Obama Hit By More Friendly Fire
“I have the highest respect and regard for Sen. McCain, he and I have actually gone to Iraq and Afghanistan together,†[Hillary Clinton] said. “And I honor his service to our country and his patriotism.†(Wall Street Journal)
Ouch. This has got to be the easiest election ever for the Republican “Department of Opposition Research”. Hillary Clinton has provided the GOP with hours of material for campaign commercials in the fall. It would be deliciously ironic if the mouth of Obama’s own Democrat opponent costs him the election! I never thought I’d hear myself say this, but GO HILLARY GO!!!
h/t – Hot Air
– John (Average Gay Joe)
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I would love to see those same words in a “Vote for McCain” commercial. The DNC chickenhawks will then come home to roost.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — May 30, 2008 @ 3:48 pm - May 30, 2008
Well Hillary and McCain are going to be fighting Obama in the same way, though McCain will be able to take it futher than that. The point Hillary is making is that McCain would not be able to attack her on this issue, it is just another one of Obama’s weaknessses.
Comment by Darkeyedresolve — May 30, 2008 @ 4:41 pm - May 30, 2008
Hillary is not stupid. Until she is officially out of the race, she knows it’s open season on Obama (as it should be), and is smart to take every shot possible now (no, that’s not some hidden assassination reference, so just stop now with the feigned, liberal-self-righteous exasperation).
Once he’s the candidate, she can’t appear to go against her party – the same party (of spoiled-brat children) that’s currently trying to destroy her, ironically. She doesn’t have to be all giddy in support of him, but she can’t publicly oppose him, either. It’s to give the illusion that the democrat party is “united”. HA!!!
What she’s doing now is exactly what she should be doing. The Clintons, like them or not, are professional politicians, and are very good at what they do. She doesn’t want to alienate all democrats, in case she runs again in 2012. “In case” – like there’s any doubt.
I, personally, see no difference between the ideologies of Clinton and Obama, but if I had to pick from them the one who I would (& I cannot believe I’m saying this) trust the security of our nation with, it would have to be her. I can’t see her sitting down with Iran, Venezuela, et al, with or without preconditions. She would have them for dinner. I really cannot believe I just said that.
Obama has shown nothing but bad judgement, at the very least, and at the worst, is an American-blaming marxist charlatan. Either way, he is the least fit of the 2 to be the most poweful leader on the planet. But I hear A.C.O.R.N. is hiring.
Comment by LesbianNeoCon — May 30, 2008 @ 9:15 pm - May 30, 2008
***Obama has shown nothing but bad judgement, at the very least, and at the worst, is an American-blaming marxist charlatan.***
should read America-blaming (not “American”).
Comment by LesbianNeoCon — May 30, 2008 @ 9:28 pm - May 30, 2008
Obama A Threat To Israel, Mideast Expert Charges
http://blog.thejewishweek.com/post/Obama_Threat_to_Israel_Expert_Charges.html
Tel Aviv — Judging from the views of Israeli academics at a panel Thursday afternoon, Israel has much to worry about if Barack Obama is elected president this fall.
Barry Rubin, a well-known and respected Mideast expert and academic, told an audience today at a conference at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) at Bar-Ilan University here that an Obama victory would precipitate “the most dangerous crisis facing the world.”
After citing his own credentials as a former Washingtonian who worked for the campaigns of numerous Democratic presidential candidates, going back to John Kennedy in 1960, Rubin described Obama as “not the candidate of the [moderate] Arab states, but the candidate of the Islamists, whether he knows it or not.
“If elected, he will be the most anti-Israel president in American history,” asserted Rubin, who is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center at IDC, the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya, and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal.
He said that while Obama speaks of his willingness to meet with autocratic leaders of countries like Iran and Syria, he only uses the carrot half of the carrot/stick equation.
“He never mentions what he would do if the talks fail, and he doesn’t talk about the need for the U.S. to show its strength.”
Rubin predicted that Obama would choose Robert Malley, a former State Department official who criticized Israel for its role in the failure of the Camp David peace talks in 2000, to be director of policy planning, if elected. And Rubin said it was no accident that Obama’s recent reference to the Israel-Palestinian conflict as “a constant sore” was the same phrase Rashid Khalidi, a professor of Arab studies at Columbia University, has used in an article in The Nation.
Another Israeli panelist on Thursday, Eytan Gilboa of the sponsoring BESA Center, was not as critical as Rubin. But he said that Obama has the American Arab vote “in his pocket” and that his lack of experience and seeming eagerness to talk through any problem were “worrisome” traits.
The other two panelists were Robert Lieber of Georgetown University and me.
Lieber said Obama is not anti-Israel and indeed appears supportive of the Jewish state. But he said the Illinois senator would face a serious problem if, as president, he tries to reason with American and Israeli enemies like Iran, whose leaders have proven intractable for decades. “It won’t get him very far,” said Lieber, who also spoke of Obama’s inexperience, predicting that he would be tested early on by U.S. adversaries.
In my presentation, I said there was “a good deal of discomfort and unease” with Obama among American Jews, particularly those over 40, and that it was difficult to tell how much was based on his policies or lack of experience, how much on his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and how much on race, among other factors.
The two-day conference theme was “Whither American Zionism?” But most of the presentations dealt with the past, with several speakers, including former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens, pointing out that the movement’s golden years were its early ones, in the first two decades of the 20th century.
The movement had “an auspicious start,” noted Arens, who cited early leaders like Justice Louis Brandeis and Justice Felix Frankfurter. “But it didn’t live up to expectations,” he said, citing the low figures of American aliyah.
Large-scale aliyah from the U.S. “could have made all the difference,” Arens said, in Israel’s struggles with its Arab neighbors.
Comment by Vince P — May 31, 2008 @ 4:33 pm - May 31, 2008
The Democrats are going to count each Florida and Michigan delegate/voter as half a person.
Couldn’t they have at least counted each as three-fifths of a person? That would have been more generous. (Plus the irony.)
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — May 31, 2008 @ 10:45 pm - May 31, 2008
And Obama has now thrown his erstwhile church under the bus.
I guess we were right all along: that the preaching and ideas at Trinity UCC were/are vile. But, separate from that, what does it say about a guy when he calmly makes and breaks friendships and spiritual ties from pure calculation – from his naked desire to be President?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 1, 2008 @ 12:15 am - June 1, 2008
Last thought for the night – Unless McCain dies, or has some unbelievable scandal or gaffe lurking, I am increasingly unable to see how Obama can be elected. He’s a lanky, man-boobed nothing. No “there” there. No character. No real principles – except (1) political expediency, and (2) a naive, mistaken, deeply arrogant belief in his own power to charm. He’s like the worst of Clinton and Carter.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 1, 2008 @ 12:28 am - June 1, 2008
The answer, ILC; enough people have been lobotomized to believe that it is OK for someone to be incompetent as long as they are a minority member.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — June 2, 2008 @ 12:04 am - June 2, 2008
#9 – “[I]t is OK for someone to be incompetent as long as they are a minority member.”
Translation: This is affirmative action at work.
No wonder the Dhimmicrats and their willing accomplices in the MSM are so ga-ga over B. Hussein Obama. I guess in their worldview, it is more important to be black than a woman or a gay.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — June 2, 2008 @ 11:14 am - June 2, 2008
***I guess in their worldview, it is more important to be black than a woman or a gay.***
McCain is gay?? Whoodathunkit??
Comment by LesbianNeoCon — June 2, 2008 @ 8:00 pm - June 2, 2008
#11 – Touche, LNC!
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — June 3, 2008 @ 1:38 pm - June 3, 2008