Blog Buzz: Which Is the Bigger Problem, McCain's Lobbyists or Obama's 'Serious' Iran Talk?
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McCain's lobbyist problem—fade to Black
As the McCain-lobbyist body count rises, libs turn their fire on the big fish, McC-adviser Charlie Black. Carpetbagger's Steve Benen gets a chuckle from the idea of Black, who used to lobby for very bad foreigners, meeting with other very bad foreigners (maybe Black'd be OK with it if Obama's precondition was a lobbying contract). WashMo's Kevin Drum thinks the press is bungling the story by expressing shock—shock!—that there are lobbyists in a presidential campaign, while MyDD's Jonathan Singer notes that McCain's biggest problem is that he apparently thought that these sort of ethics-lobbying stories would not apply to him. TNR's Noam Scheiber adds that the ongoing lobbyist/staffer firings are just adding credibility to the issue. Politico's Jonathan Martin notes that the McCain campaign is responding by pointing out that Obama consorts with ex-Weatherman William Ayers (raising the question: Who polls worse, lobbyists or terrorists?). Atlantic's Marc Ambinder says that the McCampaign is getting annoyed that Obama's lobbying connections aren't getting as much scrutiny. Never fear, McCainians, NRO's Jim Geraghty starts the nosing around here, with foreign policy adviser Greg Craig.
"Serious" talk about Iran
The right side of the Web is buzzing about Obama's arguing that Iran is not in the same league, threat-wise, as was the old Soviet Union (though Buzz didn't see anyone noting the irony in the youngster candidate saying that they don't make international nemeses like they used to). Conservative consensus is that Obama's statement makes him either 'stupid, simplistic, inexperienced, or some combination thereof. NRO's Jim Geraghty says that in an asymmetric age, Obama is missing the point of the Persian threat, while his blogging colleague Andy McCarthy says that comparing Iran and the U.S.S.R. at all is MADness. On the left, TPM's Josh Marshall comes to the Obama defense, saying that McCain is naïve if he thinks that Iran is in the same league as the U.S.S.R., while Carpetbagger's Steve Benen is impressed that Obama is engaging on foreign policy at all, marking a change of course for Dems.
—Robert Schlesinger
Reader Comments
Talking To Iranians
McCain is yet another institutionalized hypocritical politician of this country. How is it that the same "leaders" always encourage and promote dialogue in every aspect of the American culture as compared with use of violence and force, but when it comes to talking to people from outside especially the ones that we are losing and or not having control over, McCain and alike not want to talk to? Is it because these so called leaders are afraid of us the American to know the truth, that others are not the evil people they are portraying to be.
McCain and alike think they can keep American people in the dark forever. I admire Obama's politics that allows for getting along with others on a rational basis. Besides, Obama would be a face and sensebility and reasoning that Americans need to show other nations -- that American, unlike their leaders, are decent, respectful, and part of the world community --.
Do onto others ...
Opening dialogue with others promotes a better understanding and hopefully the same "representative democracy" that we still operate under.
oblitorate the whole world
why to make war for what if the usa wants to be the leader of the world ,it`s so easy just through your bio nukes .
LEAVE IRAN ALONE (PEACE LOVING PEOPLE)
I WOULD LIKE THE USA TO KNOW THAT IRAN HAS A HISTORY AND ARE PEACE LOVING PEOPLE. THE FIRST IN THE WORLD WAS THE (USA) WHO MADE OSAMA BIN LADIN TO FIGHT AGAINST USSR IN AFGHANISTAN AND AGAIN THE (USA) WAS THE ONE TO REMOVE THE SHAH OF IRAN BY BRINGING AYATOLLA ROHULLAH KHOMEINI AND THEN HE TOO MADE SADAM HUSSEIN TO FIGHT AGAINST MUSLIM COUNTRY LIKE IRAN AND AT THE SAME TIME MADE IRAQ TO INVADE KUWAIT SO THAT HE MAY ENTER THE ASIAN COUNTRY TO COME CLOSER TO USSR AND CHINA. BUT HE COULD NOT INVADE IRAN HE LOST IN THERE,NOW THEY ARE TRYING AGAIN TO CUR SHORT IRAN AND MADE ALL THE 6 COUNTRY TO GO AGAINST IRAN. BUT ITS NOT IN ANY ONE HAND TO MAKE HIM RISE OR MAKE HIM FALL IN THIS WORLD. GOD IS THE ONLY ONE AND HE IS ALWAYS WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE AND THE RIGHT TIME.
ITS WAS BOTH THE BUSH PRESIDENT WHO MADE OSAMA BIN LADEN AND SADAM HUSSEIN AND THEY WERE THE ONE TO TRY TO DESTROY THEM TOO. THEY WANT TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT THEY ARE THE BIG POWER IN THE WORLD AND THEY DONT WANT ANY ONE ELSE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM.
NOW IN FEW YEARS WHEN THE DOLLARS RATES WILLL COME DOWN AND THE EURO WILL TAKE HIS PLACE AND THEN IT WILL BE THEN END OF HIS SUPRIMERSY OF USA. THEY ARE NOT FOR THEIR OWN PEOPLE BUT ONLY FOR SUPRIMERY , NAME AND FAME. BUT THIS THING ALWAYS DISSAPEARS IN THIS WORLD, NO ONE IS SUPERIOUR THE ALLAH --GOD. TIME WILL TELL. THE USA WANTS TO DOMINATE THE WHOLE WORLD WHICH HE CANNOT, BUT KNOWING THAT THE OTHER COUNTRY ALSO SUPPORT THEM AS IF THEY ARE SCEARDS.
IRAN HAS A RIGHT TO BUILD POWER AND NOT ATOM BOMB, WHICH HE SAYS THAT I AM A PEACE LOVING COUNTRY AND I DONT WANT TO BUT WHO IS LISTERNING TO HIM ONLY AT PRESENT THEIR GOD IS THE BUSH ADMINISTERATION AND ISREAL THE BODY GUARD.
I AM ENDING BY SAYING A FEW MORE WORDS, PLEASE LEAVE THE WORLD TO LEAVE IN PEACE AND DONT TRY TO MAKE THEM BOW DOWN TO YOU BECASUE BOWING IS ONLY ONE PLACE AT THAT TOO AT THE TIME OF WORSHIPING MUSLIM (ALLAH) -- CHRISTIAN (GOD) -- HINDUS (BHAGWAN)
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