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Obama has “no experience or background” on national security, McCain says

Washington, D.C. — Sen. John McCain slammed Sen. Barack Obama Monday after the IL Senator again alleged that McCain is willing to wage a 100-year war in Iraq.

“In all due respect he does not understand…the fundamental elements of national security and warfare,” McCain told reporters aboard his plane during a flight to the Washington area, where he is set to deliver a speech at his high school in Alexandria, VA on Tuesday.

Obama has been hammering McCain for comments he made at a January town hall meeting where the AZ Senator said he would be comfortable with a century-long U.S. troop presence in Iraq. While McCain was alluding a peace-time military force, Democrats have used the comments to make the case that McCain is willing to fight a 100 year war in Iraq.

While the non-partisan factcheck.org gives more merit to McCain’s argument, the presumptive GOP nominee has still had to repeatedly explain what he meant while on the trail. Today he provided the context as a side entree to a main course of Obama roast.

“It displays a fundamental misunderstanding of history and how we’ve maintained national security, and what we need to do in the future to maintain our security in the face of the transcendent challenge of radical Islamic extremism. And I understand that because he has no experience or background in any of it,” McCain said. “(He) either hasn’t read or (doesn’t) understand…the history of this country in warfare, and the way that we secure alliances and secure the peace–and that’s through military government to government agreements that call for United States presence and mutual defense. Not only in that country itself, but also in the region. Our troops in Japan maintain a military presence in Asia. Our troops in Japan and South Korea maintain stability in Asia. The same thing was true after World War II about our troops in Germany.”

Asked if he is concerned whether Obama’s 100 years argument will win out, McCain said he trusts voters and took a second shot at the Democrat. “I think the American people are smart enough to figure that out….and they’ll understand over time if they don’t know that he has no experience or background on these issues,” McCain said.

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Comment by vote4thebest

This is why Obama will hand over the general election to McCain when it is a race that the Democrats should have in their pocket.

Obama is the destroyer of the party, not the uniter as he boasts!

 
Comment by Bob LA

McCain is an idiot who will never get elected… He lied about how is arms got damaged he gave away use base location and signed propaganda statements and made videos for the vietcong..

His arms are busted because he didnt tuck them in when he punched out not from torture like he tell everone.

What has he done for any vetrens in all his time in the senate nothing.. Everyone who served in nam hates him..

This Vet will vote for a Democ’RAT’ before id vote for McCain

 
Comment by Larkin G. Mead

I served in Vietnam and I don’t hate Senator John McCain as Bob from LA suggests that “everyone who served in nam hates him”! Love or hate John McCain, the truth is McCain does in fact have more foreign policy experience than Barack Hussein Obama, the one term Senator from Illinois. Senator McCain is not an idiot as Bob has stated. McCain is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy as were his father and grandfather. He comes from a long line of naval officers, (Admirals). Senator John McCain has met with foreign leaders and dignitaries, both foe and allies. He is well known in the worldwide foreign policy circuit; not Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton who attended tea parties with foreign leader’s wives when she was first lady.

We live in extremely troubled times and the threats of radical Islamic fascism is real; not something that has been contrived. It is not a right-wing conspiracy. It is very, very real and these radicals are waging a different type of warfare, (terrorism) and they have established cells around the world and we have nations who claim to be our ally that are harboring these murderous criminals. Barack Hussein Obama does not understand that we do not negotiate with terrorists. Barack thinks in his naive little mind that he will be able to sit down with terrorist leaders and negotiate settlements and peace treaties. This assumption flies in the face of international law. No peace agreement signed by a terrorist leader (cleric) and the United States has any legal binding authority and cannot even be recogized by the United Nations. So, Barack Obama knows absolutely nothing, but, that is understandable because his experience in government is limited.

Barack Hussein Obama served as an Illinois state senator in which he voted 130 times “present”! This means that Barack Obama could not make a decision as to the right position to take on numerous issues effecting the people of the state of Illinois. He was a “community organizer” on the south side of Chicago. Sort of like a white collar cop, intervening in gang-banger activities and introducing young African American youth to midnight basketball games in the city parks. Rather then encourage these young people to go home and do their homework and get up and go to school in the morning, Barack was encouraging them to play basketball into the wee hours of the morning. This was his solution to keeping African American youth out of the gangs and off the streets.

Barack Obama could not get elected Mayor of the City of Chicago or Governor of the State of Illinois if he chose to run for either office. We residents of Illinois have his number and we know who Barack Obama is. But, liberals don’t care, so they voted for this clown in the presidential primary only because he is from Illinois. Big Deal!

There is also the Rev. Wright question! After all, Rev. Wright has been Barack Hussein Obama’s spiritual advisor for over 20 years. So, there are those who will suggest that Wright’s sermons and views about America have had no influence on Barack Hussein Obama. Give me a break! Obama has demonstrated in the Illinois senate that he is not an independent thinker and he is very easily manipulated by those who are anti-American, anti-semitic, and, quite possibly, anti-
Christian.

So, lets not compare Obama and McCain. Obama would not make a pimple on Senator McCain’s rear end when it comes to foreign policy and military affairs. Obama is a left-wing socialist and probably an inexperienced one at that.

 
Comment by Dufus

I think the “level of exerience” displayed by our present administration in foreign policy speaks for itself. If McCain proposes to stay the course, then the people will decide the outcome in November.

 
Comment by 4meandU

One must credit McCain for his military grit, and clear understanding of military affairs and their role in maintaining world stability. Unlike Bush, for example, who himself had absolutely no record on national security before 9/11 and starting the Iraq war.

Now, while it may be true that US foreign military policy since WWII has been one of military occupation as a means to regional stability, it does not necessarily follow that in our current occupation of Iraq that we, as a nation, should be there at all.

Why? We already have military bases in the region and have had them there for decades. The major reason we continue to have a military presence (by far the largest deployment of US troops in any region of the world) in Iraq is:

1) we destabilized Iraq by invading and conquering it through sheer military might; thereby, destroying the country’s infrastructure, and throwing the general population into a state of chaos (read: breeding ground for terrorists)

2) it would be political suicide for both the Bush administration and the Republican party itself to pull out now, “Mission [clearly not] Accomplished”, as both are so thoroughly invested in winning the war no matter what the cost.

It’s worth noting that the cost of this war has run over a trillion dollars and counting; this fact makes little news really. Shocking given that a trillion dollars could virtually overhaul the entire country, improving the quality of life for all Americans, but then again, taking care of our own citizens obviously must take a back seat to big business and waging war, which are huge money makers for the elite that run the country…

2 cents from an independent…

 
Comment by Jeff X

I sometimes wonder if McCain isn’t some type of “Manchurian Candidate” with close ties with people like Russ Feingold. (McCain should learn some US geography and know that Feingold is from the area of” The Moscow on the Mendota”, Madison, Wisconsin. A Communist satellite city)
He should of stayed away as far as possible from this Commie Party hack. But I’d have to agree that he has oceans more experience in foreign policy and military matters.

(Do you think Democrats suppose that supporting a BLACK MILITANT group, like the Black Panthers, is the same as a “military background”?)

 
Comment by Jim

Obama`s a joke!

to begin with, in the Tex. debate, there was the great ignorance Obama showed to the world when he told that story about the platoon, etc…displaying a basic lack of knowledge about how the military is structured, etc, among several other things…

next, in the Cleve. debate, he stated that he`d take action…if intel indicated that Al-Quaeda was building a base there…what?…wait a min!…this from a guy who stated he was against the war from the start?!…

when the war started, the US had intel which indicated that Al-Quaeda had bases in Iraq…the very same condition in which Obama states he`d take action over there…just like Bush did!!!

which means Obama was either lying in the debate or when he says he was against the war from the start.

and Obama wasn`t in the Sen. at the start to vote on the war…and he`s going to say what ever makes him look good…so, of course he`s going to say that he was against the war from the start…makes him look smarter than everyone else…especially to his followers…

and speeches, etc., aren`t the same…my 12 yr.-old son gave a speech against the war…but no one`s saying that he has the necessary judgement to run the most powerful country on earth…and neither does Obama!

there`s a HUGE difference between giving speeches, etc., and voting with a constituency to answer to, nearly all of who were for the war at the time…

in fact, on and just after 9/11, very nearly every American was for going to war or dropping a bomb on those responsible for what took place…especially NYer`s…

quite simply, Today`s world is too dangerous for a Pres. to be learning on the job…and openly negotiating without pre-conditions…with our enemies/terrorists…many of who HOPE every American drops dead this very moment…and would CHANGE the United States to something other than democracy…to think otherwise, like Obama, is extremely naive.

so, i can see it now…terrorists in the streets with signs which say,

“OBAMA 08!…CHANGE EVEN WE CAN BELIEVE IN!!!”

 
Comment by Don't know much about history?

History is not a good argument for Senator McCain to make. The examples he gives are totally irrelevant to the situation at hand. There is no single entity in Iraq with which we can negotiate an agreement or even force a stalemate. Any way you frame it , he is advocating a very long term occupation in a country that will remain hostile, no matter how long we stay there.

Senator McCain’s military experience, honorable as it is, does not translate into expertise with foreign policy. He may have other qualities that he can utilize. Perhaps he should start to focus on some of them. Tunnel-vision will keep us on a road to nowhere. The pages of history books are filled with the stories of fallen empires.

 
Comment by plain jane

OBAMA IS MORE QUALIFIED BECAUSE HE WAS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER IN THE SOUTH

SIDE OF CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OBAMA WILL SEND COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS TO STRAIGHTEN OUT IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!

AND THEN ONE DAY, THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER IN THE SOUTH SIDE OF BAGHDAD WILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF IRAQ!!!!!!! AND THE WORLD WILL BE AT PEACE THANKS TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!

ALL HAIL THE SAINT OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Comment by Tammy

That’s all McCain has is more military for the military industrial complex.

 
Comment by obama lies again

NBC- Aswini Anburajan
GREENBURG, Pa
OBAMA LIES IN PENNSYLVANIA AD
It’s unfortunate that Senator Obama is using false advertising to explain why he can be trusted to do something about energy prices. In his ad, Obama says, I’m Barack Obama, and I don’t take money from oil companies or lobbyists, and I won’t let them block change any more. Obama has been the recipient of more than $220,000 from the oil and gas industry just since as of Feb/08. Two of Obama’s campaign bundlers are also CEOs for oil and gas companies, per his campaign Web site? Obama needs to answer to VOTERS about his dealings with one of his largest contributors Exelon, a big nuclear power company that he cut deals behind closed doors protecting them from full disclosure in the nuclear industry. Exxon, Shell, and others are among his biggest donors

Judicial Watch:
By Klaus Marre
Obama ‘intended to leave no paper trail’ OBAMA REFUSES to cooperate in releasing 8 years of his state senate records. One main reason REZKO!

The WashigntonPost Fact Checker
ABCNEWS.COM
Senator Obama CAUGHT LYING about Kennedy Role in Helping His Father
Contrary to Obama’s claims in speeches Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama’s father. According to historical records and interviews with participants, the Kennedys were approached for support for the program a year later, July 1960. family responded with a $100,000 donation, which went to pay for a second airlift in September 1960.

According to Citizen Wells - March 21, 2008: Obama has a dual citizenship with Kenya. His passport was breached today by inquiring minds because Obama is an anti-Israel, pro-pan-Arabian Islamic-socialist who has ties to Marxist Libyan President Muamar al Gadaffi, and a Syrian tycoon, Antoin Rezko, Saudi Arabian Scheiks and Rezko’s “close friend” Nadhami Auchi, the one who gave Obama fundraiser money (and helped to buy his mansion): Iraqi billionaire, global arms dealer, Nadhmi Auchi, was Baathist best friends with Saddam Hussein, and the main financial backer (from funds stolen from Oil for Food Program0 for Saddam’s - Iraqi -Saudi oil pipeline, and who stood trial with Saddam Hussein in 1959 for conspiring to assassinate Iraqi President Qasim.

 
Comment by obama lies again

According to Citizen Wells - March 21, 2008: Obama has a dual citizenship with Kenya. His passport was breached today by inquiring minds because Obama is an anti-Israel, pro-pan-Arabian Islamic-socialist who has ties to Marxist Libyan President Muamar al Gadaffi, and a Syrian tycoon, Antoin Rezko, Saudi Arabian Scheiks and Rezko’s “close friend” Nadhami Auchi, the one who gave Obama fundraiser money (and helped to buy his mansion): Iraqi billionaire, global arms dealer, Nadhmi Auchi, was Baathist best friends with Saddam Hussein, and the main financial backer (from funds stolen from Oil for Food Program0 for Saddam’s - Iraqi -Saudi oil pipeline, and who stood trial with Saddam Hussein in 1959 for conspiring to assassinate Iraqi President Qasim.

Also marxist Nicaragian President Daniel Ortega is on the front line supporting Obama for the revolution of changes and then there is hard core anti-Israel, pro-Palestine PLO Enforcer Rashid Khalid, (Obama was on Kalidi’s Woods Fund. Obama was a memb er of the Woods Fund with communist domestic terrorist Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground who bombed the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol among other things and their organization raised money for anti-Israel programs, and also AAAN, for Arabs and then there is especially Kenya - where in August 2007, Obama went to Kenya to support his E. Germany communist educated cousin Raila Odinga for Kenyan Presidential election, who claims coincidentally to also be a Christian who signed NAMLEF and other pacts wutg radical muslims who set churches filled with Christians on fire, and macheted them in the streets, causing a political and religious mini-civil war over the MUO.

all of Obama’s mentors, buddies, political affiliations, organizational memberships and all of his hard core militant muslim family members, like his brother Abongo (Roy” Odinga who hates America, and their communist grandfather who ran with Russia and hated America, not to mention his socialist connection to his profound childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Communist Party, CPUSA, and Obama’s endorsement by the Black Panthers. Obama titled his book “Audacity of Hope,” after Pastor Wright’s sermon about the need to destroy capitalism and the middle-class at the hands of the rich white people and the west. Article by Citizen Wells 3/21/08

 
Comment by Ms Common Sense

Obama is WISE and brilliant, therefore he doesn’t need experience.

 
Comment by Jeff X

To: Plain Jane,

ROFLMAO…Darn it!…we’ll have IRAQI Bears fans…I’m a Packer fan!

 
Comment by Mathias

Thats just brilliant john. Well spoken. I suppose if Obama or Clinton or any other candidates that were in the race have no experience on the issue and therefore cannot begin to understand,debate or propose a new course of action, (as if americas military adventures in everywhere but WWII had anything to do with national security), then I suppose you sir, should voluntarily exclude yourself from all discussions on the economy, law, domestic services, healthcare and just about every other issue that actually has an effect on american people. Although I’m no big history buff, I can’t recall a time when america was the victim and not the aggressor in a war apart from the second world war. Even 9/11 is dodgy at best but i’ll abstain from that discussion. Is that how “we secure alliances and safeguard peace”? By going to war first and building military bases later? As far as my limited experience in national security entails me to make this comment : Mutual protection is not the end goal of a war. Anybody who thinks about it for two seconds, knows that kuweit, vietnam, japan, korea and so forth (omitting nicaragua, the phillipines, indonesia, salvador and countless others) do not offer much protection against anything and that even if they do, america hardly seems to need it..Could it have something to do with keeping the military sector in good shape? noooooooooo! Could it have anything to do with being able to exert pressure for political gain? No way in hell! Could it be to be operationally and strategically present in an area where in the future, a new economic interest arises? Not a chance… Eveyone knows the military, particularly the american one, was designed for peacekeeping (I hope everyone understands the word sarcasm)…..terror cells all over the world? where do you think this deep resentment comes from? Economic aid? Diplomatic Talks? Infrastructure building? reaching out? being a “beacon of freedom”? Free speech? “democracy”? Maybe a change in course of action, regardless which, could have a positive effect? Call me crazy, but I think the answer is yes!

 
Comment by Iykeman

1. Senator Clinton has based her campaign on erroneous and fraudulant claims to greater legislative and administrative experience. Former President Clinton talks up her role in his administration on the campaign trail; however, the ONLY role she had was to come up with a viable health care plan, she failed miserably. The next “big” role was defending Bill after his sexual exploitation of Monica Lewinsky in the OVAL OFFICE. Bill lied to the world and the Grand Jury, as a result he was disbarrd, banned from the Supreme Court, and impeached by the House of Representatives. It is broadly understood that Hillary spearheaded the response team that staved off Republican charges for the many scandals the Clintons brought with them from Arkansas and those they created during the Clinton years. As to her Senate record, no one in the press has had the diligence to lay out her record for the public to *****.
“Senator Clinton, who has served only one full term (6yrs.), and another year campaigning, has managed to author and pass into law, ALL OF TWENTY (20) pieces of legislation in her first six years. These bills can be found on the website of the Library of Congress (www.thomas.loc.gov), but to save you trouble, I’ll post them here for you.
1. Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site.
2. Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and Speech Month.
3. Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
4. Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall.
5. Name courthouse after James L. Watson.
6. Name post office after Jonn A. O’Shea.
7. Designate Aug. 7, 2003, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day.
8. Support the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day.
9. Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death.
10. Congratulate the Syracuse Univ. Orange Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.
11. Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.
12. Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative Program.
13. Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda.
14. Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the nation and express condolences on her death.
15. Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty.
Only five of Clinton’s bills are more substantive.
16. Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11.
17. Pay for city projects in response to 9/11
18. Assist landmine victims in other countries.
19. Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care.
20. Designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the wilderness preservation system.
There you have it, the facts straight from the Senate Record.
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Now, I would post those of Obama’s, but the list is too substantive, so I’ll mainly categorize. During the first ( 8) eight years of his elected service he sponsored over 820 bills. He introduced
233 regarding healthcare reform,
125 on poverty and public assistance,
112 crime fighting bills,
97 economic bills,
60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills,
21 ethics reform bills,
15 gun control,
6 veterans affairs and many others.
His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These included:
**the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law),
**The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, (became law),
**The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate,
**The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, (became law),
**The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, (In committee), and many more.
In all, since HE entered the U.S. Senate, Senator Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1096. An impressive record for someone who supposedly has no record according to the spin meisters and mindless twits. I challenge Clinton supporters to name a single legislative accomplishment that demonstrates her self-acclaimed “superior” experience.

 
Comment by dick shuey

question; if you can only use two names when talking with or about barack obama, then what do you do when he takes the oath of office? will he want two or three names on his taking of the oath of office. also on his official photograph that will hang in the white house, again, two or three names? or will he say that he is just following his campaign of change and float back and forth on this issue. first and last name only, will o.k. lets use all three for the picture.

 
Comment by Obama the Muslim

Obama is plain and simple a Muslim. You CANNOT call yourself a Christian and then say that abortion and gay marriage is okay. You cannot have a racist pastor/mentor and then show all your followers how stupid they really are, by giving a history lesson to them, side stepping the issue at hand, and having those same morons say what a great speech. Obama has no experience in foreign policy, or local policy for that matter. If so, why are the people he supposedly helped still killing each other, still have no desire to look for jobs, and still collecting my tax money as welfare???

 
Comment by Jeff X

Mathias,

Ever hear of WW1, America was NOT the aggressor in that war. As to your rambling anti-American speech, we’ve had an on again, off again war with Arabs/Muslims since the founding of this country.
Every hear of the Barbary pirates? We paid ransom in Americas early years to Arab states attacking US ships at sea until we finally decided enough was enough and actually did something about it.

Then in 1948, DEMOCRAT President Harry Truman, was one of the first world leaders to recognize Israel, the only democracy in the region, and the Arabs have had a bug up you know what ever since. Since they can’t beat Israel in a regular war, they’ve tried oil embargoes on us, terrorism on Israel, and finally terrorism on us on 911, to get their way. It’s a FACT that we’re in a struggle with extremists that vow DEATH to any non-Muslim. The ONLY way to defeat people like that is to try and make those terrorists states into democracy’s so their citizens will actually have something worth fighting and saving, rather than the the regimes they live under now.

 
Comment by SR

Well, Obama may not have what you call national security experience but neither did Jack Kennedy when he stared down Khruschev over Cuba in 1962.

In the 1980s, that doddering Hollywood clown had no national securiy experience when he sent hundreds of marines to Lebanon to get killed in their sleep and then withdrew from the country immediately afterwards. Nobody said “cut & run” then, did they? Oh, but what a glorious victory in Grenada though, ensuring that Castro will not get his hands on the strategiaclly vital supply of Grenada bananas and frozen shrimp.

The current Moron-In-Chief’s national security experience was couple of extended AWOL’s from the National Guard duty, while tens of thousands of his peers were getting mauled in Vietnam (a war conducted by people with lots of national security experience)

What Obama has, however, is brains and guts. Which is more than I can say about the people running our “Vaterland Security” apparatus. One look at the way they run airports security, for example, tells you that our is in the hands of a bunch of “doing heck of a job,
Brownie” types who got their jobs because they knew the proper way to lick Cheney’s boots.

I’ll tell you who does have experience. It’s the Fox News. A lot of experience in yellow and pre-paid shill “journalism”. The haven and the source of misinformation for the degenerates by the degenerates. Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Fox News - you’ve all found your Peter Principle, at the gutter level.

 
Comment by Mindbender

PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT 2008

(Vote for the least pathetic)

John McCain Republican (in reality - Moderate Democrat who is one day younger than dirt - but will not sell us out in the Middle East like those other two fools).

Hillary Clinton Democrat (in reality - wannabe who has women foaming at the mouth despite her, and hubby’s, well, and I mean WELL, documented history of lies, deception, and chicanery).

or

Barack Obama Democrat (in reality - johnny-come-lately who can speak well, thus has mesmerized all dumb Americans who think, “if its sounds good, it is good”, and has the substinence of fine bathroom mist after a hot shower.

Welome to America. This is all we have to offer out of 300 million people. And we lead the world - isnt’ that scary as hell?

 
Comment by John

Obama the Muslim - You are an embarrassment to this country and to your religion. There are millions of Christians in this country who understand that compassion and love are the messages of the New Testament, and consequently, know that they need to offer support and care for people who choose to have an abortion, rather than berate them. There are also millions of Christians who know that God loves all humans, even the gay ones. There were homosexuals 2000 years ago, and I guarantee you that Jesus loved them just as much as the prostitutes, beggars, and the criminals hanging on crosses on either side of him.

 
Comment by Jeff X

Mindbender…AMEN!

 
Comment by John

Mindbender -

All three of them are less scary than the retarded child we have trying to establish a tyranny in the White House right now.

 
Comment by the southern dem

McCain states the obvious….but the more important issue here…THE FAR LEFT DEMS DO NOT CARE. They have not an ounce of interest in national security from Obama. And the worse thing is the dem voters for Obama also do not care!!!!!!! So where does this leave the country….down stream without a paddle or direction in a time of “war”. This begs the question….are they just going to turn-off the opposition to the terrorist and the survellience…..very likely yes!! AND THEY SEE THIS AS NOT AN ISSUE?????

I can not for the life of me understand this far left liberal approach of security both here and abroad. Do they have their head in the sand…do they not see that these are “bad guys” who would like to cut their head off??? Political correctness and “self esteem” run amoke. We can not just beam ourselves off this planet we must protect ourselves and our family from these thugs and terrorists….OH, I FORGOT, THE DEM FAR LEFT BELIEVE THE USA IS THE TERRORIST AND THESE RADICAL MUSLIMS ARE THE VICTIMS OF AMERICA’S NEGATIVE INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD!!!! RIGHT, JUST LIKEVRACE SOMEONE ELSE’S FAULT….NOT THEIR OWN

The dems once in power will bring down any security program they deem to be a “violation of individual rights….to include the terrorists” and they will destory any firewall currently erected to monitor and subvert these terrorists…..a bad day at black rock!! The person who said that the terrorists will be dancing in the streets if Obama got elected president is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!!…..IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME THAT SOME CAMPAIGN FUNDS FUNNELED TO OBAMA DOES NOT COME BY TERRORIST SYMPATHIZERS……MAKES PERFECT SENSE…..If I was one of them or a group that did not like the pressure from the Bush administration I would somehow support the political candidate who vows to stop this opposition. MAKES PERFECT BUSINESS SENSE!!

There are all sorts of ways to funnel money to a candidate from back channels so there is little finger prints of accountability. The Trinity Church and Wright has already had contacts with Hamas and Syria then why would anyone be surprised by a “donation” from these groups desiring a “change” in the USA approach to these terrorist organizations or sponsors of terrorism. Silly me, I forgot ….the far left dems do not believe these groups have anything to do with terrorists….they are just ‘freedom fighters”……and “community supporters’…what terror? they have nothing to do with terrorists????? these groups are oppressed citizens!

Everytime I hear or see the “change” banner or slogan I see ….a change is the totally wrong direction……..a support for or enemies and away from the security of the nation. I agree with changes in some activities but a unversal reputation of everything that Bush has put in place following 9/11 to protect us is suscide…however, it is suscide for the nation as a whole and this must be defeated. One thing that the far left demonstrates by their view on things….just what you will get if they ever had the power to produce “real change” that goes well beyond significantly increased taxes.

 
Comment by Mindbender

I don’t know about that, they’re all scary. Is this really the best we have? Really? What has happened to our great democracy. Its like Roman history, we’re falling apart from within.

 
Comment by LadyLeo

The best qualifications that McCain has is his sevices to the War. I applaud him for this but since majority of the voters want the war to end what good will he be once the war ends?

 
Comment by TN Jones

Tammy,

That “military complex” is what is employing every other person in nearly state in one way or another right now. Those billions are pumped back into the city you live right now. The 70,000 per year I get on my government funded badly needed because of the Clinton era neglect project pays for 3 other people in my community right now. You arrogant lefties have no concept, talk and think in sound bites. You are the same kind of blind people that Hitler led because they didn’t like the military think of the Kaiser and the jobs that produces. Why, because you kind of people can’t hold productive jobs. Can’t show up for work every day. Feel you missed out because someone outworked or out smarted you and you vote for other worthless losers that couldn’t get a real job, like Bill Clinton, and Pelosi. I personnally am fighting to the eye teeth to make sure McCain gets elected. Efforts like mine don’t make the polls. People around me are at least 70 to 1 McCain. And I am around a lot of people per day. I want Obama’s name figuratively wiped off the political map.

 

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Comment by Jessica, Rolling Meadows, IL

MS common Sense.

You most be on crack. Obama is crafty and can not be trusted.

 
Comment by dust

I was a Huckabee supporter, but now I’m left with John McCain( yuk). But he beats the two other idiot that are running.

I really am disappointed that these are the so-called best canidates that America was choisen. Once again people lets vote for the lesser of two evils. McCain 2008

 
Comment by Bob LA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy18WvvGq3I

Larkin G. Mead I don’t believe a word you have wrote McCain is hated by most vets like Bob said.

On October 26, 1967, McCain was flying as part of a 20-plane attack against a thermal power plant in central Hanoi, a heavily defended target area that had previously been off-limits to U.S. raids. McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a Soviet-made SA-2 anti-aircraft missile while pulling up after dropping its bombs. McCain fractured both arms when ignored his trainng and failed to tuck his arms while ejecting from his plane.

McCain signed an anti-American propaganda “confession” that said he was a “black criminal” and an “air pirates” he filmed propaganda videos and gave up US base locations, troop numbers, code words and sold out his Great Nation and brothers in arms.

Fact, John McCain, who is a very dangerous and violent man, was the driving force behind closing all the POW files, classifying records in order to keep the truth from the families and the American people.

He is not a hero he was given a plush job in the senate thats to his dads conections and his faulse story of torture he squealed like a little pig and made his life liveable while other dies for there silence.

He did nothing for his brothers then and has done nothing for his brother while being in an office were he could and given all his lies deep down he must know he should.

So I say No to McCain!

Ill vote anyone else not that GOOK loving pig.

 
Comment by Devo-Mar

The “Manchurian Candidate” is a brainwashed P.O.W. from the Korean Conflict. McCain is a “Hanoi Candidate”. Same principle different conflict, same goal, to bring the U.S.A. to it’s knees. I would rather have a young mind as president, some the best have been under 50.
Theodore Roosevelt - 42
John F. Kennedy - 43
William J. Clinton - 46
Ulysses S. Grant - 46
Grover Cleveland - 47
Barack Obama - 47

 
Comment by melissa woods

no disrespect to senator mccain, because i have worked with vets but being in a war or a POW does not give you experience to lead a nation that is in a very unique position when it comes not only to forgein affairs but the economy and the shrinking of the middle class, it gives you a perspective but not experience!! we need someone who is able to take a few steps back and assimilate all the information and THINK AHEAD!!!! If someone is more able to assimilate given information, analyze and think most possible scenerios that is the person i want. not someone who has a short temper, has been traumatized for years or is on outright LIAR (clinton).

 
Comment by Jean

Senator McCain may be right about foreign policy experience: however, it would be reassuring if he could combine that experience with a little basic knowledge. Al Queda in Iran? Given the choice, I’ll side with knowledge. I’d also side with good judgement. The reader will draw his own conclusions on that one.

 
Comment by Jean, GA

Obama wants to surrender to terrorists because he is a coward and is afraid to fight or he is aligned with the terrorists and he really hates America.

 
Comment by Founder Guy

National defense is priority # 1. Without that, nothing else matters. Liberals would have us living in soviet style high rises working for fixed income, if the America public would let them.

 
Comment by dust

Devo-Mar: Most of those young minds were terrible presidents. With the exception of Grover Cleveland. Grant didn’t know what he was doing and let people take advantage of him( he had a good heart though). I don’t think I even have to say anything about Clinton.( yuk). John F. Kennedy started welfare programs that are bring this country farther into debt. Roosevelt presidency in many ways lengthened the Great Depression.

 
Comment by Bob LA is a d0uchebag

Nice try at a swift boat Bob LA….you are a disgrace to the armed services

 
Comment by Bob LA is a d0uchebag

If you really even served by the way

 
Comment by Ron Paul or bust

Watch this and if you still want to vote for McCain your crazy!

No hero is he!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s7kEb6Osqc

 
Comment by Devo-Mar

you would rather have the oldest president.
McCain - 72
Reagan - 69 not impressed with his tour
Harrison - 68 who? 31 day term of office

 
Comment by melissa woods

jean,
you must be delusional..

 
Comment by melissa woods

do you even know what a liberal is?? the real definition not rush limbaugh’s definition.

 
Comment by smokee

Jesse Jackson Jr.-from Chicago=Co-Chairman for Obama’s campaign
The natural reminder here is O.J. (Simpson), how does an African American candidate
attack a white woman?
=====================================================
Barak Obama-from Chicago
The quote below is taken from Obama’s book, “Dreams of My Father”:
There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. “A little too sure of
himself, maybe. And white.”

“I can no more disown him (Wright) 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”.

Said his grandmother is a “typical white person” who has fears about black men.
=====================================================
Michelle Obama-from Chicago
Michelle Obama’s thesis … is unavailable until Nov. 5, 2008, at the Princeton library.
Though she came from a black working-class neighborhood in Chicago, she writes that
“my experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before.
She further suggests that even if she assimilates into white society after Princeton,
she will “remain on the periphery of society: never becoming a full participant.”
“Blacks must join in solidarity to combat a White opressor”.

“For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country because it feels
like hope is finally making a comeback,”
=====================================================
Oprah-from Chicago
When Oprah opened her school for girls in Africa, she was asked a question that
she wasn’t prepared to answer. The question was, “Why don’t I see any white girls?”
Her response was with distain on her face was, “Oh, I don’t care about no white girls.”
It seems that the Oprah’s racism is demonstrated through her girls school that was opened
in Africa which is almost exclusively an all black school. When asked about this she claims
that she does not have to appease the white people in the country. Yet, in another news clip
she declares that she will not rest until every ‘black boy’ and every ‘black girl’ has had a
chance to prove their worth.

Oprah brags with her friend Gayle King on XM satellite radio about how she has an almost
all white staff, and calls them “good white folks.”
====================================================
Wright-from Chicago
“God d— America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a
2003 sermon. “God d— America for treating our citizens as less than human. God
d— America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme”.
====================================================
James Meeks-from Chicago
Called white American mayors “slave masters,” and referred to black preachers and
politicians who “protect” the “white man” as “house n-ggers.”
=====================================================
Moss-from Chicago
Otis Moss the 3rd, was the man you see slapping Wright on the back in encouragement
as Wright was celebrating the September 11th attacks. If Obama is correct that his
church is collectively not an anti-American, anti-White, pro-Hate church, then why
is Otis Moss the new pastor, why does Otis Moss not agree with Obama that the Youtube
Wright comments were despicable. Why was Otis Moss cheering on Jeremiah Wright when he
was celebrating the September 11 attacks on America.
=====================================================
Farrakahn-from Chicago
(The Nation of Islam: The Relentless Record of Hate Part 7):
Everywhere I go I wanna give the white man hell from the cradle to the grave. This is
a new generation of blacks and we say to you, white man, you either stop or drop.

He said of whites, “White people are potential humans—they haven’t evolved yet”

He suggested that the levies in New Orleans were bombed by the “white man” in order to
flood black neighborhoods.

He referred to the white man as “the anti-Christ”.
======================================================
Quannel X-from Chicago
Through special youth programs, the Nation of Islam has appointed a youth Minister to
reach the younger audiences of Farrakahn. National Youth Minister for the Nation of
Islam Quannel X is quoted as saying “This is the time of the black man’s rise and the
white man’s demise.”
=====================================================

Do you really think these Chicagoians will take America’s best interest to heart.
They all share something in common………….they share allegiance to their own race above all other things.

 
Comment by Devo-Mar

Mindbender,you forgot one thing;
YOUR VOTE DON’T COUNT!
The American People are not smart enough to decide for them self. Per the OLD MONEY.
Hillary is new money but older than Obama

 
Comment by Mindbender

Jean,

At the very least, Obama, is naive about Islamic terrorism. In fact, I think many here in America are, and that’s not a put-down, but an observation. Why would we know, we don’t live over there in it. Let me offer this observation. This entire melee in the Middle East is a clash over religion and folkways. Oil (no pun intended) and water do not mix. The I T are serious about injuring Isreal and, subsequently the U.S. Obama, I think, has it in his mind to make “friends again” with these given his ethnic background (deny it all you want, its Arabic, so get over it)which WOULD mean comprimising American ideals and principles or, said another way, giving in, at least somewhat, to that way of life. The question is simply: do you want to do that? If not, vote Hillary or McCain. Do not be fooled by liberal thought that it won’t come to that. All journeys start with one step. Example: when abortion became legal after Roe v. Wade, people against it eventually had to give in, but their rationalization was it was, at that time, only to be done in cases of rape, incest, or endangerment to the mother. Thirty-five years later, we are dicussed Partial Birth Abortion (or as the liberals say Late Term Pregnancy Termination). I am not suggesting here a offense to pro-life or pro-choice proponents, only illustrating how something can start slowly and become something else entirely, in time.

What’s this have to do with the election? The eventual allowance of Islamic folkways into the American system. This will eventually become ingrained and slowly take over pushing out other religions, etc. that differ. Didn’t Harvard University just allow Women their own exercise hours in the gym/workout center at the behest of, you guessed it, Moslem women who insisted no men be present, because of religious convictions. Next, prayer baths, next, no manger scenes, next….

Liberals will read this and immediately think, and maybe say, Oh, what is that all about, going overboard. Well, its not happening today, but that doesn’t mean it won’t tomorrow. So, perhaps some things to think about…

The ultimate goal of Islam is worldwide domination of the religion. If you don’t believe me, study the religion, it is very apparent that is true.

The election of Barack Obama will open the door a little wider for this to begin. This is becuase of his ties that are away from American. Can’t you list five or ten of these? Starting with his early education in Indonesia?

Use you common sense. You are being fooled here with this guy. It is not a black/white thing, it is a Judeo-Christian thing versus and Islamic thing.

Finally, I find it ironic that the very liberal people promulgating Obama’s ascention to the White House would be the very first to be beheaded, for their decadent ideas of “freedoms”, in an Islamic state. How ironic. Poor Bill Maher, he wouldn’t last one hour.

 
Comment by melissa woods

smokee—your selected quotes are the problem…..look at the whole picture!!! you can select quotes from anyone and SPIN it anyway you want. remember obama is 1/2 white…. he has a very unique perspective on things..

 
Comment by Debbie, NJ

I am a widow of a Vietnam veteran who earned a purple heart and silver star. He died from complications of Angent Orange. He was also shot 3 times and and one time thought to be dead.
I’m saying this to say that I am very sensitive to vets and our soldiers overseas now. But the war in Iraq is only part of this country’s problems. McCain may have war experience but he doesn’t have experience to run the US. This seems to be the problem with the Rep. They are so busy trying to rule the world at our country’s expense. Obama may not have military experience but he has people experience and I’ll bet on that any day.

 
Comment by Devo-Mar

Mindbender, what happened to seperation of church and state?

 
Comment by dust

Devo-Mar: What about Reagan weren’t you impressed about. Maybe you weren’t impressed that he built America military into the most powerful in the world. Maybe you weren’t impressed by the tax cuts that he iniciated.

Even though I’m a young person, I would much rather have a old president, than an unexperience guy like Obama.

 
Comment by Devo-Mar

Most black Americans are at least 1/2 white or other

 
Comment by Oligop

To “Reverand” Jeremiah Wright…

God D-mn you.

 
Comment by Sarah

To the Rude person attacking Bob you have no right too.

Google it for yourself or look it up McCain is hated by our veterans and he did sign propaganda statments and star in videos. He himself admits it.

So go easy on our veterans there lives have been hard enough our nation has treated them poorly. Not all of them got treated as well as John McCain.

Mostly because not all of them had a well conected dad. (McCain’s father was named Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command )

So be alittle more careful before you start calling people a disgrace it makes you look like a d0uchebag.

Sarah TX

 
Comment by Devo-Mar

Dust, I am very impressed with what Nancy Reagan did.

 
Comment by Mindbender

Of course, slowly that would be challenged, I think, because Islamic countries are typically theocracies. What I’m suggesting is a 50-100 year episode here, nothing overnight. History has shown people will give their freedoms away.

 
Comment by melissa woods

mindbender–how can you say that?? what about christianity??? with all the missionaries all over the world converting people…come on to say all people who are muslim are bad or evil is IGNORANT!!!! or for that matter to suggest all people of any group is bad is ignorant, i mean i know some lovely people that are republican!! about the middle east…you cannot force your way of life on anyone. if you go into a country you have to know the basic traditions and context of where people are to make improvements and changes. as we all know change takes along time. just look at our country. as for the abortion issue..as usual you have no clue. do you know the history of women’s rights in this country? do you know it was not until the 60’s that women could get birth control without being married??? when you start chipping away at someone ability to have the say over their own body. when all the people making the decisions about abortion are women then we can start the debate but i personally do not want a bunch of men with their own agendas deciding what i can and cannot do with my body!!

 
Comment by j.d.

umm,lets see !!!
LIES !!! BARACK FIBBIN OBAMA
1)HE WAS CONCEIVED BECAUSE HIS PARENTS MET AT THE SELMA MARCH (HE WAS BORN 4 YEARS PRIOR TO THE MARCH)(OOPS)
2) HE SAID HE SPOKE FLUENT INDONESIAN (OOPS)
3) HE IS A LAW PROFFESSOR (OOPS)
4) REZCO (5 TIMES)— HE WAS JUST AN ACQUANTAINCE, OOPS, I MEAN, HE WAS A FRIEND, OOPS, I MEAN HE WAS A BUSINESS PARTNER, OOPPS, I MEAN HE WAS A CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTOR OF 150 GRAND, OOPS, I MEAN 250 GRAND, AND I DIDNT KNOW HE WAS UNDER INDICTMENT , A BIGG OOPS,
5) I WASNT IN THE PEW, OOPS, YES I WAS, OOPS, ONLY FOR A FEW OF THE STATEMENTS
6) HEY, CANNUCKS, WINK, WINK ON NAFTA, OOOPSSSS
7) IF I WOULD HAVE HEARD THESE REMARKS FROM THE PEW, I WOULD HAVE LEFT THE CHURCH, OOOPPPS, I CAN NO MORE DISAVOW MY PREACHER AS I COULD MY WHITE GRANDMOTHER, OOPPS (THIS LEADS TO MY NEXT LIST(TERRIBLE JUDGMENT)

1) REZCO, OOPPS
2)REV. WRIGHT, OOPS
3)REV. MEEKS, OOPS
4)MICHELLE OBAMA, OOPS
5)REV. FARRAKHAN, OOPS
6)WILLIAM AYERS, (THIS WILL BE HIS NEXT BIG KNIFE WOUND), A BIGG OOPS
7)MY GRANDMOTHER IS A TYPICAL WHITE PERSON, OOPS
8)I DONT WANT MY CHILD TO BE PUNISHED WITH A “BABY” OOPS
9)I DIDNT READ MCCAINS FULL STATEMENT ON 100 YEARS IN IRAQ, I TOTALLY TOOK IT OUT OF CONTEXT ON PURPOSE, OOPS
10)I WANT TO GIVE ILLEGALS DRIVERS LICENSES, OOPS
11) I WANT TO RAISE CORPORATE TAXES AGAIN, SO INSTEAD OF OUR COMPANIES SENDING SOME OF THEIR BUSINESS OVERSEAS, THEY WILL JUST LEAVE ENTIRELY, OOPS
12)I WANT TO RAISE CAPITAL GAINS TAXES(THAT WILL AFFECT 6 MILLION ELDERLY, OOPS
13)I WANT UNIVERESAL HEALTH SO I CAN GIVE FREELOADERS INSURANCE AND MAKE HARD WORKING PEOPLE PAY EXTRA TAXES TO COVER IT, OOPS
14)I AM A MEMBER A BLACK SEPRATISTS CHURCH, OOPS

ANNDDD, SOME OF YOU MENTAL MIDGETS WONT VOTE FOR MCCAIN BECAUSE HE IS A WAR HERO, BUT THAT DOESNT QUALIFY HIM TO BE PRESIDENT…HOLY FREAKIN CR@P

 
Comment by Sarah

Ron Paul fan,

That video is powerful how can no one be talking about it ?

Sarah TX

 
Comment by barbara e

Sarah, you are an idiot. McCain was going to be released from the pow camp because of his family ties and he didn’t because he wouldn’t leave without his men. Because of that he had his arms broken many times ( that is why his shoulders and arms look as they do). Any one that states that McCain was at traitor was a liar. If he did anything such as the videos etc… it was only to keep his men safe. Why don’t you do a little research before you trash a hero. You must be on the Obama kool-aid.

 
Comment by Devo-Mar

mindbender, It is not a matter of what religion Obama is, it is a question of how Obama sees himself. Is Obama a Hyphenated American (Affican-American). IF he answers YES, then he is not a true American.