Comments on: Obama: not ready for prime time

By: Andy Freeman

Andy Freeman — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:14:25 +0000

If Iran’s was motivated to play nice by the presence of US troops nearby, what’s their motivation for continuing to play nice after said troops leave?

By: markus

markus — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:40:39 +0000

The Brookings article above is chockful of facts — names, dates, faxes sent, faxes ignored, Swiss diplomats were ridiculed for passing along communications from the evil ones… Check it out, if you want “facts”.

The U.S. invasion of Iraq doubtlessly motivated the Iranian effort at reapproachment with the U.S. All the more galling that the Administration refused to pursue this opening, one of the few opportunities made available by the invasion.

BTW, I found the Sun-Times article by googling “Iran and Obama”. The first few results all link to it.

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:43:56 +0000

“Markus leaves out the fact …”

Has he ever left a fact *in*?

By: Webutante

Webutante — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:42:17 +0000

Obama reminds me of a male ingenue. The possibility of this country falling into the hands of Hill/Obama and Pelosi and company truly scares me to death.

By: Lem

Lem — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:30:02 +0000

If ever Obama says he is the first African American anything within earshot of Hillary.

“Senator Obama…. I knew Jackie Robinson, I baked cookies for the Robinsons… they were my friends.
Senator you are no Jackie Robinson.”

By: Terrye

Terrye — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:51:31 +0000

I guess if sounding like Jimmy Carter is saying all the right things, then that is what Obama did.

Pelosi went to see the Syrians and kiss their behinds and what did that accomplish? Other than to make the Speaker look ridiculous?

John Kennedy must be spinning in his grave. First Obama lets us know that genocide is no biggie and then he lets us know that if he wins the election he will be happy to pander to any dictator out there, no questions asked.

So much for bearing any burden and paying any price to advance the cause of liberty and all that silly stuff.

By: LarryD

LarryD — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:59:01 +0000

ic, that can only work during the primaries. And the effect might be to just encourage the Democratic primary voter to stay home.

By: ic

ic — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:56:25 +0000

It’s Hill&Bill’s strategy all along. Facing a possible Obama presidency, even an anti-Hill voter would be scared into voting for Hill. Brilliant.

By: Lem

Lem — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:05:04 +0000

“…in 2003, when Iran proposed recognizing Israel and normalizing relations with America”.

Markus leaves out the fact that Iran was facing the prospect of the well announced, UN cited, visit from the American military right next door.

Iran wanted to make sure no stray missile would hit their fledgling nuclear facilities. That is ALL.

If Iran were serious they would have done some things and stop doing other things that ultimately contradict the opening up to Israel and America BS Markus swallowed whole.

Next we’ll have Marcus exulting Jimmy Carter’s Iran.

BTW – Markus use of the phrase “said all the right things” in the context of Obama’s audience in the article he cites; unless explained, leaves me running from a certain recognizable stench.

By: Robin Goodfellow

Robin Goodfellow — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:52:47 +0000

Obama is demonstrating, yet again, just how incredibly unprepared he is for the presidency.

Honestly, if he were white nobody would know, or care, who he was. Which is sad in a lot of ways, because it proves how much of a “that’s pretty good, for a black person” world we live in today.