All Your Committees Are Belong To Us

Orthocat · Jul 23, 2008

and for today's round...

Mr Obama stated:

"Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you dont have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they dont obtain a nuclear weapon."

He's not on or a member of the Senate Banking Committee. Even his website doesn't have it. Pandering or just lying???

Today on CBS's Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that "the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years.

uhm...are presidential terms 4 or 5 years now? Is that over all the 57 states?

July 22, 2008 2:35 PM
"Let me be absolutely clear," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said today at a press conference in Amman, Jordan. "Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change."

yes, and America is a strong friend of America's.....

hmmm...and the wonderful media says McCain is too old and confused.... ^_^

Orthocat · Jul 23, 2008

almost forgot one....

At the fabled King David Hotel this morning, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, had breakfast with Israeli Defense Minister and Labor leader Ehud Barak.
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was accompanied by senior advisers Dennis Ross, Jim Steinberg, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer; former Navy secretary Richard Danzig and Dan Shapiro.
Also present: Barak's chief of staff Mike Herzog; chief of the Defense ministry's military political department Gen. Amos Gilad; Defense ministry director Brig. Gen. Pinchas Buchris; and military secretary to the Minister of Defense, Gen. Eitan Dangot.
Obama, wearing a blue-and-white striped tie, posed for photos with Barak.
"Where are we sitting?" Barack asked Barak.
Barak motioned him to the other side of a large wooden table covered with orange juice, bread, fruit, cheese and salad.
The next meeting was with Knesset member/Likud Party Chair Benjamin Netanyahu, who asked Obama how he was feeling.
"I could fall asleep standing up," Obama said, according to Bloomberg News' Tel Aviv correspondent Jonathan Ferziger.
Obama advisers Steinberg, Danzig, Shapiro and Dr. Susan Rice met with Bibi as well. Bibi was joined by former Ambassador Dore Gold; former national security adviser Uzi Arad; Zalman Shoval, former ambassador to U.S.; Netanyahu's counselor Ron Derner and Netanyahu chief of staff Ari Harrow
"Mr. Obama?" asked one of the reporters in the small pool permitted into these meetings.
"There's not going to be any questions now," Obama said. And the reporters were escorted out.

wow...telling those people you could fall asleep standing up...
hope he doesn't get that 3 am phone call...
and reporters aren't involved...

Orthocat · Jul 23, 2008

and the hits just keep coming...

Today:

QUESTIONER: "A year ago in South Carolina you said you would meet, in your first year as president, with President Ahmadinejad without preconditions. Is there anything you have heard today here in discussions with Israeli leaders that has made you rethink that pledge or are you still standing by that?"
OBAMA: "Dan, I think you have to take a look at what the question was in South Carolina and how I responded. The question is would I meet with leaders without preconditions in pursuit ... But I think what I said in response was that I would, at my time and choosing, be willing to meet with any leader if I thought it would promote the national security interests of the United States of America. , And that continues to be my position, that if I think that I can get a deal that is going to advance our cause, then I would consider that opportunity. But what I also said was that there is a difference between meeting without preconditions and meeting without preparation." (Barack Obama, Press Conference, Sderot, Israel, 7/23/08)

One year ago today:

QUESTION: "[W]ould you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?"...

Here is the entirety of Obama's answer:

OBAMA: I would. And the reason is this, that the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration is ridiculous.
(APPLAUSE)
Now, Ronald Reagan and Democratic presidents like JFK constantly spoke to Soviet Union at a time when Ronald Reagan called them an evil empire. And the reason is because they understood that we may not trust them and they may pose an extraordinary danger to this country, but we had the obligation to find areas where we can potentially move forward.
And I think that it is a disgrace that we have not spoken to them. We've been talking about Iraq one of the first things that I would do in terms of moving a diplomatic effort in the region forward is to send a signal that we need to talk to Iran and Syria because they're going to have responsibilities if Iraq collapses.
They have been acting irresponsibly up until this point. But if we tell them that we are not going to be a permanent occupying force, we are in a position to say that they are going to have to carry some weight, in terms of stabilizing the region.

but what I also said was....uhm, I can't really remember what I said my position was...

Billnew · Jul 24, 2008

Orthocat said:
and the hits just keep coming...
but what I also said was....uhm, I can't really remember what I said my position was...

Dang, this sounds like something the Dems would jump on if McCain ever said this.

They say McCain is to old, I contend Obama is a rookie trying to organize
a team to play in the world series. he wants to be the politician of "change" but the only mentors lead him to be a partisan politician, and tell him to jump towards the middle on issues, rather then stick to his ideals.
At his age, he can probably make this leap without hurting himself. I think Clinton would have probably strained something making that leap.

Orthocat · Jul 24, 2008

Pick out the "We Are The World" lyrics vs. Obama speech lines in Berlin today.

A: "We can't go on pretending day by day that someone, somewhere will soon make a change."

B: "This is the moment we must help answer the call."

C: "But if you just believe there's no way we can fall."

D. "The world will watch and remember what we do."

E. "Let us realize that a change can only come when we stand together as one."

F. "We cannot afford to be divided."

G. "These now are the walls we must tear down."

H. "This is the moment when we must come together."

I. "They'll know that someone cares, and their lives will be stronger and free."

We Are the World: A, C, E, I.
Obama's Speech: B, D, F, G, H.

Michael Jackson is proud.

Orthocat · Jul 24, 2008

And how do many Europeans view him?

http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=602

wow...

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