New Air Force Tanker Built by Foreign Conglomerate

The European aircraft manufacturer, EADS (Airbus) won the contract to build the new Air Force tanker. Northrop Grumman is listed as the representative, and the manufacturing will be in the US, but it will be based off of the European built commercial airliner Airbus A330. Either way, the Europeans will be walking away with a lot of money Boeing (and American workers and taxpayers) will have missed out on.

Under the new deal, the team of Northrop and European Aeronautic Defence and Space, Airbus's parent company, initially will make 179 tankers for the Air Force. The deal to replace the roughly 500 tankers in the Air Force's fleet ultimately could be worth as much as $100 billion over the next several decades, analysts said.

As the dollar falls against the euro, expect the Europeans to demand more and more money from this contract with overruns. This is a big blow to Boeing who is in tight competition with Airbus for commercial airline orders. This move will put an end to the 767 line in Everett, WA.

This is unprecedented. It is the largest contract that the military has ever awarded to a foreign country. The force behind the Northrop-EADS bid was EADS. Northrop Grumman was added to legitimize the deal and talk of plants in Mobile, AL and other sites in the US was to placate American politics. But don't be fooled, the lions share of the profit will end up overseas, taxed by foreign governments and ultimately hurt the US economy.

The only hope is that this wake up call for Boeing fosters a stronger product in the future. That was the problem after the Cold War ended and the "peace dividend" put out so many US aircraft manufacturers, specifically McDonnell Douglas which was the only real competitor to Boeing before Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas.

After reading the literature on the two aircraft manufacturers, I concluded the EADS aircraft was superior to Boeing's so there was no favoritism like there was in 2004 when the Air Force acquisition world was rocked by scandal.

Still, it is sad to see so much money going overseas. All that is left now is for the Air Force to award the next generation UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle) contract to a Chinese backed US company.

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Obama's Star Culminating

The left wing media's overt love affair with Barack Obama is culminating. Culmination is when

It is a natural phenomenon, the brighter the flash, the quicker it fades. The interesting thing about the Barack Obama following is that is was fueled by the "younger" generation. Yes this is the same generation that has the attention span of a gnat. By the time November rolls around, the Obamamaniacs will be more interested in the next frat party than voting for the has been political rock star.

The older generation, those of us with a job, to include the media will be watching this Obama character closely. And some of the media-even the left wing extremists media has grown tired of the Obama glow.

David Brooks writes of the Obama Comedown Syndrome in the New York Times on February 19th. He describe Obama as the media's "Chosen One." He also stings Obama with sharp attack that strike a sober chord and at the heart of the Obama campaign. More commentary...

How is a 47-year-old novice going to unify highly polarized 70-something committee chairs? What will happen if the nation's 261,000 lobbyists don't see the light, even after the laying on of hands? Does The Changemaker have the guts to take on the special interests in his own party — the trial lawyers, the teachers' unions, the AARP?

The point Brooks misses, is that Obama cares about reality about as much as he cares about the Iraqis he'll leave to the wolves as he abandons their cause. Obama is only interested in winning the presidency, not being president. Otherwise, he'd have to offer something more than, let's be friends with everyone, tax the rich and feed the poor.

This brings up something I've stated before, what is Obama going to do about Iraq, leave or stay? His position on Iraq is so nuanced that it is hard to follow, I guess it is hard for him to follow which way the wind is blowing.

One day before Brooks opined his thoughts on how the media loves throwing its panties on stage at Obama rallies. Time's Joe Klein wrote down his thought about Inspiration vs. Substance on Obama. He states that the Obama campaign is the ultimate self licking ice cream, "The Obama campaign all too often is about how wonderful the Obama campaign is."

America will grow bored of Obama, and it will be too late for Clinton to capitalize, but will it be too late for America?

Al Qaeda UAVs

As much as the US has fallen in love with UAVs, you'd think that al Qaeda would follow in our footseps, espcially in technology.

It is ironic that the fanatical Muslims who detest modern technology thrive on it, cell phones, internet and now possibly UAVs.

One of the benefits to this is that evidently airline adn airport security has risen to the challenge and set the Islamic terrorists in a different direction.

The next step the US really must concern itself is when the terrorists build a stealth UAV.

Hillary Clinton RIP-DOA

The Obamanation seems to be overwhelming and no common sense is about to undue what the left wing extremist media has determined the news to be. And the news is, Obama will, "just get everybody together, get unified, the sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know Obama will do the right thing and the world will be perfect." Clinton's original quote.

My sincerest apologies to the late Senator Hillary Clinton-who died this year from a massive media attack. While campaigning for the super duper Tuesday in February Clinton was diagnosed with a malignant Obamanation just under her skin. Although she tried to fight the infection, the glare of the media on the Obamanation continued to cause the cancerous tumor to grow at a fatal rate for the former New York Senator and Presidential Candidate.

Clinton left super duper Tuesday in a state of shock and it took several primaries before help would arrive. By the time Clinton left Wisconsin with barely a pulse the Obamanation continued to ravage her unmercifully. Clinton soon discovered that media treatments that worked in the past were now actually causing the Obamanation to destroy Clinton's chances of living.

Unfortunately every transfusion that Clinton needed from the media treatment only helped the Obamanation.

It has been a tragedy to watch to once bright and vital (although liberal) candidate reduced to a pile of incoherent mush. By the Democratic convention in Denver, Clinton was pronounced DOA.

Liberals Use Air Force Against GWOT

General Carlson, AFMC commander, back on February 13 spoke out of turn about the F-22 in the slightest way. He said what Mosley and Wynne have been saying that the Air Force needs more F-22s and that we're going to try to find a way to get them.

In some ways, the poor Air Force general was just playing the Washington game, and undoubtedly wishes now that he merely said the Air Force "still thinks" that the United States needs more F-22s than the Pentagon pencil pushers have determined the military can afford.

In his article, Arkin, says everything the Air Force has been saying about the F-22: China is a threat, 380 are needed to fill all 10 AEF cycles and other missions like training and test, and that the F-22 assembly line is closing late this year or early next year.

Needless to say, the Air Force will only be getting 187 F-22s. But with only 187 F-22s the Air Force will have to keep the F-22 held in strategic reserves. This will limit options for the President has when is comes to employing the F-22. Instead of rotating F-22s throughout the world in AEF cycles, the Commander in Chief will have tip his hand when deploying the F-22 to politically sensitive or hot spots.

For example, if there is a force of 24 F-22s station or deployed to some of the following locations like Kadena, Misawa, Guam, Diego Garcia, Elmendorf and Hickam and possibly Thailand, the Philippines and Australia, without a compliment of F-22s on the other hemisphere it is pretty clear that the POTUS is trying to box in China. Some diplomatic flexibility is lost in this case. It is hard to deny that this force posture is anything but an aggressive stance against China.

Arkin makes the fiscal argument and the argument about fighting the current war first along with taking a swipe at defense contractors (all of which are valid points). But then he continues:

But to me, the issue is how the war in Iraq and the mindset of the war on terrorism is making us strategically stupid: The Bush administration is so intent on redeeming itself -- and by extension finding an honorable end to the war so that the United States can declare victory -- that no amount of money, no number of American lives, no other national security needs can get in the way.

So the article is a swipe at the Iraq War. Arkin just choses the Air Force as the stick to beat the war effort with. But Arkin tips his hand and told us at the begining of the article:

This is not a column in defense of an airplane. Nor is it is defense of a four-star active-duty general who was stupid enough to suggest in public this week that the Air Force was going to figure out a way to buy more than twice as many new stealthy fighter jets than the Bush administration has decided it needs. I am not writing to defend the Air Force in its quest for the best equipment or its constant whine about being unappreciated. Nor am I passing judgment about whether there is a military threat from China and what to do about it, the "strategic" issue at hand. I don't even want to applaud Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who moved swiftly to rebuke the general, reasserting the vital principle that civilians ultimately control the military.

It is interesting that in light of the progress made in Iraq that the blame-America-first liberal world, there isn't an honorable end or a way to declare victory in Iraq. These people are not grounded in reality. The fact is these people are so vested in losing the Iraq war that no matter what the outcome there will never be victory for the liberals who hate America.

Video of F-22 manueverability.

JC Watts for Vice-President

JC Watts needs to be on John McCain's short list for Vice-President.

McCain's running mate needs to be young, good looking, strongly conservative, principled, and a charismatic speaker.

This leads us to a select few, but one stands out in front alone, JC Watts. Did I mention he is African-American? Not that this should come into play, but the hard truth about America today is that it does especially when the Democrats will be putting up a young, good looking, strongly liberal, charismatic African-American.

Watts understands the how badly the Democrats need the US to lose in Iraq.

Such is the case with the Democrat leadership on all matters Iraq. Maybe it's just me, but I'm thinking the Democrats have invested a lot in seeing the United States not win in Iraq. So many have invested politically in our non-success that they don't want to hear truth and they ignore evidence. Conversely, Republicans were so politically invested in winning that we ignored Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's failed war policies early on.

JC Watts on John McCain over the war in Iraq.


When confronted with the option of joining the Congressional Black Congress, JC Watts refused for principled reasons. JC Watts' notorious sound bite calls the Jesse Jackson's of the world what they are:

"...they said that I had sold out and Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps." (Watts speaking on Hannity and Colmes about his refusal to join the Congressional Black Caucus)

JC Watts' sense of right and wrong is sound. He does have what some may consider a skeleton, (a child born out of wedlock-adopted by an uncle) but they've been fully aired out on the floor of the House of Representatives. Although it may not be known to the average American. But he had the judgment to make the best choice when faced with a difficult choice.

Others have started the JC Watts theory, I'm only jumping on the bandwagon that includes Chron-Watch, among others.

Obama's Biggest Lie-So Far

Obama has been running on the "I'll get us out of Iraq," fantasy, and it plays well with the naive and the liberals.

If you read his website, it states, "Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months." Of course, this is complete lunacy. There is some semblance of order in Iraq right now thanks to the "McCain surge," and now we are going to pull the carpet out from underneath the Iraqi people.

If you remember back in 1991 the US was accused of abandoning the Shiites of southern Iraq in their bid to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Now the US will abandon the Iraqi people for a second time. This is not sound foreign policy.

But Obama has a caveat, "He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda." Obama has taken doublespeak to new lows. Exactly how many troops will be required to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda? It is feasible to argue we don't have enough troops in Iraq right now to carry out that mission. So is Obama going to increase troop strength to carry out this mission? Either way, look for the liberals to scream foul when Obama is left with no other choice than to leave a substantial number of troops in Iraq.

"Obama will launch the most aggressive diplomatic effort in recent American history to reach a new compact on the stability of Iraq and the Middle East." If Obama abandons the Iraqi people in their time of need this "aggressive" diplomatic effort will have no teeth or credibility behind it. Obama, and the US, will be the laughingstock of the middle east.

What Obama doesn't understand is that his rock star status with American Idol crazed American's won't translate to people like Ahmadinejad and Sadr. Like most rock stars, Obama has lost touch with reality and been intoxicated with the love fest with is constituency thinking he can do no wrong.

Air Force May Get Smaller Budget

The Air Force may get a smaller budget in the future if Rep. Jim Cooper (D) of Tennessee gets his way and the Army and Marines may walk away with the lion's share of the military budget.

For decades the Army, Air Force and Navy have split the military budget almost into thirds.

The fiscal 2009 budget request released this month, for example, shows the Army requesting a 27 percent share, the Air Force asking for a 28 percent share, and the Navy, which includes the Marine Corps, wanting a 29 percent share of the proposed $515 billion budget..."After seven years of war, that we haven't budged one inch away from the cold war apportionment of the budget to me is Kafka-esque," said Robert Scales Jr..

The Air Force may continue to point to China as the emerging threat, but the rest of the country isn't buying it-especially the liberals. And with the Barackomania Obamination gathering steam as we head into the election, it could spell a certain doom for the Air Force. Not that McCain is a friend of the Air Force-he seems to have a personal vendetta against the Air Force.

In a twisted way, Barack Obama could aid the Air Force in the worst of ways. By pulling out of Iraq, which he can't or won't do, but if he did, the load would be lightened on the Army and Marines. This could allow the nation to once again look at the full spectrum of warfare beyond just counter insurgency.

The F-22 line is closing. And unless the Air Force gets the money to buy more or the US decides to sell some to Japan, the line will close and seal the coffin of future F-22s. What the Air Force can do is press for more tankers and transports. Those items are getting play in GWOT and the Air Force should exploit the war for what it can. Also in the news is cyberwarfare, so the Air Force should be able to press for money for the new Cyber Command. The time to press for the F-22 was after the Gulf War, but the peace dividend kicked in and then the military suffered through the "more with less" Clinton years.

This isn't the last nail in the coffin for manned fighters, but is isn't the first either.

Russia Smacks Down the Dollar

Although the execution is not upon us, at some point soon, Russia will no longer trade oil in dollars, but rubles.

This may sound innocuous but there are some serious ramifications for the US economy once this begins.

First of all, with the falling dollar and the general feeling toward the US, other countries will probably follow suit. Iran has stated for some time now that they would like to trade their oil in some other currency than the dollar.

The US will no longer be able to trade under a trade deficit. Other countries had to have dollars on hand for oil contracts. In the past and because of that the dollar was always in demand.

The ruble could become the global currency replacing the dollar. While the middle east has had oil, its business and political processes were never able to capitalize on the opportunities oil wealth offered. Russia is a different situation.

A scarier thought is if the current situation with Russia coming into its own as an oil producer (second only to Saudi Arabia) 20 years ago, the Cold War might have had a different ending.

Although I wouldn't go investing in rubles yet, I would think that it is time the US free itself from oil. If the dollar is no longer pegged to oil, it could free fall causing oil prices in the US to climb prohibitively high. At that point the US will have to start refining oil shale or going green.

Video of Successful Satellite Missile Strike

The US Navy's missile strike on a dying spy satellite was deemed a success by Vice Chairman General Cartwright.

Of course, Russia, China, and anti-American liberals, have criticized the act as somewhat of a show of force or a conspiracy to restart the arms race in order to fatten up military contracts.

The SM-3 missile hit the hydrazine fuel tank which was the target. The concern with hydrazine is that causes damage to the liver, kidneys and central nervous system.

Of the 3000 pieces left of the satellite, none are larger than a football and should not cause any problems during reentry.

Obama Flip Flops on NAFTA, Free Trade

Obama's inexperience or ability to lie has led him into a trap that he can't get out of

First of all, Obama says NAFTA is bad, which he has to say in Ohio to knock out Hillary Clinton from the Democratic primary race.

But he really doesn't believe what he is saying because out of the other side of his mouth he states he supports free trade.

In a laughable statement he says, "What the world should interpret is my consistent position, which is I believe in trade." By saying "consistent", he means "inconsistent". It is humorous how he tries to mitigate his flip-flopping by adding the word "consistent".

But Barack Obama is just (and only) "words". If you believe in Barack Obama, you might as well believe in Santa Claus.

As Hillary Clinton said, as she mimicked the slick tongued Obama, "I could stand up here and say, 'Let's just get everybody together, let's get unified, the sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect.' " Then Clinton went on to mock Obama's magic wand. At least when John McCain shed the light on the bubble headed Obama he was nice about it.

More Democratic flip flops from the Washington Post.

Pakistan Elections Produce Strange Twist

The devout religious of trouble northwest Pakistan want sharia law, but voted for a secular government.

The religious parties that held 46 of the 96 provincial parliamentary seats won only nine this time. Moreover, they have been replaced by the secular Awami National Party (ANP)...The ANP is expected to marshal all the province's resources – police, politics, and the law – against extremism, whereas the mullahs had refused even to condemn suicide attacks. For this, Mr. Akbar gave them his vote. Yet he, like many others, says his vote was not a veto of Islamic politics. He wants a government that is fair and ethical, and he will vote for anyone to get it.

But the US military is not part of the solution, the ANP will deal with the Taliban through negotiations. And unlike Barack Obama, the ANP knows what it is dealing with when they negotiate with the Taliban.

Pakistanis basically want justice and order no matter what party gives that to them. They (the devout religious) would prefer it through sharia law, although not the kind the Taliban would enforce, but a non corrupt secular government is better than the corrupt Islamic one they just voted out.

It will be interesting to see next January if Barack Obama fulfills his campaign promise of bombing Pakistan.

 

US Hamstrung in Turkey-Kurd Conflict

During the Cold War, Turkey was a critical ally in NATO. And that seemed to be the norm until 2003 when Turkey stiff armed the US and prevented the 4th ID from opening a front from the North against Iraq. Although this wasn't the point of view of the military, the government said 'no' because it claims it suffered too much financially after the first Gulf War. The Turkish government demanded money that we weren't willing to pay more than $1B for the 4th ID to invade from Turkey.

Since that time, Turkey's military has tried to hold the line against Islamic fundamentalists, but Turkey seems to be going the way of many other Muslim nations.

For the past several weeks, the Turkish-Kurdish has resurfaced again. For those of us who are ONW vets, it wasn't anything new. But the Turkey-Kurd conflict reports are starting to come out faster and more menacing.

The questions that need to be asked at this point are:

How strong are the ties between the Turkish government and its military? The military tried to prevent the Islamic fundamentalists from taking control. The US has had a better relationship with the Turkish military ever since 2003 and unlike the US, the Turkish military wields more power in the government than the US military does over American government. Although the Turkish military attacks on the Kurds has always been a source of contention between the US and Turkish military, in general, the two have been very supportive of each other.

This begs the second question, who is behind the Turkey invasion in to Iraq, the government or the military? The US has more influence on the Turkish military. If it is the military, the situation is not as dire as if it is the Turkish government calling for the attacks. The US has less influence on the situation if the government is behind the invasion.

On the other side, how integrated is support for PKK with the rest of the Kurds? The Kurds obviously sympathize with the PKK to some extent (although there has been infighting between the three Kurdish organizations) but if the US were to take action against the PKK in support of Turkey, how will the rest of the Kurds react?

The Kurds of Iraq are probably the most loyal ally the US has-period. Does the US risk taking action against the Kurds in support of an ally that has been leaning away from the US for the past several years? Or does the US support the weaker more supportive ally.

But the US can't directly support the PKK, because it is a terrorist organization-it just happens to be tied to an ethnic group that highly supports US interests.

The US will sit this out and play the diplomacy card, although the diplomacy card will do nothing. The hope is that both sides get bloodied enough that they stop the nonsense on their own. If it does get worse it could be paradoxical moment in US foreign policy.

Worst of all, the crisis will probably climax about the time the foreign policy neophyte, Barack Obama, begins his administration.

Update: Christian Science Monitor echoed my statements one day later stating some Turkish leadership think the US is making a critical mistake by providing the Turks with intel. It is hard not to agree with them.

AF Won't Get More F-22s

AFMC boss, General Carlson got put in his place it appears when he mentioned that the Air Force would get its full compliment of F-22s. Reading the tea leaves if the mindless Barak Obama following succeeds in putting a political novice in the White House, it points to the Air Force not only getting a limited number of F-22s, but the F-35 could be in serious trouble too. And once the F-22 line shuts down, it will only cost more money to reopen it. Don't expect that under a foreign policy challenged Obama administration.

If you look at the Obama campaign plan on foreign policy, it looks like it was written by a second grader. This is what an excerpt from his military philosophy.

New Capabilities: Obama will give our troops new equipment, armor, training, and skills like language training. He will also strengthen our civilian capacity, so that our civilian agencies have the critical skills and equipment they need to integrate their efforts with our military.

That is it and it doesn't sound promising for the F-22.

On the other hand, here is potentially trillions of dollars in new entitlements.

Bottom line: when buying votes, saying you're going to buy F-22s isn't a attractive as saying "free beer"!

Military Needs To Educate Obama

The headline states that the military must remain apolitical.

The problem happens when the military must serve under a commander in chief that is totally incompetent as will the the case this time next year when the naive, but slick tongued Barack Obama becomes president after being elected by the American Idol generation.

To start the trouble, Obama has reiterated that he would gladly meet with the evil Cuban dictatorship without pretense as long as he got to mention something along the lines of human rights-most likely as he was getting back on the plane to the US after giving away every strategic advantage the US might have.

Then there is the talk about striking against targets in Pakistan that Obama promised simply to sound tough and get elected without any strategic thought of the consequences.

A visiting speaker at Air University who was born in Pakistan and is a Pakistani studies specialist and RAND analyst who supports Obama said this statement concerned her.

This statement was as reckless and irresponsible as stating the desire to meet with all the evil dictators in the world.

During all this, the military leadership, who are the best the US has to offer in strategic studies can't trump or even manage this incompetence. The military can only "educate." And even after that education, sometimes a campaign promise (especially during the first term) must be carried through regardless of consequences and "education." Don't ask-Don't tell.

Election Drama Better than Grey's Anatomy

Yesterday, I blasted "center" America (those who consider themselves as "independents") as the pop culture airheads that can't tear themselves away from MTV long enough to look at the presidential candidates to learn anything more than Barack Obama looks, and sounds, pretty when he babbles like a bubble headed bleach blonde (apologies to Don Henley) promising "change." Never mind what the change will be, or if there will actually be change, but as stated before, it sounds pretty and catchy enough for the nanosecond attention span of today's youth.

If today's youth would take a second to pull themselves away from House, Heroes, and Friends reruns to catch a nanobyte of election coverage, they'd notice there is plenty of Drama in the presidential election.

Today, tragically, a motorcycle officer lost his life while serving in a Hillary Clinton motorcade. With a genuine gesture of class, Clinton suspended her campaign to visit the family of the fallen officer.

Yesterday, the New York Times, continued their practice of yellow journalism claiming sexual scandal and financial misgivings on the part of John McCain. This stuff is better than fiction-too bad it was fiction. The New York Times on several occasions will put a good piece of fiction on the front page while claiming it is fact. H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds radio program fabrication pales in comparison when duping the masses.

And while John McCain was only falsely accused of sexual misconduct, Hillary Clinton has to keep a tight leash on her husband lest he find refuge in a bed populated by some young starry eyed aid. And if the younger generation read the slightest bit of history on Bill Clinton's presidency, they'd discover the high drama a cigar and stained dress could create.

Then there is the cocaine user Barack Obama. He's the cool kid in school who sits in the back of class and lets his coolness, not his accomplishments, take him to the head of the class. Plagiarizing was cool in high school evidently for Obama and it is still cool-besides it is "just words" he is stealing, not thoughts, and it is debatable he has any original thoughts of his own either. He isn't the first president to run on the catchy and cool "change" platform.

Evidently, Michelle Obama (Barack's supposedly intelligent wife), missed all the other "change" platforms (the last in 1992 with Bill Clinton) because she's never been proud of Americans because they could never embrace change until Barack was able to secure a nomination for the US presidency.

Unfortunately, the youth of America will miss a great deal of this drama while watching American Idol.

RNC Chairman Duncan Misses Point on Obama

Although Hillary Clinton is having a tough time knocking sense into the Obama tranced Democratic electorate, Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. Duncan mistakenly believes McCain can win on the issues. 

"I think it's the difference between their party and our party," said Robert M. Duncan, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. "They have a more liberal constituency. And the country is center-right."

"It comes down to the issues," Mr. Duncan said. "I honestly believe this: I can't remember a better contrast for us between our candidate and the Democratic candidates during my lifetime."

This may hold true for the educated and even semi-educated Americans out there, but the "center" (those to don't pay enough attention to issues to really care because their too busy watching South Park) will, as always, pick the next president. The right will go right, and the left will go left, and that leaves the mindless middle to decide the next president. And the middle tends to pick the rock star. Going back a couple decades, the candidate who looked and sounded cool (or in the case of Obama-pretty) has always won. RIP Bob Dole, Al Gore, John Kerry etc..

What does America really know about Barack Obama other than he wants to tax the rich, feed the poor and bomb Pakistan? Never mind, it doesn't matter as long as he looks and sounds pretty doing it. Besides, the "center" probably has no idea where Pakistan is or that they are a nuclear power with a LOT of bad guys running around on their boarder with Afghanistan-not that they'd know where Afghanistan was either. But Obama can do no wrong. The guy sneezed on stage and got an ovation! His cultish grip on his minions is rivals that of Hitler, Koresh and Jones. For those of you who haven't bought into the Obamamania rhetoric, who actually look at the issues, you can be proud that you probably wouldn't have been a NAZI in Germany. For those of you in the Obama camp, key safety tip-don't drink the koolaid.

Hillary doesn't have a prayer…and after that, neither does John McCain. I'm sorry Mr. Duncan, but you just don't get it. To imitate Barack Obama, I'll steal the words of another, "It's the rock star factor, stupid," not the issues that matter to the pop culture Americans.

 

Brainless Obama, America Can't Help Itself

When you listen to Barack Obama, do you hear William Hurt in Broadcast News?

William Hurt was the pretty boy in Broadcast News that Holly Hunter couldn't help but fall in love William Hurt. He was good looking and silver tongued and a complete moron with no substance or depth.

Albert Brooks was a bright intelligent reporter that died on the air when he got his chance though. Modern America has no room for someone who doesn't look and sound good.

It is pretty easy to see that Obama will easily walk away with any election he will participate in. America is not interested in substance.

While a good portion of America is somewhat educated and will chose Hillary Clinton, John McCain or Barack Obama for substantial reasons, you have to wonder, how many of the young voters which have been so motivated to vote this year see this simply as the next American Idol contest? I'm sure some of them will wonder what number they text their vote into for Obama.

If you polled the younger generation how many watch CNN, The Discovery Channel, & The History Channel or American Idol, Dancing with the Stars & Lost?

The tragedy, though, occurs when Obama is finally in the White House and needs to make a decision. If he is true to his word, one of the first points of order will be to bomb and attack Pakistan for no other reason than he had to sound tough after Hillary Clinton schooled him in debate class. Obama said he'd gladly meet with any evil dictator without any pretense. Hillary Clinton pointed out the obvious-that this was naive and irresponsible. So Obama stuck his finger in the wind and stated he'd launch strikes against al Qaeda in Pakistan-a nuclear power I might add. It doesn't take a high school diploma to know how incompetent this statement was.

Of course being naive and irresponsible is fine as long as you look and sound good doing it, and America texts in their vote for you.