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July 19, 2008 Obama's Magical Mystery Tour BeginsIt is doubtful that too many ordinary Afghans know or care who Barack Obama is. Nevertheless, the messiah disembarked in Kabul this morning after a brief stop in Kuwait to visit the troops. He is scheduled to travel to a base in eastern Afghanistan today and get a briefing from the military on the situation and meet with President Karzai tomorrow. From there - well, let's let CNN tell you because the way they report it, it's almost like a victory lap for the candidate: Sen. Barack Obama is set to step onto the world's stage. During his trip to the Middle East and Europe, Obama will visit: Jordan Israel (with a trip to the West Bank-Ramallah) Germany France The United Kingdom. Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday and is slated to visit Iraq, although for security reasons, no public schedule for the visit has been released. A campaign stunt is being reported as if it were the opening act of the Obama drama - the hero restoring respect and love for America in the world. They are already declaring his trip a triumph before he starts. Except America has never lost respect - save for those who see it as convenient and politically advantageous to make that argument - nor is it true we are much more hated than we usually have been for the past 30 years or so. This narrative put forward by the left that somehow Obama is going to come in and make people like us "again" is absurd. I've written about this here at AT and on my own blog. The idea that "the world was with us" after 9/11 is a false, it's a chimera that the left finds convenient to push because it plays into the American people's fear of being disliked. The crowds in Europe will no doubt be huge and enthusiastic. And why not? Obama is promising to subsume our interests to those of the Europeans at the UN while all but abandoning our status as a superpower - especially if our interests conflict with others. If I were a European, I'd be escatic too. I don't think too many Americans will care one way or another how Obama is received so it is doubtful he will get much of a bounce from this trip. Besides, the American people are smart enough to know that one trip abroad does not a president make. They will judge Obama on how he annunicates his foreign policy and not on grandstanding tactics performed overseas. |
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Posted by: COL. A.M..Khajawall [Ret] | July 19, 2008 12:56 PM
Dick Morris has claimed that this trip will give Obama a big bounce. I think he is incorrect and unfortunately just another out of touch commentator. It seems as if America is finally waking up to the point that they are more likely to question the intentions of the Messiah then just accept them whole cloth. Considering the timing, it feels extremely staged to try and drown out all of the other issues that have now been raised about BHO, like the 10 flip flops, instead of an honest attempt to understand what the hell is actually going on over there. He already knows what kind of ludicrous foriegn policy he would like to implement so he's not truly interested in the answers he receives on the ground. It's pathetic and transparent.
Posted by: Emerson | July 19, 2008 12:58 PM
Instant foreign relations expert? In whose eyes. Obama is a novice and the public that sees this as anything other than another campaign stunt is as dumb as stone. What is at issue is the media coverage of a non-experienced egocentric politician who is a real and present danger to this country.
The real story is Obama's position on negotiating with Ahmadinejad without preconditions has already backfired and a quick withdrawal strategy from Iraq is an open invitation to resume hostilities in Iraq by Iran. Are we willing to turn Iraq into Lebanon?
The world is a more dangerous place today because of the Clinton administration - most of whose advisers are among the 300 forming Obama's policy. Even as the al Qaeda threat diminishes in Iraq, the Iranian threat grows more severe to destabilize the gains U.S. troops made. At best Obama has a micro view of terrorism in the Middle East. If he even had a clue, he would have been active in suppressing the violence in South Side Chicago which equals or exceeds the violence in Baghdad. Obama is a figment of somebody's mind of what a commander-in-chief should be and no trip to gain favor with Europeans will change that. Europeans love Americans to come to their rescue; their collective memories are short. Should they ever want our help again they will love us as do for the short memory period they have.
Posted by: FRS | July 19, 2008 01:49 PM
Nobody want our National Security to be used as a pandering tool. Most will recognise this as the Main Stream Media all being a collective 527 group for Obama. Their credibility for reporting actual unbiased news is totally shot now, anyhow. Most of the folks who don't know better live in NYC, San Fran., LA, and Seattle. To the rest of the Nation, CBS, NBC, ABC, and the NYT (and it's affiliates) are quite irrelivant.
About Obama and the Democrats:
Nobody wants higher taxes, and at election time Obama will lose BIG - even though the only one running against him is Sen. John McCain! Senate and House will change hands again, also, because nobody wants Gas prices to remain at $4.00 per gallon, and it is obvious that the Democrats want to keep it there or higher.
Hmmmm - do we vote for the party who want to see us suffer, or do we vote for the party who wants to make things better?
Americans will have this figured out by November, and when they do - you DON'T want to be a Democrat! Fear Not.
Posted by: David J | July 19, 2008 01:55 PM
@FRS - Sweet Hay-Zeus, I hope you're right
Posted by: Jeff B | July 19, 2008 04:04 PM
Most informed Americans currently have enough scary information on Obama not to vote for him.
We can only hope, in the next few months, he scares the hell out of the rest that are currently uninformed.
Posted by: Virginia | July 19, 2008 05:48 PM
I spend a lot of time reading democrat and liberal blogs and articles about Obama - especially the comments.
The one thing that I see coming up over and over again, among other scary things about Obama, is his 20-year membership at Jeremiah Wright's church.
That this had no effect on the way Obama thinks and feels about America simply defies logic - even for liberal Democrats.
From what I'm reading in these sites, about 80% of the dems are experiencing a very bad case of buyers' remorse (if they voted for Obama) and bitter anger (if they voted for Hillary and feel she got jilted by the DNC).
They want Hillary as their nominee, and if they can't have her, they say they'll vote for McCain or not vote at all. Take some time and check out some of these sites. It should encourage you.
Posted by: beth barnat | July 19, 2008 09:04 PM
Agree, inasmuch as do not think Europe will be as 'taken' with Obama as we imagine. What I have found among many beyond and 'far away'; is an absolutle incredulity that someone who offers as little as does Obama, could rise at such a pace to the Presidency.
Now, what the Obamamedia will interpret, is another story. Of course.
Posted by: Catherine | July 19, 2008 11:06 PM
Obama is so inexperienced that I would rather see Jimmy Carter run again.....honestly....
Posted by: Michael Murray | July 19, 2008 11:11 PM
The "Drive-by media" talking points for the trip by B. Hussein Obama is this: "He is polishing his credentials" as a military leader. Don't you need to have credentials before they can be polished? What a joke. I hope the troops give this phony the cold shoulder.
Posted by: David Morse | July 20, 2008 12:36 AM
The sycophant media is going to be all over the "Obama 08' World Tour". Maybe they'll all have t-shirts made up with all the countries that he plays in. They love their new rock star.
Posted by: asdf | July 20, 2008 11:42 AM
It's no surprise that the Germans love Obama. Look what happened the last time a slick talking socialist came along.
Posted by: william | July 20, 2008 11:57 AM
William. Great observation.
Posted by: RSP | July 20, 2008 05:35 PM
Who cares who the Europeans prefer ... if it was up to France, our next President would be Jerry Lewis. How about focusing on who has the experience, judgement and character to protect us and bring prosperity to Americans ... not someone who in the eleventh hour, finally tries to establish foreign policy credentials, in a one week visit, as a transparent political ploy to get himself elected. Where was Obama, when he was supposed to chair the congressional committee on Afghanistan, and never had a single meeting. Why did Obama vote 'present' over 100 times in the senate? Even if he manages a political rally in the Roman Coliseum, he's still just an inexperienced politician, who is not qualified to be President of the United States of America !!!
Posted by: Howard | July 21, 2008 07:08 PM