[GeorgefromGeorgia]

“a malevolent clown like Hugo Chavez.”

Perfect

[3AngelaD]

Krauthammer is a genius, but I hate it when I agree with Mrs. Clinton. Obama continues to provide definitive proof that he is not ready for prime time. Imagine putting that naive, pretentious pratt in charge of our foreign policy. It would be Jimmuh Cartuh redux. All Obama has to run on is his record of achievement.

[samtheman]

Osama Obama’s star is setting. He doesn’t have much of a shot at the nomination.

[nuconvert]

bump

[martin_fierro]

[latina4dubya]

Obama is not ready to be a wartime president.

ya'think?

[FormerLib]

Obama has officially been “Krauthammered!”

[CHEE]

From The Nation’s David Corn to super-blogger Mickey Kaus, a near audible gasp. For Hillary Clinton, next in line at the debate, an unmissable opportunity. She pounced: “I will not promise to meet with the leaders of these countries during my first year.” And she then proceeded to give the reasons any graduate student could tick off: You don’t want to be used for their propaganda. You need to know their intentions. Such meetings can make the situation worse.

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This is the reason the democrats do not debate on FOX. Obama seems to wish to preserve his political life while throwing the life of our Nation under the bus.

[NeoCaveman]

O-bomb-a,
O-bomb-a,

Someone set us up the O-bomb-a

[steveyp]

The only real question is has the Obama myth calcified in the minds of the Dem primary voter. If so, as we’ve seen from ample observable evidence, the primary voter can be blind to their candidate’s inherent and obvious weaknesses. No other way to explain: Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, and Kerry.

Doesn’t mean these candidates can’t win, including the 08 version of Clinton...

[AU72]

It’s going from Hillary/Obama ‘08 to Hillary/Web ‘08

[Biblebelter]

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.

[RckyRaCoCo]

What's amazing is that people are so "naive" to believe that "anything" that involves CNN and the democraps....isn't staged.

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?)

[mel]

OK, can we have a president whose name gets mixed up with Osama?

[SMARTY]

“The presence of an American president is a valued good to be rationed — and granted only in return for important considerations.”

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!

[Badeye]

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.

[Savage Beast]

Oh I don't think Obama's campaign is going to get off the ground--Oprah's support notwithstanding--and the Democrats are shrewd enough to know it.

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.

[chiefqc]

He’s just proving what an empty suit he really is and always will be.

[Gritty]

[Zack Nguyen]

For Hillary Clinton, next in line at the debate, an unmissable opportunity. She pounced: "I will not promise to meet with the leaders of these countries during my first year." And she proceeded to give the reasons any graduate student could tick off: You don't want to be used for their propaganda. You need to know their intentions. Such meetings can make the situation worse.

I agree with Hillary Clinton on something. (Pinches self.) She is absolutely right. Obama, as an idealistic leftist, is naive enough to be believe that our enemies hate us because, until now, no one has been charming enough or nice enough to them. This is flat out wrong.