That’s right. The Democrats’ presumptive nominee for president spent the day with General Petraeus (you remember, the guy who Obama-supporting MoveOn.Org called a “traitor”). Barack Obama learned about violence dropping as much as 80-percent of more because of the surge. He saw marketplaces opening. He saw life in Iraq returning to normal. He saw hope for the future. He saw “change” taking place.
…and, apparently, he didn’t like what he saw. Believe it or not, Barack Obama hopped back on his plane for the next stop on his whirlwind tour and promptly said he still didn’t support “the surge”. Watch this video to see for yourself!
Tim Bee was right to ask openly-gay, former Republican congressman Jim Kolbe to serve as honorary chairman of his campaign for Congress. Mr. Bee did so even before it was certain he wouldn’t have a primary for the congressional nomination. It showed courage.Mr. Bee was also right to allow voters to choose for themselves whether Arizona should have a constitutional amendment on the definition marriage, even though doing so would jeopardize his support from Mr. Kolbe. Unfortunately, after Bee put the marriage amendment on the ballot, Kolbe withdrew his support and campaign chairmanship.
Tim Bee has a record for honesty and reputation for developing solutions in situations where often there appeared none to be found. Today, Congress has far too little of either. We need him there. It’s possible that Tim Bee doesn’t always do what’s best for his campaign; rather, he does what he feels is best for Arizona. While that sort of thinking doesn’t guarantee Tim Bee will always be right (odds are, he’ll be right a heckuva lot more often than Gabby Giffords will!), it does guarantee Mr. Bee will always be thinking of the people and their well-being first.
The following RNC ad examines the McCain and Obama energy plans. Here is the script (and below it, we offer the excellent ad for viewing):
SCRIPT: “Record gas prices. A climate in crisis. John McCain says solve it now with a balanced plan: Alternative energy, conservation, suspending the gas tax, and more production here at home. He’s pushing his own party to face climate change. But Barack Obama? For conservation, but he just says no to lower gas taxes, no to nuclear, no to more production. No new solutions. Barack Obama: Just the party line. The Republican National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.”
Many thanks go to a valued RedArizona reader for sending us this link. Senator John McCain used the opportunity to appear on MTV’s “Choose or Lose” series to wish our dedicated American soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardsmen a very happy Independence Day!
Barack Obama doesn’t have much foreign policy experience. He’s been to Iraq once. He’s never served in the military. His advisors routinely question Senator John McCain’s experience and patriotism despite their own candidate’s… well, you get the point.
However, it’s clear that a storm’s-a-brewin’ in the Obama campaign. It would appear that beneath the surface, the candidate himself might realize the McCain approach to winning the war and getting our troops home as quickly as possible while guarding against more American casualties might just be the right way to go. Think about it a moment: “winning the war on terror in Iraq.” Isn’t stability what Iraq needs? Isn’t stability in Iraq what the Middle East needs? Isn’t it the best thing for the world’s newest fledgling democracy? Won’t it show both that America keeps her promises and that we don’t “cut and run” from terrorists? And, after all, isn’t the “surge” strategy Senator McCain was promoting for quite some time before it was adopted proving to be quite effective?
Here’s the problem: Barack Obama needs the unconditional support of MoveOn.Org (you remember, the liberal special interest group which called General Petraeus a traitor). And he needs the support of the most liberal 10-percent of the Democrats who just might not vote for him in November unless he continues to promise to arbitrarily pull out troops by artificial deadlines.
Here’s the thing: setting aside the military cost of an Iraq thrown into chaos, or a Middle East thrown into chaos… Can you imagine the price of gas if the Middle East erupted into complete chaos?
Recently, the Obama camp has been all over the map when it comes to Iraq. Their policy? Outside of not having one, what’s clear is that they are in complete disagreement, and often with their own candidate. Kudos to the folks at the Republican National Committee for putting together THIS SUMMARY of quotes, video clips and research of recent Obama & Company statements on Iraq. Interested readers are encouraged to CLICK HERE to take a look.
Many in Arizona know John McCain the U.S. Senator. How many know the personal stories in this article from The Jersalem Post? Red Arizona readers are encouraged to take a look. Here is an excerpt:
Anyone can talk about “supporting our troops”; the McCains serve. McCain’s father and grandfather were respected American admirals. Of McCain’s four sons, three have gone the military route. One was a Navy pilot like his father, one enlisted in the Marines at age 17 and recently completed a tour in Iraq, and one is completing his education at the Naval Academy (raising the strong possibility that, for the first time in half a century, the United States will have a president with a son at war).
Yet, likely because of those same values, McCain maintains a strict code of silence about his sons’ military service, no matter how legitimate his pride or politically useful their military status. Through 2007, McCain was the strongest Senate advocate of vastly increasing troop levels in Iraq, strongly influencing the administration’s wildly successful “surge” strategy.
We have privately lamented that politics, and the people involved, take themselves too seriously when clearly we should be laughing at each other more. Case in point: Barack Obama says he believes (1) in the right to bear arms and (2) in the constitutionality of banning guns. He even said it in the same conversation with the same reporter. He even tried to claim he wasn’t conflicted, confused, saying-anything-to-get-elected when asked by said reporter about the obvious ridiculousness of his comments.
At the time, we didn’t think this could be topped. Certainly not in the same day. It turns out, we were wrong.
In this case, we owe our deep belly laughs to our good friends at SONORAN ALLIANCE for posting THIS STORY about legislative candidate Frank Schmuck’s (that’s right… Schmuck!) really. . . ”innovative”. . . ideas for putting millions of illegal aliens behind the wheels of automobiles and onto Arizona roads as the literal path toward citizenship.
Our valued readers are encouraged to check it out.
We couldn’t have said it any better ourselves. Here’s an excerpt:
Mr. Obama, in his first national TV ad rolled out Friday, claims credit for having “extended health care for wounded troops,” citing the 2008 defense authorization. That bill passed 91-3 - but Mr. Obama was one of only six senators who didn’t show up to vote. This brazen claim underscores the candidate’s thin résumé and, again, his chutzpah.
Mr. Rove was being polite. In our humble opinion, Barack Obama doesn’t just have a whole lotta chutzpah; he has a problem telling the plain, simple truth. Interested readers are encouraged to CLICK HERE to read Karl Rove’s article in The Wall Street Journal in its entirety.
Is it possible that Hillary is the less dishonest Democrat???
This video excerpted from FOX News and posted on YouTube gives RedArizona readers the first-hand ability to listen directly to the political director of Hamas, which funds and trains operations to kill American soldiers overseas, endorse Barack Obama for President of the United States. (Scroll down, beneath the video, to read Senator McCain’s response.)
In response to this latest disappointment coming from the Obama campaign, Senator McCain said on FOX News: “I think it’s very clear… why [the terrorist group Hamas] would not want me to be President of the United States… so if Senator Obama is favored by Hamas, I think people can make judgments accordingly.”
When Iraqi leadership came to the U.S., Senator Obama refused a meeting. While he would negotiate with Iran’s leadership, he relegated representatives of the Middle East’s fledgling new Democracy to a meeting with a staffer.
Interested readers are encouraged to CLICK HERE for The Wall Street Journal’s opinion column by Bret Stephens on why Iraqis are literally praying Senator McCain wins in November.
The following is a short excerpt to tempt you further:
Iraqis are even more incredulous about Mr. Obama’s willingness to negotiate with Iran, which they see as a predatory regime. “Do you Americans forget what the Iranians did to your embassy?” asks [Mamoun Sami Rashid al-Alawi, the governor of Anbar Province]. “Don’t you know that Ahmadinejad was one of [the hostage takers]?”
And…
Interested readers may also CLICK HERE for more information (this time from WorldNetDaily) on Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s role as an armed hostage-taker during the 1979 crisis in which Iranian terrorists held 52 American hostages for 444 days.
Tim Bee was right to ask openly-gay, former Republican congressman Jim Kolbe to serve as honorary chairman of his campaign for Congress. Mr. Bee did so even before it was certain he wouldn’t have a primary for the congressional nomination. It showed courage.Mr. Bee was also right to allow voters to choose for themselves whether Arizona should have a constitutional amendment on the definition marriage, even though doing so would jeopardize his support from Mr. Kolbe. Unfortunately, after Bee put the marriage amendment on the ballot, Kolbe withdrew his support and campaign chairmanship.
Barack Obama doesn’t have much foreign policy experience. He’s been to Iraq once. He’s never served in the military. His advisors routinely question Senator John McCain’s experience and patriotism despite their own candidate’s… well, you get the point.
Many in Arizona know John McCain the U.S. Senator. How many know the personal stories in 
We have privately lamented that politics, and the people involved, take themselves too seriously when clearly we should be laughing at each other more. Case in point: 
We couldn’t have said it any better ourselves. Here’s an excerpt:
When Iraqi leadership came to the U.S., Senator Obama refused a meeting. While he would negotiate with Iran’s leadership, he relegated representatives of the Middle East’s fledgling new Democracy to a meeting with a staffer.