Barack Obama

Barack Obama should drop Baghdad Bob as his running mate

Senator Barack Obama is not stuck on stupid; he knows the tide of battle in Iraq has turned decisively in America’s and Iraq’s favor. Yet he always bets on red — the bloody trail of America’s defeat — as the road to his personal victory in November.

In a New York Post editorial this morning:

Both The New York Times and the Washington Post this week had front-page stories about successful operations by Iraqi forces to root out Shiite militias in Baghdad’s Sadr City — a significant turning point in the war and a huge accomplishment for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

But there Obama was Tuesday evening patting himself on the back for his Oregon primary victory while once again repeating the same old tired formulation about the “failed” Bush policy in Iraq, “that asks everything of our troops and nothing of Iraqi politicians.”

[Barack Obama] certainly hasn’t let the facts change his opinion about what is going on in Iraq or what the United States should do in response. Like a broken record, he just keeps repeating the same old tune.

If he really were a new kind of politician, he’d cheer what’s happening in Iraq, compliment Prime Minister Maliki for his strides and rethink his promise to undercut the progress by a precipitous withdrawal of all American troops.

In his stubborn refusal to admit things have changed in Iraq, Obama is looking more and more like a throwback to the Vietnam protesters who actively promoted America’s defeat in order to prove they were right in their opposition to the Vietnam War. He may not be old enough to remember firsthand the shouts of “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh,” or the Viet Cong flags hoisted at anti-war rallies of that era.

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Guantanamo jihadists’ propagandist is a Barack Obama delegate

James J. Yee is a propagandist for the jihadist detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay and a Barack Obama delegate. He is a regular on the ‘due process’ and ‘close Gitmo’ lecture circuit and was a featured panelist at the Guantanamo Bay Bar Association’s “teach-in” hosted by Seton Hall University in October of 2006. How wonderful of West Point graduate James Yee to now travel the country and world betraying the country he once served and the soldiers he served with.

Last night, syndicated talk-radio host Mark Levin played audio of former Army Captain and Guantanamo Chaplain James Yee spouting his usual drivel, in Syria, that “I talked first-hand with prisoners who were held in Camp X-ray, which was the first prison camp of Guantanamo, very early on in early 2002, and prisoners told me directly that…” Yet Yee knows nothing personally; it is all what the detainees told him:

Senator Obama: we await your denouncement of this traitor.