The video below says it all, but it’s worth saying again - the Surge has worked in Iraq. The video documents what it looked like before and after the surge on 60th Street in South Baghdad - an area known as Dora. Be sure to watch the video, it’s only a minute long.
Now, the only question is will Presiden Obama purposefully force defeat on our troops in Iraq, or will he let our military finish the job?
Finally, after decades in the halls of the US Senate, Joe Biden was right on a foreign policy issue: the world’s worst characters will test Barack Obama when he becomes president.
As if the War on Terror weren’t enough, and the financial crisis wasn’t hard enough to solve, now we have Russia placing missiles on the border of Poland, President Karzai demanding we stop using airplanes in Afghanistan, and of course Osama has reared his ugly head and supposedly has a new video waiting in the wings for the new president.
To recap how we can expect Obama to respond, let’s look at his record:
When Russia invaded Georgia, Obama immediately stepped to the front and forcefully demanded that…uh, Georgia (?) allow cooler heads to prevail? While Russia was bombing civilians, setting fire to villages, and invading sovereign territory, Obama boldly told the victims to hush up. Classy.
Barack also happens to agree that America is indiscriminately bombing civilians in Afghanistan.
“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.”
Oh, and Sen. John Kerry is on the shortlist for Secretary of State. Enough said on that one. Surely, he will stand up to Karzai.
Lastly, we have evidence of how Obama has formerly dealt with terrorists. William Ayers.
Well, it’s time to take stock of things. There are many reasons beyond our control why we lost this election, but there are also some that we can control. As a leader in the youth movement for the Republican Party, I see that there is much that we can do to rapidly catch up with our counterparts on the left in the use of technology that will allow us to communicate more effectively with our contemporaries. However, it does not stop there. It’s time to rebuild much of our party’s infrastructure, pursue some new strategies, and take a different approach to candidate recruitment and grassroots politics.
I don’t have all the answers, but there is a group of people that are pretty close. I have signed on, along with Blake and Ethan, to be part of a coalition to rebuild our party from the ground up. You can read the platform at the new site www.rebuildtheparty.com, join us, and follow the developments as they unfold.
The next few months will be crucial in taking our party in a new strategic direction for the next four years. We have a lot of catching up to do, and it has to start now. To wait would doom us to roam the wilderness longer than we have to
“Meet the new politics
Same as the old politics”
During his first press conference as President-Elect, Barack Obama was asked if he’d spoken too all the living presidents yet. His response:
“I have spoken to all of them who are living,” he says. “I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances,” he says.
Wow. Picking on 90 year old former First Ladies. The Hope is fading…