All Obama said do in Jan. the US Govt., Iran, Iraq are now doing

raves +8 -4 by Calumet
And the timing couldn't be more suspicious or obvious. As long as Washington lifers, milk toast Democrats, but especially Republicans, toured and returned from Europe and the Middle East all was "stay the course" under a cloud of misleading perennially hammered home talking points, pro-war propaganda and the occasional confusion of military testimony before congress.

Just as soon as Democratic Presidential hopeful Senator Barack H. Obama boarded the plane for the first leg of what is essentially his world tour all the stalwart, unyielding orthodox foreign policy that has kept the United Stated quagmired in an endless war began to be dismantled.

Over 400 U.S. news correspondents vied for the coverage. The few granted the honor rushed ahead of Senator Obama on an interview spree of the military hierarchy and any foreign official they could find.

When politicians from the President on down for months on end ridiculed Obama's speeches encouraging diplomatic talks with the likes of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, suddenly we've sent our Iranian Ambassador to sit with world leaders IN IRAN just as Obama sets foot on Afghanistan soil.

For months he has made clear his desire to set a timetable for withdrawal in 16 months and redeployment of troops to the real "ground zero" for terrorism in Afghanistan with more focus on Pakistan.

Then before his plane took off the news was filled with military-speak for redeployment to Afghanistan. And Iraq raised for the first time this week the prospect of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces as part of negotiations over a new security deal with Washington - and Bush is on board!

No, actually they've said as much months ago, but no one paid much attention.

To top it off Iraqi Prime Minister Malaki stated in an email that was released to the press that he agreed with presidential candidate Obama's (he said so by expressly referencing Obama's name) withdrawal plan, subject to possible adjustments based on future developments.

Since Obama has also noted that he is willing to make adjustments based on future developments, the Iraqi PM has essentially endorsed Obama's position in totality. Malaki also reportedly stated that the aspect of victory or defeat is no applicable to a timeline for withdrawal, albeit (no doubt strongly encouraged by Washington) he has attempted to retract such claims.

Obama greeted the troops in Kuwait who welcomed him with a rousing enthusiasm Senator McCain can only dream of. He hit the gym and was challenged to shoot a three-pointer, and he hit it. He was later challenged to do it again, and he made it again, to roaring cheers.

Pundits and Op Ed columnists are in a flurry to explain the swell of enthusiasm over Senator Obama in the Middle-east and the great anticipation in Europe over his upcoming visit. It is because he is in the right place at the right time. The man of the hour. A leader for our time.
The remainder of his tour will certainly prove is the leader we need to set things aright both abroad and at home.
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  • raves     [-] by akgold
    How did we send our ambassador to sit in Iran? We have not had diplomatic relations with Iran since 1980. Hence, we have no ambassador to Iran.
  • raves     [-] by Di - Check
    well honey you cant change history to make it read the way you want lol - this take on history is nothing short of delusional...I dont think it happened quite like this....oh no wait - I know it didnt happen like this - your take on events, and word choice of reporting, mesmerizes one to vomit
  • raves +3   [-] by Bill - NObama - McFriend ®©


    Ken has it pretty well covered
    "Get serious! If Obama had his way last year there would have been no surge, we would be pulling our troops out right now with no victory, instead of the scheduled withdrawal leaving a stable Iraq! Of course Obama is popular in the Middle-East, the terrorist organization Hamas has even endorsed him - there is no need to explain the "swell of enthusiasm!"

    What you do need to do is explain the fact that McCain was leading today by 5 points in the Zogby poll of likely voters nationwide!


    good post Ken...
  • raves +4   [-] by Ken
    Get serious! If Obama had his way last year there would have been no surge, we would be pulling our troops out right now with no victory, instead of the scheduled withdrawal leaving a stable Iraq! Of course Obama is popular in the Middle-East, the terrorist organization Hamas has even endorsed him - there is no need to explain the "swell of enthusiasm!"

    What you do need to do is explain the fact that McCain was leading today by 5 points in the Zogby poll of likely voters nationwide!
  • raves +3   [-] by Bill - NObama - McFriend ®©
    sad too that the Obamorons are now trying to give Obama credit for something that was already in the works before Barry went there isn't it?, or is sad not the right word?, maybe "pathetic" covers it better... idk
  • raves     [-] by Doc Mel - Obama - Biden 08 ; )
    Right on, hope those people who judge on skin color open their hearts and eyes. We need other countries to work with us, not hate us. I can see how they are talking about attacking Iran, it is really unfortunate, I hope Bush does not do that in October..............
  • raves +2   [-] by concerned
    we have spent billion of dollars on a war that should not have ever gotten started ...bring the troops home ....and oraq wants you out ....
  • raves +1   [-] by edmanfor OBAMA.
    I see that fool obama de traitor was here. He probably spammed your dashboard too? He got mine, what a idiot! Let the troops speak for themselves,and see McCain go go back to where ever he came from. Most of the troops I know what Obama man as their CNC!
  • raves +1   [-] by concerned
    looks like his world tour has brought better news to the united states ...unlike mccain's travel ....and the people outside the country like him too ...they didn't seen him home like they did bush ...go obma
  • raves +3   [-] by angie ~ MCCAIN / PALIN 08
    Too bad that they cannot vote for him. That leaves us Republicans that you will have to deal with.
  • raves +6   [-] by OBAMA THE TRAITOR
    OBAMA'S FLIP-FLOP OVERSTOCK INVENTROY BUY 1 GET 1 FREE!
    obamas flip-flop overstock inventroy buy 1 1 free


    John Kerry, you're off the hook. John Edwards, we're giving you a well-deserved break. You guys were great flip-floppers in your day, but now you've been seriously upstaged. All hail the new King of Flip-Flop - Barack Obama.

    As a rookie flip-flopper, Obama first drew the attention of the environmental lobby about this time last year:

    Although summer hasn’t officially begun, flip-flop season is well underway and it appears Senator Obama has joined the club. Typically flip-floppers are criticized for their inability to stay firm on an issue, but in Obama’s case, his flop has many environmentalists flipping back his way.

    On Tuesday Obama, whose support for coal-to-liquid has been widely criticized by environmentalists, sent out a press release clarifying his position on liquid coal:

    Senator Obama supports research into all technologies to help solve our climate change and energy dependence problems, including shifting our energy use to renewable fuels and investing in technology that could make coal a clean-burning source of energy…However, unless and until this technology is perfected, Senator Obama will not support the development of any coal-to-liquid fuels unless they emit at least 20% less life-cycle carbon than conventional fuels.


    This “clarification” is an important step for the Obama campaign in trying to gain support from environmental organizations and voters.


    For the Candidate of Hope and Change, there were bigger and better flip-flops yet to come. As his campain began to toss Obama's positions on issue after issue under the bus, the Senate's most liberal member made quite an impression on the Washington Post. Back in February, WaPo cited these "Top Obama Flip-Flops":

    1. Special interests In January, the Obama campaign described union contributions to the campaigns of Clinton and John Edwards as "special interest" money. Obama changed his tune as he began gathering his own union endorsements. He now refers respectfully to unions as the representatives of "working people" and says he is "thrilled" by their support.

    2. Public financing Obama replied "yes" in September 2007 when asked if he would agree to public financing of the presidential election if his GOP opponent did the same. Obama has now attached several conditions to such an agreement, including regulating spending by outside groups. His spokesman says the candidate never committed himself on the matter.

    3. The Cuba embargo In January 2004, Obama said it was time "to end the embargo with Cuba" because it had "utterly failed in the effort to overthrow Castro." Speaking to a Cuban American audience in Miami in August 2007, he said he would not "take off the embargo" as president because it is "an important inducement for change."

    4. Illegal immigration In a March 2004 questionnaire, Obama was asked if the government should "crack down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants." He replied "Oppose." In a Jan. 31, 2008, televised debate, he said that "we do have to crack down on those employers that are taking advantage of the situation."

    5. Decriminalization of marijuana While running for the U.S. Senate in January 2004, Obama told Illinois college students that he supported eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana use. In the Oct. 30, 2007, presidential debate, he joined other Democratic candidates in opposing the decriminalization of marijuana.

    Top flip-flops? Pshaw, that was nearly four full months ago, and the man was just getting warmed up. And Obama's squirming on campaign finance hadn't even gotten off the ground. The New York Post recently ripped Obama for flipping on this and some other issues as well:

    This isn't the first time Obama has, um, "changed" political lanes:

    * He ripped Hillary Clinton for months for voting to list Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Days after Clinton conceded, Obama flipped and said he supported the definition.

    * Obama repeatedly vowed to meet with various heads of terror states - most notably Ahmadinejad of Iran - "without preconditions." Then, with the nomination in sight, he zigzagged: "There's no reason why we would necessarily meet with Ahmadinejad. He's not the most powerful person in Iran."

    * In October, he supported NAFTA expansion. In March, campaigning in the Ohio primary, he called for a "reopening" of the trade pact's terms. This week, he called his own primary rhetoric "overheated" and said NAFTA has had a positive effect on the US economy.

    * Yesterday, after signaling opposition to nuclear power, he told Democratic governors he's open to expanding it.

    That Obama is now the King of Flip-Flop will come as a surprise only to his devoted followers who have been too busy swooning over him to notice. Those of us not so easily smitten could have predicted this turn of events. In fact, some did. Consider this blogger who - in a post from August of 2007 titled "Obama The Anti-War Candidate NOW Says He’ll Invade Another Country!" - predicted:

    I guarantee this guy is going to turn into the flip-flopping candidate just like his buddy Kerry did in 2003, 2004.

    Obama's flip-flop on campaign finance was one that did manage to capture the attention of Mark Shields, a liberal columnist who, unlike most of his peers, still has some integrity.

    Barack Obama made history this week. He became the first presidential nominee since Richard Nixon in 1972 to state that his campaign will be funded totally by private donations with no limits on spending.

    It was a flip-flop of epic proportions. It was one that he could not rationalize or justify. His video was unconvincing. He looked like someone who was being kept as a hostage somewhere he was so absolutely unconvincing in it. It could not have passed a polygraph test.

    I mean, coming up with this bogus argument the Republicans have so much more money -- the Republicans don't have so much more money. He's raised three times as much as John McCain has.

    He has every possible committee, except Republican National Committee, Democrats at the Senate level, congressional level have this lopsided edge over Republicans. They spent three times as much, did Democratic leaning 527s, in the last election as did Republicans.

    So what Obama didn't admit was, up until February of this year, when he told Tim Russert that not only would he aggressively seek an agreement on public financing, that he personally would sit down with John McCain and work it out, then, all of a sudden, they realized that all these small contributions were coming in and he was going to have a financial advantage in the fall against the Republican, and they grabbed it.

    Hat Tip: NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard

    Name an issue. Chances are, Obama has flipped on it. Jerusalem?

    Within 24 hours of expressing his firm support for a united Jerusalem in a speech to a pro-Israel lobby organization, US Senator Barack Obama found himself forced to backtrack in the face of Arab anger on Thursday.

    Debates with John McCain? Here's Obama before McCain challenged him to a series of town hall debates:

    If John McCain wants to meet me anywhere, anytime, to have a debate about our respective policies in Iraq, Iran, the Middle East or around the world, that is a conversation I am happy to have.

    Here's an Obama spokesperson after:

    Mr. Plouffe called the McCain campaign’s offer “appealing,” but said they would prefer a format that is “less structured and lengthier than the McCain campaign suggests, one that more closely resembles the historic debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.”

    Oh, well. So much for "anywhere, anytime." Obama fears going mano a mano with McCain on McCain's terms. No one would blame Obama for holding out for a more favorable deal, if only he had not said, "Anywhere, anytime."

    If campaign finance was the most opportunistic of Obama's flip-flops, this one has to be the most disingenuous:

    In 2007, his campaign told the Chicago Tribune he believed the Washington, D.C. gun ban was constitutional. Now they say that was an "inartful" explanation. Now, the public is supposed to be believe the message of the day from the Obama campaign, which is that of course he knew the gun ban was unconstitutional.

    Obama seems to be working hard to make John Kerry look like a straight-shooter.

    Now plenty of people oppose gun rights (I am not one of them), and if Obama really is one of these, why play politics with such a fundamental issue?

    Oh wait, playing politics with issues is what Barack Obama does.

    -snip-

    -- Obama wants to reimpose a federal gun ban.
    -- Obama voted against the sale of almost all ammunition used regularly for sport shooting and hunting.
    -- Obama opposes Right to Carry laws.
    -- Obama supports a complete ban on hand-gun ownership.

    So now the King of Flip-Flop seems to want to run up the score. That worked so well for John Kerry in 2004, don't you think?
  • raves +4   [-] by OBAMA THE TRAITOR
    LIBERAL DEMOCRAPS ARE TRAITORS TO THE USA. VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2008

    In the last 50 years, liberals(LIKE OBAMA) have sided with every enemy that America has had.



    Viet Cong troops were loved by Hanoi Jane and Hanoi John and you liberals supported the communist troops over those of us that were drafted and had to go over there

    Communist USSR - Stalin was called "Uncle Joe" by Liberals (commie loving scumbags) while he exterminated close to 25 million people.

    Cuba - Fidel a folk hero loved by liberals everywhere

    Venezuela - Chevez, another communist dictator revered and loved by liberals

    Terrorist Nations and terrorist groups (they're peaceful people who hate women / anyone who's not in their particular sect / behead people / blow themselves up as well as children



    2. Show their complete hatred of any thing patriotic and Christian



    3. Teach children that perverts are living an alternate and wholesome lifestyle.



    4. Believe that murderers and other deviates are just mis-understood people that shouldn't be in prison. "If only we could have a talk with them and point out how their behavior disappoints us"..... this also works with terrorists, maybe they just need a timeout!



    5. Liberal support of illegal scumbags causing crime, getting free medical care, subsidized housing and food, free schooling all paid for by us taxpayers.



    6. Demanding and passing laws that give criminals more rights than victims.



    7. Yesterday one of you liberals on here posted saying you were looking for a site that was something like "f&^k the troops" and saying that they wanted to find the site and say how much they supported them. Proving again that you phony liberals don't really "Support Our Troops" its just another pack of PC lies covering up your hatred of this country.



    And many more ways.... They want to change America to the "new communism" as some of you liberals have told me (being anonymous here allows you liberals to state what your goals actually are).

    Go to this site dedicated to the communist party: http://www.cpusa.org and see that they have recommended every liberal democrat candidate that has run for the presidency during the last 4 or 5 elections and probably more. Read the communist stated goals, compare them to the goals set by the democrats..... suprise! they're the same. UNLIKE LIBERALS WHO LOOK AT THIS AS A PLUS.....
    I DON'T VOTE FOR CANDIDATES THAT ARE RECOMMENDED BY COMMUNISTS.

    IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM!!

    Support Our Troops -> http://www.moveamericaforward...
  • raves +4   [-] by OBAMA THE TRAITOR
    NOOOOO DOUBT ABOUT IT!

    Why are so many white people voting for a black supremacist? Go to Obama’s church
    website. He’s been a member there for 20 years. Check the website and see what they’ve
    been putting in his and his wife’s head all those years.

    http://tucc.org/black_value_s...

    Once you do that, go to Politico and check out Mrs. Obama’s Princeton senior thesis.
    http://www.politico.com/pdf/0...

    Wake up people! The reason she is finally proud of America is because she’s so close
    to being in charge of the white people she despises.


    If Sen. Obama rejects the Rev. Wright’s warped view of this country, why does he continue to attend his church?


    Imagine if Mitt Romney’s church proclaimed on its website that it is “unashamedly white.”

    The media would pounce, and Romney’s presidential candidacy would be over. Yet that is exactly what Barack Obama’s church says on its web site — except in reverse.

    “We are a congregation which is unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian,” says the Trinity United Church of Christ’s website in Chicago. “We are an African people and remain true to our native land, the mother continent, the cradle of civilization.”

    That’s just the beginning. The church has a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa,” according to its website, and its pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. subscribes to what is called the Black Value System.

    While the Black Value System includes such items as commitment to God, education, and self-discipline, it refers to “our racist competitive society” and includes the disavowal of the pursuit of “middle-classness” and a pledge of allegiance to “all black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System.” It defines “middle-classness” as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.”

    In sermons and interviews, Dr. Wright has equated Zionism with racism and Israel with South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid. On the Sunday after 9/11, Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America’s racism.

    “In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright wrote in a church-affiliated magazine. “White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”

    In one of his sermons, Wright said, “Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!...We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”

    As for Israel, “The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now,” Wright has said. “Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”

    Obama says he found religion and Jesus Christ through Wright, whom he met in the mid-1980s. He has been attending Wright’s church regularly since 1988.

    The church occupies a tan building on West 95th Street near a public housing project and railroad tracks. Since becoming pastor in 1972, Wright has seen the church’s membership grow to more than 8,500. The church is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ, a predominantly white denomination known for its liberal politics.

    In 1991, Obama joined the church and walked down the aisle in a formal commitment of faith. Wright later married Obama and Michelle Robinson and baptized their two daughters.

    The title of Obama’s bestseller “The Audacity of Hope” comes from one of Wright’s sermons. Wright is one of the first people Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004.

    But Obama’s life does not exactly support Wright’s thesis that blacks in America are oppressed. A Harvard Law School graduate, Obama married a black Princeton graduate who also has a degree from Harvard Law School. Obama is a U.S. senator from Illinois; his wife is a vice president of the University of Chicago Hospitals. With his wife, Obama has been making more than $1 million a year.

    On a few points, Obama has sought to distance himself from Wright’s teachings or explain them away. While Wright is his pastor and friend, Obama has said, they do not see eye to eye on everything. In particular, Obama has said he “strongly disagrees with any portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that advocates divestment from Israel or expresses anything less than strong support for Israel’s security.”

    As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”

    Just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally last Feb. 10, the candidate disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation. Wright explained: “When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, “a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.”

    According to Wright, Obama then told him, “'You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.'” But privately, Obama and his family prayed with Wright just before the presidential announcement.

    To his credit, Obama so far has avoided race-specific appeals as part of his candidacy, accounting in part for his widespread appeal.

    Obama “has taught the black community you don’t have to act like Jesse Jackson, you don’t have to act like Al Sharpton,” conservative commentator Bill Bennett said on CNN on Jan. 3. “You can talk about the issues. [Obama has] great dignity.”

    But if Obama rejects Wright’s warped view of this country, why does he continue to attend his church, raising the question of whether Obama secretly agrees with his friend and mentor? At the least, Obama’s membership in Wright’s church suggests a lack of judgment and an insensitivity to views that are repugnant to the vast majority of white Americans who are not bigots.

    That same lack of judgment has shown up in Obama’s gaffes—threatening to invade Pakistan and offering prompt negotiations with anti-American despots. More frightening, Obama voted last August to give Osama bin Laden and other terrorists the same rights as Americans when it comes to intercepting their overseas calls in order to pick up clues needed to stop another attack.

    Jen Psaki, a spokesman for Obama’s campaign, has tried to paper over the candidate’s support of the Black Value System by saying that Obama “believes its basic tenets of commitment to God, to community, to self-discipline and self-reliance continue to have applicability not only to the African-American community but to all people.”

    But that is not what the Black Value System says. One can only imagine the outrage that would erupt if a white presidential candidate like Romney subscribed to something called the White Value System. Yet while Obama has been referred to in the media tens of thousands of times in the past month, only one story in the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire offhandedly mentioned Obama’s church’s “unashamedly black” slogan.

    In contrast, in an exquisite example of the double standard they apply to Democrats versus Republicans, the media love to focus on Romney’s religion, which is not relevant to how he would perform as president. Close to half the media references to Romney refer to the fact that he is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Very few of them mention that he is both a Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School graduate, credentials that are relevant to how he would perform as president.

    When Romney’s father ran for president, his religion was not an issue simply because the media rightly recognized that it was not pertinent to his candidacy. Today, as part of their coverage of Romney, the media run denigrating quotes about Mormonism that they would never dare to run about any other religion. At the same time, the media have largely ignored or downplayed the clearly racist slogan of Obama’s church and the anti-American and anti-Israel stances of its pastor.

    In two exceptions to the media blackout, Tucker Carlson of MSNBC described Trinity as having a “racially exclusive theology” that “contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity.” Sean Hannity of Fox News confronted Wright on TV and asked how a black value system is any more acceptable than a white value system.

    If a white presidential candidate’s church had a similar statement and “you substitute the word black for white, there would be an outrage in this country,” Hannity said. “There would be cries of racism in this country.'”

    “If your spiritual advisor makes outrageous statements, it’s incumbent on you as a leader to denounce those statements,” says Brad Blakeman, a former Bush White House aide who heads the conservative Freedom’s Watch. “Silence is an admission that you agree with what your spiritual advisor pronounces.”

    If his church membership calls into question Obama’s judgment, the dichotomy in the coverage of his and Romney’s religious affiliations spotlights the media’s double standard and how its skewed reporting influences who will become president.

    But media bias or not, if Obama is his party’s nominee, his Republican opponent will rightly be able to make use of Rev. Wright and his radical teachings as effectively as supporters of George H.W. Bush used Willie Horton’s furlough to help Bush win the presidency.
    So its racist if a white church has a white value system? But if a black church has one its not? Whats wrong with this picture? Shouldn't it be a people value system instead of a black or white one???

    I WILL NOT SUPPORT OBAMA OR HIS RACIST CHURCH!
  • raves +4   [-] by OBAMA THE TRAITOR
    Democraps have already led our country into economic ruin just in the short time they have been in charge of the Congress. Consider this.


    THE PARTY OF LAWYERS......

    The Democrat Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer, and so is his wife, Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Look at the Democrat Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in each house is a lawyer.

    The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen. The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers. Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an exterminator; and, Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

    Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work. The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.

    The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America. And, so we have seen the proc ession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party, grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

    This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

    Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other A m ericans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become "adverse parties" of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

    Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big. When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Li bby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

    What about the recent Supreme Court decision that gives constitutional rights now to terrorists, who are not U.S. citizens living here under the rule of our Constitution, but who are murderous thugs, enemies during a time of war who are trying to destroy our country, our people and the Constitution!!!

    We CANNOT expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform, or real hope in America. Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.

    Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by the lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.



    Wake up America before it is too late!
  • raves +4   [-] by OBAMA THE TRAITOR
    Obama, this man couldn't even sound any stupider when it comes to public speaking. He constantly puts himself in a whole and digs himself deeper with each speech. It seems Senator Barack Obama intends to prove himself completely ignorant of foreign affairs and irrelevant in the Democratic nomination contest. First, during the You Tube debate, he asserted he would personally meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela without preconditions in his first year in office. Senator Hillary Clinton immediately pounced on the gaffe, pointing out the potential propaganda use of such a meeting unless a strong diplomatic effort had ensured something positive to be gained by it.



    If Obama were smart, he would have admitted he "misspoke" and moved on. Instead, he cluelessly defended his ridiculous position with vigor. THEN, Obama insisted that even as he turned tail and ran from Iraq like a frightened child he would unilaterally invade Pakistan to go after terrorists. The man obviously either has never given a thought to the consequences of violating the sovereignty of the only Islamic nation with nuclear weapons, or is just plain dumb. NOW, Obama unilaterally rules out using nuclear weapons under any circumstances in the War on Terror. No American President has ever removed the nuclear option from the table, for good reasons. Obama keeps proving he isn't even close to being qualified for the Presidency.

    Why is this man still in the race? Can't Stand him, especially those who choose to vote for him. Just because he agrees with Same Sex Marriage, Abortion, More POWER for the African American Race, and yet he isn't focused on the MAJOR important things that America needs. He's just an unexperienced man. Who is just supported by thoughtless people with lots of money!

    I don't agree with ANY of his decisions, especially this one!! Is he looking to destroy America?
    McCain the only choice for democrats. Democrats do not vote for terrorists, socialists, and racists.

    Obama the liar
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Obama the copy cat
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Obama the racist
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Obama the wolf in sheep clothing BEWARE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Obama the socialist
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Obama the economic moron
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
  • raves +4   [-] by OBAMA THE TRAITOR
    Obama Supporters:

    Obama's Good Friend William Ayers - American terrorist who has no regrets for his murdering of innocent Americans.

    Obama's Long-Time Friend and Fundraiser Antonio Rezko - Syrian Muslim Slum Lord.

    Obama's Mentor / Spiritual Leader Rev. Wright - racist, “Nation of Islam” supporter, anti-American.

    Obama's Other Rev. James Meeks - racist, black supremacist and homophobic senator of Illinois.

    Obama's Fundraiser Hatem El-Hady - accused terrorist linked to Hamas and Al Quaeda.



    Daniel Ortega - led a Marxist revolution in Nicaragua in 1979.

    Paul Reyes leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - communist terrorist group.

    Professor Khalidi - Muslim Terrorist Supporter.

    Rev. Jesse Jackson - racis, adulterer, black supremacist.

    Friend Nadhmi Auchi - Muslim Billionaire, bulk of money came from doing under the table arms deals with Saddam Hussein.

    Sohaib Abassi - Muslim Millionaire.

    Ahmed Yousef - chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas-terrorist organization against Israel pro PLO.

    The new Black Panther Party - U.S. based black supremacist organization for Black Theology.

    Louis Farrakhan - the longtime radical leader of the Nation of Islam.

    La Raza - racist Marxist Latino separatists who want the U.S. southwest as a separate Latino nation.

    Jane Fonda - "Hanoi-Jane" Fonda posed for pix on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft machine gun, which may very well have been the same one used to down John McCain's plane, then she spat on US POWs and was used as a propaganda tool by the North.

    Jimmy Carter - ex-president who about ran the economy into the the core of the Earth, long gas lines, 18% mortgages etc.

    Michael Moore - left-wing nut who the majority of American's think is a liar and opportunist.

    Democrat Senator Robert Byrd - x-wizard of KKK.

    George Galloway - America hater, Hizbollah supporter, etc.

    Soros - billionaire, socialist, “one world government” supporter.

    Al Gore - making money on carbon offsets with a dream of UN “global carbon/green tax” on all countries.


    “Birds of a feather flock together”
  • raves +2   [-] by KayR~NBA-NO PALIN FVMA
    They are just making Obama look smarter and smarter.
  • raves +2   [-] by Calumet
    I don't care what they say there is only one thing that keeps them hating Barack Obama so vehemently, yet they are at least too polite to admit it.
  • raves +2   [-] by KayR~NBA-NO PALIN FVMA
    I know what it is.
  • raves +2   [-] by heart~ BO-RacePlayingSocialist
    That he is an arrogant, callous liar? No, we have no problems admitting that.

    David Gergen - Monday on AC360°:

    “Barack Obama made the first mistake of his trip in releasing a statement in which he said exactly what Malaki had said in those conversations. We have a long tradition in this country that we only have one president at a time. He’s the commander in chief and negotiator in chief.

    I cannot remember a campaign which a rival seeking the presidency has been in a position negotiating a war that’s underway with another party outside the country. I think he leaves himself open to the charge tonight that he’s meddling, that this is not his role, that he can be the critic but he’s not the negotiator.
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