Obamavolk Prepare For Obama Blitz
Berlin is girding itself for up to a million spectators. The security cost to the city is closing on $500,000. And some Germans are already preparing not to like what Obama has to say.
Berlin is girding itself for up to a million spectators. The security cost to the city is closing on $500,000. And some Germans are already preparing not to like what Obama has to say.
At no point does the McCain campaign or anyone in the media point out what, exactly, is the danger to America if our closest allies actually, you know, don't hate us.
McCain aides said that the senator's journey to the Internet will span five days and will take him to such far-flung sites as Amazon.com, eBay and Facebook.
In the wake of the New Yorker flap, a shock Obama t-shirt has made news, raising questions about whether the provocative message it bears is ironic or just plain ugly.
Both candidates are embracing, rather than challenging, the fundamental irrationality of Bush's "war on terror," which substitutes hysteria for rational analysis in appraising the dangers the country faces.
If managing a presidential campaign is any indication of how these candidates will perform day one in the White House, it is McCain's campaign, not Obama's that should be worrying American voters.
As Obama's plane touched down in Afghanistan, Maliki's comments had a far-reaching effect on the war and presidential politics, with the Maliki government withdrawing from Bush and making McCain appear foolish.
It isn't just the American people who want us to leave Iraq. Now it's the U.S.-backed Prime Minister of Iraq. That leaves Bush, McCain and the neo cons as the only people still committed to this war.
This type of insulting nonsense will not go unnoticed or unchallenged by the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who've fought in both McCain's war in Iraq, and in the other war in Afghanistan.
It's official: Barack Obama will speak in Berlin before the Victory Column in the Tiergarten with the Brandenburg Gate just down the road. So much for the controversy.
The part I find so maddening about this turn of events is the reason given for the absence of a female contender.
Activists here say there are at least 100,000 dual national Israeli-American voters. During a 4th of July picnic in Jerusalem, "the volunteers were constantly busy, not a moment to rest. People were lining up to register."
What would you do differently in Iraq? Say it up top and be specific. Get readers and morning commuters to spill their coffee, what I call the "shock and awe" lede. Ok, maybe a bad pun.
McCain, the former press darling who once referred to the media as "my base," is so upset that press is following Obama, he's become whining and petulant about it.
We drove around the West Bank searching for Obama supporters, but even at venues with names in English, such as the Stars & Bucks cafe or Supermarket Baghdad, there were no Gobama banners to be seen.
Krugman predicte that "within three months of taking office, no, less than three months" the media would be out to get Obama, as much as they had at the high point of anti-Bill Clinton bashing.
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I think they should talk about the surge and the famous benchmarks.
remember the benchmarks? First the were supposed to be checked after 6 months. Then it was pushed back till September of 2007.
One website says as of Jan. 2008 only 3 of 18 benchmarks had been achieved.
Illegal wars of occupation have no future nor should they.
" to protect the interest of America and our allies and restructure a new order in the world", that is what Hagel said. The notion "interest of America" is dirty words that make US illegally invade sovereign countries, while the so called " a new world order" is not the f***ing business of you senator. You should mind your own business, turn the wall street sober, prepare for the next Katrina and Dolly, make gasoline affordable, and please get the hell out of places you don't belong.
I've heard quite a few Republicans using the MSM to kinda whisper at McCain to quit the "surge is working" stuff and move on to something of substance.
If the surge worked, why are we still there?
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