Posted on 05/19/2008 10:34:28 AM PDT by vietvet67
Note to Obama: Your mask is slipping.
Barack Obama has tried his best to conceal the fact that underneath all the soothing rhetoric about "change" and being a new kind of politican, he is nothing but a 1960's style liberal with some incredibly naive views about American foreign policy.
Yesterday in front of 75,000 adoring fans, Obama really let his inner liberal take over and made one of the most outrageously stupid comment of the campaign to date. If the GOP were smart, they would take this comment and run it from now until November.
Jennifer Rubin at Commentary:
This remarkable bit of footage from Barack Obama's appearance in Oregon last night is now floating around on YouTube. It might be useful as an undergraduate course exam: how many errors can you spot? Obama apparently believes that Iran and other rogues states (he lists Iran, Cuba and Venezuela) "don't pose a serious threat to the U.S." Iran, specifically, he tells us spends so little on defense relative to us that if Iran "tried to pose a serious threat to us they wouldn't . . . they wouldn't stand a chance."
So, taken literally, he seems not much concerned about Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons, its sponsorship of terrorist organizations, its commitment to eradicate Israel, its current actions in supplying weapons that have killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq, and its role in eroding Lebanon's sovereignty through its client Hezbollah.
Echoes of the '60's to be sure. At that time, even the Soviets weren''t considered a threat because they would never start a war due to their losing 20 million in World War II. Of course, it is never brought up that the Soviets were perfectly willing to assist Hitler in starting the war by making a secret pact with the Nazi dictator that carved up Poland and deliniated spheres of influence for the two powers.
And we know now that the period from 1983-85, Soviet leaders were actively contemplating a first strike against the United States before our conventional military build up was complete. So it should come as no surprise that Obama - a man whose associations with 1960's radicals is documented and who has immersed himself in liberal dogma his entire adult life - should come out and say something so ridiculous that it is going to cost him considerably at the polls.
How many more gaffes like this does the candidate have in him? Let's hope there are several between now and the election.
Ed Lasky adds:
Going beyond Jennifer Rubin's valuable comments about Barack Obam's benign view of Iran, why are we just hearing these views said so explicitly now? Could it be that Barack Obama, on the cusp of securing the Democratic Party nomination, no longer has to cover his true views?
Furthermore, there has been a spate of articles the last week speculating that he feels secure in being able to capture enough of the Jewish vote (whcih is not necessarily pro-Israel) in key states that he feels he can dismiss concerns about Iran and Israel. How does that relate to his early supporters who all but shilled for him regarding his "love for Israel", the steadfastness of his support for the nation? Will he be as dismissive towards them going forward as he has been towards Israel?
He seems all but ready to ignore the entire region-including regional allies-whose views towards America may be less than perfect but whose cooperation going forward will depend on their feelings that America will be alert to the threat posed by Iran and form in resisting, if not rolling back, Iranian imperialism run amok. Beyond these concerns, his naivete is remarkable. Pollyanish attitudes are perilous for a President to have; Hope is not a foreign policy. It is a Hallmark Card sentiment and a campaign slogan.
Rich Baehr agrees that "this is exactly what is going on- he has won,and is now basking in the love of his partisans on the left, who have won control of the Democratic Party."
If so, it will be interesting to see how the press plays this dramatic shift leftward.
The man is a bloody fool, and those who are enamored of him are as well.
I’m dead serious when I say that I think Barack Obama is a secret operative of Al Qaeda. How stupid does someone have to be to vote for this anti-American, disciple of the Koran?
“And we know now that the period from 1983-85, Soviet leaders were actively contemplating a first strike against the United States........”
Well I didn’t know. That’s remarkable. Really, a nuclear first strike, or a move against NATO?
His head is too small. - He looks like that alien in Men in Black after he got his head shot off.
“If the GOP were smart...” OK, abandon all hope right there. Seen any flying pigs?
“The man is a bloody fool, and those who are enamored of him are as well.”
He’s no fool. He knows exactly what he is doing. He wants to permanently cripple our status as a world superpower, and to redistrubute our wealth all over the world.
It’s perfectly deliberate.
His followers are definitely fools.
The fantastic thing is that he says this one or two days after going ballistic concerning the Presidents’ comments on appeasers. Comments that were not directed against him although he now makes everything in his power to show that the President was correct.
I hope McCain and the GOP use these comments “wisely and often”.
Sadly, they're not.
The new "dead heads"?
The promise of 'free stuff' is an aphrodisiac to which the ignorant masses cannot pass up.
I think they counted the cooties, too.
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
~~~ Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU.
Perhaps he is the MESSIAH
Why don't we seize the opportunity provided by the MSM's deification of Obama to permanently de-claw the IRS and get God back into the public school classrooms?
This post (<-click), while addressing taxes, helps to explain why government "leaders" like Obama are actually in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics.
In fact, the article referenced below shows that Obama is the #1 federal spending proposer in the Senate for '08; Clinton is #2.
Obama, a big-shot federal spenderAnd this post (<-click) exposes how corrupt justices then began using FDR's politically correct license to ignore the 10th A. to unlawfully stifle traditional family values, including the USSC's scandalous legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade. Note that the post first references two non-abortion cases in order to show Roe v. Wade in a different, troubling perspective.
In fact, consider that the states have the constitutional power (10th A.) to authorize public schools to lead non-mandatory (14th A.) classroom discussions on the pros and cons of evolution, creationism and ID, as examples, regardless that atheists, separatists, pagan-minded judges and the MSM are misleading the people to think that doing such things in public schools is unconstitutional.
The people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state government powers. The people then need to wise up to the major problems that, since the days of FDR's dirty politics, Congress has not only not been operating with the restraints of the federal Constitution, particularly where constitutionally unauthorized federal spending is concerned, but the USSC has wrongly been ignoring the 10th A. protected power of the states to address religious issues.
The bottom line is that the people need to get in the faces of judges, demanding that judges uphold their oaths to defend the 10th A. protected powers of the states to address religious issues - or get off the bench. The people also need to send big-shot, Constitution-ignoring federal spenders like Obama home as opposed to trying to send people like him to the Oval Office. The people need to get in the faces of members of Congress, demanding a stop to constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes - or get out of DC.
Lincoln put it this way.
"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --Abraham Lincoln, Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 1858.
“The man is a bloody fool, and those who are enamored of him are as well.”
That bloody fool has hoodwinked enough of the electorate that his chance of winning the November election is, at this point, better than 50/50. Remember, fully one half —and likely more — of the American people are of the opinion that emotion is the one, true reality. Emotion trumps eveything for these folks. Thus, they are easily swayed by anyone who appeals to the emotions; all the more easy if that person is a minority who enjoys the blessings of MSM.
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