Comments on: Legitimate questions of judgment, experience http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:32:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Remember When Obama Said He Chaired the Banking Committee (Chris Dodd’s Committee)? : NO QUARTER http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-796577 Remember When Obama Said He Chaired the Banking Committee (Chris Dodd’s Committee)? : NO QUARTER Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:05:56 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-796577 [...] “Legitimate questions of judgment, experience” by Joseph Wilson, May 4, 2008 As the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee [...] [...] “Legitimate questions of judgment, experience” by Joseph Wilson, May 4, 2008 As the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee [...]

]]> By: Sarah Palin To Meet Karzai : NO QUARTER http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-754904 Sarah Palin To Meet Karzai : NO QUARTER Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:08:05 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-754904 [...] Joseph Wilson’s “Legitimate questions of judgment, experience,” May 4, 2008, republished from the op-ed pages of the the North Carolina News & [...] [...] Joseph Wilson’s “Legitimate questions of judgment, experience,” May 4, 2008, republished from the op-ed pages of the the North Carolina News & [...]

]]> By: TeakWoodKite http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-223034 TeakWoodKite Mon, 05 May 2008 04:12:08 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-223034 Thank you for his services and your families' sacrifice. I was going to say more but words just don't cut it. Neither will Obama's training wheels. --- <em>Judgment and leadership in foreign policy are not intuitive</em> Amb. Wilson, is it that the facts, in a particular dynamic, are separate from intuition in the final? I see a set of facts and may draw a "conclusion" about them, but it tickles when I make an overt attempt to leave out intuition from the equation. Why is that? The economy of your words highlight what a simple, straight forwared interview Obama is for the job of POTUS. He won't make the cut for a second interview, so why pretend the first one was any better? You point this out so painfully well,thanks. Thank you for his services and your families’ sacrifice. I was going to say more but words just don’t cut it. Neither will Obama’s training wheels.
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Judgment and leadership in foreign policy are not intuitive

Amb. Wilson, is it that the facts, in a particular dynamic, are separate from intuition in the final?

I see a set of facts and may draw a “conclusion” about them, but it tickles when I make an overt attempt to leave out intuition from the equation. Why is that?

The economy of your words highlight what a simple, straight forwared interview Obama is for the job of POTUS. He won’t make the cut for a second interview, so why pretend the first one was any better? You point this out so painfully well,thanks.

]]> By: hillarysmygirl http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222919 hillarysmygirl Mon, 05 May 2008 03:15:21 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222919 Thank you Ambassador Wilson, as always, you are a beacon of truth. I am eternally grateful for your courage and wisdom. Thank you Ambassador Wilson, as always, you are a beacon of truth. I am eternally grateful for your courage and wisdom.

]]> By: stodghie http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222842 stodghie Mon, 05 May 2008 02:48:31 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222842 it gives me hope to see sanity with larry and ambassador wilson. oh, and i can forget the great posters here either. (smile) it gives me hope to see sanity with larry and ambassador wilson. oh, and i can forget the great posters here either. (smile)

]]> By: stodghie http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222840 stodghie Mon, 05 May 2008 02:46:57 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222840 hmm and he never wrote for the harvard law review either. interesting! hmm and he never wrote for the harvard law review either. interesting!

]]> By: glenn http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222743 glenn Mon, 05 May 2008 01:35:10 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222743 Thank you, thank you, thank you Mr. Wilson, so good to have real information from an adult. Loved your wife's book by the way and now I'm ordering yours as well. Keep up the fight, we need you now more than ever. Thank you, thank you, thank you Mr. Wilson, so good to have real information from an adult. Loved your wife’s book by the way and now I’m ordering yours as well. Keep up the fight, we need you now more than ever.

]]> By: OxyCon http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222583 OxyCon Sun, 04 May 2008 23:49:15 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222583 Obama wants everyone to believe that he never saw Rev Wright behave in a radical, anti-American, bigoted manner, or knew that he behaved this way during a twenty year relationship which Obama himself has said was very close and personal. Now, if we were to believe that this is true, like Obama wants us to believe, then this utterly destroys the notion of Obama having not only “superior” judgment, or even “good” judgment. It shows that Obama has extremely poor judgment for either willingly associating with these kinds of undesirable people, or extremely poor judgement for being associated with an undesirable person and not being able to recognize such undesirable personality traits in someone for over twenty years. If Obama willingly associated with the undesirable Rev Wright, or if he really did have no idea that Rev Wright displayed such undesirable personality traits during a twenty year relationship, how can anyone in their right minds ever trust Obama’s judgment when he is dealing with the world’s despotic leaders such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-il? Or radical terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezzbullah? If Obama thought Rev Wright was a good man for twenty years, then how are we to know that he doesn’t also think that Hamas, Hezbullah, Ahmadinejad and Kim are good, even if he now says they aren’t? Obama wants everyone to believe that he never saw Rev Wright behave in a radical, anti-American, bigoted manner, or knew that he behaved this way during a twenty year relationship which Obama himself has said was very close and personal.
Now, if we were to believe that this is true, like Obama wants us to believe, then this utterly destroys the notion of Obama having not only “superior” judgment, or even “good” judgment. It shows that Obama has extremely poor judgment for either willingly associating with these kinds of undesirable people, or extremely poor judgement for being associated with an undesirable person and not being able to recognize such undesirable personality traits in someone for over twenty years.
If Obama willingly associated with the undesirable Rev Wright, or if he really did have no idea that Rev Wright displayed such undesirable personality traits during a twenty year relationship, how can anyone in their right minds ever trust Obama’s judgment when he is dealing with the world’s despotic leaders such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-il? Or radical terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezzbullah?
If Obama thought Rev Wright was a good man for twenty years, then how are we to know that he doesn’t also think that Hamas, Hezbullah, Ahmadinejad and Kim are good, even if he now says they aren’t?

]]> By: hummingbirdv http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222549 hummingbirdv Sun, 04 May 2008 23:17:59 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222549 Exactly and Right On! For anyone interested the Congressional Records have the speech Hill gave on the Senate Floor when they did the vote. I'm sorry I don't have the link but all you savy folks can find it I'm sure. The point is she is brilliant in cautioning Pres. Bush to use the authority wisely and with caution... using all diplomatic means available. Unfortunately, Bush had his own agenda. Excellent article. Thank you. Exactly and Right On! For anyone interested the Congressional Records have the speech Hill gave on the Senate Floor when they did the vote. I’m sorry I don’t have the link but all you savy folks can find it I’m sure. The point is she is brilliant in cautioning Pres. Bush to use the authority wisely and with caution… using all diplomatic means available. Unfortunately, Bush had his own agenda.

Excellent article. Thank you.

]]> By: Hillary’s Voice http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222436 Hillary’s Voice Sun, 04 May 2008 21:45:43 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222436 [...] Legitimate questions of judgment, experience (by former ambassador Joseph Wilson) SANTA FE, N.M. - In recent weeks Americans have been subjected to a litany of outrageous statements from Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. While Obama was finally compelled to distance himself from his radical preacher, the relationship raises legitimate questions about Obama’s judgment and naivete.  Obama, after all, wants to be president of the United States… Judgment and leadership in foreign policy are not intuitive. They are learned through experience. Obama’s long and close relationship with the anti-American hate-monger Wright, his inattention to his responsibilities in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his careless approach to Iraq all suggest that he would benefit from more experience. We should ask whether we want those lessons to be learned in the White House. [...] [...] Legitimate questions of judgment, experience (by former ambassador Joseph Wilson) SANTA FE, N.M. – In recent weeks Americans have been subjected to a litany of outrageous statements from Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. While Obama was finally compelled to distance himself from his radical preacher, the relationship raises legitimate questions about Obama’s judgment and naivete.  Obama, after all, wants to be president of the United States… Judgment and leadership in foreign policy are not intuitive. They are learned through experience. Obama’s long and close relationship with the anti-American hate-monger Wright, his inattention to his responsibilities in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his careless approach to Iraq all suggest that he would benefit from more experience. We should ask whether we want those lessons to be learned in the White House. [...]

]]> By: Make Them Accountable / Media & Politics http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222405 Make Them Accountable / Media & Politics Sun, 04 May 2008 21:07:16 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222405 [...] Legitimate questions of judgment, experience (by former ambassador Joseph Wilson) SANTA FE, N.M. - In recent weeks Americans have been subjected to a litany of outrageous statements from Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. While Obama was finally compelled to distance himself from his radical preacher, the relationship raises legitimate questions about Obama’s judgment and naivete.  Obama, after all, wants to be president of the United States… Judgment and leadership in foreign policy are not intuitive. They are learned through experience. Obama’s long and close relationship with the anti-American hate-monger Wright, his inattention to his responsibilities in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his careless approach to Iraq all suggest that he would benefit from more experience. We should ask whether we want those lessons to be learned in the White House. [...] [...] Legitimate questions of judgment, experience (by former ambassador Joseph Wilson) SANTA FE, N.M. – In recent weeks Americans have been subjected to a litany of outrageous statements from Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. While Obama was finally compelled to distance himself from his radical preacher, the relationship raises legitimate questions about Obama’s judgment and naivete.  Obama, after all, wants to be president of the United States… Judgment and leadership in foreign policy are not intuitive. They are learned through experience. Obama’s long and close relationship with the anti-American hate-monger Wright, his inattention to his responsibilities in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his careless approach to Iraq all suggest that he would benefit from more experience. We should ask whether we want those lessons to be learned in the White House. [...]

]]> By: Dawnelle http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222338 Dawnelle Sun, 04 May 2008 19:59:41 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222338 This article originated in New Mexico? GOOD - that will stick it to a certain stooooopid Gov. What's he gonna do when Hillary wins and his shot at GREATNESS evaporates with Obama's ill wind? What EvA Bill Richardson. Crazy Carville is right about you! (grr) This article originated in New Mexico?

GOOD – that will stick it to a certain stooooopid Gov.

What’s he gonna do when Hillary wins and his shot at GREATNESS evaporates with Obama’s ill wind?

What EvA Bill Richardson. Crazy Carville is right about you! (grr)

]]> By: Ndree http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222299 Ndree Sun, 04 May 2008 19:20:10 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222299 OMG, OMG, OMG...I feel like bawling! Is this America? is this parody of an "unbiased" press really the USA? I was delighted, as always to read an article by Mr Wilson, but isn't it heart-rendering to realize what a screwed up system we live in? I read a couple of Joseph Wilson's articles on Huffpo, and I really felt sorry for the man AND the nation. It was like casting pearls before swines....the huge "skunky" rats came out of their holes hurling rotten eggs and insults at him. None so blind as he who would not see! But even more dire is the intellectual state of a nation, that glorifies hate, that drinks at the tap of presentation, good looks and sweet sounding words rather than serious substance, truth, and rational critique. BO came out of nowhere, with inordinate chutzpah and blind ambition, trying to set up new rules of the game that would dare anyone to examine HIM, at the risk of being called old politics, divisive! Fact is he KNEW that his past was at best shadowy, at worst surely very unpatriotic. A true Manchurian candidate. He manipulated the race card, I call it "reverse racism," to glean overwhelming support among the parched and desperate black community, and make whites feel racial guilt; and when he least expected it, the very tactic he was employing came back like a boomerang and hit him full force in the face, that in the person of his very own pastor of 20 years. Would that he could blame that too on Hillary. All along the way, shielded by the MSM, while they were beating up on and disparaging Hillary to the utmost. Little did he know that the campaign would last this long, with every day new layers of the onion unfolding around him. Let's not talk about the role of the DNC and partisan interests within the party, let's not talk about the opportunists and Judases in search of their respective pieces of silver! In the meanwhile, this farce that should never have been is trying to tear the party apart, threatening blood if the "affirmative action" light weight spoilt brat does not have his toy. When could anyone have even imagined the day when trueblood Democrats would be turning to FoxNews for fair and unbiased reporting? Even shutting out fat and bullying Tim Russert on Sunday morning. I am sick to my soul! The third arm of Gov't which should serve the people by thorough and unbiased reporting should now be impeached or stripped of all privileges. After the fiasco of the elections of 2000, 2004 and the monumental enabling of the Bush lies with the complicity of the MSM, do we need a French style revolution of 1789 to set things right? Or could the Internet and blogs correct the seemingly irreparable? The only consolation is that : Maybe this is indeed the will of God...you know: the rise and fall of Empires thing!!!! God bless America! Mr Wilson, my hats off to you and your wife. OMG, OMG, OMG…I feel like bawling!
Is this America? is this parody of an “unbiased” press really the USA?
I was delighted, as always to read an article by Mr Wilson, but isn’t it heart-rendering to realize what a screwed up system we live in?
I read a couple of Joseph Wilson’s articles on Huffpo, and I really felt sorry for the man AND the nation. It was like casting pearls before swines….the huge “skunky” rats came out of their holes hurling rotten eggs and insults at him. None so blind as he who would not see! But even more dire is the intellectual state of a nation, that glorifies hate, that drinks at the tap of presentation, good looks and sweet sounding words rather than serious substance, truth, and rational critique.
BO came out of nowhere, with inordinate chutzpah and blind ambition, trying to set up new rules of the game that would dare anyone to examine HIM, at the risk of being called old politics, divisive! Fact is he KNEW that his past was at best shadowy, at worst surely very unpatriotic. A true Manchurian candidate.
He manipulated the race card, I call it “reverse racism,” to glean overwhelming support among the parched and desperate black community, and make whites feel racial guilt; and when he least expected it, the very tactic he was employing came back like a boomerang and hit him full force in the face, that in the person of his very own pastor of 20 years. Would that he could blame that too on Hillary. All along the way, shielded by the MSM, while they were beating up on and disparaging Hillary to the utmost. Little did he know that the campaign would last this long, with every day new layers of the onion unfolding around him.
Let’s not talk about the role of the DNC and partisan interests within the party, let’s not talk about the opportunists and Judases in search of their respective pieces of silver!
In the meanwhile, this farce that should never have been is trying to tear the party apart, threatening blood if the “affirmative action” light weight spoilt brat does not have his toy.
When could anyone have even imagined the day when trueblood Democrats would be turning to FoxNews for fair and unbiased reporting? Even shutting out fat and bullying Tim Russert on Sunday morning.
I am sick to my soul! The third arm of Gov’t which should serve the people by thorough and unbiased reporting should now be impeached or stripped of all privileges.
After the fiasco of the elections of 2000, 2004 and the monumental enabling of the Bush lies with the complicity of the MSM, do we need a French style revolution of 1789 to set things right?
Or could the Internet and blogs correct the seemingly irreparable?
The only consolation is that : Maybe this is indeed the will of God…you know: the rise and fall of Empires thing!!!! God bless America!
Mr Wilson, my hats off to you and your wife.

]]> By: militarytracy http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222283 militarytracy Sun, 04 May 2008 19:09:55 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222283 With a husband serving in uniform right now I really can't afford for a President to learn lessons about foreign relations in the real world AFTER he is President. Thank you once again for a measured and reality based writing. I fear and dread after these years of occupying Iraq, therefore I blog grasping for and gasping for REAL HOPE and not just pretty words spoken rythmically well. With a husband serving in uniform right now I really can’t afford for a President to learn lessons about foreign relations in the real world AFTER he is President. Thank you once again for a measured and reality based writing. I fear and dread after these years of occupying Iraq, therefore I blog grasping for and gasping for REAL HOPE and not just pretty words spoken rythmically well.

]]> By: justus949 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222268 justus949 Sun, 04 May 2008 19:03:28 +0000 http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/legitimate-questions-of-judgment-experience/#comment-222268 Thank you, Joseph Wilson, BRILLIANT! Thank you, Joseph Wilson, BRILLIANT!

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