Posted on 05/11/2008 5:36:25 AM PDT by rellimpank
Are we due for an "October surprise?" Ever since October 1972, when Henry Kissinger, then Richard Nixon's national security adviser, announced that "peace is at hand" in Vietnam, an October surprise – or the impending possibility of one – has been a perennial feature of American political life. Will a dramatic foreign-policy development tip the electoral balance this year?
Several factors have converged to make this more probable than in any recent election.
Consider the extraordinary way foreign powers have been lining up in the election. Thus far, Barack Obama has been winning this particular nondelegate count. "We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election," is what Ahmed Yousef, a ranking official of the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas, declared in April. Gleb Pavlovsky, a key adviser to both Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev, has called John McCain the worst choice and Sen. Obama the best – "less tied" to the Cold War.
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FTA: “Consider the extraordinary way foreign powers have been lining up in the election. Thus far, Barack Obama has been winning this particular nondelegate count. “We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election,” is what Ahmed Yousef, a ranking official of the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas, declared in April. Gleb Pavlovsky, a key adviser to both Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev, has called John McCain the worst choice and Sen. Obama the best – “less tied” to the Cold War.
Hugo Chávez, the radical socialist president of Venezuela, has not endorsed Sen. Obama so directly. But he has been busy lambasting John McCain as “a man of war.” Over in Iran, the intelligence ministry has put out a public-service television broadcast in which a fictional villain, who just happens to be named John McCain, is portrayed “orchestrat[ing] numerous conspiracies against the Islamic Republic.” North Korea’s state-controlled newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, has scored Sen. McCain along with others in “U.S. ruling quarters” for trying to mount “a base and ridiculous challenge” to North Korea as part of “a bid to strangle it.”
There is a growing pro-Obama/anti-McCain axis. Why is this happening and what does it portend?
Answering the first question is simple. The contest between Sens. McCain and Obama represents the final nail in the coffin of bipartisan consensus on foreign policy, the final leftward lurch in a shift fitfully underway in the Democratic Party ever since the presidential candidacy of George McGovern in 1972. Mr. McCain – a supporter of the invasion of Iraq, and a proponent of the surge long before it was a glimmer in President Bush’s eye – will be facing a candidate who has pledged to pull all American combat brigades out of Iraq no matter what the Joint Chiefs of Staff tell him, or what is happening on the ground.”
The fact that all of our enemies are pulling for Obama should be enough for anyone not to vote for him.
But it isn’t, sadly enough.
Our enemies will be overjoyed to sit down with Obama, engage in good fellowship, and resolve all our differences. Obama is the Messiah.
Anyone who says otherwise is engaging in racist smear tactics.
The bad guys all like Obama and don't like McCain. So far so good.
Funny they don't mention Hillary. :)
“Hillary!â„¢ will arrange a face-to-face meeting between Barrak Obama and Bobby Kennedy”
That’s the reason Michelle is just saying no to Clinton in the VP slot.
She’s stupid, but not that stupid.
And mad, but not that mad.
If our enemies really want Obama, it seems to me their obvious strategy is to avoid any action against the US until after the election. Any attack will strengthen McCain by bringing our defense needs back to the front of the public’s attention.
Our enemies always test a new president.
And many "friends" of this country right here in the good ole USA and hoping for this as well, some even on this board.
This is just flat out creepy,this two bit senator from IL or where ever he is from, has a chance to be the POTUS and all we know about him is negative, now this with our enemies falling in line behind him? WTF!!!!!! Are the american people that stupid? Sorry folks I think they are!
To a liberal, his negatives are his positives.
Guys? 1984 wasn’t supposed to be a manual!
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