Popcorn, Peanuts
No show without Punch! Our story so far:
Obama re presidential sitdowns with Kim, Castro, Ahmadinejad, Chavez:
“I would … it is a disgrace that we have not spoken to them. The notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them — which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration — is ridiculous.”
Clinton re dictator sitdowns, Obama:
“We’re not going to just have our president meet with Fidel Castro [of Cuba] and Hugo Chavez [of Venezuela] and, you know, the president of North Korea, Iran and Syria until we know better what the way forward would be. I don’t want to be used for propaganda purposes.”
“I thought that was very irresponsible and frankly naive to say you would commit to meeting with Chavez and Castro or others within the first year.”
“I’m not afraid to lose the P.R. war to dictators. I’m happy to look them in the eyes and say what needs to be said… I don’t want Bush-Cheney Light.”
“Part of the Bush doctrine has been to say ‘no.’ You’ll have to ask Senator Clinton what differentiates her position from theirs.”
“You know, I have been called a lot of things in my life, but I have never been called George Bush or Dick Cheney certainly.”
“You know you have to ask whatever has happened to the politics of hope.”
Well … I hope they don’t stop.
Clamor from stage right! Romney:
“She’s right on that. He happens to be wrong … a presidential contact (with Kim Jong Il, Castro, Ahmadinejad or Chavez) is as ill-conceived as having (House Speaker Nancy) Pelosi go to Syria. That was ill-conceived, but having a president meet with the authoritiarian tyrants of the world is a remarkably poor judgment conclusion.”
“If two Democrats are violently disagreeing with each other, I’m probably going to be on the side of one or the other.”
Obama(’s flak) re Romney:
“Unlike Governor Romney and others, Senator Obama had the judgment to oppose the war in Iraq before it started,” Vietor said. “Our next President can’t keep showing bad judgment by continuing the Bush-Cheney style of foreign policy and stubbornly refusing to talk to countries we don’t agree with.”
Worried emcee, DNC welcomes an opportunity to change the subject amid embarrassing front-runner spat:
“No matter how hard he tries to hide it, the American people know that smooth talking Mitt Romney is just another Bush Republican who refuses to offer the American people a new direction in Iraq, something all of our Democratic candidates are committed to doing.”
More clamor from stage right! McCain:
“Are we going to come out of this meeting, and the president of Iran is going to say, ‘I’m stopping the IEDs, I’m going to stop developing nuclear weapons, I will agree that Israel is going to exist,’ then fine. Then lets set up the meeting.”
“There’s a downside to just saying, I’ll sit down and have face-to-face meetings with one of these dictatorial rulers, who violate every principle of upon which this nation was founded.”
Everyone’s a critic.
Krauthammer: Strike Two for Obama.
Dionne: Obama wins!
Meanwhile, from the cheap seats.
Yglesias: Clever girl!
Dem Daily: Empty shirt!
Taylor Marsh: Breast-revealing recovered Reagan Democrats don’t want to see Hillary’s stones!
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:55 am on Friday, July 27, 2007
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July 27th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Yet another reason not to vote for Obama. The man is simply a shortsighted fool.
July 27th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Oogoe (Chavez), Fidel, Maynard (Ahmadinejhad), Kim Jong (mentally) Il et al and etc. being dangerous and bombastic clowns notwithstanding….
The fact that who would meet with whom is “the” or even “a” cogent question of the day for Presidential contenders (16 months in advance of the actual election)…is rather depressing in and of itself.
How many hundreds of millions of dollars spent in the all around media-driven drivel fest before it gracefully concludes in November 2008 ??!
July 27th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Whaddya mean? Don’t you remember all the good things that came from Neville Chamberlain sitting down with that fella with the bad haircut? Hammered out a sweet deal that gave us peace in our time, after all.
July 28th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Carter not-so-lite? Let us have another Carter. It took one to start this whole thing. After Carter not-so-lite, Iran can finish it with the final surrender of this country. After a long chat, of course. And as long as they will agree to give Florida to Castro.