New Hillary ad: Obama’s totally not serious about abandoning Iraq
posted at 10:07 pm on March 19, 2008 by Allahpundit
Such is the state of the Democratic Party that even the guy known for having been against the war before being against the war was cool is somehow too hawkish to be trusted. The irony here is that the accusation she’s tossing at him — that he’ll back off his withdrawal plans once he’s in office — is precisely what conservatives expect from the great navigator herself. You’re the one with no ambitions grander than your own survival, Hillary. That’s why we trust you. Sort of.
Which isn’t to say that Captain Hope isn’t above a little convenient Change in this vein when it suits his purposes. Ahem.
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McCain’s ads in november write themselves, don’t they?
lorien1973 on March 19, 2008 at 10:10 PM
david Gergan is on Cooper claiming Obama saved himself and actually “helped himself” with this Wright stuff, and can’t see this lasting until the election. how delusional.
jp on March 19, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Yep! I swear, that woman is her own worse enemy. The democrats truly have a race to the bottom here. Who can screw up the biggest and most often. I’m starting to wonder if McCain could win in November just by insisting that he appear as an empty check box on the ballots with the word ‘Other’ beside it.
AUINSC on March 19, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Typical Democrats hitting below the belt, as always.
WayWard Fundamentalist Christian on March 19, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Best Democrat primary evuhhhhh…
its vintage duh on March 19, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Gergan is a man whose time has long since passed…
d1carter on March 19, 2008 at 10:22 PM
thats because he has his head up his own a$$.
Mojack420 on March 19, 2008 at 10:22 PM
That BBC interview with Power is a goldmine.. you guys have to watch the whole thing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/7281805.stm
that little clip above is just a tease
VinceP1974 on March 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM
I’m starting to warm to McCain.
Tzetzes on March 19, 2008 at 10:34 PM
David Gergen is always praising the Democrats and blasting the Republicans. It’s the moderate Republicans M.O.
That’s his job description and the only reason he gets on these shows.
SteveMG on March 19, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Thanks for that. Hard Talk is a great show. I wish-wish-wish American political shows could be as vigorous and challenging as the British ones are (and American congressional debate more like that of the UK’s parliament, but sadly there’s no way in hell that any president of either party would, or probably could, submit to anything like the PMQs).
Tzetzes on March 19, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Gergen is a pickle.
carbon_footprint on March 19, 2008 at 10:38 PM
I had no idea he had become such a loon until I saw him on CNN talking about trying to actually understand black students of his that cry on July 4th because of all the pain this country has called them.
SouthernGent on March 19, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Careful buddy. That warming will cost you one McCain carbon tax credit, unless used to warm your tortillas.
JiangxiDad on March 19, 2008 at 10:41 PM
And Juan, the future el Presidente de America del Norte will start to warm to you too Gringo, if you aprender espanol.
Lo que esta usted tan largos?
VinyFoxy on March 19, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Gergen is six years younger than McCain…
alphie on March 19, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Just wait until sobriety sets in
drjohn on March 19, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Gergan is a lying pimp, just like his fellow chameleon, Captain Hope.
He goes on the conservative shows and acts conservative, then goes on the liberal shows and becomes a big lib.
I also truly understand the “black anger” from the left – its a simple attempt to escape from adult personal responsibility. We should all have such a convenient excuse for being worthless screwups!
Maybe Dr. Laura should run for President…
TexasJew on March 19, 2008 at 10:46 PM
SouthernGent on March 19, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Yes, it is hard to keep dinner down when an old white man with a “weathervane” hairdo, tries to emote for the CNN audience.
d1carter on March 19, 2008 at 10:47 PM
For she have sown the wind, and she shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
MB4 on March 19, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Another thought – maybe Gergan’s crying students should get sent to the Army and finally do something useful with their lives, since they sound like they’re as sharp as a box of rocks anyway.
Or better yet – send them out here to the wonderful oil fields that I work in. It sounds like those dumb bastards certainly need some toughening up!
TexasJew on March 19, 2008 at 10:52 PM
If Dr. Laura ran she would do just about as well as Duncan Hunter, which was not so good.
Terrye on March 19, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Be fair, McCain did “shift” his position in the direction of the will of the people. He said he got the message that we want the borders sealed. That’s more than Clinton or Obama will do, those two plan to leave borders open and grant amnesty as well.
With some nudging McCain will possibly also listen to the people when it comes to amnesty. What alternative do we have, is there a “enforce immigration laws, seal the borders, keep kicking terrorist @ss, fix the economy, and dump NAFTA” candidate I don’t know about?
I’m sending Senator McCain another e-mail to let him know that sealing the borders is a good start but it’s not nearly enough. I’m not worried about Mexican menial labor forces, we have a ready menial work force already, they are on welfare at this moment. We have jobs in America for them.
Hog Wild on March 19, 2008 at 11:13 PM
You silly Gringo, you obviously do not know Juan as well as I do, and he seems to be following my advise that you can indeed fool a whole lot of members of the stupid party most of the time.
You would do well to take my friendly advise about aprender espanol.
VinyFoxy on March 19, 2008 at 11:21 PM
I have never been as entertained watching the Dhimmis go at each other. It truly is shadenfreudelicious.
Mojave Mark on March 19, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Dude, I was feeding my son, I didn’t have a chance…….
Seven Percent Solution on March 19, 2008 at 11:28 PM
Wait I thought when the Dems took over the house/senate in 2006 Pelosi would bring the troops home.
Did I miss something?
F15Mech on March 19, 2008 at 11:38 PM
No offense but you actually believe that?
Just look who McCain has as his “Hispanic outreach director”
F15Mech on March 19, 2008 at 11:44 PM
This is “Obama is a racist” material. Clearly, they both can’t be trusted to withdraw the troops in 16 months. It’s simply impossible to do it so quickly in an orderly fashion even if it were a good idea.
She’s pulling Bush on Obama: you guys disapprove of Harriet Myers because you hate women. But don’t be offended. Just politics, nothing personal. The end result will be the same. The charge is so outlandish: in her case it’s “Obama is more hawkish than me” that nobody will believe it.
freevillage on March 19, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Nice cherry pick. Without repeating what you left out, then who pray tell do I vote for?
Obama? Surrender to terrorism, will attack Pakistan, will go back into Iraq if needed, will fix NAFTA as long as Canada is cool, and as racially divided as the rest of America and still only willing to give lip service to the racial divide.
Clinton: Same as Obama except know’s she is white and can only go so far before she realizes that white people need help too.
McCain: I screwed up on immigration and will seal the southern border. I will take it to the terrorist until they understand they will pay a heavy price for pulling our chain. Government overspending is foolish and it needs to stop. I am willing to listen to the majority and concede I don’t know it all AND understand I am a servant of my constituent’s, they elected me and I listen to them. I’m not interested in polls, I’ll do what I think it best (even though I won’t alway’s agree with him, I can accept that because I am not in his shoe’s).
Tell me what I don’t know. That as a U.S. Senator he sought compromise, that he tried to get things done, that sometimes he made a bad call as far as the Republican Party is concerned.
This country was built on compromise. A general inkling of what was best, and it has worked so far. We wouldn’t get anything done if there was no compromise. No compromise is the political tactics of Senator Ried and House Speaker Pelosi.
You want that ilk running the country? No thanks.
Hog Wild on March 19, 2008 at 11:54 PM
You generally compromise when you are facing a stalemate, not when you sponsor a bill.
I have the utmost respect for McCain when he served in the military, but sometime I wonder, if McCain as a Senator, had the fight beaten out of him when he was a POW.
F15Mech on March 20, 2008 at 12:17 AM
Is there ANY Republican that can run against Obama in Illinois? My god, y’all should be screaming for him to resign at least at the state level…? Illinoisians (Is that even a word?)…What say ye?
SouthernGent on March 20, 2008 at 12:27 AM
David Gergen is disgusting. He is the epitome of the inside-the-beltway ass-kisser who does nothing but parrot the most tedious conventional wisdom.
The_Freeze on March 20, 2008 at 12:28 AM
Morons, both Hillary and Obama.
The economy is the main issue, while Iraq is looking less and less central to this election, therefore these two doofuses start a meaningless bidding war on who will run away faster from something people are now beginning to think might just work out okay, after all, if we simply persist.
Morons.
profitsbeard on March 20, 2008 at 1:11 AM
Gotta love the media and their agents. Tonight on CBS world news Couric led with the war protests today. She headlined that 66% of Americans want us out of Iraq then added this (and I paraphrase)…
….’and both Demoractic candidates (flash photo of Hillary and Obama) say they will begin bringing troops home shortly after taking office’…
What bias? They are just reporting the news.
Power is just another media hack. She made her play in the Dem civil war and she got the axe. Instead of laying it all on Barryphobes she needs to be laying it on her patron(a).
Limerick on March 20, 2008 at 2:09 AM
People. As conservatives, we could learn a thing or two. Can’t we be clear, unambiguous and uncertain about things like Globama is?
Kevin M on March 20, 2008 at 2:11 AM
Here’s the problem: if Obama’s judgment is so great, and so important, why should Obama suspend his judgment between now and the election?
Because that’s what the left wants. They want him to freeze his judgment to what he’s already decided: an immediate and complete pull-out, to take place with 1-2 divisions per month until none remain.
But if his judgment is so important, shouldn’t he keep thinking between now and the election? Shouldn’t he use the increased resources of the presidency to draw on information that he doesn’t currently have, and bring his vaunted judgment to the table, in order to make the best decision possible?
The left says: NO!
What is Obama going to say? What can he say, that won’t come back to bite him, at the convention or during the general election? Hillary is setting him up to fail.
daryl_herbert on March 20, 2008 at 2:26 AM
Gee, they would have, but they were too busy keeping their other promise to be “the most ethical Congress” ever!
AZCoyote on March 20, 2008 at 3:09 AM
I dont see anything wrong with the commercial. Didn’t we just have a NAFTA double-talk from Obama?
He is saying one thing, knowing it is false and that he cant get it done, which his whole campaign is built on.
Now he is going to end racism.
WoosterOh on March 20, 2008 at 3:12 AM
But those are just snippets cherry-picked from hudreds of speeches!
hee haw!
Lockstein13 on March 20, 2008 at 4:45 AM
An excellent article today, “Our Imperfect Union”, by Lance Fairchok, on American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/our_imperfect_union.html
Lockstein13 on March 20, 2008 at 7:04 AM
McCain’s ads won’t write themselves because the GOP is so stupid they won’t use anything good against Obama or Shillary!
flytier on March 20, 2008 at 8:46 AM
I will be taking a jug of Hog Wild with me on my pig hunt this afternoon. The stuff is almost $20 a jug, but the pigs love it. Just mix it in a bucket of deer corn and let the shooting begin !!
By the way, I too am warming up to McCain, but I still can’t get my hand to pull a lever for him. His amnesty performance has tainted him for life as far as I am concerned. Rewarding bad behavior is never a good plan whether it is Illegals or McCain.
saiga on March 20, 2008 at 10:27 AM
heh… I did rant on a bit didn’t I… that inner peace thing still needs some work.
Hog Wild on March 20, 2008 at 5:44 PM