Obama: McCain’s “losing his bearings” by noting that Hamas wants me to win
posted at 6:39 pm on May 8, 2008 by Allahpundit
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For once, mercifully, he eschews labeling an attack a “distraction” and opts instead for the much more pleasant “name-calling.” Which this isn’t, incidentally: McCain’s point here goes right to the heart of Obama’s foreign policy. Yes, it’s true that Obama’s stance towards Hamas, incoherent though it is, isn’t much different from the GOP’s, leading one to wonder then why Ahmed Yousef should have any strong preference for him instead of McCain. The answer: Because he knows that the Messiah’s willingness to engage in “aggressive” diplomacy with one set of terrorist slackjaws means he’s more likely to adopt that policy towards other sets. That’s why no matter how much pro-Israeli rhetoric Obama offers, Palestinians continue to bitterly cling to the hope that he’s going to be a new Jimmy Carter once he’s in office and free enough from electoral pressures to let the mask slip a bit.
But enough. Go read McCain advisor Mark Salter’s acerbic response to Obama’s attack — not the first time he’s torn him a new one, and doubtless not the last. A taste:
It is important to focus on what Senator Obama is attempting to do here: He is trying desperately to delegitimize the discussion of issues that raise legitimate questions about his judgment and preparedness to be President of the United States…
The McCain campaign has never suggested that Senator Obama supports Hamas’ agenda, but it is more than fair to raise this quote about Senator Obama because it speaks to the policy implications of his judgment.
Just today, the president of Iran, whom Senator Obama wants to meet with unconditionally, called the state of Israel a ’stinking corpse.’ Iran is the paymaster and state sponsor of Hamas.
Precisely the point. Your move, champ.
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what’s unfortunate is that he’d meet with evil evil men. the guy is so full of it
spacekicker on May 8, 2008 at 6:43 PM
Seriously, this guy is the absolutely weakest candidate the democrats and media could’ve hoped for (pardon the pun).
SouthernGent on May 8, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Obama is accustomed to a constituency with average IQ of 85. He’s not accustomed to being challenged because his constituency hasn’t been intellectually capable of it.
Kralizec on May 8, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Smart to tie himself together, in a soundbite, with Hamas.
Being an average consumer of news, all I’ll remember from this wimpy ‘protest’ is:
“Obama supports terrorists“.
Rube.
profitsbeard on May 8, 2008 at 6:49 PM
Later in the fall, he will be openly cheered on by:
- Hamas
- Zawahiri
- Obams, from the grave, I mean the cave
- Marxists
- Chavez
- The Cuban brothers, dead or alive
- Cindy Sheehan
It’s a spectacle like no other, as Karl Rove eloquently wrote in the WSJ article today. And, it’s gratis.
Suma sumarum, Marxist, with no experience and no judgment, and a ‘lovely’ wife.
Entelechy on May 8, 2008 at 6:50 PM
So help me, I thought I’d escapte this malady
s/b “Osama”, from the grave, I mean the cave.
Entelechy on May 8, 2008 at 6:52 PM
McCain losing his bearings . . . my backside. Hamas does in fact want this incompetent jerk to win. Obama is a “been nowhere, done nothing” dolt and is worse than dangerous.
rplat on May 8, 2008 at 6:52 PM
I just wish that McCain was as nimble as Salter.
Buy Danish on May 8, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Yes, yes, yes. But have you seen him in a pair of jeans?
Weight of Glory on May 8, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Liberals don’t like it when the truth is spoken about them. Hamas did say an Obama presidency is something they’re looking forward to. If Obama whines that McCain points this out and what its implications are, how can Obama be ready for POTUS?
Wah!
Weebork on May 8, 2008 at 6:55 PM
So he says the US has not been a leader these past 7 years. I thought we were supposed to be the only country fighting in Iraq. Did I miss a memo again? What he apparently means is that America hasn’t been one of the guys these past years.
pedestrian on May 8, 2008 at 6:56 PM
As much as I loathe McCain’s stance on illegal immigration and global warming policies I will be voting for him in November. Heaven forbid that Obama become leader of this country for four years. I believe that he would make Jimmah Carter’s years as president look good.
dawgyear on May 8, 2008 at 6:57 PM
I didn’t realize that Bush also called for a contiguous Palestinian state. Obama may want to double check who is following Bush’s failed policies.
rw on May 8, 2008 at 6:57 PM
The McCain Campaign would like to sincerely apologize for pointing out reality.
amerpundit on May 8, 2008 at 6:59 PM
Does this guy grow peanuts or does his brother have a beer named fro him?
d1carter on May 8, 2008 at 6:59 PM
is that why he dominates among those with advanced degrees and 200K+ incomes? those people have IQs of 85?
JHC on May 8, 2008 at 6:59 PM
meh, maybe Obama was endorsed by a single terrorist, but at least he doesn’t fund them.
crr6 on May 8, 2008 at 7:05 PM
Blitzer mixes his metaphors a bit in setting up the question. The issue was Obama’s lack of support for policies that support Israel. That has nothing to do with the FACT Hamas has stated they would welcome an Obama Presidency. Since the media wasn’t pointing it out, McCain had to. In fact, isn’t Zbigniew Brzezinsky one Obama’s advisors in middle east matters.
A total set-up and rehearsed scene.
Beto Ochoa on May 8, 2008 at 7:05 PM
He dominates Democrats in primaries with advanced degrees. That doesn’t mean his average constituent is brilliant.
As for money, Paris Hilton’s rich, too.
amerpundit on May 8, 2008 at 7:06 PM
The people with advanced degrees are reality challenged. The world they live in is different than what the rest of us deal with. Obama would make a fine president of that world. But, to quote a Hillary adviser, they “can’t win with a coalition of eggheads and African Americans.”
Buford Gooch on May 8, 2008 at 7:07 PM
Yes
Beto Ochoa on May 8, 2008 at 7:07 PM
He was endorsed by Ayers and Hamas, a domestic terrorist and an international terror group. And that Congressman? Indicted.
amerpundit on May 8, 2008 at 7:08 PM
Lawd, Barackichelle HUSSEIN Obama just can’t stand that McCain is speaking Truth to Power. Makes me wonder how he’d deal with all the ‘flowers and candycanes’ the MSM and Hollywood has been throwing GWB for almost a decade! That is, if the MSM could summon up the cojones and drink from the fountain of Reality themselves, once in a while…
dmh0667 on May 8, 2008 at 7:09 PM
Obama’s attack on McCain is going to be that he is suffering from dementia?
Look for more words along these lines to see if this is premeditated.
EJDolbow on May 8, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Uh, no, no, no, no. Its because Barry O is a closet muslim. Occam’s razor. Read Daniel Pipes for the details.
Andy in Agoura Hills on May 8, 2008 at 7:17 PM
Oh, please. Even on The Daily Show, McCain explained this. Obama’s making an attack where there isn’t one. Again.
I swear, it’s going to be a mandate in November….McCain’s a shoe-in for the White House.
JetBoy on May 8, 2008 at 7:21 PM
Hamas doesn’t care if Obama believes Christ died on the cross or in bed. What they like about him is that just a few days after the worst terrorist attack in history that Obama is fine with God damning America.
pedestrian on May 8, 2008 at 7:24 PM
Doesn’t his church periodically have quotes from Hamas in its newsletters?
NTWR on May 8, 2008 at 7:25 PM
Once he gets the nomination, and they have their little coronation, and Chris Matthews cries on Olbermann’s shoulder then Sen Obama’s gotta try and move to the center as well as court whites. All of a sudden, he might find that people are ‘bitter’-not towards religion or guns or from economic difficulty, but towards him, and from the enemy’s support for him.
scottm on May 8, 2008 at 7:28 PM
Oh yes, his church reprinted the Hamas Manifesto. Maybe that’s why they like him so much.
Even Oprah realized that “church” is whacko. Something is seriously crazy in the world when Oprah has better judgement than a frontrunner for POTUS.
NTWR on May 8, 2008 at 7:30 PM
For every “lost his bearings” type insult, perhaps the McCain campaign should come back with BHO as “naive” or, “hopelessly naive.”
Or “that’s what happens when you get your foreign policy experience in elementary school.”
Wethal on May 8, 2008 at 7:32 PM
Give Hussein a break: He used to be a “Community Organizer”.
mred on May 8, 2008 at 7:34 PM
This kind of theorizing is inane. No one has done more to indirectly promote the cause of jihad and enable the other side to recruit than the great crusader himself, Bush.
Osama bin Laden is a little man who should have lived a short life after 9-11. al-Qaeda is morally and philosophically bankrupt. But never mind- as Richard Clarke predicted, invading Iraq handed bin Laden a Christmas gift that has given Middle East terrorism a new sense of life, purpose, and hope. Long live the crusaders?
bayam on May 8, 2008 at 7:34 PM
McCain’s comments he finds offensive, but Ayers comments are “mainstream”? Interesting how he doesn’t find offensive remarks offensive until they are directed at him personally. Obambi didn’t denounce Wright until Wright “disrespected” him. Pretty thin skinned for a future POTUS.
ctmom on May 8, 2008 at 7:39 PM
No, Iraq has become a “psychotic salt lick” (Dennis Miller) for those already aligned with terrorism. Those who have been indoctrinated since preschool to believe in the “death to America” worldview had their minds made up long before Iraq.
NTWR on May 8, 2008 at 7:40 PM
I can understand why Obama would meet with enemies of the United States. If one looks closely, all of B. Husseins close associates are enemies of the United States in one form or another. Ayers and Dohrn were violent unrepentant terrorist (domestic) and Wright who asked for God to damn the United States. His wife who, inspite of an education and opportunity she could have gotten no where else in the world, has never been proud of the United States. Who else is trying to help the Burmese? What a bunch of losers the Democrats are. The economy is the result of liberal practices come home to roost.
Zelsdorf Ragshaft on May 8, 2008 at 7:50 PM
I see your point. What did Bill Clinton’s essentially non-action reaction to the ‘93 WTC bombing get us, huh? It surely didn’t get us another, more deadly attack against the WTC, say, in 2001, did it?
Oh…wait a minute…
dmh0667 on May 8, 2008 at 7:52 PM
.
What I would like to know is what these ‘organized communities’ did once Barack finished with the organizing. Got any leads as to where I can find that information?
News2Use on May 8, 2008 at 7:52 PM
It’s into the real ring for Obama.
He’s going to get pummeled.
drjohn on May 8, 2008 at 7:53 PM
I don’t know, but I’m sure similar after-indoctrination, post-reeducation stories can be gleaned from “The Black Book of Communism”. I wonder when the children started denouncing their parents?
dmh0667 on May 8, 2008 at 7:58 PM
Early on the thinking was that Hillary would be better to run against that BamBam because of the right’s dislike of her. Seems we underestimated the outrage potential of Mr. Post-Partisan.
pedestrian on May 8, 2008 at 8:20 PM
That’s ‘offensive’, BO?
Here, help yourself to a big scoop of ‘kiss my arse’.
petefrt on May 8, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Au contrair, my friends.
“I think it’s very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president. If Senator Obama is favoured by Hamas, I think people can make judgments accordingly.”
- John McCain
The implication is clear and inescapable.
Not even as subtle as Hillary when she was asked if she thought that Obama was a Muclim, “No. No. Why would I? No, there is nothing to base that on, as far as I know.”
Maybe Hillary really should be McCain’s VP running mate. She could whisper in his ear to be more subtle, just as Joe, who would be his Secretary of State designate could whisper in his ear about Muslim sects. And then of course Juan Hernandez, the other Juan, could continue to whisper in his ear about “immigration” policy.
MB4 on May 8, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Fixed it for ya.
Clinton blinked long before Bush was at the helm, giving Bin Laden the impression he could get away with pushing us around.
dmh0667 nailed it, I’m just piling on.
fogw on May 8, 2008 at 8:28 PM
This has nothing to do with whether Obama is Muslim or not, unless you believe that all Muslims support Hamas. Its just that if you see a sworn enemy take a marked preference for one candidate, in this case the one who’s church publishes Hamas tracts in their bulletin, then that’s something the voters should think about.
pedestrian on May 8, 2008 at 8:33 PM
At least McCain didn’t say that. He would be toast.
MB4 on May 8, 2008 at 8:33 PM
Oh I like that Salter…
Dang if Obama has to put up with this kind of criticism, for months on end how can he not admit he does not have McCains track record on issues that he says qualify him for President?
Theworldisnotenough on May 8, 2008 at 8:37 PM
I am so sick of Obama and I have reached my saturation point with this imbecile. Please make him go away.
carbon_footprint on May 8, 2008 at 8:43 PM
McCain should start thinking about what he is saying before he says it or his loose mouth will be the death of him.
Loose mouths sink campaign ships
MB4 on May 8, 2008 at 8:47 PM
I do believe that you have succeeded in missing my points, all of them.
MB4 on May 8, 2008 at 8:49 PM
Obama isn’t a terrorist-lover, but all terrorists are Obama-lovers.
Connie on May 8, 2008 at 9:27 PM
Barry finishes his little speech to Wolfie by saying:
GFY, Barry. You’re the one with the identity crisis, and everywhere you go there are people like Rezko, crazy Marxist uncles, and unrepentant terrorist friends that you call “mainstream”.
Buy Danish on May 8, 2008 at 9:33 PM
I’m offended that you question his judgment.
ronsfi on May 8, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Does this idiot have any idea what he is talking about or does he simply babble form a prepared script?
rplat on May 8, 2008 at 9:41 PM
This really takes away from my concern about Michelle’s kids, this is terrible.
We can’t talk about this while Michelle’s kids are, like, kids, and stuff.
We have more important things to talk about, like Michelle’s kids, and her law school loans.
I just wish we could get back to talking about those subjects, important subjects.
I thought Hillary’s voice was annoying, Barry’s loudmouth wife is worse…
benrand on May 8, 2008 at 9:57 PM
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JellyToast on May 8, 2008 at 9:58 PM
Barack Obama will have aggressive diplomacy with America’s enemies, but meeting with anyone from Fox News is simply out of the question! You just can’t talk to people hell bent on throwing you difficult questions!
BKennedy on May 8, 2008 at 10:06 PM
From The Corner- According to Mark Hemingway’s article in this week’s National Review, The Obama Team was proud of the endorsement:
Quisp on May 8, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Someone who takes 20+ years to figure out his pastor is a bigot should not be commenting on another’s lost bearings.
jdkchem on May 8, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Hussein has more in common with Chavez, Hamas, Hezbollah, Mugabe (the list goes on, but exclude non-Marxists) than with anyone else. Look at his companions. Look at where he launched his political career (and that is part of the problem, this is a “career” to him).
The little man’s record, overt and “present”, is quite clear.
Of course Marxist dictators (real or in-waiting) would endorse and applaud his elevation. They have no downside at all, no matter what they do. Imagine Burma now by an order of magnitude, by intent, not nature. Barry won’t react. It is part of the Marxist pathology. People don’t matter, only the state and its controllers…Obama being No. 1.
You think GWB trampled civil rights? You ain’t seen nothing yet if either Hill or Barry O win. I think Barry is more dangerous, but marginally so.
Buy ammo.
Harry Schell on May 8, 2008 at 10:19 PM
“Losing his bearings” is a clear reference to McCains age. I think this is a theme that we can expect, that whenever BamBam’s positions are being questioned, he will respond with an derogatory reference to McCain’s age.
pedestrian on May 8, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Mr JHC, do you realize that Weatherman Ayers is a college professor? Who gives a rip about degrees when they are this obtuse?
leftnomore on May 8, 2008 at 10:38 PM
JD– get a hold of McCain and offer your speech-writing services– NOW.
leftnomore on May 8, 2008 at 10:39 PM
I love that screen caption! It’s as if he’s looking upon all of us from on high.
SouthernGent on May 8, 2008 at 11:15 PM
So these people have advanced degrees. Were you under the impression that colleges and universities educate people or give them the ability to read or listen critically? Look at the video again. He talks on and on and says almost nothing. And you and his worshipers with advanced degrees can’t figure that out. Sad to say, those institutions take students’ money but noone there has any education to give them.
snaggletoothie on May 8, 2008 at 11:26 PM
I really hope so, but remember the last “Most Liberal Senator” who ran for President?
He got more votes than any Presidential candidate in history. Except one.
misterpeasea on May 8, 2008 at 11:47 PM
Amazingly dishonest tripe from the new Prince of Tripe. I didn’t hear any name-calling, and to declare that his policy toward Hamas is “essentially the same as” McCain’s is a bald-faced lie. As Allah clearly points out, Iran is a primary state supporter and financier for these terrorist scum – and Obambi still insists that he wants to sit down with Iran. So how is that “not negotiating with terrorists”?
Because DinnerJacket won’t be wearing a Hamas t-shirt?
Jaibones on May 9, 2008 at 12:39 AM
Obama… it’s what’s for dinner!
Mojave Mark on May 9, 2008 at 12:42 AM
Obama claims he will not sit down and talk to Hamas but will talk to Iran.
“We should not negotiate with Hamas until they recognize Israel and renounce violence”–Obama
But when has Iran ever done that?
Dollayo on May 9, 2008 at 1:06 AM
This would be so much easier to argue if the current administration weren’t helping finance bloodthirsty Jew-loathing terrorists, I mean Fatah, I mean the “Palestinians”.
Both Republicans and Democrats have accepted the ludicrous premise that “peace” depends on the accomodation of “Palestinian” “greivances”. Oh please. Peace will only come when the arab compulsion to slaughter Jews is extinguished, one way or the other. We can mock Obama all we want, but who in the GOP is currently calling for victory over the “Palestinaians” (whose very existence as a “people”, ahem, is based upon the liquidation of Israel)?
Halley on May 9, 2008 at 1:21 AM
Obama campaign in a nutshell:
How dare you? Begone, gnat-like peasants. All criticism of St. Barack is a mean, swiftboaty smear. Oh and McCain is old.
Expect more of this. Hey, I don’t blame him, it’s all he’s got.
Gilda on May 9, 2008 at 2:47 AM
What!? McCain said I wasn’t the Messiah?
Apostate!
Burn him!
misterpeasea on May 9, 2008 at 2:51 AM
Can we get Mark Salter to run for President? The man clearly has his head screwed on straight and he does not mince his words.
I look forward to seeing him toss “Hope” “Change” and all the other Obama rhetoric straight into the meat grinder when the general election kicks off. “Hope” and “Change” is the worst kind of vapid content-free BS – the US really does not need an empty suit as its President right now.
Ares on May 9, 2008 at 5:33 AM
It’s simple…you’re known both by the company you keep (Ayers, Wright, Rezko) and the company who keeps you (Hamas).
Undeniable.
James on May 9, 2008 at 7:42 AM
Obama declines to criticize Carter on Hamas
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080411/pl_nm/palestinians_hamas_carter_obama_dc_4
Obama criticizes ex-President Carter’s Hamas meeting
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1636948020080416?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true
It’s so confusing….
drjohn on May 9, 2008 at 8:13 AM
heh.
funky chicken on May 9, 2008 at 8:17 AM
Good idea to quote a terrorism expert like Dennis Miller. Then again, this general belief is fundamental to right-wing policies: they all hate us and there’s no real moral war to win or reason to consider the consequences of US actions abroad. Iraq had as many terrorists before as after the invasion.
Even McCain has pressed the realistic point of view, backed up by Middle East experts, that the world is more complex- it’s not true that all ‘them Muslims’ hate us. And McCain has also emphasized the importance of winning hearts and minds (no agreement with Dr. Miller.) The question is still relevant: are we killing more terrorists or creating more terrorists. The war against terrorism won’t be won through conventional warfare.
As for the never ending whining about how Clinton’s policies runined the nation, that’s getting old. Every President over the last 18 years had a chance to take out bin Laden, including GW who had his priorities wrong until the day of the attack. More importantly, Clinton was at least smart enough to continue the policy of containment established by Bush Sr.
And as James Baker III has said, strangers no longer approach him (same for Scowcroft, Powell, and Schwarzkopf) to ask why the first gulf war didn’t end in the occupation of Baghdad. Their wisdom has been realized by the vast majority of Americans.
bayam on May 9, 2008 at 9:03 AM
I fail to see how ‘those already aligned with terrorism’ equals ‘all them Muslims hate us.’
Are you ‘nuanced’ enough to make a distinction between bad individuals who happen to subscribe to a particular religion, or do you have to stereotype the entire religion? Oh well, don’t let literal meanings get in the way of a good meme.
James on May 9, 2008 at 9:13 AM
Fixed
brtex on May 9, 2008 at 9:18 AM
Sorry guys, Obama’s going to win.
This is the year that conservatives find out that for all the talk of blogs being “new media,” the decline in the NYT’s circulation, and the success of Fox News and talk radio, the left-dominated MSM still controls the coverage, even as the left-dominated school system indoctrinates kids from K-PhD.
Things are actually worse for righties than ever before, because the MSM, while weaker in revenue terms, is far more pervasive in terms of reaching people with news and spin, and much less concerned with the pretense of objectivity — especially regarding the Obamessiah.
It doesn’t matter how well things go in Iraq, what global temperatures do, or what the actual numbers are on the economy. There is only the narrative and how it can be rationalized today.
TallDave on May 9, 2008 at 12:08 PM
The President of Iran sounds like the Rev Wright talking about America
Or Farrakhan. Or Ayers. Or Michelle before her husband picked up delegates
No wonder Obama wants to meet him.
entagor on May 9, 2008 at 1:40 PM
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