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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Politics.
What? Barry has been considering a trip to Iraq since late last year? Really? I don’t think so. It seems that John McCain has managed to guilt Barack Obama into visiting a post surge Iraq. You would think that Barry would have wanted to have seen first hand what it was that he was commenting on. I guess he was hopeful that he had a clue and that things hadn’t changed since his last visit (which I think was back in early 2006… but I could be wrong). Barry decided that going with McCain would have been a “stunt”… uh huh.
“I think that if I’m going to Iraq, then I’m there to talk to troops and talk to commanders,” he said in the interview. “I’m not there to try to score political points or perform. The work they’re doing there is too important.”
The work they’re doing there is so important? So important that he uses words like “complete failure” to describe it? He further added back in August of 2007…
“What I had been clear about, I think, even before the surge started was that if we put an additional 20,000 or 30,000 American troops in Baghdad that it’s going to have an impact,” Mr. Obama said. “They are doing an outstanding job in carrying out their military operations. The question has always been, What then?”
Yes Barry, what then? According to Obama, what then is “withdraw” or as McCain has said, “surrender”. I guess I should just be happy that this guy is going to go and get schooled on matters which he has incessantly critiqued without bothering to witness for himself. One would have thought he would have gotten himself up to speed with a visit to the region before he went shooting from the hip. He has made all kinds of absolute statements about Iraq without personal knowledge. I guess I’m with McCain in thinking, “it’s long overdue.”
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Politics.
Nancy Pelosi says that if the Democratic nomination fight is not settled before the convention, and the delegates for Florida and Michigan have not been seated by late June, she will step in. Excuse me? This is what I love about the Democrats and why it is that eventhough I have loathed the abuses of the Bush Administration, siding with these maniacs became too much of a chore to continue. These are the people that want processes to run ad nauseum when it comes to what it is that they want… and then on the other hand, if it’s not convenient to the cause they want things to “go away”. The Democratic mantra when it comes to Hillary Clinton has become nothing more than those two, succinct, words. Nevermind that the electorate doesn’t seem to have made up its mind. Nevermind that Barack Obama cannot seem to win this on his own. Rather than asking Hillary to go away, why not tell Barry to “WIN THIS”? Instead of wondering why Hillary isn’t quitting, I think Madame Speaker should consider why it is that eventhough Obama’s opponent has been declared DOA by the media she continues to WIN.
San Francisco — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will step in if necessary to make sure the presidential nomination fight between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama does not reach the Democratic National Convention - though she believes it could be resolved as early as next week.
Pelosi predicted Wednesday that a presidential nominee will emerge in the week after the final Democratic primaries on June 3, but she said “I will step in” if there is no resolution by late June regarding the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan, the two states that defied party rules by holding early primaries.
“Because we cannot take this fight to the convention,” she said. “It must be over before then.”
I’m sorry, does Nancy Pelosi have some ability to “select” the nominee? Isn’t she a member of the party that runs around suggesting that the Supreme Court selected the president in 2000? Now she’s going to “step in” and do what? Demand that the DNC ignore procedure (should the process drag on) and deal with the situation? Very interesting. You know it’s remarkable how holier than thou the Democrats were after 2000. The Republicans stopped the process! They denied people their voice. Now that the Dems have an opportunity to show how it should have been done, we see that they are more backwards than the Republicans ever were. Super Delegates? What are they but a means to consolidate power and to overrule the will of the people? This would be galling if it wasn’t so darn funny!