Honestly, now that Obama is the nominee........

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by rubytuesday

Here's hoping! Someone who is admirable an advocate for human rights negotiates peace instead of dominating the world into hatred of America, and someone who at the most basic level recognises that there's a whole world out there and the rest of us can have as much impact upon america as americans can themselves. All that bull**** talk about national security....put someone in charge who is willing to talk with Iran and that's a small step but it would go so much further to national security than anything in recent years. America is as unsafe as it has ever been and i think obama is the first step in any hope of reversing that.

Well, as someone who had to endure the Carter years, please take him off our hands! How would you have felt to be one of those hostages held in Iran for... hundreds of days? If you think the U.S. dollar is weak now, it was literally worth less than toilet paper back then ($900 per oz. of gold in 1979 dollars!), energy crises, 16% interest rates, etc. At best Carter brokered a tenuous peace between Israel and Egypt... but how can you praise that without realizing that he sent the U.S. into a tailspin financially? I don't think anyone could reasonably expect someone who has had zero international experience and zero military experience to be able to somehow ensure that we (and our allies) will be safer and more secure. I mean, I can go around saying that I hate war, I love to talk and hold hands, but does that mean I am somehow a master diplomat and commander in chief? The fact is, I have only 13 months less experience in the U.S. senate than Obama.