JOE WILSON: Obama's Shallow Credentials on National Security Are Dangerous for t

[Lord Undies]

This is getting almost too delicious to........

JOE WILSON: Obama's Shallow Credentials on National Security Are Dangerous for the Country
   
Claims of superior intuitive judgment by his campaign and by him are self-evidently disingenuous, especially in light of disclosures about his long associations with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Tony Rezko. But his assertions of advanced judgment are also ludicrous when the question of what Obama has accomplished in his four years in the Senate is considered.

As the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee subcommittee on Europe, he has not chaired a single substantive oversight hearing, even though the breakdown in our relations with Europe and NATO is harming our operations in Afghanistan. Nor did he take a single official trip to Europe as chairman. This is the sum total of his actions in the most important responsibility he has had in the Senate. What are his actual experiences that reassure us that when the phone rings at 3 a.m. he will know what to do, which levers of power to pull, or which world leaders he can count on?

Obama has stated that he will rely upon his advisers. But how will he know which ones to depend upon and how will he be able to evaluate what they say? Already, one of his chief foreign policy advisers, Samantha Power, has been compelled to resign for, among other indiscretions, honestly revealing on a British television program that Obama's public position on withdrawal from Iraq is not really his true position, nor does it reflect what he would do. Her gaffe exposed a vein of cynicism on national security. How confident can we be in his judgment? In fact, the hard truth is that he has no such experience.

Obama has tried to have it both ways on the issue of national security. On the one hand, he claims his intuition somehow would make him best equipped to handle the difficult challenges that face the next president. On the other hand, he tries to ridicule and dismiss as relatively insignificant the idea that actual experience with and intimate knowledge of foreign affairs and leaders, the U.S. military, the intelligence community, and the intricacies of diplomacy matter. He has even suggested that talking about the problems of national security amounts to exploitation of "fear." One of Obama's fervent supporters, a Harvard professor named Orlando Patterson, who has no expertise in foreign policy, wrote absurdly in a New York Times op-ed that the 3 a.m. ad wasn't about national security at all, but really a subliminal racist attack. Delusions aside, sometimes a discussion about national security is about national security.

There will, in fact, be 3 a.m. phone calls for the next president. They are not make believe. I have been there for such calls. The next president cannot be afraid or hesitant of handling the enormous national security crises that President Bush will leave behind. One thing is certain -- the calls will come. Obama has only an abdication of his chief senatorial responsibility as a basis for assessing what his judgment might be if and when the phone rings. Which of his shifting coterie of volatile advisers would he turn to? Will it be the one who repudiated his withdrawal plan, exposing his real intention, prior to being forced to resign? Or will it be those advisers who remained silent until politically convenient -- several years and several thousand lives after the shock and awe invasion, conquest and disastrous occupation of Iraq?

The calls are real and experience is real, too. The campaign might be treated as a game by the media, but those calls are serious, deadly serious.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-wilson/obamas-shallow...

Cali_Democrat (366 posts)        Fri Mar-21-08 10:40 PM
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1. I'm tired of this national security bullshit
   **** national security and **** YOU Joe Wilson.

And they're OFF!......ta da dunt ta da dunt ta da dunt dunt dunt.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5202272

The all knowing, all seeing "Ambassador" Joe Wilson has dissed the Magic Negro! 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Wilson is pitching for McCain?

[Carl]

Wow,it seem as though super spy girls husband has worn out his stay with many of the primitives.

[formerlurker]

The next president cannot be afraid or hesitant of handling the enormous national security crises that President Bush will leave behind.

Uh huh.

Of course Obama is ill suited for the position of president, and I think we all knew (or I would hope all knew) that he was never going to pull troops from Iraq, and neither will Hillary.  That said Joe, who the hell are you to even comment on anyone else's credentials you lying opportunist POS.

[TheSarge]

JOE WILSON: Obama's Shallow Credentials on National Security Are Dangerous for the Country

Well if anyone is an expert on "shallow credentials"...it's Joe Wilson.

[dandi]

All of their icons are dropping like flies, sacrificed on the altar of their Obama-god.

It's all about stimulus-response. They're the Pavlov's Dog of the political world.

[Wretched Excess]

that sound you just heard was joe wilson's 15 minutes of fame being slaughtered by an angry mob of metrosexuals and lesbians.

[franksolich]

cali  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-22-08 06:04 AM
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139. Joe Wilson is entitled to his opinion
   
and to be a Clinton attack dog, and I'm entitled to disagree with him and his role in Camp Clinton. And sadly, he looks desperate- like all of Camp Clinton. What a shambles.

You know, the cali primitive (not to be confused with the California cali quoted in the original post here), the cali primitive from Vermont, has turned out a major major disappointment for me.

I had determined the cali primitive to be a first-tier primitive--rankings based NOT upon ideology, but on personal character and personal accomplishments--but obviously I was in error.

A couple of months ago, I had to demote the legendary herb primitive (Mythsaje) from first-tier primitive to the lynch mob, the unterprimitiven, because of his lack of backbone, and now I have to demote the cali primitive from first-tier primitive to third-tier primitive. 

"Personality before Principle" seems to be the motto of the cali primitive.

I am truly saddened; I would like to promote a primitive once in a while, uplift a primitive, but damn, no matter how modest the expectations, the primitives always disappoint.