Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 50053
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2008/5/26-30 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:50053 Activity:nil
5/25    Even the AP is has noticed the Obama is just making up his policy
        as he goes along.
        http://csua.org/u/lnn
        \_ you're an idiot.
           \_ A stunning argument!  The opposition can make no response!
              \_ Masturbation's a one-player game.
                 \_ Oh, you may carry on with it then, but please stop
                    jizzing all over the motd.
                    \_ Freeper: the sound of one hand fapping.
        \_ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021273/posts
           \_ The Hugo Chavez one is kinda 'meh' since he could be saying that
              Chavez's power increased due to Bush's negligence.
              I think it's pretty obvious he hasn't thought through his
              position on things like FARC tho'.
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No wonder, then, that demagogues like Hugo Chavez have stepped into this vacuum. Hugo Chavez came to power during the Clinton Administration, and was first elected President of Venezuela in 1998, two years before the Bush Administration took office. notes this is small potatoes compared to his song and dance on FARC and Venezuela: More recently, Obama as he traveled through Florida seemed to give some contradictory statements about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the Colombian terrorist group FARC. On Thursday Obama told the Orlando Sentinel that he would meet with Chavez and "one of the obvious high priorities in my talks with President Hugo Chavez would be the fermentation of anti-American sentiment in Latin America, his support of FARC in Colombia and other issues he would want to talk about." OK, so a strong declaration that Chavez is supporting FARC, which Obama intends to push him on. But then on Friday he said any government supporting FARC should be isolated. "We will shine a light on any support for the FARC that comes from neighboring governments," he said in a speech in Miami. "This behavior must be exposed to international condemnation, regional isolation, and - if need be - strong sanctions. So he will meet with the leader of a country he simultaneously says should be isolated? People would say he's an empty suit, unprepared for the White House. View Replies If Obama was a white guy, he would have suffered the same fate as John Edwards. Good looks and a light resume should only get one so far in national politics. "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." View Replies To: Red Steel All these gaffes would make an excellent campaign ad against Obama. This assumes that the McCain campaign is going to run ads against Obama....... View Replies To: Ooh-Ah "Since the Bush Administration launched a misguided war in Iraq, its policy in the Americas has been negligent toward our friends, ineffective with our adversaries, disinterested in the challenges that matter in peoples' lives, and incapable of advancing our interests in the region. No wonder, then, that demagogues like Hugo Chavez have stepped into this vacuum." Had he said, "no wonder demagogues like Hugo Chavez have come into power" then it would be but I'm just not seeing it (as much as I'd like too) on this issue. View Replies To: Army Air Corps I don't think it's so much that he's stupid, I think it's that real policy matters have never been important to him, and now he's having to bluff it. His one real idea, and real agenda, is all focussed around his black liberation theology, but obviously he can't run on that. So he's no up to speed on little things like American foreign policy. He's been a no-show in the Senate for much of his short political career-he's only familiar on the surface with issues that are obviously rat, like voting against life, and for partial-birth abortion. Those don't require any thinking, the party thinks for you. So he's having to bluff a knowledge of, much less familiarity with, the issues and concerns that anyone running for President of the United States should have to be familiar with. What's really dear to his heart, what really matters to him and what he really knows and understands, he can't run on. View Replies To: icwhatudo Maybe I'm missing it, but how is this a gaffe? Chavez came into power during the Clinton administration. Obama can't blame Bush for something that happened two years before he was elected. View Replies To: mrsmel I know what his real ideology is. My comment is aimed at the fact that this is the best that he can do at bluffing it. A Harvard education, and this is the best that he can do with regard to pretending to know anything about policy issues. View Replies To: goldstategop $30mil/month laundered from Soros still can't buy all the corrupted Leftist handler-brains that are sufficiently well educated to stay ahead of the intelligence vacuum at the top of the Obambi campaign. Cramming for open mic sessions where no Teleprompter can follow, forcing the Obombanation to think on his feet to answer questions, and concurrently write coherent, substantive speeches for Hussein? That's just too tough of a job for any ignorant, lying campaign manager trying to hide the identity and vile nature of their Socialist, Black Liberationist figurehead. View Replies To: Ooh-Ah Good thing he's not a Republican. People would say he's an empty suit, unprepared for the White House. Indeed, but since he is a Democrat he may simply be too smart to be President. View Replies To: highimpact Maybe I am missing it because I just don't see where Obama is blaming Bush for Chavez coming into power during Bush's term. would we also say "Ha Ha what an idiot, Obama doesn't know Castro came into power before Bush became president"? View Replies To: Ooh-Ah "No wonder, then, that demagogues like Hugo Chavez have stepped into this vacuum" And re-elected in a fraudulent election that was certified by Jimmy Carter. View Replies To: icwhatudo "Since the Bush Administration blah blah blah.... No wonder, then, that demagogues like Hugo Chavez have stepped into this vacuum." Chavez came to power in 1998 during the Clinton Adminstration, years before Bush took office. Obama is more than just an oily scumbag - - he's a stupid oily scumbag. View Replies To: Red Steel All these gaffes would make an excellent campaign ad against Obama. Yes, they would, but the GOP doesn't have the guts to make hay with any of this. And that is why my checkbook remains slammed shut and mail solicitations from everybody connected to the party of "no fight" get immediately tossed in the trash unopened. View Replies To: icwhatudo Whether it is exactly a "gaffe" about when Chavez came to power (I think it is) the whole premise of blaming Hugo Chavez on the Iraq war is preposterous. Hugo Chavez is an anti-American marxist and he was going to remain one whether or not George Bush invaded Iraq. Further, Obama is saying American policy created a "vacuum" that somehow is legitimately filled by Chavez. Whatever failings our policy may have, the likes of Chavez is not a reasonable alternative to America in the world. mrsmel I would put the average Freeper here on Free Republic up against this empty-suited dunce. More evidence that "higher education" is, in many cases, merely brainwashing on Leftist positions. View Replies To: yankeedame Yes, but wouldn't that be (quote) "racist" (unquote)? Like the GOP will get the black vote unless they are perceived as racist? The GOP just needs to refrain from actual racism (because it's wrong). It should just slam Obama with the truth and not trouble itself about MSM-generated perceptions of racism. View Replies To: happygrl And it's shocking that the rats consider him perfectly qualified to be Commander-In-Chief, leader of the free world in spite of it. They must know that he isn't interested or knowledgeable about anything that a candidate for President of the US must care about. I guess, at least, he couldn't be the antichrist-he'd have to be smarter. View Replies To: cynwoody I agree, because the rats and the media are going to spin anything a Republican says opposing Obama, as racist anyway. If they'd do it to Hillary, they'd certainly do it to a Republican to defend their sainted Obamessiah. So we might as well have the satisfaction of speaking the truth and not letting Obama get a pass for what he says. View Replies To: mrsmel The old-school Deomcrat party (pre-McGovern) would have been embarrased to have a talentless hack like this as a candidate. A know-thing, do-nothing poltroon who delivers empty speeches that say absolutely nothing. A man who has never had a real job or owned a business wants to preside over the single largest economy on Earth. A man with no concept of geopolitics wants to take the reigns of a globe-spanning, awsome military machine and enter the dog-eat-dog world of international diplomacy. View Replies To: Ooh-Ah He should be forced to release HIS medical records- and be tested for drugs. Af...