Here's an opinion piece written by Al-Jazeera's political analyst examining recent comments made by Obama and McCain regarding evil at Saddleback Church.
When asked how they would deal with evil if they were elected president - would they ignore it, negotiate with it, contain it, or defeat it - Obama said he would "confront it" while McCain said unflinchingly that he would "defeat it".Click here.
Calls for Obama to change his campaign strategy and actually start attacking McCain's many weaknesses.
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Is a man who is just discovering the Internet qualified to lead a restoration of America’s economic and educational infrastructures? Is the leader of a virtually all-white political party America’s best salesman and moral avatar in the age of globalization? Does a bellicose Vietnam veteran who rushed to hitch his star to the self-immolating overreaches of Ahmad Chalabi, Pervez Musharraf and Mikheil Saakashvili have the judgment to keep America safe?
An interesting op-ed calling for the United States to reengage Russia as an equal, not as the humiliated fractured Russia emerging in 1991.
Rather, the conflict in Georgia showed how rational Russia’s concerns over American meddling in its traditional sphere of influence are, and that Washington had better start treating it like the great power it still is.Click here.
1 comments:
"It makes absolutely no sense for a future leader of a superpower to speak of dealing with "evil" as commander-in-chief unless this term is used as populist propaganda during election season." That is exactly what it is and was in the Saddleback interview. McCain knew it, Warren knew it, the audience knew it, I knew it. Certainly the question was not meant to illicit a theological treatise on universal evil. It was about Osama and his ilk. It was repeating the words of the Bush administrations definition of what is going on. I think Mr. McCain was saying he would punch evil in the nose. Obama was saying that evil is to multi-dimensional that pointing it out is what he would do. That left listeners thinking that his priorities were not towards Islamic terrorist groups and his action against evil would be to say, "Just stop it! Can't we all just get along?"
Interesting points on race. This is the wild card. I would love to have a black person as president. That would go a long way to healing lots of things in our country. Yet, I am not interested in race being the reason for voting for someone. To me the wrong people will be pulling the puppet's strings. That is an issue of over all philosophy not race. I don't think, at this time in America's political history I could vote for any Democrat because of their party's planks and the radical leftists who still believe in Marxism gravitate to that party. I am reading a book on Russia as I type (see my blog entry and current reading) and it seems so strange that in Russia there are fewer believers in socialism and Marxist communism that there are in the west. I guess that is because 60 million dead Russians later they get the point that this atheistic ideology SUCKS!
That Russia is again a "Super Power" now that they have kicked their moral equivalent of Grenada's ass in their region seems to me to be a stretch. It is interesting to me that Poland rushed to sign a treaty allowing U.S. missile batteries on their territory. The Baltic states will follow suit and perhaps Ukraine will come along too. Though the Georgian government may have screwed up, Russia will have a price to pay. I am glad that they are currently reaping increased income from oil though as their poor population could sure use a boost. I pray that they will work with that capitol to help their folks and not blow it on another arms race. That would be a disaster for them. They would only lose, again. No one loves an expansionist Russia. I am not sure the 21st Century Europeans or the resurgent Chinese would tolerate its marching beyond its borders. China is Russia's real threat. Everyone knows this. That China is close to the U.S. economically is more threatening to Russia than U.S. missiles.
I do agree that Mr. Obama has to come off the change mantra. I thought it so sophomoric when ever I heard him say it. He needs to cast a better vision and address his very real weaknesses. What do you think of the Biden decision? Seems pretty conservative for such a liberal, go get them, agent of change candidate.
McCain has everything to lose and nothing to gain by giving details on positions before the conventions. He has a record. Look it up and you will pretty much know where he stands on many of the policies that will be fleshed out after convention time is over and the real election campaigning begins. Mr. Obama has a very short, almost invisible track record. He needs to be more detailed that Mr. McCain as what people have learned about him is that he has a wife with attitude, has friends who have blown up government buildings, has a former pastor who thinks God should damn America and so on. This is not to mention that he is a product of the Dailey Democratic Machine in Chicago, which to this humble observer is strike 2.9999999265.
I hope I'm not scaring you. LOL
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