I'm so ashamed of the dems for asking Hillary to step down. We shot ourselves in the foot with our system of electing a candidate to the primary.

I'll have to vote for McCain if Hillary doesn't make it.  My first ever Republican vote. 

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(((Puppy)))  Thinking of you tonight--Praying that everything goes smoothly tomorrow.

Love,

Susie

Pupster is going to be just fine.....she is one tough cookie.....glad your back Shirley.......missed you.......McCain is driving me insane......before this election process is over I am going to have to up all my medication.......jeez..........Shokk

The flag pin Obama supporters are willing to wear

It's all about the judgment.

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May 13, 2008

The Obama Change We Really Can Believe In

This week, Obama's key foreign policy advisor, Susan E. Rice, told the New York Times that Obama never claimed he would be willing to meet "unconditionally" with Iran's president  Mr. Ahmadinejad. Dr. Rice said that Obama would not meet at the presidential level with this Iran or any other so-called "rogue" state without the preparation to use such a meeting as leverage for change. In fact, it was only right-wing machinations or imagination that "distorted and reframed" Obama's views.

COOPER: In the spirit of that type of bold leadership, would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries? Senator Obama?

OBAMA: I would..

BLITZER: "I take it, Senator Obama, you support giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Is that right?" OBAMA:"...I have to make sure that people understand the problem we have here is not driver's licenses.  Undocumented workers don't come here to drive. (Laughter) they don't go - they're not coming here to go to the In-N-Out Burger. That's not the reason they're here.  They're here to work. And so instead of being distracted by what has now become a wedge issue, let's focus on actually solving the problem that... this administration, the Bush administration, has done nothing about."

BLITZER: "Do you support or oppose driver's licenses for illegal immigrants?" 

OBAMA: "I am not proposing that that's what we do. What I'm saying is that we can't - No, no, no, no, look, I have already said I support the notion that we have to deal with public safety and that driver's licenses at the state level can make that happen.

October 2, 2002, Chicago Wearing a war is not an option pin, Obama called to the crowd," The Iraq war is a dumb war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle, but on politics."

When America was obtaining clear victories on the ground in Iraq, Obama wrote in The Audacity of Hope,  "I began to suspect that I might have been wrong [about the war]"

On March 28, 2003, on CNN, Obama claimed, "I absolutely want to make sure that the troops have sufficient support to be able to win."

At the Democratic National Convention that July, 2004, his only mention of the war was, "There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it."

July, 2004 "The failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster...It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have already died. . . . It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national securityperspective.".

July 26, 2004 "I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports. What would I have done? I don't know." The New York Times

2004 "I'm always careful to say that I was not in the Senate, so perhaps the reason I thought [the war] was such a bad idea was that I didn't have the benefit of U.S. intelligence," The New Yorker

November 2005 speech, he called for a gradual withdrawal of forces. "Notice that I say 'reduce,' and not 'fully withdraw [troops]'"

December, 2005), "It is arguable that the best politics going into '06 would be a clear, succinct message: 'Let's bring our troops home...But whether that's the best policy right now, I don't feel comfortable saying it is." Chicago Tribune

July 2007 "Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there."

 March, 2008 Obama's website states, "Obama will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months."

March 7, 2008 Obama's then key foreign policy advisor Samantha Power, spoke on the commitment to get combat forces out in 16 months.  "You can't make a commitment in March 2008 about what circumstances will be like in January of 2009."

Listen to what he says about nuclear weapons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0iF6O-ybUw&feature=related

A scary man who tells lies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX2UEJU6RVs

I realize this has been hashed out over and over.  But I still think it shows character, judgment and leadership. 

Thank you so much Shokk for the update on Puppy.--Wonderful news!

Continued thoughts and prayers for a quick recovery. (((Puppy)))

Wonderful news about Puppy, just wonderful. 10 hours of surgery. We need to keep her close in our thoughts or prayers.



Interesting, Susie about Mr. Obama's apparent flip flop.



Yet I need to understand more of Mr. McCain's plans on Iraq too. Obviously he is too much of a military strategist to tip his hand, yet don't American's have the right to know more than generalities.



Any insight would be greatly appreciated.



Tender

Tender, from what I understand, at this point, McCain will keep the troops in Iraq until there's stability and the Iraqis are well trained.

There's no way that Obama or Hillary can promise to have our troops out of there in X number of months.  That's naive.  Obama said he's send troops back in if Al Queda set up bases there.

I have this feeling that the "war" has escalated due to our prez election.  That may sound cynical, but I believe Al Queda would like to influence the outcome of our election.  JMHO.

Shirley

Linda I could not agree with you more............many scientist now are saying that the world food shortage can be linked directly back to Al Gore and his stupid global warming that now has been changed to global change.....(the weather constantly changes)and then yesterday they said we are getting ready to go into a weather cool down for the next several years..........awgggggggggg..........I cannot stand Al Gore............do true environmentalist really believe that we can really do anything that determines our weather?........if we could control our weather rather directly or indirectly wouldn't we be a stop to what happen in Burma?......all the freaking tornadoes that AR, OK, and MO, and NC are enduring............the flooding in Delaware?...........oh my freaking goodness......I feel like my head is going to explode.......where in the heck is my duct tape?  Linda every time I even hear Al Bore's name mention my blood pressure shoots up...........jeez..............Shokk

Jaybird with all due respect............ughhhhhhhhh.........the man is an idiot..........that Polar Bear that is riding on the ice..........all Polar bears ride around on the ice like that..........its their freaking taxi's.......Polar Bears can swim great distances and now yesterday they want to put Polar Bears on the endanger species list..........there are too many freaking polar bears.........they are protein eaters and they eat everything......they themselves hurt the environment by eating anything that moves........jeez........and Jaybird if you are so worried about the environment aren't you a Flight Attendant.....don't you fly in Jets that use thousands of gallons of jet fuel everyday.....and pollute our sky's?............I mean personally I love to fly but then again I am a heartless science hating conservative that believes in capitalism...........Shokk

If Gore lived what he preached he might be worth listening too unfortunately he doesn't. If he wants to save the environment, he might start at home, his home. And he looks like a goon! And Tipper makes me want to barf. But I will say I am sooooooooooooooo glad Gore invented the internet cause otherwise I couldn't be posting this right now...LMFAO!

And you Dems beotching about your tax rebate not paying your mortgage payment, how did you plan on paying it if you weren't getting the rebate? I learned early on in business NEVER count bonuses as liveable salary. Course I am a Repub!  

Yes, there are temperate (as opposed to tropical) rainforests here in the United States. Didn't you learn that fact in school?