Closing Arguments: Obama Overseas

What would actually be useful is for ABC or any other news group to explain Phil Gramm’s background. He was integral in creating the loopholes and deregulation that brought us Enron, the mortgage crisis, a weak dollar, and alas, skyrocketing oil speculation.
Good reporting, ABC.

He’s an embarassment.

Senator Obama is taking Charlie Gibson,Katie Couric and Brian Williams on his overseas visit. Does anyone really think this trip is to shape a new American foreign policy?? Really ABC,how stupid do you think we are? This is nothing but a publicity stunt.

His trip is a farce. It is totally political. I hope the American people see him as he really is. HE IS A DANGER TO OUR COUNTRY. He is NO John Kennedy.

I agree with anyone-but-obama. He should wait untill he is elected. He is wasting time and the taxpayers’ money.
Are the candidates still drawing their senator pay? if so, shouldn’t they be performing their senatorial duties? Most people cannot take a couple years off from their jobs to apply for another job, and still expect to be paid.

How about if Obama did the job he was elected to do – serving the people of Illinois. From the time he was elected all he’s been doing is trying to be elected to a different job. I also want to know who is paying for this trip? It has nothing to do with his Illinois senate seat, so I hope he is paying for it out of his own pocket (fat chance).

Obama is a dangerous man and a threat to America. He is hoping peoeple in this country and overseas will see him as president. I am pretty sure he will say something that will show his true colors and finish his attempt to become president, a job he is ill prepared for.

I think it is important for Obama to make this trip. He is an intelligent man with an amazing ability to inspire and unite people. The experience of this trip will add to his understanding of these areas of the world and that will help us all when he is President. The people who insist on insinuating that he has Muslim ties should realize if that were really true his opponents would have proven that and ran in into the ground a long time ago.

You asked if Senator Obama’s trip is political for PR or to shape foreign policy. The anser is self-evident by the number of media peaple who will be accompanying him.

Politics Politics Politics
Obama wants to APPEAR that he knows what is going on in the world. That he
is familiar with world leaders. What a
junior (child) he is showing himself to
be. Like a child, he can’t decide what
he stands for. An intelligent person can
see through this jellyfish. Obama has certainly shut Michelle’s mouth so she
wont say more idiotic jibberish.
Sure do give Obama credit, He is a slick-tongued dude that has fooled an
awful lot of people to thinking he can
jump over tall buildings, run faster than a speeding bullet, and see through
brick walls, and is the answer to all the problems that the good old USA is
combating at this time.
Dream on, only the media has pronounced
him as ‘the anointed one”.

Obama must be attempting to convince
himself he understands world politics.
Twenty (20) years listening to his pastor, with his wife at his side, cannot erase from his mind the prejudice
and hatred that penetrated his heart.
For one minute, do you think he wouldn’t
dump you or me as he has Jerimiah Wright?? Even if it is only in words.
Michelle has been hushed up. If you
don’t agree that he will do or say
anything to be elected, you just got off the turnip truck, and deserve him
and his ilk.

this trip our next president is taking ,will not only show america he”s doing the right thing but also europeian country people, obama not only knows foriend policy, but knows how to win a war much better than mccain a bush want a be,believe it or not,you repulicains,and haters of obama,are very much afraid of the truth, and the truth is that it takes a black intellegent man to show,the world how to run a country as large as the united states, and stop your repulicain domination,after november you guys will have to find a real job,remember God has barack obama back ,he is the only man that has gone under the micro scope,with hatred with the media and his own party,but look at the bottom line mr president good for all america,and the world.have no fear this trip is nothing.

Lets just sent good old G. W. Bush
overseas maybe we can shootup two or three
more areas of the world and then say
may take 100 years.. you say whats that
mean .. ask Mcbush … he has a PhD in
Bush Crap ola !

Please tell me who is running OBOMA? He is a puppet and I’d like to know who his advisors are incase he wins the election, I’d like to know who will really be running this country. Wasn’t it OBOMA who said while he was in Michigan that he had been to “57 states and was headed to the last one tomorrow”. Tell me, what does he do or have that actually qualifies him to be a Senator much less the LEADER of this great United States. I thought Governers ran for President.Why were Senators chosen this year? So Hilary could run?
I also think that there should be some great qualifications behind a man or woman that is elected to run America. Our lives are in their hand after all. Oboma has absolutely NO experience running anything,he is so confused about who everyone in the political process is, he has NO IDEA who is who well enough to be able to appoint powerful positions below him…….this is so scary and we are in dangerous times in America. Do the terrorists have to destroy a whole American City beore we get it…that they (terrorists) are real and they are a threat and they hate us?
IT APPAULS ME THAT ABC, NBC AND CBS WOULD JOIN OBOMA ON HIS ROCK OBOMA TOUR TO TRY TO BOOSTER HIS POLITICAL POSITION. WHY DID YOU NOT FOLLOW BUSH OR McCAIN WHEN THEY VISITED THOSE COUNTRIES? THE MEDIA IS SO BIAS IS SICKENS ME!!!
Oboma is a terrible threat to this country and I wish the NEWS would report the truth and stop joining in on trying to socialize and ruin the freedoms that America was created to have by uplifting “the Messiah, oboma” He is not a messiah, he is NOT QUALIFIED…..GET IT?

There is bad thing about obama and mucain mi cain is to old to run for president, and obama dosent know’s a little ablout politic’s. at least he is going oversies to learn about Europe and Israel and Afghanistan and Iraq. and posibly meet the world leader’s he might be working with to start deal’s and posibly distroy are $4.00 Gas crises, who ever is president next year we should be happy that George Walker Bush is not elected agan. onily thing i think micain may be working with George Walker Bush.

One trip overseas by a geopolitical neophyte, does not produce an EXPERIENCED
President. He can look and sound as presidential as possible, with all the news anchor’s in tow, Obama pimps at best.In the month of June the network anchor’s spent a total of 146 minutes covering Obama, versus McCain being covered 48 minutes. What do I think of Obama’s trip overseas, I’d feel a lot better if he through on a helmet and went for a tank ride. But his trip will make for great theater.
P.S. Jesse Jackson’s comments about cutting a certain area of Obama are untrue; Why! You could put a dozen Obama’s together and still not come up with a full pair…Badop bomp!

Enjoy your “Audacity of Hope” world tour Senator Obama. It may be the only time you can actually express your hope for America without hearing the jeers of the frightened, huddled masses. You certainly won’t want to let the world know that America is actually a nation of whiners suffering from psychological needs brought on by a mental recession. And since your detractors are going to cry that your visit isn’t a fact-finding, diplomatic mission, but merely a political stunt to garner support for your leftist idea that diplomacy should be employed at all costs before Americans bomb, bomb, bomb and make war, war, war upon another sovereign nation, you should realize that these unseemly and unjustifiable tactics are not going to quell the rumor that you’re trying to be the next President of the United States. Otherwise, good luck with that.

OBAMA OVERSEAS TRIP…THE LAST WORD…..
STAY THERE!!

Obama is already shaping foreign policy, and he’s not even the official nominee yet. He’s the one who said he would talk to our adversaries – and look who’s talking to Iran now. He’s the one who had called for a timetable to withdraw our troops from Iraq within 16 months of becoming President. Look who’s talking about setting up a timetable NOW to start withdrawing troops. Of course this is PR – but I’m sure it’s also for his own education -if he could do all that without having visited the region in three years, just think what he’ll accomplish after taking in all that he sees and learns from this trip.

Obama’s got a whole lot of folks hoodwinked. Like all politicians, he’s all about he publicity–look at me! He is not the answer for this great country. He’ll never get my vote. However, he can talk the talk and has a huge flock.

If people of the United States think relations with other nations dont need healing wake up!!!
Our current President has spent 7 and 1/2 years on a personal crusade…spending our tax dollars on others while ignoring his own residents.
Sure …this might be posturering…but it is a start..If you think you can do better get involved and run for office…lets see how you will be so perfect?

Well it’s out in the open now. OK, I’ll be the one to say it! The left leaning liberal elites, which includes the decision makers at ABC, CBS & NBC are trotting out their beloved liberal (guilt reducing) mulatt’o candidate, BHO, onto the the world stage to say. See, we’re making up for our past sins against the black people! Never mind that all European countries had slavery for centuries before the USA was born. I hope BW & KC don’t stampede over slower CW on the way to the interviews. I’m done with ABC, except for Nightline, which had the courage to open this dialogue.

All of this is politics.This man has not explain how he is going to do the changes and what changes,yet.Remind me Castro, and I know very well.I came from there 39 years ago and spent 11 months in a political prison across Havana bay(La Cabana).I don’t trust this man at all.

To anti Obama whiners….. eat your hearts out:
First, Obama’s campaign is paying all expenses directly related to Obama’s trip. The media are paying their own expenses. Second, you can expect Obama to be on the news every day on this tour. McCain will have to beg for news coverage during this time.
You can safely bet that by now McCain has fired the advisors that egged on this tour. This would make it about the 4th time McCain has had a staff turnover?

To Anybody But Obama poster:
You had better get down to the Pentagon as quick as your stubby little legs can carry you. When Obama boarded his plane to go overseas, the military officers around him saluted him. This courtesy is afforded only to the CIC (“President”).

Obama can’t shine McCain’s shoes. Obama is being orchestrated by a “cast of 300″ because he doesn’t have a clue what he is doing or saying. People who like obama and want him to be elected, have serious integrity and moral issues because they cannot see that this man is a complete fake. John McCain is the REAL DEAL people, he doesn’t have to force or fake it. He lives it.

Obama is an empty shell being filled by other people, but who?

Dear Americans,
Don’t let the wish of the whole world down.
POTUS is not only for you guys but also for the whole world.
Give us better candidate than the Republican.
Maccain is good for one country but not for the world.

Remind him before he gets to Afghanistan that they don’t speak arabic there. Remember the nonsense he uttered about moving arabic translators from Iraq to Afghanistan where they’d be of more use?

Obama: A two-bit character actor.

Obama is playing the roll of President on his trip abroad, on this high-level stops throughout Europe and the Middle East with his important cast of characters and members of the press—and he is doing this before the Democratic Convention in late August which nominate him as their nominee, and he is representing America before the “people” get a chance to vote in November— and no one finds this a bit strange. This is more than just presumptuous—-it shows arrogance and egotism. This is what dictators do in other nations. The campaign is just following the Hollywood script of Mr. Smith goes to Washington. It worked in the movie and maybe it will work for Obama too. There is a BIG difference though, Jimmy Steward was in a “movie” and Obama with his padded credentials, and inexperience will be leading a nation—-“for real”.

I believe that if you want to get to know how to solve a problem, first you need to get all the facts on the problem. Obama is hopefully going to be President, so wouldn’t he need to know how to go about withdrawing troups when in office, by seeing what is going on over in war territory first hand? I dont care what the others scheptics say about politics or publicity, he is there isn’t he. I think its great that he went. At least he is trying to do something about it.

Obama’s first stop on the trip…..
STARBUCKS!

What is with the irrational hate mongers on here? They seem completely ignorant of reality. Ignorant that Obama has been an elected government representative for over a decade (longer than Senator Clinton). Ignorant that he already has been elected to speak for Americans. Ignorant that is is part of his job as Senator to make fact finding trips such as this. Ignorant of any of his policy positions, well laid out in detailed policy papers on his site (no policy can be delivered by sound bite).
After seeing the Republican administration, aided by a Republican Congress, run this country into the ground, squandering a budget surplus, driving up government spending, creating a new massive new bureaucracy, infringing on civil rights, massively devalue the dollar, and denying any constitutional checks or accountability every step of the way, forgive me if I find ignorants denying reality good counsel on who to vote for in November.

Obama haters are scared. Scared that his trip will bolster his rating . Scared that his trip will be more transforming than the useless trips Mccain took to COLOMBIA.By the way what the heck was he doing in Colombia???
His campaign is consantly faltering
Again what did his trip to Colombia accomplish…Nothing….Hispanics will still vote for Obama.Rightwingers Eat your hearts out!!

If the media placed half the scrutiny on the current administration as they are currently placing on Obama, we might have seen some of the atrocities & blunders comitted reversed. Why is it that Obama receives criticism for not going, & then again for going??? Why does Obama have to get everything just perfect, but Bush can blather like a bumbling idiot & the MSM remains silent??? Why is a narrative being set that will not accept anything but perfection from Obama but McCain can crack jokes about our cigarette exports killing Iran & only hear about it on lefty blogs???
Malliki endorsed Obama’s withdrawal plan today. Perhaps we should be discussing that along with Bush’s “time horizon”. The fact that the MSM is going along with that idiotic phrase makes me wanna puke.
It appears that all the ground work is being laid for an Obama administration (as it should be) because we all know he’s more respected by a long shot than anything the Republicans have to offer.
Obama called for withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq. That policy is now being pursued. Obama called for troop increases in Afghanistan. That policy is being pursued. Obama called for diplomacy in Iran. For the first time in 30 years we are stationing a diplomatic team in Iran. I know the MSM has a desperate need for a horse race election, but it really does nothing to create feelings of security with the general public. We’re suffering from something similar to battered wife syndrome (from 7 1/2 years of an abusive government). We are worried about another election being stolen. The incessant need of the MSM to criticise Obama while giving McCain a free ride leads US to believe the motives are nefarious.
I wish Obama the best of luck, & presence of mind on this historical trip. The world may begin to see US in a far more favorable light.

P.S. Has ABC really really reached a point where only 23%ers will respond to your blogs??? Or are you perhaps filtering the pro Obama comments, like you filtered the favorable Obama poll this week…

A fleet of press follows Obama abroad, including all the main news anchors, how come you didn’t follow McCain as well? Why are you in love with Obama? The role of the press, as far as I know, are to be as objective as possible, reporting the news, and only the news. Why dont’ you report on Obama’s clear corruption connections in Chicago? On poor little Curtis Cooper? Boston Globe did, Chicago media did, but the MSM just ignores. Obama has been proven to be a dangerous, corrupt, liar, and you just go on following on his coattails thinking he is the messiah. He has 300 foreign policy advisors, so basically he is a puppet, and he cant’ answer a question without a teleprompter. What a joke, how did Americans get to this horrible situation?

PS: Hey ‘doublestandard’: Don’t look now but the press IS in love with McCain and gives him free passes on everything: corrupt jokes, corrupt lobbyist campaign supporters, zero-idea political platform, bankrupt morals…McCain gets a free pass on them all and the press has NO criticism for McCain but puts Obama under a microscope on everything. What is WRONG with you that you have everything a$$-backwards and inside-out-wrong?

allen_osuno — yeah, right~

The talking point will be in the picture setups. If he is trying to look informal, it’s for politics. If he is formally dressed, one or two figures in the photo, it’s a negotiation and he is no position to negotiate so this is a question with only one answer.
It’s ALL politics and PR but the image he is trying to project tells the intent.

When a lie becomes the truth…
A lot of families understand the heartbreak and despair that surrounds a loved one involved in hard-drug addiction. There are specific psycho-dynamics involved with individuals on drugs, specifically LYING.
They develop a comfort level with lying and become good at it. The other common psycho-dynamic is the “CRISIS” in their lives (IMAGINED OR REAL), that leads their decision making to a path of hard-drug addiction as a way to cope and solve problems.
Mr. Obama, an admitted ex-cocaine user, wants to be President of the United States, arguably the most crisis-laden job in the world. Mr. Obama’s broke an outright promise to the American People, “I will accept federal funds for my campaign”.
OBAMA LIED-THEN JUSTIFIED IT, not once, but more than several times. This is not policy change or the common flip-flopping associated with presidential politics, THIS IS A FUNDAMENTAL BREACH OF TRUST!
The most troubling aspect of Mr. Obama is, his comfort level with lying and his belief that the voters are going to ignore this?
The democrats already realize that the Obama they supported just a few months ago, is not the Obama of today.
Mr. Obama is showing very definitive personalty traits that are more than troubling, besides his inexperience.
Ask yourselves this: DO WE AS AMERICANS TRUST THE NATIONS NUCLEAR FOOTBALL TO AN EX-COKE HEAD??? This addiction counselor with 32 years of experience will not! This is not a racial issue, this is a reality issue.
There are ex-addicts who do go on to become successful in other life pursuits.
Let Mr. Obama with his lying, pursue those other life-endeavors, not the Presidency of the United States. This office is where critical decision making in a multi-faceted crisis could cost hundreds, even thousand of lives.
Ask President Lyndon Johnson, the ultimate Democrat war escalator, who unfortunately is no longer with us.
Ask President Jimmy Carter, Democrat, who committed “The Mother Of All Military Rescue Screw-ups” during the Iranian Hostage Situation!
War with Iran is not a matter of if, but simply when and this is crisis management reality at it’s purest, a crisis I would never trust Mr. Obama’s decision making to execute!
Respectfully,
Dave Rappoport,
drapp9@yahoo.com
P.S. Since the flock of network anchors, aka, the Obama “PIMP MY CANDIDACY TEAM” has already begun Obama’s coronation, he will now be addressed as “The Ayatollah of Crapola”. The “Mullah of all lying Mullah’s” and what a Mullah Flocker he is.
As far as the network anchors reporting status goes…please….Obama press promotion propaganda hacks at best. We can only hope they all get the flock out of here! Fair and Balanced not today not ever!!!
Need proof, in June 08, the networks reported on Obama a total of 146 minutes, McCain they reported 48 minutes.
The network anchors are proving to be a lot like general Wesley Clark…the difference between a brown noser and a butt kisser is depth perception…a skill as yet unacquired by the bunch of them.
I hope you all enjoy your pre-presidential knee pad acquisition trip.

I just wish I had the kneepad concession for the MSM, I could be making a fortune off the media’s Obamafellation.

The media bias of ABC, CBS, and NBC is showing. Who do they think they are fooling? They have lost all journalistic principles to do this.
This trip is politically motivated and a publicity stunt!

Regarding Obama on the New Yorker satire cover…
OBAMA, CRY ME A RIVER YOU BABY!!!!! WHAAA… MOMMEY THERE MAKING FUN OF ME….. WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES PAL.
It’s when they stop making fun of you…then it’s time to worry.
By the way, with those ears how could you possibly be that thin skinned????? Hey Will Smith, help the brother…
The reports that Obama has surrounded himself with 300 Clinton Hacks as foreign policy advisers, CONGRATULATIONS BILL JUNIOR, …SIENFELD’S SOUP NAZI SAYS: No interns for you!!
OBAMA OVERSEAS TRIP…THE LAST WORD……..STAY THERE!!
NEW NAME OF THE 3 MAJOR NEWS ANCHORS: THE OBAMA “PIMP MY CANDIDACY TEAM”.
DEFINITION OF 3 MAJOR NEWS ANCHORS: “APPARATCHIKS OF THE BODY POLITIC”!
OBJECTIVE REPORTING, DEFINITION: NOT THE 3 NETWORK ANCHORS! (SEE PROPAGANDA)!
As far as the network anchors reporting status goes…please….Obama press promotion propaganda hacks at best. Fair and Balanced not today not ever. Need proof, in June the networks reported on Obama’s a total of 146 minutes, McCain they reported 48 minutes.
The Obama network anchors “FLOCK” are proving to be a lot like general Wesley Clark…the difference between a “Brown Noser” and a “Butt Kisser” is depth perception…a skill as yet unacquired by the bunch of them.
3 Network anchors…I hope you all enjoy your pre-presidential knee pad acquisition trip….LOVE YOU MONICA.
Since the “FLOCK” of network anchors, aka, the Obama “PIMP MY CANDIDACY TEAM” has already begun Obama’s coronation, he will now be addressed as “The Ayatollah of Crapola”. The “Supreme Mullah of all lying Mullah’s” and what a Mullah Flocker he is.
I ALMOST FORGOT: OBAMA’S ESPOUSING OF HIS MIDWEST VALUES GROWING UP, IN COMMERCIALS….AS A “MIDWESTER” I CAN ASSURE YOU, COCAINE USE IS NOT ONE OF THOSE MIDWEST VALUES LEARNED!!!
Irreverently your,
Dave Rappoport

I’m getting D**&%$d tired of ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, ad infinitum keep putting Obama in the headlines. Tetty Moran is the sorriest “journalist” I have ever seen or heard. Honey flows out of his mouth when he speaks the “Blessed Name” of OBAMA. This is a two person race for the presidency, not the “selection” of Obama. He AIN’T qualified to run for dog catcher much less the President of the United States.
And since when does a “candidate” start making policy. Obama is worse than Pelosi when interferring with policy making of the government. Congess and Congressmen and women MAKE LAWS, not POLICY.

Balack Obama will most likely be the first black president in this white nation. He is a marxist and will ultimately help destroy the freedom our forefathers died for when building this nation. He won’t get there without the help of the corporate media though. I have noticed for months how they always show this slimy scumbag in way that is almost christ like. He is the saviour that will come to save the world.

Obama is right and McCain is wrong. The violence in Iraq is down because the Sunni’s terminated their relationship with Al Queda, the Shiites have withdrawn their militias from activity (unforeseen developments) and the Surge. This is what Obama has always said. The line that McCain is pushing is that violence is down only because of the Surge, and that is wrong. The Surge is a tactical policy that cannot be sustained in the long run with Afghanistan falling apart. McCain is not qualified to be Commander-in-Chief because he does not know the difference between a war of choice and a war of necessity. Obama does.

The greatest war strategist/leaders throughout history had solid plans for defeating the enemy, they significant historical knowledge of the enemy and intelligence on the enemy.
George Bush led our nation into Iraq with his, Cheney’s and Condie’s EGO’S.
The “surge” is a bandaid that will hold temporarily. The war that the United States is bogged down in in Iraq will not be won by Bush’s tactical month-by-month playbook.
Bush unleased hell in Iraq. We should have stayed the course in Afganistan and rooted out our enemy there, rather than running from pillar to post with a shotgun approach and no solid strategic plan for protecting our nation.
Neither candidate will get us out of the Middle East. We will be there until the ancient of days comes again.

it’s obvious from the interview with terry moran that sen. obama doesn’t want to answer tough questions. he was wishy-washy and tried to answer a question before moran even asked. even moran said, ‘how do you know what i will ask?’ we need more than just somebody who offers something as hollow as hope, we need somebody who has answers. hopefully more people in the media will stop fawning on obama and keep asking tough questions, and see how he handles a baptism of fire. being president is a tough job, and we don’t need somebody who promises a lot of things but is unable to deliver. and i liked how german chancellor merkel quashed his speech in berlin, of course it was ‘presumptuous’. kennedy and reagan spoke there, but did so as president. and obama isn’t president yet!

Darned if you do! Darned if you don’t! Complain because he hasn’t spoken to the generals and now complain cause he does. I just wish all the speeches weren’t the same from all the candidates all the time!
I also wish they’d donate 1/2 of the money they raise to building businesses in this country. With the technology today you really don’t have to go anywhere to campaign. You could do it on line and in a movie. It sure would cost less and the majority of us wouldn’t have to watch it 100 times over.
What about Mc Cain’s commercial charging O’Bahma with the Oil crisis. What happen to Bush for the past 8 years and his congress. Give us a break. I’m an independent and I think this is wasteful spending….