Posted on 05/21/2008 8:11:27 PM PDT by Libloather
Obama backs off from pledge to talk with Iran
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
The Guardian, Thursday May 22 2008
Barack Obama has begun to edge away from his offer to pursue talks with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after being hammered by Republicans as an "appeaser".
Now on the cusp of securing the Democratic nomination, Obama yesterday continued to attack John McCain, his likely Republican opponent in November, over his hawkish foreign policy.
"He has spent his last week describing his foreign policy as who he won't talk to," Obama told a rally in Florida yesterday.
After Tuesday's primaries, in which Obama lost badly to Hillary Clinton in Kentucky but won well in Oregon, he is now just 65 delegates away from the Democratic nomination.
But with the November election in his sights, Obama backed away from his promise last year to meet Ahmadinejad without preconditions during his first year in the White House.
His campaign has stopped mentioning Ahmadinejad by name, and noting that there must be "preparations" for such an encounter.
"He wants to talk to the Iranian leadership," Bill Richardson, the New Mexico governor and Obama supporter told Fox television yesterday. "But he wants diplomatic preparation before doing that."
On Tuesday, Obama's foreign policy adviser, Susan Rice, told CNN that he did not necessarily mean he would meet Ahmadinejad when he offered to open talks with Iran. "He hasn't named who that leader will be," she said. "It may, in fact be that by the middle of next year, Ahmadinejad is long gone."
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Obama's three-day tour of Florida followed Tuesday's primaries.
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“Republicans should just shut up until the Democrat convention. Let Obama keep saying stupid things about foreign policy.”
I disagree with the first part, agree with the second - the Republicans have been, thus far, pretty low-key and non-offensive (in large part because as long as the Dem fight goes on, and it will until Aug., they’re doing our dirty work for us:-)) BUT also, one of the key rules of effective marketing/advertising is repetition, repetition, repetition. The messages need to be put out there now and continued all the way to November.
“All politicians are empty suits to some extent. He’s just emptier than most.”
Would that that were true. No, he’s Full...much too full.
The number of lies, contradictions and gaffs by B.Husein O. are now almost too numerous to mention. If he were a Republican he would have had his passport pulled by the MSM a long time ago.
“By letting this Bambi “back off” this early in the race, his stupid statements will be forgotten by November. “Old news...”
you’re exactly right. btw, when I posted while ago, I responded to the quote you included from a prior poster, not to you, with whom I agree.
I want this arrogant SOB out of this race. The most liberal senator in recent history(see his voting record)...and he gets the masses to go to his rallies (if you believe the AP photo from his last rally)??? This guy is like Hitler...the propaganda machine is in full spin, and everyone seems to be buying his load of fertilizer....
My fellow conservatives, we are in a quandary...I have, for the longest time, believed that we should always try to be ‘civil’ and try and appease our fellow countrymen when it comes to differences in ideology on attaining a common goal.
But the time has now come to be...what is a civil word to say here?...wait, there is no civil word any more, because our fellow liberal radicals have hijacked the entire system and there is no more common goal, because the liberal radicals have begun to destroy any civilized precedent. The time has come to be ASSHOLES !!!! The time has come to be A PAIN IN THE ASS!!! The time has come to be PRICKS!!! The time has come to combat this assault on our core conservative principles.
GOD DAMMIT, I AM TIRED OF THIS SHIT!!! NO MORE APOLOGIES FOR THE ARROGANT DISREGARD FOR WHAT IS RIGHT...AN ASSAULT ON OUR UNBORN CHILDREN?? AN ASSAULT ON OUR CHOICE ON HOW WE FUEL OUR HOMES AND VEHICLES? AN ASSAULT ON WHAT WE DECIDE IS RIGHT TO EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN?
THIS UPCOMING ELECTION IS A NOT A CHOICE ANYMORE...WE HAVE NOW BEEN FORCED TO DECIDE WHAT IS WRONG (MCCAIN), EVEN MORE WRONG (CLINTON), AND THE WORST POSSIBLE CHOICE (OBAMA)...
I HOLD EVERY ONE OF YOU SO CALLED ‘CONSERVATIVES’ WHO WANTED TO ‘REACH ACROSS THE ISLE’ RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DILEMMA WE NOW FACE. BECAUSE OF YOU, WE ARE NOW GOING TO BE MANDATED WITH SO MANY F*CKING ENVIRONMENTAL RESTRICTIONS AND MANDATES ON OUR CORE FREEDOMS THAT MY GRANDCHILDREN (WHO ARE NOT EVEN BORN YET) ARE GOING TO BE BURDENED WITH YOUR ILL CONCEIVED ‘GOOD-WILL’ FOR MAN-KIND UNTIL THEY ARE OF A RIPE OLD AGE...I CURSE YOU APPEASERS FOR THIS TUMOR YOU HAVE PLACED UPON THEIR FUTURE EXISTENCE...I ONLY HOPE THAT MY GRANDCHILDREN HAVE THE COMMON SENSE TO KICK YOUR FRIGGIN’ APPEASEMENT PRINCIPLES INTO THE NEXT GOD FORSAKEN UNIVERSE...
I cringe at the state of our future republic. If I get banned from this site for my outburst and language used to express my strong opinion, then so be it. Let it be known that my sentiment is not as extreme as you may think, and that a multitude of others share my disbelief in this assault on our bedrock of conservative principles...a revolution will be forthcoming if a hard stance is not taken- I GUARANTEE IT.
Obama skilfully scores with endless and new translations that cover his last mistake. He impresses only the gullible; which, by necessisty, is his Constitutency.
Obama's MO is a terror of it's own.
Dave k,
I understand where you are coming from. I hear your anger and frustration. Unfortunantly unlike some other conservatives, I believe Barak Hussein Obama is electable.
The solution I see is to involve ourselves at the grass roots level in efforts to elect core conservatives to Congress. I ceased giving my money to the RNC and with each beg letter I get, I send then a letter back telling them why they won’t get my hard earned dollars. Maybe one day the Country Club Republican Controlled Party will stop tossing those letters in the trash and actually read them.
At one time the Republican Party was a home for my conservative beliefs and values. It isn’t any longer. No matter how they re-wrap liberalism and call it conservatism, it still smells and looks like a pile left on my doorstep.
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