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Obama Calls Out McCain, Bush
May 16th 2008 5:30PM
Filed Under:ePresident Bush, Democrats, Barack Obama, Iran, 2008 President
If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate I am happy to have any time, any place.
The White House, meanwhile, did its level best to back away from the attack, playing the wide-eyed schoolgirl. From the NY Times:
During the White House press gaggle today in Saudi Arabia, Dana Perino and Ed Gillespie expressed shock (!) over the widespread Democratic outrage toward President Bush's remarks to the Knesset in Jerusalem yesterday.Missing from the White House's shocked reaction was a repudiation of McCain, who did specifically mention Obama.
It's a little gutless, if you ask me, but then again, so is having a diplomatic strategy that involves negotiating only after your adversary has capitulated to the demands youwish to negotiate for:
Tucker Bounds, one of the spokesman, said:So, once all that is done, they can sit down and negotiate what? A pre-nup?
There should be no confusion, John McCain has always believed that serious engagement would require mandatory conditions and Hamas must change itself fundamentally – renounce violence, abandon its goal of eradicating Israel and accept a two state solution. John McCain's position is clear and has always been clear, the president of the United States should not unconditionally meet with leaders of Iran, Hamas or Hezbollah.
Obama's response was right on the money. If the press isn't going to challenge the ridiculous notion that the Bush/McCain foreign policy has made America safer, perhaps it is best if Obama did it, face-to-face. Looks like the Bush administration, at least, doesn't have the stones for that fight. We'll see about McCain.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 5)YouBeturSweet Bippy6:18PMMay 16th 2008
Obamanation ..this is just the beginning. You chose to play the primary card and I am delighted..The Republicans will Dekakis you long before the convention. lol
YouBeturSweet Bippy6:20PMMay 16th 2008
What a shame to have to go to Foxnews to get some good commentary.. Not OReilly of course but a Harvard Law Professor
Susan Estrich: Could Obama Be Another Dukakis?
Monday, May 12, 2008
By Susan Estrich
LOS ANGELES — It is a thought that sends shivers down the backs of Democrats, a name that brings to mind memories of an election lost that might have been won, against a war hero once referred to in headlines as a “wimp” who won not so much by his own strengths but because of the skill of his operatives in painting his lesser-known opponent as an out of touch “liberal” who refused to salute the flag or admit his mistakes, not to mention his supposedly unpatriotic wife.
Could Obama be another Dukakis?
TJ6:27PMMay 16th 2008
TOMMY CHRISTOPHER, THE REASON YOU GUYS FEEL THAT BUSH HAS NOT MADE US SAFER IS BECAUSE THE TALL BUILDINGS AINT FALLING IN NEW TORK AND ATLANTA. YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHO ANMERICA IS FIGHTING AGAINST UNTIL WE HAVE A SOFTIE, LIKE OBAMA, IN GOVERNMENT.
THEY WILL ALL FLOOD INTO THIS COUNTRY AND BE THROWING BOMBS.
BUSH PROTECTED US BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO DO A THING..
YOU ARE ALL AS NAIVE AS OBAMA . THE GUY HAS NO CLUE..
I THINK HILLARY SHOULD NEVER SUPPORT OBAMA AGAIN IN THESE MATTERS.
OBAMA CAME IN HERE WITH JEREMIAH WRIGHT IDEAS AND IS GRADUALLY LEARNING AND CHANGING POSITION. INITIALLY, HE BELIEVED WE SHOULD NEGOTIATE UNCONDITIONALLY. HIS IDOL WAS CHAVEZ WHERE HE GOT "YES, WE CAN!!"
TJ, THE CLINTONITE.
Katherine6:33PMMay 16th 2008
Obama thinks the world revolves around him.
Bush is a lame duck, and his poll numbers are low, he should just go after Obama, even though he would be attacked for it. He should call him out by name.
--Also, it's pretty pathetic that Obama would want to debate or talk with McCain or Bush, when he is too afraid to meet with a woman in his own party because he knows that she is stronger and smarter than him and everyone else combined.
The media, corrupt DNC, and paid off supers will not force an Obama nomination without a revolt to get back at them.
TJ6:40PMMay 16th 2008
OBAMA IS PROMISING HIS CULT FOLLOWERS HE WILL CHANGE WASHINGTON. THATS WHY WE HAVE A CONSTITUTION. THE AIM IS NOT TO CHANGE THINGS TOO MUCH. IF HE ATTEMPTS CHANGING TOO MUCH, WE WILL IMPEACH HIM.
MOVEMENTS, REVOLUTIONS, CHANGAMANIA...HOPEAMAINA, YOU GUYS ARE CRAZY.."YES WE CAN" BORROWED FROM A MAOIST, MARXIST IN SOUTH AMERICA.
CLINTON, PLEASE STAY OUT OF THIS.. LET OBAMA FIGHT HIS OWN DEMONS...
"IS THIS A SWORD THAT I SEE, LET ME PLUCK IT".. IT WILL GET TO THAT POINT FOR OBAMA.
HE IS STOOGE OF MOVEON.ORG, CHANGAMANIACS, MISOGYNISTS, WOMEN -HATERS. MARXIST SENDING HIM MONEY TO BUY AMERICA...
HILLARY OR MCCAIN 08.
TJ, BILL CLINTONITE, OBAMAMANIA BUSTER
KMD6:42PMMay 16th 2008
I hear you Katherine!
Obama could not keep up with Hillary in the debates.
Anybody have the GOP address?
I want to encourage them.
I think it is great that Obama is up against the ropes.
Hillary was too kind to him.
Bye Obama6:45PMMay 16th 2008
I am with most of the USA population when it comes to Bush..but I think it is pretty bad when it is even obvious to EVEN Bush all the terrorists implications Obama has with his never list of terrorist associations.Rezko, Farragon, anti american Rev. Wright.I THINK AMERICA REALLY NEEDS TO TAKE ACTION AND PUT A STOP TO PUTTING A TERRORISTS ASSOCIATED PERSON AS OBAMA in the WHITE HOUSE It is plain ignorant.!Obama's muslim father was part of the most corrupt organization in Africa where they killed, raped and were arsonist, Obama's Muslim step father put his step son in the Terrorist Jakarata Wahabbi school where they are taught to wage Jihad on the rest of the world.Obama's cousin Raila Olinga is causing a horrible uprising in KEnya where l,000 people have died..and schools are burned???ARE WE SUPPOSE TO BE IDIOTS HERE??DO WE NOT SEE A BACKGROUND LIKE NO OTHER CANDIDATE IN THE HISTORY OF ANY PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES?? See THe Political Forum
Campaigns andELections by Latisha..and US Veteran Dispatch l2/2006 OREGON STAND WITH PA.WEST VIRGINIA, OHIO>DON"T VOTE A TERRORIST ASSOCIATED OBAMA..VOte Hillary Clinton as the Clintons had the longest peace keeping time in the History of the USA and the biggest economic growth..this is a no brainer..THESE ARE THE TWO BIGGEST ISSUES TODAY! ARE PEOPLE BRAIN DEAD>>Barack Hussein Obama SAID IN HIS BOOK.."IF THE POLITICAL WINDS OF CHANGE TURN UGLY I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS?????????????????? WAKE UP AMERICA!!!GOD BLESS AMERICA WITH HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 2008!
Bye Obama6:49PMMay 16th 2008
NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE HATE OBAMA>>THE ONLY REAL CANDIDATE THAT CAN HELP AMERICA AND HAS THE PROVEN RECORD OF BEING IN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE WHITE HOUSE DURING THE LONGEST PEACE KEEPING TIME AND BIGGEST ECONOMIC GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES>>AND WE NEED NOT TO FORGET IT AND NOT VOTE FOR MORE OF THE SAME McCAIN!! WRITE IN HILLARY OR PRAY SHE GOES INDEPENDENT!!NO Barack Hussein Obama no born muslim terrorist associated in the "wright" house...HILLARY 2008!! NOT 2012!
Bye Obama6:49PMMay 16th 2008
Kentucky stop terrorist associated Obama from taking over the White House stand with West Virginia, Ohio, Pa.ect..VOTE HILLARY the only experienced and accomplished candidate the true patriot not a terrorist associated Barack Hussein Obama!! Hillary 2008!
Dave6:53PMMay 16th 2008
How is it that "Zero"bama can sit in a church for 20 years and claim he never heard his pastor say anything wrong, but can feel personally attacked by President Bush based on a 20 second statement whereby his name was never mentioned?
lmay7:03PMMay 16th 2008
Lets play what if...Read this article that was written in 2006...Canadian free press. These are facts folks.
Barack Obama a Muslim apostate headed for the White House?
By Judi McLeod
Friday, March 10, 2006
How does a senator who came from out of the fog land himself front and center on the pages of USA Today, where he's touted as "the new face of change and reform for the democratic party?"
Move over, Hillary, Barak Obama is here.
Some Dems can trump Material Girl Madonna reinventing themselves. During the last presidential campaign, John Kerry made much of having the same initials as President JFK.
Barak Hussein Obama's name only rhymes with Saddam Hussein Osama, but he did try to parallel the life of President Abraham Lincoln with that of his own--and did it in the mainstream media.
As Gateway Pundit aptly points out, "Lincoln was a humble man. He did not compare himself after six months in office to great men from history."
Without the media, could Barak Obama have discovered the fast track to fame?
Looking at his day job, the Senator from Illinois is a senior lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Make that the Rockefeller-funded U of C, a school that is Rockefeller down to the bone.
Obama's Dad, a Muslim from Kenya, left home when he was two. His Mom remarried and went with her new husband to Indonesia where Obama lived during his salad years. It is well known that Obama, the teenager lived with his grandparents in Hawaii, where he attended the same school attended by Hawaii royalty. Yet little is known about who Obama's step father was. But some say that he was an Indonesian national and a Muslim.
Still, Obama must have attended school in Indonesia. Is it possible that as a young Muslim boy he went to a Saudi madrassa?
Yes, that's a possibility.
The chapters in the Life and Times of Barak Obama always race ahead. It was during one of those chapters when we found him taking up community organizing in the Altgeld Gardens housing project on the south side of Chicago, when he converted to Christianity, formerly being secular. (www.brainsip.com).
As a fledgling Christian, Obama didn't join just any church. He joined the United Church of Christ.
The United Church of Christ is very anti-Israel and supports divestment. It also sponsors speeches at its many functions by the Arab "Christian" pro-terror religious organization, Sabeel. Sabeel holds some of its biggest meetings in Chicago., (www.scoop.,co,nz/stories/HL0510/500139.htm).
The Democrats attract the majority of Jewish voters and funding, and this guy is being grooned as their golden boy?
Essentially Obama is a Christian convert--but also then a Muslim apostate.
The "What If" category of "the new face of change and reform for the democratic party" doesn't get written up by the mainstream media.
What if Obama is engaged in pious fraud? This is a Muslim practice of pretending not to be Muslim to further the cause of Islam or to "defend the faith". He becomes President and then says, "Gee…I think I want to be Muslim again" after he finds the "football" in his hands that carries the launch codes for the USA nuke forces.
Is the "New Face" theory espoused in USA Today, New Face as in the "Portrait of Dorian Grey"?
What if Obama's into Pious Fraud Islam–Hudaibiyah treaty"kiss the hand of your enemy until you can cut it off"? (www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/708295/posts). Not Obama? Remember the pictures of the little kids bobbing their heads up and down at the madrassas? They are all of the age Obama would have been in back in Indonesia.
What if the converted-to-Christianity Barak Obama decides to exercise his right to revert back?
President George Bush converted to Methodism and Justice Thomas converted to Catholicism and Jeb Bush did as well.
Then what?
Currently, Obama is an apostate as far as Islam is concerned. This is a fact and not a conspiracy theory. They say all babies are born Muslim but then parents of infidel religions brainwash the baby Muslims into other lesser faiths. That is a fact.
What must be done with an apostate of the Muslim faith? Give him a chance to convert back to Islam.
Obama is soft on the handover of the ports to Dubai.
Obama's Mom met his step Dad at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii. The Center gets money from Bill Gates, the Rockfellers and, of course the United Nations.
Obama went to Occidental college, whose motto is "West is nearest to the East".
Occidental College has a historic connection to the Summer Institute of Linguistics (now known as SIL International.) Associated with the Rockefellers, SIL has something going on in Dubai (www.finanz-adressen.de/asien/UAE-info.,html,) Scroll down three quarters of the way until you see their blinking pyramid logo.
Meanwhile hype notwithstanding, "the new face of change and reform for the democratic party" is no Abe Lincoln, but could be the most upwardly mobile Muslim of the millennium.
Think about your vote..I still have hope for Hillary to win this thing. Rumor has it there is a video of Michele/Zira Obama getting ready to be released. It's her in their church!!! I am eagerly awaiting it's arrival.
Go Hillary!! If not Mccain has my democratic vote. No doubt.
lmay7:05PMMay 16th 2008
I listened to most of this press conference today..he is scary. He is clueless and should never be president.
lmay7:14PMMay 16th 2008
For you obama supporters who didn't take the time to read my long post because its anti Messiah...here is a short version...
What if Obama is engaged in pious fraud? This is a Muslim practice of pretending not to be Muslim to further the cause of Islam or to "defend the faith". He becomes President and then says, "Gee…I think I want to be Muslim again" after he finds the "football" in his hands that carries the launch codes for the USA nuke forces.
Is the "New Face" theory espoused in USA Today, New Face as in the "Portrait of Dorian Grey"?
What if Obama's into Pious Fraud Islam–Hudaibiyah treaty"kiss the hand of your enemy until you can cut it off"? (www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/708295/posts). Not Obama? Remember the pictures of the little kids bobbing their heads up and down at the madrassas? They are all of the age Obama would have been in back in Indonesia.
What if the converted-to-Christianity Barak Obama decides to exercise his right to revert back?
President George Bush converted to Methodism and Justice Thomas converted to Catholicism and Jeb Bush did as well.
Then what?
Mike7:16PMMay 16th 2008
This is nonsense...Barack Hussein should have agreed with Bush & McCain...Obama...and all the bleeding left-wing liberals were not even named...what a typical pile of crap!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - The Reality from the Office of Barack Hussein:
My fellow Americans. Please do excuse my McGlassJaw and my McInexperience. If Allah comes through for me and I somehow win - I know I'll need on-the-job training...a lot! Thank you for your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor's relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi and why I am a disciple of his or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change. I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency. Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I can talk-the-talk...even if I can't walk-the-walk. I make people feel good. Thank You.
griffin7:18PMMay 16th 2008
I THINK O'BAMA SHOULD TAKE A LIE DETECTOR TEST SO THAT THE PEOPLE CAN SEE HOW MUCH IS TRUE AND HOW MUCH IS B/S......AND DO THE SAME TO THE OTHER TWO THAT ARE RUNNING AND WHO EVER IS TELLING THE LEAST AMONT OF B/S WIN'S
lmay7:31PMMay 16th 2008
After the video of Michele O/Zira comes out....Al Gore will endorse Hillary!!!
Go Hillary...Go Hillary. You are the only hope the democratic party has. Stay in this thing, give it your best!!!
Old Lady USA7:33PMMay 16th 2008
YouBeturSweet Bippy 6:20PM May 16th 2008
Nice Try - but....
Even Dukakis doen't think THEY will Dukakis Obama.
Now, I should give you the program I saw that interview, sorry I don't have it. I know the show was within the last week, and no dreams are involved.
So you can call me on my reference, but if you check, I believe you'll find your point is old and void.
Besides, tactics like the "Dukakis" effect are in the "Old School" political tool kit.
I'll try to find a ref. to the interview, and will post if I find it.
Thanks for listening.
griffin7:34PMMay 16th 2008
WHY DOSE O'BAMA THINK EVERY ONE IS OUT TO GET HIM? NOW HE'S ATACKING BUSH,HELL BUSH ISN'T RUNNING AGAINST HIM,HILARY AND MC'CAIN WAS THE LAST TIME I CHECKED AND I SEE EDWARDS IS SUCKING UP BIG TIME MAYBE THATS THE ONLY WAY FOR EWARDS TO GET INTO THE WHITE HOUSE IS TO BE O'BAMAS BUT BUDDIE
devilspeak7:35PMMay 16th 2008
hillary said, obama does not have the "experience" to be commander in chief. the united states of america does not negoiate with terrorists.......simple foreign policy. see why obama is wrong ! he is the one that is niave and that niativety is dangerous. inexperienced, bad judgments, no thank you, senator obama. and how dare you think that you can even play in the same ball park with a war hero, john mccain ? you are a fool....
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Budo6:09PMMay 16th 2008
Obuma has no clue regarding anything. Show me the beef, any beef other than his prescripted vaporous rhetoric. He has done nothing, lead nothing and speaks in drivel.
This fake would be the worst candidate I have seen in my 40 years of voting. If he is nominated, I would for the first time not vote DEM--PERIOD!