14 Comments

1. Anthony (Los Angeles):

I’m trying to figure which is the emptier suit: Obama or Edwards.

Aug 1, 2007 - 10:59 am 2. Lem:

Sometimes it can take years to develop a new ice cream flavor people will accept.

It takes Obama a few days to invade a member of the nuclear club, one with dicey relations with neighbor India (one-sixth of the world’s population). Did I mention Pakistan is an ally?

Obama is not ready for the late late show, shown at a later time because of the Olympics

Aug 1, 2007 - 11:07 am 3. valjean:

This is just too rich … such muscular unilateral militarism from a Democrat!

Wouldn’t this action alienate our precious allies? (In addition to, well, Pakistan. I look forward to *their* reaction.) What would the French think? And most importantly, does it pass The Global Test?

Wouldn’t there be a chance your intelligence could be faulty, Mr. Obama? Maybe you could send Joe Wilson over to check it out …

Aug 1, 2007 - 12:12 pm 4. ricpic:

Can the Democrats, at this late date, climb on the war wagon and pull it off? Is the electorate that dumb? Stay tuned.

Aug 1, 2007 - 1:33 pm 5. Buddy Larsen:

(pssst) guys n gals, he’s not talking to you. He’s talking to that body of voters who form the community-based reality.

Aug 1, 2007 - 3:18 pm 6. Buddy Larsen:

You know ‘em–Pakistan is just a word, just something they might could find on a map if they could find a map.

Aug 1, 2007 - 3:21 pm 7. Jamie Irons:

Probably most of those who comment here (being the intelligent types they (we) are!) will have already perused Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan, and will recall that he warns against embarking on wars as they tend to lead to so many unexpected, Black-Swan-Like events, as we have seen in Iraq. (I have always supported, and still do support, our efforts there.)

But isn’t it just typical that the pure-as-the-driven-snow, pacifistic Democrats are so quickly turned into raging would-be invaders of nuclear states!

Jamie Irons

Aug 1, 2007 - 5:05 pm 8. Buddy Larsen:

The memory-free, principle-free, politics-only- of-the-moment behavior is driving its players stark raving mad. And they’re in so deep they can’t see it.

Aug 1, 2007 - 5:47 pm 9. Barry Dauphin:

Who knows what the guy would do in office-probably whatever Richard Holbrooke told him. It is interesting and perversely reassuring that he feels the need to be “muscular” in some way. Although the Dems hate Bush for trying to kick some a**, they actually admire that and want to find an “acceptable” way to do it. Yes, his whole plan is quite silly and he doesn’t even know it, but even he knows that Americans will not elect some McGovernite.

Aug 1, 2007 - 9:11 pm 10. Fat Man:

When he was talking about restoring trust and ending cynicism, Obama did great.

The last three weeks he has been saying more substantive things and he has proved himself to be a lightweight.

Genocide in Iraq

Aug 1, 2007 - 11:30 pm 11. Richard Nieporent:

From all of the inane comments made by Obama recently, the only thing I can conclude is that this is a conspiracy by the Democrats to make Hillary look good.

Aug 2, 2007 - 5:39 am 12. Bostonian:

The whole thing is fascinating. Obama, if elected, would find reasons not to go through with this, er, plan.

Progressives know that he doesn’t mean it anyway, that it is a show to sweep up some of those independent voters (and maybe even some of the vicious warmongering righties).

And I am sure that it is all just words to Obama himself. He’s just a posturing idiot like 99% of the rest of them.

Aug 2, 2007 - 5:48 am 13. Lem:

Obama meant to say that the Pakistan… mission would be done covertly.
Of course as we all know a successful covert operation must be leaked ahead of time so as to give our adversaries time to pack for Guantanamo. Good logistics.

Oh wait, Obama said would shut Guantanamo down.

I’m confused.

Aug 2, 2007 - 7:48 am 14. srlucado:

This demonstrates to me why Obama is such a lightweight.

Not his invasion speech per se–just the fact that he doesn’t know how to play the game of presidential politics.

What he was supposed to say was that he had “formed a team of internationally-recognized experts who were putting together a definitive plan for focusing efforts on the *real* war on terror.”

Vague double-speak is the order of the day…except for people like Hillary Voldemort Clinton, who simply flat-out lie.

To actually come out and propose something definite is naive beyond words.

Aug 2, 2007 - 8:26 am

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