Thursday, August 2, 2007

This Guy Wants to Run the Country?

All of the Democrat candidates are staunch supporters of the public education system, just don't ask them to send their kids to a public school. That is the message that we got from their YouBoob debate. Same as every other point with them, the main thing is to pander to the interest groups. To his credit, though, John Edwards did send his kids to public schools. Of course, it may also be that the high costs of sending your kids to a private school might have tapped into his hair care budget.
Boy, that Obama is a genius at foreign policy. We are slowly getting an emerging picture of what foreign policy under an Obama presidency would be like. First of all, any murderous, repressive dictator will be able to get face time with him, no stipulations. Great policy. Sounds like a winner. Second of all, if he gets good intelligence of a terrorist threat in Pakistan, he will send U.S. troops in. Just in case you missed that, that means he would send U.S. troops into one of our few allies in the middle east, without permission. A country where the leader is already having a tough time keeping his government stable against assassination attempts. An unauthorized incursion by U.S. troops should do wonders. But we need to treat Iran and Syria, where he have solid information of terrorist activities against the U.S., with kid gloves. We need to engage them in dialog. Sound like his foreign policy is schizophrenic? You're not alone.
The next question you have to ask is what exactly would he call good intelligence? After all, the intelligence that we had regarding WMD in Iraq prior to the war was certainly considered good intelligence by the Clinton administration, the UN, Senator Kerry, former vice-president Al Gore, British, German, French, and Russian intelligence. And yet now nutjobs on the left think Bush should be impeached for using that intelligence as one of the supporting causes for the action in Iraq. Does that mean that, should Obama act on similar intelligence, invade Pakistan without Pakistani approval, and then come up empty-handed, he will willingly submit himself to Congressional hearings and propose that articles of impeachment be brought up against him?
It is also interesting to read what Senator Biden had to say about Obama's fairly recent adeptness at foreign policy, when at a January hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Ambassador John Negroponte gave testimony, that rather than discuss Afghanistan and the Taliban, of which Obama recently cares so much about, Senator Obama focused on the topic of mercury in fish.
This sounds like exactly the kind of guy we need heading up Foreign Policy at this time in history. Maybe he is counting on having the help of the self-appointed U.S. foreign policy expert, Nancy Pelosi. After all, his policy of meeting with corrupt dictators sounds eerily like Nancy Pelosi's recent visit and kowtowing to Bashar Assad or Syria.

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