Obama adviser suggests 80000 troops stay in Iraq until 2010

As Barack Obama continues to criticize John McCain for saying he’s willing to keep a 100-year troop presence in Iraq, another Obama adviser has suggested U.S. forces could stay in Iraq longer than the Democratic candidate initially thought.

United States should transition to an “over-watch” force of between 60,000 and 80,000 troops by the end of 2010, according to an article Friday in the New York Sun.

That appears to be at odds with Obama’s public position of removing all combat brigades from the country within 16 months of taking office.

Now for the real kicker, drum roll please:

The Obama campaign said in a statement: “The writing of Mr. Kahl, one of hundreds of outside advisers to the campaign, is not representative of Barack Obama’s consistent policy position on the Iraq war.”

Ahhh, I see. So one of your Iraq advisers is proposing things completely different than what you believe? Does anyone see a “I was against keeping troops in Iraq, before I was for it.” moment coming????

Does Michelle Obama think that a President Obama would have it any easier ?

Neo, that’s exactly what she seems to think. After all, since he has the MSM in his pocket, anyone who dares to ask him to explain his policies – much less anyone who doesn’t vote for him – is (in her words) “mean” and very likely a racist to boot.

Sev, I agree with you in principle about getting the clueless off the voter rolls, but I don’t think the Athenian model is the way to go. There are many more indicators that one has a stake in good government than real estate, and I’ll bet your political thinking was on solid ground well before you bought land. Besides, it didn’t serve the Athenians very well in the end.

My thought would be a voter qualification exam. You have to have a certain level of knowledge beofre you can get behind the wheel of a car – why not before you go into a voting booth?

It would have to cover basic concepts of American civics and economics. Nothing picayune like knowing who is the deputy foreign minister of Sri Lanka, but I think anyone who doesn’t know who his own congressman is, or can’t come within 2000 miles of finding Iraq on a globe, or doesn’t grasp the effect increasing business taxes has on prices shouldn’t be allowed near a voting booth. If you don’t know what the UN is, you have no business muddying up the voter pool for those of us who do.

Of course, that’ll probably mean the end of the Democrat party as we know it. Just chalk that one up to serendipity.

If Carter and Jane fonda is for him, I would NEVER vote for him…NEVER!

Nothing screams vote for me like 2 traitors endorsing your candidacy. – Lorica

Jane Fonda endorses the obamanator.

The CY says, “So what?”

A radical anti-war activist has decided to vote for a radical anti-war candidate. Why, exactly is this newsworthy?

True. But it does make one wonder ‘why do so many far left,…

Let the Corruption begin!

Begin?

When has it ever stopped?

Perhaps we should just annoint the Obamas as King and Queen and show them how fair we are.

Let the Corruption begin!

Oy!

We definitely need some way to purge the idiots and incompetents from the voter roles. I still like the idea the Athenians used, only property owners as they had a vested interest in government policies that the unlanded did not. Poor and unlanded folk like to vote for government handouts.

Former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter has hinted that he might cast his vote for Senator Barack Obama to aid his emergence as the candidate for the Democrats in America’s bid to elect a new President.

Carter, who is a Super Delegate from Georgia State, gave this hint at a media interaction after the Carter Center Awards for Guinea Worm Eradication in Abuja yesterday.

Carter, who was accompanied by his wife Rosalynn, did not profess a direct support for Obama but rather choose to make a veiled statement.

“We are very interested in the primaries. Don’t forget that Obama won in my state of Georgia. My town which is home to 625 people is for Obama, my children and their spouses are pro- Obama.

My grandchildren are also pro- Obama. As a Super Delegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for but I leave you to make that guess,” he said.

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If Carter and Jane fonda is for him, I would NEVER vote for him…NEVER!

As former President Bill Clinton was extolling his wife’s credentials, Obama’s campaign office in Bloomington began giving away tickets to Sunday’s Dave Matthews concert at Assembly Hall.

Jason Schechtman, 19, Deerfield, Ill., a student at IU, got his tickets about 8 p.m. after waiting more than three hours. He met folks in line who said they’d left the Clinton rally to wait for tickets.

“I was leaning toward Obama, but this sealed the deal for sure,” he said. “The Obama campaign announced this right as (Bill Clinton) was about to speak, and it brought everyone from over there to over here.”

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I guess whatever it takes to steal away from one crowd to get them in yours and to a degree it worked.

Can you say “most hated man in America” ?
That is the job description, I believe.