Considering that the only sensible position in the last 7 years was NOT to invade Iraq, the fact that Obama held that conviction bodes well-IMHO.

So Dobson is a complete hypocrite. I am so surprised. You could have knocked me over with a girder.
McCain had for his economic advisor – Phil Gramm. The same Gramm who pushed the S&L deregulation that led to a multi billion dollar bailout. The same Gramm who made Enron possible. The same Gramm who pushed the kind of housing deregulation we’re having to clean up after now. The same one who called us a nation of whiners.
But McCain is really experienced. Just like Cheney and Rumsfeld were experienced. At making expensive messes that our military and our taxpayers have to bail out.
I’ll be happy to take somebody who has less of that kind of experience. Like that rookie, Lincoln.

“Considering that the only sensible position in the last 7 years was NOT to invade Iraq, the fact that Obama held that conviction bodes well-IMHO.”
It’s a good thing for the Iraqis that Obama wasn’t the one who got to make that decision:
SPIEGEL: Mr. Prime Minister, the war and its consequences have cost more than 100,000 lives and caused great suffering in your country. Saddam Hussein and his regime are now part of the past. Was all of this worth the price?
Maliki: The casualties have been and continue to be enormous. But anyone who was familiar with the dictator’s nature and his intentions knows what could have been in store for us instead of this war. Saddam waged wars against Iran and Kuwait, and against Iraqis in the north and south of his own country, wars in which hundreds of thousands died. And he was capable of instigating even more wars. Yes, the casualties are great, but I see our struggle as an enormous effort to avoid other such wars in the future.

“Like that rookie, Lincoln.”
*Yawn* Like we haven’t heard that one before.

“Yawn” like we haven’t had every right wing cliche pounded into our heads from every angle for the last twenty years.
Sorry- that line about experience is annoying, seeing as it comes from people who backed Bush. The experience that Bush had amounted to :
Failing in the oil business, and getting bailed out by daddy’s friends.
Failing at the baseball business- trading Sosa- and getting the taxpayers to build them a stadium.
Being a mediocre governor of a state which has a weak governor’s office.
The experience- all bad – of Bush was glossed over by the MSM. They all said he would surround himself with intelligent people . Boy, that worked out well.

So, Dobson thinks it’s OK for Senator Obama to constantly re-evaluate his positions? Or is that OK only if the re-evaluator is a Republican, but not a Democrat?
As for Dobson’s “rethinking his or her positions, especially in a constantly changing political context”, the political context really hasn’t changed since the start of these contests. The Republican nominee for the presidency is still going to lose, and that hasn’t changed in the last 18 months. The majority of the American people have stated for well over a year that this country is headed in the wrong direction, and the only change is that now, it’s about 7 in 8 who feel that way. The quickest, safest way the American people can change that is to elect a non-Republican.
Absent massive vote fraud from the Republican party and the right-wing companies who vend the voting machines, it’s pretty obvious that the Republican nominee is going to lose.

I wonder how long it will be before Michele begins to parrot the right-wing spew about media unfairness in their coverage of Obama’s trip?

Dobson needs to sit down and be quiet. He is a pedestrian theologian which results in him voicing embarrassing views regarding Evangelical beliefs. Right now, at best, he is a spokesperson for UNINFORMED and SUPERSTITIOUS types of Christians. He is a poli-christ. Next Please!

“As for Dobson’s “rethinking his or her positions, especially in a constantly changing political context”, the political context really hasn’t changed since the start of these contests.”
Yes it has, the right has learned how radical Obama is and it scares them.
“Absent massive vote fraud from the Republican party and the right-wing companies who vend the voting machines, it’s pretty obvious that the Republican nominee is going to lose.”
We all know that you guys live in this little bubble where everyone you know is voting for Obama so if it doesn’t happen, then it must be fraud. But you might want to be prepared for the political reality that the hype might not push Obama over the finish line. He may collapse from the weight of his own hubris.
But I wouldn’t overestimate the wisdom of the voting public so he may continue to fool them until election day. If I were you, I might want to refrain from calling this election until the votes are cast (remember NH, babe).

There is only one thing about an Obama presidency that I find at all appealing and that is the thought of Mad Dog Dobson being hauled off to Guantanamo Bay.

“It’s a good thing for the Iraqis that Obama wasn’t the one who got to make that decision.”
For which Iraqis? The ones that survived? The ones that haven’t lost their homes and loved ones? The ones that are in power now?
You talk about hubris. There is nothing like the monumental hubris of Americans who presume to know what is a “good thing” for other countries and peoples whom they know absolutely nothing about. Americans who can casually talk about how a devastating war is a “good thing” when they have not, and likely will not ever, be forced to experience war in a personal way.

“*Yawn* Like we haven’t heard that one before.”
… and still can’t deal with it.

“McCain is arrogant, abrasive, annoying and he seems like a jerk”
i’m going to go out on a limb here and defend mccain. it’s typical that the right attacks the character of the candidate. that you find him to be an arrogant, abrasive, annoying jerk isn’t the reason to disqualify him from the presidency… his wrong policies and lack of knowledge are.

An endorsement by Dobson isn’t necessarily a helpful for either candidate!

“I know that McCain is an improvement over Obama”
*Yawn*. Like we haven’t heard you tell us that umpteen times – without bothering to explain exactly how McCain is “an improvement” over Obama.
As for Dobson, how or why his opinion matters to Americans remains a mystery.

“You talk about hubris. There is nothing like the monumental hubris of Americans who presume to know what is a “good thing” for other countries and peoples whom they know absolutely nothing about. Americans who can casually talk about how a devastating war is a “good thing” when they have not, and likely will not ever, be forced to experience war in a personal way.”
From Malki’s quote in my reply to Gene, it would appear that he understands that the war was a “good thing” and he actually experienced it unlike the left who complain about the war in the abstract as they sit in the safety and freedom afforded them by the sacrifice of others. The right isn’t the only ones engaging in hubris. You guys want to deny the Iraqis the freedom that you take for granted.