Posted on 07/19/2008 5:28:28 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A little twist with this one......
Why isn’t Barry going to Pakistan?????????????????????
SOFTBALL is a big sport in Afghanistan I hear.
Obama is Jimmy Carter all over again, only a lot worse.
Actually, there is a good answer to that. The answer is that Senate committee hearings are not, in fact, designed to help inform anyone of the facts important to the issue. They are prescripted performances to advance various agendas. No one learns, or is meant to learn, anything about the facts.
That may be the truth but Obama can't say it, any more than any other congresscitter can say it.
But it's also not why he didn't care enough to attend.
Actually, there is a good answer to that. The answer is that Senate committee hearings are not, in fact, designed to help inform anyone of the facts important to the issue. They are prescripted performances to advance various agendas. No one learns, or is meant to learn, anything about the facts.
That may be the truth but Obama can't say it, any more than any other congresscitter can say it.
But it's also not why he didn't care enough to attend.
Darn it, my finger stuck.
I wonder how much money he’s raising there?
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By JOHN HENDREN July 19, 2008
As Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama began his globe-trotting tour in Afghanistan today, he faced shifting sands in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When the presidential race field narrowed to two major candidates, both of them staked out clear positions.
Obama said the troop surge in Iraq would fail to cut violence or improve political reconciliation, calling Iraq "an impediment" to success in the war on terror, which he said should be focused on Afghanistan.
John McCain, Obama's likely Republican opponent, called Iraq the center of the war on terror, and famously speculated that the United States could maintain a presence there for as long as 100 years.
In political campaigns, as in war, the sands shift over time. Both candidates pointed that out -- about their rivals -- this week.
On Tuesday, Obama said pointedly: "The central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was."
In his radio address today, McCain fired back, saying, "We all remember quite well that he said the surge would fail, and today we know that he was wrong."
With the situation in Iraq improving, and Afghanistan mired in a worsening insurgent fight, Obama's trip -- one of the most high-profile job auditions in history -- will give him a high-profile opportunity to seize on the changing calculus of the war on terror.
"In Iraq, he's playing defense; in Afghanistan, he's trying to profit from an opportunity," said Michael O'Hanlon, a military analyst with the Brookings Institution.
You can’t seriously think that his 3 press secretaries are going to interrupt their Obasm to ask questions. They are too busy fawning to ask about his hypocrisy.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Obama will be our next POTUS book it.....
Way too many so-called Americans want “Change”....
Ask him about his foreign birth........
I would ask him: Barry Dunham, where is your WHITE GRANDMOTHER, why are you hiding her?/Just Asking - seoul62.......
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
He will never be POTUS... he may get elected in which case ge will be PO**S! shortened to POS!
PRAY that HUSSEIN will not be Elected! for America’s SAKE..
I'm asking because I have yet to know one person that will vote for him.
Now, if Queen Hillary happens to snatch the nomination from Obama at the Denver Convention I think she will win in the general. I don't believe Obama can beat McCain, Hillary will. Hillary has gobs of sleeves and all are full of tricks.If Hillary doesn't manage to get the nomination she will help sink Obama.
Of course that is my HO.
Good questions he’ll never answer, even if the best response is fed to him via a teleprompter.
McQueeg’s missed far too many votes in the Senate to be casting stones at others’ attendance.
“...in Afghanistan, he’s trying to profit from an opportunity”
Isn’t Obama committing a rather major blunder by supporting an escaltion of war in Afganistan? It seems to me that bringing the troops home from Iraq was the major reason for people supporting him. So now he’s saying he’d send them to Afganistan instead? This doesn’t sound like “change we can believe in” to me.
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