Roderick Reilly: Even so, Obama’s ghastly stupidities mean nothing unless McCain and the Republicans can find effective ways to exploit it.
If Mc Main can’t find some way of capitalizing upon Obama’s laundry list of character flaws, he doesn’t deserve to win. Between his phony birth certificate, ties to American terrorists, corrupt Chicago connection and neo-Marxist ideology, Obama has more soft spots than a bag of marshmallows.
Benj: Can’t “Negotiate with Islam”! Tell that to Bush – He’s negotiating with the Islamist pres of Iraq all the time, no?
Yes, and Bush is a complete and total idiot for it. Consider some quotes by Sami Moubayed as he recounts discussions with Kahudayr “Deport All Muslims Including Me” Taher about Nour al Maliki:
The only contradictory statement, which shatters much of the flattering talk revolving around Maliki, was made by Khudayr Taher, a US-based Shi’ite writer who has known Maliki since their days in exile in Syria in the 1980s.
Taher wrote an editorial in Arabic saying that he used to meet Maliki at the local library in Syria, where he would be doing research for his master’s degree in Arabic literature, pointing out: “I do not claim that we were friends.” Taher said Maliki had “modest general knowledge … he will be a puppet in the hands of Jaafari, Hakim, the Kurds and Sunnis”. He added that Maliki “does not believe in democracy because of his ideological commitments” in al-Da’wa Party, claiming that political Islam and democracy do not meet for someone like Maliki.
In a private discussion held when both men were in Syria, Maliki told Taher: “We declare our acceptance of democracy, but in reality, we are tricking them [the Americans] in order to topple Saddam and come to power.” Taher writes: “I swear to God that this is exactly what he said!”
Taher adds that Maliki does not believe in the equality of women and will refuse to give any cabinet posts to Iraqi women, unless those imposed by the Kurds. He wraps up by saying that Maliki is anti-American, and has expressed his anti-American views to friends and in private discourse. [emphasis added]
It’s pretty clear that you lack any comprehension of how Islam and democracy simply DO NOT intersect.
At the risk of seeming too beamish/Sullivanish – consider that O will likely be infinitely more adept than Bush as promoting the soft power of the American idea(s)
Where do “American ideal(s)” and Islam have anything to do with each other? The two are polar opposites and share no common ground. The only way to negotiate with Islam is by using the business end of a large bore gun.
To make this clear, I invite you to read up on how American democracy is regarded by the adherents of Islam. Consider this article about the now-dead but once close associate of Osama bin Laden, Yussuf al-Ayyeri :
What Al-Ayyeri sees now is a ”clean battlefield” in which Islam faces a new form of unbelief. This, he labels ”secularist democracy.” This threat is ”far more dangerous to Islam” than all its predecessors combined. The reasons, he explains in a whole chapter, must be sought in democracy’s ”seductive capacities.”
This form of ”unbelief” persuades the people that they are in charge of their destiny and that, using their collective reasoning, they can shape policies and pass laws as they see fit. That leads them into ignoring the ”unalterable laws” promulgated by God for the whole of mankind, and codified in the Islamic shariah (jurisprudence) until the end of time.
The goal of democracy, according to Al-Ayyeri, is to ”make Muslims love this world, forget the next world and abandon jihad.” If established in any Muslim country for a reasonably long time, democracy could lead to economic prosperity, which, in turn, would make Muslims ”reluctant to die in martyrdom” in defense of their faith.
He says that it is vital to prevent any normalization and stabilization in Iraq. Muslim militants should make sure that the United States does not succeed in holding elections in Iraq and creating a democratic government. ”If democracy comes to Iraq, the next target [for democratization] would be the whole of the Muslim world,” Al-Ayyeri writes.[emphasis added]
The greatest benisons of American democracy, peace and prosperity, are at direct odds with Islam’s mind control and quest for global jihad. So, once again, please tell the studio audience and all the folks at home exactly how the West is supposed to negotiate any meaningful agreements with Islam?
the folks here who persistently equate O with Hitler (or the antichrist or the hound of hell or…) are no different/better than cats on the left suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome
Either you provide some User Names with Direct Quotes and URLs to link them or consider such preposterous horseradish to be dismissed out of hand. I’ve NEVER seen anyone at Belmont Club equate Obama with Hitler, or the antichrist, for that matter.
He’s not Jesse or Sharpton. He’s not Chomsky or Moore either
Obama’s carrying their industrial strength Kool-Aid just the same. He’s as delusional as Moore and just as race baiting as Sharpton.
fred: How can anyone take this man seriously? I think that’s more than just a rhetorical question. Take it from a former neo-Marxist: I know a neo-Marxist when I see one and he is one of them. Too bad this cannot be said more publicly and given its due, because if you do the research into his background that is an ironclad conclusion to make about him.
Anyone capable of ignoring this should be kept far away from a ballot box.
Old Blue: I’m astounded that someone could actually consider that a junior senator two years out of state legislation who has never held an executive post in his life is equipped to make decisions like he is making without so much as asking a serving general what he thinks.
American voters had damn well better ask themselves about this before entering the polling booth.
whiskey: FEAR, and the fear specifically of the US destroying the base of power economically of [a] tribe, most of it’s young men, and it’s tribal leaders (killing them) leaving them weak, poor, and at the dubious mercy of tribal enemies is the ONLY way for the US in a nuclear proliferating world to keep our cities intact.
Ask yourself, who is the most likely to instill RAW FEAR in the hearts and minds of tribal leaders in Pakistan, in Iran, and other Muslim nations? It is not Obama.
Le Bingo! Bottom line and end of story.
If the Iraqi campaign served even one good purpose, it was this:
Consider how Iran and Iraq spent EIGHT LONG YEARS killing almost ONE MILLION MUSLIMS only to reach a bloody standstill.
Then remember how America rolled up Iraq’s sidewalks in three short weeks with only a few dozen casualties.
Anyone with decent ears probably could have heard the odd squeaking sound of Islamic anuses tightening from a hundred miles away.
