Posts with the tag 'judgment'
Mitt Romney on why John McCain is best qualified to be our next president:
“The right course is the one championed by Ronald Reagan 30 years ago, and by John McCain today. It is to rein in government spending and lower taxes, for taking a weed-whacker to excessive regulation and mandates, for putting a stop to tort windfalls, and to stand up to the Tyrannosaurus appetite of government unions.
“And at Saddleback, after Barack Obama dodged and ducked every direct question, John McCain hit the nail on the head: radical Islam is evil, and he will defeat it! Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!”
Mitt Romney on the dangers of big government:
“Liberals would replace opportunity with dependency on government largesse. They would grow government and raise taxes to put more people on Medicaid, to work requirements out of welfare, and to grow the ranks of those who pay no taxes at all. Dependency is death to initiative, risk-taking and opportunity. It’s time to stop the spread of government dependency to fight it like the poison it is! It’s time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!”
Mike Huckabee on why he is a Republican:
“I’m not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.”
Mike Huckabee on the potential consequences of Obama’s lack of experience and judgment in foreign policy:
“Maybe the most dangerous threat of an Obama presidency is that he would continue to give madmen the benefit of the doubt. If he’s wrong just once, we will pay a heavy price.”
Tags: Barack Obama, experience, foreign policy, John McCain, judgment, liberal, Mitt Romney, president, republican, republicans, unity
September 3rd, 2008
Posted below in the extended entry:
On Hurricane Gustav:
We are thankful that the damage in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast was less than many had feared.
I commend the Governors of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas for their sure-handed response and seamless coordination with the Federal government. I thank all of the wonderful volunteers who stepped forward to help their brothers and sisters in need.
On Senator McCain Being Prepared To Make the Hard Decisions That Fall Solely to the President:
John McCain’s life has prepared him to make those choices. He is ready to lead this Nation.
We live in a dangerous world. And we need a President who understands the lessons of September 11, 2001: that to protect America, we must stay on the offense, stop attacks before they happen, and not wait to be hit again. The man we need is John McCain.
On Senator McCain’s Courage and Vision:
John McCain’s life is a story of service above self.
John is an independent man who thinks for himself. He’s not afraid to tell you when he disagrees. … No matter what the issue, this man is honest and speaks straight from the heart.
Last year, John McCain’s independence and character helped change history. The Democrats had taken control of Congress and were threatening to cut off funds for our troops. In the face of calls for retreat, I ordered a surge of forces into Iraq. Many in Congress said it had no chance of working. Yet one Senator above all had faith in our troops and the importance of their mission – and that was John McCain. Some told him that his early and consistent call for more troops would put his Presidential campaign at risk. He told them he would rather lose an election than see his country lose a war. That is the kind of courage and vision we need in our next Commander-in-Chief.
On Americans Choosing the McCain-Palin Ticket:
I am optimistic about our future, because I believe in the goodness and wisdom of the American people. I am optimistic because I have faith in freedom’s power to lift up all of God’s children and lead this world to a future of peace.
And I am optimistic about something else: When the debates have ended, and all the ads have run, and it is time to vote, Americans will look closely at the judgment, the experience, and the policies of the candidates – and they will cast their ballots for the McCain-Palin ticket.
Tags: candidate, change, Democrats, election, experience, iraq, John McCain, judgment, president, RNC08
September 2nd, 2008
You all know the drill by now.
Barack Obama uses his famed judgment to associate himself with someone he probably shouldn’t.
Obama’s own words come back to haunt him
Obama’s first response is to dismiss the problem.
Obama supporters come out of the woodwork to support both The Senator and the man responsible for the latest scandal.
Obama throws the problem under the bus, expects everyone to forget it and vote for him based on his judgment.
Rinse. Repeat.
I’m just sad that we didn’t get the standard “[X] is not the man I thought he was.” response.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jim Johnson, judgment, mortgage crisis
June 11th, 2008
Barack Obama’s friend and contributor Tony Rezko was convicted of sixteen felony corruption charges yesterday in Chicago.
This is another crack in the armor of Barack Obama’s vaunted “judgment.” For a man that wishes to be elected President of the United States based on his judgment, he seems to be a really horrendous judge of character. Between his decades long associations with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, to his friendships with Rezko and Michael Pfleger, either Barack Obama has very low standards when choosing whom to associate himself with, or his judgment is so weak that these people have completely pulled the wool over his eyes.
This quote suggests that it’s the latter.
“I’m saddened by today’s verdict,” Obama said in a statement Wednesday. “This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew, but now he has been convicted by a jury on multiple charges that once again shine a spotlight on the need for reform.”
If Barack Obama can’t see through Tony Rezko, why do I want Obama sitting across a table from Raul Castro?
Tags: Barack Obama, judgment, Tony Rezko
June 5th, 2008
Barack Obama thinks Ayers and Dohrn are mainstream and respectable.
Mr. Murtagh respectfully disagrees.
In February 1970, my father, a New York State Supreme Court justice, was presiding over the trial of the so-called “Panther 21,” members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. (Today, of course, we’d call that a car bomb.) A neighbor heard the first two blasts and, with the remains of a snowman I had built a few days earlier, managed to douse the flames beneath the car. That was an act whose courage I fully appreciated only as an adult, an act that doubtless saved multiple lives that night.
I still recall, as though it were a dream, thinking that someone was lifting and dropping my bed as the explosions jolted me awake, and I remember my mother’s pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn’t leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside. The same night, bombs were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn. Sunlight, the next morning, revealed three sentences of blood-red graffiti on our sidewalk: FREE THE PANTHER 21; THE VIET CONG HAVE WON; KILL THE PIGS.
Though no one was ever caught or tried for the attempt on my family’s life, there was never any doubt who was behind it. Only a few weeks after the attack, the New York contingent of the Weathermen blew themselves up making more bombs in a Greenwich Village townhouse. The same cell had bombed my house, writes Ron Jacobs in The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground. And in late November that year, a letter to the Associated Press signed by Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers’s wife, promised more bombings.
Senator Obama considers these people mainstream. Barack Obama served on a board with Bill Ayers. Barack Obama saw no problem with kissing the rings of Dohrn and Ayers for the benefit of his own political career
Barack Obama. Judgment to Lead.
Tags: Barack Obama, judgment, weather underground
May 1st, 2008
