Comments on: Advice for Obama

By: Ball

Ball — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:38:27 +0000

…suppose Obama becomes someone other than Obama…

Give me a break!

I’m not voting for Barak McClinton, who voted for the USA PATRIOT Act and Iraq war funding.

What is this, antiwar.com or moveon.org?

By: Sinisa

Sinisa — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:37:11 +0000

That is my big fear. There are powerful interests that could make life very, very hard for him, to say the least.

By: Mooser

Mooser — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:09:13 +0000

If Obama is elected, he will have no choice but to move to the left.
If you were CIA, or a contractor, would you waterboard for Obama? I don’t think so! Would you eavesdrop for Obama? I doubt it! In fact, you would be very afraid to do anything which was not completely defensible on legal and moral grounds. Would you trust Obama to cover and pardon your lawbreaking? I very much doubt it.
Obama has only one possible route to success. He must clean out all the neo-cons, theo-cons, incompetents and crooks in the federal government and the Armed Forces, lest they come after him, and make governing impossible, or worse.
The latest reports are that Obama cannot even trust the Secret Service to adequately protect him.
Do you think the right is ready to cozy up to him? I doubt it.

By: Sinisa

Sinisa — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:46:20 +0000

I would prefer Ron Paul to Obama but the priority now has to be stop Madman McCain. Also, there is a chance that Obama, once in office, would do a Jimmy Carter and take a much more even-handed approach to the Middle East.

By: Kirk Hayes

Kirk Hayes — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:36:21 +0000

Obama is a Democrat, which is to say he is a socialist. The peace “dividend”, rather than being kept by those from whom it is confiscated, will more than likely be spent “for the greater good”, a truly socialist phrase and undertaking. Anyone holding their breath on this one will certainly turn blue.

The above “peace dividend” tripe assumes he would, indeed, take us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the friends of socialists have not had their chance to profiteer, unlike the friends of the fascists, we will be in those two hellholes longer. After all, fair is fair and one side cannot profiteer without the other side having their chance.

By: wellbasically

wellbasically — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:06:37 +0000

The stock market is pricing in Obama’s victory and a repeal of Bush’s investment tax cuts.

As for the real economy, Greenspan and Bernanke killed it with eight interest rate hikes. (They meant to kill it, that’s why they raise rates.) But forget Ron Paul figuring that out, he was totally addled.

By: Tim R.

Tim R. — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:21:14 +0000

I agree with you R. Nelson, Bush and the Republicans have been full of crap on this issue as well. Congressman Tom Tancredo was the only one who stood up against it.

By: Madrid

Madrid — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:20:34 +0000

If Hillary gets the nomination, I will vote third-party or not vote. If Obama gets the nomination, whether I vote for him depends on how much sucking up he does to the Israel-firsters in this country.

By: Jonathan M.

Jonathan M. — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:34:31 +0000

Tim R., you obviously need to get laid. If you think there should be a border fence, then you should also advocate that there should be a block on capital flows between the US and Mexico. Or do you think capital should have more rights than people?

By: lester

lester — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:41:22 +0000

I saw my first democratic debate last night, or half of it. Hillary was awful. If you haven’t seen her action you should watch. She’s very very over rated in my opinion. She would make a great communist. She has the most ambitious agenda ever, all of it well outside the perview of the government of the constitution. Obama was excellent. He at least bears a passing resemblence to a sensible person.

put it this way: i would actually vote for mcain over hillary.