Obama visits Afghanistan to tour war zone
You're one very dense lady(?). One last time: Bin Laden was never the reason for the Iraq war - he's probably in Afghanistan. That's the prior conflict. Your man Obama isn't going to get the troops out any faster. He's already hedging his bets in Iraq and threatening to up the ante in Afghanistan. By the way, he's had Senate oversight reposibility for Afghanistan since he's been in the Senate, and has yet to hold a committee meeting. Suddenly he sees Afghanistan as to where we should add troops. How convenient that he came to that conclusion during his photo ops there rather than while holding his non-existent oversight committee meetings the past 2 years. (17 hrs ago | post #714)
Obama visits Afghanistan to tour war zone
Let's try this again but more slowly since you just don't get it. As I said before, the "surge" is not the same as the Iraq war - only a small portion of the overall action. I don't disagree with your overall sentiments about the war, but the conflict is really two stages. The initial action was against the soverign state of Iraq. The actions once the government fell are not against Iraq, but factions within the country. We are essentially caught in the middle between competing groups within the country. To put it simply, it's a civil war right now. Iraq was never about oil, WMD or even terrorism though those were the reasons given. It was about hard-liners who thought they could remake the Middle East into their vision of peace through by planting democracy in the midst of all the Arab countries and spreading it from Iraq. Demcratic Arab countries would be less likely to attack Israel or so the thinking went. That incredibly naive view was pushed hard by Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld, the architects of the whole war. (Yesterday | post #708)
Obama visits Afghanistan to tour war zone
I don't disagree with much of what you say, but the "surge" had nothing to do with much of your comments. Simply put, the "surge" was implemented last year in Iraq to bring in extra trroops for a short duration in order to buy time for the Iraq government and forces to begin getting their act together. To that end, it has succeeded as Obama has even admitted. Whether the relative calm it produced will be long-lasting remains to be seen. It had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the war which is what you are commenting on. If you're going to make an arguement, please get your facts and comments right. (Wednesday | post #704)
Obama about-face: tap nation's oil reserve
I cannot in good conscience vote for Obama whose integrity I question. Your opinion is that he has better judgement and analysis than McCain, and a stronger understanding of the average worker's concerns. You are entitled to that opinion and I respect you for it. I have not seen that in Obama yet. People have pointed to his stand against the war as good judgement, yet we don't know what he really would have done if he were in the Senate at the time. His track record since then seems to indicate he may have supported it with reservations as many of the other Senators did. His vote on the CHeney energy bill certainly doesn't seem like good judgement, nor his support for the corrupt Philadelphia machine against the reformist candidate. So his judgement in my opinion is decidedly mixed and leaning toward average/fair. I think he understands the average man's concerns only as far as the polls or political gains will get him something. (Tuesday Aug 5 | post #119)
Obama about-face: tap nation's oil reserve
You should try using some intelligence sometime. My post had nothing to do with McCain and everything to do with Obama's convenient political posturing. If you were as intelligent as you arrograntly believe yourself to be, you would not have jumped to the conclusion that I'm a McCain supporter. In fact, I'm an independent voter who's sided more often with the Democrats in 40 years. I've voted 3rd party when neither mainstream candidate was acceptable. For this election, I just may pass on a Presidential candidate since none is even remotely acceptable. I don't dislike Obama because he's black, muslim or any of that other BS. My unease of Obama stems from the fact that when you look at what he's really done, it's been extremely thin and rather mediocre. He's got a great oratory, but beyond that it's less than inspiring no matter how you spin it. His actions have suggested he's just an ordinary run of the mill politician that should never have gotten this far except for his oratory gifts. McCain is too much of a loose cannon, and is now pandering to the right wing to get elected. McCain flip flops with the best of them, but we expect it out of him. Obama on the other hand has cultivated an image of "change" and integrity that just isn't there if you really look at it. (Tuesday Aug 5 | post #110)
Obama about-face: tap nation's oil reserve
What about the tax cuts that Obama tried to give them when he supported the Bush-Cheney Energy Bill? I seem to recall that even McCain and Clinton were against it partially due to over $6 billion in subsidies to the oil industry. Obama even braggged about what a grat bill it was on his website at the time, while on the campaign trail he denounced the policies behind it. (Tuesday Aug 5 | post #95)
Obama visits Afghanistan to tour war zone
Despite your rants, I'm not a Republican and have voted Democratic far more than Republican. I also never said it was paid for by the Defense Dept. Fact - Obama himself said that the trip was being paid out of Senate funds since he was going as a Senator. However, his itinerary was clearly not one a typical Senator would have if he was truly on a fact finding mission. That is also a fact. My opinion is that the trip and most of the sideshows were a campaign exercise, and if Obama was truly as principled as many of his supporters think, he would have paid for it out of his campaign funds rather than burden the ordinary taxpayers. (Friday Aug 1 | post #688)
Obama visits Afghanistan to tour war zone
Boy, do you have your thoughts mixed up. The surge had nothing to do with Bin Laden or WMD - it was all about Sunni/Shite violence with a bit of Al-Qaeda on the side. And the Chinese debt has more to do with this country's spending and sourcing policies versus any "surge" halfway around the globe. If you're going to make an argurment, at least keep it coherent. By the way, there's a world of difference between a real fact finding trip and a showy campaign trip overseas. I would have far less problem with it if he went quietly as a real Senator instead of this whole spectacle, especially since his portion of the trip was paid for by the taxpayers instead of his campaign funds. (Friday Aug 1 | post #685)
Merkel uneasy over Obama Brandenburg Gate address
Actually, we were already involved in Vietnam courtesy of Eisenhower. Kennedy did escalate it, and Johnson really stepped up our involvment. I think his biggest accomplishments outside of the Cuban missile crisis was civil rights. (Thursday Jul 24 | post #75)
Merkel uneasy over Obama Brandenburg Gate address
No, he's being berated for doing this as campaigning and photo ops rather than real intelligence gathering on our dollar. Despite his insistance that he's there as a Senator, he's acted more like the President with his speeches and press conferences. He should at least pay for this junket out of his millions in campaign funds rather than out of our tax dollars. That would be the ethical thing to do. But does Obama have any ethics? (Thursday Jul 24 | post #73)
Obama visits Afghanistan to tour war zone
Is this the same committee that Obama chairs and has never held a meeting despite being the Afghanistan oversight? (Tuesday Jul 22 | post #460)
Obama visits Afghanistan to tour war zone
He should have gone long before this and not as a political photo-op which this has turned into. He is the chairman of the Senate oversight committee which had never held a meeting the 1st 2 years, and I'm not sure if it has yet. If he's only now saying that Afghanistan needs attention, where has he been the last couple of years when he was suppose to be providing oversight for the Senate? (Sunday Jul 20 | post #197)
Jackson Apologizes For Comments About Obama
Although some of Jackson's comments were certainly rather crude, the gist of it was that Obama was avoiding speaking out on the black-oriented issues in place of preaching morality. That may well be true since sticking to black issues probably won't get Obama elected. What I find more disturbing are the comments that many of the Obama supporters have made against Jackson calling him irrelevant, racist, etc. This reminds me of Bush's strategy that got us into the Iraq war. If you didn't agree with him, you supporting the enemy and irrelevant. Remember "old Europe" and "freedom fries"? The mob mentality of many of the Obama supporters feels like more of the same. (Thursday Jul 10 | post #40)
Unlike Bush or McCain, Obama is a modest man
Obama a Just man? What are you smoking? Was it Just that he bullied his way into winning his first election unopposed by disqualifying all his opponents for the slightest technical error (like block printing instead of cursive)? Was it just to all the Illinois voters that elected him as a Senator only to see him spend the majority of the time running for President? Was it Just that he supported the corrupt machine candidate in Phildelphia over the reformist just to get the superdelegate vote? Is it Just to never hold a Afghanistan oversight committee meeting while our soldiers are dying in increasing numbers? Obama is Just alright, just for himself. (Jul 8, 2008 | post #36)
Clark hits McCain's military credentials
So much for sticking to the issues rather than personal attacks. I would ask Clark just a few questions about his candidate based on his own comments. If McCain lacks the executive experience to lead, what does that say about Obama who's done even less? As the moderator pointed out, Obama has never done the things Clark is criticizing McCain for. In fact, the one leadership position that Obama has had concerning the military was the chairmanship of the Senate oversight committe on Afghanistan where he hadn't held a meeting for the 1st 2 years of his Senate career. If McCain is unqualified in Clark's eyes, what does that make Obama? (Jun 29, 2008 | post #1)
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