So let’s put things in perspective. We had Mitt Romney suspend his campaign today, citing the necessity for Republican party unity in order to ensure that we don’t retreat in the War on Terror, which he perceives to be an inevitable result of the prospective Democrat nominee’s foreign policy. Barack Obama responded “it’s a classic attempt to appeal to people’s fears that will not work in this campaign. I think that’s part of the reason he was such an ineffective candidate.”

Meanwhile, on the same day, Little Green Footballs links us to the Iranian reaction to the recent Annapolis Summit, where President Bush tried his hand at both the long sought and almost mythical American-brokered Middle East peace. The Iranians don’t seem to be in a very diplomatic mood, contrary to what Barack Obama believes.

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati: Death to those who participated in the Annapolis Summit, and who got rewarded for this. Their mouths were stitched up, so that they could not speak out anymore. You really deserve death for being so despicable, and for wanting to please Bush, America, and Israel, rather than pleasing God, the Prophet, the Muslims, the oppressed, and the wretched.

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That insignificant man [Bush] visits Islamic countries, while all these crimes are taking place. He travels from country to country, and you are handing him a sword – a sword with which you should be chopping off his head.

It’s clear to Barack Obama that Mitt Romney is a fear-monger, while Mr. Obama is the voice of reason. He’s the man with infallible logic who sees no threat or ill-will from the likes of the Iranians, who just advocated cutting the head off the President of the United States. It is no doubt George Bush’s fault that the Iranians are making direct death threats as routine rhetoric. Just like everything else is George Bush’s fault, Barack’s seeming indifference to foreign threats is a shining example of the ‘depth’ of the Democrat’s reasoning.

Mr. Obama, while incredibly arrogant, is also incredibly naive– at best. Even if we set aside all we know about the Iranians, including the long list of American deaths orchestrated by their government spanning all the back twenty years ago to this very day in Iraq, it is plain that based on statements like the above from Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati that diplomatic pleasantries will solve nothing.

Unfortunately, that is exactly what Barack wants to do. It is one of the few explicitly stated foreign policy aims of his candidacy. He wants to have a big happy anti-American summit with all of our enemies so we can talk it out.

What incredible diplomatic headway can be made toward ’smoothing over’ the massive problems between our countries at a summit when the Iranians openly wants to decapitate our President? What if Barack were to win and actually meet with these people face to face? Would he be surprised if one of them actually carried out their stated intentions and he found himself facing down a violent Iranian leader? Would he talk his way out of it? Would he use diplomacy and the fact that he isn’t George Bush to suddenly convince a country that has hated our own through five Presidents, Republican and Democrat alike, that they don’t need nuclear weapons and he doesn’t need to die? Would he simply submit?

We don’t know the answers to any of these questions because the Obama campaign so far has been built on nothing but “hope.” Vapid, worthless, insultingly vague platitudes of a better tomorrow.

In a way we don’t even need this nightmare scenario to play out to find our answer to Barack’s question. As I said before, we know that the Iranians are working against us in Iraq, and they have supplied and aided those who are killing American troops, if not participated in the fighting themselves. The Iranians have shown their ill will. They have killed our people, and in that way we’ve already been wounded– our national leaders should be feeling the sting most of all. They have already hurt the President. Mr. Obama doesn’t feel the sting as the Republican candidates do, though, because he is living in a dream world (like at least a third of the country) and can’t be awakened to the serious fight we face.

Instead of understanding the massive reach of this conflict, he is willing to make completely asinine commitments that could conceivably lead to Al Qaeda wresting control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal for political gain. He is willing to tell the American people to remain asleep to the threat that Islamic terrorism continues to pose in order to get elected, preaching that everything can be all right if we just discard the nasty George Bush boogeyman.

Barack Obama wants to command the troops, he wants to command them to turn around and come home. He wants to allow millions of Iraqis to be slaughtered so he can placate his party’s anti-victory anti-military base. He wants to make consilliatory gestures toward a nation openly bent on the destruction of the United States and Israel. In essence, he wants to go back to 1993 and shrug off the WTC attacks.

It is for these reasons, and many more that will be exposed over the course of the 2008 campaign, that Barack Obama is “an ineffective candidate.”

But don’t take my word for it, others are catching on to Barack as well.

Sister Toldjah explores the cult of Obama.

FullosseousFlap wonders when McCain will start going after Obama.

GINA COBB wants to put the squeeze on Iran. I say squeeze away.

BeldarBlog asks a simple question that can help you decide if you should sit the election out or not.

Firedoglake illustrates that even those on the left realize Obama is full of hot air.

Big Dog ponders the MoveOn.org endorsement of Obama.

Update 2/12/08:

 

Terrorists, and terrorist regimes, want to cut off the head -literally- of all Americans, even liberal Democrats.

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