http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2008/12/web-authentic-news-opinion.html

And articulate? When asked if we should use nuclear weapons against Iran, he said it should be left up to the commanders on the ground. When explaining why the GOP voted against the bailout package that he backed, he blamed it on Nancy Pelosi’s speech. Horrible as her speech was, using it as a scapegoat for his inability to do his job was blazen cowardice. This guy can’t say anything that isn’t a talking-point programmed into his head.

He cannot begin to compete with the REAL future of the GOP: Palin, Jindal, Ryan, and Steele.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/7749748.stm

and it will really annoy the right wing nut jobs here.

westlake

I’d say about 54% of the voting public.

Is this difficult? Bueller? Anyone?

Clyde, I have read comments here for nearly four years and this may be the most INANE comment yet.

YOUR candidate was the most liberal senator in America and your party is run by George Soros and the far left. Who does that appeal to? The enemies of America and brainwashed people who wrongly hate the president who kept them safe for 7 years?

New ideas? What are the Dems “new ideas”? Lose the war, bash the troops and religious folks, while appealing to the blacks, the homeless and the collegians?

And in terms of anger, go to any left leaning city and feel the anger from the rich and privileged.

Clyde, you sir, are a breathtakingly misguided fool.

I’ll pray for you.

BobD

1) The important part is that there hasn’t been any since 9/11, get it? the plan to do it was hatched, planned, and partially executed (flight schools, etc.) before he was even elected, so to imply he’s at fault due to accident of timing is disingenuous. There were plenty of isolated warnings of SOMETHING, but the “wall” put up, incidentally, by Jamie Gorelick, kept the data from being properly put together until it was too late.

2) How we dealt with the first WTC bombing (and subsequent police/legal reactions to Khobar, USS Cole, African Embassies, et al) RESULTED in 9/11. It showed to them we didn’t have the stomach to even try to deal with what they were, terrorists. We myopically satisfied ourselves by treating them as common criminals, and they were emboldened.

3) As Rubin said, we can debate entering into Iraq in the first place, I have my doubts. BUT, once we did it, we had to see it through or our “standing” in the international community would have been even worse. IF we would have left without victory, there would have been further proof we are a country who doesn’t keep it’s promises – just like after Vietnam. And the jihadist terrorists would have even more proof we’re a paper tiger that can be brought down with a thousand little cuts. As for the scenario you cite, it may very well still end up that way, but with this new SOFA, we’ll still have a presence there for the next three years, and a renegotiation may allow us there for a long time after that – and that will give Iran pause no matter what. Ultimately, we will have to let Iraq be Iraq and hope for the best. However, leaving early would have almost certainly resulted in that scenario and possibly left the country open for a full scale invasion by Iran. Bin Laden is only the most notorious – we should be more than happy, if not truly satisfied, with nearly ruining his organization to the point of ineffectiveness as it stands now.

Supporting the President was a bipartisan affair. He couldn’t have done it without support of people like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Counterpoint – how many on the left are cheering Obama’s cabinet picks, even though they are not “progressive” just because he picked them? Even further back, how many followed Bill Clinton into Kosovo, nee helped justify it, even though it had (and has – we’re still sending troops there) less national interest than Iraq. Fun fact – we came into Kosovo on the side of the Muslims and that got us where with the muslim world, exactly?

1)Justice Clarence Thomas
2)Jeff Flake R-AZ
3)Rush Limbaugh
4)DeMint R-SC
5)Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights
6)Pajamas Media
7)National Taxpayers Union
8)Michael Savage
9)Rudy Giuliani
10)YOU!