Recent photo of Barack Obama aka Mr Empty Suit:
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/509135/2/istockphoto_509135_empty_suit.jpg
Barak Obama is going to get support from Moveon.org and the nutroots, as well as the NAACP and the Hispanic equivelent. Also, unions are lining up behind Obama, and the media love him more than Hitlary.
Steyn Ping!
Just as an aside a good comment on American public education.....
But increasing numbers of the American people reject the post-9/11 paradigm, and there will be a lot of votes for the quiet-life option in 2008. A doctrinaire liberal disciplined enough to pass himself off as a blank slate with sappy soft-focus multiculti bona fides would seem to offer the most symbolically appealing repudiation of the war years.
To date I have thought Barry Hussein Obama has about a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected. Now I'm not so sure......
Senate Resolution Opposes Iraq Troop Surge
A “sense of the Senate” resolution opposing President Bush’s new Iraq strategy was introduced by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich), and possible 2008 presidential candidates Sens. Joseph Biden (D-Del) and Chuck Hagel (R-Neb). The non-binding resolution states that “escalating the United States military force presence in Iraq is not in the national interest.” Bush has proposed adding 21,500 U.S. troops to the 132,000 already in the country.
“It’s a ‘guilt-free’ way of expressing our opposition to the President’s plan,” Levin said. “If it goes badly, we can say ‘we told you so.’ If, by some chance, the plan works—well, we didn’t cut off funding or do anything to stop it. So, we’ll be winners too.”
Biden agreed. “It’s a perfect ‘straddle’ for someone running for president,” Biden said. “Polls show the majority of Americans are now opposed to the war. This resolution says we’re with the American people. If the polls shift we will remind voters that we supported funding for the war.”
Hagel sees things a little differently. “Look, I’m a long-shot for the Republican nomination,” Hagel admitted. “McCain, Guiliani, and Romney are all lining up as ‘hawks.’ My only chance is if the whole war is a disaster. This resolution is a risk-free way for me to help bring that about. Without a united country behind him, Bush can’t win this. At the same time, I’m on the right side of the polls. I could be seen both as a visionary and a man of the people. It’s my best option if I’m ever going to be president.”
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) denounced the resolution, calling it a “cowardly retreat from responsibility.” “My esteemed colleagues are proposing that we run away and leave our troops to drown in the Iraqi quagmire, while they concoct a clever scheme to deny responsibility,” Kennedy complained. “We need to have the courage to wade in and pull them out before it’s too late.”
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex) confessed he had mixed feelings on the proposed resolution. “At first, I was for sending more troops,” Reyes said. “You know, to crack down on those militia guys. But then when I heard Bush say he was for sending more troops I turned against the idea. Some are saying this is just ‘knee-jerk’ opposition to the President. But when you know as little as I do about this whole jihad thing using your head is not an option.”
Polls show that two-thirds of voters want the Democrats to negotiate a “do over” in the war on terror. The so-called “do over” is a gimmick used by children playing unsupervised games. To avoid endless arguing over whether a runner was out or safe, a ball in or out, the game goes back to where it was before the play initiated. “A ‘do over’ makes a lot of sense,” said poll respondent Bob Addlepate. “We should just go back to before 9-11 and forget about everything that happened rather than try to figure out how to make it right. It’s too hard.”
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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Even Steyn is swallowing this dog and pony show? This dog and pony show that will go on sucking up media play untils the Dem convention?
Get a clue Mark, Obama is and will be Hillary's VP. It's a done deal.
If Obama gets elected President, will that make us an "Obama Nation"?
I don't think Erkel, er, I mean, Obama will get the nomination. However, there's a good chance he could be Hillary's running mate.
