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McCain Does Get It, It’s Obama Who Doesn’t!

The second half of the debate Friday was on Foreign Affairs.  As expected, the experience of John McCain was evident.  Also as expected but certainly not discussed in MSM, the inexperience of Barack Obama was obvious.

McCain repeatedly demonstrated a very comprehensive understanding of world affairs.  Obama often sounded like a sophmore on a college campus.

At one point Senator Obama referred to the fledgling democracy of Poland and Czechoslovakia.  I guess we will not be planning much with those countries in the near future.  He also said, which he corrected later, that we should go into Pakistan to attack our terrorist enemies.  But even more important to me was he complete focus on the past, what was done by whom, who to blame.  Myself and the rest of the country would like to hear about how we can resolve our foreign policy problems, not who caused them.  It is especially disappointing when he spins the history with his rhetoric and exaggeration for pure political advantage.  We have some major issues to deal with, let’s move on toward some solutions.

McCain was drawn into some history debate but most of his discussion was with an eye to the future and how we should be posturing and acting to solve current and future problems.  Senator McCain could not help himself and did his share of politicizing as well but overall his time was much more informative.

McCain’s advantage, Obama pretending to have experience is transparent and foolish.  Everyone knows that he is a first term US senator.  His time in the Illinois senate was a part time job.  Just when was he supposed to gain this experience in foreign affairs?  His duplicity is far more detracting than his lack of experience.

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Who is your fairy godmother Barry?

Does anyone else find it curious that Senator Obama persistently claims to be from very modest roots, to be in touch with the common people?

Senator Obama’s education record illustrates a preference for private schools and classmates who would not be characterized as ‘common people’:

• Muslim elementary school for 2 years in Malaysia
• Catholic elementary school for 2 years in Malaysia
• Elementary school in Hawaii, Punahou Private School
• High School in Hawaii, Punahou Private School
• Occidental college in LA, for 2 years undergraduate studies
• Columbia University of the Ivy League in NY, to finish the undergraduate degree
• Harvard Law School in Boston, for 3 years and a law degree.

While watching ‘This Week With George Stephanopoulos’ September 15 2008 I was irritated me by the closing statement made by Mr. Paul Begalus. Paraphrasing he said – that Senator John McCain thinks that he has 9 or more houses. McCain is not certain. Senator Barack Obama was raised by a single mother on food stamps. Then he asked – who do you think is out of touch with the common people?  Who do you think is better suited to lead this country out of its current troubles?

How did – several months on food stamps at the age of 2 or 3 years, after his parents divorced – become a lifetime of hardship as inferred by Mr. Begalus?  Remember that same child never saw a public school, not in Malaysia, not in Hawaii, not in LA for his first 2 years of university, not completing his undergraduate degree at Columbia University and certainly not during his 3 years at Harvard Law School. When did he connect with the ‘common folk’? With all the claims to being so financial challenged, with all the claims to being in touch with the common folk, I just do not know how he and his family financed all that private school education.  Even if they pulled a rabbit out of a hat, it is certainly not the common folk connection claimed by all in the Obama camp.

Do you know any common folk who attended Harvard Law School?

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