Blow-dried battle of surrogates
It was the battle of the well-coiffed.
John Edwards -- he of the $400 haircut and one of Barack Obama's highest-profile supporters faced off this afternoon on CNN with Mitt Romney -- he of the not-one-hair-out-of-place and appearing on behalf of John McCain.
The topic: the dustup over President Bush's remarks Thursday that arguing that talking to rogue regimes amounted to appeasement.
Romney said he was stunned that Obama took umbrage at Bush's speech, which did not mention Obama and which Romney argued was well-stated US policy. "I'm kind of speechless," Romney said.
A key difference between Obama and McCain, Romney said, is that Obama would provide a "propaganda bonanza" by meeting personally with leaders such as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while McCain would not.
Obama's willingness to meet with such leaders "shows a level of naivete that Americans recognize is not right for the commander in chief," said the former Massachusetts governor, whose name is bandied about as a potential vice presidential pick for McCain.
In his separate later appearance, Edwards said that it was "beneath the dignity of the president" to make such remarks to the Israeli parliament and that to make the comparison with the appeasement of Hitler was "an extraordinary and deplorable thing to say."
"It's an amazing thing to listen to the continuation of fear-mongering," Edwards continuing, referring to what Republicans did to Senator John F. Kerry and him when he was the vice presidential nominee in 2004.
"It is utter nonsense," the former North Carolina senator, who endorsed Obama this week. "Luckily, we are at a different place."
Bush's foreign policy has been a "complete and utter disaster" and McCain embraces it, Edwards said. "The American people are going to have a dramatic choice."
"Bush's foreign policy has been a "complete and utter disaster," is Edward's opinion and is not factual. Millions disagree with Edwards on this one. Edwards is in a land of liberty and has a right to his opinion. Everyone has a right to their opinion but opinions are often wrong.
John Edwards never got a $400 haircut. One day on the campaign trail, they had scheduled a barber for a haircut. Edwards' schedule that day made him many hours late for the barber. Edwards gave the man $400 to pay him for his time having to wait around most of the day. But the braindeads of the media never bothered to write the truth, they simply twisted the story into something it is not.
The media has become as evil as the Bush government, full of lies, full of self-serving righteousness, but with no commitment to the truth.
Sorry, dude, but you have no more credibility with me than any of the other media whores who helped cheerlead this nation into Bush's Oil War.
This is the argument, should the President meet face to face without preconditions with a guy who wants to annihilate Israel, and wants to destroy America? Obama thinks if he is president he should. Wouldn't you want to know the purpose of such talks before sending the President to sit down with a murderer? OK, so you think you can negotiate, you want to compromise. I see. You think you can convince him his plans to murder and destroy are wrong. OK, so the dictator says, you and your countrymen must die. How do you compromise? I got it ..... here is what we can offer you. You can have just the lawyers and agree to kill no more, and then we will lift the sanctions. Deal? And he says, you give me the weapons to take out the lawyers and you have yourself a deal. No weapons, No Deal.
We haven't been attack since 9/11 that shows President Bush was at the right place(White House) at the right time and our safety has been quaranteed since then under this President.Other issues are important too but securing our home from the enemy reassure safety for all citizens.
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