Letters to the Editor
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@ Dirigo - Pakistan
But, is his "poetry" and "audacity of hope" sufficient in an election year when, in fact, troops are in the field on two fronts - and possibly three - if Pakistan goes into further chaos.
It's a matter of judgment and Obama has historically demonstrated good judgment. Furthermore, based on what I have read and the countless debates and speeches I've watched, I'm comfortable with his judgment in the future. Obama has a cerebrum, and one that, unlike the Decider's, has demonstrated it is capable of substantially surpassing the threshold for higher mental functions.
Clinton, McCain, et al. constantly raise the experience issue, which quickly falls flat on its face considering the decisions they have made and stated positions for the future. What better argument to use against the experience trump card than Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and the rest of the AEI braintrust, which literally writes current U.S. foreign policy.
Points to consider:
AUMF in Iraq
- McCain - Yes
- Clinton yes
- Obama - No (not U.S. Senator then but took public stance)
Iran Terrorist Resolution
- McCain - Yes
- Clinton yes
- Obama - No
"Was your vote for the war in Iraq the right decision?"
- McCain - Yes.
- Clinton - Silly me, I didn't take the time to read the NIE, but if I knew then what I know now, especially since I'm running for president, I would have voted no." Repeat as many times as asked.
- Obama - I was against the war then and I'm against it now.
Maintaining combat troops in Iraq.
- McCain - I don't care if we're there for a hundred years.
- Clinton - "I will get us out of Iraq" but will not commit to remove all combat troops (does not apply to troops required to protect American civilians in Iraq for embassy, etc.)
- Obama - "I will end the war in Iraq by the end of next year."
Senate Armed Services Committee - McCain Ranking Member; Clinton, member
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee - Barack Obama, member
Diplomatic discussions with adversaries?
- McCain - Fuck 'em. Uh, excuse me, I meant to say bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran. I'm in lockstep with my BFF Joe Lieberman.
- Clinton - I might, but not for awhile and depending on the conditions.
- Obama - Yes, with proper planning, but not to be used as a bogus advertisement (summarizing/paraphrasing multiple answers)
Would you attack al-Qaeda in Pakistan without Pakistan's approval?
- McCain - Too busy building a multi-billion dollar embassy in Iraq that will last at least 100 years. Call me later, will ya, my friend? I gotta focus on keeping that surge going in spite of no political success and the eminent threat of al-Sadr's army returning.
- Clinton - I have yet to be able to discern what Clinton's position is. It varies and is ambiguous to the best of my knowledge.
- Obama - US position in Afghanistan needs to be strengthened ASAP to mitigate al-Qaeda presence. That withstanding, if I have actionable intelligence on a high-value target, I would attempt communications with Pakistan gov't first, but would proceed with a limited strike if target value and conditions are (OBL et al.). (summarizing/paraphrasing)
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@retired military patriot
Solon’s War Room talked about this article today and stories like this about the real McCain can come back to haunt his “I’m Mr. Clean hero” image.
Don't throw rocks if you live in a glass house certainly does apply here.
Even if the nightly blabbermouths give it more than a passing note, I'm guessing that it'll be pale, boring stuff next to the inevitably coming (true) stories about slumlord connections and people getting their heat turned off in the dead of Chicago winters and bills that would have prohibited nuclear waste in the water supply getting changed to a mere suggestion.
People today act entirely on emotion. You should know that. Obama is about to be the Democratic candidate in a fit of pure emotion and nothing else. Let's face it; he isn't qualified to be much more than the town dogcatcher.
It's all a game to him. He couldn't care about anything more than the ego of winnign the primary and making a stockpile of money and when he gets bested by McCain he'll go home.. and everyone who voted for him will be stuck with McCain and a permanent Republican majority.
Oh well.
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@sysprog
You're right! The people will see right through all that silliness and choose the much-better way of a guy who hasn't even finished a single senate term and has been running for President since he opened the Senate door.
After all, there's nothing going on in the world or in the economy now to be concerned about.
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@PoliticalChase
I suggest what you're missing is that once you get outside of a few affluent pockets of geographically dispersed white male liberals nobody else on God's green earth gives a rat's ass on how anyone voted on those matters.
Ironically, all your immature, senseless irrational obsession did was cause you to enable John McCain and more of the policies you've rung your hands about night after night. It'd be comical if it wasn't so fucking sad.
But Obama is not going to win against John McCain and I'm sick to death of the immature jerks who still don't get that hard reality, can not take the time with bothersome details like the electoral map and demographic trends and growing voting bases, yet still somehow think they have a right to foist a party's candidate on them sacrosanctomoniously and hysterically on a single issue that is in fact a NON-ISSUE for most voters who will turn out at the polls in November.
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Repellent AIM Article
Greenwald belives that it is AIM's article which notes that a mentor and family friend only mentioned as "Frank" in Obama's book, Dreams From My Father, was a member of the American Communist Party.
It would be important research to know if any candidate saw a member of the American Nazi Party as a mentor. Why is it repellent to note associations with Communists, but not associations with Nazi's?
I'm sure Greenwald would deem it newsworthy and insightful if McCain staffers had confederate flags or pictures of David Duke or even Jerry Fallwell. However, noting the picture of Che Guevara, a man responsible for the torture and murder of thousands in a Cuban polical prison, superimposed on a Communist Flag, representing a system that killed tens of millions of people is irrelevent.