Who has had the right judgement on Iraq? Obama

Who was right about Afghanistan? Obama

Who was right that talking to Iran rather then just bombing them was a better idea? Obama

Who said the gas tax "holiday" was a gimmick that would do little to lower prices? Obama

Who has proposed $500 per person rebates to American taxpayers that would be funded by a windfall profits tax on oil corporations? Obama

Who has proposed $150 billion in alternative energy investment to give us true energy independence, create jobs in this country and lower our greenhouse gas emmisions? Obama

"Who has proposed $500 per person rebates to American taxpayers that would be funded by a windfall profits tax on oil corporations?"

Ummm.... Karl Marx?

His proposition for tax rebates to citizens from windfall profits on oil is as stupid as W's "stimulus checks" (borrowed from our grandchildren, via China.) Your post as a whole would be stronger and more convincing without that. We should definitely make sure that energy companies making vast profits pay the appropriate taxes (as already defined in the tax code) but the federal government is not a bloody ATM.

We need to staunch the flow of blood AND money in Iraq to reduce our government's expenses of soldiers, money and our (largely former!) good name around the world. We need to slash the rampant waste in our government WITHOUT leaving the poor even worse-off than they are now, and we need to work toward reducing our towering national debt rather than following the idiotic neocon direction of just bankrupting the government so it can't actually do anything.

Who decided the thing to do is stand before 250K screaming Germans (I'll pause because even 1 screaming German is too many screaming Germans) and get the media equivalent of a blow job from folks who cannot vote for you?

Meanwhile, McCain bumbles around a supermarket but his team is producing a commercial that liken you favorably to a woman whose greatest accomplishment is flashing her cooch for the paparazzi?

Apart from betting the farm on the caucus system in some states, please tell me when Obama's "superior" judgement has paid off in practical terms.

Note how Obama started losing once HRC got with the fucking program and realized the country was on to Sen. Fake-It before she was.

Apart from betting the farm on the caucus system in some states, please tell me when Obama's "superior" judgement has paid off in practical terms.

His superior judgment on not invading Iraq would have paid off had we followed that course of action.

Every time I hear someone cutting down Obama because he went to a private high school, and has an ivy league education, I find it amazing that they completely overlook McCain's upper middle class rearing, his prestigious military education, his high annual salary, and his seven homes. Obama wrote a book to buy his house. McCain married for his houses.

What these folks are REALLY saying is that he doesn't know his place. How dare he work hard and succeed! Shame on him! It is downright UNAMERICAN!

progressivebulldog you are a plant from the McCain campaign right.

The lies of W showed we should go to war, Obama was against it. The facts tied to the Surge strategy suggests that it was a success, he says it was not and would still oppose it, suggesting that it had not desirable effects.

Afghanistan - wasn't he leading the committee that covered that country. Never had a meeting and just recently discovered there might be a problem there. Way to do your job Obama.

Tax holiday was a gimmick. And now he wants the release of oil for the reserve. That is not a gimmick?

Refund on the backs of the oil companies and their huge 9% profit. If that isn't about as anti-capitalism as you can get I do not know what is. I agree that Karl Marx must be smiling down at his disciple. If this plan does not give you a cold chill down your spin you clearly are without a clue. Does any one suspect that this is a way to buy votes. Why bother with a measly 16 cents a gallon. Obama talks about giving away some real money.

According to his original plan our oil dependency would be dropped by 30% by the year 2030. Now he is saying that without increasing our production in the US we will not need foreign oil in 10 years. Now that is a feat I want to see explained.

Alternative energy is a good thing but I just cannot wait to see how these environmentalists do gyrations as we build all these windmills in remote locations in the numbers required, not to mention the many power plants and lines needed to carry them from the windmills to where it could be used. I am all for moving away from oil but it is so pervasive in all aspects of this country that suggesting that we won't need it in 10 years is just a lie.

Obama wants to tax and tax and tax and that will fix things. When was the last time you saw the government do a good job. I think they are important to fund some things were a clear benefit does not exist in the short term but I think the market will jump in as Oil becomes less and less of a low cost source of energy. The reasons other technologies have not begun to take over is because they cannot be cost competitive.

Thanks for all the reasons why Obama is a joke.

Richmond:

Who decided the thing to do is stand before 250K screaming Germans (I'll pause because even 1 screaming German is too many screaming Germans) and get the media equivalent of a blow job from folks who cannot vote for you?

Meanwhile, McCain bumbles around a supermarket but his team is producing a commercial that liken you favorably to a woman whose greatest accomplishment is flashing her cooch for the paparazzi?

Apart from betting the farm on the caucus system in some states, please tell me when Obama's "superior" judgement has paid off in practical terms.

Note how Obama started losing once HRC got with the fucking program and realized the country was on to Sen. Fake-It before she was.

And yet despite your disdain for him, he managed to win the nomination even though the media was ready to call it a done deal for Hillary back in January. Funny, isn't it?

And the German speech accomplished its goal, which was to make him look presidential while McCain looks like a produce clerk.

Apart from betting the farm on the caucus system in some states, please tell me when Obama's "superior" judgement has paid off in practical terms.

Iraq: Obama said we should withdraw our troops. The Iraqi government agrees. McCain (belatedly) has too.

Afghanistan: Obama said that this was the central front in the so called "war on terrorism" and that we needed more troops there. McCain (belatedly) agreed.

Iran and Syria: Obama said that it was wise to talk with our enemies while Bush and McCain said that this was akin to Nazi appeasement. Now Bush is sending diplomatic missions to IRAN and SYRIA.

McCain's gas tax holiday: Obama said that this was a gimmick. That savings would be minimal and take away needed highway funds. Obama said that once prices rose people would drive less and prices would adjust. This is exactaly what happened.

As for the windfall tax rebate? It would probably be better to use the windfall tax to fund alternative energy directly but if we ARE giving "stimulus" checks I'd much rather the money comes form part of Exxon's profits then just being borrowed from China.

you just cannot get off this race thing can you. He wrote the book on some one Else's money. He was being paid for his time as he wrote the book.

Can't you accept that to many people a person who spends his life in private school, then goes to an Ivy League school has had a life that is considered elite. Most of us never had that chance.

McCain did not exactly have the life full of struggle either but to suggest that Obama has had a hum drum run of the mill life is idiotic.

It is elite no matter what race he wants to call himself. Most of us never had a hope of what he has had for most of his life.

Why is elite bad?

Why do some people want to be lead by mediocre people?

Greatbear isn't it funny how Hillary ended up with more votes Than Obama while the press was calling for her to get out of the race when she got the bulk of her votes. How Obama essentially had the race wrapped up and she still kicked his butt in state after state. She had quite a finish didn't she.

If you want a president talking to a foreign population and telling them how bad our country is then Obama is the guy. I think his drop in the polls show that a lot of people feel it did not look very presidential. Guess they felt it just looked dumb.

You may feel so proud that the Obama campaign is so polished and always presents a picture that is without flaws. Could that mean staged, not real, a facade. It is clear that McCain is just being McCain, flaws and all.

Greatbear isn't it funny how Hillary ended up with more votes Than Obama while the press was calling for her to get out of the race when she got the bulk of her votes.

No. That is false.

The only way Clinton can claim to have won the popular vote is if you count both Florida and Michigan and give no "uncommitted" votes in MI to Obama.

See link below whihc details popular vote in 2008 Dem Primary:

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People who resent Obama's opportunities are resenting his intellect and discipline. Anyone with a brain as good as his, anyone with the self discipline to study, can do what he did. Yet people who either couldn't, or wouldn't, study and work hard begrudge those who do. It is so much easier to attack someone their successes than to analyze one's own failures.

No One is Superior to any other human being but, I believe Hillary was and still is the best qualified for the job. Sexism and the DNC threw her overboard for racism and politics.

Elitism and racist white guilt will not play well here in Ohio.