Barack Obama, Foreign Policy Lightweight

LOL……….
But the Dems are going to nominate Obama.

I can’t believe Hillary’s Research team didn’t find out about Rev Wright earlier……….Who hired these people?

Hillary ran a bad campaign

Agree…Larry this is an important issue and I am glad you are not droppin it.
EXCELLENT….

Ummm, err, duh,
Can Obama even say a sentence without stuttering?
He has no idea what he is saying unless he has a teleprompter in front of him. God help us if he becomes President. He will make George Bush look smart.

D’oh!

Let’s see the link to Clinton’s error!

Did you see how many empty seats there were on the stage behind him? I bet if you pulled back, there weren’t 1,000 people listening to him. Any applause? Not that I heard … for such a “moving orator, he makes Bush sound eloquent at times, doesn’t he?

Maybe he should have held a couple of committee meetings. He’s not going to Kentucky. Maybe he should do one Monday or Tuesday when he’s losing his ass to her — again —

The world leaders who see this stuff must just sit there and laugh their asses off. Iran? They are muttering “bring him on!” don’t you think?

I am so embarrassed for my party. He is such a stunning example of someone not ready.

I believe Hillary’s campaign knew that and knows even more but they can’t be the ones to reveal it or she gets bashed for fighting dirty.

instead of dissing the campaign, GET OFF YOUR BUTT and help her campaign. Go to http://www.hillaryclinton.com and see what you can do!

And the first editor of the Harvard Law Review not to publish an article … let’s not forget that “distinction,” shall we?

Do you reall think he wrote his books?

CAN YOU IMAGINE the media coverage if Hillary had done this?

BINGO!

Goodness gracious. I haven’t checked out this blog in a while. I remembered it as a place for intelligent, well-informed commentary. Now the front page looks like LGF. What the heck happened here?

Thanks for not giving up and bringing all these items to our attention. We must continue to do all we can to get Hillary as our nominee. Heaven help us otherwise.

Oh me Oh my, If you don’t care for it…go somewhere else. have a great day.

Either a shelf stocker Obamanate or a young Republican laughing at the hoax.

Tell me about it! This place has been hijacked by some real nutcases!

Gaffe Debunked:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200805150008?f=h_latest

nice try.

OMG! Funny

The Wall Street Journal has a segment on Fox News which had an interview with a Middle East expert remarking about how ludicrously ignorant and naive Obama’s position is.
They do not have the video clip posted yet but, I’ve sent an email asking for them to do so immediately…Everyone needs to see this.
http://www.foxnews.com/journal/

Barack Hussein Obama
http://bhobama.blogspot.com/

I’m serious– apparently this has been debunked, per the MM post below, which attributes this “story” to Rush Limbaugh. And the guy below that post is talking up Fox and the WSJ.

What the heck happened here?

Maybe it’s just partisanship. Which happens, I guess, but it’s disheartening to see it among Democrats– targeting another Dem.

Superdelegate has a poll to help him decide who to vote for.
Show him Hillary should win
vote at
http://votetomryan.com/

Obama’s goof is excuseable, come on folks, lets all gather around the Great Lakes in Oregon and sing Kum-by-ya together and feel good about the guy who has expanded on his words of SF about small town people in basically telling those of WV and Kentucky to fuck off and torture them sending Michelle there!

Thought obama was against waterboarding too, so he form of torture will be having war prisoners spend a couple of hours in a room listening to Michelle!

Now that is INHUMANE TORTURE!

I never thought I’d see the day that Dems align themselves with Rush, Karl, Bill-O, Hannity and Dubya to target one of our own! I wonder if these people are really Hillary supporters and real Dems or just Republicans trying to make trouble. This is definitely not a place I would take seriously anymore!

Now that’s a stretch! Nice try though!

Pashto and Dari (Afghan Persian/Farsi) are the official languages of Afghanistan. Pashto was declared the National Language of the country during the beginning of Zahir Shah’s reign, however, Dari has always been used for business and government transactions. Both belong to the Indo-European group of languages. According to recent US government estimates, approximately 35 percent of the Afghan population speaks Pashto, and about 50 percent speaks Dari. Turkic languages (Uzbek and Turkmen) are spoken by about 11 percent of the population. There are also numerous other languages spoken in the country (Baluchi, Pashai, Nuristani, etc.), and bilingualism is very common.

Since you are presumably sitting at a computer, there is really no excuse for your stupidity. At least Barry can be excused for speaking off the cuff where he is always at risk for saying something stupid (57 states) or being confused (MSM personality’s name who is interviewing him)

You are the number one reason that — as Uppity says — children do not get to pick Presidents.

Where was he in his class? Last!

I have yet to see one writing sample from Bama, other than letters to solicit business for Tony Rezko, and those were probably handled by a secratary.

He is at least functionally literate, correct?

I was thinking today, about the charges Obama’s two flag officers made, (or is it three, I forget) anyway, I was thinking about the charges they made, accusing Clinton of being too emotional to lead, too weak, ‘she might cry.”

This, from a crew of bama morons so enraged they cant handle an extra request for ketchup without falling to pieces, all that irrational thought just SPEWING.

Can’t control your anger?

Weak, tootise rolls…

So, who is really crippled by infantile emotion here?

Obama, and his lil military staff of failed brass.

Good to know where the Pentagon throws the trash.

What’s gonna happen when he faces real pressure, gonna throw a tantrum, as the Soviets “accidentally” shoot at a US oil tanker, or Kim kooks out, again?

heh, yeah.

Obama has his own “Kim” moments…
Handle those bitches, do0ds…

Oh yeah, on another note I just posted an article that didn’t get any media time;

Homosexual AND Incestuous Teaching of 2nd Graders With ‘King and King’
http://conservativesuperiority.com/

Find out what Obama thinks about teaching our children this outrageous crap in our schools.

If you want the freedom to express your views here please do not try and censor others.

Have you added anything to any of the discussion here today or just screamed “troll” at everyone?

You do understand that this is a pro Hillary Clinton blog and that you as an obvious (gag and throwing up a little in my mouth) Obama supporter are in fact the troll here?

You must need some reprogramming. You are stupid and lame. You are neither making friends or inciting anyone to anger. You’re just a butthead.

Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008

Bill tells Kentucky voters Hillary’s not beaten yet
By Steve Lannen | Lexington Herald-Leader

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday gave no sign his wife’s presidential campaign is ready to fold up its tent and return to New York.

Sen. Hillary Clinton is widely expected to win Kentucky’s Democratic primary election on Tuesday, but she trails Sen. Barack Obama in the number of delegates needed to land the party’s nomination.

Clinton, however, used his appearance Thursday afternoon at Butler Traditional High School in Louisville to tell people not to listen to the media and others who have written off his wife’s chances of becoming the Democratic nominee. He emphasized her blowout victory earlier this week in West Virginia and said she has won several swing states thought to be key to a Democratic victory against Republican Sen. John McCain in November.

“They’ve tried to bury her more times than a cat’s got lives,” Clinton said.

Read the rest here.

All he does is further our resolve to stop Obama. He is helping Hillary.

He started with “arabic” as the language spoken in Afghanistan.

I stopped reading after “So what’s your excuse for stupidity?”

Thank you for furthering our resolve to stop Obama.

poor thing, trying to troll by template, missing of course, the larger, emerging pictures, the new political awareness, the new systems of sociological interactions…

Cutting edge, you are hip, a trendsetter, fer sure, you are the new wave of American political thought, uh huh.

Not too swift, Tom…or bob, or whatever you’re calling yourself these days…

Thank you for furthering our resolve to stop Obama.

I remeber how happy I was in 04 when I thought… what was that guys name, I forgot, was going to win. Bush was so beyond unpopular in the insulated media I chose to consume, I couldn’t see any fault at the time. I remember thinking that somehow Democrats were gonna come home and…

It took me about a year to recognize what happened, but, wow we ran with that guy?

You have it so bad you don’t see how close this primary election where everything has been rigged in this guys favor is. And you think he is gonna do well in the GE? hahahhahaha.

Omama is not ready today and never will be. At first I thought Omama for VP and in 8 years he would be ready I don’t anymore. He will be a greater embarrassment to the United States than Bush could ever be or is. I will never vote for Omama even with Hillary on the ticket. NEVER!

So enlighten us about Obamasama’s wonderful foreign policy and why this is just a bump in the road. Please share some obamasama enlightenment. We’ve only been called racists all day and haven’t been condescended to policy wise in HOURS.

I think the trolls have been lulled once again into a false sense of security. They think their hundreds of comments on the “Whitey” video articles somehow stopped the video from existing or the billionaire and his million dollar bounty from existing. They also think the upcoming “mission accomplished” will actually work. They can ask Bush if that worked for him.

sigh ….

Arabic translators are not necessarily people who can translate PASHTO and DARI …. do you read posts? Do you just skim through and shout your mindless profanity?

God, does your village know their idiot is escaped? No wonder Obama will go down in flames. You are the PERFECT example of an uneduated elitist. Smug as a bug with no brains.

Three points.

1. But they have, for the most part, lived in Afghanistan for over seven years. Most of them likely speak the local languages by now.

2. The principal use of translators is to question locals for information about Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents. Questioning suspects at a central location requires far fewer translators.

3. Sen. Obama corrected himself later. Why the knee-jerk defense of his earlier error.

We have you as our example, so the bar is at its lowest point actually

Usama bin Laden is hiding in Norway but we’ll never find him till we can send more Arabic speakers?

You may want to rethink this.

You are becoming irritable. Are you worried?

Larry, you have lost it. Your hyperbole has become tedious. You need to get back on the meds. Truly.
Take your carbamazepine.

Arabic (الْعَرَبيّة al-ʿarabiyyah or just عَرَبيْ ʿarabī), in terms of the number of speakers, is the largest living member of the Semitic language family. Classified as Central Semitic, it is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic and has its roots in a Proto-Semitic common ancestor. In ISO 639-3, modern Arabic is classified as a macrolanguage with 27 sub-languages. These varieties are spoken throughout the Arab world, and Standard Arabic is widely studied and used throughout the Islamic world.

Uniformed idiot filter: ON
Response: NONE

Sen. Obama corrected himself later.

The troll whining means Obama was wrong to correct himself. You busted poor Fosy. Fosy is saying Obama was wrong.

Thank you for your comment and furthering our resolve to stop Obama.

Hi Larry,
Thanks for posting this. I hope all is well.

Almost no service members spoke either Dari or Pashto, the two main languages of Afghanistan. The Pentagon, and many of the nation’s universities, had been focusing on Russian and other languages from the Cold War.

Within a couple months after Sept. 11, the DLI created the Emerging Languages Task Force, in an effort to quickly train students to speak some of the more obscure languages and dialects. Carson says in the beginning it was difficult to find teachers and books.

In order to build up its library, soldiers who were deployed to Afghanistan and other areas brought back any materials they could find. Carson says graduates of the institute’s course in Farsi, the language of Iran, were run through a four-month crash course in Dari. Dari is closely related to Farsi. She says that’s how the DLI got its first Dari linguist.

Now, about 200 students are pushed through the Dari and Pashto courses each year. The emerging language school is now looking at the Philippines, Malaysia, Bangladesh and languages of other countries that might be needed in the future.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7299421

Please repeat after me, Sen. Obama. s-l-o-w-l-y

Most Arabs are Muslim.
Most Muslins are not Arab.

He is just not a Foreign Policy Light weight.

He is light everything. period.

He does not know any thing about foreign policy, defence or domestic policy.
He may be good for whitehouse intern and nothing else just like the present resident in the whitehouse. May be he emboldened this ambitious ignorant brat to try for a residence in the white house. It is a tragedy that democratic party leaders are reduced to nominate him.

What more can we expect from the present lot of so weak kneed democratic leadership who shiver before W?

No. BO led the comm. on Afganastan. Never held a meeting, and when trying to articulate why Iraq is a problem this is what he comes up with? This is nonsese and it is NOT the reason we are not succedding in Iraq. After this the next reason he gave was because of agricultural specialists needed in Afganastan are stuck in Iraq. Huh? He may know better but he is not ready for prime time.

that was supposed to be not succeeding in Afgan

You keep using two words …

Troll

Idiot

They sum you up perfectly. You have added not one thing here today. We have talking about disenfranchising the voters in Florida and Michigan and you said nothing. We have asked about his vote for the Bush/Cheney energy bill and no response. All you can do is call names and allege that people are “not REAL Democrats.” I got a belly full of that as a Clinton supporter over at Huffington Post. So. You can say that all you like. The people there were far smarter and exceedingly more clever than you and didn’t resort to “troll” or “idiot” until at least the fifth or sixth response and then they just took away my posting privileges. Barak Obama will never be POTUS. There are too many Hillary Clinton supporters — millions not even reflected in the caucus numbers — who will never vote for him. Surely they aren’t all Republicans. Have a great time election night if he’s the candidate of shame for the Democratic party. Lots of us will be campaigning hard against him. For the sake of our nation and the FUTURE of the Democratic party — one without Dean and Pelosi. Then people take on the real phoneys like Kennedy and Kerry. Their seats aren’t safe … and not from Republicans, but from young middle of the road Democrats who WILL push for universal health care and policies that benefit the American working class.

Ok it is all clear now. A Democratic Administration would have had 50 Arabic speakers camped in the mountains on the Pak. border since 2002 – just in case they caught bin Laden.

Preparedness.

Just imagine how I feel!!! I am middle class, I am doing all right for myself but I am in no means ‘rich’, and Obama calls me ‘rich’ over an over again.

Additionally, in my small business (oh thats why Im rich because I run a small business and some number on my income is over some predefined notion of what a ‘rich’ person is, never mind I don’t take home any more money than any other normal person) and I can directly see the positive impact the the tax refunds are having on my economy at least. Yet the likes of DailyKos and Huffington post both have a daily diatribe against ‘rich’ people like me being the main beneficiaries of the Bush tax cuts. OMG, and you wonder why people think lefties are crazy…

For the record, I drive a hybrid, and I make and sell soy bean candles in a tiny chain of stores that also sell antiques(wait does that make me basically a hippy?). It is a small company that I (and my sister)inherited from my Mother.

Obamas plans for taxes on rich people will DESTROY my business, and destroy any hope of passing this tiny little company onto my children (or my nieces).

When I look around Michigan, it is small tiny little businesses like mine that are the only glimmer of hope in our state economy. But you guys apparently don’t think we pay enough in taxes.

Gee thanks…

Obama called Israel a constant sore, that line sound kind of similar to what I have been hearing from other nuts out there, but the MSM will not cover this am sure another free pass for Obama.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64236

Wouldn’t it be easier if the Obama hired trolls were simply labelled troll-1 thru troll-400 so identification is easier on which one is being paid for being ummmm stupid?

At least we know that Obama has the little kid vote.

But not in the mountains of Afghanistan and the border region of Pakistan or Pakistan or Uzbekistan or many another -stan. It is the language of the Koran, but not the marketplace. It would be like walking into a Mexican Indian community and addressing them in Latin.

But I don’t what I am talking about.

We don’t do multiple screen names here. That’s an obamanation tactic.

Whats worrisome is that the SD’s are unfazed by the multitude of Barky’s gaffes and scumbag associates.

You’d think they’d see the handwriting on the wall and move away from Barky, but no they still see him perfectly electable.

OT
I was late in getting to the Rev. Wright story. I posted at the end of it, but am catching you guys here–because you travel fast.

I read the comments on the rev. wright stuff, but didn’t watch myself.

Do you think that the comment about “putting on armor and not crossing the line” could be a
thinly veiled admonation to the congregation (damn that rhymed) to not give up the Michelle Obama whitey tape?

And that wright being there- but apparently not talking- could have been there as a threat figure.

He showed up at Maya Angelou’s birthday and I always thought he did that to attemtpt to intimidate her
because she supports Hillary.

I’m thinkin 500k -after taxes- buys a condo in florida and starts an IRA. Nice change from just gettin by in Chi. (damn, rhymed again)

I’m thinkin that Michelle probably wasn’t the only person on that tape–and everybody it seems likes to get a little video of themselves. So, I think there’s probably many copies a-foot.

He plainly said, ‘And obviously they don’t speak Arabic, but the other many dialects.’. Where’s the gaffe? it was corrected. How is this worse than McCain implying Iran is training Sunni militia and continuous mistaking alQaeda as an ‘obscure sect of Shi’ites’… His errors were larger, repeated and took longer to be corrected. I won’t say anything about Sen. Clinton’s gaffes, because, again they pale in comparison with McCain’s crucial errors.

Don’t worry, he can’t tell what is real, and what is not.

Additionally, he’s channeling what passes for intellecutal thought in his crew — xerox, statistics, and profanity.

He trolls what he knows.

Your logic is odd, why would they need a translator to talk to Bin Laden they have guns for that.

Oh, we’re going for disruption of the board, flooding it with bullshit, what you know best, what passes for intellect in your crew.

Be careful not to drown in your own foam.

You know the drill.

Or did you forget.

Again?

Republicans……

I hope he’s not paying these people, or he should get his money back.
The only thing they’re convincing me of with their brilliant one-liners like “Duh” and “Shut up!” is that brats support Obama.
No thanks, I’d take them to the wood shed if they were mine.

What he said is that if you have your Arabic interpretters in Iraq they are not available in Afghanistan …

They he went on to talk about the dialects.

He over simplifies everything.

Its kind of like saying this …

What the superdelegates are afraid of is that with all of the national guard units deployed to serve in the Middle East, there won’t be enough of them to protect the Democratic convention in Denver if the party riots when one candidate is picked over another one … see? Over simplification can be very dangerous.

You mean those fictional accounts of some fabricated life that no one has ever lived?

Put it in the same bucket as his comments about the interpreters. The man is all BS. He just starts talking, thinks he’s hit on some significant topic no one else has insightfully mentioned yet, and then starts tripping over his inexperienced, unqualified, divisive tongue.

Fosbach, you are a picture perfect example of why Senator Obama is a reckless unqualified immoral person. He and the crowd that brought him can even read a map.

for the last number of threads you have invited Flyarm to watch you have a fight with yourself, called beebop a igit troll, told ‘President Hillary Clinton will defeat Obama and his troll army!’ to shut up…

Thanks.

So you know, every person you know will suffer deeply by BO’s hands, or can you tell me why people in his own 313 district were invisible to him?

I have no respect for him because of folks like you.

Except the bam can’t understand this stems, in part, from the very real threat posed to Israel by not only the middle east kooks who are funding his campaign, but the african and oil ones, as well.

Flawed Israeli foreign policy?

Wihhtout a doubt.

But this isn’t only Israel’s fault, there is a very real danger that must be addressed, before the fire spreads.

HTH can this guy develop a rational balanced POV when he listesn to the AA’s who seem to loathe Jews more than Hitler, more then the Middle East?

KA CHING!

this post and this site is a joke…this is not a legitimate sd…

Fosbach has Troll Tourette Syndrome and very limited vocabulary.

He is about to ask for forgiveness.

Usama Osama Obama….just words?

Teddy?

You missed the point again. Obama wrongly stated that Iraq was taking up too many Arabic translators that were needed in Afghanistan.

Your linked article correctly notes “A shortage of Arabic translators is not only hurting intelligence-gathering efforts in Iraq, where troops are hunting Saddam Hussein and armed resistors, but also at home, where FBI agents are trying to ferret out al-Qaida terrorist cells before Osama bin Laden can activate them for another attack here.”

Obama said we need to move Arabic translators to Afghanistan; your linked article notes we need more Arabic translators period.

Still in the library with the candlestick.

They have diffculty understanding why a DUH! applied to their logical fallacies is not the same as a DUH! applied to an intelligent comment.

Hence the faiure of their trolls.

Everyone is too busy searching for the Great Lakes in Oregon and the border of Kentucky and Ark to read your link, sorry!

Given your command of facts and ability to process them, I must abandon the bicker.

I have read it, igit, as have a great many that post here.

I love the part about his time in east africa.

Duh.

Got anything new, jeez, you’re as stupid as the posters on Kos, fosbach, obama 0?, or whatever you’re calling yourself, (anything but intelligent or self aware, apparently).

D0ods, free yourselevs from your pretensions toward intellectualism and political relevance,
accept the truth.

You suck.

Sorry I am all out of Troll mushrooms, can’t help ya with the mirror either, Kevin.

You’re SO slow to learn Fosbach. and dripping with fear!
or is it cheese from the shoulder your Dark Lord Obam1kaphony?

Again, why would you need a translator to talk to Bin Laden or his cohorts? That’s what guns are for.

Do you think that the comment about “putting on armor and not crossing the line”

I could be a message to BO’s followers not to be misled into believing it’s over for BO. To stick with him until the end. Putting on the armor is another way of telling his supporters not to listen to anything negative about BO…to keep their guard up around them so the “arrows” don’t penetrate.

It’s taking scripture from the Bible literally and applying it to his battle to become POTUS. You can find the reference to the armor of God in Ephesians 6:11 and 6:13.

Reference to these types of scriptures were used a lot in the 80′s when Jim Baker’s church was under investigation to fool believers and lead them mentally into a “spiritual battle of good and bad” in the name of God.

You’re foaming, OB08, or BOo8, and you can’t see it, you depending on a codependent reaction for your troll to succeed.

You truley are not bright, or you would see how you’re being manipulated.

Really, some of us are democrats, and others republicans, but the majority of us are fighting for the integrity of our government.

Period.

You can’t grasp it, the abilty to respect difference of opinion, with you, it’s Rove, or nothing. You have no greater understanding of WHY Rove does what he does, smart people do, and they KNOW this about you, too.

And Rove.

You’re threatened when others disagree with your ideology, period, and it has nothing to do with politics.

I could be a message

Oops! That should say It could be… because I sure as h*ll am not a messenger of his.

BB you rock. That analogy is perfect, and not because it’s an analogy but because it’s what really going on.

BTW who the hell are all these people?

I’m not going to blindly adhere to whatever the most hawkish position is just because that’s the safest ground politically.”

There goes NY. Wave Bye Bye BO…

This is the “Tom Paine” soc shark attack.

And I must stand back in awe of the mediocrity from the 110 iq who developed the system, and who feels, 5 years down the line, it can still somehow be effective, despite losing three wars, and failing to understand the larger objective.

You’re brilliant, really, you’re brilliant.

Must be the phd.

You can go with “strunk and white,” or have another ” Kim” moment, that always make you feel in control, again, too…

See you at the credentials committee this August.

Welcome to Stalingrad Obama worshiper.

If we knew his/her parent’s number so we could call and let them know somebody’s sneaking onto the family computer playing in chatrooms again, I’m sure some of would be willing to take a quick break from the search.

“hunting Saddam Hussein”
Seriously how old is your intel?

you Obamabots are crazy — too bad Ray-gun closed all the nut houses in California.

This is a discussion about Obama’s extreme lack of preparation and knowledge about the WORLD.

Obama seems to be morphing into another George Bush. Or is it Ray-Gun that he’s trying to be? Ray-Gun was an actor and he could deliver his lines very well — even in early stages of Alzheimer’s disease in the later part of his Presidency.

Gee I thought that messiah Obama told his followers to make nice to Hillary’s supporters? That is too much to ask of the zealots.

Just hysteria.

It will cool down in June, then maybe go nuts again in August.

Well, they would, wouldn’t they?

“There was NEVER a need for Arabic translators in Iraq because there was never a need to be IN Iraq.” I don’t think you’ll find too many people here who disagree with that. However, the question is not about what should have happened then, the question is how we should move forward.

The simple fact is that most of us do not trust Obama to be the one to lead us forward. We believe he is to much of a milquetoast to stand up to tough adversaries. We think he is naive and fear that he may have divided loyalties, at best.

The translator gaffe is trivial. It is merely an excuse to mock a candidate who has already earned our scorn.

According to Mrs. Obama — all white folk are rich rich rich — and all black folk are poor.

So what color is Mrs. Obama — color her a racist.

GregA — you do have a point — we need MORE small businesses not fewer.

One of the great things about Universal Health Care is that this will be a huge asset to small businesses.

I know many people who have not started a small business because they don’t want to lose their health care insurance. And I have friends who started a small business and they have no health care. It’s hard work to be ones own boss.

Obama is a light weight on so many issues.

I doubt that the Obamabot about is even old enough to vote.

Obama sure flooded the caucuses with children who looked like there were barely out of grade school.

Fosbach please let the rest of know what degrees you have where, you got them and how much they cost your parents…

What I remember is the stench blowing up the Hudson River 2 months after people I grew up with were murdered. Remember them you ahole.

Because BO has NO clue and has proved he is incapable of leadership, this will happen on his watch again, the blood will be on your hands. He is nothing but a cup others will piss in from great heights as they relieve themselves of any responsibility for their complicity. And that will be your epitaph.

Those materials are very rarely translated in the field. They are flashed in an instant via satellite to a secure location where they can be translated without danger to those doing the work.
That being said, perhaps some Arabic translators are needed in Afghanistan so the question is, why didn’t Obama propose legislation to that effect? After all he could have added it as an amendment to all those Iraq Murder Spree bills Bush wanted that he voted for.

Oops, I was asleep at the wheel there. I should have noticed that Fosbach had linked to a FIVE YEAR OLD article. My bad. Of course, that makes his argument even weaker.

Téigh trasna ort féin

Translate that ya cunt.

OK he’s an empty suit. There’s no argument there. However, I don’t think our real foreign policy problem lies in Obama or his advisors.

Our real problem lies with the American people.

It is simply beyond my comprehension that they do not realize that we are about to walk into a shitstorm, the magnitude of which we have not seen since 1929 – 1945.

(1) The world energy supply is on half a tank and that exists in the most at risk areas of the globe. (2) China and India will one day wake up and discover each other: At that stage they will wonder whether they should geld us before having a go at each other. (3) The climate is turning on us with unpredictable and severe weather leaving one notable catastrophe after another in it’s wake. The shortage of food (caused by bachelors one and three) , notably rice, is breeding conditions congruent to those which existed in Paris amongst the Sans-culottes in 1789: No government can withstand it’s population not eating for three days.

And what do these mad fucks want to do?

Find inspiration.

As if we can meet global conflict at the shores with a Magic Negro and A Song.

“so the question is, why didn’t Obama propose legislation to that effect? After all he could have added it as an amendment to all those Iraq Murder Spree bills Bush wanted that he voted for.”

Or he could have taken time out from his program of self-aggrandizement to attend a few of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Hearings on Afghanistan.

(1) The world energy supply is on half a tank and that exists in the most at risk areas of the globe. (2) China and India will one day wake up and discover each other: At that stage they will wonder whether they should geld us before having a go at each other.

There was an NPR story a couple of months ago about an American teacher who on one fine day took a walk outside of the small town where he taught English. He wandered along the shore for a while, noticed the tide coming in and clambered up the nearest wall. He walked to the nearest building, knocked on the door, and spent the next day or so being interrogated by PRC Intelligence.

He’d wandered into a Chinese Nuclear Sub Base.

Who knew?

Americans think the Chinese are still trotting around in rickshaws.

And the answer is………..

because he has been to busy running for an office he is not qualified for rather than actually doing the job that the people of Illinois actually hired him to do. Also, the fact that he is a political opportunist with no legislative ability, creativity or understanding of how things work in the real world doesn’t help.

Americans think the Chinese are still trotting around in rickshaws.

They will be walking on the Moon in twelve years, on Mars in 50.

That tool is probably a McCain fan.

I mean, really–look at the quality of the post.

“LOL” and all…

His favorite words are UMMMMM and UNHHHHHHHH.

His favorite phrase is “I would be happy to have a debate about that” and he usually pulls that out of his ass when he would NOT be happy to have a debate of any kind.

He’s an idiot with a pamphlet of phrases. And his followers are so stupid that they believe his attempt to “Berlitz course” and “Evelyn Wood Speed Read” the foreign policy issues.

I suppose he figures we need “Brazillion” interpreters in Brazil. And “Chilly” interpreters in Chile.

George Bush wasn’t the only nitwit who went to Harvard and ran for the Presidency, apparently. I’d say between George, Barack, and Alberto Gonzales, Old Harvard has some fucking ‘splainin’ to do!

How much is Barry paying you? Are you one of the four hundred?

No, Clinton has NOT made “similar” errors. She knows where they speak Arabic, and it ain’t in southwest fucking Asia.

Jesus.

I suppose if one’s only exposure to other lands is a couple of recent CODELS and a tour at an Indonesian nursery school, one can’t be expected to know one’s ass from one’s elbow. And that’s FINE–for a private citizen or a politician focused on domestic matters.

In this day and age, though, we need a president who actually does know his Afghan ass from his Arabic elbow. And Obama ain’t it.

And we’ll just be begging for a ride if Obama has his way.

It would probably be accompanied by headlines that say “Silly woman gets confused” or “Give that GAL a BLENDER or A MIXER–she’s mixing her Afghans and Arabs, OH MY!” And they’d pound it, and play it, day after day after day after day. Because they are, I’ve come to realize, sexist assholes. Misogynists, clutching their shrivelled tools in abject FEAR. What they are afraid of, I’ve no clue. Electing a man isn’t going to make them any stiffer. Or larger. Or more attractive. It just isn’t ABOUT them, though they apparently think so.

This was a MASSIVE mistake on Obama’s part. Anyone who has spent five minutes in Kabul knows the diff. Anyone who has studied the frigging region knows that Afghanistan is NOT part of the “ARAB WORLD.” I’ll bet that fucking idiot thinks Iran is, as well, and that they speak that Arabic lingo in Iran, and maybe even Turkey, too!

Good grief–it’s like he is taking foreign policy lessons from….GEORGE BUSH!!! The guy is about as sharp as Bush in the brain department, which is not saying much– he simply does better with a teleprompter. Now, he needs to take “Guy I want to have a beer with” lessons from George, and he’ll be all set….

Obama has made many errors in judgment when it comes to foreign policy. His latest was in response to the recent appeasement issue he said in regard to election in Lebanon Obama said that it was not the job of the U.S. to promote political freedom. Really???

But it began with his comment almost a year ago during a CNN debate when he made the statement that he would meet with Iran without pre-conditions. We recall how Hillary called him naive.

But it is worth noting that Sen. Joseph Biden responded in an interview that the idea of a president meeting with Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and others was “naïve.” “World leaders should not meet with other world leaders unless they know what the agenda is, so you don’t end up being used,” Biden said. “When I went to meet with Milosevic before the war, the condition I met with him was that no press would be available, I’d only meet him in his office late at night, and I wouldn’t dignify being seen with him.”

More importantly, the great endorser of Obama, Chris Dodd said: “Diplomacy is essential both to repair our nation’s fractured world relationships and move forward with a more global perspective to our foreign policy. However, there are some leaders – like Iran’s Ahmadinejad, who denies the Holocaust ever took place – which cannot and should not be diplomatically rewarded with visits from the American president.”

That is what happens when someone puts elementary school experience on a resume for POTUS and people beleive it.

Fosbach,
Most Muslims do not speak Arabic – I didn’t know you couldn’t connect that.
You apparently have a penchant for the all too obvious.
Reciting prayers in Arabic is a far cry from speaking it.
The same with Catholics when mass was held in Latin.

Well said, rjj.

Larry–you are GREAT! Maybe one reason he doesn’t know much about Afghanistan is that he never attends any of the SFRC meetings and doesn’t visit the country.

But then, what do I know, I’m from one of those “states somewhere in the middle” (his words).

[...] Obama (Foreign Policy Idiot- Ill.) Jump to Comments Maybe instead of campaigning, Barry should be attending Foreign Relations Committee meetings.  Then maybe he would know what language is spoken in Afghanistan.  What a moron.  Is it just me [...]

His quote, in reference to Israel being a “constant sore:” (From the Atlantic)

No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy.

He referred to Israel as an open sore, it was the first picture brought to his head when asked the question, there are no worm moments to explain this away.

And this is a reflection of the anti Israel faction in his group, whether it’s Farrakhan, or McPeak.

While any of us would agree Israeli foreign policy should be reevaluated none of us would refer to Israel in terms of being in open sore. Israel’s problems are a result of misdirected policies, IMO, it faces VERY real danger, big difference from what Obama is insinuating. And I have no sympathy for those who would keep the Palestinians in an apartheid state. Many Israelis realize this, just as many Americans realize Cheney is violently inept. Obama used a broad brush to paint an otherwise civil culture as infected.

Israel is not Odinga.

This was not a misnomer, this was reflective of how, he, and his money supporters think.

Especially given his association with Ayers, Hamas, Rezko, Farrakhan and Ondinga.

What Obama said wasn’t a criticism of Israeli foreign policy, THAT would be legitimate, would have been a legitimate comment, this was a reflection of his true view of Israel, this man surrounded by those who irrationally hate Jews, trying to paste false wallpaper, referring, couching it, in concern, ie ” I don’t want the parents to suffer, I’m a parent, too.”

Problem is, Jew hatred in the hands of dictators (Obama’s buddies, from Hamas, to Ondinga, to Chavez, and the rest) has shown itself to be dangerous, there is historical precedence, period.

Couple that with the Middle Eastern drive to destroy Israel, its’ not unthinkable Obama buys into this, I just LOOK at his friends, then remember what Bush and Cheney did at GITMO, and with the Constitution.

It can happen.

I think the idea of Israel and the reality of Israel is one that I find important to me personally. Because it speaks to my history of being uprooted, it speaks to the African-American story of exodus, it describes the history of overcoming great odds and a courage and a commitment to carving out a democracy and prosperity in the midst of hardscrabble land.

The African Journey?

Your father was a Kenyan PhD, and your Mom’s family was from where?

Sweden?

Jeez, Bush all over again, but not as tight, with his crew….

sweet heavens to mergatroid. someone pull him offstage and lock him in a room for 8 years with a set of Encyclopedia Britannica (and maybe a map)

please.

REMEMBER OBAMA IS A FOREIGN POLICY EXPERT BECAUSE HE LIVED ABROAD AND MADE A FEW TRIPS OUT OF THE STATES. I GUESS – I TOO AM AN EXPERT I LIVED ABROAD AND I DO BELIEVE I MADE FAR MORE MANY TRIPS. WOW! I AM NOT JUST A NURSE I AM A FOREIGN POLICY EXPERT………THINK ABOUT IT! MAYBE I SHOULD RUN FOR OFFICE.

AND HELLO I HAVE FRIENDS THAT COME FROM THE ARAB WORLD …………..SO WOW THAT MUST MAKE ME A SUPER DUPER EXPERT ON GLOBAL ISSUES. I AM SO SURE OF THAT.

I watched “Aladdin” – I am a superdeeduper expert on global issues. heh.

I wanted to add, African dictators who commit genocide

support Obama.

Obama had his photo taken with his cousin, Odinga, ethnic cleanser of Kenyans, but he would not be photographed with the mayor of San Francisco, because it might look “too gay.”

But it’s ok, really, no problem here, no red flags at all…

jeez, you guys…

http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060825/060825_obama_kenya_hmed_7a.hmedium.jpg

Trolls assume Obama will get troops out of Iraq. Didn’t they read the Obama foreign policy adviser Samantha Power interview? (They are so busy hassling us they cannot be bothered with anything so mundane as researching their candidate.) Remember the interview where Samantha Power called Hillary a monster and got herself fired from the Obama campaign? She said that all of Obama’s talk about withdrawing from Iraq is campaign talk and open to revision after he becomes president. Hasn’t Obama himself talked about leaving contractors in Iraq? i.e. mercenaries, Blackwater.

The Power admission that withdrawal from Iraq is campaign talk is very similar to another incident involving an Obama campaign adviser. Obama’s economic policy advisor Austan Goolsbee told the the Canadian consul in Chicago that any Obama mention of dumping NAFTA was just campaign talk.

Obama denied the meeting had taken place until the Canadian government released the minutes from the meeting. Then Obama surrogates screamed “Hillary did it too.” The Canadian government denied meeting with anyone from the Clinton campaign to discuss NAFTA.

He could have just said “we need translators for the language” and left it at that. Amazing!

Nope. But Hillary was near the bottom of her class at Yale Law School and failed the DC bar exam.

Not only is Obama an idiot; he is out of ouch with the values of middle class Americans. Who would attend a God Damn America Church wherein the pastor humps the altar during a sermon?

Defeating trolls:

Yes ignoring them is fun, but those new to the site really don’t read that and read every post. It causes them to be sad and disheartened.

So, one key way is to mimic them once they post, write as their name and say how sorry you are that you were a troll and move towards loving Hillary.

Its instant karma and gets them freaked out. So those 400 fake trolls will never hurt me! Try it on the next troll and you’ll love yourself even more. Heck, use their name when you reply to their comment with a quote from Hillary or something positive from Hillary. It’ll really surprise new readers and neutralise the trolls. They then become useless against the newbies and won’t be moulded into depression…

Spread the word on other pro-Hillary and anti-Snobami blogs…heck, spread it on pro-Snobami ones too! Freak them out

Right. So we should go elect McCain who can’t even tell the difference between the Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan and has continuously confused the three and had to be corrected by his aids repeatedly on live TV.

This is the stupidest criticism I have heard to date of Obama. The point of Obama’s comments are that the military should be focusing on having interpreters who speak the language of the country the military is operating in. The president does not need to know what that language is specifically to make that policy deicion. And I wouldn’t expect him or Hilary Clinton to know what specific tribal dialect or whatever is spoken in Afghanistan. I would expect them to know the difference between Sunni and Shiite and which group Al Quaeda is associated with because I do and it would be necessary for whoever is president to be aware of these religious and political divisions in the Arab world. This cannot possibly be your real problem with Obama so what is?

Do yourself a favor, and try to understand what the real criticism is, you just look stupid.

And being this naive, deliberately, or otherwise, allows others to troll YOU, something you seem incapapble of grasping.

Maybe it’s because you’re so smart, and so talented, maybe it’s because you’re the best, who knows, but given the loss, here, despite all the buzz flash, it’s apparent you don’t really understand what is happening.

Projection doesnt work, it’s used against you.

What comes next, a WWII article to prove our military is stretched to thin?

Don’t ask him about Dewey beats Truman. He’s all over that. He was there!

John McCain will win comfortably in November for the following reasons:

1) The GOP is going to hammer Obama with Jerimiah Wright, Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers relentlessly in its TV ads.

2) The economy is bottoming now and will be on the upturn in November.

3) The speculative bubble in oil prices will have broken, leading to a significant price drop as speculators scramble to unwind their long positions and go short. (The real clearing price for oil is probably around $90 a barrell.)

4) It will be obvious that the Iraq War is pretty much over and that the good guys have won. Al-Qeada in Iraq has been basically run out of the country and Prime Minister Maliki and the Iraqi Army have soundly thumped Moqtada Al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army. After the 45-day pause this Summer advocated by Gen. Patraeus, US troop withdrawls will re-start in time for the election, leading McCain to claim that we are leaving in victory rather than after a humiliating defeat as would have happened had the chickens**t Democrats, including Barack Obama, had their way.

5) For the coup de grace, about a month before the election the Michelle Obama “whitey” videotape will be released. White Democrats will then flock to McCain, a bona fide American hero, in droves on Election Day rather than see a couple of black militants (one covert, one overt) take over the White House.

It’s gonna be fun to watch.

*blink*

It’s not important? Good gosh, if we don’t expect the president to have a grasp on foreign affairs, then how would we ever hold him accountable for decisions?

It means he’s unprepared to be Commander in Chief.

Oh, and for the several of you who are apparently too dense to figure this out for yourselves, the military typically gets the great majority of its interpreters from among the local population. So, the supply of available translators in Afghanistan is almost totally independent from the supply of available translators in Iraq.

Barack Obama is a naive lightweight. God help us if he actually becomes president (which he won’t).

Another point in reference to John McCain’s supposed “gaffes”: Iran IS, in fact, arming both shiite militias AND sunni extremists in Iraq.

Normally, the shiites in Iran wouldn’t give sunnis anywhere so much as a bucket of warm spit. But in this case “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

The Iranian clerics’ worst nightmare is the establishment of a successful western-style democracy next door in Iraq. They know full well that if the “new” Iraq takes root, their days are numbered. Already they’re starting to see tithes from the faithful go more and more to Ayatollah Al-Sistani in An-Najaf in Iraq and away from the mullahs in Qom, Iran.

So, in an attempt to prevent thsi from happening, they are funding and arming BOTH shiite and sunni extremists in Iraq.

McCain was, and is, right.

i just watched the video and Obama never said that they spoke arabic in Afghanistan. In fact he specifically says “the various languages they speak there, not Arabic” so what’s your problem

Like we’d really trust a git like you. Link to it or shut up. Obama can’t be trusted, neither can you.