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How did the hostages get there to begin with? Maybe because Carter backed the man who called us "The Great Satan" in deposing the Shah, then pissed off the Ayatollah by giving refuge to the Shah. This is the same naivete Barack displays in his belief he can negotiate with Ahmadinejad, who was in fact one of the very radicals Carter pissed off that took the hostages.
Concerning your critical look at McCain, I'm far more concerned with the leadership he displayed in the navy, and all the years of doing what he believed was right in the senate, which you conveniently ignore. If you're going to hold up his first wife, 3/4 of Washington would have to be eliminated by that standard. This talking point of "he voted 90% with Bush" first of all focuses on a very small portion of his career, and secondly ignores the fact that these were largely non-contentious bills. Even Obama voted 48% with Bush, and Biden 54%, to put it in context.
Concerning Obama, his Alinsky tacticts, his involvement with buying Acorn support, including those all-important dead votes in Chicago, makes him a radical. The fact that the only bills he sponsored in state legislature were for social welfare, gross overspending causing large financial problems, makes him irresponsible. The fact that he's doing everything he can to cover his involvement on the board with Ayers, makes him shady. There's more, but this is already more than enough for me not to trust our future to a man so egomaniacal that he believes he can talk an entire population out of a centuries old mandate to eliminate the Islamic world of infidels.
No, all I was looking for was that very admission. You don't care about Obama's record, who he is, or what he stands for. You don't care that he's a shady radical. You're voting for a self-appointed messianic symbol of some vague dream of an ill-defined utopia, proven many times over through history to be very dangerous and impossible.
You buy into the leftist propaganda put out here about McCain without any critical look at the man, because the notion of American exceptionalism is enough for you to hate him on its own.
But who will be left to counter Iranian Islamofascist jihad, put on its current path with the help of Carter, if America's power is absorbed into the world community? Who will stop their desire to hasten Armageddon to bring their own messiah?
The only experience Obama has with finances includes lavish spending on social welfare in Chicago that has a large hand in the financial problems of Illinois, and the squandering of Annenberg funds on shady and failed "education" programs that he is now covering up, including redirecting funds to ensure his own re-election.
"Obama's fondest hope is to lead America into another war on poverty. Everything in his state-legislative career points in this direction, and Obama calls for a renewal of expensive national anti-poverty programs in his book The Audacity of Hope. True, Obama's promotion of government partnerships with private-sector housing contractors (like Antoin "Tony" Rezko) was supposed to open up novel, post-Great Society solutions to the problem of poverty. Yet, as a devastating Boston Globe report on Obama's Illinois housing policy recently showed, the results of Obama's new war on poverty are just as counterproductive as those of the old war on poverty. Neighborhoods supposedly renovated now lie deserted by the private developers who took Obama's government handouts and ran-quickly building or renovating housing units, but failing to maintain them."
http://volokh.com/posts/1217776374.shtml
just told us how patriotic is to pay extra taxes... it's hard to deny being tax and spend liberals with statements like this coming out.
Can't you find anything better to talk about than this tabloid crap that just makes the left look desperate?
Here's one... talk about how Pelosi tried to sneak a worthless sham of a off-shore drilling bill past the house overnight because if she actually gave anyone time to read it, they'd see it's a complete hoax that does nothing but pretend that they're considering drilling so they can go back to playing the victim.
Talk about how Obama is too busy in Beverly Hills partying with the elite to see what the worthless Democrat House is doing.
Talk about how bad the economy is, then get on your jet to go hang out with Barbara Streisand and the Hollywood elite. Way to show you're down there in the trenches when we just footed the bill for an $85 billion bailout of yet another collapsing company.
How about telling us why the Pelosi house is trying put a sham off-shore drilling bill out there to pretend their doing something.
Let's see if the left-wing media covers that one.
This should make obvious what your Marxist candidate wants to do... he sees the market working in it's reaction to the subprime mortgage and credit crises and wants inefficient government to step in, spending more money we don't have. Hope you folks are ready if you choose Obama for him to tank the economy, incite false panic, and scare off investors. He cannot fulfill the promises he's made, it's not even remotely possible. He's buying your vote with empty promises to robinhood money for you, and it can not work.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2073071/revolution-you-can-believe-in.thtml
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/obamas_alinsky_jujitsu.html
Why are you not investigating the story of the true influences on Obama's thought, politics and character? The left-wing media will send planes full of reporters and lawyers to dig up any dirt to smear Sarah, but you will ignore the Chicago machine politics and radical preachers that have shaped Obama. Why will you not present the public with unbiased information? What favors do you believe you are doing American Democracy?
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2073071/revolution-you-can-believe-in.thtml
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/obamas_alinsky_jujitsu.html