Talk About Reckless...
by The Lighthouse Keeper
Fri May 16, 2008 at 04:59:17 PM PDT
We've just heard from McCain that Obama's foreign policy ideas are "reckless."
Hmmm.
Anybody care to speculate as to whether the following actions are reckless:
- Fighting a five-year war entirely on borrowed money
- Racking up trillions of dollars in cumulative deficits (please note that "1" and "2" both have contributed to a disastrous decline of the dollar against other currencies, spurring inflation and asset devaluation)
- Invading a country that did not attack us, thus completely screwing up our prospects in Afghanistan for capturing Bin Laden
- Renditions, secret prisons, establishing torture techniques as government policy
- Dramatically expanding surveillance over ordinary American citizens
- Stalling energy conservation measures and mileage mandates for years
- Politicizing countless government agencies
...anything else?
Oh, I'm sure there's plenty more we can think of.
Reckless. Yeah, OBAMA'S reckless. Yeah, whatever.
Not this time, boys.
Oh, and one last thing:
US Will Bypass Junta to Get Aid To Myanmar
This is great, but too bad they couldn't bypass their OWN junta to get aid to our OWN people after Katrina, huh?
Guess what, John.
Oh, this is very nice from the Obama campaign, on the front page:
"What's reckless is continuing the Bush-McCain foreign policy that has cost us thousands of lives and a trillion dollars in Iraq, strengthened Iran, enabled Hamas to take Gaza, took our eye off al Qaeda, failed to capture Osama bin Laden, failed to finish the job in Afghanistan, and left us less safe and less respected in the world. No amount of utterly predictable fear-mongering and tough talk can change the fact that John McCain is running to continue the most disastrous foreign policy in recent American history," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. h/t Scout Finch on the front page
Yep. I like the way that sounds. I'm feelin' pretty good about our chances at toppling these guys this time.
We will have to work twice as hard and give twice as much, but this isn't 2004.
Then some SERIOUS investigatin' will begin.
Fired Up! I know it's a cliche. But seriously. I am.
