Obama Hits Below The Belt

[Sallow]

If you're a Democrat you know you messed up when even HuffPo calls you on it.
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Jon Ward
[email protected]

WASHINGTON -- The Obama campaign's bin Laden ad, which has stirred a fierce debate, looks to some like a hit below the belt, using a questionable premise to make a political argument that Democrats can be just as tough in dealing with the nation's enemies as Republicans.

Critics, including Huffington Post Media Group Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington, have said President Barack Obama is inappropriately politicizing a grave matter of national security.

However, two days after Romney made the comments in 2007 that were reported by Reuters, he expanded on his answer during a debate in Iowa hosted by ABC News. His answer to ABC's George Stephanopoulos -– "We keep our options quiet" -– indicated that the objection to Obama's comments about Pakistan was not something that would constrain him from acting, but rather a choice of how to conduct diplomacy.

"It’s wrong for a person running for the president of the United States to get on TV and say, 'We’re going to go into your country unilaterally.' Of course, America always maintains our option to do whatever we think is in the best interests of America. But we don’t go out and say, 'Ladies and gentlemen of Germany, if ever there was a problem in your country, we didn’t think you were doing the right thing, we reserve the right to come in and get them out.'
"We don’t say those things. We keep our options quiet. We do not go out and say to a nation which is working with us, where we have collaborated and they are our friend and we’re trying to support Musharraf and strengthen him and his nation, that instead that we intend to go in there and potentially bring out a unilateral attack.

That..right there..

Was the Bush Doctrine.

And in what way has it been reversed by the Boiking?....Oh, not at all.

Like the shit economy, he owns it now.

Which country did Obama send ground troops out to, to, you know, knock over? Like Iraq? And include with it a nation building adventure. Thus far..Obama's policy has been to clean up after Bush's messes and kill terrorists..like Bin Laden and Gaddafi.

Go on.

 

[jillian]

If you're a Democrat you know you messed up when even HuffPo calls you on it.
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Jon Ward
[email protected]

WASHINGTON -- The Obama campaign's bin Laden ad, which has stirred a fierce debate, looks to some like a hit below the belt, using a questionable premise to make a political argument that Democrats can be just as tough in dealing with the nation's enemies as Republicans.

Critics, including Huffington Post Media Group Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington, have said President Barack Obama is inappropriately politicizing a grave matter of national security.

However, two days after Romney made the comments in 2007 that were reported by Reuters, he expanded on his answer during a debate in Iowa hosted by ABC News. His answer to ABC's George Stephanopoulos -– "We keep our options quiet" -– indicated that the objection to Obama's comments about Pakistan was not something that would constrain him from acting, but rather a choice of how to conduct diplomacy.

"It’s wrong for a person running for the president of the United States to get on TV and say, 'We’re going to go into your country unilaterally.' Of course, America always maintains our option to do whatever we think is in the best interests of America. But we don’t go out and say, 'Ladies and gentlemen of Germany, if ever there was a problem in your country, we didn’t think you were doing the right thing, we reserve the right to come in and get them out.'
"We don’t say those things. We keep our options quiet. We do not go out and say to a nation which is working with us, where we have collaborated and they are our friend and we’re trying to support Musharraf and strengthen him and his nation, that instead that we intend to go in there and potentially bring out a unilateral attack.

interesting concept...

jon ward covered the white house for the rightwingnut rag, the wash times.

but you can pretend he's a leftie because he's in huffington post.

i find it amusing that the right is so offended by the use of the success in offiing bin laden.

know what i have to say to that? too bad.

if it offends them so much, it means it's effective. *shrug*

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Obama Hits Below The Belt

If you're a Democrat you know you messed up when even HuffPo calls you on it.
*****************************************************
Jon Ward
[email protected]

WASHINGTON -- The Obama campaign's bin Laden ad, which has stirred a fierce debate, looks to some like a hit below the belt, using a questionable premise to make a political argument that Democrats can be just as tough in dealing with the nation's enemies as Republicans.

Critics, including Huffington Post Media Group Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington, have said President Barack Obama is inappropriately politicizing a grave matter of national security."

Yeah....let's try to ignore The Mitt's rhetoric.

After all, he IS.....

....a CEO!!!!!!

 

[Unkotare]

High Holy Bishop Theocrat Willard Mitt Romney used his holy powers to dissolve the jobs of the many..while making the holy few..very rich. High Holy Bishop Theocrat Willard Mitt Romney pondered why so much money was being used to capture or kill one of the worst terrorists this country has ever known..and said he wouldn't have bothered.

Now High Holy Bishop Theocrat Willard Mitt Romney is a changin' his homily saying "Why of course I would..even Jimmy Carter would.."

High Holy Bishop Theocrat Willard Mitt Romney is perfection in his flip floppery.

From all the Bigotry she's swallowed, it looks like Swallow has found a new client in JoeB.

 

[Unkotare]

That..right there..

Was the Bush Doctrine.

And in what way has it been reversed by the Boiking?....Oh, not at all.

Like the shit economy, he owns it now.

Which country did Obama send ground troops out to, to, you know, knock over? Like Iraq? And include with it a nation building adventure. Thus far..Obama's policy has been to clean up after Bush's messes and kill terrorists..like Bin Laden and Gaddafi.

Go on.

And Swallow keeps swallowing...

 

[Oddball]

That..right there..

Was the Bush Doctrine.

And in what way has it been reversed by the Boiking?....Oh, not at all.

Like the shit economy, he owns it now.

Which country did Obama send ground troops out to, to, you know, knock over? Like Iraq? And include with it a nation building adventure. Thus far..Obama's policy has been to clean up after Bush's messes and kill terrorists..like Bin Laden and Gaddafi.

Go on.

Gaddafi was Chimpola's mess?

Go on.

 

[The Rabbi]

Success has many father, failure is an orphan.

Article on op ed of WSJ this AM. Obama may not want quite that much scrutiny. The order he gave basically says if the op went well, he'd get the credit. If it failed, it would be someone else's fault.
Biden admitted he wouldn't have sent the SEALs in.
Has any president taken as much credit for the actions of others? No. Never. In history.
And he's doing it because he has nothing else to run on.