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I think this is just as funny as can be.

For 3 solid months, you extremists have been claiming he's everything from a commie to the anti-Christ.

Now, you are considering he's a hawk.

And look who you are quoting in the article - liberal activists and anti-war groups.

It's like you 10 percenters of the right --- (you ditto-head Rush fans who continue to believe Bush is not extreme enough) --- can only address the 10 percenters on the left (who believe everyone should be singing kumbayah.

Meanwhile, the rest of the nation ... the rational 80 percenters ... already know that Barack Obama is a mainstream Democrat ... somewhat to the right of Hillary on some matters (like Health Care) and somewhat to the left on others (like War). That's why he was elected.

If you had taken the time to listen to Obama's campaign - you would know that he was likely to INCREASE our presence in Afghanistan --- even as he dislodged our nation from the quagmire that is Iraq.

Personally, what I'm most looking forward to from the Barack Obama administration is a return to Values, a respect for Social Justice, Honesty, Rational Respect for Science, and an end to perverse grand experiment with Ideologically Driven Governance.

Plus, it will be nice to be rid of the Moral Vacancy that the fake Christian brought to our government.

Look, Barack Obama is as mainstream a president as you will likely find. And when you right wing extremists try to portray him as everything from a commie to the anti-Christ ... it only makes y'all look really, really goofy.

Just a head's up.

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This country have got a long ways to go but I believe President elect Barack Obama is really determine to put the best interest for this country. Many of you that re voted for President George w Bush the second time have let him got this country to where it is today. Now we all are hurting and do you think he or the Vise President care, no! But a grate majority still think on the racial line. I look at what J E Hoover did to the blacks when he was president and later became FBI director. He used his position to promoted a lot of racial hated in his position and underlined supported the KKK. He was so hard press against the late Martin Luther King and use the law position to his advantage. He really was a racial criminal but never was punish for his crime. Now we got a government build name in his honor J. E. Hoover FBI office. We all paid taxes and some of that money went toward that center. A lot of our taxes dollars have been spend in honor of people that were cruel. And the government really owe a lot of money taken and used from Blacks. Their is so much HATE in this country and other foreign countries know and will be watching. We are found on IN GOD WE TRUST and justice for all.

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To understand this, you have to know that the Clinton administration was run by the zionist "Democratic Leadership Council" who controlled our foreign policy, especially in the mideast. There are as many "israel-firsters" in the democratic party as in the GOP and they are trying hard to ensure a takeover of the foreign policy Obama administration. If you oppose military imperialism, especially fighting wars for israel in the mideast, then you need to start protesting loudly to Obama.

20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House

U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities his administration will inherit, and, of course, unpredictable future crises. But the best immediate indicator of what an Obama administration might look like can be found in the people he surrounds himself with and who he appoints to his Cabinet. And, frankly, when it comes to foreign policy, it is not looking good.

....Even more disturbing, several of the individuals at the center of Obama's transition and emerging foreign policy teams were top players in creating and implementing foreign policies that would pave the way for projects eventually carried out under the Bush/Cheney administration. With their assistance, Obama has already charted out several hawkish stances. Among them:

-- His plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan;

-- An Iraq plan that could turn into a downsized and rebranded occupation that keeps U.S. forces in Iraq for the foreseeable future;

-- His labeling of Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a "terrorist organization;"

-- His pledge to use unilateral force inside of Pakistan to defend U.S. interests;

-- His position, presented before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), that Jerusalem "must remain undivided" -- a remark that infuriated Palestinian officials and which he later attempted to reframe;

-- His plan to continue the War on Drugs, a backdoor U.S. counterinsurgency campaign in Central and Latin America;

-- His refusal to "rule out" using Blackwater and other armed private forces in U.S. war zones, despite previously introducing legislation to regulate these companies and bring them under U.S. law.

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Beware The Obama Hype: What "Change" In America Really Means

Returning to Texas, I am struck again by those so unlike the redneck stereotype, in spite of the burden of a form of brainwashing placed on most Americans from a tender age: that theirs is the most superior society in the history of the world, and all means are justified, including the spilling of copious blood, in maintaining that superiority.

That is the subtext of Barack Obama's "oratory". He says he wants to build up US military power; and he threatens to ignite a new war in Pakistan, killing yet more brown-skinned people. That will bring tears, too. Unlike those on election night, these other tears will be unseen in Chicago and London. This is not to doubt the sincerity of much of the response to Obama's election, which happened not because of the unction that has passed for news reporting from America since 4 November (e.g. "liberal Americans smiled and the world smiled with them") but for the same reasons that millions of angry emails were sent to the White House and Congress when the "bailout" of Wall Street was revealed, and because most Americans are fed up with war.

... Yes, Obama's election is historic, a symbol of great change to many. But it is equally true that the American elite has grown adept at using the black middle and management class. The courageous Martin Luther King recognised this when he linked the human rights of black Americans with the human rights of the Vietnamese, then being slaughtered by a liberal Democratic administration. And he was shot. In striking contrast, a young black major serving in Vietnam, Colin Powell, was used to "investigate" and whitewash the infamous My Lai massacre. As Bush's secretary of state, Powell was often described as a "liberal" and was considered ideal to lie to the United Nations about Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction. Condaleezza Rice, lauded as a successful black woman, has worked assiduously to deny the Palestinians justice.

...Obama's first two crucial appointments represent a denial of the wishes of his supporters on the principal issues on which they voted. The vice-president-elect, Joe Biden, is a proud warmaker and Zionist. Rahm Emanuel, who is to be the all-important White House chief of staff, is a fervent "neoliberal" devoted to the doctrine that led to the present economic collapse and impoverishment of millions. He is also an "Israel-first" Zionist who served in the Israeli army and opposes meaningful justice for the Palestinians – an injustice that is at the root of Muslim people's loathing of the United States and the spawning of jihadism.

These "ideals", which Obama will swear to uphold, have overseen, since 1945, the destruction of 50 governments, including democracies, and 30 popular liberation movements, causing the deaths of countless men, women and children....

http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/11/13/beware-t...

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Barack Obama will be the catalyst for a new movement

Barack Obama will be the catalyst for a new movement, away from false hope and false promises, not because he will deliver to the people of this country anything worthwhile, but because he won’t. This will be the final nail in the coffin of our corporatist society.

...There are so many so-called “progressives” that have believed that it was the Bush Republican neo-cons that have gotten us where we are. This is wishful thinking. The Democratic 110th Congress did nothing but rubber-stamp every bill that was put before it. Democrats have blindly caved in to fear of being called “anti-patriotic” if they voted against the meaningless war in Iraq. They put their political fortunes ahead of their conscience at every opportunity, from Pelosi taking impeachment “off the table” to voting for the new FISA bill that granted telecoms immunity from illegally working with the executive branch to illegally eavesdrop on US citizens. They passed every military budget and went along with almost every Bush attack on our civil liberties. How one could possibly imagine that Barack Obama or any other Democrat could undo the damage they helped to create is just wishful thinking.

The time for real change is now. I must tell you that the change we seek will not come from the President-Elect, but from the disgust and anger we will all feel when corporate interests and the Military Industrial Complex (corporate welfare) dominate the Democrats agenda. War will not end; it will be moved to different theaters.

Now the time has come to actually put up or shut up. Mr. Obama has already chosen a Democratic interventionist in Joe Biden, a man who never saw a war he didn’t like. The self-proclaimed Zionist that has stood with AIPAC since its inception, a man that ranks right up there with Bush when it comes to Iran and Palestine. Obama has also kowtowed to the Israeli’s, and there doesn’t seem to be any hope for those that want America to look at both sides of the tensions in the Middle East. We will blindly follow the Israelis as far as they wish to take us, for their own self-interests.

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REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE NY TIMES SAYS, PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA SAID FRANKLY THAT HE WANTED TO RESHIFT OUR TROOPS TO AFGHANIST AND CONCENTRATE OUR FORCES WHERE THEY WERE NEEDED MOST AND USE THEM EFFECTIVELY :l) TO END THE WAR. TODAY ALSO THE US REACHED A W/DRAWAL OR TIMETABLE TO WITHDRAW FROM IRAQ :)

HE WAS SO STEREOTYPED BY HIS COMPETITORS THAT THEY ENDED UP BELIEVING THEIR OWN LIES. THE NY TIMES ENDORSED HILLARY. SO IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT MAGAZINE IS STILL SLINGING MUD AGAINST HIM. :( NEWSWEEK IS A MUCH BETTER PUBLICATION.

AS FOR PEACEKNIKS, THEY MUST HAVE PATIENCE, COMPLEX FOREIGN WARS CANNOT BE STOPPED IN A WEEK. PRESIDENT ELECT HAS NOT BEEN SWORN IN YET!A PREMATURE PEACE IS LIKELY TO COLLAPSE AND OUR ARMY WOULD NEED TO RETURN AGAIN TO A PANDEMONIUM.

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