Obama, McCain exchange heated words over foreign policy

Barack Obama and John McCain escalated their war of words over foreign policy Friday - with Obama using an attack on his rival's "irresponsible" views to send a second message to Republicans as well: Don't try ...

[Doug Korthof]

Bush is the most incredible loser in history. Everywhere you look is failure, mistakes and screw-ups by this nincompoop. Anyone who runs on the Bush record is consigning themselves to failure. The American people are not so stupid as to vote for the screw-up "borrow and spend" Republican wastrels, liars and scoundrels, perverts and sycophants.

[Vietnam Vet USN]

I like this guy.
Maybe we can get it right in the 21st Century.

[Fredom Lover]

Doug Korthof wrote:

Bush is the most incredible loser in history. Everywhere you look is failure, mistakes and screw-ups by this nincompoop. Anyone who runs on the Bush record is consigning themselves to failure. The American people are not so stupid as to vote for the screw-up "borrow and spend" Republican wastrels, liars and scoundrels, perverts and sycophants.

Gee it sounds like the democRATS you are talking about. We need someone with experience and competence...not rhetoric. Obama would make a great racist preacher...we are at war and need a military president. Right or wrong, that's where we are...at war.
From his book "Dreams of My Father",
"I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE". Barack Obama

READ THE FACTS WHITE AMERICA, THE ABOVE EXCERPT WAS TAKEN FROM OBAMA'S OWN BOOK. We need someone with experience and competence...not rhetoric. Obama would make a great racist preacher...we are at war and need a military president. Right or wrong, that's where we are...at war.

[Keith - South Africa]

Let the games begin! At last, Obama can get to grips with the real enemy. This will be a great contest: the vision of youth vs. the value system of the past (much the same as fighting Hillary, really). Go Obama! Go!!!

[Monorprise]

Vietnam Vet USN wrote:

I like this guy.
Maybe we can get it right in the 21st Century.

I have a hard time understanding how you can call that right?
I think the 20th century was all in all a fair century, year, we had 2 major world war’s and a cold war. But over all the World grew, Democracy became the default system of government, Freedom expanded to the 4 Connors of the world.

Something that has never before happened in human history!

The world became connected, America, became a Super power, then the sole Superpower.
Really we reaches about as high as we can get, there is no higher position in the world for us to hold, that we would want to hold.

Instituting global communism or unilaterally disarming such as you might wish wont make things better it will simply thrown everyone back into the throws of Tyranny.

A Citizens is an armed man willing and able to defend him or herself, a subject is an unarmed man unwilling or unable to defend him or herself.
In the same respect Nations are no different, for the same reason.

Always remember don’t over state what’s happening now, don’t take it out of context of human history.
You need to keep in mind the Hine site of human history or you will do something to screw it up and make it even worse, and then will you understand with Hine site of our own current situation, that the current situation is actually pretty good compared to how it can get or is usually predisposed to be.

[Monorprise]

Keith - South Africa wrote:

Let the games begin! At last, Obama can get to grips with the real enemy. This will be a great contest: the vision of youth vs. the value system of the past (much the same as fighting Hillary, really). Go Obama! Go!!!

The ignorance’s and inexperience of Youth tends to make them easly manipulated, and easly fooled.
It is only natural that someone as charismatic and professional at this as Obama would carry a so easly manipulated demographic.

[Doug Korthof]

If you follow a LOSER like Bush, you'll ALWAYS be at war -- on the LOSING side.

There is NOTHING Bush has done successfully, from screwing up diplomacy, to his flip-flop on N. Korea, to his sucking up to Saudi dictators, to his appointing nincompoops to FEMA, State and Defense, to economic, fiscal, monetary and political failure and waste.

Bush directed no-bid contracts to Halliburton, presumably to pay them back for buying the Bush's failing Dresser Ind.

And on and on.

McCain is just as bad a loser as Bush.

[Richard Schladen]

This person needs help. I was going to refute his absurd statements but that would be useless. If he has such a narrow view of what it means to be a human being, he impervious to reason. Obama may not be perfect but he does offer hope that the terrible decline of this country can at least be slowed.

Fredom Lover wrote:

<quoted text>
Gee it sounds like the democRATS you are talking about. We need someone with experience and competence...not rhetoric. Obama would make a great racist preacher...we are at war and need a military president. Right or wrong, that's where we are...at war.
From his book "Dreams of My Father",
"I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE". Barack Obama
READ THE FACTS WHITE AMERICA, THE ABOVE EXCERPT WAS TAKEN FROM OBAMA'S OWN BOOK. We need someone with experience and competence...not rhetoric. Obama would make a great racist preacher...we are at war and need a military president. Right or wrong, that's where we are...at war.

[Maclin]

This is a time that we all Americans need to take actions for change. America is the symbol of Democracy for the rest of the world. But its leaders still belive in Gun and force in the 21stC. Our diplomacy has to be our power and has to replace the power and life we spent as well as the national money.
Today, wether we and our leaders belive it or not, we are the enemy of the world. This is the situation where any American can seen as an enemy at any where in the world.
This has to be change, we have to be safe.

[Bryan from Colo]

McCain for Prez = endless war in Iraq = war on Iran = big bucks for the military industrial complex. Hope you have stock in arms traffickers. Never mind that we won't have a future for our children. Go McCain 08!

[harris]

two sides of the the same coin is mr bush and McaCain,enought to cowboy dimplomacy.

[John]

I am disappointed with how pervasively superficial the news coverage is. They include some quote from Bush about Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland but fail to mention that the Soviet Union also invaded Poland in cooperation with Nazi Germany. Liberating Poland from the Nazis at that time would have most likely meant war with an alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union - and it's not clear that Britain and the USA could have won that. The quote also mentions "appeasement" of Nazi Germany but appeasement was not negotiation, appeasement was allowing Nazi Germany to repeatedly annex land and build up its military. In that sense, the one country in the Middle East that is currently being appeased is Israel. The whole article is focused on emotional mudlsinging without any reference to factual or historical accuracy.

[Tom Zart]

NEVER BE AFRAID TO BE PROUD of AMERICA

America, the abundant, the place I was born
I'll cherish till the day I die.
Where the bones of past heroes lie buried in the ground
Who loved her the same as I.

Her mountains are so tall they reach for the sky
With prairies where the green grasses grow.
There's billions of trees where wild birds nest
With creatures that flourish below.

That blue gold called water with which we are blessed
As raindrops or crystallized snow;
Changes to rivers and fresh water lakes
While the winds of our seasons blow.

There's the haunt of a whistle from a lonely freight train
Racing on ribbons of steel
With the harvest of farms and from the factories
Balanced in a box on a wheel.

Some cities have buildings a hundred stories tall
Structures of concrete, glass and steel.
A statue in a harbor, a present from France,
Describes how inside, we feel.

That flag on the moon with red and white stripes
Proves America’s dreams come true.
A country of heroes who line up to protect
The past, the present and the few.

We’ll defeat terrorism as it should be fought
Never letting Satan’s horde chase us to our door.
Safeguarding our borders and system of life
As our forefathers sacrificed before.

Never be afraid to be proud of America
And march with the brave, faithful and just.
Refusing to submit to the will of our enemies
Standing firm to preserve what we trust.

By Tom Zart

[who pays]

Now that McCain has modified his 100 year Iraq war and recalculated his strategy carefully to predict victory in 2013 I feel much better about the fact the thousands of lives will be lost and trillions of borrowed dollars wasted. Now if he could predict the month and day of the victory, that would be really impressive. We all know he has a date when he will attack Iran because the Bush neocon puppeteers are in his corner pulling the strings.

[Fareed]

The Saudis gave Bush a final kick in the Butt going out the door on his failed oil begging trip. They told him they won't deal with him because he "is not a Fair moderator" by his earlier speech in Israel. What is to become of Bush? I hope he doesn't start drinking the "hard stuff" again after coming face to face with himself once more.

[desertgal]

Obama's my choice to put these liars in their place...not in the White House

[Nguyen]

I don't understand why McCain is so proud of himself, and the Americans of McCain. Frankly, crashing your plane into a lake is clearly a case of incompetence. And he didn't really have much choice about being a prisoner of war - what so brave about surrendering to the fait accompli?

[David N]

Bush and McCain criticising Obama's preference for diplomacy over belligerency does not surprise. Bush failed America and the world by using lies to go to war and create a human catastrophe in Iraq. McCain's world view was shaped in another era when too misguided American belligerency created a human catastrophe in Vietnam.

[Aditya Mookerjee]

If there were no Democrats and Republicans, and the Senate were not divided along party lines, then most of the United States' problems would disappear.

[Terr44]

McCain has an uncontrollable temper and not be be trusted. I'll take my chances with Obama. He see shades of gray not just us against them. Remember it was the people "with the experience" who got us in a war with 4000+ dead and counting. This does not include the thousands of vets who are physically maimed for life and have psychological problems. Remember if you put a Republican back in power the war will go on. Oh what did McCain say? another hundred years! This leaves enough time for Jenna Bush's great grandchildren to fight.