Posted on 05/22/2008 3:18:14 AM PDT by Zakeet
Barack Obama is ambling rather than sprinting across the primary-season finish line. It's not just his failure to connect with blue-collar Democrats. He has added to his problems with ill-informed replies on critical foreign policy questions.
On Sunday at a stop in Oregon, Sen. Obama was dismissive of the threats posed by Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba and Syria. That's the same Iran whose Quds Force is arming and training insurgents and illegal militias in Iraq to kill American soldiers; that is supporting Hezbollah and Hamas in violent attacks on Lebanon and Israel; and that is racing to develop a nuclear weapon while threatening the "annihilation" of Israel.
By Monday in Montana, Mr. Obama recognized his error. He abruptly changed course, admitting that Iran represents a threat to the region and U.S. interests.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Obama said in Florida that in a meeting with the Iranians he'd make it clear their behavior is unacceptable. That message has been delivered clearly by Republican and Democratic administrations in public and private diplomacy over the past 16 years. Is he so naïve to think he has a unique ability to make this even clearer?
If Mr. Obama believes he can change the behavior of these nations by meeting without preconditions, he owes it to the voters to explain, in specific terms, what he can say that will lead these states to abandon their hostility. He also needs to explain why unconditional, unilateral meetings with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or North Korea's Kim Jong Il will not deeply unsettle our allies.
If Mr. Obama fails to do so, voters may come to believe that he is asking them to accept that he has a "Secret Plan," and that he is hopelessly out of his depth on national security.
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More good information in the article explaining why this
guy's not ready for prime time.
Awesome video:
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.
He’s not naive. He’s got a plan. It’s just that it’s a plan that ends with the defeat of the US.
He nails it. Any foreign policy ‘breakthroughs’ are the result of years of hard work and behind the scenes diplomacy.
NOBAMA in ‘08 (or any other year)
Even regular workaday democrats know this guy is a loser.
Only the true believers drink his koolaid.
Liberals are liberal not because they want the best for their country. Liberals are liberal because they hate America and want to undermine their country.
Because a light will shine down on them and they will see that they must bend to the will of the great Obama, for he will offer them the keys to the kingdom....All the while selling us out to the world, telling them that we are sucking the resources of the world dry because we are so greedy and fat....
Mr. Obama would not consider any nation a threat until he sees their soldiers marching down South Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Of course by then, it would be too late.
The amazing thing about this whole meeting with Iran kerfluffle is that Obama has nobody but himself to blame. He could have "corrected" himself after the debate last year, and nobody would have batted an eye. But because he is too stubborn to admit that he made an error, he is willing to commit the nation to negotiations that can only end in disaster. To Obama's way of thinking, the only thing that matters is that he is always right. If proving he is right leads to a mushroom cloud over New York City, that is a price he is willing to pay.
I never thought the day would come when we would see a politician even more narcissistic and egomaniacal than Bill Clinton. We did not have to wait that long, did we?
Thanks for the great reminder... I’ve now saved that to my favorites and will share it with others in the future. Unfortunately, “we will never forget” has lapsed... and too many of our fellow Americans have forgotten. Can you imagine Barack Obama responding to those days and that threat? What a joke. “Let’s talk things out with the sponsors of terrorism— no preconditions!”
that he is hopelessly out of his depth on national security.
and hoplessly out of his depth on health care, and hoplessly out of his depth on economic policy, and hopelessly out of his depth on crime prevention, and hoplessly out of his depth on immigration policy, and hoplessly out of his depth on energy policy ( but to be fair, Bush has shown himself to be a complete r-tard on this one too with his energy policy consisting of dumping billions of taxpayer dollars in the ethanol producers laps), and hoplessly out of his depth on education, in fact the only thing he isn't hoplessly out of his depth on is the politics of racial hatred. He knows how to resonate the sullen resentment and the deep seated sense of entitlement that the government and racist bigots like Wright, Sharpton, Jackson, etc have instilled in the black population. He and his wife who are both the beneficiaries of a law (affirmative action) that discriminates against whites solely on the basis of their color, nevertheless say America is "mean." I guess Michelle Obama's $380,000 salary from the Chicago hospital based solely on her color and her political connections just isn't enough.
His public plan is surrender and malaise.
Can't imagine his 'secret' plan could be worse, unless it is implementing sharia law.
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