Don’t get distracted.
At least don’t stay distracted.

This has to be the most brazenly stupid remark yet by a candidate.

Who are THEY? Who, John? Russia, China, Iran, Lichtenstein?

This old fool will get us all dead. BushitCo rapture accomplished.

So what do you have in mind, JohnnyBoy? Nuke Tehran? Have a squadron of B-52’s drop cluster bombs on Damascus? Ask Secretary Paulsen to defend his actions visa vi the current economic crisis?

We’ve had 8 years of a gut-feeling, knee-jerking, ready-shot-aim halfwit in the White House. Enough!

Obama/Biden2008

Of course most of the time my comments are not worth reading anyway LOL.

McCain seems to be making the same mistake with his taking it to them attitude. I wonder if he is going after Iran, like Bush went after Iraq, to the exclusion of any attention being paid to Al-Qaeda. Hope you folks don’t give him the chance to try!

Obama, on the other hand, is preparing himself for something just in case. Preparing himslef for a terrorist threat and being ready for it.

Hmmmmmm who do you think would be more prepared? The fellas in charge of the WTC debacle or a President who is ready for the enemy.

Have your say on Nov. 4. Get out and vote!

Every Republican in the U.S. is on his knees every day, praying for a big terror attack in the U.S. “Please, God,” they’re saying. “Let us be hit by a terrible terror attack today. It’s our only shot. I don’t care how many people get killed, just so long as it hurts the Democrats.”

That’s how much the Right love America. ;)

“The Mess We’re In,” starring me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBWkNFtrEg

Sounds like a fair amount of fear under that aggressive posturing.

Hitler was big on instilling fear in his enemies. The Blitz on England was an attempt to frighten the English into suing for peace. The indiscriminate slaughter of Russian peasants was an attempt to frighten the Soviets into capitulation. Neither worked worth spit. In fact, they had the opposite of the intended effect.

Then, of course, there was the combined bomber offensive against Germany which was intended to frighten the Germans into overthrowing Hitler. That didn’t work worth spit either.
Bombing in Korea and Vietnam was equally ineffective at frightening people into submission.

Heck! Any sane American Revolutionary was scared to death of what the English could do. That fear, again, translated into defeat of the stronger party.

What frightens me? Another reckless President like Ol’ Flippy McSpin. The decisions that he has made in the campaign, especially accepting that horrible woman as a running mate, have forced me to reevaluate a man I once respected, a bit.

Actually, it goes back to his early insistence on the “surge”. I find it terrifying that he never even considered a deescalation of offensive operations. Many military leaders wanted to pull back to a position of support before the bombing of the Golden Dome.

Once Saddam was captured, and an Iraqi government was in place, we might have been best served by a cessation of independent offensive action. Of course, we’ll never know if such a strategy would have worked because Flippy and the neocons never even considered it. That frightens me to no end.

LVR at 30: Not much to argue with there, but I do think it is good for your enemies to fear you.

As for Bin Laden, he has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, thanks to Chimpy providing “them” with several hundred-thousand targets in harms way. Not to mention the war’s major roll in the current catastrophic financial meltdown. Assuming he’s still alive, I would guess that Bin Laden goes to sleep each night with a hugely satisfied grin on his face.

Lone Voice,

I see more evidence of your intellect on this thread… even MORE unimpressive.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:52 pm

Vacuum lick- As I deign to answer your non-comment pertaining to my intellect, I rather call into question yours. Have you no spell-check? So many typos for such a furiously working mind.

I don’t even know what to say to this image…do they watch the Muslim version of Beavis and Butthead in their mom’s basement (what would be the equivalent of a basement in a tent or cave?)

As to your assessment of a more nuanced Obama approach being more trouble for AQ, you may well be right, though I don’t know that I agree completely. We’ll see if Obama’s bellicose rhetoric is matched with actions – his words regarding how he’s fight AQ have been quite aggressive.

But the thing I keep coming back to is can they see the truth of what you say? Whenever I hear Adam Gadan talk I think what an idiot he is, and he has got to be their “America expert” as far as our psychology goes.

In the end, the question is are they telling us what they really think on these websites or is it reverse psychology? The “warning” UBL issued in November 04 helped Bush, no doubt; if no similar such screed appears in the next week, it would seem to argue they want Obama. But again, there is no way to know for sure.

LOTS of those new recruits are with Allah now. And the leadership is hiding in caves. Does UBL call that a win? Maybe, but that is the point – we don’t know what really goes on in their heads.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
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Do we know what goes on in their heads? No. I mean, brain chemistry is still a relatively new field. But we do know what’s going on in their web forums. And a lot of the new recruits are quite busy defacing Shi’a web sites. Apparently the latest crop of al-Qa’ida recruits are mostly passive-aggressive nerds. Also, al-Qa’ida has become somewhat of a pariah among other jihadist groups for their rather indiscriminate target selection.

But they’re still an active organization with a strong PR effort and a strong ability to recruit impressionable young Muslims. A U.S. President like Obama is far more likely to favor diplomacy over warmongering, which contradicts the al-Qa’ida stereotype of the U.S. as a monolithic anti-Islam enemy. With Obama, the situation becomes more nuanced, and Osama has much more difficulty recruiting.

Considering how many new recruits al-Qa’ida has gained as the result of eight years of the Bush administration, can you blame al-Qa’ida for wanting another four?

LOTS of those new recruits are with Allah now. And the leadership is hiding in caves. Does UBL call that a win? Maybe, but that is the point – we don’t know what really goes on in their heads.