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Obama Tough and Eloquent Today Against Bush/McCain

infiniteregress.tv — Fordham Univ Prof Paul Levinson: Obama came out swinging in a "tough, eloquent, intelligent response to Bush and McCane's slurs about Democratic 'appeasement'... Some parts of the world may indeed not yet be ready for Jeffersonian democracy, as Obama said today. But the United States surely is."

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  • kc8ukw, on 05/17/2008, -5/+2The comments on Obama's alleged support of the 2nd amendment are just mish-mash here.

    "This means that regulation of guns is permissible under the Second Amendment, as long as that regulation does not infringe on the rights of law-abiding citizens to bear arms."

    I suppose I would agree with that sentence, but the policy content of it is almost nil. When exactly do we start infringing? I don't think Obama's past actions show him to be any friend of gun owners.

    Here, every Digger's favorite thing, an ad from the RNC on Obama and the 2nd Amendment. Obama's past actions start at 0:36.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifEg1aq6Emo
  • tcbishop12, on 05/17/2008, -1/+7Indeed, direct, truthful, on point, and eloquent. You have far less to rehearse or have to remember when you're telling the truth and speaking from principle as Sen. Obama does.

    In addition to defending his concept of diplomatic engagement, Sen. Obama said it was Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain who have strayed from the robust American tradition of bilateral support for resolving conflicts through direct negotiations, a tradition that has run from John F. Kennedy to Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Obama said that what was puzzling is that this in any way would be controversial, because it has been the history of successful U.S. diplomacy until recently.

  • Hillsfar, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3Joe Biden, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said if the president disagrees so strongly with the idea of talking to Iran, he needs to fire his secretaries of state and defense, both of whom have pushed to sit down with the Iranians.

    Sounds to me like Bush needs to own up to his own words.
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