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| 2007-07-26 | |
Perhaps Barack Obama thinks he's cool... or maybe a vote-getter.... by opening his mouth about talking without pre-condition to Castro, Ahmadinejad, etc. And maybe he is - the latter anyway. He obviously knows how to collect donations. But his naivety is extraordinary. At least I hope it's naivety and not something worse. Because the thought of the first African-American President sitting down to polite public conversation with this century's most prominent Holocaust-denier raises a large number of hackles on the neck of this onetime civil rights worker - a very large number. [Calm down, fella, you're getting angry.-ed. No kidding.] But beyond the creepy racial overtones, one wonders if Obama knows anything about what is really going on. Does he know the state of negotiations with any of these nations? Did he know the state of play with Libya when Qaddafi recently walked back on nuclear weapons? I rather doubt it, because as most grownups realize, negotiations with crazy fascist dictators are usually best conducted in private. Public negotiations are at best a grandstand play. And that is what Obama is doing - playing to the grandstand. I'm scared of someone who thinks that way in the presidency in a way that Hillary could never scare me. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #12 A leftist boob gets lots of props cause that's what the media wants. There were too many of those leftist boobs at the Code Pink thingy in SF yesterday. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-07-26 15:51 |
| #11 These clowns are free to uninformedly run off at the mouth until he/she/it becomes the Donk frontrunner The chosen one will then receive formal briefings about what is really going on, and then they can continue to run their mouths off mindlessly once more, albeit, while knowing better. |
| Posted by: OyVey1 2007-07-26 14:22 |
| #10 Once Hillary decides to really crank up the Personal Destruction machine, this guy will be toast... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-07-26 11:43 |
| #9 My gut tells me Obama is aiming for the VP slot. I think a Hillary/Obama ticket is the Dems best shot and I can't see Hillary being VP to Obama. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-07-26 11:40 |
| #8 Obama Hussein. I'm not so sure that he is naive. |
| Posted by: AT 2007-07-26 11:11 |
| #7 GP Obama is a nobody, a minor media creation that will fade as quickly as cheap towel in the desert sun. This is still very much the silly season of politics. A leftist boob gets lots of props cause that's what the media wants. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2007-07-26 10:38 |
| #6 But the troubling part is not Obama but his appeal to the masses so far. It only proves the trouble we are really in when you have so many people willing to vote for him and give him money. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-07-26 09:48 |
| #5 But his stupidity is extraordinary That quality seems to be a common requirement in this years assortment of |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-07-26 03:31 |
| #4 I would not underestimate Obama. He is a canny politician, and for someone who is relatively inexperienced on the national level he has campaigned formidably. He could be difficult to contend with during the next election cycle. My problem with him is that he is an unabashed, reflexive liberal. Since he is a minority with an easy charm and a polished speaking style the liberal MSM has treated him as a "white knight" for the Democrats so far, but the substance of his beliefs will have to withstand greater scrutiny in his future runs. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-07-26 03:11 |
| #3 But his stupidity is extraordinary For some people, it is a lifestyle. For others, a cherished art form. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-07-26 02:23 |
| #2 But his |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-07-26 01:55 |
| #1 I totally agree. Obama seems to me as a radical civil rights activist. The dems will never vote him in as their candidate anyway. The big money folks who decide who runs or not want someone who looks after their business interests. The good thing with Hillary is she already has 8 years experience. but before the election next year I imagine something will happen good or bad for the USA which will be the deciding factor, either way if its bad people will want the Republicans to stay because they have shown in the face of some nasty shit that they hold firm, if its good the republicans will stay because it must have been their doing. George Bush maybe an idiot he may have started a war with Iraq under bad intelligence, but he stayed the course, Iraq only becomes Vietnam when we admit all is lost. |
| Posted by: Alex 2007-07-26 01:02 |