“The Obama team believes the Bush administration has downplayed the importance of catching the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist because it has not been able to find him.

“We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority,” Obama said during the presidential debate on October 7.”

Ahhhh. But that was “before” the election.

Just words. Yes. Leader? Don’t think so.

He has no experience at all as a junior United States Senator, and even less as POTUS. Since he has shown us he has no spine, the combination is lethal.

He waits, men are dying in Afghanistan while jobs and decent healthcare have not been competently or honestly addressed, and we the people are witnessing the emptiness of his pretense.

By now Hillary would not be hiding for political cover as Obama has on Healthcare, Afghanistan, & Jobs.

A clip on CNN seen about a month ago was quickly taken down. What was it? Hillary with a stern face answering a question put to her about Afghanistan. She said, “If you think the terrorists won’t be back as soon as we’ve left Afghanistan, you are wrong”. At which point it was taken off air while she was speaking. Seemed comment was made out of USA as it showed her speaking from a distant TV screen. Clearly it was being edited off the air.

I never saw this again anywhere. Hillary is hawkish on Afghanistan and Pakistan as she’s said as much when allowed to be quoted, which is rare.

Obama cannot decide to do anything and yes, our military remains at risk as there is no clear strategy or execution formula.

I think of HRC all the time. Obama is worse than I thought he’d be, and his handlers of influence are deplorable and inexperienced on the military side, & his financial advisory cadre and cabinet are the exact same group who helped getting us into this mess and Obama uses this bunch as advisory now.

We are really in deep dodo. Hillary’s loyalty to her country coupled with her courage and brilliance, has accomplished far more as SOS than Obama has as the President.

The Chicago machine runneth over and I deplore what is coming from the WH. The latest ham handed screwup
aout Fox lets us see how clumsy this group is. And how inherently wrong. So, Instead of exulting that the over 65 white right wing is listening loyally to Fox & therefore allowing us to see them as the damaged GOP, Obama and company clumsily defies the 2nd amendment and makes Fox super important on the national media. Very stupid move. Olympics another stupid move.

Obama waiting and ducking in the wings until he can claim success after whatever piece of garbage emerges as “reform” is obvious by now. His posture on Snowe as being the symbol of bi-partisanship is so phony and absurd, it’s sickening.

We now see that he cannot make decisions clearly or boldly and lacks the courage to take strong stands on our prioities. Jobs, healthcare, Iraq, Afghanisan.
Obama dithers and plays Chicago politics. We are being rolled over.

It really IS frustrating at the lack of logical thinking in America sometimes.

It certainly is. And the biggest post hoc ergo propter hoc of recent note is Dickweed Cheney’s continued insistence that the because of Bush’s policies, we weren’t attacked again after 9/11. He may as well have said that, in addition, because of their Administration, the sun was seen to continue to rise in the East each morning.

Hell’s bells, there could be any number of contributing factors to the lack of an attack besides their color-coded nonsense and systematic dismantling of the Constitution, as in perhaps they were busy elsewhere like Iraq, Spain and Indonesia, for starters.

Yes, we talked about this also as we discussed the “post hoc, ergo propter hoc” (after this, therefore because of this) fallacy, also while discussing causal analysis. It is usually political examples of this fallacy that come up. It really IS frustrating at the lack of logical thinking in America sometimes.

Smart Blonde’s use of the word “creative” gave her away to me. Students in our high schools are always being told to be creative, but almost never told to be logical. Those freshmen courses are required supposedly to teach them academic writing, not creative writing. But so many freshmen come in thinking they should be “cute” in their papers.

Thanks so much for posting this sowsear – made my day…..

Its more that the “official” language (language of Quran) is such a mismatch with what you will hear spoken anywhere. And that none of the local versions of Arabic has a written version. What a Qatari speaks will be very different from a what a Lebanese does, but they will both read a newspaper in “Literary Arabic”, a language NOBODY speaks. So silly. Where I grew up in school we learned Literary Arabic, then French, then English. We never learned the language everyone was speaking.

In fact there shouldnt be one “Arabic”, it should be 12 languages. Thats probably what makes it hard to master.

Why English speakers have a “hard time” learning foreign languages is that they can never escape English. It has nothing to do with inclination or attitude in my opinion.