And the Draft Romney movements gains traction!
The “apology” begins thus:
Three and a half pages of Dr Carson’s statements follow. Most of which quite a few people would consider extreme. But, hey, he’s not as bad as* some* of the Klansmen & neo Nazi creeps that SPLC watches. They’re not sure where he fits in the spectrum–but do want people to see what he stands for.
I’d term the apology passive-aggressive. Good for SPLC!
fine.
But exactly what experience did Barack Obama have to prepare him for international problems?
Obama was on the Foreign Relations and Homeland Security Committees when he was in the Senate. He was chairman of the subcommittee on European Affairs. While in the Senate, he met with Mahmoud Abbas.
Of course, the Right considers SPLC to be a rabble-rousing bunch of lying Communists no matter who they criticize.
Pretty weak tea, considering that over in the Democratic thread, I’ve been assured that Hillary Clinton shouldn’t have to take positions on what’s going on yet. Double standard much?
Not less than he relevantly claimed to have, I’m sure. The problem with this is not that it shows Walker unready for international politics but that it shows Walker to be a clueless idiot.
For the 2 whole years he was Senator before running for POTUS? Hardly time for him to vote “Present” on something.
I second that. Nearly every Republican candidate is starting out with more experience actually running something, and only two less years foreign policy experience. foreign policy experience defined as sitting in a committee and talking with other Americans.
. . . than Barack Obama in 2008. But he won’t be running in 2016, and none of them can compare to HRC in that regard.
I’ll take low experience and many fewer dead Americans than, say, McCain’s decades of experience and the thousands more Americans that he would have ordered to their deaths for no or even negative gain.
And that has what to do with the likely Democratic candidates how?
It means that trying to portray the Republican candidate as too inexperienced to be President will mean expecting Americans to have a really short memory.
As for Clinton’s experience, the State Department and the Senate are real experience, but I’m not sure where the media gets her “extensive resume” from, unless it’s the thing no one dare say aloud- “Co-President”.
We’ve already proven that, haven’t we?
I’d say that’s speculation. President Obama might be causing more American deaths in the future. ISIS is still advancing. If they get control of a government, that will mean war at some point in the not too distant future with an actual state. It’ll be Afghanistan all over again.
John McCain may have been hawkish, but we don’t know how well he would have conducted his duties as Commander-in-Chief. Hillary Clinton is also very hawkish and supported the war in Iraq. Which of course she gets a pass for now. BTW, that should be a pretty good debate line for any Republican accused of being a warmonger: “Only one person on this stage voted for the war in Iraq.”
ISIS is never going to take Damascus or Baghdad or Ankara. All their neighbors hate them. The Kurds hate them. The Turks hate them. The Iraqi Shi’ites hate them. Most Iraqi Sunnis hate them. Assad hates them. All other Syrian rebel factions hate them. The Egyptians hate them. The Israelis hate them. The Saudis hate them. Iran hates them. Hezbollah hates them. The Yezidis hate them. The King of Jordan really hates them. After that recent business in Libya, all the region’s Christians must hate them to the degree Christian love allows. Even al-Qaeda hates them. They can’t hang. Soon as even one or two of those neighbors get their acts together, ISIS will be gone like the dust a Muslim washes off his hands before prayers. American ground troops will not be necessary, there will be plenty of other armies butting in line to get at them.
Perhaps. It depends on their will to fight. While the Arab armies are far more impressive than ISIS on paper, what happens if they run away? You could be right, but they do have a real chance of establishing a de facto state in the Sunni Arab areas of Syria and Iraq.
They already have that. But we have no reason to fear it’s going to get any bigger.
I see no reason to believe that ISIS (which has… what, 20,000 fighters?) could ever control more than a smattering of relatively low density territory.
If he would have followed through with his rhetoric on Iran, then he would have been an absolutely awful C-in-C. War with Iran would terribly damage our national security.
Besides Rand Paul I see no Republican that has admitted the Iraq war was a terrible blunder. Hillary has – admitting a mistake and explaining what one has learned from it should work against the typical Republican hawk.