David Gergen on the Maliki “Leak”
By SusanUnPC on July 22, 2008 at 11:27 AM in Barack Obama, Iraq, Media
“…Barack Obama made the first mistake of his trip, in my judgment, in releasing a statement in which he said exactly what Maliki had said in those conversations. We have a long tradition in this country that we only have one president at a time. He’s the commander in chief and the negotiator in chief. I cannot remember a campaign which a rival seeking the presidency has been in a position negotiating a war that’s under way with another party outside the country.”
– David Gergen, CNN’s AC 360, July 21, 2008
I have complete confidence that Hillary Clinton would have the judgment not to release such remarks or place herself “in a position negotiating a war that’s under way with another party outside the country.”
The Junior Senator from Illinois will now negotiate Troop withdrawls with foreign leaders???
Press fluff at eleven.
bythebeardofzeus
I guess Obama was too busy being trained by an Executive Training Firm as to how to look President to actually look at our Constitution. I think Bush has been quite patient with the candidate in chief. Maliki said — I spoke with Bush last Friday and we negotiated a deal and I am satisfied. About Obama he said that Obama should come back when we learns more.
He is brilliant and I hope that his brilliance keeps on giving. Before November please!
what planet did you come from?he makes 6th grade stupid remarks almost everyday.he is not yet the president ,god forbib ,he is not even the official nominee yet.he proves he is dangerous and full of himself by his actions,i for one dont want him anywhere near the football!
Sarcasm! I think that the creep is a toad! I love it when he screws up.
I hope he gives the fool-aid drinkers a whooper on his world tour. I can only pray that his next screw up is of biblical proportion. Perhaps, the fool-aid drinkers will be shaken.
Your whinner/messiah also known as snObama is a threat to National Security — an so are his cult members.
Thankfully snObama will lose in Nov. and then hopefully he will go to jail after Rezko starts spilling all the details of how Obama was involved in the Pay offs etc.
In other words Obama is one of the crookedest politicians to try to snag the office of Prez — since never.
Now go away baby — your mom needs to change your diaper — you STINK.
PUMA
He is not my messiah…I know he is a threat. I worked for HRC during the primaries.
I changed my sign in so I would not be mistaken for a bot.
He is evil incarnate. This is actually playing out to become a scarier version of POTUS than Stephen King could come up with.
I got your sarcasm…
Na, he’s THE CANDY COLORED CLOWN THEY CALL THE SANDMAN.
The Sandman
Are you sure he knows he is running for President? During his press conference in Jordan, where Chicago News Network (CNN) did not air the questions of the reporters-only Obama’s answers, he kept refering to himself as WE. I felt this to be reminiscent of a Kingship and not a PRESIDENCY!
Ahhh yes. The royal “We”. Only works well for Monarchs and Popes since no one thinks they are talking about themselves when they say “we”.
One of the most ineffective (and lazy a$$) bosses I ever had used “we” when he spoke of his grand plans. Nothing ever got done. No one ever knew what the hell they were suppose to do to move the ball forward. Does “we” mean the boss will do it? Does “we” mean I should start on it? Does “we” mean Bob? Does “we” mean Kathy?
We figured out real quick “we” just meant he was bullshitting. ALL TALK, NO ACTION REQUIRED.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/06/07/more-obama-gaffes-media-will-ignore
Has anyone seen this gaffe? Why does the MSM not challenge this guy on any of these things?
If he is so tired now that it impairs his judgement, how will he handle being the POTUS?
There are man signs that Obama is not right in the head (batshit crazy) — he speaks of himself in the third person — not good.
And then the royal “WE” or his head is populated with lots of other wacky nuts.
PUMA
And once again, OBrilliance and his judgement (lack thereof) catapult him into doing things he should not be doing. My, the ego is grand! Good for the world to see immaturity in action. Certainly JMc is not strutting around like this.
You had me!
It is the edge of the known universe when Sarcasm the same as some of the comments made by his supporters. Praising their god as it were.
That sounds like believe. “I want him so bad!” I want whatever she’s on.
I don’t find a candidate is brilliant who thinks there are 58 states in the US. Compared to Obama, Bush is genius.
Obama does not seem to understand that he is not our President. In so very many ways he has shown that he is not presidential material–this is just another example. His style is of an autocratic self-proclaimed king.
I think too many people do not realize just how fragile democracy is. I see so many cracks in it over the last 7 years–and it might fall completely apart with an Obama reign.
Tricia,
Obama seems to believe (you know, “Change you can believe in”) he is the president. His mind is already there which is probably why he’s so prickly when questioned or when a reporter reminds him during questioning that he’s actually not even the nominee yet!!
Which is it? Delusions of grandeur? Narcissism? Megalomania is the one diagnosis that seems to cover his problem.
meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a –noun 1. Psychiatry. a symptom of mental illness marked by delusions of greatness, wealth, etc.
2. an obsession with doing extravagant or grand things.
“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.” [Bertrand Russell]
Meg`a*lo*ma”ni*a\, n. [NL., fr. megalo- + mania.] (Pathol.) A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
not to be confused with michellegomaniac in
which the subject believes the only reason a
person could possibly have for not wanting to bask
in the charming fuzzy glow of her personality
is racism!
clara barton — last week Obama actually said — when I was a Senator. Delusions of Grandeur for sure.
Delusions of grandeur is a very polite way of stating something far more serious as it applies to his ability to run his own campaign, let alone the country:
This man has a fragile hold on reality.
I’ve seen the posts that refer to his “mental illness”, and trust me, that is not a subject I take lightly. However with each passing day it becomes clearer why he has such a shield of protection around him. He is not in touch with the real world, clearly he depends on the coaching of his handlers and advisers, and someday, hopefully before Denver, Mr. Accident Waiting to Happen will go BOOM.
Sure would like to see his campaign Go Boom before Denver. Believe me, I did not make that mental illness post above in jest. This is nothing to joke about. In his little, twisted mind, he’s already living in the WH.
Here’s a differential diagnoses:
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behaviour), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts. Five (or more) of the following criteria must be met:
1. Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents to the point of lying, demands to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2. Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion
3. Firmly convinced that he or she is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions)
4. Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation - or, failing that, wishes to be feared and to be notorious (narcissistic supply)
5. Feels entitled. Expects unreasonable or special and favorable priority treatment. Demands automatic and full compliance with his or her expectations
6. Is “interpersonally exploitative”, i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends
7. Devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with or acknowledge the feelings and needs of others
8. Constantly envious of others or believes that they feel the same about him or her
9. Arrogant, haughty behaviours or attitudes coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted
Source:
American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition. Text Revision (DSM IV-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
Megalomania? or may be he knows that he’s going to be the prez. He knows this because of his “friends”. Friends that are helping him a lot. I think this is the big, big problem. Like he told to Rendell “you know I’m going to be the nominee”
He is not right–his actions are inconsistent. Think part might be his messing with his nicotine habit, or whatever condition makes his lips and gums so blue like chronic O2 deficiency. His gaffes usually come from inserting the wrong words (facts are words) into a sort of pat speech that doesn’t say too much. And if they are Freudian slips, hmm. This one about ethnic cleansing, for instance:
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/
well, I do remember a time when a campaign negotiated the release of hostages held by a hostile government.
Still, Obama is not proceeding with genuine care here for the lives of people in Iraq.
lorelynn — I remember when Jesse Jackson negotiated for Hostages. However, we have one President whose is our Commander in Chief. No presumptive nominee should be allowed to make Foreign Policy for this country. As I recall Hillary told Obama the same thing at one of their debates.
I was talking about Reagan - not Jesse Jackson. Emulating Reagan is not to Obama’s credit.
I believe this statement of lorelynn’s:
Was referring to the hostages taken by the Iranians during the Carter years. Carter had negotiated their release. However, Reagan/Bush I campaign negotiated a secret deal behind Carters back. So the hostages were held for another 3 months, until Reagan was sworn in.
Yes and Raygun was involved in dirty tricks of the worst sort– undermining a sitting president (not always a bad thing) while endangering the lives of the hostages and military forces attempting rescue– all to help elect him president. Meglamania is the topic.
My point is that Gergen was part of the Reagan admin - he certainly knows of another instance of this happening and it is not one that is to Obama’s credit.
Unless you think emulating Reagan is a good thing for a Obama to do - I don’t.
This was the way Ray-gun won — his negotiators (probably pappy Bush) to hold the hostages in Iran to make Carter look worse. And it worked — the hostages were released after Ray-gun won.
Amid fawning media over Messiah, McCain has opened up a 10 points lead in Ohio according to Rasmussen.
APPLAUSE FROM THE GALLEY’S!
Still, it would be better if HRC takes Denver by storm.
I saw Nancy Pelousy on TV today. She’s beginning to look a bit haggard. I say, Run TRAITORS RUN!
This is good news about Ohio….all eyes on Ohio as McCain must get Ohio to keep Obiteme from becoming POTUS.
Botox can’t save her face. As they said in the Wizard of Oz, “She’s melting!”
THIS JUST IN:
WE THE EMPEROR BARACK OBAMA POSSUMUS I has just ordered a nuclear strike on the state of Ohio.
BWAAAHAAAAAAA!!!
WooT!!
Good lord, that must mean that Ohio is racist!!!!!!
I seem to remember a time when Nixon (a true megalomaniac) designed new, gawdy uniforms for the house military (I don’t remember what their official designated name is) and boy, was he shot down in a red hot minute. Seems he also want a special trumpet fanfare when he entered.
Obama is touched by the same grandiose insanity! Nero, anyone?
I agree…keep it up Obama…no one will need to bury you, you are doing it all by yourself. It is infuriating that the Republicans won’t say anything een though I know why and Democrats are just going along with it. If Obama does steal the nomination I hope to hell Hillary drops back.
wodiej — I watched as the pundits on CNN called Obama exciting while calling McCain old and disliked. It looks like they are doing to McCain what they did to Hillary. I think if Obama picks Richard Lugar to be his VP — then McCain should pick Hillary. Talk about an exciting campaign.
I came across this interesting article about the Obama cult gathering in Germany: http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/07/word-torture-obama-staffers-in.html The boys advising Obama are full of it.
To see some of the campaign literature (purchased and distributed by the Obama Camp throughout Berlin):
1)http://www.daylife.com/photo/01G97l05tz9ed
2)http://www.daylife.com/photo/00jU3JQddd5Rb
This guy is so pathetic, and I absolutely abhor the media for there shitty journalistic methods that create these cult like sensations.
http://www.obama-wire.com
There have been many jokes about narcisstism. However, the more we learn about this guy - I fear he is a nut case.
He cannot separate reality from fact - he is not the President of the United States. Yet, his arrogance goes beyond belief.
Axelrod fits the mold of Obama too. Axelrod is without a doubt a scary character that has used deceitful tactics to win other elections.
Could someone put out the damn truth about Obama - I am older, and for the first time I have totally turned against the media. What are they doing? This is not China!!!!!!!!!!!
Listening to Limbaugh now - about people turning against the media because of their adoration of The Messiah.
57 channels and nothing on.
The video of Gergen, and Gloria Borger agreeing with him, is here.
Well we have Farrakhan over there telling the Middle East that Allah has come to the USA and now she will be chastised. How is it Farrakhan happens to be speaking on AlJazeera TV at the same time Obama is there? This has really bothered me that I saw that interview the night before Obama began speaking with leaders there. Is Farrakhan going to be part of his cabinet? Appointed to something?
diana — I would if Farrahkan is in charge of the Brown Shirts. Obama is one scary dude.
No, but there will be a whole lot of “little” deposits by the “little” people to obama’s campaign right around, say, late September. When everything is fast and furious and not easy to trace.
This is NOTjust a gaffe.
NOT a simple break from tradition.
This is a VIOLATION of role and responsibility at national scale.
The administration needs to instruct Obama to immediately cease and decist his marketing campaign at the expense of critical national matters. The Senate must immediately reprimand this behavior.
And, truly you know the military are being “polite”, they have only one Commander and Chief at a time; thems the rules.
This is really serious. Such action in any organization, any business, much less in the government of the United States, is ground for termination - FIRED!
BO is making a circus out this country.
THEY GIVE NEW MEANING TO THE WORDS INTELLECTUALLY CHALLENGED…there is no other reasonable explanation for it. The DNC should be reining BO in. They must like to lose.
wodiej — this time I am going to help the Democrats lose. I was going to vote for the down ticket Democrats — Now I will vote a straight Republican ticket. Obama is splitting the Democratic Party and destroying our credibility around the the world with his arrogance and stupidity. Somebody needs to give Obama a time out. If the Democratic Party and the media won’t do it then the voters will.
moi aussi!!!
(me too!)
watakushi, mo! (me, too)I’ll vote against every Dem. who voted for FISA. They must be punished- goodness knows, we all are by this monumental thievery of our primary by this idiotic megalomaniac.
Barack Obama’s fundraising number fraud. The FEC reports that Obama only made around $28 million in June. Where did the rest of the money go?
We were told it was $50M for June!
Do you have a link to the FEC numbers?
It is on the FEC site. I just picked this up on another blog. They are really confused because the numbers don’t add up. Something fishy is going on.
I heard a 25 Mill donation dropped on the last day..what an amazing coinkydink!
lying sacks of sxxt
BIG MAC beat him fundraising in June, and they ‘fixed’ it…
50 million showed up on the last day of June. Isn’t that nice?
Gotta love that oil money.
Maybe had to pay for some of that fundraiser held in China in June for him.
Obama Campaign Plans Fundraisers in China
By Matthew Mosk Posted at 3:14 PM ET on Jun 10, 2008
Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are in the midst of a fundraising binge, and it appears there is nowhere the two White House hopefuls won’t go in search of dough.
Next week, the Obama campaign will hold two fundraising events in China.
What exactly does O-bitsy-bitsy-baby have to do for the intellectually and ethically challenged msm to stop using him as a masturbation post?
LOL…good one…
LMAO!!! Sad, but true!
I needed that laugh. Thank you.
I am getting really frightened now. This guy leaves me speechless. What if he really becomes POTUS? The thought of it makes me physically ill. He seems so shameless that nothing will stop him –PURE PATHOLOGY!!!!
Read the Declaration of Independence:
‘That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.’
I’m thinking its time for a D.C. Tea Party if obama gets in. Of course through his support of FISA, he has forseen this posibility.
Let the Tea Party preparations begin!
This is a real scary video, of Farrakhan I found. He say’s the words Get Over It,and Change,Change Change.
Is this where Obama’s is getting his information?SCARY..
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9319375
Obama says troops didn’t help in Iraq. Gives credit to tribesmen in Iraq. Says surge was bad idea. Promises to send 7,000 troops to Afghanistan.
Maybe he meant he’s sending 7,000 tribesmen to Afghanistan?
David Gergen must be a racist!
I saw that last night, and also heard the other person say this:
ya think?
I hate the war. I hate that we ever invaded Iraq. I want us out yesterday. My focus isn’t on winning or losing the war. However, we have to finish what we started. And if Obama thinks it’s okie dokie to pull out our combat troops and there is suddenly peace in Iraq, he’s crazy. He supports having residual troops there. I don’t like the idea of a small number of troops over there (residual or not) when the situation is still so volatile. Judas Richardson (in my opinion) had the best idea IF you are going to pull out…no residual troops.
And then they tell us McCain WANTS to be there for another 100 years. I heard an Obama supporter on CNN saying that again today. she said McCain wants to stay there for 100 years, or a 1000 years. I never heard him say he wanted to. I thought Obama supporters were supposed to be the more educated bunch. But they seem to think that you can live for over 100 (now 1000) years. And they obviously think you can be president for that long too.
Barack Obama wants to put a target on our foreheads so Osama Bin Forgotten can see us better.
Uppity Woman — The Manchurian Candidate’s batteries have passed their sell by date. Senator Obama — A CLOSED MOUTH GATHERS NO FOOT.
Gergen is a lying ass.
What about Nixon in 1968, or Reagan negotiating with the Iranian hostage takers in 1980?
Both of those were much worse actions. In fact, Nixon’s meddling led to the war being prolonged and millions more deaths.
If Obama is meddling–and I think he is—-he is only following the lead of a long line of Republicans. Of course, since I think Obama really IS a Republican, that doesn’t surprise me.
You know, I told someone that I thought Obama’s agenda is really to bring the AA’s over to the republican party. Nothing to back it up, just the same gut feeling I got back in 2000 about Bush and ruining the world!
Markl — We have one President/Commander in Chief. He is the one who makes Foreign Policy. We are involved in 2 wars — we cannot have a novice making his own policy. He needs to shut up and listen for a change.
Politico claims fauxbama “aced” the press conference; hard for me to tell since the question part was MUTED, and all I heard was a testy fauxbama answering on, and on…he even sniped at Mitchell “how many questions DO you have Andrea?”
Pissing off Andrea? GOOD. Maybe she’ll pull her head out of her ass. They’ve all been treating him with kid gloves. Please piss off Andrea Mitchell. She has panties older than BO. Please piss off Andrea. Get her good and mad. Please.
David Gergen almost choked before he made the statement, apologetically saying he was now going to sound “contrarian.” Contrarian? A prominent political pundit and regular commentator in the mainstream media now has to apologize in advance for making one statement critical of Barack Obama? This is ludicrous, folks. Obama is not even a presidential NOMINEE, but he already thinks he’s the president. He knows nothing about foreign policy, but he has infinite confidence in his brand-spanking new foreign policy “credentials.” More dangerous than the man who knows nothing is the man who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.
Diana, could you give a link, please? You wrote:
Comment by Diana | 2008-07-22 11:41:00
“Well we have Farrakhan over there telling the Middle East that Allah has come to the USA and now she will be chastised. How is it Farrakhan happens to be speaking on AlJazeera TV at the same time Obama is there? This has really bothered me that I saw that interview the night before Obama began speaking with leaders there. Is Farrakhan going to be part of his cabinet? Appointed to something?”
Wow, if the above is true, this is really odd because when Rev. Wright made a trip to Libya with Farrakhan, the very year Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate, when Qaddifi met with Wright and the LOI, Qaddifi said that Muslims would now have someone inside the U.S. working for their cause (and I paraphrase here - it was actually scarier, as I recall, and I’m not sure if Farrakhan said it, or Qaddifi, but I believe that it was the latter). I’m going to have to find for the link to it. Not good.
here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvE-P–2Zw
Too scary - What on earth is America and the MSM who support Obama thinkiong?
Terrorists to guard the Anointed One: also scary.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9319375
Farrakhan says the words change change change and get over it. Maybe he says other things also. I didnt listen to the entire tape. Can’t stand him..
I want Clinton back,as the nominee.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9319375
People need to wake up! How can we not understand the gravity of the likes of Farrakhan declaring BO as the “messiah” to his congregation (not to mention appearing on AlJazeera while BO is in mideast!) & Libya’s Qaddafi calling all of our country’s leaders fascists and tyrants–except of course for the chosen one BO….why do so many keep turning away from these blatant warnings?
Can BO possibly be so naive or stupid not to realize how devastating such connections are to most any Americans with their eyes open, as well as his deep links to criminals & terrorists, andliberation theology-style racists (including NOI & its destructive UFO-cult underpinnings)? Or does he with complete knowledge nurture and harvest this whole array of negative, sinister endorsements in order to propel himself into the world scene as the false savior? Why don’t more people see that there is something deeply alarming here?
Obama will bring peace and economic prosperity to the world, but he is unable to unite his party????
He has done a stellar job of uniting Hillary Dems and McCain republicans, though. And that is a good thing. Maybe this is the election when the centrists of both parties will be able to steer back to middle from extreme left and right.
McCain took a lot of heat from the hard right in his own party, but it looks like the Old War Horse was smarter than anyone knew.
Dems worried Obama is making a fool of himself. Today on Fox News, Dem strategist warned Obama not to act like president. Obama didn’t take advice.
So Gergen finally realizes that Obama is an idiot seeking self glory.
Wow. PUMAs knew that a long time ago.
From the very moment I read somewhere online that Michelle Obama stated their daughters didn’t like coming to bed with them because he stinks…I just knew!
The statement, which I summarized, told me all I needed to know about the Obamas.
They will tell anything and everything if it suits their purpose.