SubscribeObama: Iran Missiles Show Need For Talks
From DNC’s MSNBC and Chicago Tribune:
Obama: Iranian missile-test call for talks
July 9, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama, asked today about his response to Iran’s test-firing of a missile reportedly capable of reaching Israel, maintained that the demonstration calls out for stepped up, direct U.S. diplomacy with Iran.
"There is no doubt that we’re seeing rising tensions in the area,” Obama said in an interview from Capitol Hill with the NBC Today Show’s Matt Lauer. "It’s part of the reason why it’s so important for us to have a coherent policy with respect to Iran…. It has to combine much tougher threats of economic sanctions with direct diplomacy, opening up channels of communication, so that we avoid provocation but we give the Iranians strong incentives to change their behavior.”
Republican rival John McCain has criticized Obama’s support for direct negotiations with a regime that the Bush administration has labeled part of the "Axis of Evil,” maintaining that tough international sanctions will prevent Iran from posing a greater threat to the region. Others have criticized Obama’s call for diplomacy with intractable adversaries as naïve.
But the threat demonstrated by Iran today is nothing new, Obama maintained, asked what he would tell Israel in the aftermath of the newest Iranian test.
"They’ve had this kind of long-range capability for some time,” he told Lauer. "It’s part of the reason why we’ve got to proceed aggressively with diplomacy in the region as a whole… We’ve basically been farming out diplomatic activity to the Europeans… Part of what we have to do is get the Europeans, the Chinese, the Russians to recognize that it is in nobody’s interests, including Iran’s, I believe, to have a nuclear weapon that could trigger a nuclear arms race in the region. That’s something that I intend to make a No. 1 priority when I’m in the White House.” …
Funny how everything just proves to Obama how right he is.
One suspects psychologists have a term for that.
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July 9th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Obama is starting to remind of Fox’s “That 70’s Show”
Imagine where we would be today had Jimmy Carter won a second term. We may now find out.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Egads RB! You just made my stomach turn, gulp…. ;o)
July 9th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
He understands the deep complexities of diplomacy and dealing with lunatic tyrants, but…..he says with utmost sincerity that he just can’t understand Americans not wanting to learn Spanish. It just baffles his tiny intellect…..
July 9th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
This just in!—Jessee Jackson claims that Obama actually has n**ts!!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
And I think if he is somehow elected POTUS he will have to show the world that Jesse Jackson and the left wing of the dimmocrat party didn’t “cut out his nuts”. He will be forced to do something brash when the Iranians use their missles to bomb something of interest to us. It will be his Kennedy moment, and everyone who was paying attention knows that it could have gone terribly bad–as in global thermonuclear war bad–if Kruschev hadn’t backed down. The only question is whether or not the Iranians will wait until they have a nuclear warhead to mount on their missles. Anyone want to bet the Iranians would be as rational as Kruschev? If they nuke something it may set in motion a chain of events that will end civilization and possibly the human race as we know it.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
“There is no doubt that we’re seeing rising tensions in the area,” Wow. Just wow.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:21 am
I agree with Jesse Jackson, Obama has nuts, IN HIS HEAD.
Kind of a squirrelly chap, don’t ya think.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Talks? The very idea that this stupid goober is even being considered as presidential material is insanity.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Yes, Enthalpy, we have reached a new low in “leadership”. John Adams would surely describe Obamesssiah as a person of “gross imbecility”! I have come to regard support for Obama as demonstrable stupidity (and naive immaturity for those under 25)—which, by the way, raises a point here in the southeast—there are very few bumper stickers and signs for either candidate. I suspect Obama supporters would be reluctant to publicize their stupidity and shallowness!
July 11th, 2008 at 9:32 am
“ONLY IN AMERICA; the Legend of Barack Obama” jumps the gun and goes over the top with “Barack in Iraq”!
Barack Hussein Obama, the Commander-in-Chief-in-Waiting (unless McCain gets off his ass and gets his stuff together) stood before the enormous Stars and Stripes backdrop and spoke, in that deep voice that makes reporters tremble, to the assembled troops.
“…and let me tell you another thing: nobody ever won a war by dying for his country. Wars are won by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country! Now, some people will tell you that Americans don’t like to fight. That’s a lot of bullhockey! Americans love to fight. Americans love a winner. When we were children we all admired the fastest runner, the highest jumper, the winner of the big ball game – Americans love a winner and they despise a loser…hey, wait a minute. Somebody mixed up the pages on me…this is someone else’s speech: ‘General Pacifism’ or ‘Paxton’ it says. Something like that. ‘What’s this? ‘Grease the tracks of our tanks with their guts’ - eoowww. Yuck. Sorry. Let me start over.
“Anyhoo, I’ve come here today to the war torn jungles of Eye-raq to get a fair, balanced and honest understanding of how badly this war is going and how soon we can expect this illegal, immoral and criminal enterprise to end in an American defeat.
“I know you soldiers have had a tough time of it out here, I saw ‘Lions for Lambs’, I saw ‘Redacted’, so I’ve got a pretty clear picture of what things are like for you. Most of you are high school dropouts anyway, who only signed up because there were no jobs back there in whatever inner city hellhole you come from and you’re all junior high dropouts and you lack the simple intelligence to understand how you’ve been used by your Republican slavemasters, and all you can look forward to when you return home is either haunting flashbacks leading to a lonely suicide or the miserable existence of a homeless drug addict on the bitter, uncaring streets of the country which sent you off to an illegal and immoral war and then turned its back on you.
“I’m not saying that’s not what you deserve, after all the terrible crimes you’ve committed, you brutalized killing machines you, but I promise that my administration will know how to take care of our veterans, inshallah.
“After Operation Urgent Scurry, my carefully thought out plan for the phased withdrawal of all you infidel crusaders, kicks in and after you’ve personally apologised to the freedom fighters and to the Eye-raqian people you’ll be allowed to return home for quarantine. Once the War Crimes Tribunals have done their work and you’ve completed your full sentences, you’ll be electronically tagged and free to return to society with many of the same legal rights and constitutional privileges enjoyed by normal, decent Americans and by enemy combatants.
“Hold your applause. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Yes, I know it is but, hey, what did you expect – a parade?”
“Huh – why are you looking at me like that? What? What did I say? Hey, sit down…I haven’t finished talking at you yet….wait, come back! You can’t turn your backs on me. Hey -wait!”