LUGAR: OBAMA AD 'ACCURATE'

Republican Sen. Dick Lugar (IN) today said an Obama campaign ad which features him is "accurate." The ad makes the point the Obama previously "reached out" to Lugar to "help lock down loose nuclear weapons."

Lugar is widely considered one of the most knowledgeable in the area of nuclear weapons proliferation and the coauthored of the 1991 Nunn-Lugar Act on cooperative threat reduction.

"He did" reach out, Lugar said. He explained that in 2005, Obama asked if he could join Lugar on a trip to Russia and other countries to visit sites under the Nunn-Lugar program.

"After that, we had legislation that we cosponsored together which passed" dealing with dangerous missiles.

BFD. That’s not what people mean when they ask about where Obambi has ever showed the slightest evidence of a bi-partisan spirit. THAT was an issue that was/is a perfect “no-brainer” to work to lock up ex-USSR nuclear materials.

Also, it was merely a chance for Obambi to add something to his ultra-thin resume, so it was all for HIS interests. It did not display any willingness to work toward compromise, to work with the “other party” on anything that didn’t give Obambi and friends 100% of what THEY wanted.

Did someone suggest that it was “inaccurate”?

Actually, his asking to tag along as a very new, freshman Senator on something like this would been pretty irregular, to say the least. However, from the beginning, there has always been a sense of predestination about him. So, rules, protocals, learning the ropes, ferget those, I’m BHO!

(NUNN-LUGAR PROGRAM DRAINING RESOURCES FROM SECURING & PROTECTING US NUCLEAR MATERIAL SITES?-- See HAZEL O'LEARY)
Of particular concern is the fact that Mrs. [HAZEL] O'Leary's glasnost campaign has made public precise information concerning the quantities and whereabouts of U.S. plutonium and highly enriched uranium stocks. At the same time, her Department has significantly reduced the budget available for securing and protecting those sites. The Center for Security Policy has been informed that one reason for these cuts has been the Clinton Administration's diversion of scarce resources from U.S. programs to fund the Cooperative Threat Reduction initiative (frequently called the Nunn-Lugar program).(4) In this manner, she has effectively invited attacks on these facilities and left them significantly able to thwart such attacks -- with potentially ominous implications for the local communities and/or for the effort to staunch the proliferation of radiological, atomic or thermonuclear weapons. --- "Fiddling While the Nation's Nuclear Weapons Complex 'Burns' Down: O'Leary's Last Denuclearization Shot? ,"Center for Security Policy, Decision Brief No. 96-D 120, 1996-11-29 http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=papers&code=96-D_120.

The ad makes the point the Obama previously "reached out" to Lugar to "help lock down loose nuclear weapons."

He did this in 2005? Why, that's a whole three years ago!

This sounds like a high school student, who's tried to join 50 different clubs in their senior year, just so they could pad their college admission application with examples of "involvement."

Obama's involvement was superficial, no doubt, as the subject is far too complex to be mastered in such a short time. In other words, he was a leech, a remora. A parasite who tried to get pass/fail credit by his attendance alone.

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