Obama serves notice: He won't let the Republicans swift-boat him

I've scoured his Web site, and these two quotes are all I could find about Afghanistan:

Sorry, but two brigades (about 7,000) soldiers and a billion bucks ain't gonna get it.

 

Agreed. Let's see him and the Dems do this forcefully and (most importantly) consistently for the next six months, especially when McCain and Bush (and Hillary too, at least until she's officially eliminated) are coming after him hard.

After seeing Gore and Kerry act like they were too good to (or just plain wuss out from?) playing dirty, I'll have to see Obama do it a lot more than once before I'll believe it.

 

Which completely sidesteps my original question, but as we know, you don't want a debate: you want everyone to tell you that you're right.

In the meantime:

John McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said Obama acted “hysterical” in his Friday press conference.

“It was remarkable to see Barack Obama’s hysterical diatribe in response to a speech in which his name wasn’t even mentioned,” Bounds said. “These are serious issues that deserve a serious debate, not the same tired partisan rants we heard today from Senator Obama. Senator Obama has pledged to unconditionally meet with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- who pledges to wipe Israel off the map, denies the Holocaust, sponsors terrorists, arms America’s enemies in Iraq and pursues nuclear weapons. What would Senator Obama talk about with such a man? It would be a wonderful thing if we lived in a world where we don’t have enemies. But that is not the world we live in, and until Senator Obama understands that, the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgment and determination to keep us safe.”

No argument here. What, indeed, would Sen. Obama have a chat with that maniac about?

 

He'd rather imply something about a candidate than actually be the man his office requires him to be.

 

Hey! Just like you sidestepped mine! Now we all have something in common!

 

It's a lot more than that. Kennedy-Nixon was at a pretty prosperous time for this country. These times are anything but.

This election will say a lot about where we are as a country. Is America ready to elect a minority as president? Have the Dems finally found a candidate who will have appeal outside of the Northeast and west coast? Are they willing to play the game the way you need to play it in this day and age? And are the American people ready to move past the fear and anger that Karl Rove Bush & Cheney have so skillfully exploited since 9/11 and realize that they've been snookered for the last seven-plus years?

 

Let's review: Bush invades Iraq, which was Iran's fiercest rival, empowering Iran. Iran is now closer than ever to a nuclear bomb.

The Bush/Republican policy toward Iran has failed.

 

So if Obama doesn't win, what does that mean? Maybe it just means he's not a very good candidate, or that a majority of voters don't agree with his views on where he wants to take the country.

Sounds like you're setting it up so if he loses, it just proves Americans are a bunch of easily manipulated bigots.

I really wish some Dems would get off their high horses and realize their side plays politics and even hits below the belt on occasion.

 

Nor did they want to.

 

I've posted this before, but with every dick-swinging exhibition from the drugstore cowboys in the Republican party, it bears repeating:

You would think that turning Iraq into a hornet's nest for terrorists, Osama bin Laden escaping at Tora Bora and remaining free, the billions of dollars missing from Iraq reconstruction, the hundreds of thousands of weapons for the security forces that are now missing and in the hands of God knows who, Iran's alleged activities inside Iraq because we saw no need to secure the border, the Taliban resuming its grip on Afghanistan, our own goverment concluding that Al Qaeda is as strong now as it was on 9/10/01 and terrorist attacks worldwide reaching an all-time high would give the GOP humility, or at least pause.

You'd be wrong.

And that's why their asses are getting booted out of office at at alarming rate.

(Alarming for the NRCC, anyway. A blessing for the country.)

But yes, McCain-aide-with-the-pornstar-name, you and the rest of the righties keep lecturing everyone on national security. If nothing else, it's entertaining.

 

Yes, Obama is fortunate -- that's he's following the act he's following.

Any politician would be thrilled to be up against a party in power screaming "Out, damned spot", while trying to obliterate the memory of seven-plus years of a
Village Idiot.

Why do you think Hil was laying in wait for years, for '08?

I don't like a lotta things about her, but she ain't stupid.

Unlike . . .

 

FEAR

FEAR

THEY'RE GOING TO KILL US ALL

WHY AREN'T YOU QUIVERING?