Comments on: U.S. Missile Strike Hits Town In Somalia

Attack Aimed At Al Qaeda Suspect; Officials Say 8 People Seriously Injured

[donbl1]

J, Obama has lobbyists volunteering for free on his team.

Every politician has political debts. Obama will, too.

[donbl1]

J, that was the only thing in 4 pages he said specifically about Obama.

However, he made the comment about the people advising him earlier.

Regardless, we all see different elements in any story. To me, the most important was the opportunity to create wealth and jobs in the desolate tribal regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

To me, jobs are an important element of calming the region.

[j-whitman]

Don,,,, Obama is the only canidate in either party who has been steadfast on changing just that old problem ----- McCain is in so deep, Lobbyists run both his campaign & Senate office, & that''s not a joke.

[j-whitman]

Don,,,, I think you might want to go back & pull up the article.... He gave Obama a lot of good credit.

"His questions were not only precise and deep, but the courtesy and respect he afforded me in that forum I was grateful for. He didn''t have to do that. It wasn''t necessary, but he listened; he asked good questions. I don''t want to read too much into that encounter, but it made a positive impression on me." [Crumpton considers himself an independent.

[donbl1]

J, all politicians are just that and have their sponsors they owe. Sometimes those sponsors are good people and sometimes they embarrass you.

Obama will have political payoffs to do if he wins just the same as all politicians. That is why people work for politicians. Clinton was the same way.

[j-whitman]

Don,,,, If I read it correctly, he was saying there are better ways of handling Iraq, Afhaganistan & Iran than we have been,,

"Let me ask you this: how wise have they been? I know your point, but most of these guys are still thinking in archaic terms." he said. ------- I think he''s talking of McCain''s archaic "Stay the Course" & "Bomb bomb Iran"

[donbl1]

J, no one is doubting his intelligence as Columbia and Harvard are (usually) pretty good indicators. However, he does need rapid growth in experience and the only way he can get that in the short time he has is from advisors'' coaching.

America will give Obama his grade in the General Election debates which will be much more specific and harder than the primary debates.

[j-whitman]

Don,,,, Don''t for one moment Obama will get in & do what Bush did, appoint his Texas political hacks & ENRON people to the advisor positions. ---- Obama is a hell of a lot smarter & less political than Bush or McCain

[j-whitman]

Don,,,, I didn''t get that at all from the article

[j-whitman]

Don,,,, Obama knows what he''s doing, he asked the deep important questions & it was only a sub-committee.

When you say deep questions, what%u2014
The nature of the enemy, what is their motivation? The kind of questions he ought to be asking. What''s driving the enemy, and what''s the enemy strategy? We didn''t get into this in the testimony, but this goes back to Sun Tzu: you''ve got to know what the enemy''s strategy is and attack the strategy. You don''t just attack the enemy. You don''t just attack IEDs. He was trending in that direction. And I didn''t get a lot of questions from [other] guys going that way. It was, "How come you haven''t got bin Laden?"