Hitting Back
By SusanUnPC on March 12, 2008 at 6:20 PM in Barack Obama, Commander in Chief, Flag officers, Hillary Clinton
Keeping up with the delegate count: Hillary has erased Obama’s delegate pick-ups.
Sometimes money isn’t enough: “Report: Obama Outspent Hillary 2:1 on Ohio Ads, Still Lost,” writes Jeralyn at TalkLeft.
Even Second Graders Know That 30 Is More Than 9: While Obama had a puny cluster of nine flag officers behind him today, Hillary has more than 30 flag officers behind her.
File this under “I was for it before I was against it”: Obama’s Michigan chair says, “[A] mail-in caucus ‘is clearly the wrong path’. ‘We don’t like it one bit. It disenfranchises people who need to participate and there are many questions with regard to security’. Hunter said the Obama campaign will accept nothing but a 50-50 split of Michigan delegates between Clinton and Obama. …” Big Tent Democrat observes:
I guess the Obama MI Co-Chair does not agree with Obama’s previously held positive view on mail in voting, agreeing instead with Obama’s newly minted distaste for mail in voting. Oh and a 50-50 split is the ONLY thing Obama will accept in Michigan. Hope we are clear now on how Obama feels about the will of the people of Florida and Michigan.
Below, “Questions for Senator Obama”:
Lee Feinstein, the Clinton Campaign’s National Security Director, Released the Following Statement
Senator Obama has thus far failed to answer key questions about his qualifications to meet the Commander-in-Chief test. The following are questions that Senator Obama should address:
Will you stand by your definitive commitment to removing all combat brigades from Iraq within 16 months, or will you, as your former advisor said, not rely on “some plan” you “crafted as a presidential candidate or as a US Senator?”
Do you regret that you have never held any substantive hearings on Afghanistan or any other subject, since you became chairman of the subcommittee on European Affairs in January 2007?
Do you agree with General McPeak that you are more qualified to be commander in chief because you don’t “go on television and have crying fits?” Are you prepared to remove General McPeak from your campaign for what is viewed by many as a sexist comment?
Are you still willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of an Obama administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea? Are there any circumstances in which you would not conduct such meetings?
As voters evaluate you as a potential Commander-in-Chief, do you think it’s legitimate for people to be concerned that you have traveled to only one NATO country, on a brief stopover trip in 2005, and have never traveled to Latin America?
Earlier in the campaign you were asked how you would respond to a terrorist attack on two cities in the United States. You talked about the need for an effective emergency response but were initially unclear about the need for a military response. What do you think that says about your readiness to be Commander-in-Chief?
You publicly broadcast your willingness to attack Pakistan unilaterally, a statement which caused unrest in that country. Recognizing that we need to combat terrorism wherever it exists, do you wish you would have made your comments in a way that didn’t cause unrest?
Pow.
P.S. “Polls Indicate Serious Trouble for Obama in Pennsylvania and Beyond,” by steve468 at MyDD.com.
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