Posted by
Andrews on Monday, May 26, 2008 12:02:21 AM
Does everyone recall those episodes of the original
Star Trek where Captain Kirk would ramble on and on until he literally talked a computer to death? Apparently, that is the Obama campaign's
model for foreign policy.
While he supports invading allies such as Pakistan, and thinks that sanctions worked for Iraq, he thinks sanctions are a bad idea for Cuba, and he will instead talk Castro into "libertad".
I won't go into this in detail, as I think I need to write a much longer post on the follies of the Obama foreign policy positions, such as they are. However, I do have one question. Obama has offered to allow remittances to family, but won't lift trade embargoes, so what exactly are the relatives going to spend those US dollars on?
Well, as I said, I think I will write at greater length on the ever-shifting, inconsistent sound bites which form the Obama foreign policy. So, for now, I will just ask Obama boosters precisely what Obama is going to say that will suddenly turn Cuba and Iran into model democracies?
POSTSCRIPT
It is a shame Doc Steech isn't drawing his cartoons any longer, this just calls out for a cartoon. Obama in a Star Trek pull over, Raul Castro as NOMAD.
Raul-Nomad: I am Communist, I am perfect.
Obama-Kirk: No, you are in error.
Raul-Nomad: Who are you say that?
Obama-Kirk: I am the Obama, the savior.
Raul-Nomad: You are post racial, yet attend a black separatist church... you are a dogmatic liberal, yet a uniter... does not compute, danger danger!
Sadly, I think some on the left really think that is going to happen. Or maybe Raul will be so overwhelmed by the awesome presence of
The Obama that he will simply do whatever is asked of him.
The more I listen to Obama the farther and farther from reality he seems to be. If he really believes what his campaign is claiming, he is dangerously delusional. McCain may not be my first choice, or in the top 100, but even Hillary is better than Obama. At least she is only a corrupt socialist, she doesn't seem to have strange messianic delusions about herself.