While the United States has an interest in preventing the resurgence of the Afghan Taliban, the country’s strategic importance pales beside that of Iraq, which lies at the geopolitical center of the Middle East and contains some of the world’s largest oil reserves. If Mr. Obama’s antiwar stance has blinded him to those realities, that could prove far more debilitating to him as president than any particular timetable.

What need does Barrack “Global Warmening” Obama have for our “world’s largest oil reserves” when there’s the crippling of America’s industrial might to be done?

… the press have already built him [Obama] up to the point where they need him more than he needs them.

Few better explanations for Obama’s media presence exist, if there are even any others that have the least applicability.

Once the expectation of an Obama victory exceeds a certain point an actual electoral defeat would cause psychological damage to the trust mechanisms of [the] political system …

If by that you mean: An Obama defeat would cause America’s liberal left to take one helluva massive shot straight in the shorts, then I’m all for it. Time’s a wasting!

Teresita: We lost 3000 innocent lives on Bush’s watch …

Would you please, oh please, take such drooling idiocy and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine? Your choice of anatomical cavity. The 9-11 atrocity was being planned well before Bush even took office.. I have NO LOVE for George Bush but such specious smearing of the one person with sufficient conviction to use America’s might in response to Islamic terrorism deserves some credit. Yes, Bush is a total multiculturalist moron but he still comprehends the need to poke Islam in its myopic eye. Clearly, you DO NOT.

Besides, the Iraqis can take care of their own country.

Just like they did under Saddam. Crikey, what totally microencephalic excrement.

People all over the world have been taking care of their own country for thousands of years.

Like Egypt, Iran, Sudan, China and most every other totalitarian hellhole on earth. And your point is?

A vote for Obama is a vote against being the World Cop.

A “World Cop” that won the Cold War. Perish the effing thought that the Soviet Union might have won as you seem to wish. Gah!

fred: She’d have to change a lot of things about herself, or pretend to anyway.

You’re too kind, fred. Idjits like Teresita would be found, clad in full burqa, nursing away at the nearest imam’s tumescent spigot.

Eggplant: B. Hussein hasn’t yet been nominated. Why hammer a stake through his heart if the Democrat leadership still has the option of replacing him with another candidate?

I’m hoping like all Hell this is Mc Cain’s strategy, because if it ain’t, he’s up shit creek in a barbed wire canoe without a paddle. And so are we.