Update 6/10/08 - Off camera Barack cannot speak.
- Consider Barack Obama's gaffes. In listing them, Michelle Malkin concludes: "Barack Obama — promoted by the Left and the media as an all-knowing,
articulate, transcendent Messiah — is a walking, talking gaffe machine.
How many more passes does he get? How many more can we afford? - Update 5/24/8 - Charles Krauthammer notes with respect to sitting down and talking with enemies, "Such rhetorical flailing has done more than create an intellectual
mess. It has given rise to a new political phenomenon: the metastatic
gaffe. The one begets another, begets another, begets . . . .
- Amir Tahiri says Ahmadinejad got a huge boost from Obama. Tahiri's article underscores the fact that Obama is a dangerous space cadet lost in fantasyland and hypnotized by his own rhetoric. To elect him as leader of the free world would be to commit national and civilizational suicide. But then, that's exactly what Malcolm Muggeridge said long ago in his profound essay, "The Great LIberal Death Wish." (Also here.)
- Michelle Malkin - The blogosphere schools Barack Obama in asymmetric warfare
- As for his judgment on Iraq, he has been consistently wrong. John McCain points out:
"Senator Obama has consistently offered his judgment on Iraq, and he has been consistently wrong. He said that General Petraeus' new strategy would not reduce
sectarian violence, but would worsen it. He
was wrong. He said the dynamics in Iraq would not change as a result of
the 'surge.' He was wrong. One year ago, he voted to cut off all funds
for our forces fighting extremists in Iraq. He was wrong. Sectarian
violence has been dramatically reduced, Sunnis in Anbar province and
throughout Iraq are cooperating in fighting al Qaeda in Iraq, and
Shi'ite extremist militias no longer control Basra — the Maliki
government and its forces do. British and Iraqi forces now move freely
in areas that were controlled by Iranian-backed militias . . .
- I'll leave for another time a discussion of his socialist economic philosophy and his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.