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Local pundit Jack Hunter a renews my faith that at least some conservatives can think for themselves.

Jack Hunter is a “conservative?” On what planet.

Writing in an alternative newspaper should have been your first clue that the guys been hitting the bong too much.

This should have been your second clue:

“America’s health and security depends on getting troops out of the Middle East as soon as possible.”

Only a Paulbot would say something so incredibly stupid. And Paulbots are NOT conservative, no matter how many times they say they are.

Try sticking to the topic at hand here Fit. If you want to post your own reader submission, send one in and let Curt decide whethter to print it or not. I’m in no mood to indulge your fantasies today.

There’s plenty of conservatives who oppose the war. You’re not as monolithic in thought as you think.

Yes the Paulbots, which are not conservative and Bob Bar, who is running on the Libertarian ticket. You might find a few herea and there that oppose the war. But the majority do, and see the consequences of leaving Iraq to the wolves.

Obama is about as bad as Kerry on his flip flopping on what he would do. It is like a playing roulette, you never know what is going to come out of his mouth next.

McCain won’t be one who can accuse anybody on flip-flopping. He’s got the phrase “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” tattooed on his chest.

Um we are not talking about McCain,we aretalking about Obama.

Whyis it everytime we get sidetracked. the post is about Obama, not McCain. I know McCain is aflip flopper also, but to compare him to what Obama has said over the past year on 1 subject is foolish. Have you seen how manydifferent versions of what Obama would do??? I mean it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see he has no clue of what he will say one day to the next. If itisn’twritten in a speech, Obama looks like a deer in the headlights. And do not dare ask him more than 8 questions also, or questions that aretough. Then you are considered racist.

No one’s ever been called a racist for asking tough questions.

Stix: You noticed that FF’s comments have been a deliberate attempt to hijack this thread and change the subject.

I suppose if McCain was a serial abuser of the facts, history and truth one of his supporters might do the same.

Fortunately, that’s not the case which is why my post makes such a stunning contrast that FF needs to try and muddy the water.

Hunter lost me as soon as he wrote “Michael Scheuer”… here’s my rant on this bozo from March. OBL ought to send the guy thank you cards for every year he was heading up the OBL task force!

I agree Mike. Almost every post either get hijacked by FF or one of the other hijacking trolls

No we don’t.

Oohhh… Shiney! Quick, look over there!

I am a Democrat. I am uneasy about Obama being our candidate. I supported Biden, Edwards, Dodd, and Clinton over Obama for the very reasons you outline. Obama is not ready for the world stage. We have a recession, two hot wars, one global intelligence war on organized terror, an international monetary crisis and a looming ecological calamity. I am torn as to how to vote. I disagree utterly with McCain on domestic issues and am not that confident as to his capacity to navigate the world’s mind field. But Obama is so much talk and so little of it seems grounded.

Say what you will about Hillary, but she’s tough and knows her stuff.
But she won’t be the nominee because……..we’re Democrats.

For months now, smug condescending, self righteous Obamabots have been calling for Senator Clinton to drop out. They have resorted to personal attacks, character assassination, and ugly insults, rather than addressing the issues … and, disregarding, and disrespecting the 17 million Clinton supporters, as if we don’t even exist, or don’t even count. If Obama wins the democratic nomination, I urge fellow Clinton supporters to respond by voting for John McCain in November, as well as voting the super delegates, who jumped Hillary’s ship, out of office.

The Obamanation will be lucky if many historically Democrat voters don’t start having severe buyer’s remorse when sHrillary doesn’t get the nod.

I am more than confident that McCain will welcome the votes of any Democrats who just cannot make themselves vote for their candidate.

There’s plenty of conservatives who oppose the war. You’re not as monolithic in thought as you think.

“conservatives = monlithic in thought” is one heck of an oxymoron. The GOP hasn’t been lockstep since Clinton’s impeachment.

Motu5: I feel your pain. Many of us had McCain down as our past choice too.

P.S. They just revised the economic growth indicators upward by another third of a point to 0.9% so that means we are NOT in a recession.

Words matter as we are learning with Obama.

Why do associations matter? Well, these are great examples. Because had Senator Obama been hanging around a broader, more educated, more exposed peer group during his twenties and thirties, his lack of knowledge about world history would have been teased out of him and he would have been forced to put up or shut up to fit in.
I suspect that if one draws up a list of the Obama associates one can trace back to a series of topics on which Mr. Obama will be very versed and uncharacteristically specific. I’ll take Marxism for $300.

MataHarley wrote:

Hunter lost me as soon as he wrote “Michael Scheuer”… here’s my rant on this bozo from March.

As I wrote on your post:

But polls show that the bedrock of support for militancy among the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims is the detestation of U.S. foreign policies.

A number of people all over the world express anti-American and anti-U.S. foreign policy grievances (that are skewed in perspective), yet they don’t go around blowing up innocent civilians to make the point.

Scheuer is nutty. Just because he was a CIA intell analyst and the “go-to” expert on bin Laden, who he failed to catch, doesn’t mean his perspective on the facts and the conclusions he’s drawn are the correct assessments to have. Just look at the number of “experts in their field” with credentials to flaunt, teaching at American Universities. How many Ward Churchills and Howard Zinns would you say have correct opinions from a lifetime of study in their field of expertise? Just because they studied “facts”, doesn’t mean they have sound opinions on the facts.

Scheuer is Ron Paul’s foreign policy expert. Yet Scheuer has also stated that now that we’re there, he wants us to win in Iraq, and I”m not so sure he was on board for endorsing Ron Paul.

Good post, Mike!

I read this article on Thursday by Karl Rove sequencing ol’ BO’s flip-flopping charades:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121201747075327643.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

By the way, is it just me or does that photo of BO with the cigarette hanging out of his mouth look like he’s been at a Black Jack table too long one night?! Probably not, of course, but just sort of has the look of some ’40’s gangsta movie.

SoCal: Thanks for the link to the Rove piece: The last two paragraphs sum up the Obama problem:

“…Mr. Obama’s problem is a campaign that’s personality-driven rather than idea-driven. Thus incidents calling into question his persona and character can have especially devastating consequences.

Stripped of his mystique as a different kind of office seeker, he could become just another liberal politician – only one who parses, evades, dissembles and condescends. That narrative is beginning to take hold. If those impressions harden into firm judgments, Mr. Obama will have a very difficult time in November.”