Comments on: Obama runnin’ scared

By: srlucado

srlucado — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:26:52 +0000

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.

By: Lem

Lem — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:48:46 +0000

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.

By: Bostonian

Bostonian — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:48:08 +0000

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.

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:39:10 +0000

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.

By: Fat Man

Fat Man — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:30:06 +0000

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

By: Barry Dauphin

Barry Dauphin — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:11:24 +0000

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.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:47:52 +0000

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.

By: Jamie Irons

Jamie Irons — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:05:46 +0000

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

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:21:17 +0000

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

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:18:00 +0000

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