Conservative Political News - 08/12/2008
A Conservative look at today’s top political news…
“McCain, not Obama, was right about Georgia”
There are several opinion pieces out today saying the obvious: Sen. Obama has no clue when it comes to foreign policy. That really shouldn’t be a surprise (even to Obama supporters, if they were honest). I am not John McCain’s biggest fan, and I believe there’s not a nickels worth of difference between the two candidates on some issues, such as the economy, immigration, certain social issues, but one area where McCain’s experience wins out is in the area of foreign policy. McCain has experience; Obama does not. Period.
Steve Huntley, of the Chicago Sun-Times said it best:
Like Kosovo, Bosnia, Kuwait and other unfamiliar places before, Ossetia reminds us that a small, remote corner of the globe can explode into an international crisis. One who was up to speed on Georgia and the menace it faced from Russia was veteran Sen. John McCain. He had visited the Caucasian nation three times in a dozen years. When fighting erupted, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate got on the phone to gather details and issued a statement Friday summarizing the situation, tagging Russia as the aggressor and demanding it withdraw its forces from the sovereign territory of Georgia.
It took first-term Sen. Barack Obama three tries to get it right. Headed for a vacation in Hawaii, the presumed Democratic candidate for commander in chief issued an even-handed statement, urging restraint by both sides. Later Friday, he again called for mutual restraint but blamed Russia for the fighting. The next day his language finally caught up with toughness of McCain’s.
Making matters worse, Obama’s staff focused on a McCain aide who had served as a lobbyist for Georgia, charging it showed McCain was “ensconced in a lobbyist culture.” Obama’s campaign came off as injecting petty partisan politics into an international crisis. This was not a serious response on behalf a man who aspires to be the leader of the Free World. After all, what’s so bad about representing a small former Soviet republic struggling to remake itself as a Western-style democracy?
The comparison between the two candidates served to emphasize the strength McCain’s experience would bring to the White House in a dangerous world.
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“Report: Clinton told to cast Obama as un-American”
So, even fellow Democrats recognize his shortcomings. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that politicians say all kinds of things to make themselves look good (or there opponent look bad) in an election. And, this was just war-room discussion that Sen. Clinton rejected. However, as I have said before, Sen. Obama is very vulnerable on this issue because, quite frankly, he has done way to much to suggest that he is not that proud of being an American. The McCain camp is well aware of this; expect to see a lot of Rev. Wright, flag pins, and Michelle “for the first time” Obama before this election is over.
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“Senior al Qaeda leader killed in Pakistan”
More proof that we are winning the war against terror. Al-Qaeda’s #3 man and “chief finanical officer” was killed near the Afghan border. Even better, he was killed by Pakistani troops. Every time one of these guys is buried, my family is safer; that is far more important to me than our “image in the world.”