Like him or not, listen to this speech by Obama 'cause I think HP'ers have had enough too. Poor guy though, he'll have one hell of a mess on his hands in January 2009.
Hey, I'm just tellin' ya how it's gonna be.
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday he is taking the initial step in a presidential bid that could make him the nation's first black to occupy the White House.
71 comments:
If only
WRONG!!!
Ron Paul. Ron Paul. Ron Paul.
Remember the name. this is the candidate which still believes in the Bill of Rights AND the Constitution. He also believes in abolishing the Federal Reserve Banking system and a return to honest money.
The MSM will go ga ga over this guy because he's a young black man with the ability to communicate (which we have been missing since W stumbled into the White House). Dont buy the hype. Turn off your TV and read up on Ron Paul.
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
remember his name.
if you still love America and want the best for your children.
Ron Paul.
I like Ron Paul and hope that he runs with Alabama guv Bob Riley. Both fiscal conservatives.
I love Ron Paul to but be realistic
2008 will be about positive change, great speaker, hope, anti-war, and generation x
Obama in a landslide, only question is who's his VP?
BWA HA HA HA HA!!!
Sure KEIF. That's just what the Democrats need to break the GOP lock on the South and Mountain States.
You see KEIF, in order for Obama to win, he'll have to win every state Kerry won and then some. Do you really think a black ultra-liberal, pro-abortion, anti-gun, anti-war candidate whose never seen a tax he didn't like is the guy to do it?
I know Bubba in Alabama is just itching to vote for a guy whose last name is HUSSEIN!! And I'm sure the libertarian crowd in Colorado and Montana is dying to vote for a guy who will raise taxes trhough the roof!!
Your delusions about the housing market have spilled over into politics too. Stop believing everything the MSM tells you. Obama has about as much of a chance of winning the presidency as my dog.
Ha! Not a chance. There won't be a black president in our lifetime.
last name should say middle name
I don't think black america will vote for him. Sad. They will be suspicous because something must be wrong if whitey wants to vote for him.
Isn't Ron Paul the guy who does the red carpet fashion commentary on E!?
The guy has two first names, no way he can win.
All anons should get on record with a user name so I can mock you in November 2008
Remember, I called the Dems winning house and senate earlier this year too when that sounded nuts
Obama 2008. It's gonna happen. Get used to it.
dailykos poll today
Who is your favorite potential 2008 candidate from the list below?
Bill Richardson
6% 421 votes
Barack Obama
27% 2020 votes
Hillary Clinton
4% 279 votes
John Edwards
38% 2778 votes
Wesley Clark
17% 1273 votes
Mike Gravel
0% 22 votes
Dennis Kucinich
4% 279 votes
Joe Biden
1% 72 votes
Chris Dodd
1% 64 votes
John Kerry
1% 71 votes
Tom Vilsack
1% 75 votes
Either he'll get rocked like Jimmy Carter, or he'll turn this whole messa round like FDR.
Either way, if I was him, I would not do it.....
I'd be inclined to go with the poll results. Edwards has populist tendencies, which will play well as the pathologies in American capitalism continue. And as Buchanan said last night, quoting someone (Truman?) - Americans will only go for something new if it's 75% old.
txchic57 said...
Ha! Not a chance. There won't be a black president in our lifetime.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:06:35 PM
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Why is it if some one is half white and half black, he's considered black?
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re: anon 5:49
Why is he considered black
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Its one of those infuriating things about the USA - and EVERYBODY in the MSM AND in the advocacy groups, hate type and supportive type play the game - and its wholesale - Why is Tiger Woods black ? He's got really mixed parentage and grandparentage - Why is Rick Fox (from the Lakers dream team) black ? He looked white enough to me.
It makes one go and read sociological works about racism - the myths and fears of miscegenation, one drop of blood theories - and leaves me shaking my head at the insanity of it all - that racism is truly a psychiatric disease.
But it will play a part in this race too. I worry about his physical safety quite honestly. Colin Powell's wife had it right in asking Colin to refuse elective office.
"The Man" won't accept this.
-K
Who is your favorite potential 2008 candidate from the list below?
where is big Al?
Sorry, it ain't gonna be Obama. That's delusional. It's gonna be Romney. He's got more character and qualification in his left pinky than all the other candidates combined.
The fact that this is the year 2007 and race is still considered relevant to a presidential candidate's chances, or even worthy of mention makes me all disconsolated.
"Why is it if some one is half white and half black, he's considered black?"
Someone should ask Obama what he considers himself. I'm pretty sure I know what his answer would be.
dailykos? BWA HA HA HA!! Jezuz why not put Michael Moore there, he'd probably get 40%. About as relevant a poll as asking members of the 700 Club their opinion on Pat Robertson.
Guess you libbies haven't figured it out yet. Only way a Democrat wins Prez is by being two things: Southern AND a governor. Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, Mondale, McGovern. LOSERS. Clinton and Carter...DING DING DING.
So go ahead and nominate Obama. Only question left on election day will be does he do better or worse than Dukakis.
Abolish the federal government!
Keith,
Wish it would happen..but I'm skeptical of his chances.
Never underestimate the racism and bigtory which is alive and well in this country. A vast undereducated underclass of Republican wacko whites who still think they are the one and only "Ameri-cuns". It will take at least 2-3 more generations to get all these cockroaches under control. Only when this white trash scum is cleansed will a woman or minority have a chance of being elected President in these United States.
Yes there is a Black factor, However,America is definitly ready for a Female or Black President etc.
Obama does not exude the confidence required to run this country. he does not appear like someone who can stand up and make the hard decisions.
so if you add up all of his pluses
he will never win in a real election. being a pretty boy is just not gonna cut it. Clinton on the other hand has enjoyed constant publicity from the right non stop. (even though negetive its the best marketing a candidate can ask for) so bottom line the Dem that has a real chance is Hillary. but the way the newly elects are acting i think Republican will win after all..being against the war in Iraq is getting old
Best approach - have the country be partitioned into say 4 regions, like a major sports league. Then there's plenty of room for all these wonderful candidates. Oh sorry, make that three (the desert SW reverts to our friends to the south.
I'm voting McCain.
From New York TimesDo Races Differ? Not Really, Genes ShowBy NATALIE ANGIER. Published: August 22, 2000
If races do not empirically exist, why are we sooo racist? The answer is inside our victorian ancestor's creative, yet evolutionarily imperfect, minds.
Sorry but I can't see Obama defeating the Hillary campaigning war machine. He's just a media sensation right now that will fizz out come 2008.
I'm already on record calling the Hillary/Pelosi victory for '08. This vagina regime will have us all by the balls. If you're a married man you're pretty much screwed.
To all you "he won't win because America is racist" folks: SHUT IT!
Do do you know anything about him? What's his stance on taxes? Guns? Illegal immigration? Gay marriage? You don't know because all you know is what the media has told you which is "he's black so he must be good". To me that is as racist as saying "he's black he must be bad". Judge him on his views, the issues, his personality etc...you know just like you would with any other candidate.
these wonderful candidates
Please tell me you are joking...wonderful? John Edwards wonderful? I suppose if you hate capitalism.
God help us all.
"Never underestimate the racism and bigtory which is alive and well in this country."
here we go again. now i'm a racist because i will not vote for obama.
yawn.
does that shit still work for you libs.
As the forum article in USA Today said this morning, we went into Iraq to get their oil for our oil companies. Our men are dying for the greed of George Bush. Can we ever vote Republican again? I can't, and I am an independent.
First of all, the radical Islamists would love the fact someone named Barack Hussein became President. Liberals may delude themselves thinking the Middle Eastern street will think better of us, that we'll be seen as more inclusive and accepting of their culture. Wrong. They'll see this as winning on their side. This will be interpreted as one of "them" getting in, despite the facts that Obama is African American, not of Middle Eastern descent and not a Muslim. Just the fact the name is Middle Eastern is enough.
Now I heard this guy talk and admit he's articulate, but it's just the same liberal BS I always hear. I can't find anything he's done that qualifies him to be President. He seems, basically, to have been a liberal activist in his younger days. Gee, just what we need.
In order to get to be President, you have to be ruthless and cunning, or at least those holding the strings need to be (like the current fool). You also have to have those traits to be a successful President. Obama may be intelligent and articulate, & a fine law professor, but presidential material he's not.
Now before I'm called a racist, I'd vote for Colin Powell in a second. As for why he's designated black, despite having a white mom, maybe he should be called a "mixed race candidate". The fact is, the guy may be 1/2 white and 1/2 black, but he looks far more black than white. That's not a racist statement, it's obvious. So it would be absurd to turn things around and call him the "white candidate". I suggest the "Euro-African American" candidate.
Hillary will eat this guy for breakfast. And I'm no Hillary fan.
Anon blathered-
" A vast undereducated underclass.. wacko whites... these cockroaches ...white trash scum"
Right-i-o, please answer me this one, Why is it black power salutes etc, are a blow for freedon, but anything with a white bias is seen as only a goosestep away from Jew gassing and clubbing babies to death?
And you have the nerve to call anyone for being racist?
Ron Paul would be great on economic/budget related issues, end the madness with some painful medicine.
However, does he not lean toward the Right to Life camp? Someone tell me I'm wrong please.
they all suck. Except Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is the only one who is an American first, and everything else second.
All the other scum are just about themselves and looting the treasury.
if we don't get a guy like Ron Paul. there will not be a country in 30yrs.
Hillary is HATED by the left and core democrat voters. In other words, she's toast in the primaries with an indefensible record on Iraq. She's also HATED by Republicans and Moderates. In other words, has no chance in the general.
Obama will win the primary simply because he was the only candidate correct on Iraq from the get go. Even Edwards is now apologizing for his vote.
So a sail through the primary and onto the general.
Who does he meet there?
McCain - too old, too grumpy and now wrong on Iraq
Rudy - way too many skeletons, soooo 2001.
Romney - way to Mormon (cult members are not allowed to be president)
Newt - way to Right
Condi - now that would be interesting
MARCH ON WASHINGTON TO END THE WAR!
Saturday, January 27
Assemble 11:00AM on the Mall between 3rd and 7th Streets
March kicks off at 1:00PM
The poll was taken at the Jan. 13 annual meeting of elected precinct committeemen of the Arizona Republican Party in Maricopa County, which includes the metropolis of Phoenix and is home to roughly 60 percent of Arizona’s population.
A total of 458 party officials voted for their preferred Republican candidates for president — and Hunter came out on top with 96 votes. Taking second and third place were former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 82 votes and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who received 53 votes.
McCain ran fourth with 50 votes.
Though the poll’s focus was very narrow, local officials said it provided early proof that McCain — though a major figure in national politics since his vigorous but unsuccessful contest with George W. Bush for the 2000 presidential nomination — faces challenges even on his home turf.
I'd be inclined to go with the poll results. Edwards has populist tendencies, which will play well as the pathologies in American capitalism continue.
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Yep, have to agree with you about John Edwards. Not only is he handsome and articute (both very important), but the guy's been positioning himself since 2004 and we already know what he stands for--saving the Middle Class and fighting poverty. IMHO, he has a good chance of securing the nomination....
Talk about a flip-flopper--that's McCain. Plus now he's trying to align himself with the right-wing loonies, which is so "last year" now that the November 2006 election proved both parties are heading away from the extremes toward the middle....
After reading a few posts on this thread: CONFIRMED!
A number of undereducated racist white trash scum in our midsts.
As per the cockroach theory, more are lurking, but out of sight.
The amount of bigoted wack jobs in this country never ceases to amaze.
"Anon said:
The poll was taken at the Jan. 13 annual meeting of elected precinct committeemen of the Arizona Republican Party in Maricopa County, which includes the metropolis of Phoenix and is home to roughly 60 percent of Arizona’s population.
A total of 458 party officials voted for their preferred Republican candidates for president — and Hunter came out on top with 96 votes. Taking second and third place were former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 82 votes and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who received 53 votes.
McCain ran fourth with 50 votes.
Though the poll’s focus was very narrow, local officials said it provided early proof that McCain — though a major figure in national politics since his vigorous but unsuccessful contest with George W. Bush for the 2000 presidential nomination — faces challenges even on his home turf."
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Arizona??!!??
Read this previously posted on this blog:
Phoenix, Arizona and it surrounding metro area is finding its
own level. Basically, a repository of mediocre poorly
educated bottom-feeders in search of cheap banal living.
This souless mix of transients, budget seniors,tatooed
misfits,real estate grifters,toothless white trash
tweakers, minimum wage job seekers and pseudo
Scottsdale millionaires has created a major population
center that masquarades as a major metropolis but is
really one big cow town.
A bleak barren landscape with terrible weather,traffic
congestion and bad air, its stuffed with ugly stucco houses
and big box retailers peddling Chinese crap, corporate
food, and populated by a dumbed down semi-literate citizenry,
Phoenix metro epitomizes the lowest commom denominator
of American cities.
If somehow, by either plan or accident, you're living
in metro Phoenix, you rank on the bottom rungs of the
intelligence charts. The only reason to be there
(temporarily), is if you're making a decent income
(absolute min. 250k per yr). Anything less is not
worth it, as your health, mental well being and
personal esteem will deeply suffer by living in this
genetic cesspool of half-breeds.
As someone posted here before,
Metro Phoenix, AZ:
"There is no there, there".
not a chance. This proves again how much of a cheerleading moron you are.
I'm going to run as Anonymous. I'll say I started my campaign on HP. Judging by the sheer # of anonymi here I'll have plenty of support.
That said, is it true txchick is the original bearded woman?
"Remember, I called the Dems winning house and senate earlier this year too when that sounded nuts"
Worng Keith, that is another example of your selective memory. I do not remember when the Dems taking back congress a thought that was considerd nuts. It is what the MSM was predicting and hoping. You really were ot laying it out there like you say you were.
To me that is as racist as saying "he's black he must be bad". Judge him on his views, the issues, his personality etc...you know just like you would with any other candidate.
You sound like a racist!!!!
Hey guys who don't understand racism... the best example of racism is using India as an example.
Here's my argument, both Freddie Mercury and M Night Shymalan, have relatives in India but are they of the same race? Absolutely not.
Freddie Mercury is of a non-Muslim, Zoroastrian and Christian I believe, Persian diaporic background and is completely Anglicized to the point where he's a defacto British rocker. Most of the UK loves him and if he were straight instead of gay, he'd be married to a Liz Hurley type and be a candidate for Parliament w/o a problem.
Now, let's look at M Night Shymalan, here's a successful director (despite the bad "Lady In the Water" reviews) who has no shot at any congressional spot in his state of PA. And why's that? Because he looks half-white/half-black a.k.a. south Indian/Dravidian but isn't integrated into either the latino or black communities of his region as expected by the American mainstream. That's an outsider and he'll always be one for the rest of his life unless he decides to move to American Samoa and learn the language there.
Freddie Mercury, being a visible caucasian, despite having relatives in a non-caucasian majority country, doesn't have the exclusion factor that Shymalan has to deal with when addressing the executives at Disney or the polls in Philadelphia because of his color. Freddie, if alive and straight, had possibilities for a life of politics in England. Shymalan, on the other hand, doesn't unless he pulls a Bobby Jindal of Louisiana move where he butters up a group of disenfranchised ragin' cajuns. But those are stunts and won't work in places like Philly where being a part of a community, black or latino, carries the weight in the politics of race.
Dr. Paul is a vanishing species. Far too decent a man to ever be elected president.
This country is so screwed.
And you can thank...no, not the boomers that so many of you want to blame all this mess on. You can thank your grand parents' generation for not hanging those evil bastard banksters, transnational fascists and politicans who illegally instituted the IRS, income taxes and a slew of other unconstitutional strangling "laws". May they and their progeny all burn in hell forever.
PorkFat Osama may be the political wet dream of today's youth but he's got stars in his eyes and could care less for you and yours. He's a POLITICIAN.
as an INDEPENDENT...i stopped voting for Republicans also as of Nov6, 2006, but i also stopped voting for Democrats in 1976.
So what is left. Get rid of them all. Vote in any person who will speak the truth about what they stand for.
take a stand.
Barack Hussein Obama... HIS FULL NAME.... stand for nothing but a postor boy of the facist media.
thy lie so much they can't even say his full name.
BARRACK
HUSSEIN
OBAMA
Is that a town in Iraq?
Bulls make money, bears make money... you all know the rest :-) I don't care who will be the next president, who is the one now?
IMHO, The USA has already gone into the shitter, and might as well let a black prez. finish the job, and become the lackey...
(Remember Raines at Fanny Mae?)
Everyone will want to blame someone, and a black prez would be perfect.
America IS an Enron.
A Republican will not win.
John Edwards is a political Ken Doll who borders on the smarmy side. He may or may not win.
Obama may or may not win. But for anyone who heard Edwards first, it sounds plagiarized and more powerful. Edwards will have a hard time against that enate magnatism.
The question is not going to be is America ready for a black President, the question will be is America ready for more of the same?
It will take another BJ in the White House before a Republican is elected again. Hey, wait a minute, wasn't it an intern that brought the Dems down? And wasn't it an intern that brought the Republicans down? Apples to apples, I rather have a philanderer in the White House than a child molester.
"I would rather have a black man in the White House than a Republican."
Simple logic Captain Kirk.
I am a white man, and I live in "libertarian" CO. Most of the time I vote Republican, but Keith has it right this time, and I think the winning ticket will be Obama/Richardson. It will be the Democrat's political equivalent of Bush/Cheney, but Obama has 10X the charisma of Bush and that will carry the day across many social and ethnic divides.
Dick Morris has analyzed the numbers and demographics leading in to the '08 race. White men's votes don't matter anymore because we have been marginalized. The next President will be elected by unmarried women, and given a choice between the shrill, wrinkled HRC and smooth-talkin' Obama, it's easy to see who wins that contest.
The Republicans are going to run an old man like McCain or Huckaby (good guys, but the wrong generation), and they will lose big.
>>Assemble 11:00AM on the Mall <<
I went down to the mall and all I saw was a long line at star bucks and some googy teens hanging around outside the gap.
RON PAUL !!!!
U.S. politics 101: Presidents come from the pool of former State governors. Not all the time but an awfully strong bet based on history, just look back at the presidents and count 'em.
Great, our first 'High Yeller' Chimp in da 'Crib.
We could install some jungle vines for him to swing on in his spare time. Congo Rice can be his Veep.
McCain is just as bad, if not worse. Doesn't McCain have a nigger kid?
obama will probably give amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens. thats why he wont get my vote.
Just posting, not taking sides.
Ron Paul: Next President Of The USA?
Texas Congressman enjoys support across political spectrum, anti-war pro-freedom hero represents America's last hope
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet
Friday, January 12, 2007
Ron Paul's office has confirmed reports that the Texas Congressman is set to run for the 2008 Presidency. Paul unites opposition to the war and the police state at home across the entire political spectrum and in contrast to the current gaggle of criminals running the White House, represents everything that America truly stands for. A gargantuan effort in support of Ron Paul needs to be mobilized now to prevent Americans from being hoodwinked once again into electing a different puppet of the same dark establishment in 2008.
Paul first ran for President as the Libertarian candidate in 1988, receiving a massive 400,000 votes. He now commands the support of those all across the political spectrum, from libertarians through anti-war Democrats to real paleoconservative Republicans.
Paul has been in and out of Congress since the 70's and is universally hated by the Republican elite, who routinely back Democrats against him just to try and get him out of office. The former Vietnam flight surgeon is the perfect candidate for President and activists from every corner of every political persuasion should mobilize now in an attempt to help Paul shatter the power monopoly of the Republican and Democrat establishment who have worked together for decades to slit America's throat in the interests of power, greed, and ego - all working towards the realization of a new world order.
The Texan represents a dying breed in Congress, those who actually cast their votes in accordance with the Constitution and not at the discretion of lobbyists or the fear that the elite will tarnish their political careers if they don't continually support the establishment. As a result Ron Paul is the elite's worse nightmare, simply having him on the ticket itself will be a massive public relations blow, and that's why media organs will probably be activated to try and discredit him before 2008.
Paul was one of only a handful of Republicans to vote against the illegal invasion of Iraq, contenting rightly that the Constitution clearly states that only Congress can declare war. In bucking a trend, Paul was anti-war long before the majority of the country came around to a similar way of thinking following the catastrophe of the occupation.
While Democrats soft-peddle and cozy up to Bush, creating phony arguments about the level of troop presence in Iraq and ignoring the majority will of the country to bring the troops home immediately, Ron Paul's opposition to unnecessary wars of intervention has remained steadfast throughout his entire political career.
If a gargantuan effort is made from now until the end of 2008 to heighten Paul's media profile and forward him as America's last hope, he truly has a significant chance of giving Jeb Bush, Rudy Giuliani or whichever elitist puppet the Republicans choose to put forward a real run for their money.
At the very least it's a chance to attract attention to some serious issues and hold the establishment's feet to the fire. But with the favor of the political landscape continually swinging away from the scam repeatedly run by the Republicrats and Democans, we should really start off on a positive footing and consider the fact that Ron Paul, though still an underdog, has a real chance of becoming the next President.
According to the Associated Press, "Paul bills himself as "The Taxpayers' Best Friend," and is routinely ranked either first or second in the House by the National Taxpayers Union, a national group advocating low taxes and limited government."
On every single issue of national importance - borders, the war, limited government, U.S. sovereignty, tax and the federal reserve - Ron Paul stands for populist ideals that the country is screaming out for after seven years of hell under Bush, preceded by eight years of disgrace under Bill Clinton.
Ron Paul voted against the Patriot Act, opposes the draft, advocates the abolition of the income tax, urges the re-introduction of the gold standard, and stands against initiatives to strip the U.S. of its sovereignty such as CAFTA and the FTAA.
From reforming Marijuana laws to supporting an unregulated Internet, to supporting the 2nd amendment, Ron Paul hits home with keystone populist issues across the board.
During several appearances on The Alex Jones Show, Ron Paul has consistently upheld his commitment to civil liberties, slammed the militarized police state that Bush has created and also called for immediate impeachment proceedings to be brought against the current incumbent of the White House.
President Ron Paul could truly return America to the great nation it once was and his decision to run is an exciting development that we should all embrace and stand beside him in the fight to restore some form of dignity to the office of President that has been completely absent since the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.
"Congressman Ron Paul is a dream candidate, a super patriot, a total Constitutionalist, an American hero."
"We must elect him President."
Alex Jones
1960 was the last time a sitting or Senator ran and won. Since then these are the losers: Kerry ('04), Dole('96), Mondale('84), McGovern('72), Humphrey('68), Goldwater('64).
On the other hand governor or ex-governor winners since then are Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush II. The only governor loser was Dukakis...and it was Dukakis for crying out loud.
So it's quite simple. Senators do not become president. Governors do.
And especially black 1/2 muslim Senators with Hussein as a middle name....they don't become president.
I'd say the mayor of NYC is in the governor category since NYC is bigger than 1/2 the states out there poulation and budget wise. If I were a betting man I'd say Rudy, Romney or Richardson and not McCain, not Obama, not HRC, not Edwards.
Ron Paul on Iraq:
January 16, 2007
The Irrelevance of
Military Victory
by Rep. Ron Paul
A military victory in Iraq is unattainable, just as it was in the Vietnam War.
At the close of the Vietnam War in 1975, a telling conversation took place between an NVA colonel named Tu and an American colonel named Harry Summers. Col. Summers reportedly said, "You never beat us on the battlefield." Tu replied, "That may be so, but it is also irrelevant." It is likewise irrelevant to seek military victory in Iraq.
As conditions deteriorate in Iraq, the American people are told more blood must be spilled to achieve just such a military victory. Twenty thousand additional troops and another $100 billion are needed for a "surge." Yet the people remain rightfully skeptical.
Though we've been in Iraq nearly four years, the meager goal today simply is to secure Baghdad. This hardly shows that the mission is even partly accomplished.
Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion-dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs! We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq – all at the expense of the poor and middle class here at home.
Plans are being made to become more ruthless in achieving stability in Iraq. It appears Moqtada al-Sadr will be on the receiving end of our military efforts, despite his overwhelming support among large segments of the Iraqi people.
It's interesting to note that one excuse given for our failure is leveled at the Iraqis themselves. They have not done enough, we're told, and are difficult to train.
Yet no one complains that Mahdi or Kurdish militias or the Badr Brigade (the real Iraq government, not our appointed government) are not well-trained. Our problems obviously have nothing to do with training Iraqis to fight, but instead with loyalties and motivations.
We claim to be spreading democracy in Iraq, but Sadr has far more democratic support with the majority Shi'ites than our troops enjoy. The problem is not a lack of democratic consensus; it is the antipathy toward our presence among most Iraqis.
In real estate, the three important considerations are location, location, location. In Iraq, the three conditions are occupation, occupation, occupation. Nothing can improve in Iraq until we understand that our occupation is the primary source of the chaos and killing. We are a foreign occupying force, strongly resented by the majority of Iraq's citizens.
Our inability to adapt to the tactics of 4th generation warfare compounds our military failure. Unless we understand this, even doubling our troop strength will not solve the problems created by our occupation.
The talk of a troop surge and jobs program in Iraq only distracts Americans from the very real possibility of an attack on Iran. Our growing naval presence in the region and our harsh rhetoric toward Iran are unsettling. Securing the Horn of Africa and sending Ethiopian troops into Somalia do not bode well for world peace. Yet these developments are almost totally ignored by Congress.
Rumors are flying about when, not if, Iran will be bombed by either Israel or the U.S. – possibly with nuclear weapons. Our CIA says Iran is 10 years away from producing a nuclear bomb and has no delivery system, but this does not impede our plans to keep "everything on the table" when dealing with Iran.
We should remember that Iran, like Iraq, is a third-world nation without a significant military. Nothing in history hints that she is likely to invade a neighboring country, let alone do anything to America or Israel. I am concerned, however, that a contrived Gulf of Tonkin-type incident may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran.
Even if such an attack is carried out by Israel over U.S. objections, we will be politically and morally culpable since we provided the weapons and dollars to make it possible.
Let's hope I'm wrong about this one.
Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo are decent fellows but they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of becoming President in 2008. Both are not very telegenic and neither one has much appeal with the block of voters who will elect the next President: single women.
Look around you guys, all black women are super-pissed, Latino chicks are pissed, white single chicks are pissed, elderly chicks are pissed. Throw in a few independents and you have a majority that will never vote for a Paul, Tancredo, Gingrich, etc.
Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo. Figures these would be your politcal heroes on this blog. A complete nutcase and a neo-nazi....nice.
If a sand nigger becomes president I'm moving to Canada.
"...the block of voters who will elect the next President: single women.
"
WRONG! Get your head of your ass...
The MAJORITY will be the ELDERLY!
And what do you call BROKE RETIREES????
Ans. LOYAL DEMOCRATS (ie socialized health care here we come! Where the majority get's all, while the QUALITY GOES TO SHIT!)
Im neither democrat, or republican. I think BOTH parties SUCK!
Im INDEPENDENT.
Have a nice day!
I hope he's in office when the Greater Depression hits.
People will be living in Obamavilles.
Worship that pigmentation you liberal scum!
Don't ask the New York Times anything about racism and expect to get the truth. They're a bunch of lying liberal scum like a lot of academics on the subject.
Races do differ. Read the Bell Curve.
What the hell is it with democrats and they way they pick presidential candidates these days.
It's like Paris Hilton walking around a club looking for who she's going to get screwed by.
"oh, he's hot and has a great line of B.S. Let's go."
Last time it was the breck girl, John Edwards, who everyone was falling over. Now its Obama.
Both of them are total empty suits. The politicians who tell you what you want to hear, never what you need to hear.
I believe the only reason Obama is the current hype is because many dems and the main stream media know that Hillary is a much weaker candidate than shown right now.
Sure she has a boatload of cash from wealthy liberals and her crew of "clintonistas" like Carville and Estrich who are some of the best character assasins money can buy.
But she's still a weak candidate with a ton of political baggage. The woman is despised like few in politics from both sides of the spectrum.
Why doesn't a random guy off the street become President?
Why does it have to be a governor of a southern or midwestern state?
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