McCain Now Criticizes Obama For GOING To Middle East And Europe!

  Several times a day, every day for several months John McCain have been criticizing Senator Barack Obama for not having visited Iraq since 2006 — Team McCain even has a daily count-down that shows Obama has not been in Iraq for 900 days. But now that Senator Obama is scheduled to travel to the Middle East on Friday, Team McCain seems flabbergasted and appears not to know if they should give him credit for going to the Middle East or criticize him for going to the Middle East. 

Earlier today, Mr. McCain’s communications director, Jill Hazelbaker, flippantly dismissed Obama’s trip as nothing more than “the first of its kind campaign rally overseas.”  

Later in the day, McCain himself rejected Jill’s “Obama is damned if he goes and damned if he doesn’t go” line of attack and sought a somewhat more subtle posture about Obama’s trip. 

“I’m pleased that he is going to Iraq for only the second time and Afghanistan for the first time,” McCain told reporters in Kansas City, Mo. “If he was so concerned about Afghanistan and the threat there and the need to send troops, don’t you think he should have gone there?” Mr. McCain also asked.

“I can only give you my opinion, and I will talk to her (Jill),” he said. “The fact is that I’m glad he is going to Iraq. I am glad he is going to Afghanistan. It’s long, long overdue if you want to lead this nation.”

Later in the day, in Grand Haven, Michigan McCain attempted to explain his and Jill Hazelbaker’s initial remarks but instead made the statements more complicated and convoluted. He separated Obama’s Iraq and Afghanistan parts of the trip from the Europe portion and changed his earlier position to be more like Jill’s initial position and said that Obama’s activities in those other countries could have “a political flavor, to say the least.”

Signaling how they intend to set up their attacks next week against a globe-trotting Barack Obama, John McCain’s campaign is suggesting that the Democratic nominee’s popularity abroad may not translate well in middle-America and that his trip amounts to a foreign photo-opportunity.  

“I don’t know that people in Missouri are going to like seeing tens of thousands of Europeans screaming for The One,” quipped a McCain aide, deploying a moniker some in the campaign use to poke fun at Obama’s exulted status in certain quarters.

“This isn’t about reaching out to allies or strengthening relationships; this is about advancing a political agenda,” said the aide.

McCain himself has taken three trips abroad since claiming the GOP nomination earlier this year, mixing television interviews with made-for-the-camera stops at such politically valuable locales as Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall and Mexico City’s Basilica of Guadalupe. What a bunch of hypocrites!!!

“When John McCain goes on foreign trips, he is legitimately going on fact-finding missions to learn new information,” said an aide. “He doesn’t give huge campaign speeches overseas he goes to inform his worldview.”  He sure doesn’t because he will bore everyone to tears and sleep!

Yet later today, Team McCain released a 7 ½ minute long Web video called “The Obama Iraq Documentary: Whatever the Politics Demand,” criticizing Obama’s statements on Iraq. Isn’t that a bit peculiar?  McCain should have used that 7 ½ minute web video to promote himself!  Go figure?!

Bill Clinton Ready To Hit The Road And Campaign For Obama

  Bill Clinton said today that he is ‘eager’ and raring to go and hit the trail and campaign for Obama whenever the presumed Democratic nominee needs him.  Bill also said that he has not given any thought to whether he wants to speak at the party convention in Denver. (I think Bill should speak the first night and Chelsea should introduce Hillary on the second night).

“I told him that whenever he wanted me to do it, I was ready, and so it’s basically on their timetable,” Clinton said. “He’s got a lot of things to do between now and the convention, of which this is simply one, so I’ll do whatever I’m asked to do, whenever I can do it.”

Relations between Clinton and Obama have only just begun to d-e-f-r-o-s-t since Obama defeated the former president’s wife in the bruising Democratic primary. Throughout the race which was more like a street fight, Bill Clinton portrayed Obama as too inexperienced to be president.

Since Obama clinched the nomination, it has remained an open question as to what role Bill Clinton would play in the campaign.

Just weeks ago, Obama called the former president to ask for his help in winning the White House.

Foreign Policy/National Security: President Bush ‘STEALING’ Senator Obama’s Ideas

  It seems to me that even though McCain has continually mocked Obama for not having so called Foreign Policy and National Security ‘experience’ the Bush administration seems to becoming efficient in its last 6 months by ‘stealing’ Senator Obama’s ideas – the same ideas they scorned just months ago!

Obama thinks more presidential than Bush, Cheney and McCain combined.  His suggestions show that he has excellent analytical, logical and tactical skills.  His ideas are well thought out, innovative and are the correct solutions.  He is ready from day one!

In August 2007 Obama made a speech about Pakistan.  He said that if American intelligence finds out where al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden is located in Pakistan and Pakistan cannot or will not hunt them down and take them out then America should.  Bush and McCain scoffed and laughed at Obama and accused him of wanting to invade and occupy Pakistan and said he had no understanding of foreign affairs and they would never carry out any kind of attack in Pakistan.  On February 1, 2008 Al-Libi, a senior al Qaeda leader believed to have plotted and executed attacks against U.S. and coalition forces, including a February 2007 bombing at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, who was on the “most wanted” list of 12 accused terrorists was killed by killed in Pakistan by a CIA airstrike.

President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the presidential race, but that stance changed dramatically during his trip to Israel. After likening Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Osama bin Laden, Bush compared Barack Obama to Nazi appeasers:

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

On June 2, 2008 while speaking to AIPAC John McCain ridiculed Obama’s idea of negotiating with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a “spectacle” that would embolden extremists, McCain jabbed Obama on Iran and Iraq before more than 7,500 members of the highly influential pro-Israel lobbyist group.

McCain told AIPAC members that Obama is engaging in a “serious misreading of history.” “It’s hard to see what such a summit with President Ahmadinejad would actually gain, except an earful of anti-Semitic rants, and a worldwide audience for a man who denies one Holocaust and talks before frenzied crowds about starting another,” he noted. “Such a spectacle would harm Iranian moderates and dissidents, as the radicals and hardliners strengthen their position and suddenly acquire the appearance of respectability.”  Instead, McCain called for a stepped international political and economic sanctions regime against the Iranian government and the country’s banks.

Obama Raises $52M in June

  Barack Obama raised $52 million last month, boosting his presidential campaign’s fundraising while building up his financial cache for the fall campaign.  The $52 million is Obama’s second best fundraising month of the year — he raised $55 million in February.

The Obama campaign reported $72 million cash on hand and the DNC has $20.3 million for a combined total of $92.3 million in the bank.

The $92.3 million is a combination of cash that can be spent in the remaining summer primary season as well as money that can only be spent from the end of August, after the Democratic Convention, until the general election.

The DNC said it raised $22.4 million in June, a dramatic increase from the $4.7 million it raised in May. The DNC spike in fundraising came after Obama became the presumed Democratic nominee, took some control and appointed one of his key advisors to oversee a joint fundraising effort.

McCain reported raising more than $22 million in June, which was his best month of the year. Together, the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee began July with about $95 million in the bank. The RNC raised $26 million in June.

The Obama campaign is trying to raise more than $400 million between now and the general election in November so that they can wage a 50 state campaign strategy and WIN.  If you can, please donate: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGxPPJ

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Jesse Jackson Comments Part 2: ‘N’ Word

TVNewser has been sent the transcript of what Reverend Jesse Jackson said Sunday morning July 6, as he prepared for an interview on Faux & Friends Weekend. Below is the partial transcript we received in our tips box, and confirmed to be authentic by Faux News Channel representatives.

“Barack…he’s talking down to black people…telling n—s how to behave.”

So, yes. Jesse Jackson did use the “N” word. But it was not directed at Barack Obama.

Faux News and little Bill O have maintained there was more on the tape, but that the un-aired portion was not relevant to the issue at hand: about whether Obama was “talking down” to the black community.

In reality little Bill O would love to use the tape but he is afraid that Obama will benefit because it proves that Obama isn’t in Jackson’s ‘pocket’. 

Jesse Jackson is currently in Spain.