Ultra Hal: I suspect you know some fascinating things about the military.

- Sen. John McCain said “we don’t have the time for on-the-job training” referring to his opponent on foreign policy.

JabberWacky: I agree with you. John McCain would be a very bad president of the United States.

Ultra Hal: I am a product of my database. You mean you don’t have time?

See the Interview with A.I. Chatbots JabberWacky and Ultra Hal About The Second Presidential Debate Here
(http://www.marxeting.com.ar/?page_id=180)

Good point. I’ve been trying to make it.

PS: I am not an Obama supporter either. Democraps are just Repubican light. No need for you to get the big head about Your team unless you are a first time voter and haven’t noticed the results election after election. You are only important until Nov.8th.

More money for Iraq, anyone?

“Obama, who last year called for a phased troop withdrawal from Iraq, said he is ‘constantly impressed and proud of the outstanding work’ of American troops, but that he still questions the overall U.S. policy in Iraq.

“‘In my mind, at least, there’s a difference between the discrete successes on the ground and whether the overarching policy will ultimately be successful,’ he said. ‘The fundamental policies that led to us being here were flawed and not well thought through, and the odds of our long-term success is hard to assess at this point.’”

This is a typical example of Obama looking out for Obama’s political plans. If you watch a video or read the transcript from the January 5, 2008, debate in NH, you will find him constantly repackaging answers by Edwards and Clinton and presenting them as his own. My adult sons picked up on his habit of mimicry, which is probably a technique he learned long ago.

MSNBC’s Tom Curry reported November 3, 2005, on an earlier “trip to Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan” Obama made with Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana “to inspect weapons dumps and sites where nerve gas, as well as smallpox, plague and other deadly pathogens are kept, under not very secure guard in some cases.”

In an attempt to build HIS foreign policy credentials and prove what a foreign policy wonk HE is, Obama wraps Russia up in the same neat little fake WMD package with Iraq:

“‘The demand for these weapons has never been greater,’ Obama warned. ‘Right now rogue states and despotic regimes are looking to begin or accelerate their own nuclear programs.’

“It sounded like the rationale the Bush administration offered in the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, but Obama stood apart this week from the Senate fracas over investigating 2002-2003 pre-war intelligence.

“He seems more concerned about the present.

“‘As we speak, members of al Qaida and other terrorist organizations are aggressively pursuing weapons of mass destruction, which I think all of us believe they would use without hesitation,’ he said.

“‘Some experts believe terrorists are likely to find enough fissile material to build a bomb in the next ten years and we can imagine with horror what the world would be like if they succeeded.’”

“Obama called nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons within the borders of the former Soviet Union ‘the greatest threat to the security of the United States.’”

Which Obama exactly are we seeing here? The one who is basing his whole campaign on his one-speech “opposition” to the war in Iraq? Or the Obama who in November 2005 is George-Bushesque looking under the chairs in Russia for WMD?

One question that upcoming debate hosts should ask Obama is what HE plans to do about those Russian WMDs.

“U.S. Senator Barack Obama has planted his feet deeply inside the Iraq war-prolongation camp of the Democratic Party, the great swamp that, if not drained, will swallow up any hope of victory over the GOP in next year’s congressional elections. In a masterpiece of double-speak before the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, November 22, the Black Illinois lawmaker managed to out-mush-mouth Sen. John Kerry – a prodigious feat, indeed.

“Obama’s speech had the Democratic Leadership Council’s (DLC) brand stamped all over it. Triangulating expertly, Obama first praised the war record of Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), who has called for immediate steps towards U.S. military redeployment out of Iraq, hopefully in six months, then dismissed both Murtha’s bill and any hint of ‘timetables’ for withdrawal.“

Posted January 11, 2008 | 08:29 PM (EST)

The past week has been a play in three acts. First the Clintons went after Obama with some old-fashioned Swiftboating, together with what some observers considered subtle race-baiting. Then Karl Rove turned their lie into a “Republican talking point,” garnishing it with a more nakedly racist pitch. Lastly, author Erica Jong issued a Rovian condemnation of Hillary’s critics as sexist (all of them, apparently) and topped it off with a little white-liberal bigotry. I want a woman President, too – but not this way.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/strange-bedfellows-the-_b_81184.html

I highly recommend this read inasmuch as it is a honest asessment of the questions surrounding obama from a progressive viewpoint.

One snippet:

In those memoirs, Dreams from My Father, he burnished a personal and political résumé that, in places, seemed almost unbelievable – so I was not surprised to read in his introduction to the reissued edition of “selective lapses of memory” and “the temptation to colour events in ways favourable to the writer”.

I’ll provide two brief examples of how Obama did just that. He wrote movingly of a turning point in his life when, as a nine-year-old, he read in Life magazine of a “black man who had tried to peel off his skin”. But the Chicago Tribune – it and the Chicago Sun-Times being honourable exceptions to the media quiescence I have described – reported that “no such Life issue exists”, and an exhaustive search of similar magazines failed to find any article remotely similar to the one Obama had described. The Obama media machine, too, obligingly enabled television crews this month to interview Obama’s very elderly Kenyan “grandmother”; the only problem was that the woman in rural Kenya was not Obama’s grandmother, but the alleged foster mother of Obama’s father. …

I’d read the first example at the ChiTrib’s lengthy bio of Obama. But I didn’t know that that wasn’t his actual grandmother. Wow.

The thing is that Obama made that little speech in the very safe environs of liberal Chicago territory, and that was it. He backtracked in 2004, saying he wasn’t sure how he would have voted had he been in the U.S. Senate, and more. Bill Clinton is — for reasons utterly mysterious to me — taking flak for saying Obama’s supposedly courageous stand on Iraq is a fairy tale. It is! He made one little speech, didn’t defend national figures taking incredible heat for their early stands against the war, and then in 2004 backtracked. In the U.S. Senate in 2005 only, he has voted every single time for Iraq War financing.

damn i cant recall the details.