I will try to stay off the gutter mouth this week. I said "try". The idiot Odumbo will make it difficult, not to mention the in-the-tank-media.
This first story will test me
Let me reiterate TRY.
Obama's Balancing Act Abroad; July 21, 2008; CBS Evening News
(biting tongue) Since all 3 major networks have sent their anchors along with Odumbo, you sorta wonder of the objectivity of the reporting. This empty suit Obama is all over the news. Speaking of "all over", he's all over every issue from 7 different ways from Sunday.
This week is more than a series of photo ops. Barack Obama hopes to convince voters back home that he's comfortable on the world stage and can juggle a number of delicate and potentially explosive foreign-policy issues, CBS News anchor Katie Couric reports.
Not to mention his vast experience of 145 days. McModerate is almost as many years old as Odumbo has in days of senate experience.
During the primaries, Obama built his candidacy on the premise that he believed the Iraq War was a mistake he opposed all along. As he said: "a war that never should have been authorized. A war that I believe should never should have been waged."
Quick, call on Lurch John Kerry for help. He will show you how to balance that off.
"What he has to do is pull off two difficult tricks," said CBS News consultant Richard Haass. "One is to be sympathetic to the troops there. At the same time, he's been critical of the policy. And secondly, he has to show some consistency with his policy. At the same time, he has to adapt to change. Pulling that off is obviously the political challenge in the immediate time frame that he faces."
That should not be a problem for the godlike Obama, should it? He has more than 200 people fawning over him on this photo op journey.
Obama says he'd withdraw most U.S. troops from Iraq within the first 16 months of his presidency. But later he gave himself flexibility by saying that after he talked to commanders on the ground he would "refine" his policies.
I chose the intro of 7 different ways from Sunday by no accident. This guy reserves the right to modify his position a few more times.
Not only did Obama oppose the war, he opposed the surge - the addition of some 30,000 troops last year - saying it wouldn't work.
As a matter of fact, he was dead wrong on everything, but what are a few miscalculations anyway?
For the first time in years, there are some glimmers of hope in the Arab-Israeli stalemate.
A virtual ceasefire between Israel
and Hamas
A prison exchange with Hezbollah
The beginning of low-level talks
between Israel and Syria
All that as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been shuttling to the region to try to broker a peace deal in the final months of the Bush Administration.
Wait a minute. You mean George Bush actually has been trying to do something?
"As far as the Middle East is concerned, should Obama be elected, he won't have 100 days of mercy. The issues are burning, they are critical, they need experience, they need deep wisdom - simplistic ideas, slogans will not work here," said Haaretz columnist Ari Shavit.
Good gosh, based on that alone, they don't need Barrack Hussein Obama. Maybe he can give you his "Change you can believe in" speech. But then again, he might reserve to refine his position on that too.
A real crisis for Obama to handle
Perhaps I have been a bit harsh on Mr. Obama. He might have the wear-withall to get into the real fray on a REAL issue for his immediate attention.
Dead Penguins Washing Ashore In Brazil; July 18, 2008; CBSNews.com
This has all the makings of a big time crisis. Death, destruction, mayhem and immediate attention required.
Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.
I'll bet you can even get some mileage out of that famous democrap mantra, "For the Children".
More than 400 penguins, most of them young, have been found dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro state over the past two months, according to Eduardo Pimenta, superintendent for the state coastal protection and environment agency in the resort city of Cabo Frio.
Most of them young.....
Experts are divided over the possible causes.
Isn't that always the case in times of crisis? Trust me, they threw it all in this article -- pollution, global warming, over-fishing... you name it.
Every year, Brazil airlifts dozens of penguins back to Antarctica or Patagonia.
And every year these damn birds are still a nuisance. There is no shortage of penguins. Only a shortage of air travel space. Odumbo has all the planes tied up in his photo op tour of the Middle East. Poor little pengies.
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