Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee. It's official. Let the national campaign begin. It seems to me that John McCain will have to do better than to attack Barack's willingness to meet with foreign leaders who disagree with US policy. It is a pathetic and windless tack.
What will John McCain argue that Barack risks by meeting with such foreign leaders?
· Barack Obama will lend credibility to our enemies – This argument assumes that the office of the president is similar to the Pope, in that he confers a sort of holy presence. The President doesn't and if John McCain thinks he does, especially after eight years of George W., he has been in D.C. too long already.
· Barack Obama will become brainwashed by people like the president of Iran – I doubt that Barack will come to believe that the Holocaust is a fake or that there are no homosexuals in Iran because he sits down to tea with the little Members Only-wearing freaklet from Iran.
· By meeting with Fidel's brother Raul, Barack Obama will become convinced that violent overthrow of the US government is necessary to allow for the legal importation of Cuban cigars – Barack is a smoker, he must want to open the Cuban cigar market for the cigar-smoking public, even the country club Republicans must appreciate that.
· Barack Obama will waste valuable time in office talking to foreign leader nut jobs when he could better spend his time meeting with people like Senator Craig from Idaho – Well he might have a point here because it's quite possible to spend an entire term as president just meeting with the nut jobs inside the US. Case in point, whatever happened to Ralph Reed who was the young Republican darling of the Christian Coalition? Oh yeah, I recall, implicated in the Jack Abramhoff stuff, no need to talk to him.
· Barack Obama won't be able to hold his own in a conversation – Come on, he went to Harvard and he's a lawyer, give me a friggin' break.
· Barack Obama will harm the credibility of the US by talking to the opposition – Can we take a poll on the international creditability of the US please after 8 years of George W.? I think the world is more frightened of the US, but do we have more credibility? I want to see the poll numbers. Also, if Obama wants to avoid the vicious attacks of the opposition he should avoid the conservatives, just listen to Rush sometime.
· Barack Obama will hurt the opposition movements to leaders like the North Korean, the spoiled little fat kid with bad hair whose daddy created the Chronicles of Narnia story for him as the spawn of the sun God (and gulper of American Whiskey) – Don't we expect our children to talk out their problems and only fight when backed into a corner? Even with the crazy little SOB's?
· Barack will be persuaded to allow foreign countries to engage in activities harmful to Americans and their interests – So after getting into the most powerful job in the world he is going to compromise his newfound influence? I just don't think so.
What will the new campaign bring? Will real issues be discussed or will there simply be innuendo and character assassination? Perhaps it is more likely that the candidates will avoid ideas that matter and choose instead to hide in the smoke and mirrors that obscure their lack of understanding or their ability to articulate solutions.
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