Al Qaida calls Obama "house slave"

[texaspackerbacker]

It's eminently logical that al Qaeda would enthusiastically support Obama because if Obama lives up to his words and past votes, he will grease the wheels for al Qaeda to repeat 9/11 or worse.

It's equally logical that al Qaeda wouldn't be in reverse psychology mode all the time, and thus, would have a bunch of bad things to say about the president who stifled their efforts for additional terrorism against America and killed them in great numbers in their own part of the world.

[bobblehead]

The last two posts illustrate the futility of trying to have a debate with the far right.

as opposed to 1041 and counting??

Sometimes you make good points, this isn't one of those times. I think since we were told over and over how we would "redeem our standing in the eyes of the world" if we elected obama, bringing up what our enemies think of him is very relevant. We were told over and over that the "cowboy" was provoking al qaida and the likes and if we were just more diplomatic then our enemies would love us and not attack us. How is that working out?

[Tyrone Bigguns]

The last two posts illustrate the futility of trying to have a debate with the far right.

as opposed to 1041 and counting??

Sometimes you make good points, this isn't one of those times. I think since we were told over and over how we would "redeem our standing in the eyes of the world" if we elected obama, bringing up what our enemies think of him is very relevant. We were told over and over that the "cowboy" was provoking al qaida and the likes and if we were just more diplomatic then our enemies would love us and not attack us. How is that working out?

Find ONE source that ever said electing Obama would help our relationship with Al Queda. Even for you, this is stretching things.

[hoosier]

The last two posts illustrate the futility of trying to have a debate with the far right.

as opposed to 1041 and counting??

Sometimes you make good points, this isn't one of those times. I think since we were told over and over how we would "redeem our standing in the eyes of the world" if we elected obama, bringing up what our enemies think of him is very relevant. We were told over and over that the "cowboy" was provoking al qaida and the likes and if we were just more diplomatic then our enemies would love us and not attack us. How is that working out?

What Ty said. Bobble, sometimes it's hard to tell if you intentionally "misunderstand" other posters' positions so that you can conveniently have a blantantly indefensible position to attack, or if you're really just not reading what others write very carefully.

The argument that we heard over and over again was that, if Obama was elected, his adminstration's foreign policy would improve US standing in the world. Obviously that doesn't include every single country in the world (it's entirely possible that NKorea would continue to be defiant, etc.), nor does it necessarily include such non-state entities as Al Qaeda. Countries it does refer to: countries that should be or have historically been our allies (France, Germany, Spain and rest of Western Europe), and non-aligned countries with which US has historically had tenuous relations (Egypt, Syria, Iran).