From a campiagn press release

 “Meet, talk, and hope may be a sound approach in a state legislature, but it is dangerously naive in international diplomacy where the oppressed look to America for hope and adversaries wish us ill.”  

In the 109th and 110th Congresses Barack Obama was the lead sponsor on 116 bills. Of that pathetically small effort, only one–one!–was passed and signed into law. That huge legislative achievement? S. 2125, a bill to “promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo” became law in December 2006. (S. 2125, Became Law 12/22/06). For those of you keeping score at home thats a 1.6% rate of passage from the junior Senator from Illinois.

Barack Obama cited JFK in defending his misguided Cuba policy, but JFK imposed the embargo he is trying to sidestep…

Barack Obama Sites President Kennedy In Defending His Cuba Policy Obama: “I support the eventual normalization. And it’s absolutely true that I think our policy has been a failure. … I think it is important for us to have the direct contact, not just in Cuba, but I think this principle applies generally. I recall what John F. Kennedy once said, that we should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate. And this moment, this opportunity when Fidel Castro has finally stepped down, I think, is one that we should try to take advantage of.” (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/21/debate.transcript/)

Yet JFK Imposed The Current Policy Of Isolating Cuba: “The embargo, which began in 1960 during the Eisenhower administration with a ban on U.S. exports to Cuba except for food and medicine, was extended on Feb. 7, 1962, by President Kennedy to ban all imports from Cuba to the United States, including the Cuban cigars that Kennedy had a special fondness for. The aim was to financially strangle Cuba and force a change in the communist-run government.” (Martin Crutsinger, “Cuban Trade Embargo Expected to Remain”, Associated Press, 2/20/2008)

Nancy Pelosi has developed quite an amazing ability to stick her foot in her mouth right when it will be the most noticeable. While Nancy Pelosi is saying things like this,

“There haven’t been gains, Wolf,” the speaker replied. “The gains have not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq. This is a failure. This is a failure. The troops have succeeded, God bless them. We owe them the greatest debt of gratitude for their sacrifice, their patriotism, and for their courage and to their families as well.” [Emphasis mine]

Meanwhile, Al-Qaeda is signing a different tune. In recently released copies of letters intercepted between the leaders of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorists in charge sound the alarm that everything around them is falling apart.

 “This created weakness and psychological defeat. This also created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight. The morale of the fighters went down . . . There was a total collapse in the security structure of the organisation.”

and this:

“There were almost 600 fighters in our sector before the tribes changed course 360 degrees . . . Many of our fighters quit and some of them joined the deserters . . . As a result of that the number of fighters dropped down to 20 or less.”

and this:

“The Islamic State of Iraq [al-Qaeda] is faced with an extraordinary crisis, especially in al-Anbar province. Al-Qaeda’s expulsion from Anbar created weakness and psychological defeat. This also created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight.

Of course, Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats have never been to keen on things like facts. They tend to get in the way of their agenda…

I will leave most of the talking to an absolutely amazing article from the Washington Monthly, but with the recent Ted Kennedy endorsement I have to say my piece about all these comparisons between Barack Obama and JFK.

Sen. Barack Obama can give some rhetorically amazing (if unsubstantial) speeches, and he can say change as many times in our paragraph as anybody I know - but he is no revolutionary leader. As the article above (and below) explains, while many people claimed JFK to be too inexperienced for the presidency he actually had quite a resume by the time he sought the highest office in the land. He was a WWII hero, a well-traveled US Congressman, and an independent voice on matters of international diplomacy. Sen. Obama was born in Indonesia…yes, that’s it.

Read the whole article. 

we know that the Democratic candidate is someone America simply can’t trust to handle the delicate world of foreign policy. Whether because they lack the experience, or they’ve simply shown a disregard for American interests and basic facts, the Democrats are not fit to represent the US on the international stage.

This point has been made time and again by the candidates themselves, but HERE’s a post on RedState by “former director of public affairs with the CIA and served as deputy communications director with the Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign”, Jennifer Millerwise Dyck - what you might be able to call “someone who knows what they’re talking about”.