Establish Pragmatic Realism.-instrument for adapting to reality and controlling it,

GA... as opposed to Bush who adapted Reality to his way of thinking and still couldn't control it(read Iraq)? No, time will tell whether Obama is able to adapt to reality or not (either way, I think he knows he can not control it, history will say if I am right or wrong)

Brett: Eneils has his own way of contributing, one I very much appreciate (read his posts on Byrd)....

Eneils... While I haven't eaten sh*t, I have eaten goat, and I thought it tasted like sh*t. Maybe it just wasn't cooked right? Either way, from the looks of the economy, I will soon again eat stuff that tastes like sh*t. Oh well,...

The experience that led him to select Palin? Hard to divorce that from his qualification to lead the country...

Well first Obama picked himself and then he picked the four letter wonder Joe Biden, so whats your point for the 600th time?

Gain Credibility.-lol, he is Credibility!

Rebuild World Financial Institutions.-Yes damn it, you will see communism will work this time!!!

Redefine the War on Terrorism.-He apologizes then pays reparations?

Recalibrate Transatlantic Relations.-He can hold a
yearly concert series so that the communists and socialists can worship him in person, that should do it. you know like the Pope, but even better!!!

Establish Pragmatic Realism.-instrument for adapting to reality and controlling it, Check, he is the ONE!!!!!!

Could we change the selection of weenies for the Islamic Terrorist's to goat weenies.

Do you actually plan on making a positive contribution at some point, or would you prefer to continue posting meaningless spam?

Hey, all you folks out there, goat weenies offend anyone?

Don't get me wrong, a few years ago, I spent time in the Middle East.

Lot's of pig weenies out there.

You get hungry, you would eat shit.

And don't flatter yourself by wrapping yourself up in the idea that American food could be sourced on demand.

Again, if you get really hungry, my dear, you will eat shit.

Beyond that, I'd prefer a Republican president with fiscal conservative tendencies to restrain a Democratic congress rather than a Democratic president and a Democratic congress.

James, I think you got that backwards... I mean, isn't that what we had with Reagan and Tip? It worked out much better with a DEM President, and a GOP congress (Clinton and Newt).

"Persistence in error," one might say.

Tho I'm reminded of his alleged joke about the difference b/t a pit bull and Palin: the pit bull eventually lets go.

I preferred McCain's tenacity and experience

The experience that led him to select Palin? Hard to divorce that from his qualification to lead the country...

As for NATO - ultimately, I think we need to turn over the security in the region to the Europeans themselves. This isn't like East Asia or the Middle East, where our power can provide security by keeping the places from devolving into regional arms races - the Europeans are capable of funding either a joint EU military force, or their own separate forces (or funding each other's military forces - like if the Western Europeans underwrote the costs of the Polish Army).

And you seriously thought JOHN MCCAIN was the candidate better able to accomplish these, or more willing to attempt to do so?

I thought it was pretty close to a wash on foreign policy. I preferred McCain's tenacity and experience and Obama's temperament. With McCain, though, you at least knew what you were getting whereas Obama was amazingly good at being All Things to All People.

Presidents have domestic policies, too, and I'd have much rather had McCain appointing Supreme Court justices, leading tax policy, and the rest.

Beyond that, I'd prefer a Republican president with fiscal conservative tendencies to restrain a Democratic congress rather than a Democratic president and a Democratic congress.

I don't care who your god is, that's just wrong.

ergo, isn't it obvious that I am just a godless heathen?

And you seriously thought JOHN MCCAIN was the candidate better able to accomplish these, or more willing to attempt to do so?

[Shakes head in disbelief.]

Michael: Pork hot dogs, shaped like weenies... with lots of mayo

I don't care who your god is, that's just wrong.

The weenie roast with the Islamic terrorists.

I wonder which would be more offensive, pork hot dogs or kosher ones....

As for myself, I see Obama’s chief tasks as follows:

1. Gain Credibility.
2. Rebuild World Financial Institutions.
3. Redefine the War on Terrorism.
4. Recalibrate Transatlantic Relations.
5. Establish Pragmatic Realism.

You sound like Maya Angelou at the 1993 Clinton inauguration.

You left out a couple of other things;
A Sock Hop and Magic Show at the United Nations.
The weenie roast with the Islamic terrorists.
And the opening of a personal checking account; you have to put more in than you take out.
And there was that thing about being a "Rock" whatever the hell that that meant.