IS RUSH A CONSERVATIVE?? WHAT DOES HE CONSERVE?

Rush is a vicious windbag that makes his money by fanning the fears and prejudices of the weak minded and racially biased among us.

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President Obama challenged his Republican critics to make a case to the American people for a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities if they really believe that that is the right course to follow, throwing down an election-year challenge to the men who are vying to succeed him and who say that his Iran policy has been too weak.

“This is not a game,” Mr. Obama said during a news conference at the White House timed to coincide with Super Tuesday voting in the Republican primaries in a number of crucial states. Mr. Obama gave a staunch defense of his administration’s actions to rein in Iran’s nuclear ambitions and said tough sanctions put in place by the United States and Europe were starting to work and were part of the reason Iran had returned to the negotiation table.

“The one thing we have not done is we have not launched a war,” Mr. Obama said. “If some of these folks think we should launch a war, let them say so, and explain to the American people.”

Mr. Obama’s comments followed speeches Tuesday morning at the conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, during which Rick Santorum derided the negotiations with Iran as “another appeasement, another delay, another opportunity for them to go forward while we talk,” and Mitt Romney, before the same group, said, “Hope is not a foreign policy.” Mr. Romney added, “The only thing respected by thugs and tyrants is our resolve, backed by our power and our readiness to use it.”

Mr. Obama hit back hard. “There’s no doubt that those who are suggesting, or proposing, or beating the drums of war, should explain clearly to the American people what the costs and benefits would be,” he said, reflecting a belief within the administration and the Obama campaign that Americans, after a decade of war in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, are fed up with conflict if it can be avoided through diplomacy and economic pressure.

Beyond that, Mr. Obama said that administration and intelligence officials — in the United States and in Israel — believe that Iran has not acquired a nuclear weapon yet, and that there is still time for sanctions to force the Iranian regime to give up any weapons program it might have. “At this stage it is my belief we have a window of opportunity,” Mr. Obama said.

“And so this notion that somehow we have a choice to make in the next week or two weeks or month or two months is not borne out by the facts,” the president said.

He repeated a pledge he made on Sunday when he addressed the Aipac pro-Israel conference, that he would not “countenance Iran getting a nuclear weapon, adding,
“My policy is not containment.”

earlier today I found a poll which said most Israelis do not want war with Iran, I can't find a more recent poll of Americans but in November, 85% of Americans were against war with Iran.

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Rush is a vicious windbag that makes his money by fanning the fears and prejudices of the weak minded and racially biased among us.

Which pretty much covers most of the media. It sells ads.

I don't like Rush -never really have. I see that he works hard to stir up controversy. But we seem to love that as whole. It's why he's been doing what he is doing as long as he has. I am pretty sure that the "dittoheads" have greatly declined. At least I hope so. Even though I am conservative I see that he is radically ridiculous. But money is the bottom line for that.

Not to sound like JTT, but aren't we the only country
who has used nuclear weapons in wartime?

Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona is the father of modern Conservatism.

Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona is the father of modern Conservatism.

that may be possible, but his views do not represent many current American conservatives or American Republicans

American politics has moved on. America is a country of change, not stagnation.

Rush has probably done more good than harm

factually correct?

like when he called that girl a slut...

I very seldom hear his show

Rush is a professional turd.

I hope he loses the rest of his advertisers and goes quietly into the night.

prolly wishful thinking...

InfraBlue wrote:

Their hatred stems from something much more recent.
We tried to conquer them first.

Specify when n where, please ?

David

I like to keep an open mind.
I don 't oppose dialog,
but let 's put out the fire first.

I like to keep an open mind.
I don 't oppose dialog,
but let 's put out the fire first.

I like to keep an open mind.
I don 't oppose dialog,
but let 's put out the fire first.

Dave, do you honestly think a strike on Iran would put a fire out?

Are you mad?

A strike on Iran will do a lot of things,
but it's not going to put out any fires.

It might start a few though.
Remember how attacking Saddam Hussein was such a good thing?

Now Iran is controlling a lot of what's going on in Iraq.
God knows what the consequences of attacking Iran would be.
It might even unite the Moslem world, now there's a thought.

InfraBlue wrote:

Their hatred stems from something much more recent.
We tried to conquer them first.

Specify when n where, please ?

David

I like to keep an open mind.
I don 't oppose dialog,
but let 's put out the fire first.

According to the US' spooks, there is no fire to put out first.

Or does he sometimes say things you just want to hear, and want to believe?