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Health Care - March 2010 Vote

Do you think Congress will pass the current form of the Health Care bill this week?

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Senior Intelligence Officials: Attempted Terror Attack "Certain"

The five senior leaders of the U.S. intelligence community told a Senate panel they are "certain" that terrorists will attempt another attack on the United States in the next three to six months.

If true, why do you think the jihadists feel emboldened?

The Obama administration is seen as weak against terrorism.
Its continued backlash against the policies of the former Bush administration.
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May 12, 2008

Exclusive: Obama Claims McCain is 'Losing His Bearings.'

KT McFarland

Despite all of his glowing speeches about running a different kind of campaign, Sen. Obama has taken off the gloves and started slinging the mud. Not only is this hypocritical but it is just plain dumb.

In case you missed it, last week Sen. Obama accused John McCain of "losing his bearings" because McCain quoted a Hamas leader who said Hamas would welcome Obama's election as president.

Note - Obama didn't say McCain was lying, or wrong, or dissembling - because he wasn't.McCain was merely quoting a senior Hamas political advisor, Ahmed Yousef, who on April 13th said, "...Actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election."

Now, if a world leader Americans respected, like the British Prime Minister or German Chancellor, had endorsed him, Obama's people would have made campaign commercials about it. But a terrorist leader? Sen. Obama wants to run as far away from that endorsement as he can.

So what does Obama do? Does he deal with it by talking about his foreign policy aims? No. Standing behind his promise to meet "face to face" with leaders like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea's Kim Jong Il, and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez? No.Discussing how he plans to stand up to rogue states, radical Islam, and terrorists?No.

Instead, Sen. Obama questions his opponent's mental stability for daring to criticize Obama's record. Sen. Obama has built his campaign around his promise to conduct a new brand of politics, of preaching the high road and calling for civility.But he doesn't practice what he preaches. He only expects his opponents to practice it. If they don't, he attacks them, distorts their records and sends out surrogates to question their integrity.And, by so doing, Sen. Obama practices the oldest political trick in the book - hypocrisy.

And what was Obama implying when he claimed McCain was "losing his bearings?"That McCain is too old to make good judgments? That he is some doddering old fool out of touch with reality?

That's just plain dumb. Anyone who watched Sen. McCain's Mother's Day commercial, which featured his very sane, with it, 96-year-old mother, has to realize that McCain has inherited an exceptional set of genes.

Or, put his age into perspective.Great Britain recently voted Winston Churchill the greatest Briton of all time. But Churchill was older than McCain when he saved his country from Hitler. How about President Reagan, who was older than McCain when he turned around the American economy and won the Cold War?

The age issue could well backfire on Obama. When Reagan was running for reelection his opponent implied he was too old to be President. Reagan dismissed the argument, and the opponent, when he joked "I promise not to make my opponent's youth and inexperience an issue in this campaign."Can you imagine how devastating that comment would be if McCain used it against Sen. Obama?

Perhaps Obama wasn't referring to McCain's age when he accused him of "losing his bearings." Perhaps he was referring to the five years McCain spent in a North Vietnamese prison camp, being tortured and beaten.Was Obama implying that being a POW makes McCain mentally unfit for the Presidency?Is Obama so out of touch with the average American that he thinks being a war hero is something to be scoffed at?

Sen. Obama has made much of his wisdom and good judgment, claiming they are more important than experience.He used this argument against Sen. Clinton and is now using it against Sen. McCain. But is it good judgment to criticize someone for putting his life on the line to defend his country?Is it good judgment that at the same time he belittles McCain he befriends William Ayers, an avowed and unrepentant 1960s radical who targeted American civilians and blew up buildings?

Is it good judgment to sit in the congregation of Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years listening to rants about the U.S. government inventing AIDS to kill black people, or saying Americans brought the September 11th attacks on themselves?

Is it good judgment to offer to meet face to face, without preconditions, with some of the most dangerous leaders on the planet, like Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who continually claims he wants to wipe Israel and America off the face of the earth?

The average American is sick of hypocrisy and name-calling and negative campaigning. That is why Obama's speeches have struck such resonance with the American people. But talking about something isn't the same thing as actually doing it.

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