there is a big difference in telling the Joint chiefs to draw up a a plan to have us redeploy our troops out of Iraq in a particular timeframe, with the necessary security needs for remaining civilian and diplomatic assets (As Obama has been clear on) and Saying that you will follow what the Generals say. they do not make the decisions, they follow the CIC's lead.

Russell, lol. That was funny.

dogsoldier

I have said I want to know about rezko...definitely (but again compared to the lists of Hillary's stuff I am hard pressed to vote for Hillary instead of Obama on ethics issues)

I like what happened and how he handled it. His plan is to get them out in 14 months.

...but this Iraq issue... all of the candidates have plans...and all of those plans are best case scenarios...

Universal healthcare...
Revising education...
Green Energy
etc...

they are the goals. Like when hillary says my goal is Universal healthcare - flat. I have many people around me in the healthcare field and a couple of friends who got slammed by the Massachusetts system (starvingartist/waiters who are in a worse situation now than they were before... although that is being resolved)who say...Hillary has a plan... and she sets it at the best case scenario, where she thinks she should set it.
(Barack's is where his is because he thinks we have set the goal before and failed a number of times to go anywhere with it...so he set it focused on the issue that financial conservatives may be more apt to go with)

He is going into this with the goals set. That is what he plans to do... his advisors can say that is the best case scenario...that is the goal. His advisor obviously thinks it's a challenging goal...he did not say that...and like Lincoln his advisors should have different opinions, knowing that they all have the same goal.

Another problem I can already see with a Clinton administration is like Rumsfeld ...everyone is afraid of giving her a different opinion so they start yelling at each other.

I really think Obama is trying to be honest. As much as so many of you want to twist that...

Who cares about anyone's physical attributes in a Presidential campaign?

Louis - restating Clinton's plan as Obama's and McCain's plan as Clinton's doesnt make it true... but then you are learning from Obama so I will blame the teacher.

DCVoter

with your idea of how a true executive president was ...

"that people underneath need to deal with the money stuff"

That is the George Bush administration...remember...pass the buck down...well the buck stops at the CEO...read Jack Welch's book.

this is just another way Obama stands up better to McCain than Hillary. Both McCain and Hillary ran out of money. Barack didn't no matter whether you think someoneelse is responsible or not...it is a very strong argument in the middle of recession election.

The media has stayed clear of Obama for fear that it may antagonize the black population. Until now, even Hillary has played softy with him. However, if Obama becomes the Democratic presidential nominee, he will face an onslaught from Republicans and their allies that will be very different in tone and intensity. Republicans have openly supported Obama in Texas and other states so that they can eliminate Hillary. However, we all know that they will vote for McCain in the November general elections.

Dl, Clinton actually set up her campaign team for the express purpose of having differing opinions. Penn don't like Ikes and so on and it was her hope that out of strong disagreements issues would get its proper airing. I'm sure you already read about them going at it in her camp, so your idea is completely wrong. Now, about the new Iraq policy. What gives.

What's next from the Obama campaign? Why don't they just call the people of PA. ignorant groundhog lovers. This kind of behavior shows how immature this campaign is and how childern should not be entrusted with our security. When the call comes they will protect us by calling the enemy names?

Not if we are in a recession they won't...and if you think that Hillary doesn't energize their base more than any of their own candidates...you are not talking to too many republicans.

In his book "Dreams of My Father", Obama has written extensively about his drug and alcohol use. He called himself as a "Junkie Pothead" who was always out to screw around. "That's where I'd been headed: the final fatal role of the young would be black man," Obama wrote. This was not a single incident or an adolescent indiscretion, rather when Obama was an adult in his twenties and thirties. Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, but also used cocaine when he could afford it. Drug use continued through adulthood even when Obama became a state senator in Illinois.

For this reason, Hussein Obama is not qualified to be a President. As a private citizen, he would be disqualified to even obtain a security clearance!

Go Hillary!

Although he has been mum about it, Obama has had long-standing financial relationship with Excelon Corporation, one of the biggest polluters in Illinois. Over the past ten years, Obama has received hundreds of thousands of $$$ in campaign contributions. According to FoxNews, "Senator Obama has some questions to answer about his dealings with one of his largest contributors, Exelon, a big nuclear power company." Apparently he cut some deals behind closed doors to protect them from full disclosure in the nuclear industry."

Mike_FL what's the scoop down Florida way? Do folks want their delegates seated? Do they want a do over as some suggest? What's the mood down there toward the Obama camp?

no ...Hillarys people don't like each other and have different viewpoints on their own worth and jobs...and they all are rumored to agree Mrs. C. at the threat of well "Hill" herself... ...that is different than differing viewpoints on policy.

and I do not think their differing attitudes were on purpose... Screaming epithets at each other in an office is not what I was talking about ...

and Barack's policy has not changed...an advisor used the words "best-case scenario" because that is what she saw... Baracks plan is the in her opinion as an advisor "the best case scenario" and the goal...and now people are going to try and twist that...
That is old politics...and maybe they can change a little if Mr. Smith...er...Obama gets in.

Yeah Libya... that's a good model. It's Khadafi ...crazy person remember haha.

I think if he wasn't the head of Libya he would be telling me my dog speaks chinese as I passed him on my way out of the Pizza place ...

J. Dowd, this is only the seventh time this this has been posted. I'll ask you then, please provide court transcripts of said story so we can view the actual words. Now, why don't you comment on Obama's NEW Iraq policy?

russell - I cant find it now but I remember seeing something already stupid out of Obama's camp... it referred to the voting constituencies in PA... implying the blue collar workers there are not educated and will likely provide support for Clinton as a result... the article was about the Obama camp trying to lower expectations for PA and focus on other states he will do better in... the bottom line is... his camp has been insulting the intelligence of the voters for some time by inferring all the educated people support him... this is absolutely not true... and college degrees are not a measure of intelligence... we have people in power now that prove that ROFL

Once again, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton campaign deliberately twist, distort, misrepresent, and mischaracterize the facts for their own political ends. What Prof. Power said was that President Obama would not blindly implement a plan that he proposed one, two, or three years before he took office. Obama is committed to withdrawal, but will not be as stubborn as President Bush. It is Bush's inability to adjust to facts on the ground that greatly exacerbated the problems we currently face. President Obama will of course take into account current circumstances in implementing a troop withdrawal strategy. As he has stated repeatedly, we will be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in.

I hope against the odds that Hillary Clinton, the Clinton campaign, and Clinton supporters will stop the lies and distortions and will start running a positive campaign.

The Clintons are disingenuous people and plotted this strategy before they left the white house, from moving to new York to her run now. They just didnt anticipate a Barack Obama.

Why didnt she go back home to Arkansa and run for the senate there?

God help anyone who get in there way.

Plus I think she realizes that she really cant get the nomination based on the numbers and wants to destroy Baracks chances against McCaine so that she will be there to run in four years.

She will do and say anything to get what she wants and if it means destroying the democratic party so be it.

The voters need to put an end to this in the remaining states and vote for Obama overwhelmingly.

Hey, Gene L, we, Clinton supporters, did not let slip Obama's new Iraq policy. We did not know he had this policy until Powers let it slip out on the BBC network. It was Obama's OWN policy adviser who caused this Iraq policy mess, not us. And Powers announced this to a foreign press BEFORE Americans even suspected. Perhaps you aught to get your facts straight.

I voted for Bill Clinton, I voted for Al Gore, I voted for John Kerry. I hope to vote for Barack Obama.

But after this campaign, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton.