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Night and Day

Barry O on Iraq this weekend:

“The belief that we have a national security interest in making sure Iraq is secure, I’ve been saying consistently,” he added. Noting “the worst-case scenarios and the parade of horribles that has been trotted out by John McCain and others about genocide if we left,” he said he has always reserved “the right to protect people from genocide.”

The Obamaliar a year ago:

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.

But…but…he’s been “consistent”!

July 6, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, Iraq, Night and Day, Obama | 3 Comments

Wes Clark does the French thing and retreats

From Politico:

Nearly a week after his controversial “Face the Nation” appearance last Sunday, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark is taking a break from the presidential campaign — but many Democratic insiders think he has already been crossed off the list of Barack Obama’s potential running mates.

Sunday morning on CBS News, Clark argued that John McCain’s military experience — and his years as a prisoner of war — in no way qualified him to be president. Following his appearance, one prominent liberal blog, apparently seeing the genie as out of the bottle, launched into a considerably harsher attacks on McCain’s service headlined “Honestly, besides being tortured, what did McCain do to excel in the military?”

“On a scale of 1 to 10, Clark’s words were a 10 in terms of unhelpfulness,” said one Democrat who has helped manage past presidential campaigns.

Wonders Ed:

…Worse, as Bob Schieffer noted in that Face the Nation interview last Sunday, Clark’s argument makes Obama look even worse than before.  If McCain has had limited executive experience, Obama has had none at all; if McCain only commanded peacetime units, Obama never served at all; and if twenty-four years of serving on the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees haven’t prepared McCain for military and diplomatic responsibilities, what in Obama’s three years of Senate experience makes him better?

Heh.

July 6, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, McCain, moonbats, Obama | 2 Comments

Obama lies on his abortion position

The Obamaliar caught with his moist finger in the political winds again.  From Ed Morrissey:

Barack Obama offered another “inartful” statement that appeared to reverse his position on late-term abortions. In an interview with Relevant Magazine, Obama said that “mental distress” shouldn’t be a qualifier for a second- or third-trimester abortion — reversing his own vote on the partial-birth abortion ban. By yesterday, Obama had hit reverse again to get back in a campaign press conference.

Obama started this tempest with this inartful response:

Strang: Based on emails we received, another issue of deep importance to our readers is a candidate’s stance on abortion. We largely know your platform, but there seems to be some real confusion about your position on third-trimester and partial-birth abortions. Can you clarify your stance for us?

Obama: I absolutely can, so please don’t believe the emails. I have repeatedly said that I think it’s entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother. Now, I don’t think that “mental distress” qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term. Otherwise, as long as there is such a medical exception in place, I think we can prohibit late-term abortions.

That reverses his own position on late-term abortions, where he has championed mental-health exceptions for late-term abortion bans. Sensing an obvious backlash, Obama then tried to clarify his position with the press. The Swamp has the retreat quote:

My only point is this — historically I have been a strong believer in a women’s right to choose with her doctor, her pastor and her family. And it is ..I have consistently been saying that you have to have a health exception on many significant restrictions or bans on abortions including late-term abortions.

In the past there has been some fear on the part of people who, not only people who are anti-abortion, but people who may be in the middle, that that means that if a woman just doesn’t feel good then that is an exception. That’s never been the case.

I don’t think that is how it has been interpreted. My only point is that in an area like partial-birth abortion having a mental, having a health exception can be defined rigorously. It can be defined through physical health, It can be defined by serious clinical mental-health diseases. It is not just a matter of feeling blue. I don’t think that’s how pro-choice folks have interpreted it. I don’t think that’s how the courts have interpreted it and I think that’s important to emphasize and understand.

Historically, courts have adopted a very expansive view of mental-health threats, which is why abortion opponents fight against the vague definitions used in such bills for exceptions to bans. A competent Constitutional law scholar would know this and would not have offered that specific formulation to Relevant without understanding its meaning. Even more than gun rights, abortion has been the biggest Constitutional issue in the US since Obama was in grade school. How can he not be prepared to speak clearly on this issue?

If you’re pro-choice or pro-life, fine.  Just pick a side and defend it.  Don’t lie through your friggin’ teeth and insult our intelligence.

July 6, 2008 Posted by | abortion, hypocrisy, Obama, shameful | 3 Comments

MSNBC host suffers first documented case of McCain Derangement Syndrome

Moonbats a plenty on MSNBC!  From Time’s blog:

An interesting exchange on Morning Joe today between John Ridley and Pat Buchanan, who were filling in as guest hosts:

Ridley: So McCain just decided he wanted to be in Colombia — very fortuitous on this day that this amazing, amazing rescue happened. Even his own handlers don’t exactly know why he wants to go.Buchanan: Suppose those guys had gone in there and the rebels had suspected something and they shot them up and killed a number of hostages and it was a bloody mess and McCain would have been blamed for it. He couldn’t have known it was going to succeed.

Ridley: Unless they knew that it was not going to be a failure. That’s all I’m saying.

Buchanan: You’re implying that they bought off the rebels?

Ridley: All I’m saying is that we see what happens in Iraq, that we’re not going to negotiate with terrorists, that we’re not going to negotiate with these kidnappers, and then for some reason they’re released. I want to make very clear, these people come home, these individuals been kidnapped, I couldn’t be happier. However they get home. But we know that back channel negotiations and things happen. We know that John McCain was down there fortuitously. We know that someone on his staff who was a lobbyist for Colombia. It just seems all very convenient right before the Fourth of July.

In the words of Dr. Charles Krauthammer, Bush Derangement Syndrome is described as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency — nay — the very existence of George W. Bush.”

Although the case before us doesn’t involve Bush, BDS seems to have mutated into a John McCain variant. The paranoia-inducing symptoms, however, appear not to have diminished. Recommended treatments include a cessation of blog reading and a cold shower.

No wonder these bozos like subsidized prescription drugs.  That Paxil and Thorazine ain’t gonna pay for themselves, you know?

July 6, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias, moonbats | 4 Comments

Kerry: McCain lacks judgment to be prez

From the AP:

John Kerry says Republican John McCain doesn’t have the judgment to be president.

If that’s the case, then it’s probably a good thing McCain rejected overtures from Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, to form a bipartisan ticket and run with Kerry as his candidate for vice president. …

I’m guessing that had McCain not been held captive and tortured for years, but instead came back to blueblood Mass. and slandered his fellow soldiers with a bunch of damnable lies in order to boost his budding political career, that would have been a far more stellar display of judgment…n’est-ce pas?  What a tool!

July 6, 2008 Posted by | Kerry, McCain, shameful | 4 Comments

   

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