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…is giving the speech of his lifetime.
If you believe in Voodoo, Barack’s backside is quite sore by now from the application of Rudy’s foot.
Cindy McCain is cradling Sarah Palin’s baby boy as Rudy speaks.
Highlights:
A few years later, he ran for the U.S. Senate. He won and has spent most of his time as a “celebrity senator.” No leadership or major legislation to speak of. His rise is remarkable in its own right – it’s the kind of thing that could happen only in America. But he’s never run a city, never run a state, never run a business.
He’s never had to lead people in crisis.
This is not a personal attack….it’s a statement of fact – Barack Obama has never led anything.
Nothing. Nada.
Look at just one example in a lifetime of principled stands — John McCain’s support for the troop surge in Iraq. The Democratic Party had given up on Iraq. And I believe, ladies and gentlemen, that when they gave up on Iraq they were giving up on America. The Democratic leader in the Senate said so: “America has lost.”
Well, if America lost, who won? Al Qaida? Bin Laden? In the single biggest policy decision of this election, John McCain got it right and Barack Obama got it wrong.
Obama was going to take public financing for his campaign, until he didn’t.
Obama was against wiretapping before he voted for it.
When speaking to a pro-Israel group, Obama favored an undivided Jerusalem. Until the very next day when he changed his mind.
I hope for his sake, Joe Biden got that VP thing in writing.
When Russia rolled over Georgia, John McCain knew exactly how to respond.
Having been to that part of the world many times and having developed a clear worldview over many years, John knew where he stood. Within hours, he established a very strong, informed position that let the world know exactly how he’ll respond as President. At exactly the right time, John McCain said, “We’re all Georgians.”
Obama’s first instinct was to create a moral equivalency – that “both sides” should “show restraint.” The same moral equivalency that he has displayed in discussing the Palestinian Authority and the State of Israel.
Later, after discussing it with his 300 foreign policy advisors, he changed his position and suggested that the “the UN Security Council,” could find a solution. Apparently, none of his 300 advisors told him that Russia has a veto on any UN action. Finally Obama put out a statement that looked …well, it looked a lot like John McCain’s.
Here’s some free advice: Sen. Obama, next time just call John McCain.
Quite the speech. He’s not throwing in his cards at this point — the speech will do him good in the eyes of Republicans down the road. Why didn’t he do this on the stump?
Of course, he forced them to dump the Palin video.
Getting a little nrrvous, Rick?
Actually, I think Obama is needing help placing his intestines back in his abdomen. I wish he would have done that back in December & January.
“Getting a little nrrvous, Rick?”
Not at all. My biggest fear was the GOP would try to weasle out of the Bush record. Instead you embraced it and a woman who thinks Bush did too much to protect Polar Bears from global warming.
Well Rick, if you are silly enough to think that polar bears are threatened by AGW, and you are too slow to understand that that action had little to do with polar bears or AGW, then there is no hope for you.
Oh my achin’ butt…polar bears?! Is tht all you’ve got left Rick?!! Surely you’re joking. Maybe you should live in places where ridiculous laws go through dreamt up by people who live in apartments 2000 miles away and play with politics which will affect them not one whit. We go through that up here with the State DNR and their leftist meddling with the forests we love and know far better than some asshole in Minneapolis.
Anyway, Rudy was beyond great! We laughed and cheered.