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February 12, 2007
Obama Just Demonstrated That He's Not Ready For Presidency
Topics: Political News and commentariesIs Obama ready to be president? Only to those incapable of rational thought.
I'm of the same mind as Scott at Powerline, who paints Obama as a not-readly-for-prime-player. By playing to the U.S. political Left, he showed his willingness to divide the country for political expediency while insulting one of America's steadfast allies in the WOT:
On his first day of campaigning as an official candidate for president, Barack Obama committed what would in days of old have been recognized as a major international blunder. Times have changed, of course. If you are old enough to recall the proposition that politics stops at the water's edge, you are probably incapable of suspending rational thought to join in the excitement over a not-readly-for-prime-player joining the field of Democratic candidates for the presidential nomination.More at Powerline ...... Obama not only insulted our ally, he formulated the insult in the inelegant fashion of an intellectual thug. CNN reports that Obama said if the Australian prime minister was "ginned up to fight the good fight in Iraq," he needs to send another 20,000 Australians to the war. "Otherwise, it's just a bunch of empty rhetoric," Obama said. In Obama's case, the phrase "empty rhetoric" is pure redundancy.
PM John Howard reacted angrily to the controversy during a session at the Australian parliament:
Pajamas Media has more commentary and puts Obama's ridiculous retort in the proper perspective:
In another curious reversal it was Rudd, not Howard, who warned against "angering" America over the Obama incident. Countering the specter of Osama with the threat of Obama, Rudd warned it was unwise, with the Democrats in power in the House and Senate, for Howard's to engage in a "personal" attack on a man who might very well be the next occupant of the White House. Howard, for his part chided Rudd for his worries about lèse majesté; the real danger, Howard warned, was not in lack of manner but in lack of faith. "I would say the greatest current threat to the quality of the alliance would be a sense in the United States that Australia had deserted her in her hour of need," Howard said. It was a curious assertion of equality from the leader of a country 1/15th the population of America, a reminder to everyone that Australia was not a blind follower of George Bush. It was John Howard's war too.Score one for Howard and Australia. As Charles at LGF notes, there we have the modern Democrat Party: they want to talk with our worst enemies, and pick fights with our best friends.
Posted by Abdul at February 12, 2007 9:29 AM
Three cheers for Prime Minister Howard!Good for him putting this daft, conceited, political upstart of Barack Obama in his place! For one thing PM Howard has not only proven himself a staunch ally of America through thick and thin, but he sure has shown to have much bigger
"cojones" down under than Obama and all his troupe of Democratic performing clowns in Congress combined!
Althor
Posted by: Althor at February 12, 2007 10:16 PM
Althor, there you go again holding back your feelings. I thought your anger management classes taught you to tell people how you really feel. LOL.
From your comment, can we assume you won't be voting for Obama?
Posted by: Richard at February 13, 2007 6:05 AM
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