Obama talks foreign policy - again - in Des Moines

Gravitas: definition: worthy of respect, seriousness, importance, dignity, what America needs, Barack Obama.

All the usual Obama buzzwords: an America "willing to talk"; "change"; 'bring nations together" for a "common goal". He does everything but sing "Kumbaya".

In the real world, a group hug isn't a foreign policy. It isn't even a domestic policy. It isn't even a policy that Obama practices toward his primary opponents.

"We need a president who can bring other nations together in a common goal."
I can do that! Developing that goal is the tough part. Stating the objective in detail will displease some unless it is as bland and meaningless as most of Obama's policy statements..

SENATOR OBAMA HAS ENOUGH EXPERIENCE TO LEAD AMERICA
-By Emeka Chiakwelu, the founder of Afripol Organization. 02/09/07

The waiting, the speculation, are over. Senator Barack Obama has finally declared his intention to seek the highest elective office in America - the presidency.
He wants to the be the first among his peers, the post boomer generation to occupy the White House. This will make him the first African American president ever in America.
Everybody acknowledges, his intellect and the kennedyesque quality, yet some are pointing to his so-called inexperience, by pointing to the number of years he has been national senator. But critics must look at the big picture, what they see as a weakness, is nothing but a great strength. Obama a brand new face on the national scene, with a fresh idea on problems confronting America in 21st century, has a enough experience.
First of all, the premise that the junior senator from Chicago is inexperience is a fallacy, that has no legs to stand on.
Well, we can say that Obama has not been in national position for a while, but he has engaged in politics and civic duties for a very long time. He was a state senator for seven years fighting for working families and less privilege. Before that, he was involved in civic duties, helping and defending the poor in their assertion of their rights and responsibilities in our polity. One thing for sure, he has been on the side of the masses and that is the most important experience and requirement for seeking both local and national offices.
Long experience may look good on paper, but when experience is short in positive achievement and paucity in compassion, they can become a stumbling block.
Social capital, the capacity to understand human predicament and to seek solution to alleviate them are essentially what voters are looking in their leaders.
Senator Obama has the experience in dealing with people especially the neglected people on the grassroots; those that have no power and without the powerful interest group to speak and lobby for them.
Senator Obama is for the people, the common people who he has been fighting for all this time. He is real, he is one of the people, he came from the working American people and when he get to the White House, he will continue fighting for them.
Senator Obama will make a great president, because apart from having an electrifying charisma and personality, his compassing wisdom will enable him to close the partisan gap in Washington. He is truly the man of the people; during the 2004 Democratic party convention, he reminded Americans the most significant thing by uttering those hallow words:

"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy; our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
That is the true genius of America, a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles; that we can tuck in our children at night and know that they are fed and clothed and safe from harm; that we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door; that we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe; that we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution; and that our votes will be counted -- or at least, most of the time.
There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America."

Senator Obama is ready to lead and all we can do is to support him, may he will be the one to transform our differences and bridge the gap by restoring America to a greater heights. Senator Obama is the one that can once again reaffirmed our belief in America as a beacon of hope and justice.
http://www.afripol.org/Obama.htm

All the usual Obama buzzwords: an America "willing to talk"; "change"; 'bring nations together" for a "common goal". He does everything but sing "Kumbaya".

In the real world, a group hug isn't a foreign policy. It isn't even a domestic policy. It isn't even a policy that Obama practices toward his primary opponents.

Posted by: Bruce | December 18, 2007 2:33 PM

RNC Brucie,

You still don't get it, do you?
Americans are sick and tired of the Republicans "cowboy diplomacy", we don't want anymore of your "shoot first, ask questions later" foreign policy, Allardice.

Barack Obama for President of the United States of America.

Say no to nepotism.
Say no to triangulated Iraq vote disasters.
Say no to mud-sling machine politics.

It's time for America to Rise and Shine again.

RNC Brucie,

You still don't get it, do you?
Americans are sick and tired of the Republicans "cowboy diplomacy", we don't want anymore of your "shoot first, ask questions later" foreign policy, Allardice.

Posted by: John E | December 18, 2007 3:23 PM

John.. don't even try.

The armchair chickenhawks love a leader who talks a big game and sends the kids to die in some demonized dirt-poor country. It makes them feel all warm and safe. It's really the ultimate cowardice... These are the people that were still wetting their beds when they were teenagers.. now they overcompensate by typing tough on their keyboards (they certainly aren't enlisting to fight themselves... it's only a worthy cause as long as someone else's life is on the line).

Media coverage for Obama has been overwhelmingly positive much manufactured by reporters, but fails to inspire, suggested divisiveness in Washington stems from struggle of 1960s. that’s naïve. national crisis when Americans come together, politics has always been a divisive affair. Obama Has Not Won a Tough Contest, his ability to win in a difficult contest is reason for concern. Republicans will eat him alive ask John Kerry, Al Gore, or Michael Dukakis. Obama can't hope for change; you must fight for it. His first opponent, Jim Ryan, pulled out of the contest following the release of details from divorce. Obama has only faced ONE difficult battle for Congress against Rep. Bobby Rush. receiving only 30% and lost. Obama's inexperience hurt him.

His speech opposing Iraq war "I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. War protesters have not been able to count on him, during his ballyhooed speech at the 04 Dem convention; he failed to decry the war, followed form and strongly supported John Kerry. When asked how he would have voted on Iraq resolution, don’t know said Obama. Since arriving in the Senate, Obama and Clinton have had identical votes on Iraq. His health plan, lacks a universal mandate, echoing his conservative peers, insists Social Security is crisis that needs immediate attention, not true, Social Security Trust Fund would run out 2046.

Obama Takes Black Voters for Granted, when a controversy erupted over the Jena Six. Obama chose not to take up the mantle of past civil rights leaders by not joining the Jena Six protest, Jesse Jackson (Obama supporter) said he's acting like he's white. Was a unique moment for Obama to show support for the black community, but didnt. Now he must explain to Democratic voters why he doesn't want to continue the fights of the 1960s -- included battles over civil rights, the antiwar movement, expansion of Social Security and expanding health care (Medicare). This is not the time for obama

Showing that the Democrats haven't changed in 143 years, take a look at the Dem Party Platform from 1864. Yes, 1864!
"Resolved, That this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity of war-power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view of an ultimate convention of the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.

Resolved, That the direct interference of the military authorities of the United States in the recent elections held in Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware was a shameful violation of the Constitution, and a repetition of such acts in the approaching election will be held as revolutionary, and resisted with all the means and power under our control.

Resolved, That the aim and object of the Democratic party is to preserve the Federal Union and the rights of the States unimpaired, and they hereby declare that they consider that the administrative usurpation of extraordinary and dangerous powers not granted by the Constitution — the subversion of the civil by military law in States not in insurrection; the arbitrary military arrest, imprisonment, trial, and sentence of American citizens in States where civil law exists in full force; the suppression of freedom of speech and of the press; the denial of the right of asylum; the open and avowed disregard of State rights; the employment of unusual test-oaths; and the interference with and denial of the right of the people to bear arms in their defense is calculated to prevent a restoration of the Union and the perpetuation of a Government deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed....

Resolved, That the sympathy of the Democratic party is heartily and earnestly extended to the soldiery of our army and sailors of our navy, who are and have been in the field and on the sea under the flag of our country, and, in the events of its attaining power, they will receive all the care, protection, and regard that the brave soldiers and sailors of the republic have so nobly earned."

Sound familiar?

The Democrats are saying 1) The war is lost; 2) Let's negotiate; 3) The Constitution is trashed; 4) Lincoln and the Republicans steal elections; 5) We support the troops.

You've got to hand it to these Dems. They're certainly consistent. They called Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, a constitution-destroying tyrant, and they're saying the same silly things today.

Yes we are saying the silliest of things that have won us the majority in Congress, and maybe a Presidency (who knows can you guys get your act together?).

Here's how the little things we say reflect the state of the Republican Party today.

"Not in a generation has conservatism been in as much trouble as it is at the end of the Bush years. A majority of Americans say the country is "on the wrong track." Voters prefer Democrats over Republicans on almost every issue, including taxes. The married, the middle-class, the native-born are dwindling as a share of the population, while Democratic blocs are rising. A generation of young people has turned its back on the Republican party."
By David Frum -book
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27218,filter.all/pub_detail.asp

GOP to Lose More Seats-short publication
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27218,filter.all/pub_detail.asp

GOP Gets Chaos for Christmas
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27258,filter.all/pub_detail.asp

All brought to you buy the backers of Iraq and President Bush. Seems the "conservatives" see rats jumping ship or trying to get their blanket blank together because of the little things we say.