We are a day away from Super Tuesday. If you are thinking about voting for Barack Obama, consider whether he is the best candidate to go toe to toe with John McCain in the Fall election. Let's look at the attack line that McCain would undoubtedly use against an Obama candidacy.
Consider:
What is Senator Obama going to say when Senator McCain asks him why he is in favor of granting drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants as Obama has admitted at least twice in Democratic debates?
What will Senator Obama say when Senator McCain cites Obama's present position that undocumented workers will not be covered in his health care proposal, yet when he was running for the Senate he said that children of undocumented workers should get the same health care benefits that citizens get?
What is Senator Obama going to say when John McCain starts to ask people to compare Obama's qualifications to be president to McCain's experience? That his years on the Senate Armed Services Committee don't matter?
What is Senator Obama going to say when John McCain begins to ask him about negotiating in unstructured summits with the leaders of Iran, North Korea and Cuba without preconditions?
What will Senator Obama say when Senator McCain asks him why he said in 2004 that he did not know how he would have voted on the Iraq war authorization and that his view of the Iraq war was not different from President Bush's? What will Senator Obama say when Senator McCain compares Obama's votes to fully fund the Iraq War in the Senate to Obama's rhetorical opposition to that war?
What is Senator Obama going to say when Senator McCain questions Obama's claim to be "the most qualified person in America to conduct the foreign policy of the United States"? What is Senator Obama going to say when Senator McCain says that Obama is not one of the most qualified members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to lead this country in today's dangerous world but instead one of the most absent?
What is Senator Obama going to say when Senator McCain points out that Senator Obama has not conducted a single policy hearing as chairman of the subcommittee on European Affairs of the Foreign Relations Committee?
But, if Senator Obama is the DNC candidate whether as President or Vice President he must answer to some degree his avoidance of these issues.
The only way the Democratic Party can shield him from the harsh spotlight is to become VP. Hillary in the lead on foreign and Obama on domestic. It is almost an unbeatable ticket except that:
Some very ugly baggage will be chained to their legs. Bill Clinton will not stay out of Hillary's business! And that is what the Republicans are waiting for.
The Republicans are now almost united! The backroom brokering is going on! Fences are being mended. Money is flowing towards McCain. He must and will give in to many conservative demands. He is getting ready to kick Obama's ass with one hand tied behind his back. Hell need both to defeat Hillary.
At any rate, I strongly believe that Obama will lose to McCain and that Hillary will make a much more formidable candidate in the general election.
Have a great day. :)
If Obama wins the nomination a few of these questions should be asked before the presidential debates so he'll already have tested the waters.
C'mon press he's not fragile, don't worry, he can take it too. And if he can't, let's find out now.
McCain certainly is going to lose it after a few tough questions. He's a tried and true candidate for anger management, and will at some point during the debates, explode in front of the camera. Or should I say "implode."
To handle McCain attacks, Obama could tie McCain to Bush's "third term", especially in questions concerning foreign policy, with emphasis on the war, and an economic policy that favors the rich and the corporations. Since McCain has ventured into areas where he holds similar positions to those of Bush in an effort to burnish his conservative credentials,
Obama should point out any positions that are viewed as unfavorable to "true conservatives", such as immigration. He should seize any opportunity to correct any spin or omissions of fact concerning his own positions, putting forth his own views on the subject.
I've handled each of the points in this article but the software will not allow the complete post.
But after each point he would finish up by once again tying McCain to Bush's horrendous foreign policies, emphasizing the Iraq War debacle.
He should quickly tie McCain back to the Bush "third term" angle and the potentially horrendous outcome in store for America the election of a Bush clone comes to pass.
She has not yet seen a middle eastern war she did not like (iraq, Iran, Lebanon) .
Furthermore, she ruined health care reform for almost 2 decades, and now accepts more money from big insurance companies than anyone else in the US government than George Bush.
She supports kicking Palestinians out of Jerusalem and making it the undivided capitol of Israel, which will ensure terrorist attack against the US for Decades to Come.
Your questions of Obama are a CAKEWALK in comparison to Hillary's incompetence and utter lack of foresight and integrity
What about when McCain asks Hillary whether she would've turned against the war if it had gone well?
What about when McCain asks Hillary why her experience as first lady is somehow comparable to his over 40 years of military and public service and his 5 years in a Hanoi prison?
You act like Hillary won't be asked any tough questions that might stump her by McCain but Barack will be. Gimme a break. The Republicans have plenty of embarrassing questions to ask Hillary as well.
However, just two years ago, Hillary--the purported "expert" on international relations--said there should be "lawful authority" for torture in some cases.
(See, for example, www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0907/Hillary_and_torture_audio_version.html)
Her stand was opposite to that of every other major Democratic presidential candidate in 2007-2008, and the heat she took for it caused her to make one of her famous "flip flops."
If you can't make your mind up about a transcendent moral issue like this, what good is vaunted "experience"?