Posted on 05/17/2008 3:51:15 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
THE WASHINGTON TIMES - In a preview of the sharp foreign-policy jabs expected in the general election, Sen. Barack Obama charged that Republican Sen. John McCain is "fear peddling" when criticizing his desire to talk directly with U.S. adversaries.
Mr. Obama, using his dust-up with the White House to rally Democrats, linked Mr. McCain to the unpopular President Bush, accusing them of "bluster," and told South Dakota voters, "They are trying to scare you."
The prohibitive frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination said the Republican campaign line that he would negotiate with terrorist groups is false.
"I have been adamant about not negotiating with Hamas, a terrorist organization that has vowed to destroy Israel and won't recognize them," Mr. Obama said, adding: "They are not telling the truth."
The campaign of Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, responded that Mr. Obama had gone off on a "hysterical diatribe," especially since Mr. Bush had not specifically referred to Mr. Obama by name in his Thursday speech to the Israeli Knesset in which he derided the concept of negotiating with "terrorists."
Mr. McCain told National Rifle Association members in a speech yesterday he welcomes a debate about "protecting America," but admonished his probable rival: "He should know better."
"Senator Obama claimed all I had to offer was the 'naive and irresponsible belief' that tough talk would cause Iran to give up its nuclear program," the Arizona Republican said. "I have some news for Senator Obama: Talking, not even with soaring rhetoric, in unconditional meetings with the man who calls Israel a 'stinking corpse' and arms terrorist who kill Americans will not convince Iran to give up its nuclear program. It is reckless to suggest that unconditional meetings will advance our interests."
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Senator Barack Hussein Muhammad Obama must be the most thin-skinned politician in American history! What a wussy!
I now think we all know who wears the pants in the Obama household!
There he goes whining again - he must really beginning to think he is the Messiah - simpering little communist thinks he’s above reproach.
ROTFLMBO!
Is there a video of the presser Obama held after his ownhall speech?
Thugs, despots, dictators, ruthless men LIE! and Muslims LIE the most.
Go to Tehran; go to Damascus; go to the Nut in Pyongyang and bring back assurances.
Promises written on wet tissue (or T.p. in otherwords) with our lives at stake.
Get past being a weenie-man. Get some cohones! Otherwise, you’re as “weak as water” says Mrs. Slocomb.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Rev Wright never tried to scare nobody!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
BO is going to piss off Mccain really bad one of these days and McCain won’t take it anymore. Should be fun to watch.
Why does everyone keep picking on Obama? He does not like it when someone holds his feet to the fire. He turns everything into racism! It is alright when he shoots his mouth off and demonstrates his lack of common sense or understanding.
Obamassiah.......Obamassiah......O bullchit!
What in the world does that mean? Where's a good editor when you need one?
That old meaningless buzz word “fear”. Bill Clinton loved to use it too. There are plenty of things that two bit wussy Obama fears
The infobabe who wrote this is her own editor
Yep. Go over to politico.com and you'll see all the Dems using FEAR (yes, they are fear-mongers too). They keep saying, McCain is going to overturn Roe v Wade and women will be forced to have babies they don't want, etc., etc.,
That's just as much fear-mongering as what they accuse the Republicans of doing.
Hypocrites.
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