| luinil said: Two points based on the bolded statements. 1. Obama has failed in this respect. The best example is his Pastor J. Wright, whom he has been attending the church of for 20 years. This is a failing that cannot be overlooked. Obama lied to us when he said that he did not hear these statements. He said in his speech the other day (the big Race Speech) that he did hear these types of comments, maybe not those specifically, but similar none-the-less. Also in his speec, he did not distance himself from Mr. Wright but instead threw his own grandmother under the bus, by saying that she has harbored racist views and said things that "made him cringe." Yesterday he did it again by saying that her comments and views were "typical of white people." I thought he was above race and now he says that white people have been bred to have racist views? COME ON! No one should be able to trust his judgment after this. If he surrounds himself with people like this for 20+ years I cannot trust his judgment. He also has ties and relationships with a known terrorist, the leader of the Weather Underground - William Ayers. He has met with him as a "Right of Passage" to Chicago politics. How can anyone be on friendly terms with someone who admits to bombing the Pentagon and says that he wishes he did more??? Also we have his connection and friendship with Rezko. He defends him even though Rezko has been indicted in a fraud scandal. Now we are supposed to trust his judgment of the people he surrounds himself with? Nope, it won't happen. 2. We don't have to accept that, as that would lead to further conflict between muslim factions. There would be a big push against sunni tribes, a small genocide, if you will. If we abandon Iraq now, Iran, who sponsors terrorism could make a claim to Iraqi oil and could punish the world for standing against them in anyway they see fit. We could see Iran getting a nuclear weapon within 2 years and dropping it on Israel. The Iranian President is very nearly daily spouting hate rhetoric against Israel. We cannot trust a man that is such a loose canon. We cannot trust them the same way we could not trust the USSR in the Cold War. This is why Obama doesn't have the experience, judgment, or other qualifications to be President. Not that McCain is the ideal candidate but I would trust him more than Obama. |
1.) Regarding Mr. Wright - yeah his statements are not any I agree with, but I'm willing to bet my life savings that you haven't watched the entire sermons in context, and have only watched/heard the small soundbites the mass media is playing. Context is everything, and you have missed that completely. As far as throwing his grandmother under the bus? Bullshit... you are taking his remarks out of context. He said she said racist remarks while growing up that made him sick, JUST LIKE mr. Wright said some things that made him sick. The point was that he loved both these people despite the bad and could not disown or "throw under the bus" either of them. If anyone was thrown under the bus, it was Mr. Wright, because Obama could have demanded clarity from the media regarding the actual context of those sermons, but instead he left the accused soundbites at mostly face value, when he didn't have to at all. You have already judged Wright and Obama and you are unwilling to look at any contextual information that says otherwise.
2.) When I say he has surrounded himself with bright, capable, and rational people, I mean in the sense of his political friends and advisors. I don't believe that any religious leader is truly a rational person, and this goes for Mr. Wright or any right wing pastor that John McCain has connections to (you know, the one I mentioned earlier that wants to wage a war against Islam, that you completely ignored and will no doubt ignore again).
3.) You have no idea what would happen with Iran. You are simply conjecturing. I'm not saying we should just up and give full control of the region to Iran, but we're going to have to accept that whatever resolution we have in the area is going to involve Iran in some capacity or another. We can't just ignore them, and we can't just demand ultimatums. Or we can, and we can continue to let our own economy slide down the shitter.
You do know how we won the cold war right? Reagan simply outspent the Russians. Their economy eventually collapsed...
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