Posted on 05/25/2008 7:20:39 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
How are we supposed to take this man seriously for the position of commander in chief? Little Green Footballs snags Obama in a stunning error, and it is not just the name of the town he is in or the number of states.
On Friday Barack Obama spelled out his Latin America policy [snip]:
Since the Bush Administration launched a misguided war in Iraq, its policy in the Americas has been negligent toward our friends, ineffective with our adversaries, disinterested in the challenges that matter in peoples' lives, and incapable of advancing our interests in the region.
No wonder, then, that demagogues like Hugo Chavez have stepped into this vacuum.This is pathetic. Hugo Chavez came to power during the Clinton Administration, and was first elected President of Venezuela in 1998, two years before the Bush Administration took office.
More recently, Obama as he traveled through Florida seemed to give some contradictory statements about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the Colombian terrorist group FARC.
On Thursday Obama told the Orlando Sentinel that he would meet with Chavez and "one of the obvious high priorities in my talks with President Hugo Chavez would be the fermentation of anti-American sentiment in Latin America, his support of FARC in Colombia and other issues he would want to talk about."
OK, so a strong declaration that Chavez is supporting FARC, which Obama intends to push him on.
But then on Friday he said any government supporting FARC should be isolated.
"We will shine a light on any support for the FARC that comes from neighboring governments," he said in a speech in Miami. "This behavior must be exposed to international condemnation, regional isolation, and - if need be - strong sanctions. It must not stand."
So he will meet with the leader of a country he simultaneously says should be isolated? Huh?
"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
All these gaffes would make an excellent campaign ad against Obama.
This assumes that the McCain campaign is going to run ads against Obama.......
How can so much stupidity be contained in one brain? He is nearing a quantum singularity of stupid.
No wonder, then, that demagogues like Hugo Chavez have stepped into this vacuum."
Maybe I'm missing it, but how is this a gaffe? Had he said, "no wonder demagogues like Hugo Chavez have come into power" then it would be but I'm just not seeing it (as much as I'd like too) on this issue.
I don’t think it’s so much that he’s stupid, I think it’s that real policy matters have never been important to him, and now he’s having to bluff it. His one real idea, and real agenda, is all focussed around his black liberation theology, but obviously he can’t run on that. So he’s no up to speed on little things like American foreign policy. He’s been a no-show in the Senate for much of his short political career-he’s only familiar on the surface with issues that are obviously ‘rat, like voting against life, and for partial-birth abortion. Those don’t require any thinking, the party thinks for you. But these aren’t the things that he’s about. What he’s about,he couldn’t win dogcatcher running on. So he’s having to bluff a knowledge of, much less familiarity with, the issues and concerns that anyone running for President of the United States should have to be familiar with. What’s really dear to his heart, what really matters to him and what he really knows and understands, he can’t run on.
No "maybe" about it. You're missing it. Chavez came into power during the Clinton administration. Obama can't blame Bush for something that happened two years before he was elected.
hence he has captive audience
I know what his real ideology is. My comment is aimed at the fact that this is the best that he can do at bluffing it. A Harvard education, and this is the best that he can do with regard to pretending to know anything about policy issues. He is a dunce. A slick, pre-packaged dunce.
Cramming for open mic sessions where no Teleprompter can follow, forcing the Obombanation to think on his feet to answer questions, and concurrently write coherent, substantive speeches for Hussein? That's just too tough of a job for any ignorant, lying campaign manager trying to hide the identity and vile nature of their Socialist, Black Liberationist figurehead.
But go ahead and send more money anyway, George. In for a penny, in for a pound!
HF
Indeed, but since he is a Democrat he may simply be too smart to be President.
The “mainstream” Democrat newsrooms are protecting Obama the way a mother protects a slow child.
For example, if Fidel Castro was still the leader of Cuba and Obama had said Castro had expanded his influence in Central America during a vacuum of interest in the area by Bush.....would we also say "Ha Ha what an idiot, Obama doesn't know Castro came into power before Bush became president"? That would be a silly argument and a real stretch to say it was a gaffe...just like this is.
Yes, but wouldn't that be (quote) "racist" (unquote)?
“No wonder, then, that demagogues like Hugo Chavez have stepped into this vacuum”
And re-elected in a fraudulent election that was certified by Jimmy Carter.
Chavez came to power in 1998 during the Clinton Adminstration, years before Bush took office. Get it?
Obama is more than just an oily scumbag - - he's a stupid oily scumbag.
Or maybe just another brazen Democrat liar....
Yes, they would, but the GOP doesn't have the guts to make hay with any of this. And that is why my checkbook remains slammed shut and mail solicitations from everybody connected to the party of "no fight" get immediately tossed in the trash unopened.
Hugo Chavez is an anti-American marxist and he was going to remain one whether or not George Bush invaded Iraq. Further, Obama is saying American policy created a "vacuum" that somehow is legitimately filled by Chavez. Whatever failings our policy may have, the likes of Chavez is not a reasonable alternative to America in the world. Chavez is a pimple on the world's rear end.
Put in Clinton instead of Bush and change just a couple of words and it is startling in its accuracy.
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