Will The Most Damaging Obama Scandal Of Them All Be Buried Alive?

Radarsite ^ | 15 Sep 08 | Roger W. Gardner

[MrLee]

TREASON!!

[hershey]

Hopefully FoxNews — Brit Hume and the nightly panel will discuss it. Maybe Glen Beck will, too. It should make headlines at The Boston Herald, NPost, WashTimes. But maybe it’s not as important as Bush/McCain bashing over the banking/mortgage crisis. After all, they have to think of some way to lift Obama in the polls.

[Always Right]

Unless this is on video tape and certified by NASA to be accurate, I doubt if the MSM does anything but plays cover to Obama on this.

[uncbob]

MSM buried enough Clinton scandals to bring down 10 GOP presidencies —They will do the same for Obama

[Names Ash Housewares]

Agreed.

No tape. No story.

It’s DOA without proof.

[justlurking]

I'm surprised this has dropped out of sight.... NOT.

The MSM is going to avoid this at all costs, as they are too busy investigating tanning beds in the Alaska Governor's mansion. This won't become an issue unless McCain/Palin makes it an issue.

I hope they are producing a campaign spot about it. The best of all worlds would be if someone could dig up a video tape of that press conference back in June where Obama essentially confirmed Taheri's claim.

The MSM couldn't ignore it, then. If nothing else, they'd try to find fault with it -- but with Obama on record saying exactly the same thing, they'd have to really spin it hard.

[VigilantAmerican]

Nancy Pelosi got away with what was a crime by going to Syria and circumventing/undermining the executive branch, but that was less significant than this and she wasn’t running for President.

This must be blown wide open. If a formal complaint isn’t being made to DOJ, something is very, very wrong.

[justlurking]

Unless this is on video tape and certified by NASA to be accurate, I doubt if the MSM does anything but plays cover to Obama on this.

Would Obama's own words suffice?

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/16/1146329.aspx

[Obama] said he told Zebari that negotiations for a Status of Forces agreement or strategic framework agreement between the two countries should be done in the open and with Congress's authorization and that it was important that that there be strong bipartisan support for any agreement so that it can be sustained through a future administration. He argued it would make sense to hold off on such negotiations until the next administration.

"My concern is that the Bush administration--in a weakened state politically--ends up trying to rush an agreement that in some ways might be binding to the next administration, whether it was my administration or Sen. McCain's administration," Obama said. "The foreign minister agreed that the next administration should not be bound by an agreement that's currently made."

Maybe someone does have the videotape. But, Obama's campaign has already made the claim that they were discussing the "strategic framework", instead of the "status of forces". The above cite says that they were discussing both.

[patriot08]

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[pabianice]

Full coverage in The Boston Globe

[Parley Baer]

Rush read a press release from the Obama campaign that virtually confirmed the story. Not what they intended but that is what happened.

[Scythian]

This story is already dead, save your breath ...

[Miss Didi]

From yesterday's show:



RUSH: Amir Taheri today in the New York Post, a damning piece, but typical. This tells us everything we want to know about The Messiah, Barack Obama, the Lord, the Most Merciful One. "While campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence. According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July." Mike, grab One Night in Baghdad from the parody archive songs from Shanklin. Let me know when you've dug it out there. "'He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,' Zebari said in an interview. Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops -- and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its 'state of weakness and political confusion.' ... Obama has made many contradictory statements with regard to Iraq. His latest position is that US combat troops should be out by 2010. Yet his effort to delay an agreement would make that withdrawal deadline impossible to meet. ... According to Zebari, the envisaged time span is two or three years -- departure in 2011 or 2012. That would let Iraq hold its next general election, the third since liberation, and resolve a number of domestic political issues. Even then, the dates mentioned are only 'notional,' making the timing and the cadence of withdrawal conditional on realities on the ground as appreciated by both sides."

Now, you might be saying, "What's the big deal about this?" Well, two things. Number one, Obama has been clamoring for these troops to get out of there now, now, now. Obama was part of the cabal that wanted defeat of the US military this year. He wanted defeat of the US military this year. He wanted them out this year. He wanted to hang defeat around the neck of George W. Bush and run against that. Now all of a sudden he wants a delay in the withdrawal of troops so that he can say he did it and fulfill a campaign pledge to the kook fringe. What does this remind you of? Here we have a genuine October Surprise story. Remember when they falsely accused George Bush 41 of going over to Paris to make sure the Iranians kept the US hostages until after the November election 1980 so that Reagan would get the credit. There was never any basis for that story, just the seriousness of the charge, there was never any basis to the truth of that story and yet here's Obama doing exactly what Democrats accused George Bush 41 of doing in 1980. What a slimeball! You people on the left, do you understand your guy wants troops in Iraq until at least 2012 now, if out then, so that he can be the guy in charge of saying "I got 'em out." I guess now we know what Obama did One Night in Baghdad.

Parody: One Night In Baghdad | Shanklin

We knew that Obama's summer trip was bad, but we had no idea he was playing games with our troops for his benefit. So he goes to Berlin, he trashes the country, skipped a visit to wounded soldiers when he was in Berlin, let's not forget this. And now we found out he's playing games with the lives of our troops, maybe even a Logan Act violation, going there and asking the Iraqi guy, as a mere senator, "Hey, can't you delay your political action here?" That trip overseas was a disaster. It was beginning of the end of the bloom coming off the rose. This is not experience, this is not judgment, this is change, but it's breaking a law and his faith with his followers and our troops. Barack Obama asking the Iraqi foreign minister to keep US troops longer than the commanders on the ground think they are needed. Stop and think of that!

[maine-iac7]

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great list - two caveats:
One. I do not gives a heads up on ANYthing to O’Reilly anymore - he's jumped the shark.

Two: they will not look at mass mailings - so only put ONE address in the "to" line - and then click on the “to Bcc” at the end of the line and enter the rest in the BCC line just above the subject line. That way, each recipient will only see their address.

[maine-iac7]

Do you have a working link or was the blank page it went to supposed to be humor?

[Shady Ray]

This issue is still alive...it is just being developed in more detail... be sure to read Bob Owens’ piece through the end...

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDBjZjQ5YjM3Y2M0YmY1OTQ0ZjAzNTA1ZmQ2ZTc0MzU=

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obamas-questionable-diplomacy-in-iraq/

[Gemsbok]

Mr. Ray and All,
TREASON is right.
At the very least, this has to FReeped to every major newspaper in the form of a letter to the editor. It needs to be phoned into talk radio and emailed to everyone you know.

This has to made into series of juxtaposing his formal stance of anti-war and our country’s policies. He has become a major threat and embarassment to our troops and this country.

[Gemsbok]

Mr. Ray and All,
TREASON is right.
At the very least, this has to FReeped to every major newspaper in the form of a letter to the editor. It needs to be phoned into talk radio and emailed to everyone you know.

This has to made into series of juxtaposing his formal stance of anti-war and our countries policies. He has become a major threat and embarassment to our troops and this country.

[patriot08]

Thanks.