Time to lay "good manners" aside and hit 'em hard with plain facts--all of 'em--even the ugly ones. ESPECIALLY the ugly ones--the clinton ones!
Posted on 07/27/2007 7:39:23 AM PDT by hardback
Edited on 07/27/2007 8:01:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON -- For Barack Obama, it was strike two. And this one was a right-down-the-middle question from a YouTuber in Monday night's South Carolina debate: "Would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea?"
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Unfortunatly he has that harvard delusion mindset that has not been cured by reality.
Obama spouts communism with folksy concealment and thinks the public is too stupid to notice.
I do not think Obama is going to hurt himself among the primary voters that he needs to get the nomination by blunders on foreign policy questions. The real story in the Democrat Party is trying to get the nomination without damaging yourself to the point that you will be almost unelectable in the general election. Clinton is smarter than Obama and trying to go as much to the center as she dare, but Obama is a political lightweight giving Democrats who want a rock star what they want. My gut feeling is that Obama has an edge in getting the nomination, but will be easier to defeat in the general election, while Clinton with all those FBI files and a consultant who is an expert in the politics of personal destruction has a very good shot in the general election if she gets the nomination.
This so-called "Hilliary vs. Obama showdown" stuff drips of so much BS that one needs waders.
The hollywood/MSM crowd just love to play mind games with the sheeple whom they perceive as idiotic play-dough for their own means.
Sadly though, it works pretty well...(more Lindsay Lohan, tabloid/"reality" TV anyone?)
OK, can we have a president whose name gets mixed up with Osama?
Gee... You wouldn’t know it to hear the MSM and their round the clock BS about how much the image of the US and this Administration has suffered because President Bush has so far ‘overstepped’ his authority as to presume that US forces were needed in the ME to defend America, Americans and American interests!!!!! WOW... world ‘leaders’ STILL can make political capital out of standing in the same camera frame with President Bush!!!???? Who knew? Don't kid yourself!!! Any one of those 'leaders' would positively drool to rate even derogatory and momentary notice by this President!
What happened to Hillary/Richardson ‘08?
Richardson’s a wimp. Webb would be the stronger VP candidate if he stays on his meds.
I think the spineless gop, shitty candidates and incompetence of the GOP did them in
The only time I ever saw Obama debate a Republican was when he debated Alan Keyes in the U.S. Senate debate in Illinois in 2004.
Even though it was pre-ordained that Obama would win the election, he was utterly decimated by Keyes in that debate. It got so bad that Obama was reduced to saying things like, “Well it’s obvious that Mr. Keyes is a better debater than I am...”
If he talks better, that’s because he THINKS better!
Time to lay "good manners" aside and hit 'em hard with plain facts--all of 'em--even the ugly ones. ESPECIALLY the ugly ones--the clinton ones!
The country might decide that it prefers, yes, a Republican — say, 9/11 veteran Rudy Giuliani — to a freshman senator who does not instinctively understand why an American president does not share the honor of his office with a malevolent clown like Hugo Chavez.
You gotta love Doctor Krauthammer.
He may have a point. Not with the public, but with Rats, especially the moonbats, there's not a lot of criticism.
I went over to DU, and found the following sentiments on the fracas:
1) It is a manufactured 'firestorm', there's really not that big a brouhaha.
2) Chavez is not a dictator, Castro has been badly abused by US policy (while it was helping Mandela fight apartheid, good grief!), so it is right to talk to them unconditionally.
3) Hillary was the one who made it into a fight, and the press is out there to do her bidding.
4) Obama should not even talk to Clinton, she will use anything he says for propaganda purposes.
5) It's better to try something new, than to say you want change and do nothing about it.
6) America should be willing to speak with every one.
7) "Renegade" nations are all made up of people of color (I guess this implies that we need a President of color to be able to understand the need to see other nation's 'sides', and that black people are more comfortable talking about color than white people).
8) Hillary's war vote in Iraq was just as much a 'rookie mistake' as saying we'd talk to dictators.
9) 'Rookie' is a lousy criticism, in politics often the younger ones are far superior to the old lame vets.
10) 2008 is 'about change', and Hillary's probably sorry about what she said, and that isolating and sanctioning the crap out of other nations is not 'a fresh idea'.
11) You meet with your enemies, it's absurd not to.
12) Hillary constructed a strawman: the idea that diplomatic meetings would NOT take place first under an Obama administration, then struck down the strawman.
13) In politics, people get punished for saying the right thing.
14) If Obama is smart, he'll easily put this right back on her and she'll end up looking like a female version of Joe Lieberman.
If the moonbats are the ones who have the most power in nominating Rats, then he gave them just what they wanted. Yes, there were some criticisms of Obama's remarks, but each one was shouted down with one of the fourteen talking points.
The Propaganda Machine will crank out its predictable platitudes: "America's not ready for a Black President," Racism!" "Blah blah blah blah!" to which the intelligent and benevolent mind will find ample refutation--Herman Cain, Condoleezza, et al., e.g.--but they'll love it in Lower Slobovia.
Diane Feinstein will insist that it's proof of the need for a "Fairness Doctrine".
Barbra Streisand will come up with some harebrained remedy for the nonexistent outrage akin to hanging your laundry out on the clothesline.
And when the Propaganda Machine gets through with it, millions will curse the Vast Conspiracy that persecuted the caring, benevolent Bill Clinton for a harmless little sexual slip-up (which should have inspired nothing more than amusement) and not, as the prudes falsely claimed, because of purjury, intimidation of witnesses, accusations of sexual assault, et al.--a Conspiracy that stole the 2000 election--and a Conspiracy that's still going strong!
One thing about the Left: It's predictable.
Alan Keyes has those items of anatomy that make him both a real man and a real American.
Obama's comments hit it out of the ballpark with the base.
They see him as a black Bobby Kennedy, and no one from the MSM is going to challenge his empty suit.
If Obama get the nomination, it's McGovern '72 all over again.
For Hillary to win the nomination, she will have to destroy Obama, not only alienating her base (good for Repubs in the general election), but reminding everyone else what a pack of ruthless liars the Clintons and their machine are (also not good for the general election).
The moonbats are the Dem's Achilles heel in '08.
He’s just proving what an empty suit he really is and always will be.
No way Clinton selects Obama as running mate. For better or worse, there are many voters who will never vote for a woman and will never vote for a black.
Obama is right! We should talk with our enemies, it won't be used for propaganda purposes.
And Obama shouldn't talk to Hillary because it will be used for propaganda purposes.
Deep thinkers down at DU.
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