Maybe it’s because I’ve stopped reading transcripts of Obama’s speeches (I feel like I recite them it verbatim now), but I missed one glaringly bad history quote from Obama. Like to hear it? Here it goes:
In defending his stated intent to meet with America’s enemies without preconditions, Sen. Obama said: “I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did.”
Um, what? Since when did FDR or Truman talk to their enemies? For those who don’t remember or weren’t paying attention in history, FDR is the President that adpoted the idea of unconditional surrender in WWII and Truman is the President that ordered two atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan. And no, there was no summits or talks with other countries before those decisions were made. Kennedy at least talked to Khruschev about Soviet aggression, but that ended up doing more harm than good. RealClearPolitics has a much more detailed article on Obama’s reinterpretation of history, it’s worth the read.
So if Barack has been to 57 states, and there were two that his staff wouldn’t let him go to, that would mean there’s 59 states in the Union right? I’m going to throw in Florida and Michigan, two other states he wasn’t allowed to go to. That brings the total to 61 states. We are indeed a vast country. Much more vast than I had previously though.
For the record Barack, I think the number you were looking for was 46.
I guess I’m supposed to be shocked by this. Just like I was shocked that McCain didn’t vote for Bush in 2000.
Always the goods hosts, the McCains also invited us to spend the day with them, including for barbeque, a favorite of John’s. And as McCain flipped burgers, I could not help but ask his views about then candidate George W. Bush.
“He’s as dumb as a stump,” McCain offered. We then went on to discuss other matters (including Vietnam) but that quote remains seared in my memory.
WaPo ran a story yesterday detailing McCain’s involvement with land swaps in Arizona. Here’s McCain’s response, nothing out of the ordinary there. The only reason I post on this is that the New York Times tried to make hay with this story a few weeks ago and failed. Way to go WaPo, you’ve now been reduced to running with hashed over NYT stories that were non-news to begin with.
Obama finally has the trifecta: the most popular votes, the most pledged delegates, and the most superdelegate endorsements. Not that it changes a damn thing for the Democrats, Hillary still hasn’t dropped out and doesn’t seem to have any plan to do so anytime soon. The New York Times does point out that Hillary’s stump speeches aren’t as harsh as they used to be. Jockying for VP much?
The Obama camp’s first line of attack on McCain; bringing up things that were old news when McCain ran in 2000.
At a town hall this evening Senator Barack Obama was introduced by one of the superdelegates that endorsed him today in his flood of superdelegate gains. Oregon Congressman Pete DeFazio praised Obama and said that even though “pundits” may think differently Democrats would come together in November. He then quickly went after presumptive Republican nominee John McCain asking voters not to be “tempted” by McCain’s “Straight Talk Express.” He compared McCain to George Bush and Dick Cheney and even mentioned the Keating Five Scandal, “He says we need less regulation. Hello! Wall Street mortgage meltdown, Bear Stearns taxpayer bailout, Enron, but, you know, I guess maybe for a guy who was up to his neck in the Keating Five and savings and loan scandal–less regulation is better.”
McCain’s camp wasted no time with their comeback, Fox says they got the McCain email before Obama left the building.
“The truth is Barack Obama has pledged to increase taxes on American families, and his plans will make our struggling economy even worse. If Barack Obama is serious about addressing the economic downturn, why is he pledging to take more money out of the pockets of hardworking Americans?”
Wow, these chicks are really into Obama in his snazzy jeans.
I love how Obama is playing to then while “working”. Strike a pose Barack! Seriously though, how old are these women? I stopped doing that oogly “Oh my God get out of the way so I can see my crush” thing when I was 13.
H/T to Michelle Malkin, who I quote “threw up a little in my mouth” upon learning of this video’s existence.
