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Obama:The Cardboard Candidate

    Lincoln said you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time. Never has that statement been more true than in this upcoming presidential election.

   The American people are not stupid, especially when it comes to electing a president.

   Ultimately, they recognize the difference between a candidate with substance and a candidate who is little more than an empty cardboard placard. To get elected president in this nation, you have to have experience, credentials and accomplishments.

   What credentials does Obama bring to the table others than being a bright young  senator from Chicago who is eloquent and looks good on camera? The Democrats have tried to sell him as another JFK,  but there is no comparison. JFK had a degree from Harvard, he had won a Pulitzer and he had on-the-ground combat experience as commander of PT109. Obama has ONLY the Harvard degree.

   He is little more than a walking advertisement for president.

   An advertisement created by the Democrats and the liberal-leaning mainstream media.

   He can get nominated because he is black, but he can’t get elected simply because he is black. He’s got to have accomplishments. Substance. Something he can put his finger on and say to the world: ”Here are my accomplishments. This is what I’ve done in my life and this is what qualifies me to hold the most powerful position in the free world.”

   I see none of that.

   As they say in football, he has proven he can talk the talk, but he has not provided credible evidence that he can walk the walk.

 

Where's Pelosi, Reid and Murtha Now?

    Now that Saddam Hussein--the most destabilizing figure in the Middle East--is six feet under, Iraq has a Democratic government and talks are underway to withdraw American troops, where are all the leading Democrats who opposed the war and the troop surge which engendered the current situation.

    To wit….where are Sens. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and John Murtha?

    If we had listened to them, Iraq would still be involved in civil war and the gains we see today would not have been achieved.

    It appears that they were either mistaken in their judgement OR they didn’t have the best interests of the American people at heart OR they were media pawns who took those positions for flashy sound bites and headlines.

    If they made a mistake, why haven’t they come forward and honestly said: “I’m sorry, I misjudged the situation. I'm glad America is winning in Iraq now.”

    But I guess that would be expecting too much decency from a critter called a politician.

    I suspect that the true motivation behind their positions against the war was that they didn’t truly have the best interests of the American people at heart.

    They opposed the war because it was being sponsored and promoted by a Republican administration.

    It was more important for them to promote the Democratic party--by taking the side opposite the Republicans--than it was to stay the course and call for an American victory in Iraq.

    What a sad state American politics has come to.

    Sad! Sad! Sad!