Support for his plan?

Yea, he needs to pay better attention to what is going on... I think he was surprised to find that the surge was working and the presence needed from the US by the Iraqis was not just a "US" desire.

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com Mr. Obama in Iraq Did he really find support for his withdrawal plan? Wednesday, July 23, 2008; Page A14 THE INITIAL MEDIA coverage of Barack Obama's visit to Iraq suggested that the Democratic candidate found agreement with his plan to withdraw all U.S. combat forces on a 16-month timetable. So it seems worthwhile to point out that, by Mr. Obama's own account, neither U.S. commanders nor Iraq's principal political leaders actually support his strategy.

A twist about some of the people if Iraq

A nice article about some Iraqis making a difference... good stuff considering most of the things we hear about their county. Looks like there is more and more good news coming from there. I love it!!

clipped from onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com 10 Iraqis You Should Know by Baghdad Bureau By David Mac Dougall & Ghalib Tawfiq, Baghdad Bureau After years of reporting from Iraq, viewers are familiar with some of the most common personalities connected with events here: from Saddam Hussein to Prime Minister Maliki; Moqtada al-Sadr to Ayatollah Sistani. But what about some other Iraqis making an impact in their chosen professions? Nashat Akram, Dr Ala Bashir, Hussain al Shahristani, Dana Abdul Razzaq, Maysoon al-Damluji, Zaha Hadid Dana Abdul Razzaq: Iraqi Olympic athlete Hassan Abdulrazzak: Author / playwright Nashat Akram: Star player on Iraq’s national soccer team Suhair al-Qaisi: Iraqi journalist for Arabiya TV Dr Ala Bashir: Plastic surgeon Ayad Jamal al-Din: Shiite member of parliament Maysoon al-Damluji: Women’s rights activist Nadhmi Auchi: Businessman & philanthropist Hussain al Shahristani: Minister for Oil Zaha Hadid: Architect

Hmm, what do our politicians do when things change??

Pretty good article, what will the candidates do with what is going on TODAY... it is fine to remember what happened back then, as it helps (or should) from repeating mistakes.

I think it is good to see what they will do now that situations have changed and are they really paying attention.

clipped from www.realclearpolitics.com June 21, 2008 The Facts in Iraq Are Changing By Michael Barone As we enter the second half of the campaign year, facts are undermining the Democratic narrative that has dominated our politics since about the time Hurricane Katrina rolled into the Gulf coast -- most importantly, the facts about Iraq. All of this matters because the rejection of the Republicans in the 2006 elections was a verdict on competence more than ideology. The Republicans seemed incompetent at relieving victims of Katrina, producing success in Iraq and even policing the House page programs. The Democrats could not do worse and might do better. But in the 19 months since November 2006, some important facts have changed. When asked why he changed his position on an issue, John Maynard Keynes said: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" What say you, Sen. Obama?

Let's see it!

I would like Congressman Udall to accept this request. It would be good for Colorado to see the exchange of ideas this way and the struggle that takes place to help people REALLY know where they stand. I fear he will not accept though--a real debate with the tough questions seems to scare Democrats these days.

clipped from www.bobschafferforsenate.com May 9, 2008 — Schaffer Proposes Debates   For Immediate Release: Friday, May 9, 2008    SCHAFFER PROPOSES SEVEN "LINCOLN-DOUGLAS" STYLE SENATE DEBATES OVER SUMMER   Awaits response from Boulder Congressman Udall   ENGLEWOOD – Colorado Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer today proposed a series of seven “Lincoln-Douglas” style debates with his opponent, Congressman Mark Udall (D-Boulder), that would be held between Memorial Day and Labor Day this summer.

"Obama was SELECTED; NOT ELECTED"

An interesting article... and a pretty good premise. As usual Ann has laced this article with some very good satire to drive the point home. Check out the entire article for more.

clipped from anncoulter.com OBAMA WAS SELECTED, NOT ELECTED June 4, 2008 Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago. When Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 election by half a percentage point, but lost the Electoral College -- or, for short, "the constitutionally prescribed method for choosing presidents" -- anyone who denied the sacred importance of the popular vote was either an idiot or a dangerous partisan. But now Hillary has won the popular vote in a Democratic primary, while Obambi has won under the rules. In a spectacular turnabout, media commentators are heaping sarcasm on our plucky Hillary for imagining the "popular vote" has any relevance whatsoever.

$4 for Gas is CHEAP

REALLY good article about gasoline prices... I just clipped a small bit of it so please check out the entire article...

These higher prices will show you exactly how powerful the market is, and how quick things can change when you are paying attention to supply and demand.

clipped from www.slate.com On the environmental front, people concerned about greenhouse-gas emissions should be cheering today's oil prices. Expensive motor fuel is the only thing that will lead consumers to use less oil and make the switch to hybrid vehicles, smaller cars, and public transit. Higher oil prices are convincing automakers to change their fleets. Earlier this week, Nissan Motor Company announced that it will begin selling an electric car in the United States and Japan by 2010. Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive of Nissan, made it clear that fuel prices were a factor in the company's decision to build electric cars, telling the New York Times that "the shifts coming from the markets are more powerful than what regulators are doing."

Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change

Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change
Posted on : 2008-05-27 | Author : DPA
News Category : Environment

Washington - Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms. "I many times tried to talk to have a public exchange of views with him, and he's not too much willing to make such a conversation," Klaus said. "So I'm ready to do it."

Klaus was speaking a the National Press Building in Washington to present his new book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles - What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?, before meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney Wednesday.

"My answer is it is our freedom and, I might add, and our prosperity," he said.

Gore a former US vice president who has become a leading international voice in the cause against global warming, was co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Gore's effort was highlighted by his Oscar winning documentary film An Inconvienent Truth.

Klaus, an economist, said he opposed the "climate alarmism" perpetuated by environmentalism trying to impose their ideals, comparing it to the decades of communist rule he experienced growing up in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia.

"Like their (communist) predecessors, they will be certain that they have the right to sacrifice man and his freedom to make their idea reality," he said.

"In the past, it was in the name of the Marxists or of the proletariat - this time, in the name of the planet," he added.

Klaus said a free market should be used to address environmental concerns and said he oppposed as unrealistic regulations or greenhouse gas capping systems designed to reduce the impact of climate change.

"It could be even true that we are now at a stage where mere facts, reason and truths are powerless in the face of the global warming propaganda," he said.

Klaus alleged that the global warming was being championed by scientists and other environmentalists whose careers and funding requires selling the public on global warming.

"It is in the hands of climatologists and other related scientists who are highly motivated to look in one direction only," Klaus said.

Interesting article... I think if something is supposedly so important that there should be debates on it as it helps people learn. We should be wary of people "selling" us ideas with the beginning premise "the debate is over" ... when there has been no debate

57 States???

WOW, I think we have another GW on our hands instead of just making up words, makes up extra States (my appologies to GW)...

Shouldn't someone who is running for the office of POTUS know? The folks that are quick to defend him should remember to give him the same scrutiny in his speeches that they have given others.

I have a feeling that with Barry Obama that the scrutiny will be his content/substance rather than his delivery style. But to his supporters, his "style" is all they see.

Democrats break promises???

Say it isn't so. (I am cheeky) I am personally not surprised about this at all. What many liberals care about is really "getting to hear what they want to hear" then they forget and don't even care about follow through. There is more to read at the original post and I would encourage you to do so.

clipped from www.politico.com War funding would break Dem promises By MARTIN KADY II | 5/6/08 4:44 AM EST Te House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is about to lead her party into a major showdown over Iraq funding by violating two Democratic campaign pledges in one fell swoop. To the critics, whether anti-war activists or House Republicans, Pelosi has made her feelings clear: Get over it. This week’s maneuvering over a $200 billion war spending bill has revealed Pelosi self-confidently playing what she believes — with increasing evidence — is a strong hand. Strong enough that she is expected to break one promise — her 2006 pledge for a more open and inclusive committee process — by circumventing the powerful House Appropriations Committee on the Iraq bill. And when the final Iraq bill reaches the president’s desk, any troop withdrawal conditions are likely to be gone from the legislation. That is another 2006 pledge that has fallen by the wayside.

Nice, I think we should follow Europe's example here.

clipped from www.americanthinker.com The Decline of Leftism in Europe By Bruce Walker In less than a week the major political parties of the Right in Britain and Italy scored unprecedented electoral victories by winning mayoral races in Rome and then in London. Since the end of the Second World War, the Right had never controlled those two offices.  These European leaders or, in the case of David Cameron, the Conservative Party leader in Britain, soon to be European leaders, are also very much in synch with Senator McCain regarding the war on terrorism (Cameron is a big McCain fan.)  What could this mean for the world?  It could well mean that for the next four years the leaders of Europe and America could be united in a way seldom seen in modern history to protect Western Civilization from the threats it faces.  Certainly the weeks from mid-April to early May have been better for the Right in Europe than almost anytime ever.  Rumors of the death of Europe may, to paraphrase Twain, may turn out to be greatly exaggerated.

McCain's Better Half

Nice it is refreshing to see that this lady represents what America is about and an excellent person to fill the shoes of First Lady... Of course take a look at the entire article there is more to her than meets the eye.

clipped from www.ibdeditorials.com McCain's Better Half Election 2008: Cindy Hensley McCain has been disparaged as a trophy wife, a Barbie, an heiress with fancy purses, even the Paris Hilton of politics. But there's more to the picture than meets the eye. Mrs. McCain: More than meets the eye. Though all seven McCain children — including two Sen. McCain adopted from his first marriage — are supportive of their father, they prefer their privacy to the glare of the campaign trail. Another daughter, Meghan, 23, helps him behind the scenes. Cindy McCain not only cherishes her children, but also her country, which in an election year filled with America-bashing, is a refreshing novelty. She seethed when she heard Michelle Obama's unpatriotic remarks that she only recently grew proud of America. "I am very proud of my country," Mrs. McCain asserted. While the Democrat women talk about helping the poor and needy, Cindy McCain actually rolls up her sleeves and does it.

Clinton blasts Bush for not stopping a project Bill OK'd

Full Article: Clinton blasts Bush for not stopping a project Bill OK'd

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Posted on Wed, Apr. 30, 2008
Clinton blasts Bush for not stopping a project Bill OK'd
Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: April 30, 2008 05:23:10 PM

INDIANAPOLIS — Hillary Clinton loves to tell the story about how the Chinese government bought a good American company in Indiana, laid off all its workers and moved its critical defense technology work to China.

It’s a story with a dramatic, political ending. Republican President George W. Bush could have stopped it, but he didn’t.

If she were president, Clinton says, she’d fight to protect those jobs. It’s just the kind of talk that’s helping her win support from working-class Democrats worried about their jobs and paychecks, not to mention their country’s security.

What Clinton never includes in the oft-repeated tale is the role that prominent Democrats played in selling the company and its technology to the Chinese. She never mentions that big-time Democratic contributor George Soros helped put together the deal to sell the company or that the sale was approved by her husband's administration.

I never understand the logic that the dems have and the people who support them. They do things and then use rhetoric against their own actions to get votes. Democrats don't care about the poor, the working class, or gays but for some reason they have everyone convinced that they are... nutty nutty nutty. Please click on the full article for more, including Mrs. Clinton's rebuttal.

Outside the Wire: Documentary Series

I do look forward to this Not-From-Hollywood documentary... should be interesting to see

The Pro-Americanism of a French Intellectual

Great Post at Flopping Aces, much more detail of this French Intellectual who "got it" I would more would, including some Americans!

clipped from www.floppingaces.net “Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.” - Jean-Francois Revel Revel also detected a tendency of other countries to ascribe their own worst faults to the Americans in a curious “reversal of culpability”. Thus, the Japanese and Germans excoriate America for “militarism”; the Mexicans attack it for “electoral corruption”; the British accuse it of “imperialism”; the Chinese accuse it of “hegemonism”; and Arab writers, post 9/11, for “abridging press freedom”. “We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Kim Jong Il, Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe, the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran, or the bosses of China and Vietnam. We reserve our admonitions and our contempt and our attacks for Ronald Reagan and George W Bush.”

OBAMA WILL FIX YOUR COMPUTER

Funny Stuff...

OBAMA WILL FIX YOUR COMPUTER

Questions for Obama Supporters

I like these questions, I think they are fair. I hope someone can answer them

clipped from www.gaypatriot.net So, with thir bellyaching in mind, I have few more questions (hope they’re not too shoddy or despicable) for Obama supporters: What makes your man such an unusual politician? What has he accomplished to merit your enthusiasm and to show his fitness for the White House? If your man is as great as you claim, why are you whining about the debate? Do you really believe his stature should exempt him from intense and probing questioning? Wouldn’t a man who seeks to lead our great nation be able to dismiss unfair questions much as one such leader handled a question about his age in 1984?

Snobbery

Hee hee, I liked this one especially in light of his recent comments

Liberal Fascism

This is an excellent review and commentary of what is going on with the American Left, it is dangerous. I hope more people will read this book and understand what the problems really are

clipped from www.intellectualconservative.com Liberal Fascism by Bernard Chapin Should fascism come it will arrive with a happy face and a smile — hence the cover — as our Nanny Staters will trample any person or family who gets in the way of their keeping us all safe . . . safe from ourselves and our liberties. Who are the fascists among us? How about those folks wanting to proscribe the use of IPods while crossing a street or those who wish to ban outdoor smoking and transfats? We’d all be better off if such power freaks found religion and began worshipping at the church of minding their own business. Politically, the Democratic Party is the party of the state although many Republicans such as George W. Bush — recall his Oprahesque line: “when somebody hurts government has got to move” — are chock full of statist impulses. All of these mundane warriors fail to comprehend the value of Thomas Jefferson's timeless edict, “a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.”

NICE, I am extremely grateful that this story turned out as it did. This story shows to me that there are still people that are REALLY heroes that do more than talk about it--this man could have lost his life to save the others that were with him. Brittan should be proud!

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Heroic marine throws himself on grenade By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent A Royal Marine could receive the highest award for gallantry after he saved the lives of his comrades by throwing himself onto an exploding grenade in Afghanistan, it has been reported. Lance Corporal Matt Croucher amazingly survived the incident despite shrapnel peppering his helmet during the explosion.   L/Cpl Croucher's backpack was thrown more than 30ft in the explosion His extraordinary courage, which could lead to a citation for the Victoria Cross, came after a tripwire booby-trap was stepped on during a nighttime mission outside the town of Sangin, Helmand province.

Sky Soldiers 173rd

A Paratrooper in Afghanistan Responds to the New York Times

Interesting article, and I think something that many should do either by e-mail or post card, since it is such a simple gesture. I would like to flood our soldiers with letters, since the treason times is having troubles loving America.

This is the end of the article and why I am posting it here for some of the crew here for that stumble here to GIT R DONE

Our paratroopers are in the fight of their lives and they need to hear that America loves them.

Please send an email of support to skysoldiers173rd@gmail.com

Or you can mail cards to:

Leta Carruth
P O Box 100
Cordova, TN 38088

Due to security reasons in Afghanistan please do not put addresses or phone numbers on any correspondence. All emails will be printed out here in the US and mailed to Afghanistan as they do not have the resources to receive a large number of emails. All letters and emails will be vetted to make sure there are no negative comments. These are letters of support, so please keep them positive and uplifting.