Hagel defends Obama from attacks

UPI ^ | 7/27/08

[ETL]

Read my tagline. (Osama and Obama both have friends that have bombed the Pentagon.)

Excellent! Would make a great bumper sticker! Seriously.

[Samurai_Jack]

It’s important to challenge the Premise...

I dont recall Mccain ever challenging obama’s motivations... merely his JUDGEMENT

[Trajan88]

A RINO pumping up a Marxist... this is news?

See ya Chuckie... I'm sure the good folk of NE will be glad to see you not be one of their senators in the near future.

[mplsconservative]

Uh, er, um, er, which party does Hagel belong to? What a Rino sack of er, um, um er....

[WilliamofCarmichael]

John is treading on some very thin ground

Of course the Republicans will cower and 'splain "Oh! NO, no we didn't mean it!"

Well.. I gotta wonder about patriotism of anyone who declares his "love" for America this way -- I think I understood him right. And all before cheering foreign crowds. Go figure.

(paraphrasing kinda sort of) "America is guilty of illegal wars, genocide, oppression and abuse of minorities, exploitation, torture, war crimes, and all manner of heinous crimes and abuses against the world's peoples and environment -- but I love the b*tch and I will reform Her and make Her great. Now is the moment! -- Uh.. er. oh! uh hum.. screw Her wounded."

[mkjessup]

I thought he had a very good conservative voting record except for his opposition to the Iraq war???

Well even IF that were true, his opposing the liberation of Iraq undoes any good he might have done in the past.

Hagel has always been a back stabbing RINO, and I am unable to think of any substantial vote that he has made while in the Senate that speaks well of any alleged conservative values.

He's not any Reagan Republican, you can bet the rent on that, and I have no use for him, and I say 'good riddance' upChuck!

[anoldafvet]

I got called by the NRSC yesterday for a donation. I said two words for the reason why I won’t donate to them: “Chuck Hagel”. The guy said, “I Understand” and hung up.

[mimaw]

I put them in the same category as Hagel.

[mimaw]

I'd like to question Hagels patriotism?

[BluH2o]

Hagel has always been a back stabbing RINO ...

Nothing new here ... anyone paying attention already knows his record. He's turning on his very good (former) friend McCain (also a RINO) because he agreed to follow along on Barak Hussein Obama's overseas (I'm presidential material photo-op) trip. Now he's a convert to Obamanism.

[mimaw]

Why after all the sacrifice does he want to see the same thing happen in Iraq? The man is not of sound mind I think in my opinion he needs some sessions on a couch.

[kcvl]

According to a SurveyUSA poll, Hagel has a 10% higher approval rating among Nebraska Democrats than Republicans

In January 2007, Hagel openly criticized President Bush's plan to send an additional 20,000 troops to Iraq. He called it, "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam, if it's carried out." Together with Democrats Joseph Biden and Carl Levin he proposed a non-binding resolution to the Democratic-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which rejected Bush's policy as "not in the national interest"

[kcvl]

In November 2007, he rated the Bush administration “the lowest in capacity, in capability, in policy, in consensus — almost every area” of any presidency in the last forty years.

He also revealed he is open to running as vice-president with the 2008 Democratic nominee. In the same month, he said, “I have to say this is one of the most arrogant, incompetent administrations I’ve ever seen or ever read about.”

[kcvl]

On its website The Times reported that the Senator is a possible candidate for the cabinet position of Secretary of Defense in the Barack Obama administration, if the Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Obama, was to be elected president:

Obama is hoping to appoint cross-party figures to his cabinet such as Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator for Nebraska and an opponent of the Iraq war […] Senior advisers confirmed that Hagel, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran and one of McCain’s closest friends in the Senate, was considered an ideal candidate for defense secretary.

[kcvl]

In Senator Hagel’s new book, America: Our Next Chapter, he suggests that the United States should adopt independent leadership and possibly another political party. He also believes that the Iraq War is one of the five biggest blunders in history. Hagel is critical of George W. Bush’s foreign policy, calling it “reckless.” He has been a major critic of the war since it started, and has stated that the United States should learn from their mistakes in the Vietnam War. He considers Bush’s foreign policy a “ping pong game with American lives”.

[mimaw]

Not. You see this POS thought he would be vice president with McCain in 2000 when Bush defeated McCain Chucky became unhinged and began his jihad against Bush. He's a piece of garbage and with any luck come Nov. we will never have to suffer the obnoxious piece of garbage again.

[okie01]

Senior advisers confirmed that Hagel, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran and one of McCain’s closest friends in the Senate, was considered an ideal candidate for defense secretary.

Thereby confirming that the Messiah is a less than ideal candidate, totally unqualified to be President of the USA.

[kcvl]

GOP’s Hagel: I’d consider Obama VP offer

6/20/2008

http://tinyurl.com/638rwu

[RJS1950]

Upchuck is not running for reelection so he’s out after this election. The only people in Nebraska he’s getting good reviews from these days are democrats.

[kcvl]

It seems Chuck Hagel caught the Christy Whitman disease...

“I am not happy with the Republican Party today,” Hagel said. “It’s been hijacked by a group of single-minded almost isolationists, insulationists, power-projectors.”