Oh crap. If the Obamamessiah gets elected how many years are we going to be bludgeoned with, “It’s not Obama’s fault! It’s a legacy of Bush’s policies!”? He’s campaigning against Bush now, blames Bush for everything bad that’s ever happened (that isn’t his father’s or Reagan’s fault), and for years after Bhus is gone we’ll STILL have to listen to whining about Bush because, as everyone knows, Bush is The Evil One and Obama is The Messiah (and can’t be faulted lest ye bear the wrath of his subjects).

BTW, it cracks me up to see Obama apologists claim anyone speaking out against him is irrational. I wonder how that feels …

I doubt that McCain understands the threat very well, given that he seems to have trouble with such basic distinctions as the difference between Sunni and Shiite.

Yeah right. And Obama can’t govern a country he doesn’t know how many states there are. How can we possibly elect someone who actually believes there are 57 states?

Or was that a misstatement…like McCain?

ed.

What on Earth did Roosevelt do when he sat down with Stalin during WWII?

What on Earth was Margaret Thatcher doing meeting IRA leaders?

What was Menachem Begin doing signing a peace treaty with Egypt? (A treaty that has lasted since 1979)

Well, Rick, it’s called negotiation. It’s what precludes peace. It assumes that you aren’t right about everything and that you have to give a little.

The reason Republicans hate it is because it means that you might not be able to say “I’m right about everything and you’re all wrong.”

1. Reagan “negotiated” with Iran? You’re kiding right?
2. Roosevelt sat down with Stalin out of necessity - he was our ally. And btw - look where that got us. You call Yalta successful? Ask the Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, East Germans,and the other captive nations how “successful” those negotiations were.
3. Thatcher sat down with Sinn Fein - and not until they disavowed violence (one great big “precondition” no?)
4. Begin and Sadat “sitting down” was because the American president recklessly put the prestige of the office behind the negotiations. Read a summary of those “negotiations.” The two leaders never saw each other. They stayed in separate cabins. Carter became a message boy going back and forth, finally threatening Begin with reduced assistance unless he made the deal.

The facts are simple. We are talking with Iran already. We won’t go any further until they obey the Security Council and stop enriching uranium. What do you think the sanctions are all about? You want to undermine the UN?

And if you’d been paying attention, there is only one thing that will get Syria’s Assad to deal on anything - from the Golan to preventing fighters from getting into Iraq; and that is Lebanon. He wants us to abandon Lebanon, period. I wouldn’t put it past those idiots he has surrounded himself with to do it either.

Chavez? He’s a clown. If Obama wants to embarass himself and the United States by meeting with him, fine by me.

The point is, don’t try and throw history in my face and tell me Obama is only proposing what others have done. Either Obama misspoke and refuses to admit it when he said he’d meet these people without preconditions (a question he answered directly at least twice in the affirmative) or he is a liar.

Which is it?

ed.

“Lacking any capacity to make a case for Senator McCain you chew and chew and chew over the Obama cud, getting ever stranger in your analyses, ever more divorced from anything that anyone but your fellow obsessives could find relevant.”

You’re absolutely right that anyone would be hard pressed to find anything good to say about McCain. McCain’s nomination is compelling evidence that the GOP primary procedures were flawed.

It will be easy work for Obama’s people to link the toxic policies of Bush to McCain. George Stephanopoulos asked Lindsey Graham the following question on This Week:

“You said the tax policy and the healthcare policy were essentially…John McCain is calling for an extension or maybe even an enhancement of the Bush policies.”

Graham’s response: “Yes, absolutely…”

Let’s turn that question on its head - just what in God’s name do you think will be accomplished by talking to Iran? Will they stop their nuclear fuel cycle? Will they stop meddling in Iraq?

Of course not - not one chance in a trillion. The only difference is, you hand the regime a propoganda weapon of immense value by having our new messiah talking to them.

And we are talking to them btw - at the consular level where it belongs. And sanctions are still in play - as is the military option which no sane person desires but is there nonetheless. Plenty we can do short of having Obama make even more of a fool of himself than he already has on his ever changing Iran policy.

ed.

4. Crash. Burn.

This will totally work for you guys. Absolutely keep this up. The key to victory is demonizing your opponent while maintaining a stony silence about your own alternative.

Let’s not forget that Hamas took power through democratic elections and the same scenario is possible in Iraq with Islamic fundamentalists taking power.

Many say Bush is a good friend to Israel in spite of the fact that he stood on the sidelines, dictating a deadline, during the justified Israeli incursion into Lebanon to confront Hezbollah. Had Bush been a sincere partner on the war against Islamic terrorists, he would have bombed Syria during the Israeli offensive for the many transgressions that you have articulated in this blog.