Posted on 07/22/2008 10:03:36 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
FROM the late 18th through the 19th century, young men of means went on a "grand tour" abroad to finish their educations. Some returned with fond memories, others with artifacts pried from temple walls - and the remainder with syphilis.
Sen. Barack Obama's grand tour offers fewer opportunities for mischief and misfortune, but we all must hope that he learned from his travels and wasn't just checking the blocks.
Set aside your political preferences (I'll be voting for Sen. John McCain): Whoever wins, all sensible Americans want our next president to perform well. So let's consider the pros and cons of Obama's wheels-down-wheels-up visits to Afghanistan, Iraq and Europe.
First positive: He went. Foreign policy never interested Obama until it offered a political opportunity with Iraq, nor has he ever shown much interest in our military. But magic can happen when you touch down on foreign soil and rub shoulders, however briefly, with our troops.
And Obama's no dummy. Behind closed doors, he'll have listened carefully to our generals on the ground. He won't change positions publicly before November - but he wants to be a successful president.
If elected, he won't let himself be branded as the man who lost Iraq after it had been won. He'd give a speech in February or March to the effect that the reality we face has changed, and we must change with reality.
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OK, so what about the other 58%?
But Maliki's actual words are much more in line with and in keeping with Bush's and McCain's level-headed doctrine of pulling out when the situation warrants it.
It's just looking like that the surge has been so successful that the victory conditions could come quickly enough so Obama is trying to call that victory his own...which it is patently not. He had nothing to do with it and had we followed his "plan" we would have already been wadining in disater.
FROM the late 18th through the 19th century, young men of means went on a “grand tour” abroad to finish their educations. Some returned with fond memories, others with artifacts pried from temple walls - and the remainder with syphilis.
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sounds exactly like spring break in cozumel :)
“Foreign policy never interested Obama until it offered a political opportunity with Iraq, nor has he ever shown much interest in our military”.....
After 9/11 for these reasons alone how can any American vote for him?
If it took Obama 20+ years to realize he was sitting in a black racist church, listening to black racist Pastor preaching racist Black Liberation Theology -—— how in hell with this ignorant, waffling, racist and overreaching Dumbo eared clown going to learn how to be president between now and Jan 2009!
It ain’t gonna happen....NOT for this anti-America poseur with suspect religion and suspect eligibility.
The Presidency isn’t an Affirmative Action position, nor is it a jobs program position with on the job training..
No picture of obambi is complete without his 1999 Larry Sinclair.
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