in the "Bush generation" into re-evaluating the way they view America.

In the United States, presidents are more than decision-makers and leaders. They are Chiefs of State, symbolic embodiments of the values that define our country. This week Americans -- and people around the globe -- will get a glimpse of what it would be like if Barack Obama becomes the personal embodiment of America in the 21st Century. I believe they will like what they see.

How can a foreign trip affect Barack Obama's domestic presidential campaign?

Of course it doesn't hurt that on the first day of Barack Obama's journey, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki edged very close to endorsing his plan for American troops to withdraw from Iraq. In an interview in Der Spiegel he is quoted as saying: "U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes".

The trip will highlight the fact that it isn't just the American people who want us to leave Iraq -- all of the polls of the Iraqi people want us out as well -- and now so does the U.S.-backed Prime Minister of Iraq. That leaves Bush, McCain and the neo cons as the only people around still committed to their reckless program of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq far into the future. It puts in full relief McCain's flawed judgment when it comes to foreign policy.

Of course, by making his first stop the front lines in Afghanistan, Obama also emphasized once again how Bush, McCain and the neo cons have taken their eye off the ball by diverting resources to an "elective" war in Iraq and away from the central front where terrorist cells intent on attacking the United States are actually organized.

As Barack Obama began his trip to the Middle East and Europe, the media was already speculating about the possibility of a gaffe. Barack Obama's travel "carries political risk," the New York Times reported, "particularly if Barack Obama makes a mistake."

But the only foreign policy error made in the last few days came this morning on ABC's Good Morning America, when John McCain made ANOTHER geography gaffe while trying to criticize Obama's visit to Iraq. (Just last week, McCain repeatedly referred to Czechoslovakia, a country that hasn't existed since 1993.)

Asked by Diane Sawyer whether the "the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent," McCain responded: "I think it's serious. . . . It' a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border."

But as Rick Klein noted: "Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border. Afghanistan and Pakistan do."

Extend you geographical pain with your vote for McCain

Please you dont even understand how to speaks spanish yet you're talking Hispanic community..get lost with your bullshit.....Im a volunteer for Hispanic Community,I know better than you HOW THEY feels right now...so go away

I speaks 3 languages beside Spanish....you aslo as a vlounteer for Hispanic Community in my area

Massive damage has already been done to American society by those who own and operate the economy. Candidates are representatives of the wealthy. U.S. foreign policy is run for the benefit of a few rapacious wealthy, at the expense of millions of people all over the world. Fareed knows our history, but the interpretation is in need of sharpening. Perhaps the book "The Great War For Civilisation" by Robert Fisk should be required reading for all political candidates running for public office in America.

el Idioma español docente, Im el miembro de la Comunidad española en Florida. Usted sabe tuerca acerca de personas hispanas que siente, soy respetado por personas hispanas

Iraqi backing of Obama plan irks the Bush White House....


WASHINGTON - The White House expressed unhappiness Monday about Iraqi leaders' public backing for Barack Obama's troop withdrawal timetable. And it said that Baghdad may be trying to use the U.S. presidential election as leverage in talks about the future of American's military presence and obligations in the war.





Bush last week reversed course and agreed to set a "general time horizon" for bringing home more U.S. troops, based on Iraq's ability to take care of its own security.




Al-Maliki's spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, initially appeared to try to discredit the magazine report but on Monday he expressed hopes that U.S. combat forces could be out of Iraq by 2010, the timeframe proposed by Obama.

Buoyed by a sharp reduction in violence, Iraqi leaders have become more assertive about the country's sovereignty, giving rise to demands for a specific plan for American forces to leave.

Another puff piece of the Obama adoring media. In reality, Obama has no foreign policy. What goes for Obama foreign policy is the cold calculation of a corrupt Chicago politician using 300 advisors for local consumption. Whatever the views of any given day will give him points to get the position of power he craves, he will present it on that day without regard to being the complete opposite of the position espoused yesterday. That's why it's so nuanced and vague. Not because he's a Realistic Idealist of Idealistic Realist but because it has to be kept vague so that it can be completely different tomorrow.

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