Scary.

 

I don't post on here much, but I sure am looking forward to the day that I feel less safe in my own country and I'm paying a higher tax to feel that way.

This is the kind of reckless rhetoric that makes Obama such a dangerous candidate. Chances are he would appoint advisors who would talk some sense into him, but why take the chance?

 

Since he may very well win the election I hope someone does advise him well.

Since he may very well win the election I hope someone does advise him well.

:thumb: Me too, but it did not happen in Jimmy Carter's case - or else Carter simply ignored all of the good advice that he received. Obama's foreign policy sounds eerily like Carter's foreign policy.

If I didn't love this country so much, I would actually hope that Obama/Clinton won the Presidency, and that they took a supermajority of Congressional and Senate seats, just so my party could spend at least 4 years to learn their lesson . . .

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24522883/?GT1=43001

I made the mistake of casting a protest vote for Perot when GHWB renegged on his pledge not to raise taxes when he agreed to a Dole-brokered deal near the end of his term. It took Bill Clinton less than a week to back out of his pledge to cut taxes for middle income Americans. I have found that just when I begin believing that things could not get much worse politically - they do.

I don't post on here much, but I sure am looking forward to the day that I feel less safe in my own country and I'm paying a higher tax to feel that way.

 

Glad to hear it.

Obama has been quoted numerous times, including recently in an interview with Wolf Blitzer, that if he becomes president he would pull out all troops within two years. Included in his comments was a statement that if the Iraqis could not stand up in 7 years then they would never stand up which strongly implies that Obama would pull troops out regardless of the situation on the ground in Iraq.

 

 

According to Obama's website:

 

Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months. Obama will make it clear that we will not build any permanent bases in Iraq. He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda.

 

Announcing and then carrying out a planned troop withdrawal will put pressure on Iraqi politicians, who (based on their monthlong vacation last August) evidently require motivation. And if we keep the appropriate air and ground forces (special forces, in all likelihood) within striking distance, the threat of al Qaeda re-grouping into a viable threat to the United States is very manageable. It worked in Afghanistan, where the al Qaeda threat was and always will be more serious.

:thumb: Me too, but it did not happen in Jimmy Carter's case - or else Carter simply ignored all of the good advice that he received. Obama's foreign policy sounds eerily like Carter's foreign policy.

 

I expect that Obama would have a much more thoughtful (and effective) foreign policy than Bush ever did.

 

The only three foreign policy options that pop up inside George W. Bush's mind are:

 

a) invade

b) stop talking to them

c) give them money

 

:lol:

Since he may very well win the election I hope someone does advise him well.

 

Lets hope that when GW leaves office, that we can manage to keep his high intel advisors in some capacity.After all they were correct on WMD and mission accomplished. As some mentioned about former Pres. Carter, truth be told GW was worst.

Lets hope that when GW leaves office, that we can manage to keep his high intel advisors in some capacity.After all they were correct on WMD and mission accomplished. As some mentioned about former Pres. Carter, truth be told GW was worst.

 

Nope, Carter has a wing all to himself in the hall of shame.

I expect that Obama would have a much more thoughtful (and effective) foreign policy than Bush ever did.

 

The only three foreign policy options that pop up inside George W. Bush's mind are:

 

a) invade

b) stop talking to them

c) give them money

 

:lol:

Yes, I am sure that sitting down with terrorists committed to the destruction of Israel and the Great Satin with no preconditions will be very effective. It has certainly worked well for Jimmy Carter.

 

I wonder if Obama will retreat from Iraq before or after his little sit downs with Iran and North Korea. In other words, will he negotiate from a weak position or from an extremely weak position?

Yes, I am sure that sitting down with terrorists committed to the destruction of Israel and the Great Satin with no preconditions will be very effective. It has certainly worked well for Jimmy Carter.

 

I wonder if Obama will retreat from Iraq before or after his little sit downs with Iran and North Korea. In other words, will he negotiate from a weak position or from an extremely weak position?

 

The Great Satin? What is that? Is that somewhere between The Great Flat and The Great Gloss? :lol:

 

I'm continually amazed by the nerve of the Bush supporters to criticize (with a straight face) the methods his successor(s) must employ to clean up the poop he leaves behind.

The Great Satin? What is that? Is that somewhere between The Great Flat and The Great Gloss? :lol:

 

I'm continually amazed by the nerve of the Bush supporters to criticize (with a straight face) the methods his successor(s) must employ to clean up the poop he leaves behind.

And I am amazed that Democrats are about to nominate a man with one-third of a US Senate term behind him as their candidate.

And I am amazed that Democrats are about to nominate a man with one-third of a US Senate term behind him as their candidate.

 

And yet, it is hard to imagine that he could be worse than the current President. President Bush has been the worst president of my lifetime. President Obama has the judgement and temperament to lead this country and begin to undo the damage of the past few years. You may wish to brush up on your math skills. Senator Obama took office in January 2005. Any way you calculate it, that is a lot more than one third of a senate term.

And yet, it is hard to imagine that he could be worse than the current President. President Bush has been the worst president of my lifetime. President Obama has the judgement and temperament to lead this country and begin to undo the damage of the past few years. You may wish to brush up on your math skills. Senator Obama took office in January 2005. Any way you calculate it, that is a lot more than one third of a senate term.

Obama was in the Senate barely long enough to learn where the restrooms were before he hit the road to campaign for president. I really don't think candidates who are supposedly serving in a public office while running for another office full time deserve double credit for experience.

 

Giving Obama credit for two years experience in the Senate is being charitable in my opinion. Of course, like Kerry, Obama has been a pretty ineffective US Senator, so I am not sure that it really matters whether he has served 10 years or 2 years.

Obama was in the Senate barely long enough to learn where the restrooms were before he hit the road to campaign for president. I really don't think candidates who are supposedly serving in a public office while running for another office full time deserve double credit for experience.

 

Giving Obama credit for two years experience in the Senate is being charitable in my opinion. Of course, like Kerry, Obama has been a pretty ineffective US Senator, so I am not sure that it really matters whether he has served 10 years or 2 years.

 

And yet, numbers are stuborn things. Why not just admit that you were trying to minimize Senator Obama, whether what you said was true or not.