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Obama is one quick wit - Howard trumped

« H E Politics :: Commentary :: General :: News :: US :: Akin Akintayo :: email
posted Monday, 12 February 2007

Barrack of hope delivered


I am not writing much about Barack Hussein Obama who declared that he is in the race for the Presidency of the United States yesterday. He gave a speech that would inspire anyone to hope and promise.


Whilst I am still of the opinion that he is in this race too early, I am beginning to think Hillary Clinton would have a dilemma on her hands if she takes the Democratic nomination and needs a running mate.


Methinks John Edwards might not be as fortunate to play the second fiddle on this occasion having not really done much to augment the ticket of the John Kerry partnership of 2004.


However, Mr. Obama who is stridently against the war in Iraq has suggested that all troops be withdrawn by March 2008, however, whilst another man is busy trying to secure his legacy on the sacrifice of more American lives, this might not gain traction.


Nosey parker gets bloody nose


The more amusing development comes from Down Under where Prime Minister John Howard fulminated about the troop withdrawal idea saying it would completely destablise and destroy Iraq, create chaos and a victory for the terrorists – I would not explore that further, we all know how terrorists ended up in Iraq and they wee not there when Saddam Hussein ruled with tyranny.


So, a last question is thrown at Obama about this blast from the antipodean and he calmly acknowledges the recognition from afar with as much as saying he is flattered – then went for the jugular with pin-point accuracy.


I believe we have 140 thousand troops in Iraq, Australia has 1,400 troops, he is so keen on the war, he should send 20,000 more Australians to Iraq. Touché!  He is not even asking that he square the numbers.


I am beginning to like this man and well, the moral of the tale is never meddle with a smart arse young and articulate ascendant politician, you might find out that you are too old a dog to learn new political tricks – John Howard has been Prime Minister of Australia for 10 years, surely, he must have seen this coming or he is losing his touch.


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Thursday, 15 February 2007 1:37 pm

I disagree. He just shot himself in the foot with that comment.

So wait, Obama believes he can get success with an additional 20,000 troops?

Australia is an ally only to Dubbya? So decades of wars, and thousands of pages of history says that Australia is in fact only Bush's ally. Was Bush around during WW2? Was he around during 'Nam?

Then he challenges a World Leader, that of Australia to commit 20,000 troops, taking into account that their defence force and resources are tiny compared to ours, they have troops already spread out in asia and other parts of the world as well as peace keeping duties with the UN.

If he can't deal with foreign affairs, he should not be president.

As for John Howard, was he stupid to involve the Democrat party and Obama in his comments? Definately. But he has every right to state his opinion. After all, he is a world leader.


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