Amir Taheri in the New York Post, a damning piece, but typical.

This tells us everything we want to know about Barack Obama.

“While campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence. According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July. He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,’ Zebari said in an interview. Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops — and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its ‘state of weakness and political confusion.’ … Obama has made many contradictory statements with regard to Iraq. His latest position is that US combat troops should be out by 2010. Yet his effort to delay an agreement would make that withdrawal deadline impossible to meet. … According to Zebari, the envisaged time span is two or three years — departure in 2011 or 2012. That would let Iraq hold its next general election, the third since liberation, and resolve a number of domestic political issues. Even then, the dates mentioned are only ‘notional,’ making the timing and the cadence of withdrawal conditional on realities on the ground as appreciated by both sides.”

Now, you might be saying, “What’s the big deal about this?”

Well, two things. ..

Number one, Obama has been clamoring for these troops to get out of there now, now, now.

Obama was part of the cabal that wanted defeat of the US military this year. He wanted defeat of the US military this year. He wanted them out this year. He wanted to hang defeat around the neck of George W. Bush and run against that.

Now all of a sudden he wants a delay in the withdrawal of troops so that he can say he did it and fulfill a campaign pledge to the liberal fringe nuts.

What does this remind you of?

Here we have a genuine October Surprise story.

Remember when they falsely accused George Bush 41 of going over to Paris to make sure the Iranians kept the US hostages until after the November election 1980 so that Reagan would get the credit. There was never any basis for that story, just the seriousness of the charge, there was never any basis to the truth of that story and yet here’s Obama doing exactly what Democrats accused George Bush 41 of doing in 1980.

You people on the left, do you understand your guy wants troops in Iraq until at least 2012 now, if out then, so that he can be the guy in charge of saying “I got ’em out.”

I guess now we know what Obama did one night in Baghdad…

We knew that Obama’s summer trip was bad, but we had no idea he was playing games with our troops for his benefit. So he goes to Berlin, he trashes the country, skipped a visit to wounded soldiers when he was in Berlin, let’s not forget this.

And now we found out he’s playing games with the lives of our troops, maybe even a Logan Act violation, going there and asking the Iraqi guy, as a mere senator, “Hey, can’t you delay your political action here?”

That trip overseas was a disaster.

This is not experience, this is not judgment, this is change, but it’s breaking a law and his faith with his followers and our troops. Barack Obama asking the Iraqi foreign minister to keep US troops longer than the commanders on the ground think they are needed.

Stop and think of that!

Obama was in Colorado. He’s following Palin around. McCain was in Jacksonville, and Obama, who was in Colorado, somewhere in the Denver area, and here’s Obama describing pain trickling up.

OBAMA: For eight years we’ve had policies that have shredded consumer protections and encouraged outsized bonuses to CEOs while ignoring middle class Americans. The result is the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression. I certainly don’t fault Senator John McCain for these problems, but I do fault the economic philosophy he subscribes to, because it’s the same philosophy we’ve had for the last eight years.

And…

OBAMA: One that says we should give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. It’s a philosophy that says even commonsense regulations are unnecessary, one that says we should just stick our heads in the sand and ignore economic problems until they spiral into crisis. The pain has trickled up.

Well, then you ought to be damn happy. If the pain’s trickled up, it means your voters are in pain all the time, now there’s pain at the top, it’s trickling up, you should be happy. You want people in pain up there.

Again I ask, does Obama sound presidential here? No, seriously. I ask this without bias.

I’m asking you to genuinely consider this, does he sound presidential there?

Well, this sent the Obama campaign into a tizzy because this is a violation of law.

This borders on treason. He’s a presidential candidate. He cannot go over and negotiate for the United States on matters like this. Aside from the hypocrisy that was Obama promising everybody to get these troops out of there immediately when he was elected, this would push pack the withdrawal easily to 2011 or 2012.

He’s just a hypocrite on this. He wanted Bush to withdraw the troops so that Bush would lose the war, the Democrats would say Bush lost the war, but now that the prospect of winning the war could redound to Obama, he wants the troops there. He wants to be the one to declare victory, he wants to be the one to bring the troops out on his terms, and he asked the Iraqis to hold them. So his campaign sends out this denial.

The campaign went nuts suggesting that this did not happen, and in the process of denying it, they confirmed it.

“Obama’s national security spokeswoman Wendy Morigi said Taheri’s article bore ‘as much resemblance to the truth as a McCain campaign commercial.'” And then she said this in the statement, “In fact, Obama had told the Iraqis that they should not rush through a ‘Strategic Framework Agreement’ governing the future of US forces until after President George W. Bush leaves office.”

Well, that’s exactly what the Iraqi guy said! So they send out this press release denying it, saying Amir Taheri, he’s a conservative Iranian, he’s lying about this, and in their denial they confirm it. They confirm exactly what Amir Taheri said, that Obama told the Iraqis they should not rush through a strategic framework agreement governing the future of US forces until after Bush leaves office, which is exactly what Amir Taheri said.

Obama went to Iraq and interfered with US diplomacy and is now denying it.

Shocking… mmm, guess not.

Reports after the Charlie Gibson interviews and the ABC interviews concluded that Sarah Palin is simply unqualified, she’s too ignorant, she is too ill-equipped in foreign policy to be vice president.

Thursday night on ABC’s Nightline, Charlie Gibson is interviewing her, and she says this about terrorists who want to hurt or kill Americans.

PALIN: In order to stop Islamic extremists, those terrorists who would seek to destroy America and our allies, we must do whatever it takes, and we must not blink.

February 26th, Cincinnati, Ohio, MSNBC, Democrat debate, Tim Russert to Obama. “Is your contention America would be taking a chance on Senator Obama as commander-in-chief?”

OBAMA: If we have actual intelligence against Bin Laden or other key Al-Qaeda officials, and we — and Pakistan is unwilling or unable to strike against them, we should.

So she’s unqualified, she’s insane, she’s lunatic, she’s unprepared, she’s ill-equipped. And Obama is qualified to be president. He says, “If Pakistan’s unwilling, we’ll go in anyway.”

Obama and Palin on Iran nukes.

This is July 23rd, this year, in Israel, the ill-fated world intern trip for Obama. He said this about a nuclear Iran.

OBAMA: A nuclear Iran would pose a great threat and the world must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Charlie Gibson talking to Sarah Palin on the same subject.

PALIN: I believe that under the leadership of Ahmadinejad, nuclear weapons in the hands of his government are extremely dangerous to everyone on this globe, yes. We cannot just concede that, oh, gee, maybe they’re going to have nuclear weapons.

You know, she’s unqualified, she’s the hair trigger risk, she’s ill-equipped. Obama’s a genius. They’re basically saying the same things here.

This is Israel, this is June 4th, 2008, Senator Obama at an AIPAC convention.

OBAMA: I will always keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally Israel.

By the way, after that, when his Hamas buddies got upset, he kinda pulled back from that. But here he’s just said, June 4th this year, sure, keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally Israel.

Here’s Gibson with Palin. “What if Israel decides it felt threatened and needed to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities?”

PALIN: I don’t think that we should second-guess the measures that Israel has to take to defend themselves and for their security.

GIBSON: So if we wouldn’t second-guess it and they decided they needed to do it because Iran was an existential threat, we would be cooperative or agree with that?

PALIN: I don’t think we can second-guess what Israel has to do to secure its nation.

GIBSON: So if it felt necessary, if it felt the need to defend itself by taking out Iranian nuclear facilities, that would be all right?

PALIN: We cannot second-guess the steps that Israel has to take to defend itself.

I love that answer. He tried to get her tripped up in every which way. She refused to budge.

Obama: I’ll always keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally Israel.

She’s ill-equipped, she’s unprepared, she’s too risky, she’s too dangerous, but Obama is brilliant, he’s ready to lead.

Obama in Hawaii while on vacation talking about Georgia and NATO.

OBAMA: I consistently called for deepening relations between Georgia and transatlantic institutions, including a Membership Action Plan for NATO, and we must continue to press for that deeper relationship.

Now don’t forget, this is after he had a statement making a moral equivalence between Russia and Georgia, they’re both responsible for Russia’s invasion.

Here is Palin answering the question, “Do you favor putting Georgia and Ukraine into NATO?”

PALIN: Ukraine, definitely, yes, yes, and Georgia. Putin thinks otherwise, obviously he thinks otherwise.

GIBSON: And then under the NATO treaty, would we then have to go to war if Russia invaded Georgia?

PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally is if another country is attacked, you’re going to be expected to be called upon and help.

Now, I think she sounds far more prepared, knowledgeable and informed than Obama does on all of these questions, but especially this one: “I consistently called for deepening relations between Georgia and transatlantic institutions, including a Membership Action Plan for NATO, and we must continue to press for that deeper relationship.”

I don’t even think he understands how NATO works. NATO is north Atlantic. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, transatlantic relationships.

So, side-by-side comparisons because she’s unqualified, ill-equipped, unprepared, too risky.

Obama’s a genius, Obama’s ready to lead, Obama’s qualified…
— she sounds far more substantive and has far more depth on all these questions than he does.

Just simple observation.

Here is Sarah Palin and the future of American politics…PALIN:

We were so blessed in April, Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. You know, from the inside, no family ever seems typical, and that’s how it is with us. Our family has the same ups and downs as any other, the same challenges, and the same joys. Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge. And children with special needs inspire a very, very special love. To the families of special needs — (applause) to the families of special needs children all across this country, I have a message for you: For years you’ve sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. And I pledge to you that if we’re elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House.

That’s a home run, folks. That’s a missile seeking dead aim in the hearts of every American family, and it hit the target.

I’m sitting here laughing, you know, Wednesday the Obama campaign said, (paraphrasing)

“We’re not going to attack Sarah Palin personally, but we’re going to let the blogs and the media do that.”

So Palin speaks, here comes Obama’s campaign firing right back because they got nailed.

It was really hard pulling bites for this today ’cause the post her whole speech. I mean, what do you leave out of this? My favorite lines, I don’t remember it exactly, but she dug Michelle Obama. She was talking about her town, her little town and so forth, and other places like her little town all across America, where regardless the circumstances, the people who live there love and are proud of their country every day. (LOL) Zing.

And then, as it was pointed out to me, the military veteran from Lancaster, Ohio, to whom she blew a kiss, totally natural. This woman can be soft, cuddly, and then before you know it you have a fist buried in your gut. Mrs. Clinton I don’t think could pull that off.

PALIN:

I’ve learned quickly these last few days that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone. (boos) But here’s a little news flash for those reporters and commentators. I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion; I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this great country! (wild applause and cheering)

You don’t know what music to the ears of Republican voters that is! Yes, you do, because you are Republican.

That is the sweetest music: I’m not going there to be liked; I’m not going there to be approved by these people. I’m going there to do what I said I was going to do during the campaign.

There was one point during the speech when she ripped the media, and the audience started shouting, “NBC, NBC.”

PALIN:

Our opponents say again and again that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems — as if we didn’t know that already. (audience laughter) But the fact that drilling, though, won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. (cheering) Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration we’re going to lay more pipelines and build more nuclear plants and create jobs with clean coal and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources. (cheering) We need American sources of resources. We need American energy brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers. (cheering and applause)

All right, all right, all right. Now, remember that part of the speech. The Obama campaign, put out this panic fundraising e-mail saying that we didn’t get one word from Sarah Palin on the energy problem in America today.

Blatantly mischaracterizing, lying about her.

Why do we all love Sarah Palin? ‘Cause we all know her. These kinds of women are all over our neighborhoods.

Sarah Palin, not only does she have more experience, she’s a better speaker than Obama.

PALIN:

I’ve noticed a pattern with our opponent, and maybe you have, too. We’ve all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers, and there is much to like and admire about our opponent, but listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the state Senate. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot, when that happens, what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet?

And then she turned in the knife.

PALIN:

My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery. This world of threats and dangers, it’s not just a community, and it doesn’t just need an organizer. And though both Senator Obama and Senator Biden have been going on lately about how they are always, quote, fighting for you, let us face the matter squarely. There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you in places where winning means survival and defeat means death. And that man is John McCain.

It’s impossible to pick out the best parts of the speech. I didn’t want it to end. That’s the best description I can give you.

I did not want the speech to end.

I did not want the night to end.

My friends, Iran’s twitchy little thug president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has weighed in, once again, on our upcoming elections.

He claims that it really “doesn’t matter” whether McCain or Barack Hussan Obama, wins. Mahmoud says America needs “change.”

The next president needs to focus more on domestic problems and stop intervening in affairs in his neck of the world. If the new guy changes current policy, then Tehran would welcome “dialogue” with us.

Barbara Boxer has called Sarah Palin an extremist.

I love it. I hope these liberals keep dumping on her. All they do is expose the truth about all liberal… compationate openness, diversity, … what a joke, they live to destroy good people and retain power.

“Sen. Barbara Boxer said Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech for the Republican vice presidential nomination was ‘laced with ridicule’ and called the Alaska governor an extremist.

‘She can throw a very strong punch, a very sarcastic punch,’ the California Democrat told reporters Thursday after a meeting with local transportation officials. Palin, the first woman ever on a Republican presidential ticket, joked about being a hockey mom and belittled Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s time as a community organizer during her speech.”