Posted on 05/26/2008 9:30:47 PM PDT by The_Republican
Should Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez be engaged? Or isolated? Presidential candidates debated this question in Florida last week.
Make that a presidential candidate debated this with himself in Florida last week. Sen. Barack Obama took both positions on successive days.
Mr. Obama told Walter Pacheco of the Orlando Sentinel last Thursday he'd personally meet with Mr. Chavez: "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 (Marxist narco-terrorists) FARC in Colombia, and other issues he would want to talk about," Sen. Obama said then. "It is important to understand that ignoring these countries has not led to improved behavior on their part and it has not served our national security interests." But in a speech in Miami the very next day, Mr. Obama said any Latin American government that supports FARC (the Spanish acronym for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) should be isolated.
"We will shine a light on any support for the FARC that comes from neighboring governments," Mr. Obama told the Cuban American National Foundation. "This behavior must be exposed to international condemnation, regional isolation, and -- if need be -- strong sanctions. It must not stand."
ABC's Jake Tapper was confused. "So he will meet with the leader of a country he simultaneously says should be isolated? Huh?"
Mr. Tapper noticed another apparent contradiction. In his interview with the Orlando Sentinel, Sen. Obama said flatly that Hugo Chavez was supporting FARC. But in an interview the next day with Andres Oppenheimer of the Miami Herald, he equivocated:
"We have to hold Venezuela accountable if, in fact, it is trying to ferment terrorist activities in other borders," Mr. Obama said.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
This is how it works. Obama will hold Venezuela accountable "if" they can be proven, with evidence that could hold up in a court of law, under all the usual rules of evidence, to have violated some norm. Then you proceed to ignore any and all evidence. No evidence that might result in us taking action against Chavez or Farc will ever be conclusive enough.
We played this kind of rope-a-dope when Clinton was president, nothing the terrorists did was clearly traceable back to anyone, during the entire 8 years he was in office, while attacks were launched one after another against the World Trade Center, embassies, military targets, again and again.
Get ready. If you liked Carter and Clinton you're going to love Obama.
I remember a while back Obama had said that Mccain had lost his bearings when Mccain had misspoke about something. But I think it is Obama himself who has lost his bearings. And more then a few times.
When Obama makes contradictory statements like this you can be sure that whichever statement suggests appeasement and coddling of anti-American regimes will be HIS POLICY if he ever becomes president. He is the new Jimmy Carter.
Ferment or foment?
Obama must have some kind of agreement with the Fifth Column to not harp on his say different things to different people. He does it *so* often, but yet, never gets called on the carpet for it by his lackeys in the press.
This guy has too much cash coming in to be believed.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGCMCY
“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.”
Say Barry...Hugo Chavez rose to power during the Clinton Admin and was elected President of Venezuela in 1998, 2 years before Dubya was elected.
Anyone who could sit through 23 years of "sermons" from the right Reverend Wrong could certainly see no problem with a face-to-face "lecture" from Chavez, achmadinejad, or any other hate-America type.
WHERE’S THE LAPTOP??? What happened with the FARC laptop which the Colombians said mentioned secret meetings with an Obama adviser? There has been a total media blackout on this. Anyone else recall this? It seems like a campaign-wrecking scandal which the MSM is totally sweeping under the rug.
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The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
I don’t think Obama has lost his bearings. I think he, like many other politicians, has forgotten that his every move is being recorded, his every statement being held up to scrutiny and won’t go away because of the power of the internet, YouTube and the media. He thinks just because he says something in front of an audience in one place, people in another place won’t have heard of it. It is getting harder and harder for people to fool the plugged-in non-Demonrat public.
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