Looks like Barack Obama needs to have his people do some research before he lets the rhetoric fly. He's starting to sound like the looney lefty he is, rather than a man ready to be President.
In the unimpressive debate the other night, Obama said:
Mr. Obama had said in response to a hypothetical question that although he intended to withdraw American forces as rapidly as possible, he reserved the right to send troops back in “if Al Qaeda is forming a base in Iraq.”
McCain fired back to that very stupid and ill-informed comment with this:
“I have some news,” he said at a town-hall-style meeting in Tyler, Tex. “Al Qaeda is in Iraq. It’s called ‘Al Qaeda in Iraq.’ My friends, if we left, they wouldn’t be establishing a base. They’d be taking a country, and I’m not going to allow that to happen.”
Obama responds with the same regurgitated bullshit I've heard from every liberal:
“I have some news for John McCain,” Mr. Obama said at a large rally at Ohio State University. “There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.”
WRONG!!!!! Even Richard Clarke knows that was wrong. Richard Clarke worried that Osama would "boogie to Baghdad" if we invaded Afghanistan. "Clarke's opinion was based on intelligence indicating a number of contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq, including word that Saddam had offered bin Laden safe haven." Yeah, and Clarke got the intel from CNN.
Time to go back to school Barack or at least hire some better researchers for your speech writers...
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More sentences please with "Bush and McCain" in them.
"...McCain decided to invade Iraq."
Advantage Obama.
P.S. McCain is like the old man at the supermarket who's confused by the automatic doors. He probably thinks the Internet is a series of tubes.
Obama "gets it:" Tie President "19%" Bush around McCain's neck like the cinder block that he is and let them both sink to the bottom of the ocean.
Have fun voting for McCain in the fall, Rose.
there was a group of al-ansar al-islam i think that was doing some work with Ricin and biological weapons with Iranian fundage close to the border.
i think a much bigger problem for mccain is just physical appearance. in a debate with O he is going to look very old and very short.
the more pictures there are in the media, the more advantage to O.
john and cindy mccain are nice looking for old ppl, but the obamas look like movie stars.
i guess im technically an obamacan, that is a registered repub that is supporting O.
but i made up my own word...since im so into anime
obamataku
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1. hes isomorphic with bush on a war that has largely lost support with the electorate.
2. he has voted for ESCR twice. that screws him with the theocons. 1/3 of the republican party there. if he tries to swing towards pro-LIFE! O can can scare the pro-choice independents with the threat of Roe v. Wade being overturned by mccain seating a theocon justice on the supremes.
3. he has screwed the libertarians and constitutionalists with McCainFeingold.
bad juju
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How many Youtube clips of Democrats talking about Al Qada in Iraq or WMD in Iraq or Hussein building a nuclear bomb are required to prove the lies?
Well, apparently the answer is a whole lot more than "hundreds."
But those who say Obama won this round are right. He won it rhetorically, not factually. But for the great majority of Americans, facts don't matter. Just read above to see what I mean.
You're hopeless.
To you, it's all about preserving, protecting and defending George W. Bush no matter what.
Ara, you crack me up!!!!
Yours,
Wince
Right from the horse's...mouth. (It was tempting)
im a registered republican
but ima biocon....i think cosmic is a theocon.
BTW, Bill Clinton used to be a master of this sort of thing, Jesuit-trained as he was.
That said, I just learned Obama smokes cigarettes, so now I'm not so worried about him. Anyone still smoking cigarettes after all this time has got to be an independent thinker, and not some kind of idealogue. Or at least he's one hell of an addict. Either way, he's got the cigarette thing going for him.
No. Just no.
Obama was answering a hypothetical that presupposed that al Quaeda in Iraq was taken care of, and if there was a resurgence, would he go back in.
Now check his answer instead of indicting him on Russert's hypothetical.
UB Bill, you're engaging in crackpottery.