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Thanks for reminding me of the 57 states comment. I'd forgotten about it. That was funny.

Let's see . . . Iraq . . . Iran . . . wow, you sure got him. But at least McCain didn't tell an audience of supporters in Portland that Iran doesn't pose a serious threat to us, saying only the next day, "I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave."

Speaking of geography, remember when Barack was explaining why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, he said, "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle." On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

Sure, as long as I can bring up Obama's gaffs, too.

.... that we need more Arabic translators in Afghanistan.

On that subject, OldDog, here's some great footage of Obama's many "refinements" on his Iraq position. Seems he was against it, before he was for it, before he was against it, before he claimed the surge wouldn't work, before he said the surge obviously would lessen the level of violence...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHEIi4XKRmM

You really don't want to go down this route, Flan, but if you keep it up, I hope you kept some of those shovels you were trying to hand out.

BTW, I notice the curtain closed on the “He doesn’t even know Czechoslovacia isn’t a country anymore” circus right about the time Obama’s advisor, Sam Nunn made the same mistake….

Your hiring is a sure thing...unless "Czechoslovacia" is a new country I have never heard of. Keep those shovels handy and pass the translators!

... in the Obama campaign, your opinion on what's rewuired counts for a great deal. I guessed you missed the memo about references to Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic are off the list since Sam Nunn, Obama foreign policy advisor, made the same mistake just two days after McCain did. Watch those faxes closer.

BTW, it comes as no surprise that you, once again, danced around a genuine issue, in this case Obama's many, many positions on Iraq and his many, many distortions of what he, himself had said in the past on the subject (he must really hate videotape by now). The poor guy still can’t get his puppet masters at moveon.org to let him admit the surge has worked, leaving him to continuously maintain a position that’s the modern-day equivalent of denying the Earth is round. It’s actually rather sad.

Then there’s that pesky thing about him thinking Arabic translators are needed in Afghanistan.

Sam Nunn won't be getting my vote for president. Now Maliki is adopting the long held
opinion about redeployment of American Troops.

McCain: Wrong about going to war in Iraq
Obama: Right about going to war in Iraq

McCain: wrong about Afghanistan
Obama: right about Afghanistan

Keep on shovelin' that stuff you're shovelin'...

But he's good enough to be an Obama advisor? BTW, you still haven't explained if it's senility, intellectual impairment or (my guess) political opportunism that causes Obama's many, many gaffes...

Yep, McCain’s long held position on the redeployment of US that it should only occur as conditions on the ground allow it, as opposed to Obama’s (to be kind, let’s just talk about one of Obama’s many, many opposing positions on Iraq) “immediate withdrawal” plan that ignores the reality on the ground.

Which time was Obama right? When he spoke as a Illinois state senator from an uber-liberal district that was never going to say anything other than “no”? Or was it later, when the poll numbers on the war were higher, and he said he didn’t have access to the intelligence reports and that he might have voted differently if he had? Or was it later still, when things got tough, and he wanted to surrender, leaving Iraq to chaos (and an eventual launching pad for the soon-to-be victorious Al Qaeda element) and the Iraqis that had trusted and worked with us to a killing fields type fate? Or is it even know as he can’t get permission from moveon.org to admit what simply can no longer be denied, that the surge worked and we’re winning?

BTW, how is it in these “should we have gone to Iraq” discussions people on your side never mention how they would be happy to have left Saddam in power, by now long out of sanctions and inspections, and back to doing what he was doing pre-1991? Why is it you pretend that without a US invasion Iraq would be nothing more than a Michael Moore fantasy of kids flying kites?

Obama still talking about sending Arabic translators there? Sorry, he’s even wrong on that one, as he was wrong when he suggested we should invade Pakistan. Afghanistan is a NATO mission, I have yet to hear Obama talk about how his supporters in Europe have failed to provide the genuine military assistance they said they’d give when we started. Perhaps he doesn’t want to offend his base.

It’s a deal, and you keep on providing the straight lines about judgment and geography.

Maybe not, but what about Vice President?

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1816620,00.html

OBAMANUNN . . . it has an interesting ring.

is somewhere between the left knee and the right one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfogMFL7UJo