Charles Krauthammer: The Audacity of Vanity

[Chuckiechan]

washingtonpost.com

He's got Barry Obama pegged...

[pickel]

washingtonpost.com

He's got Barry Obama pegged...

Blame your Buddy McBush. Obombma would be tucked in his bed in Illinois if Big John hadn't opened his Big Mouth. So why shouldn't he take advantage of ALL the FREE publicity and speak where ever it will generate the biggest audience??? He's running for office , not you Chuckie

[Pexster]

Who the f___ does Karuthammer think he is? The keeper of the Brandenburg Gate? What an ass!

[Chuckiechan]

Mustn't talk about Muhammad Obama.. the Messiah...

You sound just like the terrorists when the cartoons were run.

I guess you would prefer we don't mention his name or question anything about him?

Krauthammer is a columnists who sees through the media's bs and tells it like it is.

Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted "present" nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.

[Pexster]

You sound just like the terrorists when the cartoons were run.

Let's examine the two. Terrorists threatened to kill the cartoonist and the people who published it. I called Krauthammer an ass due to his stupid remarks about who has or hasn't "earned" some imaginary "right" to speak in fron of the Brandenburg gate.

Yeah, those two are equivalent. [/sarcasm]

Doesn't being an illogical idiot wear on you, Chuck?

[Chuckiechan]

Washington Times - Inside Politics

Here's more for you - Obama is now a "hawk" on Iran... At least he is todays when he is pimping for Jewish votes:

'About-face'
"Over the past weeks much has been made of Barack Obama's hard right turn toward the center of the political spectrum. There's been no greater about-face than his embrace of the Bush Doctrine on the next likely foreign policy crisis — Iran," former Sen. Rick Santorum writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

"The Bush Doctrine refers to the strategy of preemptive warfare that President Bush set forth in 2002. It's the idea that the United States will not wait for menacing enemies to attack us; we will attack preemptively in certain cases," said Mr. Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican.

"But how, you might ask, can the candidate of MoveOn.org and the antiwar-forever crowd be aligned with Bush on preemptive strikes against Iran? Here's how: Last month, Obama declared, 'I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon — everything.'
"When a would-be commander in chief says 'everything' three times in one sentence — and says so publicly — he is not just talking about continued diplomacy and sanctions. He's saying that he has not taken the military option off the table.

"With that statement, Obama, the definitive antiwar candidate, ended any serious debate over preemption in the post-9/11 world.
"And none too soon."

Plus, he says he is staying in Iraq - cutting and running is not polling well - two of your favorite reasons for liking him. However, that will change when he addresses the socialists in San Francisco...

I called Krauthammer an ass due to his stupid remarks about who has or hasn't "earned" some imaginary "right" to speak in fron of the Brandenburg gate.

You said "Who does he think he is?"

The Brandenburg Gate should not be a prop for Obama. It's significance is the fall of the Soviet Union, of which he had no part, and his party was against Regan's plan to topple the USSR.

[Pexster]

1) Stating that he will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon is not an "about-face." Santorum is a crackpot. I wouldn't pay too much attention to him.

2) Your statement about Iraq is ludicrous. Obama has said no such thing.

3) So you agree with Krauthammer that standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate is some kind of earned right? That is also a crackpot idea. I won't even get into the fantasy about Reagan and the U.S.S.R.

[Chuckiechan]

"When will Obama just acknowledge, "I know people who know people who knew John F. Kennedy, and I am no John F. Kennedy"? Audacity dominates his every step."

Sorry you flunked history, or you would know why Barry wants to be associated with "the Gate"...

His is saying and doing exactly what Bush is doing...

Barack Obama believes we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. Immediately upon taking office, Obama will give his Secretary of Defense and military commanders a new mission in Iraq: ending the war. The removal of our troops will be responsible and phased, directed by military commanders on the ground and done in consultation with the Iraqi government. Military experts believe we can safely redeploy combat brigades from Iraq at a pace of 1 to 2 brigades a month that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 – more than 7 years after the war began.

Do keep up, since his positions vary depending on which audience he is pimping to.

Stating that he will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon is not an "about-face."

This is an implied threat to unilaterally attack Iran - a sovereign nation who hasn't attacked us directly. Isn't that what the bitching is about Bush and Iraq?

[MTAtech]

I thought I heard Senator Phil calling Krauthhammer a whiner.

From a Dailykos diary:

Krauthammer's piece employs his usual tool bag of tortured analogies analogies and distorted quotes ("translating the royal 'we,; means: 'I am the one we've been waiting for'"), but, underlying it all, his theme is just catty. You can almost hear him stomping down the high school hallway, snipping to a girlfriend, "That Barack Obama, he thinks he's all that."

Krauthhammer is a loyal member of the right-wing press corp, whose job is to stomp on the other guy. Since he's got nothing of substance to criticize Obama, he's got to dig in his bag of tricks for mud. This time it's Obama's ego. Imagine that, a presidential candidate with an inflated ego?

Listen up people, we got a presidential candidate with an inflated ego. That's an automatic disqualification. Give me a break.

[Chuckiechan]

Krauthhammer is a loyal member of the right-wing press corp, whose job is to stomp on the other guy.

And your source is the dailykos?

I think you should wait to hear from George Soros himself!



Face it - the truth hurts.

[MTAtech]

My opinion is that Krauthammer is loyal member of the right-wing press corp, based upon the opinion pieces that he writes.

In 2004, Krauthammer wrote:

We had OPEC on the run. In July 1986 oil plunged to $7 a barrel.
It is now $41 a barrel. We had a golden moment, and we let it pass. The way to lock in our gains then would have been to artificially raise the price of gasoline with a tax that would depress consumption, maintain consumer demand for fuel efficiency and, most important, direct much of the pump price into the U.S. economy (via the U.S. Treasury) rather than having it shipped to Saudi Arabia, Russia and other sundry, less than friendly places.
...
Americans have every right to an eco-sensitivity that prevents drilling offshore, on federal lands or in the Arctic.

Essentially, that's Barack Obama's position.

Now it's 2008 and Krauthammer's new position is:

Gas is $4 a gallon. Oil is $135 a barrel and rising. We import two-thirds of our oil, sending hundreds of billions of dollars to the likes of Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. And yet we voluntarily prohibit ourselves from even exploring huge domestic reserves of petroleum and natural gas.

That's John McCain's position.

It's hard to conclude otherwise that Krauthammer is anything but a partisan.

[Chuckiechan]

Essentially, that's Barack Obama's position.

Except no they don't want to raise supplies to create falling prices into which they may insert a tax.

The are content to just starve the country into their vision of a Democrat America - a deindustrialized mecca of the far left, who are content to tell the rest of the country how to live.

I don't want to live like the Amish.

[Disley]

Except no they don't want to raise supplies to create falling prices into which they may insert a tax.

The are content to just starve the country into their vision of a Democrat America - a deindustrialized mecca of the far left, who are content to tell the rest of the country how to live.

I don't want to live like the Amish.

You've got eight years of Bush and the influence of the neocons and globalism to thank for the de-industrialization of the USA.

[surreal]

I think that guy looks like a baby bird...

look again

[Chuckiechan]

It's not politically correct to make fun of the handicapped... but you're right!

[cyphen]

Since he's got nothing of substance to criticize Obama...

ROFLMAO!!!

MTA - he's criticizing Obama on HAVING nothing of substance to RUN on!!!!

[The Real Bingo]

It was 0100 this morning and I was watching CNN International - nothing else is on at that time. I think they had 3 or 4 straight "reports" on Obama and his trip across Europe. Then they had one little, token McCain report about his visit in Pennsylvania. I guess it's not as enamoring to cover an old, Republican geezer in the United States...it's much more sexy to cover the Messiah in Europe.

I find it funny, though, that it's such a big deal to cover a U.S. presidential candidate making a speech in Europe. Can Europeans suddenly vote in a U.S. election?

Not to mention he's speaking with these heads of state as a presidential candidate. Not under the premise of a senator, but as a presumptive and imminent president. Kind of arrogant, if you ask me.

[Pexster]

McCain's Wilkes Barre visit was not even on his schedule. If he wants better media coverage, he needs to run a more organized campaign. Saying something worthwhile might help, too.

[The Real Bingo]

McCain's Wilkes Barre visit was not even on his schedule. If he wants better media coverage, he needs to run a more organized campaign. Saying something worthwhile might help, too.

They say any publicity is good publicity, but I don't know. I think the mainstream media is gonna make people so sick and tired of seeing Obamessiah that they'll get fed up with the whole thing and vote McCain.

Vote for the guy you know less about because the stuff you know about the other guy is really scary.

Of course this only applies to on-the-fencers...the die-hard worshipers will just get that much more blood rushing to their penises when they see Obama on TV.

[Pexster]

Dude, you're the one with the hard-on for Obama. Don't know why; it seems to be deep-rooted, though.