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1. Sig Jansen:

The reason Obamas schedule was kept secret, now see if you can follow this: There is a bit of a skirmish going on and they didn’t want some eager beaver Jimmy Olsen type reporter, like for instance Geraldo Rivera, or yourself, to endanger him by giving away info, as has been done before.
You must be sore because the Iraqi government has just confirmed to Obama, what he has been saying all along: They want us OUT! Of course this made the white haired midget with the Patton complex really mad, becaue he knows better than the Iraqi government, what is good for them. What a joke. Can’t wait until November, when the most corrupt and greedy government in our history, and all it’s followers, is swept into the political wasteland…where they belong. ‘Jail Bush/Cheyney!’

Jul 22, 2008 - 5:49 am 2. misanthropicus:

Obscene, Glibama’s gleeful staring in the cameras – not even Clinton at his highest narcissistic moments did revel so shamelessly in limelight.
Hussein’s Magic Carpet Trip In His Newly Annexed 7 Union States is like an unsupervised child’s romp in a candy store.
A narcissistic, Lyondon LaRouche-like American presidential candidate rallying superstitious crowds (Europeans, i.e.), and opportunistic or even anti-American politicians to bolster his electoral chances in America – hurrah! we reached this point!
The job of an US president is to protect and advance America’s legitime interest in the world, not to serve internationalist coteries or pander to Europeans’ – those unredeemable appeasers, enablers, whores, pimps and profiteers – resents and cowardice.
What a shame! a shameless stunt coming from a cynical and unpatriotic Democrat Party which is propping a singularly un-American candidate for the US presidency job.
Why bother to enlist voters in US penitentiaries (a Democrat idea) when you can get all those herds of Euros to press interests which don’t benefit America from there? Ask the Euros: instead of ranting about human rights, unity, multilateralism, global heating and swooning about Glibama, why don’t you send a few more soldiers in Afghanistan or Iraq or stop doing business with world’s worst kleptocracies – why in the war agains radicalism and terrorism America has to pick up the tab again for that collection of duplicitous European appeasers?
We did it thrice last century with enormous price and the response was always ingratitude and backstabbing. The notion that America has special ties with Europe is a fantasy, and a very costly one for that matter – out of this racket! we have different necessities to address and keeping the Euros slacking in cafes or beer gardens is/should not be one of them.
As far as Glibama, his narcissism and naivity has crossed well into the realm of pathological and it looks like that simply there is no limit as to how low & destructive he would go to fulfill the dream from his father – limelight, limelight, more limelight and never enough limelight.
Gross stunt this Glibama excellent foreign trip is – yet there is a plus side to it, that is it shows that anti-Americanism is the chief coagulating drive within the Democrat Party. And since here, a realistic anticipation – the Dems will break any record of electoral fraud in this fall’s election.

Jul 22, 2008 - 5:57 am 3. WR Jonas:

Wow ! Somebody is suffering a BRD mega seizure this morning.
The Dems daily mantra for today is “Americans don’t care if the surge worked.” Well, of course we do and if they need a reminder we also care about the Democrats blocking oil exploration at home. Its just got their panties in a wad.

Jul 22, 2008 - 6:18 am 4. misanthropicus:

RE: Sig Jansen “[...] The reason Obama’s schedule was kept secret [...] they didn’t want some eager beaver Jimmy Olsen type reporter, like for instance Geraldo Rivera, or yourself, to endanger him by giving away info, as has been done before. [...]”

No, Sig Jensen, Glibama’s journey coverage is so tightly controlled BECAUSE Glibama’s handlers fear that his LaRouche-like self-absorbed pomposity and vacuity will deconspire his incompetence in international affairs – and this while this trip, from Afghanistan to Germany, has been designed as a long and gross photo-op junket, every element of it being callibrated to entice Glibama’s US audience:
“Look! He’s in the desert now! Now this man takes risks!”
“Look! He’s by a tank now! He’s so competent!”
“Look! He’s playing basketball with the servicemen now! He’s so human!”
“Look! He’s kindly listening to the aborigenes’ grievances now! He’s so generous!”
“Look!” – he’s examining the crop now! Now this man has many interests!”
“Look! In just a five days junket he mightily matched and beat, international affairs experience-wise, McCain’s 25 years! Maggie, let’s tell the children, this community activist will sure save America! Nay, what I’m saying – the planet! Nay, what I’m saying – the solar system! Nay, what I’m saying – this galaxy!”

No matter the Europeans’ collective swoon, here in America Glibama appears more and more like Lyndon LaRouche – a self-absorbed, superficial charlatan adoringly nurtured by media and by a mindless crowd of superstitious supporters.

Jul 22, 2008 - 6:26 am 5. The Wizard:

Unbelievable, and the MSM continues to worship at the feet of the naive fool. I cannot believe this man, Obama, who is not yet the nominee of the Democratic party has the audacity to denigrate America and our president in front of the world. He does not speak for this country, our government or our citizens. His hubris is beyond comprehension. He is dangerous, a sycophant and a racist. He and his politics will destroy this country, should he be elected. Wake up, America, this man is NOT A SAVIOUR, but rather a charlatan grasping for power….and his vision of The New Black America.

Jul 22, 2008 - 6:48 am 6. Increase Mather:

Folks are slowly coming to the conclusion that Obama is a fake.

Even Andrea Mitchell, certainly no conservative, has pointed out that the emperor has no clothes.

Can the Obama handlers and the liberal media keep it up for a few more months? We’ll see.

Jul 22, 2008 - 7:16 am 7. RE:

The media are making fools of themselves. I do hope they continue their transpareent worship of our pompous and vacuous messiah. I’m confident that Americans will see through this charade in the end. If not, we as a nation are too stupid to deserve the blessings that have been bestowed upon our nation. We’ll deserve what we get.

Jul 22, 2008 - 7:25 am 8. jerry:

I am afraid that like Pauline Cael we tell ourselves that the public will see it our way. Unfortunately it will be us saying that “I don’t know how Obama got elected. Nobody I know voted for him.”

If the electorate were responding to facts rather then emotions then Obama would be DOA and the Democratic Party Superdelegates would have switched back to Hillary by now.

Let’s review some of the facts that we know about Obama that we didn’t know in January:

(1) He is ignorant. BO don’t know history (ex: can’t figure out who the Axis and Allies were in WWII)

(2) Is a corrupt Chicago ward healer promoted to the big stage (How fast can you say owned by Tony Rezko)

(3) His community activism failed to improve life in the community. (May have made it worse)

(4) Wants to increase the price of energy (Americans don’t mind $4 gas just the rate of increase was to fast)

(5) Has come down with a case of megalomania that rivals Mussolini except Mussolini was better read, an original thinker who was actually multilingual, and to be honest was considered a successful leader and statesmen for good part of his career.

So Sig “Seig Heil” Jansen where do propose that Il Duce’s first “re-education” camp be located?

Jul 22, 2008 - 7:31 am 9. rotwang:

While Obama has the unmitigated gall to tour the world’s hot-spots, visit the troops, meet with heads of state and survey the battlefield with Gen. Petraeus, John McCain gave uplift to millions of Americans by pretending to fall asleep on “Conan.”

When will Obama demonstrate THAT sort of leadership?

Jul 22, 2008 - 7:59 am 10. b:

@sig jansen: “‘Jail Bush/Cheyney!’”

Learn to spell correctly the object of your rage, moron.

Also note, Bush is *not* running in this election. And Obama was for pulling out years ago, and the fact that the government of Iraq is now more stable is a testament to how wrong he was, not that he was right all along.

And the bit about reporters giving away information is rich. NYT has kept us on a steady diet of national security leaks, including the name of a CIA agent, and no one in your camp seems the slightest bit concerned.

Jul 22, 2008 - 8:33 am 11. Yawn:

You know, the one thing that MIGHT get me to vote for Obama is something he will never do. Or his party for that matter. If he came out and said “Okay, we won this war so we can leave” I would take him more seriously.

I don’t want a Vietnam repeat where we have a section of the US who seemed to take pride in pointing out that the US lost a war. This case is pretty clear; Saddam dead, Saddam’s sons dead, WMD program terminated for good (I am not talking about existance or any of that, Iraq can’t restart it due to our policing up the equipment), Baath party broken, other major leaders dead or on trial, AQ broken and retreating from Iraq, teh militias being broken, political process lurching forward, reconciliation between various groups also lurching forward. Not exactly the cleanest and smoothest conflict even conducted (not even close), but it was successful.

AND I WANT TO HEAR EVERYONE SAY IT! The left can swallow its damn pride for once and say it. They can one time come out and say “yeah, the US won,” its not going to kill them. Then, maybe, I’ll be inclined to consider Obama.

Jul 22, 2008 - 8:48 am 12. pappy:

b.o. never misses a photo op or a chance to shoot some hoops. he should have a game of 21 with imacamljamr to decide on shorty’s nuclear ambitions. that is if they let him into iran to the country. who knows, they may be kissin cousins.

Jul 22, 2008 - 8:49 am 13. kabud:

i am getting a little tired of OBAMA name on pajamas

it works for his legitimization in our minds

why cant pajamas publish something NOT ABOUT OBAMA that is good for This Country
God Bless America

Jul 22, 2008 - 8:51 am 14. ZEITGEIST:

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Jul 22, 2008 - 8:52 am 15. Howard:

How about focusing on who has the experience, judgement and character to protect us and bring prosperity to Americans … not someone who in the eleventh hour, finally tries to establish foreign policy credentials, in a one week visit, as a transparent political ploy to get himself elected. Where was Obama, when he was supposed to chair the congressional committee on Afghanistan, and never had a single meeting. Why did Obama vote ‘present’ over 100 times in the senate? Even if he stages a political rally in the Roman Coliseum, he’s still just an inexperienced politician, who is not qualified to be President of the United States of America !!!

Jul 22, 2008 - 9:07 am 16. CitizenAmerican:

What will reach the ears of the average Busy-American who has a job, a family, and a life? Time is too precious to pay attention to the hourly rhetoric of pundits and politicians.
I think the American people have a much higher collective IQ than the press assumes.
Fictional hero and philosopher Forrest Gump said it best: “Stupid is as Stupid does.” Look at their biographies. Should we pick a president based upon what these men have done or what they say they are going to do? Only the former is the truth, and the latter is too uncertain…

Jul 22, 2008 - 9:16 am 17. Sandra:

If Europe is so ga ga over Obama, let’s send him over there and he can run for office there. The very fact that they are so over the moon with him should tell Americans to be wary and that our best interests are not being served.

Jul 22, 2008 - 9:18 am 18. dan:

it’s times like this i really hate how fox news indulges in a lot of its babes & bs quasi-tabloid aesthetic, and has people like stuttering mort condrake & co. as daily reviewers. the one media outlet in the country large enough to counter the obamamania by providing a forum in which to constantly ask “wait what has this guy done besides get himself elected by the media and the race-revanchists constituencies in illinois?” is content devote far too much of its space to checkout-counter stuff. aren’t there any william f buckleys waiting in the wings to replace the o’reillys and hannities? these people do influence many minds, but fox is not holding up its end of the bargain well enough here.

above all, this is dangerous; obama will be a dangerous man to have at the helm at this point. if the 90s’ holiday from history had continued, it might be worth tolerating obama’s smiling stealth leninism for the amount of race-ideology idiocy his election would summarily destroy. in fact, i also almost agree with whoever said if at least the Dems said Ok We Won, Now Let’s Look Forward i might be inclined to vote Obama to end this race stupidity – it is a huge problem among our present generations (not racism, but race-hucksterism). but we are not in that pre-9/11 world now, and to have this suave non-entity exploiting the celebrity-stupidity, exploiting the race-gullibility of the electorate is a test i’m afraid the american electorate may not pass – and his election will be a black day for this country (no pun intended).

Jul 22, 2008 - 9:30 am 19. My new WordPress MU Site » Blog Archive » Photo Ops and ‘Fake Interviews’: Obama’s Excellent Overseas Adventure:

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Jul 22, 2008 - 9:36 am 20. kabud:

dan:
here is something about OBAMA maker : very devious and dangerous man DAVID AXELROD

check his site: it is freaking RED!!!!!ALL OVER!!

When Barack Obama decided he wanted to run for the Illinois Senate in 1996, he ensured his candidacy by challenging the nomination petitions of his four competitors. One of those was “Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city’s South Side.”

A close examination of Obama’s first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career: The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it…

But the unsparing legal tactics were justified, [Obama] said, by obvious flaws in his opponents’ signature sheets. “To my mind, we were just abiding by the rules that had been set up,” Obama recalled.

Obama was 34.
And he got lucky when he filed his challenge: the city of Chicago had “just completed a massive, routine purge of unqualified names that eliminated 15,871 people from the 13th District rolls.”
His competitors had “relied on early 1995 polling sheets to verify the signatures.” Would Obama’s petition have survived that scrutiny? We’ll never know.
Alice Palmer: Trailblazer
Palmer, a native of Indiana (born in 1939), received her PhD from Northwestern, “where she co-authored two books and tutored in the Black House. Palmer remained at Northwestern University to serve as Associate Dean and Director of African American Student Affairs.” She was a voter education activist and served as executive director of Chicago Cities Schools. In 1991, she began serving in the Illinois State Senate. Palmer decided to run for Congress in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Rep. Mel Reynolds. Palmer lost the November 1995 election to Jesse Jackson, Jr.; current Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr. came in second.
According to the Chicago Tribune, after Palmer lost the special election, “her supporters asked Obama to fold his campaign so she could easily retain her state Senate seat.” Instead, on 2 January 1996 he challenged the legality of her nomination petition to run for re-election.
Contrary to the net references of Obama as Palmer’s “anointed successor,” the Trib story makes it clear that Palmer and Obama have vastly different memories of the summer of 1995, when Obama launched his campaign. Palmer asserts she did not “endorse” Obama.

Congressional Race Also Marked By Missing Competitors
Obama’s entry into federal politics was also marked by competitors falling by the wayside. He won both the 2004 primary and general election for the US Senate “after tough challengers imploded when their messy divorce files were unsealed,” the Trib writes.Before the primary, Obama was in second place behind Blair Hull when reporters learned that Hull’s wife had taken out a restraining order during their 1998 divorce and that he had reportedly threatened to kill her. The publicity killed his campaign; no charges were filed, however. Obama won the primary with 52% of the vote.
The NYT reports that “the Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had ‘worked aggressively behind the scenes’ to push the story. But there are those in Chicago who believe that [David] Axelrod had an even more significant role – that he leaked the initial story.” More hard-ball, perhaps of the Karl Rove type.
Then on 25 June 2004, Obama’s Republican opponent, Jack Ryan, withdrew due to yet-another a sex scandal. He and his ex-wife had agreed to a media request to release their sealed divorce papers. A Los Angeles judge disagreed with their desire to keep custody papers sealed.

In those files, Jeri Ryan alleged that Jack Ryan had taken her to sex clubs in several cities, intending for them to have sex in public. At the time of the release, Jeri Ryan, issued had a conciliatory statement, saying that she considered her ex-husband “a friend” and had “no doubt that he will make an excellent senator.” She also said that “there was never any physical abuse in our marriage — either to myself or to our son — nor, to my knowledge, was he ever unfaithful to me.”

The allegations were never proven, and in fact, Ryan was awarded additional custody rights at the end of the hearing, suggesting the allegations were not deemed reliable by the judge.

But his run for the Senate was ruined.
Obama’s race for the White House reveals a young man with amazing chutzpah and luck, some of which his team may have fabricated for him. It does not, however, reveal a candidate who disowns hardball politics or politics-as-usual. Far from it.
http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2008/03/28/the-making-of-a-candidate.htm

діскусія тут:
http://uspolitics.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/28/1396689-the-making-of-a-candidate?threadId=241675#c1725018
1995, Aug – Obama files paperwork to run for Palmer’s Illinois Senate seat 1996, Jan – Obama has his four competitor petitions invalidated; he emerges as the only candidate 1996, Nov – Obama is elected to Illinois Senate, which is controlled by Republicans…………………….!!!!!!2003 – David Axelrod [begins having] camera crews [track] virtually everything Obama has done in public.” He uses this footage to create a five-minute Internet video for the 16 Jan. 2007 announcement that Obama is running for president.!!!!!!!Аксельроід його кукловод, аксельрода прєдки були комуністи. яка сволоч … 2004, Mar – Obama wins the primary with 52% of the vote 2004, Jun – Obama’s Republican opponent withdraws 2004, Aug – Democratic National Convention address 2004, Nov – Obama is elected to US Senate with 70% of the vote 2005, Jan – Obama files paperwork for his leadership PAC, The Hope Fund (PAC website no longer active) 2005 – Obama purchases land from neighbor and now-indicted political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko

Jul 22, 2008 - 9:50 am 21. tanstaafl:

In an eye-popping interview with ABC’s Terry Moran Obama declared that he still would have opposed the surge, even knowing what he knows now.

In response to the question as to whether (given conditions now) Obama would have changed his “no” vote on the surge, he responded with an unequivocal no.

Then he went into a near unintelligible explanation as to why he wouldn’t have changed his vote.

In a rare moment of “tee vee” joy, Charles Krauthammer pronounced Obama’s attempt at explanation as utter “gibberish”.

Fred Barnes noted that Obama is unable to admit he was wrong (about “the surge” or about anything). That struck me as an accurate psychological assessment.

Jul 22, 2008 - 10:10 am 22. l boucher:

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/07/22/obama-makes-foreign-policy-slip/

“Let me be absolutely clear,” Obama said. “Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain government — administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.”

Jul 22, 2008 - 10:11 am 23. kabud:

cripto-communist DAVID AXELROD

creator of BARAK OSAMA

http://www.akpmedia.com/partners/daxelrod.html

Jul 22, 2008 - 10:15 am 24. meagain1956:

funny Barrack thinks when our enemy surrounds that doesn’t mean our troops beat them and forced them to submit but that they just decided to pull back. What a ass! Maybe he should give the enemy at award or medal for such brave acts of surrounding…of course don’t give one to the troops in the surge for their part in getting the enemy to cease fire…that would not go well with his base in the USA….screw what is right and do what the people giving you money want!!!! No wonder the French like him they are just as much as pussy sa he is.

Jul 22, 2008 - 10:18 am 25. dan:

wow – good work kabud – that’s right i remember when obama was “elected” in illinois largely because of his opponents’ political suicide. (i don’t know russian though, amigo!)

Jul 22, 2008 - 10:20 am 26. kabud:

its ukrainian, dont bother, it is copy paste from my blog and those words are dirty swearing on behalf of barak osama and his communist maker axelrod

Jul 22, 2008 - 10:34 am 27. tanstaafl:

So for those who thought Obama was persuadable by reason and by evidence, or that he might more influenced by a near-victorious U.S. commander than his netroot base, it was a sobering performance.

The netroot base pays the bills. Including (but not limited to) Soros’ millions.

The “base” take serious issue (even requesting their campaign donations be refunded) when he deviates from the agenda.

Barry’s recent string of flip flops has not pleased these people which, I would contend,is the major reason he has lately been seen to return to his original arguments on Iraq.

Jul 22, 2008 - 10:36 am 28. Leticia:

You all sound so hatefull!I’m glad it’s only few of you!Scary!Go Obama!!!!

Jul 22, 2008 - 10:41 am 29. kabud:

Leticia:
u sound so stupid i’m glad you bring so much fun here

may i see your photo?

Jul 22, 2008 - 10:53 am 30. George:

Obama does an excellent job of looking good on TV and reading a teleprompter. Too bad he’s interviewing for a top executive position. His skills are more suited to the job of television news anchor.

Jul 22, 2008 - 10:54 am 31. jerry:

Tell me Leicia why do Obama supporters and Democrats in general call people haters when they disagree with your or your candidates positions? Is it merely a projection of your hatefilled soul?

Jul 22, 2008 - 11:04 am 32. Political Naivete « Tai-Chi Policy:

[...] nothing else perhaps sums up Obama’s campaign so well. An excellent essay at Pajamas Media summarizes the current trip quite well. Another training wheels exercise for a training wheels [...]

Jul 22, 2008 - 11:47 am 33. Yawn:

Leticia, do you actually think this is hateful? Wow, you must be pretty sheltered in your life. I see this as a fairly fair (urg, great English there on my part) listing of issues those of us not voting for him have with him. Sure there are some that are more pointed (or a lot more pointed), you could probably put mine down as “more pointed.” But so what? I haven’t heard anyone swear all that much or have a post taken down due to language that would make a Marine blush. If you are supporting Obama (you are apparently), and you want to get us to vote for him these are the issues that we want addressed. If he can do it, I’ll vote for him. If he doesn’t, I’ll tell him why he doesn’t get my vote. I have voted to the right most of my life, but I’ll vote for a Democrat in a second if they can prove to me they are addressing the issues I want addressed. If your party produced a Truman right now, I would be fired up as all get out and been jumping up and down in line waiting to vote for him. What you have produced is a Wilson, or a Carter (shudder), or a Buchannan (ironic shudder). Or maybe he is more of a William Jennings Bryant or Mayor Daily of Chicago. Whatever he is, he is nothing really new, just another politician. You want me to vote for him then he needs to answer my questions and address my issues or accept that he won’t get my vote.

Jul 22, 2008 - 1:26 pm 34. Yawn:

Leticia, if you think this is hateful you should check out DailyKos. I’d say this is more of a pointed listing of issues we have with him. If you want us to vote for BO, then he needs to address our issues and I am not seeing it happen. Just saying “Change” doesn’t do it for me. Hell, if the democrats produced a Truman I’d vote for them in a heartbeat. But all you are giving us right now is (at best) a Wilson, or a Carter (shudder), or a Buchannan, or a Williams Jennings Bryant or even a Mayor Daily. None of them are worth writing home about, never mind voting.

Jul 22, 2008 - 1:32 pm 35. always right:

tanstaafl@Jul 22, 2008 – 10:10 am
Then he went into a near unintelligible explanation as to why he wouldn’t have changed his vote.
l boucher@Jul 22, 2008 – 10:11 am
“Let me be absolutely clear,” Obama said. “Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.

Just think what he says as POTUS will have everyone’s head spinning “Huh?” a dozen times a day.

“I would not have changed my stand, even knowing what I know now, because I am still fighting George W Bush.”
“Let me be absolutely clear,” Obama as POYUS says. “(Insert country name here, e.g. Germany) is a strong friend of German’s.”

What fun we all gonna have!
/Not

Jul 22, 2008 - 1:44 pm 36. Hannah Stevens:

I am with you Leticia. Let’s get these crooks out of our government, bring the troops home and start spending our tax dollars on Americans instead of giving them to big oil and defense companies. The only people getting wealthy these days are oil, defense companies and those at the very top. The rest of us are sinking.

Jul 22, 2008 - 2:25 pm 37. frieda:

Some one better informs Barry that it’s time to grow up if you want to play grown up game!

he has more babysitter than he had when he was 5…see his picture on his training wheels here: http://www.obamasgaffes.blogspot.com

Jul 22, 2008 - 2:47 pm 38. submandave:

“The reason Obamas schedule was kept secret, now see if you can follow this: There is a bit of a skirmish going on and they didn’t want some eager beaver Jimmy Olsen type reporter, like for instance Geraldo Rivera, or yourself, to endanger him by giving away info, as has been done before.”

This might make sense if Sen. Obama didn’t bring a 200+ person press corp along for the ride. You see, no publication was necessary; his staff just has to go over to where the press was and say “Hey, want to come report on the Senator going to the gym to meet with the troops?” or “The Sanator will be meeting with PM Maliki in ten minutes.” But it never happened. Presumably because his staff didn’t want to loose control of the narrative and possible get bad press. Ringing endorsement, indeed.

Jul 22, 2008 - 3:14 pm 39. Aiken Blue:

Obama is a visionary leader who says things the way they are. He is honest and has integrity and being a freshman senator is untouched by the bureaucratic pulls of the Capitol. Vote for Obama!! Visit WHYOBAMA08.org!!!

Jul 22, 2008 - 3:20 pm 40. lp:

While I was reading these posts I had Keith Oberman on from MSNBC. I had some constructive comments to make but after listening to this nonsense I am beginning to believe the world has gone mad – quite mad. The lunatics “Oberman” and the like’s are bent on making BO the next president. They are not only willing to do or say anything but try to change right from wrong. IT’s quite Insidious. Perhaps we all deserve it seeing as ww are such an evil country.

Jul 22, 2008 - 5:14 pm 41. Tom W.:

“Obama is a visionary leader who says things the way they are.”

Yes, indeed.

Barack Obama, July 14, 2008 New York Times op-ed

“Iraq’s leaders have failed to invest tens of billions of dollars in oil revenues in rebuilding their own country, and they have not reached the political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge.”

Barack Obama, July 21, 2008, interview with ABC News’ Terry Moran

“So what you had is a combination of political factors inside of Iraq that then came right at the same time as terrific work by our troops… I am glad that in fact those political dynamic shifted at the same time that our troops did outstanding work.”

Barack Obama, Amman, Jordan, press conference, July 22, 2008

“So far, I think we have not seen the kind of political reconciliation that’s going to bring about long-term stability in Iraq.”

Jul 22, 2008 - 9:32 pm 42. schnargley:

Of course the press is falling over each other to report this historic moment. Why not? This is like JFK at the Brandenburg Gate, Eisenhower and DeGaulle entering Paris, Wilson at Versailles, Ghandi climbing the steps of Parliament clad only in a loinclothe, Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon, Hannibal entering Spain, Mohammed going forth into Medina, Jesus entering into Jerusalem.

They are making history!

Jul 23, 2008 - 2:08 am 43. john from cinncinati:

i thought Obama was running for president of the U.S.? come November, we are going to find out if Americans are really as stupid as the media believes. it doesn’t take a phd. to recognize a cowpaddy when i step in it. Obama is a nobody, who is really pulling the strings on this puppet? do they really have America’s best interest in mind?

Jul 23, 2008 - 2:29 am 44. always right:

If we didn’t have Jimmy Carter in the 70s and all those fallouts since after, all this fawning might be understandable. It is as if one side is too stupid to learn from history. On second thought, they learned ‘revisionist history’ allright, they just choose to believe what they will it to be.

Obama speaking in front of the Brandenburg Gate is equivalent to (quote)Mohammed going forth into Medina, Jesus entering into Jerusalem(unquote). Next we will be told he’s going to heal our nation’s soul. /Oh wait, Mrs. already said that.

If we are voting for a messiah (Pope Benedict’s boss?) this Nov, we can just scratch McCain already.

Jul 23, 2008 - 7:22 am 45. Chuck:

Of course Obama is a poser, but then so is McCain. This election has reached the heights of farce.

Jul 23, 2008 - 7:46 am 46. tanstaafl:

Well, Tom W. the usefulness of being on every side of everything is never being wrong

Eh wot ?

Jul 23, 2008 - 8:31 am 47. Mike:

to Sig…here’s a little note: try to ‘control’ the press is your first undoing. Is candidate Obama afraid of being confronted by a member of the press to ask an unauthorized question? IMHO, yes. BHO is only a charismatic speaker when the words come up on the screen. He needs to work on his tap-dance.

As far as a Geraldo reference, you are comparing apples to oranges. Geraldo was imbedded when he drew his pix in the sand. Again, CANDIDATE Obama is on his world concert tour – why would his positions be considered a military secret.

Put the tin-hat back on Sig.

Jul 23, 2008 - 9:03 am 48. pappy:

re: schnargley; the persons you cite had one thing in common, they actually achieved something, b.o. hasn’t accomplished anything more than a free trip.he wouldn’t make a wart on a statesman’s butt. i wonder if he learned any new languages, or spoke french while on tour, some of his answers may have even been greek. he should demand his money back from the company where he purchased the rosetta stone foreign dialect course.

Jul 23, 2008 - 10:02 am 49. Anton:

Boy, poor ol’ Sig Jansen in the number 1 spot above. He’s not doing so well with his medication.

Jul 23, 2008 - 1:36 pm 50. Kilgore:

Perhaps the criticism of the press coverage of this trip is warranted.

However, it’s pretty disingenuous to criticize him for not including the press during his discussions with the General. That statement seems particularly silly given the incredible secrecy of the current administration. The behind-closed-doors policies- which are what got us to where we are today- were never really criticized by conservatives, were they?

Jul 23, 2008 - 1:51 pm 51. Dan Collins:

I think it’s nice that Obama had a chaperoned tour, but he might like to get out more and roam around South Chicago by himself, just to see what security is like on the ground.

Jul 23, 2008 - 1:58 pm 52. LIVERMORON:

leticia: Seems to me that the hateful comments are coming from Obama supporters. Read em through from the top.
Rotwang: Are you so ill-informed that you are unaware of the 16 or so trips McCain has made to Iraq? Do you somehow believe that Obama’s highly unprecedented restrictions on press access on this one quick trip indicate a man with a greater insight to the issues than John mcCain…a man who offers the press free access, who had an honorable military career and multi-term senator?
Andrea Michell and Katie Couric are starting to see him for the naif puppet that he is.

Jul 23, 2008 - 2:18 pm 53. jum1801:

It continues to amaze me that “oppo-commenters”, those persons who are opposed to a post (heck, they’re usually opposed to every post) at a conservative-leaning blog, so often happen to leave the very first comment. I’ve noticed it so many times here and elsewhere that I can’t ignore it. It brings to mind the old saw attributed to Ian Fleming: “The first time is happenstance; the second time is coincidence; the third time is enemy action.”

Why would they do it? Well, I suppose if you care enough to do it, it’s a way to register opposition, but to also derail or detour the thrust of following comments, perhaps to make yourself the target instead of the issue. Maybe it is for no other reason than to bedevil conservatives with what they view as pricks of conscience (or is that the other way around?). They have to be doing sentry duty to be able to do this more than just occasionally – just think of sitting all day and waiting like that.

Now why someone could find fulfillment or satisfaction in standing guard duty at a blog of ideas s/he finds reprehensible, so that s/he could jump on fresh posts with the first, and usually an argumentative, comment, I find to be little short of perverse and obsessive. I’m hardly surprised though. If experience has taught me anything, it has taught that left-leaners tend to be far more interested in “direct action” than the free discussion of ideas. How often have you heard of a protest or march by conservatives? We just don’t do it I bet you hear about some liberal protest 10 times more often.

So what is it about the left/liberals that makes them do this? Well, I think as a general rule leftists, particularly of the activist ilk, merely pay lip service to freedom and democracy – they’re far more committed to winning by whatever means necessary. They also seem to burn at a higher temp than conservatives. After all, self-righteousness gives off a lot of heat.

This may explain the motivation of these leftist/liberal oppo-commenters, but it doesn’t answer why they have the time to do it, day after day after day. I think we’ve known the answer to that one a long time. It’s the same reason they’re available to march, to show up for the tv cameras, to fill out rally crowds, to drive “get out the vote” vans and hold night-long vigils for condemned murderers as the date of judgment nears: they don’t work at the same kind of jobs conservatives do…if they work at all. As I say, we’ve known this a long time. Virtually every adult conservative I’ve ever known has been far too busy at working and providing a home and food for a family to be worried about making to the “Amnesty For Illegals” march.

But it kinda shows what is important to people.

Jul 23, 2008 - 2:28 pm 54. Fen:

Folks are slowly coming to the conclusion that Obama is a fake.

Which leads me to wondering: if Obama is merely a front, who is behind the curtain?

Jul 23, 2008 - 2:28 pm 55. Fen:

Let’s get these crooks out of our government, bring the troops home and start spending our tax dollars on Americans

Wonderful idea. No doubt, if your house was flooded with rainwater from a tree falling and peircing your roof, you’d replace the carpet before you fixed the hole in your roof.

instead of giving them to big oil and defense companies. The only people getting wealthy these days are oil, defense companies and those at the very top.

Please don’t. I’m not wealthy, most my investments are tied into stocks that also include oil and defense, and I need that money to send my kid to college. Which reminds me, once you’re done “replacing the carpet”, demand a refund from yours.

Jul 23, 2008 - 2:33 pm 56. Matthew Hooper:

Oh ho ho ho!

You mean, Obama’s press event was stage managed because he wasn’t interviewed by “real” reporters?

Would you care to explain what a “real” reporter is? Perhaps while reading over some of the right-wing commentary regarding shield laws, Robert Novak, and Scooter Libby?

Hmm. Fascinating, how people try to have it both ways…

Jul 23, 2008 - 2:42 pm 57. ic:

Obama tries to overwhelm American voters with his inevitability. See, the Europeans love me, the Iraqis love me, the Palestinians adore me, even the Jews tolerate (fooled by?) me, what say you gun-toting, church going, xenophobic bumpkins, are you going to vote for me and aspire yourselves to the sophisticates, or are you going to resign yourselves to four more years of elitist disdains?

Unfortunately, the whiff of inevitability triggers buyer’s remorse. Thus Obama is as inevitable as Hillary was in ‘07.

Jul 23, 2008 - 2:45 pm 58. WALTERC:

I don’t understand why the taxpayers are paying for this campaign trip disguised as a “fact finding mission”.

Don’t these people (of both parties) realize that we have people in the se countries that can give them the facts? All they need to do is ask. I’m suer Gen Patraeus would be happy to talk to Senator Obama, Oh wait, he just did, face to face and gave them the facts. Why are we paying for a special trip?

The commander in chief may need to get a personal look, his job is to command. Congressmen and Senators are paid to legislate, they have no reason to go on “fact finding” trips at taxpayer expense.

Stay home and do your job, or resign and pay for your own foreign travel.

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Jul 23, 2008 - 5:33 pm 60. Don Meaker:

Obama was right, in the sense that a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Better men than he are resolving the issues, so that he may assert that the issues are solved.

Jul 23, 2008 - 6:49 pm 61. Believer:

Mort Kondrake on Fox today reiterated something I’d heard before. He said Middle East experts are saying that there’s a greater chance we’d find ourselves in a war with Iran with an Obama presidency.

Ahmadinejad would most likely try to pull something on the naive one. Testing him. It would probably be done right away.

Please, America, wake up to the danger this man could put us in. This is no time for a rookie to be elected. He’s accomplished NOTHING. He’s lead NOTHING. And those are his positives.

Jul 24, 2008 - 2:15 am 62. Dave II:

“Which leads me to wondering: if Obama is merely a front, who is behind the curtain?”

You don’t know??? George Soros, that’s who!

Read this and learn about the man behind the megalomaniac:

The Bubble of Obama Supremacy
By Kyle-Anne Shiver

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/the_bubble_of_obama_supremacy.html

Jul 24, 2008 - 3:23 am 63. SuzEQCitizen:

Believer said

“Mort Kondrake on Fox today reiterated something I’d heard before. He said Middle East experts are saying that there’s a greater chance we’d find ourselves in a war with Iran with an Obama presidency.”

I heard that as well, and it near froze me to the marrow in my bones.

You guys don’t know who is behind the curtain? The Wizard of Oz, of course! I don’t know about you, but I don’t wanna live in the Emerald City.

Jul 24, 2008 - 7:20 am 64. tanstaafl:

what say you gun-toting, church going, xenophobic bumpkins, are you going to vote for me and aspire yourselves to the sophisticates, or are you going to resign yourselves to four more years of elitist disdain?

Though he likely wouldn’t admit it, I believe the “hey rubes, you gonna get with the program ?” implication is at the core of Obamessiah’s approach to we the peeps.

And at the core of the larger élitist message in general.

Uh, no, Dalibama (borrowed, I liked it)we’re not. Somehow, over past months, you’ve managed to offend me to my core. (I think it started with grandma in Hawaii being used to make some dumb point about “race”, but maybe before.) And that’s saying something to my heavily jaundiced eye when it comes to politicians.

The canard about guns and religion to the SF wealthy is straight out of the Harvard élitist playbook. Obama thought he was making a confidential statement to the “in” crowd.

He is not a “thinker” (also borrowed point) but a spewer of set pieces, which explains the iterations of his barely concealed views of we the rubes as well as his almost crippling inability to speak extemporaneously and spontaneously and make any sense.

Jul 24, 2008 - 7:52 am 65. Believer:

I’m getting ill again. Dave II’s link to americanthinker’s article is a superb one.

But, oh my, I keep thinking of Soros’ money buying votes…and it’s so Chicago…

Especially when I learned this morning that Obama has already set up his presidential transition team. More hubris or something we don’t know? Check those voter registrations, please.

Maybe it’s the BO team’s response to Kondrake’s warning yesterday. They knew that didn’t sound good. “Don’t worry, folks, I’ll be ready on Day One.” When you consider his advisors, there’s no team he’d ever put together that would reassure me.

(and I do know how to spell “led” – at 2:15am – oooh, it looks ugly now)

Jul 24, 2008 - 9:59 am 66. Rae:

Senator Obama-nation’s whirlwind tour highlights his chameleon persona. With Hollywood-like glitz and glam, he poses before Germany’s Brandenburg Gate, Israel’s Western Wall, and Jordan’s Amman Citadel.

Meanwhile, back home…Denver, Colorado frantically prepares for the DNC in August. Attention: Obama-nation’s nomination was initially to be announced at Invesco Field, which holds 20,000+. OH, NO! The Pepsi Center is hurriedly prepared for this spectacle…it seats about 75,000. More money wasted and Denver inconvenienced.

Also…the DNC has used Denver’s city gas pumps and services to fill up and avoid (?) paying state and federal fuel taxes to the tune of about $9700 since March. Denver’s Democratic Mayor John Hickenlooper tried to shift scrutiny and say the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St.Paul does the same thing. NOT SO…according to their spokesperson.

Denver’s DNC troubles are too many to list at moment.

Suffice to say: Amid the hoopla at the Pepsi Center will the DNC’s nominee bask in their reverence and announce, “Veni, vidi, vici!!”

Jul 24, 2008 - 6:29 pm 67. John Samford:

After the smoke clears and the mirrors stop spinning, Ohhhhhh…..BAAMA will have fallen even more in the polls. A month ago he had a 5 to 15 point lead. Now he is either tied or trailing, within the margin of error.
All the stage managing has accomplished is to make Obamassiah look to be even more of an empty suit. A tough job, but one his handlers did well.
The media has tried to spin this trip as a great success. I think not.
Demographics are against him, he’s sinking in the polls, Billery is busy seeing which super delegates she can flip and Michelle is measuring for drapes.
Should I laugh, cheer or cry?

Jul 24, 2008 - 8:13 pm 68. Rae:

Mea Culpa bloggers! The DNC nominee will accept at Invesco Field, but the Pepsi Center will be used too…a Democratic multi-ringed spectacular.

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