Jeff- the only thing clear is your gullibility in believing the Democratic Party propaganda points! Let’s see the TRUTH here one-by-one:
1. A recession is defined by 2 quarters of negative economic GNP growth. We have not even had ONE yet! Yes, unemployment has risen and the real estate market is in a downturn, but the unemployment figure of 6.1% is still below the historical average of 7-10% of previous recession periods. And you forget this is a GLOBAL economy now, and globally EVERYONE is in a downturn of one kind or another…some MUCH worse than us.
2. I’m not going to debate the justification for going into Iraq, except to say that 30+ million people are free of a ruthless dictator that harbored terrorists and encouraged terrorism around the globe, and now the Iraqi’s are in control of 90% of their country THEMSELVES! And yes…we DID fight and defeat Al-Qaeda there, NO QUESTION about it, but now all those thousands of jihadists are no longer walking this earth to plot and send their minions HERE to kill innocent AMERICAN lives HERE! All in all, a job (finally) WELL-DONE (thanks to Gen. Petraus) and even though Obama refuses to acknowledge his mistake in not supporting the surge…he now says it has worked! (Gee…20/20 HINDSIGHT is everything..eh?)
3. Uh…do you even read or listen to the news coming from Iraq? Fact is, WE HAVE WON…leaving now would only invite the terrorists and jihadists back in before the Iraqi’s have completed their takeover of security. It’s just dumb, dumb, DUMB (did I say dumb?) to leave now when the country is getting up on it’s own feet. Anything less would be…well, DUMB!! (Oh, but don’t let THAT stop you and your fellow Dems from thinking that!) Oh, and yes, Afghanistan remains a challenge (the Taliban are a whole different “animal”) but then, even YOU feel we should remain there and continue to fight Islamic jihadists so I’ll move on…
4. Well, let’s see about our “safety” now. NOT ONE attack on our soil since 9/11 (and who would ever have predicted THAT 7 years ago?) and as for our “alliances”…again, do you ever read or listen to the news??? BOTH France and Germany have elected PRO-American leaders, and the governments of Poland, Georgia, Ukraine, and others in Eastern Europe are FAR more PRO-American in their thinking, and DEPEND on our standing up to problems with Russia with a COMPLETE understanding of what America means to the free world. You are just TOTALLY WRONG that we have “less” alliances now than during Reagan and Clinton. When you count Eastern Europe, and include counties that have elected pro-american governments…we actually have MORE than during Clinton and especially Reagan. Of course, if you only read Democratic propaganda points or liberal blogs…you wouldn’t know better.
5. McCain feels ALL forms of AMERICAN energy need to be promoted and produced. WHY limit oil production HERE and continue to send our dollars overseas to unstable or unfiendly regimes (like Venezuela!) when WE DON’T HAVE TO! It is just another example of DUMB thinking to LIMIT our OWN oil production here, so we can enrich others, and in the process LOSE more American jobs. Oh, and let me know when that FULLY funtional electric car comes on line at a reasonable price. Until then we will we ALL be using OIL for the forseeable future…even YOU Jeff. (What’s that? I’m right? You DON’T drive an electric car???)
Thus ends the education of one more ill-informed Democrat. Next?
