Part 1 Of The O'reilly Interview With Obama

Obama talks about diplomacy with Iran. The Europeans have been engaging in diplomacy for years with Iran over their nuke program to no avail. He goes on to say we need tougher sanctions. O'reilly does not call him on his opposition to the Kyl-Lieberman amendment that declared the Iranian Revolutionary Gaurd a terrorist organization. O'reilly also does not mention that Bush has always been for stronger sanctions against Iran, but that Russia and China are the ones blocking UN Security Council efforts to that effect. How could O'reilly let Obama get away with making it out like Bush is to blame when it is Russia and China that are supporting Iran in the Security Council?

O'reilly also thinks that Obama was "perspicacious" in his opposition to the Iraq war. What kind of person uses the word "perspicacious" in an interview? I guess O'reilly is either proud of flaunting his vocabulary skills, or had a thesaurus on hand before the interview. What O'reilly fails to mention when he discusses the surge is that Obama specifically opposed the surge saying that it would not in any way help the situation in Iraq. It is not simply that he opposed it, but that he opposed it on the grounds that he knew of no one that believed it would make a "substantial difference." McCain and Bush obviously did not believe that or they would not have supported a surge to begin with. Obama now claims the surge has worked because he can no longer rely on his anti-surge nonsense which was all proven wrong. He still says that there is no "political reconciliation" in Iraq, which means he apparently missed the news report from July 1st about the Iraqi government achieving "'satisfactory' progress on 15 of 18 political benchmarks."

Finally, what was that nonsense that O'reilly and Obama advocated about getting Iraq to give us their oil revenues? How can we force the Iraqis to do that? I thought the objective was to try and set up a stable independent Iraqi government that could stand up so that U.S. forces could stand down? Does the new Iraqi government have no need for that oil revenue to run and rebuild their own country?



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