Pawlenty: Obama is risky

Take it from a guy in Minnesota. Pawlenty is the one who is risky. Twice elected with a votes from a minority of the electorate, he has continually resorted to wedge issues to keep himself on top of things. He apparently has not been comfortable running on the issues and his status as a “fiscal conservative” [which means no new state taxes, just more fees and more costs passed on to government at other levels] or constitutional conservative. He seems to have found it necessarily to go into immigrant bashing and micro-managing police departments and city councils to do so and has injected irrelevancies such as supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage, even though the governor has no role in Minnesota’s constitutional amendment process.

It seems that Senator Obama is described as having one of the most extreme positions that one can find when it comes to the issue of abortion….Normally, I can understand a lawyer’s dancing on the head of a pin for the sake of not wanting to undermine a future legal argument or position. However, regarding Senator Obama, some other details give me pause and raise questions about whether his stated motivation(s) can be trusted.
Obama Would Evidently Throw The Baby Out With The Bathwater found at:
http://zachjonesishome.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/obama-would-evidently-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater/

Capitol City Muser,

If you can think of a VP for McCain that has zero negative, please tell us all. I would love to be in on this amazing person.

My problem with Obama is not that he is risky. My problem with Obama is that he will say anything to get elected. He has no conviction. Obama went from bashing offshore drilling as a bad idea to liking it in less than 24 hours. Did he see the light. No. He saw the poll numbers. 72% of Americans want offshore drilling. If that doesn’t get people pause I don’t know what would.

If 72% of American felt that he should divorce his wife so they could elected him, I will bet that he would do it and not even blink an eye. In life you have to have something that you believe in. Obama believes in nothing other than saying what needs to be said to get the votes.

The risk is with McCain. His ties to the mob of Arizona make him subject to pressures to run the foreign policy for Cuba according to the needs of the mob to take over Havana.http://www.girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/02/john-mccain-and-mob.html <=McCain’s money

One approves torture of ‘suspects’ *McCain and one supports the complete restoration of the Constitution as it was passed down to us by our forefathers, including habeas corpus, your right to be charged with a crime, see the evidence and cross examine witnesses*(Obama). choose
And we were reminded this week, that McCain helped Bush in the run-up to the war, when McCain mumbled his lies about Iraq being the do-er of the Anthrax murders. Turns out to have been an inside job by US government scientists. Yet Mccain’s ‘sources’ told him to tell us on television it was those Iraqi’s. McCain is much deeper into the Bush Iraqi’s lies than many realize. There are still two months of this election to go. See the video of John McCain on the late night show, telling lies about Anthrax and Iraq in 2001.
He is being re-paid with this nomination. You dont have to vote for the liar though, even if the other one is handsome, well spoken, in shape, a Harvard graduate, A student, editor of the Harvard Law review and only have one white parent, and chose his religion as an adult and claims to be born-again and a celebrated person around the world.
You can choose instead, the adulterer, confessed in his bio, the one who crashed planes, and considered suicide after denouncing his country in propaganda movies for the communists.
And oh yes, one of them actually understands the economy, and it is not McCain. McCain says he doesnt understand the economy, so he has Sen. Gramm to make his decisions for him. Gramm is no longer the co-chair of the campaign, but he is still the authority for McCain’s points of view. Ask Rick Davis the manager of the campaign. McCain doesnt speak for his own campaign. HE IS A PUPPET. For whom?

The lack of independent fact checking in this article is astonishing. To whoever wrote it: Reprinting other peoples unverified claims in “quotes” when you could easily verify them independently is sloppy journalism.

Not impressed.

Governor Pawlenty is right.

Electing Senator Obama is way too risky. He has practically no political experience! If he became president, he would have to face all sorts of decisions – whether or not to pull out of Iraq; how to deal with Islamoterrorists; how to work with this economy. The list goes on and on.

I want someone who knows what they’re doing in the White House – John McCain!

Mac ‘n Mike ’08 !

Aren’t you people aware that McCain flip-flopped on off shore drilling and has since racked in the bucks? Research people, research.

On June 16 Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) offered “a bit of a capitulation to the oil companies” by announcing that he would end the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. Not only is McCain’s move a break with environmental activist, but it is also “a reversal of the position he took in his 2000 presidential campaign.” The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank writes:

During his last run for the presidency, in 1999, McCain supported the drilling moratorium, and he scolded the “special interests in Washington” that sought offshore drilling leases. Yesterday, he announced that those very same “moratoria should be lifted” and proposed incentives for the states “in the form of tangible financial rewards, if the states decide to lift those moratoriums.”

In 2000, McCain promised to “never lose sight” of fundamental principles on the issue.

What did this get for John McCain? Money, money, money

A new report by Campaign Money Watch shows that contributions to McCain from Big Oil skyrocketed directly following his June speech in Houston, when he pledged his support of offshore drilling before an audience oil executives. The report notes:

In Texas alone, June oil and gas-connected donations to McCains Victory 08 Fund, his hybrid fundraising venture with the RNC and state committees, reached $1,214,100.

Of that total, $881,450, or 73 percent, came after June 15. McCain announced his position in favor of offshore drilling on June 16.

Some say Obama is risky. Here’s an interesting comparison from The Jerusalem Post of interviews with McCain and Obama. I bet we agree that Israel is one of those places that will require understanding, analysis and a thoughtful approach.

The Jerusalem Post interviewed Obama while he was in Israel for an article entitled “Obama on Iran, Syria, and Jerusalem.”

They open the article with a comparison of Obama to their previous interviews with Bush and McCain. I’ll only list what they said about McCain and Obama since Bush is irrelevant.

Pay particular attention to what the columnist says about McCain and McCain’s interaction with Lieberman. And he uses the word “flummoxed.”

On McCain
In March, on his whirlwind visit to Israel, Republican presidential nominee John McCain, one of whose primary strengths is said to be his intimate grasp of foreign affairs, chose to bring along Sen. Joe Lieberman to the interview our diplomatic correspondent Herb Keinon and I conducted with him, looked to Lieberman several times for reassurance on his answers and seemed a little flummoxed by a question relating to the nuances of settlement construction.

For Obama, pay particular attention to the last sentence in the second paragraph. .

On Obama
On Wednesday evening, toward the end of his packed one-day visit here, Barack Obama, the Democratic senator who is leading the race for the White House and who lacks long years of foreign policy involvement, spoke to The Jerusalem Post with only a single aide in his King David Hotel room, and that aide’s sole contribution to the conversation was to suggest that the candidate and I switch seats so that our photographer would get better lighting for his pictures.

Several of Obama’s Middle East advisers – including former Clinton special envoy Dennis Ross and ex-ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer – were hovering in the vicinity. But Obama, who was making only his second visit to Israel, knew precisely what he wanted to say about the most intricate issues confronting and concerning Israel, and expressed himself clearly, even stridently on key subjects.
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God forbid this information would be repeated over and over on the cable shows. It would certainly give citizens a true picture of Obama unlike the endless loop of the McCain’s lying ad and “why isn’t Obama doing better in the polls.” Maybe if people knew this kind of information, he would be doing better in the polls.

Instead of any discussion of competence the discussion is that Obama’s too arrogant – he’s presumptuous, even too presidential. God forbid we have a competent President.

Which of these men do you want to control the future of the country? God help us if you say McCain.

Link:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1215331099249&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The role of the Iowa Independent is to escape the conventional political narrative which is so often driven by Republican talking points. The role of McSame surrogates is to employ those talking points to drive the press to deliver the Republican line.

The current narrative is that the election is a referendum on Obama, and he is unknown, uppity, inexperienced, etc. You fell for it by running this story without pointing out that Pawlenty is just parroting the party line. Your headline says exactly what it would say if it were written by McSame himself

Honestly, I am left scratching my head at why someone with such a shady reputation as Gov. Pawlenty would put himself under such a microscope by trash talking the Democratic candidate.

I dont believe he will be taken as the GOP VP, I just think there are too many skeletons in the closet