Comments on: Obama Vs. The Smart Guys (And Dumb Wars)

The Nation: Obama’s Victory Marks A Sea Change In The American Foreign Policy Establishment

[samthetvcat]

In this time of crisis, we need the Best.
We need Experience. We need Hillary and Bill.

We can''''t afford to take a chance on a kid who still needs training wheels on his bike.


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Posted by JTait2

[patriot12436]

I have stated on another story what it would take to get me behind McCain 100%. Now i would like to state what it would take to get me behind obama 100%. Show me the myths are myths, address them publicly and with true facts, show me you and your wife are not the racists i believe, show me you do not have a hidden agenda to sell us out to the terrorists, show me you will represent America as one people, not just your race, show me you can stand up and make the necessary decisions facing a president, show me you ill address the problems facing all America, show me you will stand by our constitution and support it the way our forefathers wrote it, show me you mean it when you say you cannot support wright and his radical views, show me that you will not GD America. If he can do this , then i will be behind him 100%.

[samthetvcat]

---"Sam, it was fear. Di_ck Cheney was running around promising a nuclear attack on a US city if a Democrat won. The thing about fear (and torture) is that people become desensitized over time, I believe that is what we are witnessing now."---
Posted by omega39

That''s a great point omega...Dems are in a different place now than we were in 2004. The economic cost hadn''t yet hit home four years ago, and the war will be five years old by November, not just a year old.

As for that Lieberman tactic, maybe Barack ought to counter by making a prediction of his own that he wouldn''t put it past the GOPigs to start ramping up activity against Iran come the fall, and that the urgency they tout will NOT be based on threat but rather politics (?) Because the GOP have already gone on record saying if they can make people feel like we''re at war on election day then they will win because they''re seen as being stronger on ''terrorism''.

We need to start undercutting that advantage, not just to win but hopefully to prevent them from actually hurling bombs to win the election!!!!! That makes me sound like one of those conspiracy nuts, but given that this admin lied us into a war is this scenario really that far from the realm of possibility?

[joe1022joe]

On February 16, 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said the "the defense of Saudi Arabia is vital to the defense of the United States." On February 14, 1945, while returning from the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt met with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia on the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal, the first time a U.S. president had visited the Persian Gulf region.

The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on 23 January 1980, which stated that the United States would use military force if necessary to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf region. The doctrine was a response to the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, and was intended to deter the Soviet Union%u2014the Cold War adversary of the United States%u2014from seeking hegemony in the Persian Gulf. After stating that Soviet troops in Afghanistan posed "a grave threat to the free movement of Middle East oil," Carter proclaimed:

Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force. (full speech)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca
rter_Doctrine

[user168-2009]

"War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed."

"Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle."

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."

"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals."

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"

[babooph]

He will not cut military spending by 75%& stop the idiotic support of Israel,& get the massive funds back the rich got from "tax reform"-other steps are just a bandaid on a sabre cut.

[ausus-2009]

Iran will advance its nuclear weapons program. Obama will do nothing
Syria will invade Israel after reoccupying Lebanon. Obama will do nothing.
Militant forces will get together to cut off supplies of oil from the US. Obama will do nothing.
South Korea will say "only kidding" about shutting down its nuclear weapons program. Obama will do nothing.
Post-Olympics China will make a run at taking over Taiwan, having subdued Tibet. Obama will do nothing.
The flow of illegal immigration to the US will increase. Obama will do nothing.
Speeches don''t count. Actions do.

[sparks224]

The Republicans are so pathetic, I would feel sorry for them if they weren''t so effing EVIL.

[reunionpi]

Obama''s mother''s original Social Security Number Application

www.webofdeception.com

[andor3]

"we have to do is let it be known that Hillary backers are NOT going to vote for Obama ..."

Hillary is not a candidate. All past Clinton supporters are now Obama supporters. People claiming otherwise are just Republican shills angry that the unity in the Democratic party is so solid and makes Sen. Obama unbeatable; they would love to sow any discord.

No Democrat or voter who cares about America would oppose Obama.