Ok...2nd installment, now reading down through his positions on his website. http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/
Strengthening America Overseas: A big lotta nothin' in this area. Some big, sloppy, amorphous statements about building partnerships, yada, yada, yada. The Nunn-Lugar program has had some success.
Avian flu? How many Americans have contracted this? One or is it two now? And we've spent how many billions?
Oo, oo, here's something. Darfur. In his very first paragraph here, Senator Obama states that he’s “…tackled problems such as preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction and stopping the genocide in Darfur”. Really? I'm sure those being slaughtered will rest easier. Oh, wait…later he states that he's doing the usual Democrat thing. He's worked out the "Darfur Peace & Accountability Act" (Do the Sudanese fall under the jurisdiction of our laws? Do they care?)…which will do what exactly? He's also gone to the UN…which will do what exactly? He's also gone to Sudan to visit refuge camps…which will do what exactly? Other than racking up frequent flyer miles at my expense, what is he accomplishing?
Actually, going there is rather shabby in regards to those being killed isn't it? Kind've like standing outside someone's burning house and discussing (with those that set the fire) that you might (just might) have to do something about that fire...someday.
Granted, it's not his job to fix, but isn't it just a lot of pontificating??
Next in line on his site is the position on Iraq. Should prove interesting.
Well, he does have Samantha Power on his team. She is journalist, writer and professor who works for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is actually the one who drew Obama's attention to Sudan long before it was a "sheik" cause. She has been very vocal, both in print and on film, about genocide around the world. She is also considered by many to be one of the top scientists and thinkers in our country.
The Sudan issue can only be solved by the rest of the world cutting off the corrupt Sudanese government from its supply of money. That will not happen as long as China, the great defender of human rights, is buying oil from them. In Sudan and many other countries, it sometimes seems to me that there is a financial benefit if there is chaos so no one does anything.
Samantha Power? Is she hot? So she does this that and the other and in the end, what's become of it? OK, fine...more and more people "know", but until someone does something other than discuss it, it's all just talk, isn't it?
Many liberals think that talking about a problem and saying they care more than you do is somehow equal to actually doing something about the problem. So this lady made a film. yipee. I'm sure the people who are still being slaughtered are thankful.
Only a liberal could say things like "Free Tibet" while at the same time opposing pretty much everything that actually would "Free Tibet".
SW, agreed on Tibet. But I hope you realize that that is both sides, Democratic and Republican, that are hip deep in business with China.
Dave, Sudan is a mess because of the same mindset I spoke of in my original post about Obama...the dark hearted men of the world, and they aren't just Americans, benefit from chaos there. No chaos means no arms sales, higher gas prices and thus no profits. China really has us by the balls in Sudan. What are we going to do except talk about it? They are financing W's spending spree.
I think you're trying to make a conspiracy where there just isn't one. I'm no economist, but this stuff goes on all the time and to insinuate that it's something sinister cooked up by the President is just tabloid stuff.
That said, why or why do we always give a communist gov't 'most favored nation' status?
No conspiracy here...I think the fact that we are indebted to China affects our foreign policy decision making and an example of this is Sudan. Our economic situation with China goes a long way to explaining why all the talk about doing something about Sudan remains just talk.
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Ok...2nd installment, now reading down through his positions on his website. http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/
Strengthening America Overseas:
A big lotta nothin' in this area. Some big, sloppy, amorphous statements about building partnerships, yada, yada, yada.
The Nunn-Lugar program has had some success.
Avian flu? How many Americans have contracted this? One or is it two now? And we've spent how many billions?
Oo, oo, here's something. Darfur. In his very first paragraph here, Senator Obama states that he’s “…tackled problems such as preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction and stopping the genocide in Darfur”. Really? I'm sure those being slaughtered will rest easier. Oh, wait…later he states that he's doing the usual Democrat thing. He's worked out the "Darfur Peace & Accountability Act" (Do the Sudanese fall under the jurisdiction of our laws? Do they care?)…which will do what exactly? He's also gone to the UN…which will do what exactly? He's also gone to Sudan to visit refuge camps…which will do what exactly? Other than racking up frequent flyer miles at my expense, what is he accomplishing?
Actually, going there is rather shabby in regards to those being killed isn't it? Kind've like standing outside someone's burning house and discussing (with those that set the fire) that you might (just might) have to do something about that fire...someday.
Granted, it's not his job to fix, but isn't it just a lot of pontificating??
Next in line on his site is the position on Iraq. Should prove interesting.
Well, he does have Samantha Power on his team. She is journalist, writer and professor who works for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is actually the one who drew Obama's attention to Sudan long before it was a "sheik" cause. She has been very vocal, both in print and on film, about genocide around the world. She is also considered by many to be one of the top scientists and thinkers in our country.
The Sudan issue can only be solved by the rest of the world cutting off the corrupt Sudanese government from its supply of money. That will not happen as long as China, the great defender of human rights, is buying oil from them. In Sudan and many other countries, it sometimes seems to me that there is a financial benefit if there is chaos so no one does anything.
Samantha Power? Is she hot? So she does this that and the other and in the end, what's become of it? OK, fine...more and more people "know", but until someone does something other than discuss it, it's all just talk, isn't it?
Many liberals think that talking about a problem and saying they care more than you do is somehow equal to actually doing something about the problem. So this lady made a film. yipee. I'm sure the people who are still being slaughtered are thankful.
Only a liberal could say things like "Free Tibet" while at the same time opposing pretty much everything that actually would "Free Tibet".
SW, agreed on Tibet. But I hope you realize that that is both sides, Democratic and Republican, that are hip deep in business with China.
Dave, Sudan is a mess because of the same mindset I spoke of in my original post about Obama...the dark hearted men of the world, and they aren't just Americans, benefit from chaos there. No chaos means no arms sales, higher gas prices and thus no profits. China really has us by the balls in Sudan. What are we going to do except talk about it? They are financing W's spending spree.
China is financing W's spending spree??? You lost me on that one. Please explain.
Dave,
Take a look at this
http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt
and
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/13/news/wbmarket14.php
Read the last line in the 2nd link.
I think you're trying to make a conspiracy where there just isn't one. I'm no economist, but this stuff goes on all the time and to insinuate that it's something sinister cooked up by the President is just tabloid stuff.
That said, why or why do we always give a communist gov't 'most favored nation' status?
No conspiracy here...I think the fact that we are indebted to China affects our foreign policy decision making and an example of this is Sudan. Our economic situation with China goes a long way to explaining why all the talk about doing something about Sudan remains just talk.
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