Bush speaks against appeasement, Obama responds.

"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Okay President Bush is right on here. Everyone knows, but the Democrats neglect, that conservatives believe in attempting negotiations with civilized people and groups before using military force against them. In the case of completely uncivilized maniacs like Hamas, Al-Qaida and the Nazis there is no need to negotiate. We must tell them to stop. Currently, for example, the nations represented by the UN are in total agreement that no one is to negotiate with Hamas until the terrorist group stops targeting innocent civilians and have issued resolutions to the affect. The same was true when Saddam Hussein claimed that he had weapons of mass destruction. What has the left said in these cases? In the case of Saddam Hussein, the left have cried out that it is not worth our sacrifices to liberate the people of Iraq, stop the murderous dictator that ordered the genocide of the people of Kuwait, and believed in the total destruction of Israel. What did the left ask for? More negotiations. In the former case, the sniveling, sick former president Jimmy Carter is meeting with Hamas as they launch rockets into Israel daily and called his meeting with these terrorists “fun.” This is clearly an ideology that we’re dealing with in America and Bush is right on!

Obama took the statement personally and said the following:

"It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack," Obama said in the statement his aides distributed. "George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel."

Obama is all over the map as usual. First off, what is false about President Bush’s statement? If Obama agrees with Bush, why doesn’t Obama consider Bush’s statement a criticism of Moveon.org? Secondly, Obama is lying. Everyone knows that Obama has suggested having negotiation talks with the leaders of Iran who are currently supplying arms and sponsoring attacks targeting American troops in Iraq. Also, Iraq’s President is a holocaust denying, anti-Semite who favors the destruction of Israel (I know those descriptors were redundant, I just wanted to drive the point home.). Obama has said that he wants to meet with a man who won’t even acknowledge the legitimacy of the existence of a Jewish state and Obama thinks of Israel as a “stalwart ally”? Obama loves Israel, he just went a church that published statements by Hamas in their church bulletin for the free donuts. Obama loves Israel, he just associates with anti-Semitic, anti-Americans namely his recent campaign advisor Rober Malley, campaign fundraiser, William Ayers, and campaign contributor, Tony Rezko because he enjoys talking politics while sipping lattes and getting the campaign strategy, the weather report, and paying his rent all in one shot.

Finally, the really disturbing part is that Obama believes, and Nancy Pelosi agrees, that foreign policy should be off the table for political discussion. Of course foreign policy is legitimate in political discourse. When the Democrats are pandering to the far left Code Pink types by running on a platform of surrender, cut, and run in Iraq…when Democrats want to abandon the people of Iraq in the midst of the battle for their freedom…when Democrats want to see our military defeated, of course foreign policy is legitimate political discussion!! But Obama says this is nothing more than the “politics of fear,” unlike those who say that we are to be inundated with water and all die by hurricane if we don’t regulate carbon-emissions. Yeah, carbon-emissions are legitimate. Last time I picked up a paper, I read that people are actually dying from terrorist attacks daily. I think Obama has his priorities confused.

(Reporting by David Morgan, editing by Jackie Frank)

Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:44am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain accused North Carolina's Republican Party of being "out of touch with reality" over its refusal to pull an advertisement criticizing Democrat Barack Obama.

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I think McCain is onto something here. Let’s face it, the conservative pundits with the exception of Medved and a couple others, were wrong on McCain. We (not that I’m a pundit) thought that McCain didn’t stand a chance. Furthermore, we thought that McCain was not conservative enough for the Republican Party and we didn’t want him to win. Well, the base was wrong; Republicans and independents won McCain the nomination. Maybe, we are out of touch with reality. Maybe, McCain is right.

As for strategy, this is a win-win situation. Obama’s pastor hurts him as a candidate. It keeps Hillary in the race longer. So, the Republican Party can play the ad with its full effect. Meanwhile, McCain looks good to all of those people out there that do want a more, let’s say, traditionally polite campaign. The only thing I’m worried about is that the Democrats will eventually get privy to all of this and nominate Hillary, who I think will be harder for McCain to beat. The excitement for Obama is already wearing off, as all excitement does.

Finally, we need the conservative base to vote for McCain. Don’t abandon him just because he isn’t as conservative as you are. It will just be a shot in the foot of the Republican Party, if we do.

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In an NBC interview aired on Friday, the Arizona senator said he has done all he can to persuade the state party to cancel the television ad that criticizes Obama as "too extreme" because of controversial remarks made by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

"They're not listening to me because they're out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable," McCain told NBC's "Today" Show.

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McCain brings up an excellent point to remember. He is bringing us back to a traditional and historical perspective that makes the Republican Party look great! Let us thank McCain for that.

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"I've done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue," he added.

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Republicans, I understand that this comment hurts. But don’t be offended so easily. A McCain win will be a Republican win. Don’t let a little difference in election season become a big difference in the course that we take as a nation.

Ironically, if Obama had spoken about his pastor the same way McCain speaks about the Republican Party, we might actually respect Obama a little. Then again, Obama has no excuse for being in that nut’s church anyway.

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Asked if the state party's unwillingness to heed his call raised questions about his leadership, McCain replied: "I don't know exactly how to respond to that."

North Carolina is one of two states holding the next crucial Democratic primaries on May 6 in the tight race between Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to oppose McCain in the November presidential election.

Obama, an Illinois senator who would be the first black U.S. president, has come under fire for attending Wright's church in Chicago where the fiery black preacher made a number of racially charged statements about the United States.

Wright, who is now retired, said in a PBS interview that people are trying to paint him as "some kind of fanatic."

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It is understandable that Wright is upset. He is not a fanatic. He is an entertainer and a fraud. As a privileged, American, male, W.A.S.P. I feel obligated to speak the truth at the risk of overstepping my bounds. Wright exploits the people that he claims to love and his rhetoric of victimization has done more to oppress black Americans than the evil and entirely morally repugnant, sad, sorry, little racists in the K.K.K over the last two or three decades. I can’t do anything for the black community, but I know what the black community needs. It is the same thing that every ethnic group needs; freedom, opportunity, personal responsibility, and leaders who will encourage it.

Back to Mac, McCain is the kind of leader who speaks to all Americans with the same message of freedom and responsibility. He could be the man to draw blacks back to the Republican Party. McCain leads by example. He stood in Arlington before a crowd that won’t vote for him on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. Although I didn’t agree with him, he has visited Louisiana in the aftermath of Katrina and may appeal to the blacks there. He walked the bridge in Selma on his tour of forgotten places. His example is admirable and it does not go unnoticed. Nothing will change during the campaign, but a McCain presidency shows promise for the improvement of race relations in the future of the Republican Party.

I finally understand what this whole “hope” thing is about with Obama. He has locked into the defective thinking of the left. He thinks that unless the government solves our problems, the problems will forever remain. His whole message is that your hope can be found only in the government.

If you don’t agree with Obama, then he says you participate in a politics of cynicism. I find great dissonance between this view and the view that our hope comes from God. The psalmist writes:

 16 No king is saved by the size of his army;
       no warrior escapes by his great strength.

 17 A horse is a vain hope for deliverance;
       despite all its great strength it cannot save.

 18 But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him,
       on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,

 19 to deliver them from death
       and keep them alive in famine.

 20 We wait in hope for the LORD;
       he is our help and our shield.

 21 In him our hearts rejoice,
       for we trust in his holy name.

 22 May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD,
       even as we put our hope in you. (Psalm 33)

Does the psalmist participate in the politics of cynicism? Our Lord Jesus Christ provides hope for Christians. I think it a virtue to find our hope in God and not government. Why? God has proved that He is faithful and just.

Our government:

 - just shipped missile components to Taiwan by accident (25 March 2008).

- can’t balance a budget and is as efficient at spending money as a sift is at carrying water.

- can’t match the outcomes of students attending private schools.

- didn’t do such a great job with the Katrina disaster.

- Look! The list goes on and on.

What is the big problem with big government? Big government control has been tried in the former Soviet Union and it resulted in 100,000s murdered. It is the same with Cuba under Guevara and China under Mao. North Korea under Jong Il is a tale of starvation, poverty, and zero human rights.

Granted, Western Europe has not been involved in any genocide over the last 50 years. The problem is that if we go the route of Western Europe, we will have the same opportunities as Western Europeans. Western Europeans do not have the opportunities Americans have. America as it stands is still the land of opportunity. It is a land full of tales of rags to riches, social mobility, and great progress. That is the story of hope. You live in a land where you can worship as you please in America. It is a land where you can become anything you want to become through decency, hard work, and a little ambition.

That is why I have since the publication of his book, The Audacity of Hope (2006), found his words to be incredibly pretentious. Americans are hopeful. Americans are good people. It does not take audacity to have hope. What does take audacity is calling a nation of hopeful people, “cynics.”

Based on this quote, I find two things. One, Obama wants you to envy the wealthy. He thinks that if you envy the wealthy, that you will vote for him because he is Robin Hood. He will steal from the rich and give to the poor. Go Obama Hood! So much for acting like a Christian. Envy is a sin Obama. And this isn’t a one time slip-up. Promoting envy is a way of life for Obama.

The second is that he believes that American’s should live in a world with no risks. He thinks we can just spread out the wealth by taking away the rights of successful, honest Americans. Sorry Obama. Your utopia has been tried. It was called the Soviet Union and it collapsed. Others have tried it too. They were called cults. I’m not drinking the kool-aid Obama. Just say “no” to Obama.