Comments on: Obama's Plan To Spend Billions Overseas

NRO: Democrat Rails At Billions Spent In War But Supports Bill That Would Mandate Billions More In Foreign Aid Each Year

[element51]

wp4088....."and the people are even more dumber." What country have you been living in? Sorry, I''m just fuvkin with you. Actually you have a point. I don''t think we need to stop trying to help people in other countries, I just think we need to find a way to make sure that our help goes to the people. When people are starving and food is rotting on the docks because some tin horn dictator won''t release it there is a problem. But it''s a cold hard world out there and all we can do it try to help. But I agree that we need to help our own people first. Lots of hungry folks here too. One last thing...if you are a veteran, I suggest that you take a good look at McCain''s voting record on veterans affairs, then weigh that into your decision before you give him your vote.

[stealth54]

Obama is not right for the USA!

[ubrew12]

NRO: "Obama Rails At Billions Spent In War But Supports Bill That Would Mandate Billions More In Foreign Aid Each Year"

I''ve thought of a way Obama can get NRO to support his foreign aid program.

Just spend those billions in foreign aid on israel...

[cdfoxtrot3]

I''m a little puzzled. It''s okay to throw away $10 billion on a stupid, unnecessary war, but spending UP TO $85bn in a whole year helping people is unacceptable? America gains influence by spending overseas - that''s how the world works, folks! The question is, do you want that influence to be at the end of a gun, or through the gratitude that follows from helping others?

[aakalan]

Liar, liar, pants on fire!

We all know you neocons lie. You lied us into war, so I guess trying to lie McCain into the presidency is no big deal.

Obama never did ask Iraq to delay a security agreement. That has been debunked so many times, it''s silly. So many times that I know you saw it and you know it isn''t true - so what you''re publishing here is just one more set of intentional bald-faced-lies.

You have no morals at all... and no shame.

[jmurrieta11]

NRO only likes spending billions overseas when lots of dead "mud people" are the result.

[ampsanne]

Why is it we can send billions of dollars to all the other countries, and we can''t even help our own here in the U.S.? And why can''t we elect a president with an AMERICAN NAME? Obama gets in and it will seem like we''re a foreign country here with a name like that.

This type of disinformation reminds one of Big Pharma.
The republican smear campaign is in full swing.

[talkingham]

Well Bush has poured more than a trillion dollars down a hole to insure that Iraq has a Shiite government (that''s a 1,000 billion for you Bushies who never took math). Wish the NRO would talk about something that has really happened, like... maybe they could follow this up with a story about the Alaska pipeline that does not exist that Palin touted in her speech to the GOP convention.

[ajmarine111]

in December, Obama also sponsored the Global Poverty Act which, if passed, would require the president to commit to cutting global poverty in half by 2015. Critics say that would cost American taxpayers $845 billion.



We are working on Global Poverty now?

Don''t we have enought to worry about all ready?

[amrt5016]

''... while Obama is telling the American people he wants an end to the war, he has secretly negotiated with the government in Iraq to extend the U.S. military mission there. That is a black-and-white violation of federal criminal law.''

If Obama could cut such a deal--secret or not--, so could anybody from the U.S. government but Bush must still sign off on it. Nothing in this scenario even begins to look real and believable. Only from Twilight Zone of sick Republican delirium.

[paris1969]

I was wondering when Network News was going to use this ... if this is true, Obama is a traitor! Run Clintons Run ... get away from this guy!!!
This is incredible:
The scam is better known as Obama%u2019s Global Poverty Act. Sen. Joe Biden, his trusty running-mate, recently tried to slam it through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - the better to address the rarely discussed fact that Obama, having achieved nothing noteworthy as an Illinois state senator, is similarly without accomplishment after three years in the Senate.

[amervtrn]

For those too young to know or remember. Change for the sake of change is seldom for the better. 1975 U.S. was in turmoil. An obscure young man with good credentials (exceptional credentials compared to the aspirants today) championed the cause.The mood of the country was anti-Washington and people were demanding change.In 1977, President Carter inherited an economy that was slowly emerging from a recession. He had severely criticized former President Ford for inflation and unemployment, but after four years of Carter, both were considerably worse.The annual inflation rate rose from 4.8% in 1976 to 6.8% in 1977, 9% in 1978, 11% in 1979, and hovered around 12% at the time of the 1980 election campaign. The deficit for the fiscal year 1979 totaled $27.7 billion, and that for 1980 was nearly $59 billion. With approximately 8 million people out of work, the unemployment rate had leveled off to a nationwide average of about 7.7% by the time of the election campaign, but it was considerably higher in some industrial states.
The Dollar was at an all time low, result of U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
In July 1980, Carter received a favorable rating of only 21% in the Gallup Poll. That was the lowest rating any president. Jimmy Carter was widely viewed as a failure. Carter%u2019s tenure witnessed an energy crisis, soaring inflation(11-12 percent), and skyrocketing interest rates(21.5 percent)devastated military preparedness. Do we need to re-live this in 2008-2012?

[bigsk8fan]

oh my gosh, another national review article is critical of obama. what a surprise!

anyway, can''t wait to see the national review piece talking about bush''s spending $10 billion overseas per month (and just in iraq).

does obama''s planned spending even come close to that? can anyone spend as much money as a republican without any funding whatsoever? of course not!

[amervtrn]

For those too young to know or remember. Change for the sake of change is seldom for the better. 1975 U.S. was in turmoil. An obscure young man with good credentials (exceptional credentials compared to the aspirants today) championed the cause.The mood of the country was anti-Washington and people were demanding change.In 1977, President Carter inherited an economy that was slowly emerging from a recession. He had severely criticized former President Ford for inflation and unemployment, but after four years of Carter, both were considerably worse.The annual inflation rate rose from 4.8% in 1976 to 6.8% in 1977, 9% in 1978, 11% in 1979, and hovered around 12% at the time of the 1980 election campaign. The deficit for the fiscal year 1979 totaled $27.7 billion, and that for 1980 was nearly $59 billion. With approximately 8 million people out of work, the unemployment rate had leveled off to a nationwide average of about 7.7% by the time of the election campaign, but it was considerably higher in some industrial states.
The Dollar was at an all time low, result of U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
In July 1980, Carter received a favorable rating of only 21% in the Gallup Poll. That was the lowest rating any president. Jimmy Carter was widely viewed as a failure. Carter%u2019s tenure witnessed an energy crisis, soaring inflation(11-12 percent), and skyrocketing interest rates(21.5 percent)devastated military preparedness. Do we need to re-live this in 2008-2012?

[incog-nito]

We already have a plan to spend billions overseas. It''s called the War on Terror.

[questionnews]

Seems that some want their candidate to win not because they would be best for America, but as a way to create an opportunity to punish the opposition.
That is on both sides!

[usapride70]

This piece is an opinion piece

Posted by atoh1

Hence why it is under the OPINION section of the news.

Nice to see an article that doesn''t have it''s lips planted square on Obamas ray of sunshine.

[ajmarine111]

Posted by sandycat2 at 03:10 PM : Sep 19, 2008



I fear, when we do elect a President, he won''t be the President of the USA, he will be the President of either the Democrat or Republican party.

[sandycat2]

Why would CBS print this "garbage" so to speak? Why the same reason they print the "garbage" from The Nation. They want to present both points of view. Imagine that. Showing both sides. Not just YOUR side.