Posted on 07/22/2008 11:31:19 PM PDT by Red Steel
Did the Republican who would be president really think that by goading Democrat Barack Obama into visiting Afghanistan and Iraq -- countries the senator from Illinois was going to have to visit as part of an image-building international tour -- he would somehow trip-up his November rival?
Was McCain under some delusion that international leaders would subtly undermine the Obama tour and thus confirm that the Republican ally of discredited lame-duck President George Bush
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If that was the case, then McCain really is too foolish to be president -- not merely of the U.S. but of his stamp club.
As Obama goes from strength to strength -- sinking baskets, drawing cheers from the troops, forging a plan to extract most U.S. forces from Iraq that everyone who matters seems to agree with -- McCain is scrambling.
Of course, it is true that Obama is too open to a wider U.S. commitment in Afghanistan and too closed to a wider U.S. commitment to seeking peace in the Middle East. But, in each case, he appears moderate when compared to the bombastic McCain.
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are warming to Obama with each passing day of an international journal that looks less like a listening tour than a victory lap.
What's a McCain to do?
The Republican appears to be thinking about trying to trump Obama, not with some foreign-policy masterstroke but with some old-fashioned politics.
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Syndicated columnist Robert Novak claims that McCain will make a vice presidential pick quickly. "Sources close to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign are suggesting he will reveal the name of his vice presidential selection this week while Sen. Barack Obama is getting the headlines on -snip-
Is it really possible that McCain would use a vice presidential designation to grab some cheap headlines away from Obama?
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
> Obama’s Global Victory Lap Has McCain Desperate <
The idiocy of John Nichols, author and obvious Obama media $10 whore.
Maybe what the left doesn;t simply grasp is that even if Barak goes campaigning on Venus, Jupiter or the Klingon Empire, it’s the votes AT HOME, BY AMERICANS that count.
Of course, the only overseas votes that absolutely counts are by our brave servicemen...
John Nichols is a far-left socialist twit. He’d better wait awhile before he concludes that Obambi’s pathetic tour will hold up. I have never yet seen one article of his that was worth reading.
A great quote from Obama today: "Israel has always been a strong supporter of Israel."
Pretty apt description of John Nichols...a $10 whore.
The lying kind...that steals all of your money out of your wallet when you’re asleep and sneaks out.
It’s inevitible that at some point on this tour Obama will commit a Huge Gaffe that will lower his poll ratings by at least 10 points. He just doesn’t have it with foreign affairs (or any other affairs).
>> that everyone who matters seems to agree with — McCain is scrambling.
EVERYONE WHO MATTERS!
Now there is a expression you do not see every day!
I can’t wait to read “but every one I know voted for Obama” comments after Democrats lose 40 states.
Afghanistan is primarily an United Nations effort at this time. If John Nichols had any clue of the facts, there would be a call for the European nations to come up with sufficient troops to front a surge in Afghanistan. As for phony candidate Obama, he has no clue. He is just reading the script written by fools.
You people are so biased it hurts your credibility. McCain made an error by goading Obama into going to Iraq. Obama gained credibilty when the Iraqis and the White House approved of a 16 month “time horizon.” We will be hearing this while seeing Obama with a backdrop of smiling American soldiers until November. Obama has gotten plenty of favorable coverage becuase this is a historic trip no matter what is said because this is a historic election. If Hillary Clinton was running as the first woman, the coverage would also be more biased than normal.
This is “The Nation” after all. What else would they say ?
It’s not important to know anything when the press worships you.
In 2012 I think I’ll run my dog for president. He’s really cute, and he’ll take great photo ops. And he’s been excelling at his job (guarding my house) longer than Obama’s been in the Senate.
The media loves to paint it that way, but it's incorrect. The "time horizon" is nothing new or innovative cranked out by Obama. It has since years been the Bush Administration's outlayed plan that if the Iraqi step-by-step take over their country with improving security, we'll be drawing down combat troops. It's condition based. "Iraqis stand up, we stand down" is Bush policy since 2005. Bush, McCain, Maliki are on the same page with this, despite the media spin on Maliki's comments, which was refuted by the Iraqi Government quickly after. This is only reinforced by the impending US-Iraqi agreement on troops status.
What Obama wants is immediate withdrawal 2003/2004/2005/2006/2007/2008 at any given date, at any situation, WITHOUT ANY preconditions. This is the definition of unconditional surrender. It's just the refusal of Bush and the Republicans to surrender that we have stayed now well into 2008. Now the coincidence has Obama's timeframe for withdrawal lay together with an possible drawdown of victorious combat troops after the Surge, which Obama and the Dems specificially opposed!
WHENEVER we start to draw down troops from Iraq, the Obamanation will claim credit, just like any cheap phony.
Like any of this is a shock?
Obama takes a trip around the world, he gives a speech, he blows his nose - whatever it is, the press is gonna swoon and declare it the best trip/speech/sneeze since ever was. Only in the minds of our sycophant media would the fact that they’re working overtime to make someone look good constitute a story. In a few days Obama will come home and the polls will remain just as they were before; the believers will still be voting for their messiah, the doubters will still be voting against him, and the undecideds won’t even know he went anywhere (duh, they’re undecided, they don’t watch the news).
What is so historic about it? We have had to choose the better of two idiots before, nothing new there. I am going to vote against the Marxist (Obama) and hope the Democrat (McCain) wins.
The election is historic because Obama is dark skinned. He also happens to be photogenic, so it makes sense that the press would cover his every move.
Do a little research before you start dealing in absolutes. SW was not absolutely lying. You make some ill-informed statement that someone is a liar and do not give that person the same opportunity you gave to Obama. Perhaps SW was only being ambiguous?
The quote was “Obama wants immediate withdrawal”. How the hell do you know what Obama wants enough to call someone a liar? You don’t..........and you can read at this link where Obama is quoted as calling for immediate withdrawal. No ambiguity, no carefully worded deceits, it is Obama calling for immediate withdrawal:http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Sep/12/br/br6275409318.html
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