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Ticket From Hell

A view from the Low Countries. Gouda column from everybody’s favorite Hans Brinker slams the faux moderatism and Islamic heritage dodging of Obama, the stumbling incompetence of Biden, and the relentless media jihad on Palin that has obscured these realities. Edam up, Michael:

The Democratic ticket is one straight out of hell. Neither Biden nor Obama have what it takes to lead the U.S.

The political debate centered on John McCain and Sarah Palin in recent weeks, which was a terribly good development for Barack Obama and Joe Biden because it prevented people from focusing on their rather obvious flaws. Now that the debate has calmed down a bit, however, it is time to refocus on Obama-Biden, and to look at whether or not they are competent enough to be president and vice president.

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Together, the Democratic leaders, Biden and Obama, are among the worst candidates the Democratic Party could have come up with. They lack experience, and if they do have ‘experience’ it is of the worst kind. Both do not know much about foreign policy, and the one who is supposed to be the foreign policy expert makes a fool of himself whenever he talks about the subject. They are reaching out to moderates now, but their records show that they are among the most liberal members of the Democratic Party alive and active. They are willing to meet with enemies but they do not understand that you should support and reward those on your side.

They are incompetent and radically progressive; they are not the right people to lead the most powerful country on earth.

Whole thing includes Michael’s aside that he is a convert to Islam. There’s the influence of a rather hot Turkish fiance involved, but this is a spiritual journey. Michael, a blog pal for a long time and an occasional guestblogger here, tells all at My First Ramadan. It’s an unusual step for a Christian Dutch hawk, but as today’s Obama-bashing post indicates, Michael’s hawkishness hasn’t suffered in the leap:

You cannot meet with enemies of the West and its allies (Israel) without preconditions. Doing so is dangerous and sends the message that the U.S. is weak and weakwilled.

The Muslim world is a highly diverse place, apparently now that much more diverse. Underscores the fact that while our enemies are primarily Muslims … with an assist from assorted non-Muslim enablers … our war is not with Islam, but with extremists acting on a combination of religious and political agendas who are also the enemies of clear-thinking Muslims everywhere.

MVDG is also a major free-speech advocate whose site has been targeted by Muslims who aren’t. As the experience of Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali can tell you, challenging extremist Islam in the Netherlands is not a parlor pursuit.

Topics: Europe, Islam, pols

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:24 am on Saturday, October 4, 2008

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