Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Election 2008

Obama: Flimflam man?

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Flashback 2004: Newly elected Sen. Barack Obama, explaining why he won’t run for president in 2008:

“I am a believer in knowing what you’re doing when you apply for a job. Uh, and I think that if I were to seriously consider running on a national ticket I would essentially have to start now, before having served a day in the senate. Now, there’s some people who might be comfortable doing that, uh, but I’m not one of those people.”

Here’s the video:

Obama has missed 248 votes (44.8%) in the current Congress, from January 2007 through June 2008. So, the question is, between starting his first job working in federal government on January 3, 2005, and essentially abandoning his duties as senator in January 2007 to “apply for a job” as President of the United States, where’s the evidence that he “knows what he’s doing?”

I made a few more observations over at Family Security Matters.

Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Iraq, Osama bin Laden

‘Obama wrong from the start on Iraq’ says retired SF Master Sergeant

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The following is the bottom line of why one well known retired Special Forces NCO does not share Senator Barack Obama’s confidence in his own judgement:

Obama has not had any good ideas about the war in Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else. He threatened to invade Pakistan, run away from Iraq and redouble efforts to capture and not martyr the already-dead bin Laden. Now there is a resume for an aspiring Commander in Chief. — James Hanson (a.k.a. Uncle Jimbo at BlackFive.net), retired Special Operations Master Sergeant, July 21, 2008

Last year, Obama repeatedly said the surge in Iraq would not work. In addition, Power Line’s John Hinderaker points out Senator Obama’s current rhetoric about Afghanistan does not match his past voting record:

Worst of all, far from being committed to victory in Afghanistan, Obama voted to cut off all funding for all of our military efforts in Afghanistan on May 24, 2007 (H.R. 2206, CQ Vote #181), thereby seeking to bring about defeat there as well as in Iraq. His current effort to portray himself as a wolf in sheep’s clothing on Afghanistan is a complete fraud.

Here’s an example of how the surge Obama thought would fail is working out in Saddam Hussein’s once very violent hometown.

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Photo caption: ROLE MODEL: Iraqi children learn how to make a model airplane from a U.S Army soldier during a Youth Outreach Day on Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Tikrit, Iraq, July 12, 2008. The event was coordinated by the Provincial Reconstruction Team to increase understanding of coalition forces for children in the local community. — U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Micky M. Bazaldua