Obama’s Surge Problem

Right. Bush, McCain and the miliyary thought the surge would be a colossal failure. Obama is a joke.

Does the surge decrease gas prices?
Does the surge increase the number of jobs?
Does the surge help with foreclosures?
Americans do not give a DAMN about the surge.

lolol So the surge worked and Obama was wrong, wrong, wrong…. I just love it even though I can’t stomach O’Reilly! Go McCain! Let’s teach the Dems and Obama a lesson about mistreating women candidates! Woo Hoo!!! Go McCain!! The Rasmussen poll has Obama and McCain TIED! Yes!!!

Another GOP distraction. The issue of Iraq is not about the surge, but about the WAR against Iraq in its totality.
Obama is that very rare American politician who has been right about that war from the very start. He predicted its outcome, while McCain and his neocon buddies thought we’d have these Arabs on their knees in a couple of months.
There is no surge problem for Obama.
There is HUGE Iraq problem, that includes thousands of Americans who died in a senseless struggle, for McCain, the GOP, and the Bush administration.

As usual, there is no report at all in ABC, CNN, or MSNBC on Democrats tossing away 12,000 American flags in the garbage. Do I call this a ‘cover-up’?

I like Sarah Palin’s public speaking ability. I think she is fun to look at, certainly the hottest vice presidential candidate in history. But I looked up some facts. The United States has 10,000 nuclear weapons, 100 aircraft carriers, 3,000,000 people in the armed forces, and ten trillion dollars of debt.
I am now hearing from the Karl Roves of the world that having a 17-year-old daughter pregnant out of wedlock will make Palin sympathetic to millions of Americans who know the pain of that situation. But my question is WHERE WAS THE ADVICE? Do we want a president who cannot communicate to their own child that possibly having a baby a year after you get your driver’s license is not the smartest thing to do? Is this the new way for women to break the glass ceiling? To have their daughters throw their babies at it? I want my president to control their children, then they can tell the Navy what to do.

Hey Mark, guess what – had the surge not worked, or worse, had we followed the Democras and surrndered, Iran would insure that gas prices would be a ton higher than they are right now. The Dems have blocked our ability to get away from foreign oil which is EXACTLY why we are where we are – Also here is a news flash, My oldest son fought two hard tours in Anbar and my youngest is entering the Navy as I write this – Here is one American who cares deeply and is hugely thankful that the surge worked and very thankful that the Dems were not allowed to run away and make this situation far worse than it was. God Bless America and Semper FI.

jackie:
While I agree with you about the other networks ignoring the “flag” controversy, I believe CNN is where I first heard the story yesterday.
However, I haven’t heard much on CNN since that first report.

“what we have known for a long time”
Define “long time” Gov. Palin.
Gov. Palin when asked about her opinion regarding the surge said something akin to not knowing anything other than what she saw on television, and that she hoped we had a plan to get out.

McCain and Bush created the mess in Iraq. They should not claim to be praised by cleaning up the mess using the surge!

I’m embarassed for the democratic party (to which I once belonged). I keep stratching my head wondering how dumb can they be for selecting this idiot.

I cannot tell you how relieved I am to have McCain and Palin as a choice. I cannot support Obama or Biden. I do not have the same exact stance on every issue as McCain and Palin, but it is enough- with them I feel they actually care about regular people.
With Obama, excuse my language, but I feel deep down that he is full of b.s.
Thank you,
Effie

This is Obama’s version of “it depends on the definition of the word ‘is’”. Admit you made a mistake and go on from there. That’s being a man. But, he persists in being this man-child of the “me” generation who cannot and will never admit he’s ever made a mistake. Because in his mind, rock stars don’t make mistakes. What an arrogant, condescending example of a man. People can respect someone who has made a mistake and humbly admits it – it’s hard to accept someone who goes on and on about changing situations and splice the meaning of words…

Sorry JULIE, but picking a leader who we know, who has proven his intelligence, over one that has only proven they can pop out kids and study intermittently (6 yrs, 6 diff schools to complete a 4 yr degree) is picking the right leader.
You picking a leader that has proven they know how to lie is really stupid.
Picking an idiot, and expecting the country to progess, is truly ridiculous and borderline suicide.

lol I can’t even dignify that idiot with a response. truly pitiful.

YOU PEOPLE ARE REAL CRAZY TO VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN AGAIN, LOOK AT THE WORLD NOW. DO YOU REALLY THINK THE REBUBLICAN GOING TO DO SOMETHING FOR TO GET US OUT OF THIS MESS WE IN NOW, WHEN THEY MAKE IT LIKE THIS. STOP AND THINK PEOPLE.

Many of us will presume Palin took on Obama’s response with a teleprompter. The last time she made an interview response on the war was , ” I don’t know that much about Iraq.”

Does anyone know where I can find a clip of the Debra Bartshevich ad? The woman who the DNC stripped as a delegate because she was for Hillary but now is voting for McCain… Her ads have been pulled.

Hang in there, Øbama, Hillery is on the way and she’s wearing a hoop skirt.

The Surge may have worked but,that still doesn’t bring back all of the people that we have lost. When it’s all said and done,I would rather have my loved ones.I guess that’s life!

Why does Obama have this recurrent problem of being unable to admit he was wrong? It drags on for weeks or even months until his pride finally gives way and he admits he was wrong (only, of course, with many qualifications).
This is the sign of a poor leader – someone unwilling to take responsibility for his words and actions.
He is just now admitting the surged was successful? Hm, maybe he’ll come around some time to admitting WW2 is over and we won. LOL!!

If Obama was President, we wouldn’t be in Iraq. He was right from day 1.

“If Obama was President, we wouldn’t be in Iraq. He was right from day 1.”
We don’t know that, because he knew nothing. Just like now.

Obama looked like a kid in the principle’s office on O’Reilly. Even his uh, uh, ums were what one would expect of a kid caught off guard by an authority figure. He’s toast, plain and simple. He suffers from great overexposure and now he is finally receiving some of the scrutiny that is long overdue and he doesn’t look good under a microscope. Couple that with an abysmal choice for VP who no one is even paying attention to anymore. Poor Joe couldn’t even get himself arrested these days. The McCain team has knocked Obama totally off his game if he even had one to begin with. Ever since the “celebrity” ads came out, he has been off kilter and Palin has now pushed him over the edge. The American public is seeing that not only does the would be emporer have no clothes, they are seeing that his dangerous Marxist ideology would destroy this country as we know it. Stick a fork in him, Uh-bama is done.

Strange thing about Biden.
1. He twice slips and says he is running for President of the US.
2. He says if he had more hair he wouldn’t be screwing around with the VP slot.
3. He goes on and on praising McCain with personal memoirs.
Who is Biden for anyway?????
Obama really blew it with this pick.
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Yes, I noticed that too especially the one where he said he was running for president. Obama should have picked Hillary. It is very clear now. Biden conducted that interview as though Obama did not exist. Apparently Obama did not want to be out done by Hillary. The problem is with Obama’s lack of experience anyone would be stronger as a VP than he would be as a president.
Obama never should have been the DNC nominee. I am a Hillary supporter who is voting for McCain.

I just can’t see Obama as president up against a powerful leader like Putin.
Obama looks weak, unsure, and easily led even against O’Reilly.
He stutters, stammers, changes the subject and eventually is talked into going against his original stance.
Even on the stump he acts immature, silly, not very presidential.
God help us all…

Please educate yourself about the
Obama–ACORN connection.
Something else the MSM ignores.

Patrick49
McCain was for drilling for oil before he was against it and McCain was for immigration reform before he was against it.

How well did the media vet Barack H Obama? Did they do the spade work digging into every aspect of OHB’s life from birth until today? Did they investigate the political views of his mother and father and his white grandparent’s who raised him (says something about his own mother and father’s parenting skills)? Did they vet his school days in Indonesia, Hawaii and his time at Columbia with teams of on the spot investigators? What was his GPA at Columbia? Did they investigate fully his confession of being a druggie and when he stopped using drugs? The sound of silence is deafening.
All the concern voiced about Governor Sarah Palin’s lack of experience is surely intended to mask Senator Barak H. Obama’s executive experience which is a blank page unless his time as Chairman of the Chicago based Annenberg Project run actually by former Weather Underground leader and unrepentant terrorist bomber Bill Ayers is included. Together Obama/Ayers are reported to have invested $100,000,000 in the Annenberg Project. What did they accomplsh? To date this period of his work experience has been written in invisible ink. And the BHO campaign is going to extreme efforts to insure that the records of this phase of his executive experience are buried and remain invisible.
What else is buried about BHO’s past, besides Ayers,Wright, Rezco? Could it be the identity of “Frank’ his mentor for a period of time in Hawaii?
The secrecy surrounding BHO’s past belies his attempt tp portray himself as a ‘new’ and ‘different’ politician. And his speech filled with a litany of ‘to dos’ is the same old same old liberal/socialist agenda tax, tax, spend, spend on more and more government programs so the American people become dependent on the government for everything, the new USSA , United Socialist States of America.

If it were the Iraqi troops surge and if this surge were paid for by the Iraqi government then it would be a strategic success. So Obama is RIGHT — while violence against American troops is successfully curtailed by the American troops surge, the Iraqi government remains impotent. So the bottom line is, the Iraqi national security problem again remains costly unresolved. I say, the American administration should stop babysitting the Iraqi government.

maggie
Actually Obama is saying precisely what General Petraeus is saying;
“You will not find any military leader who will say this … all we can say is Al Qaeda is still dangerous…There are many missions that have not been achieved … Any person who replaces me and who is honest with himself must admit these facts,” Petraeus said.
“What works in Mosul today, may not work in Tikrit today. In fact, it may not work in Mosul tomorrow”.
That is far from saying the surge is a success.

O’Reilly complimented Obama on his position of not invading Iraq. A couple months ago, George Stephanopoulos asked McCain if knowing what we know about Iraq would he still have invaded Iraq. McCain said yes.
Why isn’t McCain getting media coverage for saying he still thinks the invasion of Iraq was the correct thing to do? McCain started doing the rounds with the media and comedy shows the day after 9/11. McCain was also pushing war with Iran.
O’Reilly was a bully as usual, interrupting nonstop with his preconceived version of the truth. There are many articles proving the other actions helped make the surge successful. Obama has explained it many times, but the media does not listen
How can anyone believe Palin is being picked on by the media when they will not even do their job at researching all facts in regard to Obama.
The media would rather talk about flag pins and whether someone is arrogant.

Gen. David Petraeus advised George W. Bush last week to stop withdrawing troops from Iraq because the situation is so fragile. There were suicide bombings in Baghdad and Iraq last week and there are ominous political signs on the horizon that indicate Iraq will eventually destruct. So, I don’t think the surge was a success by any measure, except for the small part it played in temporarily bringing down violence. Before the election, we may very well see war with the insurgency or civil war breakout in Iraq. Then, the G.O.P. spin meisters will have another problem on their hands. Obama/Biden 2008!!!

Obama is such a respectable human being, let alone candidate for president—especially when compared to those on the right. He fearlessly faces evangelicals who opposes him on the controversial topic of abortion, he graciously deems Bristol Palin as “off limits”, he admits his answer to Rick Warren on abortion was a bit “flippant”, and he concedes that the surge worked. There is no way on planet earth the Repblicans would concede anything–EVER. Obama bravely faced the evangelicals, but lately we can’t get Palin to face anybody. She painted herself as a big, bad, tough pit bull, so why is she in hiding? Why isn’t she taking quiestions from the Sunday morning talking heads? She’s afraid, that’s why. It was easy to get up and read a speech written by the Bush crew, but it’s a whole other game to go out and defend her views, beliefs, and record with hard-hitting commentators and reporters. Anybody can throw a punch and run. Come out of hiding Sarah, we’re waiting for you!

lolol Paint a huge “L” on Obama’s forehead, LOSER!! LOLOLOL

I voted for Hillary. Now I’ll vote for McCain/Palin

Go tell the families of the 4,155 Americans who were killed in Iraq about the greatness of the surge.
Or the tens of thousands of Americans who were wounded there in combat.
Or the families of the more than 1 million Iraqi casualties as a result of the American attack, invasion and occupation.

Over 2,000,000 Iraq people have left their country in fear. Over 250,000 of them killed.
Over 4,155 Americans killed and over 30,324 Americans wounded.
American has the attention span of a 30 second commercial.
We all remember the neo-conservatives beating the drum’s of war.
We all have family that have served 3 tours or more. Now we have family getting ready
to leave for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now the Media proudly points to the Surge as a Victory less then 8 weeks before the election.
Lets see if we can trip up Obama and the majority of America people on this? The headlines on these type of interviews last what 48 hours? While families seeing their loved ones or waiting for family to return lasts months and few tours then its years years. Is this Victory?
Voters can have their own victory November Fourth by voting for Change we can believe in
Obama/Biden ’08

Obama’s answer to the question was “uh uh uh uh humuna humuna humuna humuna BS BS BS BS”
Obama’s answer that “it succeeded beyond our wildest dreams…” referred to his dreams only. It was not surprising to McCain that the surge succeeded, since McCain actually knows something about war.

Firstly, focusing on how ‘successful’ the surge has been ignores a few incovenient facts: there never should have been an invasion of Iraq, and it’s been a total disaster strategically and eocnomically. Secondly, Bush and McCain have been WRONG about everything: WMDs, links between Iraq and 9-11, that we’d be greeted with flowers, the war would pay more itself, mission accomplished, the insurgents were nothin but a few dead-enders, the war would be over in weeks, the Iraqis would take to democracy like a duck to water, that the war could be fought on the cheap with less than 100,000 troops. Just because Bush gets lucky on the surge doesn’t absolve him from the complete failure of the prosecution of the war, and misleading us into it. If you want to talk judgement, I’ll compare Obama’s to Bush/McCain’s anyday and it’s clear who comes out on top – Obama.

Just some general comments. Of course Obama has been vetted, every moment of his life has been looked at. To think otherwise is just plain silly,,,sorry but it is.
As for his judgement, when the pressure was the most, he voted against the war….he did not cave in…..O’ course he was right, even the republican know this now.
As for being the next president. We all have a duty, as Americans to get the facts, the facts now on the two running for office. We live in an age that we can vet both men and make an intelligent decision.
I for one feel that Obama is a man of great vision, can rally America, and move us back to where were 8 years ago, when the world looked up to us. He already proved he has no problem meeting with world leaders and they were impressed with him.
He is a man of great faith but he doesn’t let it rule him (with Palin I don’t think we can say the same).
McCain is a man that has always had the best interest of America in his thoughts and should be commended for that. But right now, this time he is not the right person.
We need be change. Not someone that is always one step behind Obama.
But that is just my opinion. I trust you all will do your American duty and your homework, and vote for who you feel will take this country forward, who will protect us, who will be a true leader and make the hard choices.

And the “surge” only appears to be working because we are giving money and arms to the Sunnis, who until recently were placing IEDS and shooting at U.S. soldiers. Arming your enemies and paying them a salary never works unless you plan on doing those for 100+ years like McCain wants to. Once we stop giving the Sunnis money, they will go right back to being insurgents against us, the Shias and anyone else. Wake up people, the Iraq fair is a colossal blunder that had no military relevancy and has only fanned the flames of the already existing civil war. We should never have been involved.

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Sen. Barack Obama will never admit he was wrong. He would rather admit that Bush and everyone else was wrong and not him. If the US would have listen to Biden and Obama in Iraq, the US would have had its second major loss (Vietnam and Iraq) in recent history.
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Wow…it seems every post I read on here is extremely idiotic. Heres the difference between Iraq and Vietnam- about 55,000 lives. Vietnam was only a major loss because of the loss of life. Don’t even get me started in the bull between communism and capitalism…fighting over economic ideals?
Iraq is not a major loss…it shouldnt even be considered a win or a loss because its just as bullcrappy as Vietnam in terms of why we are fighting it.
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Back on topic though, as far as I’m concerned, from what I read in this article, If McCain-Palin get into office, I have a feeling they will restrict the freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Seems to me they are afraid of the media. I also hope when Charlie Gibson does interview Palin, he confronts her on this very issue because it seems to me she is afraid of the media.