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James Dobson of Focus on the Family

Apparently, John McCain and Evangelical Christian leader Dr. James Dobson have patched up their differences.

Will Dobson show at the August 16 debate/forum at Saddleback Church between McCain and Obama?


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Much of his convention speech, and the subject of his 1995 memoir “Dreams From My Father,” focused on his diverse family. Born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961, Obama was the son of a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya who left to study economics at Harvard, and then returned to Kenya, seeing his son just once afterwards. Obama was raised by his mother’s parents. In 2006, he visited his father’s mother in Kenya

Kos has previously posted a copy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate (”certification of live birth”). Flap’s and Geraghty’s questions have been answered or have they?

Today there is this piece, last in a series about document forgery of Barack Obama’s birth certificate. There is a complicated analysis and some just plain weird findings.

But, why doesn’t Team Obama allow the state of Hawaii to release the real deal?

Stay tuned……

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Barack Obama Watch: Birth Certificate Posted At Daily Kos

Barack Obama Watch: Release the Birth Certiciate Part 2

Barack Obama Watch: Release the Birth Certificate


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+++++Update+++++

Now, a spokesman has said that al-Maliki’s remarks “were misunderstood, mistranslated and not conveyed accurately.”

Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the possibility of troop withdrawal was based on the continuance of security improvements, echoing statements that the White House made Friday after a meeting between al-Maliki and U.S. President Bush.

Al-Maliki

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says he agrees with US presidential candidate Barack Obama’s plans for withdrawing US troops from Iraq

The LEFT and Team Obama will try to spin Iraqi Prime Minister’s Nuri al-Maliki’s interview with Speigel Online - even with the change in the quote.

The first quote:

SPIEGEL: Would you hazard a prediction as to when most of the US troops will finally leave Iraq?

Maliki: As soon as possible, as far as we’re concerned. US presidential candidate Barack Obama is right when he talks about 16 months. Assuming that positive developments continue, this is about the same time period that corresponds to our wishes.

The changed quote:

SPIEGEL: Would you hazard a prediction as to when most of the US troops will finally leave Iraq?

Maliki: As soon as possible, as far as we’re concerned. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.

Read the entire Speigel interview here.

And, then read the shortened pro-Obama Reuters version.

What Reuters and other news accounts will fail to emphasize is that under Barack Obama’s anti-SURGE policy, Prime Minister al-Maliki would not be in the postion to see an American withdrawal of combat troops. It is because of the success of General Petraeus and President Bush that the United States has won the Iraq War.

Let’s look at Obama’s quotes about the SURGE:

  • In October 2006–three months before the president’s new strategy was unveiled–Obama said, “It is clear at this point that we cannot, through putting in more troops or maintaining the presence that we have, expect that somehow the situation is going to improve, and we have to do something significant to break the pattern that we’ve been in right now.”
  • On January 10, 2007, the night the surge was announced, Obama declared, “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.”
  • A week later, he insisted the surge strategy would “not prove to be one that changes the dynamics significantly.”
  • And in reaction to the president’s January 23 State of the Union address, Obama said, I don’t think the president’s strategy is going to work. We went through two weeks of hearings on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; experts from across the spectrum–military and civilian, conservative and liberal–expressed great skepticism about it. My suggestion to the president has been that the only way we’re going to change the dynamic in Iraq and start seeing political commendation is actually if we create a system of phased redeployment. And, frankly, the president, I think, has not been willing to consider that option, not because it’s not militarily sound but because he continues to cling to the belief that somehow military solutions are going to lead to victory in Iraq.

Democrat Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and Senator Barack Obama said the war was “LOST” and the surge would not and did not work. Now, the Democrats are spinning the credit for peace in Iraq that President Bush and pro-SURGE pols, such as John McCain rightly deserve. The Iraq War is over - America won.

Fancy that and the MSM like Reuters are happy to spin the story for Obama and the Democrats.

But, will the media get away with it with the American voters?

Stay tuned……..


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McCainObamairaq

The LEFT is going wild with this story that John McCain “leaked” the fact that Obama would in Iraq this weekend.

Hell, everyone knows he is leaving for a foreign trip (taking the three major TV anchors with him) and that Obama promised to visit Iraq. Why wouldn’t one expect Obama to jaunt over to Iraq when he will be nearby in Israel and Jordan?

The RIGHT story is that Obama has ONLY been to Iraq one time and that was 922 days ago.


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John McCain’s latest television ad: “Troop Funding”

In a hard-hitting television ad, John McCain goes afer Barack Obama on foreign policy.

The script:

ANNCR: Barack Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan.

He hasn’t been to Iraq in years.

He voted against funding our troops.

Positions that helped him win his nomination. Now Obama is changing to help himself become president.

John McCain has always supported our troops and the surge that’s working.

McCain. Country first.

JOHN MCCAIN: I’m John McCain and I approve this message.

Ouch. This is going to leave a mark.

The television ad goes “live” in 11 battleground states and on national cable channels today.

Update:

Team McCain has just released a statement from the Senator about the television ad:

“Progress between the United States and Iraq on a time horizon for American troop presence is further evidence that the surge has succeeded. Most of the U.S. forces used in the surge have already been withdrawn. When a further conditions-based withdrawal of U.S. forces is possible, it will be because we and our Iraqi partners built on the successes of the surge strategy, which Senator Obama opposed, predicted would fail, voted against and campaigned against in the primary. When we withdraw, we will withdraw with honor and victory. An honorable and victorious withdrawal would not be possible if Senator Obama’s views had prevailed. An artificial timetable based on political expediency would have led to disaster and could still turn success into defeat. If we had followed Senator Obama’s policy, Iraq would have descended into chaos, American casualties would be far higher, and the region would be destabilized.”

McCain takes RIGHT after Obama who is attempting to “triangulate” his former anti-Surge Iraq War policy.


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Is this any indication that John McCain is seriously considering Mitt Romney as his Vice President?

“[I]n case you’ve been missing it, Mitt has been doing such a great job lately on my behalf, I said only half in jest, he’s doing a better job for me than he did for himself. And in case you missed it, as short a time ago as this morning, Mitt has been on the shows, not only defending, but standing up for the things that we believe in, are important to the future of the country. And I think you may know that Cindy and I and Mitt and Ann had the chance to spend some time together. And I knew Mitt, and I knew what an outstanding individual he is and what a wonderful family person, but I hadn’t had the chance to get to know Ann, who we all know is battling a disease and she is a woman of courage and beauty and grace. Scott [Romney,I thank you for being here and I thank you for the entire Romney family.”

To all of the Tim Pawlenty and Sarah Palin fans out there, this was after all a Detroit, Michigan event.

But, still…….


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McCaininMichiganjuly182008

Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) addresses the audience about electric vehicles during a campaign stop at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan July 18, 2008.

Did John McCain just call Barack Obama a socialist?

Well, sort of.

He also said Obama had the “most extreme” record in the Senate.

Asked later if he thought Obama was an extremist, McCain said: “His voting record … is more to the left than the announced socialist in the United States Senate, Bernie Sanders of Vermont.”

Does McCain think Obama is a socialist? “I don’t know. All I know is his voting record, and that’s what people usually judge their elected representatives by.”

The video is here (around 2:35)

Team McCain should take the opportunity with Obama leaving America to campaign abroad (sorry, partake in a “fact finding” mission) to pound Obama on domestic issue contrasts.

The fact is that Obama has a very left-wing voting record - the most left leaning of ANY Senator.


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