Iraq Obama’s Tar baby.

Chakra Hammer on July 9, 2008 at 4:55 PM

Raaaaaaaaaacist!!!

Did Obama walk into a trap on Iraq?

Iraq Obama’s Tar baby.

The Republicans need to start slamming Democrats on the war and on oil exploration/drilling. Start now and hit hard and maybe they can cut their losses in the fall. Fail to sharpen their message to something approaching a point and they are toast.

Obama’s new campaign message “Obama. Because 143 days in the Senate is enough experience to lead”

Well..Media of Codepink said last night on the Factor that Obama had best change his position because they are mad at him for going to the center.

Maybe Code Pink needs to protest at all Obama’s rallies?

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I’m sure he would love to have public demonstrations by Code Pink. Then he could be a victim. And some normal people might conclude that he has more centrist policies. Since McCain won’t give him anything but respect, I expect many of his campaign’s tactics cannot be deployed.

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This direct quote in Barack Hussein Obama`s own words, from his book Audacity of Hope is why this man should be eliminated from the US Government, not elected to run it.
” I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction”

I guess this is the “change” he is talking about!

HAGGS99 on July 9, 2008 at 12:11 PM

He’ll be standing against the same wall with them.

Its like Seinfeld. “I wanted to set a timetable for withdrawal in 2006, yadda yadda yadda, Maliki agrees with me.” Republicans will proclaim, “You yadda-ed the best part,” and he will respond, “I mentioned the withdrawal.”

And his cult of personality will eat it up saying, “Lo, Obama has moved the mountain.”

BohicaTwentyTwo on July 9, 2008 at 10:03 AM

This is by far the most likely scenario. Obama the lightworker saw the future and now his prophecy has come to pass.

Doesn’t have to be true or anything like that. Cults of personality are not sustained by facts.

So, we can always look at a statement and translate it one way, while he can look back and say, no, I really meant this, not that. He’ll take Clintonesque speech to new heights. We wont be wondering what ‘is’ is, the nature of our souls will be suspect for even questioning him about what it means.

Yeah! fun times.

Making the trip concedes that he didn’t know what he talking about in the primaries, and it sets up a conundrum for Obama’s future policy

Can we all stop kidding ourselves. People don’t give a snot what he says. His followers don’t give a rats behind about his qualifications or abilities. If he gets elected in, conservative America is going to have to work hard to ensure the Constitution makes it through the immediate future without someone taking a magic marker to it so it better fits their vision of a “better tomorrow”. This naive jr. senator is going to get led around by the nose, doing whatever is the popular thing to do at the moment.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 9, 2008 at 9:39 AM

LOL well said.

I guess this is the “change” he is talking about!

a capella on July 9, 2008 at 10:15 AM

Your conclusion is more probable than mine, but I suspect that one reason for the appearance of the tyrant government in the middle east is the cultural inclination for revenge, and tribal loyalties. When one tribe has control of the apparatus of government, and uses the power of government to advantage, the out of power tribes resort to violence.

In other words, the people get the government they require. Until they learn to go along, to get along, democracy will be a weak method of governance.

Meanwhile, in the US, the democrats will keep doing what they do until it doesn’t work for them any longer.

President Obama, President McCain, President Maliki, time passes, and here we go again, nothing changes.

Seriously, Mr. Slick will go to Iraq, say that everything is hunky-dorio and since our troops are no longer needed there, he can pull them out in 16 months just as he has said all along.

It will be up to the McCain campaign (or the RNC) to put ads together showing Obama’s promise that the surge couldn’t work, Harry Reid’s April 2007 statement that “the war is lost”, McCain’s advocacy of the surge back in 2007, and the current successes, then show images of McCain and Obama and ask the voters “Which of these candidates had the judgment to lead when Iraq was going badly?”

Mr. Weasel Words has an escape clause for every self-contradiction. Like the master of a puppy that pooped on the rug, it’s up to his critics to rub his nose in it.

Bad media.

Clarity and conviction are the sine qua non of a good foreign policy, and Obama doesn’t seem to have either. Compare and contrast to McCain.

Roger Simon at Politico believes Barack Obama allowed himself to walk into a big trap on Iraq by agreeing to tour the country and talk to the commanders on the ground.

He couldn’t not go. He was being needled by McCain and the GOP on his failure to visit Iraq to see what the facts on the ground were. He could hardly say, “I don’t need to go. I know we’re losing.” OK, there are probably plenty of Dems who feel that way, but the Dem nominee couldn’t get away with it.

JiangxiDad on July 9, 2008 at 9:57 AM

I agree. But, he’s gonna have to come up with something pretty substantial on energy soon.

a capella on July 9, 2008 at 10:02 AM

Dittos. The media isn’t covering Iraq any more, so to the extent that Obama can’t remove the issue, he’ll be allowed to distract and deflect without much scrutiny.

Puzzled Possum, perplexed that his prose did not produce instantaneous prompt prostration.

Maquis on July 9, 2008 at 9:41 AM

fixed

The ONLY reason Obama is going to Iraq is for the pictures.

Obama’s campaign thinks he already has this election won, he just needs to make voters comfortable with the image of him as Commander-In-Chief. That’s where the ham-handed effort with the fake Presidential Seal came from. We’ll see carefully staged photos of the Messiah with General Petraeus, Prime Minister Maliki, some obligatory female members of the Iraqi parliament, Michelle in a head scarf, adoring children in the streets surrounding the beautiful First Couple, etc. etc. ad nauseam. And the Obama cheerleading corps, a/k/a the U.S. media, will lap it up and proclaim how very presidential he looks. His policy on Iraq will not matter. At all.

If anyone hasn’t figured it out by now, the Obama campaign is ALL about image. It’s the most blatantly cynical, superficial campaign in the history of this country.

saiga at 10:23 AM-

Without a reliable supply of oil, our military machine is hamstrung.

Obama will have his reduced military running on hemp oil, didn’cha know?

And hybrid Hummers.

Roger Simon at Politico believes Barack Obama allowed himself to walk into a big trap on Iraq by agreeing to tour the country and talk to the commanders on the ground.

Gee, where have I read that before? Oh yes, right here over a month ago when I wrote it.

How much of the Oil futures speculation do you think is connected to fears of a weaker US role(i.e. Obama) in dealing with this, Iran, etc?

We have a base and embassy in Iraq we’ve spent $1 Billion on, its an ideal strategic location to confront Iran from….so do we just abandon it if the Iraqi government formally request it?

jp on July 9, 2008 at 10:14 AM

There is no doubt that oil will become increasingly important moving forward. Without a relyable supply of oil, our military machine is hamstrung. Iran knows this, and their strategic plan is to choke off our oil because they know the Middle East supply is pivitol.

Our economy drives our military, and our thirst for oil is huge. We may be able to afford oil when the price goes way up when China and India can’t afford it, But monkey business in the Middle East could really hurt.

I look for this strategic senario to unfold in the next 20 years.