Hello Again,

I hope everyone will have no idea what I'm talking about, but if you watched a certain President hopefuls speech last night, then you most surely will.

I am a Permanent resident of Canada, and try to not care about American Politics, but I guess it's too difficult not too given this candidates outright misdirecting of facts.

I thought quite possibly Mr. Obama was an honest (albeit liberal therefore shortsighted in my view) if not nice person who generally wanted to change Washington.

Then I heard this 'speech' last night. Now I realize he is exactly like the rest of the previous Democratic candidates, they are all paraded around as Intelligent people who just need a chance to lead. The problem with them is they only look at academic points of view, they are continually trying to reinvent the wheel, not realizing reality is different than concepts.

His opening paragraph's, outline how he is identical to men like Mr. Kerry, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Gore, and Mr. Carter. People full of uniting rhetoric, but not much truth as is shone by how polarizing they have all become.

"Now, here’s the good news – the name George W. Bush will not be on the ballot. The name of my cousin Dick Cheney will not be on the ballot. We’ve been trying to hide that for a long time. Everybody has a black sheep in the family. The era of Scooter Libby justice, and Brownie incompetence, and Karl Rove politics will finally be over.

But the question you’re going to have to ask yourself when you caucus in January and you vote in November is, “What’s next for America?”

We are in a defining moment in our history. Our nation is at war. The planet is in peril. The dream that so many generations fought for feels as if it’s slowly slipping away. We are working harder for less. We’ve never paid more for health care or for college. It’s harder to save and it’s harder to retire. And most of all we’ve lost faith that our leaders can or will do anything about it."

Let's look at this statement for a moment.

We are in a defining moment in our history. Our nation is at war. The planet is in peril. The dream that so many generations fought for feels as if it’s slowly slipping away.

Very impressive verbiage for a man who wants to 'pull out' every troop from Iraq in a year, which will force the Iraqi government to fend for itself, he supposedly knows this is the only way the Iraqi government (who according to this logic, is the problem in Iraq, not the Arabs who are going there to fight democratic systems of government) will stand up for itself.

When I heard this quote I had to ask myself, why is the World in Peril?

Let me think for a moment. Is it in peril because of American Troops in Iraq? Is it in peril because of Americans who supposedly can't pay their now inflated mortgage payments? Is it in peril because of the supposed health care crisis in the USA?

I think you have to say an emphatic no to these reasons, it is in peril because of Radical Islamic Fundamentalists, Dictators who take all the money of their Countries and use it for themselves, and nuclear capable regime's selling their technology to non-nuclear countries.

I think he rightly says the World is in peril. To say, as he does over and over to the press, pulling out of Iraq will force the Iraqi's to fend for themselves, thus alleviating their dependence on American tax dollars (not defining their dependence on us to be a structured security for the help of growing a new democratic government, as he knows is true), which somehow makes the World a much better place, he forgets the reasons why the World is in peril.

Islamic fundamentalism will take over in the region if Democratic systems aren't allowed to grow. To say they will grow on their own, is to be shortsighted and obtuse to the truth staring you in the face.

Iraq is too young a country to stand on its own. He talks about how Mr. McCain is committing us to 100 years of paying for the Iraqi's. I say this is how America should be. Shouldn't we help the downtrodden. The Iraqi's who have been elected to the offices they hold now, would have been exiled, forced to follow the Dictators lines on pain of torture or death, or made to do things they never would have conceived of doing, had they been able to think for themselves.

Now they are thinking for themselves, but to say they are ready to stand alone, is to be absurd. They are in control of the country, but are they in control of all that goes along with running a country, I would submit that they can't be. I agree it's a hard job, uniting three distinct tribes, who honestly do not want to be united.

On a human scale though, what else can we do?Do we just leave when the going gets tough?

Do we let them be taken over by radical Islam, because the leadership capabilities to finish the job properly means you have to look at public opinion and realize it's driven by immediate concerns, rather than proper logic and reason.

Mr. Obama your shortsighted and ignorant of what it means to run a government, if you believe that we need to pressure a brand new government to stand alone in this time of major upheaval.

If we leave Iraq in a year we will plunge the new government in a place they will not be able to recover from. Why can't they tell us when they want us to leave. The Filipino's told us to get out when they didn't need us, lets allow the Iraqi government learn and grow to be strong, rather than look at political expediency.

The Koreans have realized our presence there is beneficial. Mr. McCain has rightly highlighted our presence there to show what can happen when two countries partner together to push back ideologies that aren't democratic.

The question Mr. Obama has to ask is what will it take to make the Government strong in Iraq. Not how can we force them to do their job, and make it into an us versus them issue.

Instead of listening to Al-Jazeera and getting policy from them, Mr. Obama should look at history and see we need to truly finish the job.

Which means that until Iraqi's are solid and secure within their own systems we need to be there.

I can go on and on about his speech, but I need to do other things. when you listen to this man, read between the voice inflections, to see the concepts he is trying to push. They are shortsighted, lies, or just plain idiocy. Barack Obama is a dangerous man, if elected he will harm more people than he helps.

Cheers
Tim