Obama Abroad

What a bunch of drivel!! This is one moslem singing the praises of another moslem.

Oh My!!!

Obama Leads McCain in Battleground States Among Single Women!!

Poll: Obama Leads McCain 61-29 Among Unmarried Women Voters in Key States
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5416899

With 8 years of failure by conservatives, you have a cocktail for a beatdown. How is John McCain going to inspire the voter turnout for his party? His great speeches? Conservative talk radio? His flip-flop talk express bus overstuffed with Lobbyists? We all love to engage in punditry but the facts are the facts. Repubs do not have the votes to win. Outside of a total collapse (And I mean TOTAL colapse, not merely a split of the electorate)the Dem party they can offer up a broccoli f-art in a jar and still gain the White House.

What planet are you conservatives living on?

Sorry McCain. Good ridance Republican toe tappers.......I won't miss you.

Posted By: raddave @ 07/21/2008 13:28:19

Obama is 47, not 17. If elected, he will not be the youngest president. JFK was (44) when he took office. You speak of diapers, Obama is out of diapers, McCain is getting old enough to start wearing diapers again.


Russia's New President is age (42)

Bush served as Governor of Texas for 1 term and Straight to the White House....

Bush Jr. Had No National Experience, No International Experience and Definitely No War Exdperience...

Otherthan being Held Prisoner in Viet Nam for 5 Years, Mccain has No Record of Distinguished Service, otherthan his Fore Parents, his Naval Admiral Father and Grandfather.

McCain being Tabbed as the Viet Nam "Song Bird" for Devulging Classified Information and over 32 Anti-American Video Tapes....

Why is this man Running for President ?

If anyother Viet Nam Vet did what McCain did, they would be in Levensworth Prison an surely not Running for Any Political Office, moreover the Presidency of the USA.

Many of us who live in the USA feel much the same. It has been over six years since that small band of terrorists attacked the World Trade Centers, and our country has never been the same since. Our land of freedom and good will has become a land of suspicion and fear. It seems like the terrorists won. They planted the seed of fear in the hearts of our people. Our people allowed that seed to blossom into paranoia, then chose weak leaders willing to sacrifice our sacred freedoms in the name of security. Immediately after the 911 attack, people began to attach US flags on their cars. They pasted small signs on their window and auto bumpers with sayings like, "united we stand", "we shall never forget" and "God bless America". We call this "bumper sticker patriotism". These same people cowered at home, afraid to fly in any airplane, terrified of another attack. They became suspicious of all strangers. Our opportunistic politicians promised to restore our security by enacting precautionary laws and regulations. Slowly, they robbed us of our essential freedoms, all in the name of protection. Anyone who spoke against them was labeled a coward, a traitor or a fool.
I do not despair. Democracy has a resiliency that allows it to heal itself given enough time. The people of the USA are already beginning to awaken. They realize that our leaders have eroded our basic freedoms in the name of security, and they do not like it. Our last election was a beacon of hope. Many of the conservative exploiters of fear were removed from office. Slowly, our politicians are beginning to restore our cherished freedoms.
We are not a people who believe in aggression, in torture or in the violation of human rights. The foundation of our government is based on "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". We were once the beacon of hope for oppressed people in other lands and we want to gain that title back. Most of us can see that we erred in allowing our freedom to be sacrificed so cheaply. I think we will fight to restore it. Our courage is slowly returning.

I hope someone reads my comment and lets me know , This young idealist is bad form us Americans . He knows nothing of War , fighting the enemy . He doesnt even know who the enemy is? was,nt
This country was,nt made great by Blacks , whites , indians , spanish , catholism , muslims . It was made great by the Pilgrams who came w/ the Bible . Who set up the Government and led it .
*Why accept an anti-christ now . send him & his minister to palistine or arab muslim coutries and have
him run them . But he,s bad if or if he,s not elected . He will divide our country .

Great article Mr. Zakaria. I watched the televised interview, and this is a superb follow-up report. I sincerely hope it is widely read.

It seems like a direct supplemental to your report that the NY Times rejected Senator McCain's "response" attempt to Senator Obama's Op-Ed...

Instead of offering an intelligent opposing view, he attacked the messenger instead of the message... We learned that as early as grammar school english lit class...

I am a long time registered independent, but I find myself joining the ranks of those that say McCain just does not get it...

Russia's President is age (42) an he's an Educated Lawyer, who has no KGB or Military History.

Obama is 46, soon to be (47) and his Diplomacy Policies mentioned throughout the Dem. Primaries are Now bearing the CHANGE IN POLICY mentioned by Obama.

The Bush Administration is now working on a "Time Horizon" Opposed to calling it a "Timeline, Time Frame or Time Limit" and having Sit Down Diplomatic talks with Iran, though they said they would Not and lets not forget Bush's "Axis of Evil" North Korea, they had Direct talks as well.

Obama was and is ....Right

Note: All of a Sudden this has Happened this Weekend, along with British Prime Minister Brown, Visiting the Middle East Region as well, just Happenstence, I don't think so.


The Iraqi Government Hopes for a 2010 exit of US Military, a Exit that is actually Happening NOW and will Continue.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/20/obama-expected-to-meet-wi_n_113933.html

BAGHDAD ??? Iraq's government welcomed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday with word that it apparently shares his hope that U.S. combat forces could leave by 2010.

The statement by Iraq's government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, followed talks between Obama and Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki _ who has struggled for days to clarify Iraq's position on a possible timetable for a U.S. troop pullout.

Al-Dabbagh said the government did not endorse a fixed date, but hoped American combat units could be out of Iraq sometime in 2010. That timeframe falls within the 16-month withdrawal plan proposed by Obama, who arrived in Iraq earlier in the day as part of a congressional fact-finding team.

"We are hoping that in 2010 that combat troops will withdraw from Iraq," al-Dabbagh told reporters, noting that any withdrawal plan was subject to change if the level of violence kicks up again.

As he departed from talks with al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad's heavily protected Green Zone, Obama said, "We had a very constructive discussion." Obama also plans meetings with U.S. military commanders who will outline recent progress in the war he has opposed from the start.

This was the third stop on a foreign tour designed to gather information while burnishing the Democratic contender's foreign policy credentials. National security issues are the one issue area in which Obama trails Republican John McCain in the polls.

The Iraqi government comment on troop withdrawals could be embraced by the Obama campaign, but may irritate White House officials. The Bush administration has refused to set specific troop level targets and only last week offered to discuss a "general time horizon" for a U.S. combat troop exit.

At the White House on Monday, Press Secretary Dana Perino said she had not heard the latest statement from al-Dabbagh. But responding to the continuing debate over withdrawal, Perino said the U.S. shares the goal of bringing U.S. tro

I view McCain as a man with a military mindset and little else. He offers nothing new in terms of approaching any of the complex issues we face. He thinks on a very superficial level and shows no sign high intellect or intelligence. This is a country that values militarism and good old boy personality, and simplistic solutions. But it is also a country that recognizes a rare opportunity to choose a leader who rises far above the norm in intelligence, wisdom, and charisma. Obama is one of those rare opportunities.

Bush, Mccain and other responsible leaders, to include Democrats, oppose only ANNOUNCING a withdrawl plan from either Iraq or Afgahnistan! They don't object to withdrawing! They don't want to tip off a dangerous enemy as to the plan!
Obama loves to announce his intentions! Of course for political reason, and in his view the lives of our military people in these dangerous areas are EXPENDABLE, as compared to his desire to be President! This is a selfish and inept man!
The Americans Suck First Campaign he's running does not respect military professionals. 70% of Americans do not believe a timetable for withdrawing our troops should be announced! Obamas' own party is not creating conditions for an Obama Victory except, Or the DNC would be moving fast to get the Congress's approval up!
Obama is a naive idea-ist with no implimentation skills or successes. His practicle use was to flush the Clintons from the DNC, and that was other peoples' implementation! obama is awalking talking wedge issue, like Al Gore!

Pro Obama statements in a blanced article compared to pro-mccain statements.

Pro Obama:

-his critics are off the mark
-Obama is a cool conservative
-Obama rarely speaks in the moralistic tones
-Obama never uses the soaring language of Bush's freedom agenda
-Obama talks admiringly of men like Dean Acheson, George Kennan and Reinhold Niebuhr, all of whom were imbued with a sense of the limits of idealism and American power to transform the world.
-his view is certainly focused on America's core security interests and is recognizably realist
- Obama seems???unusually for a modern-day Democrat???highly respectful of the realist tradition
-Obama sees a world that is in many ways going our way

And thats not all of them. ZERO positive mccain quote/thoughts. AT LEAST a couple jabs at the Rep party and mccain thoughts. And a very good jab at mccain calling him a pessimist.

great job.

Obama is such a realist that he believes that:
Iran is a "tiny" country so it can't be a threat. Then his well-paid advisors educated him on foreign policy and he had to make a major revision that stupid statement.

Obama believed that a military surge would not help in Iraq and he wanted to withdraw the troops regardless of the consequences to the Iraqis. Then the surge worked just as John McCain said it would and now Obama and the liberal news media have to ignore these significant gaffes in foreign policy and come up with articles like this one.

Shame on Fareed Zakaria and Newsweek for misinforming the public to reach your political goals. Obama is dangerous for America.

He sees countries and even extremist groups as complex, motivated by power, greed and fear as much as by pure ideology.
From article! This is the most pure definition of who or what we are at war with, it's a true view of the BIG picture. His so called lack of experience is a soundbite. If he is lacking, he is learning at the same time, something Bush nor McCain can do! Just stay that course and the "surge" will work??? We spend 2 billion a day to stay, they pay,mm, well they live there, get the picture of patients outweighs power! We were guests, now they want us gone, do we leave-no to much profit to still be made!!! This makes us what they say we are, not what we say we are,invaders, controling there EVERY move, thought, and deal! Face it he is much smarter than anyone gave him credit for, and I look forward to his reign. As a Veteran maybe he will let me keep my military benifits, cause McCain will kill the benifits of every Cold War Vet, even if it's already known it was not so cold, but still war! Just not on paper as to who! Stop picking on a Cancer survivor! The after drugs are hard enough to deal with. As one who watched one die this way, they do say the wierdest things at the wrong time, on cue. So back off . Even if McCain had a stroke, they would still vote for a president in a coma, just cause there still American color blind!

Reality check. The problems that we face now in the area of foreign policy are the result of 60 years worth of bad decisions and lack of inaction on prudent issues (i.e. Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Darfur, using Afghanistan in a proxy war with the Soviets and then walking away from the responsiblities helping that country come back from the brink, pushing Iraq to fight Iran in the early 80s because of the hostage crisis in 1979).

The United States has this problem of seeing people that live simply as being too stupid to run their own affairs and resources. They don't give them the dignity or respect they are due. They think because we're the most powerful nation that we know what's better for all. But we don't. Our leaders must admit that. But they won't. I'm not looking for it. They'll continue on this good vs evil crap that will forever cost us in the long run.

Example, if you're minding your business, and someone calls you out. You're going "what"? But when they invade your neighbor and basically dismantle it, you start looking at your own defenses because it is a possiblity that you're next, even though you have done nothing.

Now we're bogged down in a country where even though they were living in a dictarship, they were getting all of the resources they needed. Shias, Sunnis, Jews and Christians alike were living in harmony in mixed neighbhorhoods and families.

Now it is very much like our neighborhoods, different and apart not being able to enjoy one another and learn. I guess that is what those in DC had mind. Keep folk separate because they are much easier to break apart.

Even though I'm a cynic, I think Senator Obama is the right man for the job at this juncture. We have a chance to forge a new path, something different than the last 60 years of mistrust and indifference toward certain nations. This is our chance to be the country that many in the world think we are. I just hope people will vote to give us that chance.