As I've said in the past, his international policy can be summarized like this: Oh bomb us!

So where in the video does Obama say that he intends to disarm America?

Let's see, He says he wants to reduce unnecessary military spending.

Okay.

Wants to work toward reduction of world wide nuclear weapons proliferation.

Okay.

Stand down from potentially dangerous high level nuclear alert and get both U.S. and Russian' fingers off the nuclear trigger?

Okay.

So what's the problem? It seems like sound thinking.

Rightwing hysteria over a 51 second clip taken out of context from a longer quote.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Saber, have you noticed how the rightwingers don't like to talk about how Cheney drastically cut the military when he was head of the Pentagon?

Bush has already succeeded in making this country more vulnerable. He has depleted our military, exhausted our troops and resources, and created international hatred toward this country. And all for his own selfish reasons. NO ONE could be worse than Bush, but someone could defintely be just as bad...McCain. Obama wants to finally get us out of this stinking Iraq mess. That in itself makes him more appealing and a better choice than Bush's twin under the skin.

Bingo !!!!

While I don't always agree with Obama's foreign policy ideas, I don't see where he's saying anything about disarming America.  If anything, his ideas are a bit far-fetched.. but I highly doubt it is his intention to make us open to attack.

Every dollar Bush spends on the war in Iraq weakens us. He is the only President in history to run a war without raising taxes to pay for it. The money for the Iraq war is lent to us by China.

 When China calls in its loans we will find out what the words "weak nation" mean. It is our awesome economy that made us strong. Debt has made us weak.

Obama will restore balance.

TSM: "Saber, have you noticed how the rightwingers don't like to talk about how Cheney drastically cut the military when he was head of the Pentagon?"

Lacking fact to support their hatred of Obama, detractors attach their own fantasy interpretations to his most benign statements in order to trash him.

It would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that there are enough of these Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz /Rumsfeld lovers to successfully get these guys elected in the past and could do it again if taken lightly.

Recall that nearly half of the voters cast their ballots for the present administration while the electorals tipped the scales in favor of these clowns and the same could happen with McCain if .

Sure, things have changed and now 70 percent of the people have finally awakened from their delusional dreams to the stark reality of how badly they have damaged the nation, but  given enough disinformation, the ones who actually show up at the polls to vote could swing the upcoming election in McCain's favor and we could end up  with another four or even eight years of poor domestic and foreign policy and gross mismanagement of America.

But those conservatives who lap up the party's foolhardy philosophy that the key to the nation's greatness lies in war and the enrichment of the corporate bottom line, actually believe that everything's just peachy in the country with these warmongering corporate stooges running the show and fervently believe McCain offers more of the same "good" leadership.

This time around, the rest of the electorate needs to make their voices heard loud and clear at the polls in order to ensure election of intelligent government and get the country back on track toward sane, competent management and restoration of the nation's former greatness and the lofty democratic principles and ideals upon which it was founded.

Otherwise, you can expect to be sitting around the kitchen table years from now lamenting the lost opportunity to Set America Straight in '08.

Please, please, please send this to everyone you know.  You can also send this along with it so we know who the real leader is:  http://www.youtube.com/watc...

As with punctuation, people get out of a message what they want to hear.

If you think the military's overstressed *NOW*, just wait 'til Shrub starts a *THIRD* war, with Iran.

" Leave that drawbridge down boys..we don't need no dee-fense"

Great video Tom, thanks for posting

Why did President Bush issue Executive Order 199-Eye demanding that all investigations of Osama bin Laden's relatives cease -- prior to 9-11?

Why were Bin Laden family members residing in the US being flown hastily out of the US during the days following 9-11 while all commercial flights were "grounded."  

Was this in the name of "National Security" who left that drawbridge down?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Oh I forgot..its perfectly acceptable to slam McCain but not OK to question Yobamas character..silly me and don't fool yourself if push came to shove senator Yobama (notice I didn't call him President) would push buttons in IRAN too..

GOLLY for people that act like they are in the know?? At the end of the day when the truth comes out you really don't know that much..

McCain Backer's Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In Colombia 

The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.

Carl H. Lindner Jr., the billionaire Cincinnati businessman, was CEO of Chiquita Brands International from 1984 to 2001, and remained on the company's board of directors until May 2002. Beginning under his tenure, Chiquita executives paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (known by the Spanish acronym AUC), which is described by George Washington University's National Security Archive as an "illegal right-wing anti-guerrilla group tied to many of the country's most notorious civilian massacres."

The most recent political "send this to everyone" spam I got said Obama was going to send our troops into Pakistan. That would be nice, especially with Bin Laden and the Taliban sitting across the border thumbing their noses at US troops by day and bombing them by night If he's going to disarm, I guess he'll have to outsource an army to accomplish the goal. Halliburton?

Bush Failures May Force Obama to Make Like FDR in 2009  

July 21 (Bloomberg) -- When George W. Bush became president in 2001, his main goals included restoring ``honor and dignity to the White House'' after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, raising school-test scores and figuring out how to spend a record budget surplus.

The next White House occupant will inherit the deepest housing recession in a generation, growing fears of bank failures, a sinking dollar, $4 gasoline and an economy bleeding jobs. He'll confront wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, mounting tensions with Iran and the U.S.'s flagging international reputation.

Historians say the economic and foreign policy crises in Bush's wake will present Democrat Barack Obama with the biggest challenges to a new president since Herbert Hoover left office during the Great Depression.

``What a burden the next president is going to confront,'' says Robert Dallek, a presidential historian and biographer of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. ``It'll be like Franklin Roosevelt coming in, in 1933.''

The list of problems facing the nation means that campaign promises -- Obama's universal health care, middle-class tax cut and immigration overhaul, or McCain's corporate and individual tax reductions and energy-independence plan -- will likely be put on hold while the president focuses on more immediate concerns, especially the economy.

Waking Up Quickly

The next president is ``going to wake up very quickly to the fact that the economy so overwhelms everything else,'' says Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

In 2000, the last time no incumbent was running, consumer confidence was at record levels and the economy had created 1.3 million jobs in the year's first six months. In August 2000, 89 percent of Americans said the economy was doing well, according to a Los Angeles Times poll.

Wiped-Out Surplus

After that recession, some $2 trillion in tax cuts and military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, the government has produced only deficits since 2002. Bush's budgets have added $1.7 trillion to the national debt. The CBO, which estimates this year's shortfall will reach $396 billion, projects the red ink will flow through at least 2011.

Today, 82 percent of Americans say the economy is doing badly, and voters consider it the most important issue, followed by the Iraq War, health care, terrorism and illegal immigration. Education ranks sixth.

``People tend to ignore the economy when it's doing well and pay a lot of attention to it when it's not,'' says Arthur Miller, a political science professor at the University of Iowa and author of a research paper on issues in the 2000 election.

Job Losses

In June, employers cut jobs for a sixth straight month and the unemployment rate stood at 5.5 percent, a four-year high. Home prices in 20 cities dropped 15.3 percent in April from a year earlier, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index.

Oil prices have set records due to global demand and tensions in the Middle East. That's pushed gasoline prices up 92 percent since January 2007 and increased the cost of filling the tank of a Chevrolet Suburban by $62, to $131.

Consumer confidence has fallen to its lowest level since 1992. Many economists expect a recession to begin later this year and continue into the first quarter of 2009, when the next president takes office.

The next administration will also have to deal with a host of foreign-policy issues that were largely absent in 2000.

Eight years ago, after a decade in which the country enjoyed the benefits of a ``peace dividend'' -- U.S. military cutbacks after the collapse of the Soviet Union -- the biggest concerns were forging peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the emergence of China as a strategic rival and whether the U.S. should engage in ``nation-building,'' as it was doing in places such as Bosnia and Haiti. Bush entered office pledging to pursue a ``humble'' foreign policy.

The current problems may pose an even bigger challenge as anger at income inequality and ``greedy'' corporations threatens to undermine Americans' confidence in the system, says Dartmouth College political science professor Linda Fowler.

``The country is facing a crisis in capitalism,'' she says.

To contact the reporters on this story: Matthew Benjamin in Washington at mbenjamin2@bloomberg.net. Heidi Przybyla in Detroit at hprzybyla@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: July 20, 2008 19:00 EDT