If we based decisions regarding how our money should be spent overseas on whether or not what we’ve done so far in those countries has failed, then we’d never give another dime to Africa.

For that matter, most of the programs Obama favors pouring money into here at home have been total failures. The entire Great Society boondoggle from 40 years ago has bequeathed us nothing but shattered families, rancidly substandard education, and lawless deteriorating neighborhoods. MD is right – that’s money that has been largely wasted.

If success or failure were his the standard of whether we should fund something, Obama would be calling for dismantling our entire entitlement bureaucracy – “within 60 days of taking office” – and using that money to fund the WOT and Iraq. Don’t count on it.

The surge in Iraq has been successful beyond all expectations – yet Obama sees that as a failure. Nationalized health care abroad has been a disaster, with anyone who can afford it coming to the US for treatment – but Obama thinks that’s a success and wants the same for us. It’s the same old backwards thinking we’ve come to expect from the left, and it’s why none of them are qualfied to lead this country.

In some ways Obama reminds me of a meth addict who claims his “cure” depends upon obtaining a limitless supply of meth. It would seem that the Democrat Party has not yet run out of dolts willing to buy that logic.

Obama saying what he says about money being spent in Iraq is a safe statement for him to make, and one that generates applause and screams from the crowd, but if he really wanted to put his money where his mouth was, he’d call for no more funding for Africa, too, and many other places where we send aid and don’t see any return for our “investment.”

NOTE: I’m not saying this is what Senator Obama has said. Just asking.

And you know what Senator Obama is saying: if we didn’t go to war in the first place, we would have more money domestically. It fits his entire “I was against the Iraq War from the start” angle.

never said Obama was logical or rational. Just reportin’ it as I see it.

But you are correct, that is how the uber left thinks. The war in Iraq means kids are starving at home. This is based on their belief that the “pie” is only so big. And if one person (the evil, greedy rich for example) has more, than someone else must have less. Of course when the gov’t takes more, well then, that’s OK. The pie can support more gov’t without someone else getting less.

One comment by Obama that show the man is incompetent in both foreign and domesic policy. A two fer!!!

If only the evil Bu$Hitler hadn’t taken all the bridge maintenance money to spend on the illegal and imoral yada yada yada goes the asinine refrain, and of course the media is more than happy to parrot the claims. Because of course every dollar spent on Defense is one less dollar to hold up bridges throughout the nation.

Remember during the Second World War, when bridges across America were tumbling into the stream? And during Vietnam when it was unsafe to enter any building over two stories tall? During the Korean War entire cities were crumbling into dust.

This is the same sort of stupidity displayed by the classic “Air FOrce bake sale to buy a bomber” tee shirt.

He’s not against helpng Iraqis. What he is saying is that the US spent money to buy the bombs that blew up the bridge that the US is now paying to rebuild. (we had to destroy the village in order to save it) While the I35 bridge in the US went into the drink. And remeber he is talking to the pull out of Iraq yesterday, Bush is Hitler, uber leftists that are so enraptured by his smoke and mirrors rhetoric.