Thursday, July 17, 2008
I'm not sure the "alternate history" conceit quite works, but Rick Moran does an excellent job of going through Barack Obama's shifting positions on Iraq, and his campaign's efforts to disappear his previous statements. These are not the shifts of an actual decision maker whose strategies have had to develop. This is the rhetoric of a profoundly unserious and uninformed man and party (the party that actually lied us into war) who's simply saying anything to get over the next campaign hurdle. I mean, I wouldn't even blog on issues as callously as this guy has tossed around the sophistry on a profoundly important issue like Iraq, so how do you go through multiple presidential debates and interviews and campaign posturing: Obama Tries Rewriting History
...I would like to point out a few uncomfortable facts for Mr. Obama. As he speaks of "success" and even "victory" in Iraq, his own party has already given in to defeat as both the speaker of the House and Senate majority leader pronounced the war "lost" months ago. The overwhelming majority of Democrats see this war as lost and a failure. Obama himself saw the war as "a complete failure" last summer at the exact same time he was calling the surge a "failure" and agitating for an "immediate withdrawal" from Iraq. He made no mention of consulting with our generals, or the Iraqi government, or anyone else:
"Let me be clear: There is no military solution in Iraq and there never was," Obama said in excerpts of the speech provided to the Associated Press."The best way to protect our security and to pressure Iraq’s leaders to resolve their civil war is to immediately begin to remove our combat troops. Not in six months or one year -- now," the Illinois senator says.
Sounds pretty clear to me...
Even the Washington Post calls Obama's views on Iraq irrational. But in a way, it's not. The Democrat denigration of our war efforts -- rational or, more often, not -- has done a wonderful job in so stirring up their voting base that it's not unlikely we'll see the farthest left candidate in history -- so far left that just a few short years ago his election would have been unthinkable -- elected to the presidency.
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A revealing survey I found online. Less than a minute to fill out. Feel free to include whatever evidence you like after your answer, but only after stating a simple "yes" or "no." Not a "maybe"---that's a cop-out for panzies, and there are no panzies here, right? And feel free to rant, but only after your answer. First answer a simple "yes" or "no."
Despite my myriad reservations about him, my answer to all these questions was "No." Who here disagrees?
1. Do you believe Obama is knowingly secretly a Muslim?
2. Do you believe Obama is knowingly un-secretly a Muslim?
3. Do you believe Obama was educated at a Muslim madrassa?
4. Do you believe Obama hates Jewish people?
5. Do you believe Obama hates white people?
6. Do you believe Obama hates America?
7. Do you believe Obama hates Israel?
8. Do you believe Obama likes Hamas?
9. Do you believe Obama likes Bin Laden?
10. Do you believe Obama is a Marxist?
11. Do you believe Obama hates the pledge of allegiance?
12. Do you believe Obama hates the American flag?
13. Do you believe Obama refuses to recite the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem?
14. Do you believe Obama took his oath of office on a Koran?
15. Do you believe Obama is the most leftist member of the Senate?
16. Do you believe Obama hates democracy?
17. Do you believe Obama is evil?