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Day By Day by Chris Muir June 4, 2008
As the Iraq War is won and Al Qaeda routed the MSM is less interested in reporting America’s success.
Why?
The MSM media opposed the Iraq War and the United States cannot possibly be succeeding.
How will the war play in the general election race? If there is MORE success on the ground in Iraq, Barack Obama may not EVEN have to travel to Iraq again.
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Flap has barely one eyeball open this morning from attending the Congressman Elton Gallegly’s post California Primary election VICTORY party in Simi Valley last night. But, Flap has some great photos of Ventura County, California politicians and will be posting them throughout the day.
If you are anxious for them, they will appear on Flap’s Flickr photostream shortly.
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Iraq War Veterans Call Out Barack Obama So McCain Supporting Senators Quit
Iraq War veteran Specialist Kate Norley
Yesterday a video featuring Kate Norley was released by Vetsforfreedom,org and promptly two U.S. Senators associated with the organization and the John McCain for President campaign quit.
Senators Joseph I. Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, prominent surrogates for Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, stepped down Wednesday from their positions with an independent group that released a pair of Internet advertisements attacking Senator Barack Obama on Iraq.
Mr. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, and Mr. Graham, Republican of South Carolina, were both on the policy advisory board to the organization, Vets for Freedom, which on Wednesday released its second Web advertisement in less than a week attacking Mr. Obama.
The senators’ positions with the group, which describes itself as a grass-roots advocacy organization pushing for victory in Iraq and Afghanistan, seemed to place them in contravention of new conflict-of-interest rules released by Mr. McCain’s campaign that specifically prohibit anyone “with a McCain campaign title or position†from participating in a “527 or other independent entity that makes public communications that support or oppose any presidential candidate.â€
After inquiries from reporters, the senators released a joint letter to Vets for Freedom on Wednesday saying they had requested a leave from their positions to come into compliance with the new policy.
“This is obviously something we’re working through,†said Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the McCain campaign. “This is the kind of thing that happens when you have the strictest possible policy on these issues.â€
The new policy was meant to head off embarrassing questions about connections of members of the McCain campaign to special interests that run counter to Mr. McCain’s reformist reputation. But adhering to that standard has proved complicated.
Why?
Oh, McCain wants to remain the “MAVERICK.”
This assinine policy already cost the McCain campaign a solid staffer in Soren Dayton – for a Tweet early in the Jeremiah Wright flap.
Team McCain better wake up and remember that transparency is what counts and campaign staffers do have lives outside the Arizona Senator’s small view of the world.
This is NOT a way to win a campaign.
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Barack Obama NOW Considering Trip to Iraq
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., talks with the media aboard his plane en route to Chicago, Wednesday, May 28, 2008.
Senator Barack Obama the presumptive Democrat nominee for President NOW says he is planning a trip to Iraq this summer.Senator Barack Obama said today that he is considering visiting American troops and commanders in Iraq this summer. He declined an invitation from Senator John McCain to take a joint trip to Iraq, saying: “I just don’t want to be involved in a political stunt.â€
In a brief interview here, Mr. Obama said his campaign was considering taking a foreign trip after he secures the Democratic presidential nomination. No details have been set, he said, but added: “Iraq would obviously be at the top of the list of stops.â€
Mr. Obama visited Iraq in January 2006 as part of a Congressional delegation to the Middle East, but he has not returned since he became a presidential candidate. Mr. McCain and the Republican National Committee have sought to use that singular trip to highlight a lack of foreign policy experience.
Nice that someone who espouses a complete withdrawal from Iraq at least be updated from his ONE VISIT TWO YEARS AGO.
Obama says he does not want to be involved in a political stunt but suddenly after the Republican National Committee, an Iraq War veteran’s organization and Senator John McCain call him out on his lack of foreign policy experience especially with regards to the Iraq War he urgently tells the press – he is considering an Iraq trip.
Fancy that.
How many days will the RNC counter show before Obama, a member of U.S. Senate Foreighn Relations Committee actually commits himself to get his ass over there and talks to General Petraeus?
The counter stands at 871 days.
Stay tuned………
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Iraq War Veterans Call Out Barack Obama
Iraq War veteran Specialist Kate Norley
Iraq War veteran Kate Norley asks presumptive Democrat Presidential nominee Barack Obama two questions:
- Senator Obama, when will you finally decide to go back to Iraq, to see the progress first hand?
- And when will you finally decide to meet one-on-one, unconditionally, with General Petraeus?
Senator McCain asked the same questions today.
Well, over to Obama.
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McCain Rips Obama over Iraq War AGAIN
McCain in Reno, Nevada May 28, 2008: Obama Needs To See The Facts On The Ground In Iraq. Skip ahead to 1:20
John McCain in a townhall forum today in Reno, Nevada ripped Barack Obama for having ONLY been to Iraq one time two years ago (before the Surge) and for failing in his duties as a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Key Quotes:
- “A little over two years ago he went and he has never seized the opportunity except in a hearing to meet with General Petraeus. This is about leadership and learning.â€
- “Why is it that Senator Obama wants to sit down with the president of Iran but has not sat down with General Petraeus…â€
Flap wonders if Senator McCain has been reading Jim Geraghty over at National Review who this morning made similar observations.
Is Obama Willing To Meet Ahmadinejad, But Not Petraeus?
Obama has been to Iraq once, in 2006. It was a two-day tour of the country.
I suppose one can argue about the value of seeing the situation on the ground with one’s own eyes, but wouldn’t the architect of a withdrawal want to see some of the circumstances himself? Even if Obama didn’t want to travel with McCain, is it really wise to suggest that a tour of post-surge Iraq is unnecessary? Wouldn’t scheduling a visit defuse criticism like this from Vets for Freedom PAC?
And isn’t Obama vulnerable to the argument that a man who’s pledged to meet unconditionally, one-on-one, face-to-face with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad really ought to meet at least once one-on-one with Gen. David Petraeus?
Barack Obama is too inexperienced in foreign policy to be the President and Commander in Chief. Obama has not served in the military and his military background is limited except a Great Uncle who served in World War II – and Obama got the facts wrong on his service.
Is this someone we can trust to be the leader of the free world, especially in a time of terrorism and war ?
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John McCain Attacks Obama Over Iraq War
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at the New Mexico Veterans Memorial on Monday, May 26, 2008, in Albuquerque.
In an interview today with the Associated Press, Senator and presumptive GOP nominee for President rips into Senator Barack Obama (the presumptive Democrat Presidential nominee) over the Iraq War.
Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together.
“Look at what happened in the last two years since Senator Obama visited and declared the war lost,” the GOP nominee-in-waiting told The Associated Press in an interview, noting that the Illinois senator’s last trip to Iraq came before the military buildup that is credited with curbing violence.
“He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time,” the Arizona senator added. “If there was any other issue before the American people, and you hadn’t had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly.”
McCain, a Navy veteran and Vietnam prisoner of war, frequently argues that he’s the most qualified candidate to be a wartime commander in chief. In recent weeks, he has sought portray Obama, a first-term senator, as naive on foreign policy and not as qualified to lead the military.
In time of war the American people will have to decide whether they want an experienced military commander or an inexperienced first term Senator who has never been in the armed services for President.
Obama can criticize the policies of President Bush but will have a harder time persuading voters that he is ready to be commander in chief – especially since McCain was critical of President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld early on in the war.
Advantage McCain.
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John McCain Watch: MoveOn.org Launches First Attack Ad
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The MORONS at MoveOn.org cannot get the McCain context right – same as the Democratic Party.
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Republican National Committee Asks Democrats to Pull 100 Years Iraq War Ad
Barack Obama Lying About John McCain and 100 Year Iraq War
John McCain Watch: The 100 Year Iraq War?
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Iran “Reminded” with Deployment of USS Abraham Lincoln
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates “REMINDS” Iran with a second carrier group in the Persian Gulf.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that sending a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf could serve as a “reminder” to Iran, but he said it is not an escalation of force.
Speaking to reporters after meeting with Mexican leaders, Gates said heightening U.S. criticism of Iran and its support for terrorist groups is not a signal that the administration is laying the groundwork for a strike against Tehran.
Still, he said Iran continues to back the Taliban in Afghanistan.
“I do not have a sense at this point of a significant increase in Iranian support for the Taliban and others opposing the government in Afghanistan,” Gates said. “There is, as best I can tell, a continuing flow, but I would still characterize it as relatively modest.”
In other words, the United States is now exposing the “PROXY WAR” which Iran has been conducting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The slow playing of an Iranian conflict MAY be drawing to a close.
Stay tuned………
Aircraft from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 fly in formation over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during an air power demonstration. Lincoln, embarked CVW-2, and the rest of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 9 are on a seven-month deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans, March 30, 2008Previous:
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Demands Azerbaijan Deliver Russian Nuclear Shipment
Shocker: Iran Threatens To Eliminate Israel
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Republican National Committee Asks Democrats to Pull 100 Years Iraq War Ad
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Ad from the Democrat Party
The Democrats and Democrat National Chairman Howard Dean are lying about John McCain again.
The Republican National Committee demanded Monday that television networks stop running a television ad by the Democratic Party that falsely suggests John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq.
The ad says President Bush has talked about staying in Iraq for 50 years, then plays a clip of McCain saying, “Maybe 100. That’d be fine with me.”
The announcer then says: “If all he offers is more of the same, is John McCain the right choice for America’s future?”
Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said the ad deliberately distorts what McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, said.
The committee’s chief counsel, Sean Cairncross, said he sent letters Monday to NBC, CNN and MSNBC insisting that they stop airing the commercial.
At issue is McCain’s answer, in January, to a question about Bush’s theory that troops could be in Iraq for 50 years.
McCain said: “Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, that’d be fine with me, and I hope it would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaida is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.”
Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said “there’s nothing false” about the ad.
Howard Dean is a lying POS. Read this AssHat.
And, pull the ad.
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Barack Obama Lying About John McCain and 100 Year Iraq War
John McCain Watch: The 100 Year Iraq War?
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Michael Ramirez on General David Petraeus’ Testimony Before Congress
Michael Ramirez parodies General David Petreaus’ testimony in the Senate today
Iraq Is Improving, But Gains ‘Fragile,’ Gen. Petraeus Says
Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker spoke directly to the next U.S. president Tuesday, giving a cautiously optimistic assessment of the situation in Iraq.
They just weren’t certain when they talked to the president.
Was it in the morning before a congressional panel that included Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.?
Or that afternoon when they spoke to another that included Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.In either case, the two top U.S. officials in Iraq said the military is making progress, with Petraeus calling for a halt in troop withdrawals to consolidate the surge’s gains. If carried out, the next president could enter office with more than 140,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq.
Actually, the decorum of the Senate and the Senate gallery was better than when General Petraeus testified last September. Remember when Moveon.org placed the General Betray US ad in the New York Times?
But, conditions on the ground are better in Iraq and Petraeus has done a remarkable job. Now, who will voters believe in November?
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United States Senate Condemns MoveOn.org Betray Us Ad
Rudy Giuliani Watch: Hillary Clinton Smeared General Petraeus
New York Times = Left Wing Fringe Rag
Senator John Ensign Calls on All Democrats to Return MoveOn.org Contributions