Obama's pathetic reaction to 9/11, printed 19 Sept 2001:
"We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers
...
It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.
...
we will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe - children not just in the Middle East, but also in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and within our own shores."
Of course, this is all nonsense.
The 9/11 attackers were driven by oil wealth, Islamism and hope,
not by poverty and despair.
And they are not "children" or animals who cannot help what they do.
They are adults - moral agents responsible for their own evil actions.
In 2001, Bush understood 9/11 far better than Obama did.
Some funny comments on Obama's theories
here,
including:
"I guess we should just kill the poor."
In Berlin in 2008,
Obama said:
"People of the world — look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one."
As Mark Steyn
points out:
"No, sorry. History proved no such thing. In the Cold War, the world did not stand as one. One half of Europe was a prison, and in the other half far too many people — the Barack Obamas of the day — were happy to go along with that division in perpetuity. And the wall came down not because “the world stood as one” but because a few courageous people stood against the conventional wisdom of the day. Had Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan been like Helmut Schmidt and Francois Mitterand and Pierre Trudeau and Jimmy Carter, the Soviet empire .. would have survived and the wall would still be standing."
Melanie Phillips:
"Really? And what might they be? Their grievances are:
a) the existence of Israel,
b) its support by America,
c) the absence of salafist Islam in the world.
Does Obama think these ‘grievances’ are legitimate?"
Criticism of Obama:
Obama: Old Wine, New Bottle, Mona Charen, February 15, 2008.
"He is clearly the most gifted speaker to grace American politics since Ronald Reagan. And as with Reagan, there is a basic decency to Obama that blunts dislike.
...
But when you get past the music and really focus on the lyrics, Obama emerges as an utterly conventional, down-the-line liberal Democrat. He claims to be all about the future, but his policy ideas are about as modern as disco and the leisure suit.
...
The war on terror scarcely exists in the world Obama traces for his audiences.
Instead, he focuses relentlessly on what he regards as the misguided war in Iraq. "We need to do more than end the war," he intones, "we need to end the mindset that got us into war." We know which mindset Sen. Obama will bring to foreign policy -- the "diplomacy only" style last employed to such great effect by Jimmy Carter."
The Next Great Awakening: Obama 2008's messianic fervor won't last, Charles Krauthammer, February 15, 2008:
"Obama has an astonishingly empty paper trail. He's going around issuing promissory notes on the future that he can't possibly redeem. Promises to heal the world with negotiations with the likes of Iran's Ahmadinejad.
...
My guess is that he can maintain the spell just past Inauguration Day. After which will come the awakening. It will be rude."
Obama is a far left-winger who claims to be able to "unite" the country:
As Mark Steyn puts it:
"He wants to waft us upward on a great uniting bipartisan marshmallow of "hope" and "change" so he can implement down-the-line by-the-book highly partisan hopeless unchanged liberal policies."
Or
as
Rich Lowry
says, it is hard to ignore
"the central contradiction of Obama's campaign - an orthodox liberal politician who rose to prominence in a left-wing milieu in Chicago and has never broken with his party on anything of consequence is campaigning on unifying the country. There is nothing particularly unifying about Obama's past and his voting record."
Thomas Sowell, April 15, 2008:
"Senator Obama's election year image is that of a man who can bring the country together, overcoming differences of party or race
...
There is, of course, not a speck of evidence that Obama has ever transcended party differences in the United States Senate. Voting records analyzed by the National Journal show him to be the farthest left of anyone in the Senate. Nor has he sponsored any significant bipartisan legislation"
Samantha Power
is representative of the
dangerous, orthodox liberal-left
advice
Obama will be getting on
foreign policy.
Here she refuses to stand unconditionally with the democracy of Israel
as it defends itself against genocidal non-democracies.
Instead she sees moral equivalence.
Why young people think the neo-conservative ideas of
destroying religious fascism and bringing freedom to Arabs and Muslims
are offensive,
and why people think Obama's ideas of abandoning foreign Arabs to jihad and genocide
are inspiring and idealistic,
is something I guess I will never understand.
So these videos leave me cold. To say the least.
The "Yes We Can" song
illustrates the problem with Obama's campaign (and perhaps all "youth" politics).
It is entirely content free.
It never even tries
to explain what this "change" is all about.
So Obama is young, sexy and black. So what?
What's important is his policies, not what he looks like.
What's important is, for example, how he will deal with the global Islamist enemy.
And since all the people who don't want to fight the global Islamist enemy
(like the makers of this song,
who are anti-Iraq War)
seem to like Obama,
it's obvious that this "change" is about nothing good.
This anti-McCain song,
based on "Yes We Can",
is very funny
(even though I would vote for McCain).
The Wit & Wisdom of Barack Obama, Andrew Ferguson, Mar 2008, points out that Obama's speeches are nothing new
but just the standard meaningless boilerplate of presidential campaigns,
both Democrat and Republican:
"Onward they plod, these old warhorse phrases, until Obama climbs to the climax of his stump speech. Head bowed, brow furrowed, eyes flashing, he announces that we "will choose unity over division [Jesse Jackson, 1992]. We will choose hope over fear [Bill Clinton and John Kerry, 2004]. And we will choose the future over the past [Al Gore, 1992]." In so doing, we will overcome our "moral deficit [Bush, 2000; Gore, 2000; Newt Gingrich, 1994]" by "bringing people beyond the divisions of race and class [Clinton 1992]" because the "story of our country [Ross Perot, 1992]" or the "genius of our country [Bush 2000]" or the "wonder of our country [George H.W. Bush, 1988]" is, as Obama says in 2008, "ordinary people doing extraordinary things [Perot, Bush, Bush, and Ronald Reagan, 1984]."
Talk like this is the elevator music of politics, soothing and inoffensive and unavoidable. Obama has had the unbelievable luck to attract listeners who seem to think he's minted it fresh."
The ludicrous
Boy George
pro-Obama
song "Yes We Can".
From here.
See
hi-res version.
And more copies.
I like the tune, but what's the message?
Heavy drug users support Obama?
(I think that's the message of this imagery.)
But we know they won't get around to voting so what's the point?
For once, YouTube
has some funny comments, such as:
"With the drug addict transvestite washed up pop star vote sewn up Barack can't lose!"
"You know, we McCain supporters should really write the Europeans and thank them for the help they're giving McCain. ...
keep doing what you're doing, boys. Everytime you do something this smug and pretentious, McCain's popularity only grows."
"Hilarious!!!! Thanks for reminding me why I'm not voting for Mr. Hopey McChangeinstein!"
"Rove, you magnificent bastard!"
The "Yes We Can" song.
The Reagan version.
From here:
And other mix:
From Cuban-American Pundits.
Libertas:
"Obama's no Reagan. Reagan inspired talking about the greatness of America
not the greatness of "change,"
Reagan talked about the promise of America,
not the promise of "hope."
But the biggest difference is that Reagan was always talking to us as fellow Americans not as his followers. Reagan was about America. Obama's above wearing a lapel flag. Reagan was an optimist about America. Obama's a doom and gloomer."
Castro lover
Alice Walker
supports Obama.
"I want an end to the war immediately, and I want the soldiers to be encouraged to destroy their weapons and drive themselves out of Iraq."
And she thinks Obama is the man to support.
Damning words indeed.
Markos Moulitsas
of the extreme left-wing site Daily Kos
supports Obama.
In 2004, when four US civilian contractors
(all military veterans with distinguished records, three of them fathers)
were burnt and dismembered in public in Fallujah,
Moulitsas said:
"I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit.
Screw them."
Now he supports Obama.
Baraka said in a
"poem"
that the Jews of New York knew about 9/11 in advance:
"Who the Beast in Revelations;
Who 666;
Who decide;
Jesus get crucified;
...
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers;
To stay home that day;
Why did Sharon stay away?"
In response to this, the Governor of New Jersey ..
abolished the NJ Poet Laureate title! (Yes!)
John Derbyshire reviews Baraka's "poem".
And replies with a hilarious poem of his own:
"Who praises despots, wreckers of nations;
Murderers, despoilers of innocence - Kabila, Lumumba, Lenin, Che;
...
Who believes the most transparent driveling anti-Semitic lies about 9/11;
...
Who put one over on the guilty white liberals at those fool Art Councils;
Who's an illiterate moron".
Who!
More quotes:
"Most American white men are trained to be fags. ... The average [white person] thinks of the black man as potentially raping every white lady in sight. Which is true, in the sense that the black man should want to rob the white man of everything he has. But for most whites the guilt of the robbery is the guilt of rape. That is, they know in their deepest hearts that they should be robbed, and the white woman understands that only in the rape sequence is she likely to get cleanly, viciously popped."
He glorified crime:
"[The white man] owes you anything you want, even his life. All the stores will open if you say the magic words. The magic words are: Up against the wall mother fucker this is a stick up! ... Let's get together and kill him my man.""Rape the white girls. Rape their fathers. Cut the mothers' throats.""We [blacks] must eliminate the white man before we can draw a free breath on this planet".
Anyway, we discover that (of course) this brain-dead hate-monger supports Obama.
"Obama's entering in a different fashion to Rice and Powell and we hope that there can be enough influence by progressives, and by the Afro-American people, to see that his course is somewhat different."
He says if Obama loses:
"A generation of young Americans - who back Obama in big numbers - will turn cynical, concluding that politics doesn't work after all."
That would be great!
Republican majorities forever!
Seriously, imagine being so immature as to conclude that
"politics doesn't work"
just because your guy didn't get elected.
This Guardian leftie says:
"if McCain wins in November ... it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start - a fresh start the world is yearning for."
Oh calm down.
They can always put up another leftist defeatist in 2012 and see if that works any better.
The Guardian is probably
the most pro-jihad newspaper in the English-speaking world.
An Al Aqsa Brigades terrorist says Obama's rise is
"an important success. He won popularity in spite of the Zionists and the conservatives."
Another Al Aqsa Brigades terrorist said Democrat candidates' anti-Iraq war positions
"prove that important leaders are understanding the situation differently and are understanding the price and the consequences of the American policy in Iraq and in the world."
The unelected dictator
and butcher of Americans
Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi likes Obama:
"Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success".
This vile dictator, in between mocking democracy,
seems to indicate that everyone else in the Middle East who hates democracy
likes Obama.
Iran supports Obama:
Iran supports Obama
(see transcript):
"The problem with Mr. Obama is his education. ... The Americans cannot accept him because ... he is better educated. They don't understand that his education would enable him to serve them better.
...
The flaw they see in Mr. Obama - which they don't admit - is that he is highly educated".
Comparing the Democrats to the Republicans:
"Mr. Obama's perspective is more clear. ... Mr. Biden is a very respectable man. He has a good reputation,
... They are more knowledgeable in foreign affairs."
I think he meant to say that
Obama's education "would enable him to serve us better".
Senior Iranian official, Oct 2008,
threatens Israel with pre-emptive strike,
and also urges US to elect Obama:
"Safavi also said that a victory by U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would pave the way for dialogue with Washington, while a John McCain presidency would bolster Iran's extreme right, which opposes dialogue."
At last, some of the jihadi scum have learnt from their mistakes
in declaring their past support for
Kerry
and Obama.
Some smarter jihadi scum try some reverse psychology.
They claim they want McCain
because
he is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war
...
al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush.
...
Al-Qaeda then will succeed in exhausting America".
So he is saying he does not want
the American troops to leave Iraq.
I wonder how Al Qaeda view this traitor to their cause!
Of course, many left-wing partisans
are taking (or pretending to take)
the "Al Qaeda for McCain" nonsense seriously,
and are claiming that Al Qaeda really does want McCain.
Patrick Poole replies,
quoting McCain on terror, and then saying:
"Only in the fairy tale world of establishment media newsrooms would such conviction embolden America’s enemies. And only in the same would al-Qaeda leaders be shaken to the bone by the very thought of [having] to confront President Obama and a Democrat-controlled Congress."
The flag of communist Cuba,
with a picture of communist killer
Che Guevara,
on the wall of a Barack Obama campaign office, Texas, Feb 2008.
From here.
It's not that Obama supports foreign totalitarianism.
It's more that people who appease or support foreign totalitarianism
support Obama.
Interview with Maria Isabel who hung the flag:
No apologies.
"I hope that the new presidency in the United States... I pray for the safety of Barack Obama, and I pray that he can shift the United States attitude to this question.
...
So as we come towards the November elections, and the real prospect of a significant victory for Obama, everyone will have to re-find their footing, and these puppet presidents and corrupt kings may discover that the ground has moved under their feet, Allah willing."
- The disgusting jihad supporter
George Galloway
supports Obama.
See transcript.
In March 2008 we discovered (thanks to a combination of old and new media)
something very sad - what Obama's church is like.
Obama was meant to be something new and fresh.
A modern, colour-blind, post-racist man.
But it turns out that for 20 years he has been attending
a radical, race-obsessed, anti-American church,
where the most appalling hard-left, black separatist, political vitriol against America
has been spewed from the pulpit on a regular basis.
The preacher at Obama's radical anti-American church,
Rev. Jeremiah Wright
(and search),
who married him, baptised his children,
who seems to have brought him to Christianity in the first place,
and who he has credited many times
in print
and in
speeches
as an inspiration,
turns out to be a nasty, hard-left, America-hating fanatic.
Wright says the U.S. government invented AIDS to kill black people.
"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color."
He says the U.S. government sells the drugs that destroy black communities.
He says the U.S. had 9/11 coming
because of its terrorist policies.
"and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."
He says America is responsible for world terror, wars and poverty:
"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world".
"We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty."
He says the U.S. and Al Qaeda are the same thing"under a different color flag".
He says the U.S. government knew Pearl Harbor was going to happen.
He calls the USA "an oppressive society" against blacks.
He tells his audience (including children) to regard the police as corrupt.
And on and on, with endless grievance against the whites,
as if Obama isn't richer than most of the whites in the world
(Obama is far richer than me,
for example).
Wright himself
drives a Porsche
and is moving into a
10,000 square foot mansion.
Wright says about America:
"Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body."
Rather ignoring:
(a) that Obama is being seriously considered for president,
and: (b) that the Republicans appointed
a black woman
as Secretary of State.
Apart from all the anti-white whining,
Wright is just so obviously stupid and poorly read
it makes you wonder about the intelligence of anyone who would follow him.
It is very sad.
Obama was meant to be the post-racist candidate,
the one who was over the past and wanted to move on.
The one who was grateful for his privileged
Ivy League
education
and his wealthy millionaire
status.
The one who had no interest in the whining grievance culture, victim mentality
and race confrontation
of previous black Democrat candidates like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
And now we discover that Obama's mentor is exactly that type of person.
And Obama exposes his family to precisely that type of mentality week after week.
In my opinion,
no one who attends Wright's church is fit to be US President.
Sadly, most Americans do not agree.
God Bless New Media
- Libertas on the breaking of the
Obama preacher story.
"Anyone old enough to remember life under the regime of ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, and CNN knows how frustrating it was to watch the liberal media continually circle the tanks for left-wing candidates and causes.
...
Today, the media's finally been democratized by blogs, cable news, and talk radio
- and listen to the left howl."
Now,
"the Obama/Wright story exploded, Obama's chances of becoming President took a dramatic hit, and Anderson Cooper was forced to do practically a full-hour examining the story ... But none of this would've happened 15 years-ago. None of this would've happened without New Media. Without New Media John Kerry would probably be President and Dan Rather still a network anchor with a notch on his gun for taking down George W. Bush."
Criticism of Obama
Mark Steyn
(and here)
is unimpressed by Obama's denials that he knew about the
America-hating sermons of his long-term pastor and mentor.
As Steyn says:
"It seems hard to believe you could spend 20 minutes in this pastor's company, never mind 20 years (as the Obamas have), without figuring he's a race-baiting loon."
Comment:
"Obama is going to go on national TV tomorrow and ask US ( US here specifically ) to believe that after 20 years being a member of Rev Wright's church, WE knew before he did that his Rev is an ignorant, bigoted, racist. Yeah a man with that kind of judgement is just who I want with his finger on the button!"
The Dishonesty of Hope, Rich Lowry, March 18, 2008.
"Are we to believe that the Rev. Wright had the ushers scan the crowd at every service and, if Barack Obama and his family were present, reverted to a mainstream Christianity and colorblind calls for love and mercy? ...
When Wright loosed his broadsides against the United States, members of the congregation didn't look at each other awkwardly because their pastor had said something uncharacteristic and embarrassing. Instead, they erupted in paroxysms of affirmation; they were used to such statements and enjoyed them."
And if you think I, and the writers above, are just "racists",
read the black conservative
Thomas Sowell:
"The bad news is that Barack Obama has been leading .. a double life
...
Equality means that a black demagogue who has been exposed as a phony deserves exactly the same treatment as a white demagogue who has been exposed as a phony."
Amy Holmes:
"What this may actually prove is the old, pre-Obama conventional wisdom that the first black president will more likely be a conservative - someone who has already grappled with, and rejected, victim based politics. Can you picture Michael Steele, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, John McWhorter, Condoleezza Rice or any number of thoughtful black conservatives listening to Pastor Wright's sermonizing for one afternoon let alone years on end?"
"A More Perfect Union", Obama's dreadful speech, Mar 2008
"A More Perfect Union"
(and here),
Barack Obama, Mar 18th, 2008 - Obama's vague, dodgy, platitudinous speech
tries to weasel out of his long association with Rev. Wright. (Well what else could he do?)
"Did I ever hear him make remarks that
could be considered controversial
while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely - just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed."
As if any normal American ever
hears such anti-American hatred spewed in their church or synagogue.
Criticism of Obama's dreadful speech:
Charles Krauthammer:
"The question is why didn't he leave that church?
...
Obama's 5,000-word speech ... is little more than an elegantly crafted, brilliantly sophistic justification of that scandalous dereliction.
His defense rests on two central propositions: (a) moral equivalence and (b) white guilt."
Mark Steyn:
"The Reverend Wright believes that AIDS was created by the government of the United States ... for the explicit purpose of killing millions of its own citizens.
...
Does he really believe this? If so, he's crazy,
and no sane person would sit through his gibberish, certainly not for 20 years."
Comment:
"After twenty years in that church what positive affect did Obama have on the thinking of parishioners, on the bigoted pastor? The answer is - none. So why should we believe he would help heal our country?"
And another:
"If Obama cannot ask a bigoted preacher whom he's known for donkeys' years to change his views what is he going to do when dealing with people like Putin and all of the other bullies he'll face?"
Newt Gingrich destroys Obama's speech:
Obama compares his own grandmother to a racist:
About Wright, Obama says:
"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can
my white grandmother
- a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
Amazing. He compares the vile Rev. Wright, with his rants of hatred against America,
with his loving, elderly white grandmother, who raised him and loved him
after his black father abandoned him.
Obama is a fraud. It's very sad.
Because I initially thought he wasn't.
The real story about his grandmother:
"isn't it amazing that Mr. Obama is happy to call his sainted grandmother who raised him a racist, but he still can't bring himself to say that Mr. Wright is one?"
Melanie Phillips:
"Yes, Obama is a person who would trash his own grandmother to gain the American presidency!"
Mark Steyn
on Obama's unworthy remarks about his grandmother:
"When the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dumped some of his closest cabinet colleagues to extricate himself from a political crisis, the Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe responded: "Greater love hath no man than to lay down his friends for his life."
...
Asked about the sin of racism beating within Gran'ma's breast, Obama said on TV that "she's a typical white person."
Which doesn't sound like the sort of thing the supposed "post-racial" candidate ought to be saying, but let that pass. How "typically white" is Obama's grandmother? She is the woman who raised him - that's to say, she brought up a black grandchild and loved him unconditionally. Burning deep down inside, she may nurse a secret desire to be
Simon Legree
or Bull Connor, but it doesn't seem very likely."
Christopher Hitchens:
"You often hear it said, of some political or other opportunist, that he would sell his own grandmother if it would suit his interests. But you seldom, if ever, see this notorious transaction actually being performed
...
Mark my words: This disappointment is only the first of many that are still to come."
Obama's book
Dreams from My Father
(1995) shows that
he has some serious identity issues.
He writes an entire book dedicated to his useless black father,
who abandoned him when he was age 2,
saw him once at age 10,
and never saw him again before he died.
It is clear as day that his father had no interest in the boy.
Victor Davis Hanson says Obama writing
about his useless, disinterested father seems to miss the point:
"Just imagine had Obama written "Dreams From My Grandmother" about a working-class white woman who moved to Hawaii sacrificing her all, stressing integration, conciliation, character, and hard work (all true), rather than future-career-in-mind idealization and myth-making about a polygamist, alcoholic and absentee Marxist father? Had he done the former, he would have gotten a small advance, few sales - and now bankable proof of his character, rather than money, sales
- and an embarrassing revelation of his PC credentials."
As Hanson says, one good thing about Obama is that he is not like his father.
He is in contrast a good father and husband.
Victor Davis Hanson, March 24, 2008:
"For some bizarre reason, Obama aimed his speech at winning praise from National Public Radio, the New York Times, and Harvard, and solidifying an already 90-percent solid African-American base - while apparently insulting the intelligence of everyone else.
...
Over the past four days, I asked seven or eight random
.. Americans in southern California what they thought of Obama's candidacy ... The answers, without exception, were essentially: "Forget the speech. I would never vote for Obama after listening to Wright.""
He thinks the Democrats are heading towards a situation where they will be explaining
"all autumn long that the party masthead really does not like Rev. Wright, whose massive corpus of buffoonery no doubt is still to be mined."
Like John Kerry and the Swift Boat veterans,
this issue is not going to go away.
Too late.
Way too late.
After defending him in March
("I can no more disown him than .."),
after listening to him for 20 years,
Obama only finally acts once it becomes clear Wright could end his run for president.
But it's too late.
Nothing Obama does now can save this situation.
This issue will never end.
This issue will (and rightly so) end his run for president.
Blog:
"Obama claims he found Wright's racial rhetoric "appalling" and "that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate." For some reason it took the man who would be Messiah 20 years to figure out what it took the rest of us 20 seconds to figure out."
Richard Baehr:
"Many Americans did not have to wait for Wright's talk to the National Press Club to have taken offense. In fact, there is nothing the Reverend said Monday or with Bill Moyers on PBS, or at the NAACP dinner in Detroit (to thunderous ovations) that was in any substantive way different from what he has been saying over and over again for decades (to thunderous applause among the thousands packing Trinity Church). We had already heard about the US government bringing AIDS into the black community, and how Louis Farrakhan was a great American.
So why did this particular performance by Wright finally create the need for Obama to speak up more forcefully? That answer is simple: falling poll numbers in Indiana, North Carolina and nationally, and to that, we can safely conclude, Barack Obama takes great offense."
The 'Race' Speech Revisited, Charles Krauthammer, May 2, 2008,
is amused that Obama, having said he never would, now disowns Wright.
"Obama decided to cut off Wright not because Wright's words or character or views had suddenly changed. The only thing that changed was the venue in which Wright chose to display them -- live on national TV at the National Press Club. That unfortunate choice destroyed Obama's Philadelphia pretense that this "endless loop" of sermon excerpts being shown on "television sets and YouTube" had been taken out of context."
The bottom line remains that this story is hugely important, and will never end:
"This 20-year association with Wright calls into question everything about Obama: his truthfulness in his serially adjusted stories of what he knew and when he knew it; his judgment in choosing as his mentor, pastor and great friend a man he just now realizes is a purveyor of racial hatred; and the central premise of his campaign, that he is the bringer of a 'new politics' "
Obama leaves the church, May 2008.
After 20 years!
After 20 years you only leave this church when the rest of us attack it!
After donating thousands of dollars to it!
Do you really suddenly disagree with this stuff?
Or is this just a cynical, tactical, sleazy political move?
See his resignation letter.
Attack ads:
Proposed 30 second ad:
"What does Barack Obama really believe in? His spiritual teacher for 20 years has been Jeremiah Wright. Wright wedded Obama & his wife. Obama named his book from a sermon of Wright's. [Insert video of favorable comment about Wright by Obama]. What has Jeremiah Wright taught Obama? [Insert rabid clip of Wright capped by "God Damn America!! God Damn America!!"] We need a solid patriot to lead our nation. Someone we can trust. Vote John McCain 2008."
Obama on the cover of his own church's
(Rev. Jeremiah Wright's)
appalling
Trumpet magazine, Mar 2007.
See
extracts
from this radical, hard left magazine.
Image from here.
See full size.
Nation of Islam
crackpot and hate-monger
Louis Farrakhan
on the cover of Trumpet, 2007.
See full size.
Image from
this roundup of covers,
which says:
"Besides Wright himself ... I found only one person who put in as many cover appearances as Obama in the bulletins I currently have available. ... That person would be 'The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan' "
Hate-monger
Al Sharpton
also
appeared on the cover
in October 2006.
More on
Obama's links to
American terrorists.
From here.
See background.
Cracking comment:
"What do Obama and Osama have in common?
They both have friends that bombed the Pentagon."
(1972
and
2001)
More on
Obama's links to
American terrorists.
From here.
John Murtagh
(also spelt John Murtaugh)
describes
how the Weathermen tried to kill his family in 1970.
From here.
And part 2.
Comment:
"How many other presidential candidates have friends who threw bombs at nine-year-old boys?"
Obama opposed the Iraq War from the start.
He constantly opposed the "surge" that is bringing
an incredible victory.
Everything in his past tells us that in office
Obama will lose the Iraq War.
Americans are taking an appalling risk electing this man
during a war.
Australian Prime Minister
John Howard,
Feb 2007,
on Obama's plan to quit Iraq by Mar 2008:
"I think that will just encourage those who want to completely destabilize and destroy Iraq,
and create chaos and a victory for the terrorists to hang on and hope for an Obama victory.
If I were running al Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008
and be praying as many times as possible for a victory, not only for Obama
but also for the Democrats."
Obama responds
by ridiculing Australia - one of America's only allies in the world.
Like John Kerry, he only has contempt for countries that are fool enough
to support America and fight with it.
Comment:
"You gotta love the Democrats. 'We should have more friends! We need allies!'
'Except the ones we have now -- they can fuck off!'"
Obama, Sept 2007, wants to surrender to the jihad in Iraq immediately.
"There is no military solution in Iraq, and there never was. 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."
Obama's foreign policy adviser
Zbigniew Brzezinski
visited the enemy state of Syria in Feb 2008 and idiotically said that
Syria shared with America
"a common desire to achieve stability in the region".
Full round-up of Obama's shallow, changeable, poorly thought out,
and endlessly shifting
positions on Iraq.
Do Americans really want this weak, naive, inexperienced young man in charge of the war?
From the McCain campaign.
"I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse"
-
Barack Obama, Jan 2007,
on
the surge.
"this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything"
- Harry Reid,
leader of the Democrats in the Senate, April 19, 2007,
expressing how the Democratic party basically gave up on the war.
"We don't need more spin about how the surge is succeeding"
- Obama,
31 May 2008.
Question to Obama, July 2008:
"If you had to do it over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge?" Obama:
"No", followed by lots of waffling justification [click on the link to see].
"Let's look at just one example at a lifetime of principled stands that John McCain's brought about: his support for the troop surge in Iraq. The Democratic Party had given up on Iraq.
And I believe, ladies and gentlemen, when they gave up on Iraq, they had given up on America.
...
In the single biggest policy decision of this election, John McCain got it right, and Barack Obama got it wrong."
-
Rudy Giuliani, 3 Sept 2008,
on history's judgement on Obama and the Democratic party.
"Now, we know the surge has worked. Our men and women in uniform know it has worked.
And I promise you, above all others, Al Qaeda knows it has worked.
The only people who deny it are Barack Obama and his buddies at MoveOn.org.
Why won't they admit it? Because Barack Obama's campaign is built around us losing in Iraq.
...
Last summer, we came within two votes - two votes - of a congressionally mandated surrender. One Democrat, one Democrat broke with his party to support the surge. Ladies and gentlemen, thank God for Joe Lieberman.
It was John McCain's voice and credibility that stopped the Democratic Congress from losing this war.
Gen. Petraeus' plan will be a model for generations to come, and our troops will be heroes for the ages. Those who predicted failure, voted to cut off funding for our troops, and played politics with our national security will be
footnotes in history.
...
While Barack Obama expresses appreciation for our troops' service, he refuses to acknowledge their success. They have worked too hard, they have sacrificed too much for a patronizing pat on the back.
...
Not once - not once was Barack Obama's eloquent voice ever raised in support of victory in Iraq.
Not once was it used to rally our troops in battle. Instead, he inspired those who supported retreat and would have accepted our defeat.
We should all be grateful, ladies and gentlemen, that Barack Obama was unable to defeat the surge."
-
Lindsey Graham, 4 Sept 2008.
