you’ll see the proof of majority disapproval come November, just like you saw it over Al Qaeda’s edorsement of Ketchup Kerry in 2006.

The fact that you support the same candidate America’s enemies do says all there is to know about you. Don’t lump Japan in with Hamas, France and the UN, by the way.

Hamas now owns the Psuedostinian territories. How’s that for reasoning ability? Senator Obama is a weakling sympathetic to their cause and worse. He proposed sending American troops to Israel to protect the Psuedostinian terrorist culture from the mean ol’ Jews.

Words matter.

The majority of American voters care about Hamas’ endorsement. Do you have proof of this?

Me personally, I don’t take any stock in what any foreign government or organization has to say about our election. Forget about terrorist scum like Hamas. I don’t care what France, Japan, the UN, or anybody else has to say. Only our voters.

Even if Hamas endorses Obama based on the fact they THINK he will be a sympathetic weakling, one still has to have faith in Hamas’ reasoning abilities for their endorsement to matter. I have no such faith. Apparently you do.

“Only if WE THE PEOPLE get off our couches, turn off American Idol and start making some effort to save our planet………..”

But Ginny Dear, Barry Hussein Obamah IS [the creature and product of] American Idol, a Hollywood/ Manchuria co-production, showing at a polling booth near you, and real soon, too.
Check out, for starters, from among the countries you listed [and throw in some random terrorist movements, too] who are hoping and praying that he gets elected, and then, perhaps, give a little judicious thought to just how well disposed towards the US, its values and WE THE PEOPLE, many of those same folks really are.

you may not have a problem wth terrorist scum endorsing Obama because they know he’s a sympathetic weakling, but the majority of voters do. How do you think that’s going to turn out in November?

First of all, You have no freaking idea what Barack Obama has or has not said on this subject.

I think it’s insulting to even suggest that a presidential candidate should have to answer for the opinions of foreign entities on their choices in the US presidential election. I bet Obama feels the same.

If someone from Hamas refers to you as a fair journalist, what’s your next move? When David Horovitz decides you’re an anti-Semitic traitor because a Hamas person once called you fair, to you validate the idiocy by giving an interview about how much you’re not fair at all and looking forward to dancing on their graves? Do you engage in a prompted display of patriotic hatred in order to ingriagate yourself with the 21’st century equivalent of Joseph McCarthy?

Some people respect Obama for refusing to pander - which is exactly what your advice constitutes. The man’s policy position on the organization is clear, and he’s not going to win the votes of Commentary readers if he dined on Ahmed Yousef’s brains with a straw. Engaging in trash talk that accomplishes no practical events but makes your community feel righteous about itself is the opposite of a peacemaker’s job.

Obama doesn’t have a Hamas problem. I guess that’s my point. McCain shouldn’t have seconded the notion as one with any merit.

I agree with your point about McCain not hesitating in denouncing the KKK. But if Obama had seconded the “factually true” endorsement of the KKK, McCain would be right in calling him out on it.

In Obama’s statement I see him taking shots at both McCain and Hamas in relative terms. He lightly scolds the McCain campaign and denounces the Hamas as terrorists. Why isn’t this OK?

“We don’t mind – actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will [win] the election and **I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle**, and he has a vision **to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community** but** not with domination and arrogance**,”

So these folks are saying they are willing to meet with either Democratic candidate. (I guess they got McCain’s message well) and they are ok with the US leading the world community - just not with domination and arrogance.

Sounds darn reasonable to me. At least we could give them some benefit of the doubt. Obama has said, the last time on MTP with Tim, that Hamas would have to change some very specific things relative to Israel.

First, let’s not be too blind to what many others besides Rev Wright have pointed out about our foreign policy during the ‘American Century’. Not random preachers but historians and foreign policy experts. This century has started off with W taking that to new lows and totally bagging diplomacy.

Theforeign policy scholars and experts are just as stupid as the economists?

Ok. let’s acknowledge that our economic standing is not too hot. That our trade deficits suck and we are heavily in debt to other countries since we have, for the first time in history, financed a war on credit. Let me give you a hint: I N F L A T I O N. There is something to be said for the GOP letting go of the WH. When we get back to double digit inflation like Carter faced - because of the Viet Nam ‘police action’, the Rethugs can blame it all on the Dems again.

Well, unless we want the Constitution shredded and the SC ultraconservative for 2 decades, we will have to accept that. Maybe this time we can get it through some dense skulls that war is not an answer - outside of a few RARE scenarios. It’s a well oiled program of enriching a very small, elite group and impoverishing the rest of us.

Let’s also acknowldge that we are a whopping 6% of the world’s population. And the earth is facing some tough times. Whatever is warming the globe is going to wreak havoc on the weather. Deforestation, soil erosion, resource depletion - especially fresh water- will add to the misery. Now throw the plague the epidemiolgists are expecting any time on top. International organized crime is better financed, armed and just as willing as terrorists to get what they want from all of us suckers. They just don’t advertise like the terrorists. Their violence is not based on any ideology-however extreme- except greed and power.

So we have a serious presidential candidate who is determined to make some of the transformational changes we will need to cope with the perfect storm of crises that face us. AND, he knows he can only do it if WE THE PEOPLE get off our couches, turn off American Idol and start making some effort to save our Republic by remaining involved after we leave the voting booth.

Heard ANYTHING about how much excitement Obama has generated all over the world? People in China, Iran, Europe, Africa, etc etc are getting on the Net and researching his record,upbringing, speeches. Some of them know him far better than a lot of American voters who are waiting for the 30 sec commercials and our corporate controlled media to give them a shallow image of a complicated person. Google the world wants Obama.

So we have a world of people we have pissed off thoroughly -after they totally supported us in ‘01, that are looking at this guy as someone they could trust and believe in. Who would have a darn good opening to get the world talking instead of fighting. Do you honestly believe that many people are really interested in war and violence. I tnink it’s time to decide if we want the small percentage who build huge fortunes on destroying the lives and hopes of billions to delude us into hating each other to death.

Sure, it’s a gamble. There’s some risk. Americans have taken this kind of risk after the two worst presidents in our history. They voted for Lincoln and FDR.

We are not delusional about Obama. Hope is a very precious thing. It has brought the world the best that humanity has achieved. It is the fuel that makes effort succeed.

Sure. And it is just as easy for McCain to make that problem go away as it is for Obama to make his Hamas problem go away. But Obama does not understand what he should say. He needs at least one advisor who isn’t left-wing to clue him in on this stuff.

Do you think that if McCain were forced to choose between taking a shot at Obama or taking a shot at the KKK that he would choose to go after Obama? We know what he would do because he criticizes even mainstream Republicans for far less than what the KKK sayd and has done.

Of course. He is a politician. At least half of what he says is disingenuous.

That Totten doesn’t se this reveals a lot about Totten.

?????

Seriously. Is there? No wonder the terrorists love him.

If you haver read ANY Michael Totten you would know he is not political, but rather states the facts as they occur. God forbit he looks objectively and gives Obama good advice. I agree that little “O” won;t take that advice and is a scary canditate IMO, but don’t get on Michaels case, who is one of the rare journalists who puts his own money and body into getting the truth rather than 95% ofthe rest.
Thank you Michael for having the guts that noone else does to show what is really happening, for better or worse.

It’s also a worthless statement. Obviously just because some crazy people endorse you for some crazy reason says nothing about the endorsee. McCain has nothing to do with the KKK. Obama has nothing to do with Hamas.

This is one of those things 8 year olds understand. It will end up hurting McCain. He is better then this.

Tell it to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, or to Slobodan Milosevic.

“Given his military credentials, his leadership skills, and his support for Israel, I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that he got the endorsement of Hamas over me . God I’m disappointed.”

Will he?

“Obama could easily make this go away: “Hamas will be VERY sorry if I am America’s president. They need to be careful what they wish for.” He doesn’t have to say anything else, but I doubt it occurs to anyone on his staff to go after Hamas instead of McCain. To me, that’s the obvious fix. What could McCain possibly say after that?”

Ha.

This is not about words or “clever” retorts; it’s about the record.

Obama’s record is clear: at the very least, he leans toward the Arabs and against Israel.

If he were to say what the naive Totten suggests, it would be disingenuous.

That Totten doesn’t se this reveals a lot about Totten.

Saber rattling against weak enemies makes us look like tyrants all over the world. We’ve had 8 years of it and we could use a new approach.

Obama has never stood up for any issue or to anyone. In what fantasy land, is your hero going to take on the hardened thugs like Hamas who think nothing of sacrificing their own children for power. Obama is nothing more than a typical western leftist who deeply love the attackers of Israel. His “pastor” and “church” routinely idolize the “freedom fighters” of hsam

A vote for Obama is a vote to join the side of Hamas.

It ain’t gonna happen. Michael Totten seemingly fails to realize the extent of dishonest pacifism in the Democratic Party. “Barry” Obama does not dare employ such “saber rattling” rhetoric. His main supporters are not even slightly interested in his becoming another Hubert Humphrey or Harry Truman. They wish to continue taking a vacation from history.

I figured.

Thousands of members, and only one mind they have to time-share.

You sir(Madam?) are 100% wrong. What does McCain mean when he says he will be Hamas worst nightmare? Maybe it means cutting off funding to the Palestinians. Maybe it means shipping more weapons to the Israelis. Maybe it means funding anti-mullah groups in Iran. Or Syria. Maybe it means covert ops. Lots of maybes. You see, grownups don’t proclaim their intentions in the world of diplomacy, they leave the other side wondering. Like John McCain did and Barry Obama didn’t.

And diplomacy without the threat of force to back it up is a hollow threat. As Teddy Roosevelt said, speak softly and carry a big stick. I know, he was a Republican, so what does he know about diplomacy.

O, I forgot, Teddy won the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomatic prowess. Back to the sandbox with Barry and your other little playmates now.

Sen. Obama had a chance to repudiate Hamas—at no cost to his candidacy. And once again Obama shied away from, just once, a spontaneous Sista Soulja moment, not to mention it would have been the right thing to do. They are murderers.

But Obama’s instincts took him elsewhere, to attack McCain. So much for “new politics.” So far, he never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, as the saying goes about the Middle East.

If you prefer a more grown-up style of governance, vote Obama.

In Arab countries (other than Iraq), they support Borat Hussein Osama.

Need I say more?

This chart shows the ideological distribution of the candidates. Note how much closer to the center of gravity McCain is than Obama is. Only in 2008 would someone like Obama even get as far as he has. In a normal year, he would lose by McGovern/Carter/Mondale margins.

But I am sure the kool-aider sashal can explain it away, right sashal. What’s that, you weren’t aware that they had done that?

Anyway, they can rest assured that Obama will have no religious or moral compulsion for not kissing up with Hamas, considering his “pastor’s” love of Palistinian terrorists and Louis Farrahkan.

Hamas has it’s own mind to think whatever they think.
I think you are incredibly stupid, Jenifer, and you are indirectly supporting terrorists, am I right?
Is my judgement affecting you?

can you suggest that John O’Neil and the unimpeachable Swiftboat vets lied and John Kristmas-in-Kambodia Kerry told the truth? Can you contradict the Hamas spokesman who endorsed Senator Obama?

Yes you can.

Both Obama and McCain can take my advice. It’s free!