Seminal Watercooler – Senator Obama vs. President Obama |
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| By: Jim Moss Monday November 30, 2009 7:00 pm | |
Tomorrow night, President Obama unveils and defends his strategy for escalating the war in Afghanistan. Tonight, enjoy this rebuttal by Senator Obama, originally pronounced against George Bush’s 2007 announcement of the surge strategy in Iraq. (Here’s the full video of Senator Obama’s remarks.)
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We forgot that the Senate is full uf the most useless, self inflated, egotistical, idiots on the planet.
By this we elected one of them President, and should be taught a great lesson by it.
Snnators are slightly lower than garden slugs, and slightly less intelligent than a omeba. Yet we treat them as our greatest leaders.
Our Country might well save itself by doing away with the Senate, but that is unlikely because we still believe it is a great thing.
Except that Obama has always said that he favored going after Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and that we should have concentrated on that instead of invading Iraq. If Bush hadn’t let bin Laden escape at Tora Bora, this would be a moot issue.
as usual jim another terrific point you make here
During the campaign Obama did keep repeating that the “right” war was in Afghanistan. While I do not agree. He did not hide that he thought we should be in Afghanistan
That is true – which means that Obama really has to explain how Afghanistan is different from Iraq.
Unfortunately, Obama’s election has exposed him to be just another con-man, albeit a prettier one, and one with a much better ability to spin things than his predecessors.