“…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.”

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

Oohhh… Shiney! Quick, look over there!