Obama Says McCain Continuing “Bush/Cheney Political Playbook Based on Fear”

“I believe actually that I’m very clear about the threats America faces,” Obama continued”
Iran not a threat? or is Iran a great threat? Obama is not very clear about that.

Obama has clarified Iran is a threat but not as big of threat as the Soviet Union… whom I might add had nuclear weapons pointing in the directions of the United States.
Iran as far as we know doesn’t even have nuclear weapons.
Yet Ronald Reagon spoke to the Soviets.

He put a bunch of staunch Iraq war supporters on the phone to accuse me of having a ‘pre-9/11 mindset.’
“I believe actually that I’m very clear about the threats America faces,” Obama continued, “as are the people sitting around this table and those who are on the phone
ARE A BUNCH OF PRE-9/11 “EXPERTS”.
ANOTHER OBAMA GAFFE.

so when obama goes “social security, supreme court” he plays to fear.

From a report on Obama’s foreign policy speech in March: “The Iraq war has left America less safe and has emboldened al Qaida, Iran, North Korea and the Taliban, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said.”
Whose political playbook based on fear is that from?

David Boren. president of the University of Oklahoma, is a master of deceit. He is a close friend of the Bush family and other top Republicans. He has been a patron and mentor of former CIA directors George Tenet and Bob Gates, now Bush’s Secretary of Defense. Since he resigned from the U.S. Senate in 1994, he has endorsed various politicians with conflicting views. In the 90s he was a close associate of Ross Perot, and for a few years in that decade there was a Reform Party committee to draft Boren for President in 2000. Their website (boren2000.org) can now be found at the internet archive. The google search term is “wayback.” For 2004, Boren endorsed Lieberman for President. He supported Lieberman again when he was running as an independent for the Connecticut Senate seat. Now Lieberman is attacking Obama. In early 2008, Boren held his “bipartisan forum” at OU because he was hoping that Michael Bloomberg would run as an independent and make him the running mate. Boren is a good friend of McCain and hosted him as OU’s commencement speaker in 2005. Currently Boren’s son, a right-wing Democrat and Oklahoma Congressman, is keeping Obama at arms length and has announced that he is not endorsing him. Obama is a fool for lettting Boren sit in on his “national security” meetings. Boren cannot be trusted. He is probably passing the information he gains directly to his good friend McCain.

Today on WaPo, there is report about what Iraqi foreign minister’s take on Obama:
The foreign minister said “my message” to Mr. Obama “was very clear. . . . Really, we are making progress. I hope any actions you will take will not endanger this progress.” He said he was reassured by the candidate’s response, which caused him to think that Mr. Obama might not differ all that much from Mr.McCain.
Those believing in Obama can fulfill all his promises during the campaign are bound to be heartbroken.
Obama – an incompetent, pandering, unqualified lousy candidate.

safe -
He only has a “great mind” that constantly makes boneheaded mistakes.

If this advisory board is so great why are they all former somethings?
Mad (treaty with N Korea) Albright, oh no not again
and somehow the “new Obama paridigm” seems a bit blured by all this old film.
Last time we heard from this group we were being attacked every 2 years and trying to play cops and crooks with killers.

Conspiracies abound.

“where were the crews on 911?”
The jets that scrambled took up position over the Atlantic because they are trained to handle external threats. By the time they were retargeted, it was too late.
The FAA was very slow in qualifying and reacting to the hijackings. Most of the fast response was from the lower level staff who realized that there was a threat but could not put the picture together fast enough with fragmented information. When they did, the decision making officials were in closed meetings.
Flight 93 was the one thing anyone got right and it cost them their lives but they got it done. Don’t dishonor their sacrifices with conspiracy theories that can be debunked by even the casual observers.
What 9/11 pointed out most glaringly was the then inability of the US to coordinate military and civilian resources when faced with a Threat of National Significance. Posse comitatus has side effects. We really were sitting dumb and happy on September 11.
With NIMS and the NFS, progress has been made on the command and control issues but getting these systems fielded and implemented is taking a lot of time. One big issue is the complexity of the RFPs attempting to solve too many problems too quickly. Once again, procurement processes and specifications need to be constantly reexamined. Too often, a good system can be created that is simpler and covers the majority of the cases then evolved over time to handle edge cases.
DHS is working the problem hard but it covers a lot of jurisdictions and scenarios and they all have unique problems.

9-11 happened while George Bush was president.

jrwo8…..
You come to the wrong place to find critical reviews on McCain events or flip-flops

geevil
what OBAMA said is that compared to teh SOVIET UNION during the cold war that imposed a very CRITICAL threat to america by basically moving missiles within range to destroy us, he said Iran does not generate that amount of threat yet…
so….
compared to the soviets during cold war iran is not that great of a threat
now is Iran a threat… yes and he has said so

seah
84% of americans think america is on the wrong track… obama is the man to change that track
i love how you try to paint him like hes some evil guy, maybe try to see what mccain stands for… talk about scary

geevil
thanks for voting in bush, please dont make the same mistake again you

“84% of americans think america is on the wrong track… obama is the man to change that track”
This is why Democrats are so stupid. They promised this change in 2006 and you bought it then too.
Now you get a new Trojan horse and you worship it.
Obama worshippers are a cult. They forcibly close their eyes to the truth.
What history does Obama have of doing ANYTHING?
When has he worked with the opposition?
FYI- you can’t vote “present” as President.

drjohhn
do you actually believe your statment about Ahmedinejad and obama? or are you just trying to throw anything out there to try to prove some ailing point?

Here’s the deal, B, and this is not fear but reality. There are groups of people both loosely and strongly affiliated who are trying very hard to do what you describe as ‘fire and brimstone’. Pretending they are not won’t reduce the threat. Blaming it on Bush won’t reduce the threat. Spreading conspiracy theories to boost support for your candidate won’t reduce the threat.
There are groups of people both loosely and strongly affiliated working very hard to stop the first group from doing what you describe. The first group only has to succeed once. So far, the second group has stopped them every time.
I work for the second group loosely. I hope those in my group continue to succeed so those in yours can continue to dream.
We need dreamers. We just don’t need them to set defense policy.
This is not about the election.

hoosiersue
yet you hold no reservations about mccain
pathetic

Senator Obama’s campaign has been based on hope, change and lies.
HOPE you will believe my lies
CHANGE from a democratic nation to a socialist/marxist/communist/racist nation–to a third world nation. I don’t call that going forward but going backward.
ANYONE BUT CORRUPT OBAMA.