People have been talking about Sen. Obama’s wrapping up the Democratic nomination all day. That’s fair enough. That’s news. With his virtual clinching of the nomination, talk about his ties to Jeremiah Wright have temporarily subsided. The good news for Republicans is that Sen. Obama hasn’t left us with a shortage of things to ridicule him about. Let’s consider what he said in his victory speech last night:

The other side can label and name-call all they want, but I trust the American people to recognize that it is not surrender to end the war in Iraq so that we can rebuild our military and go after Al Qaida’s leaders.

I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did.

What on God’s green earth is Sen. Obama yapping about? When did Truman and FDR meet with Hitler or Tojo? I’ve heard about revisionist history before but this is ridiculous.

Only a blithering idiot would try justifying meeting with Ahmedinejad by saying that FDR met with that era’s equivalent of Ahmedinejad. Someone that’s either that intellectually dishonest or that intellectually vacant isn’t qualified to be the leader of the free world.

I’d further say that anyone who thinks that reneging on our commitments to our Iraqi allies is smart policy, especially after they’ve met 12 of the 18 benchmarks, isn’t qualified to be the next commander-in-chief. In fact, I’d say he sounds like the next Jimmy Carter. Thanks to recorded history, we can state with total confidence that Carter’s administration was a disaster on foreign policy.

Frankly, I hope that John McCain picks fights with Sen. Obama on foreign policy. It’s the onl area where the starkest contrast exists. If I was John McCain’s advisor, I’d tell him to draw comparisons between Sen. Obama’s policy of talking with Ahmedinejad and Carter’s calling Ayatollah Khomeini a fellow man of faith. I’d point out that Obama’s policy of talking to genocidal monsters like Ahmedinejad is proof of Obama’s pacifism. I’d further point out that Obama’s pacifism is just as dangerous now as Jimmy Carter’s pacifism was dangerous in 1979-80.

I’d also tell McCain to pound the issue of judicial nominations, especially after Obama’s statement yesterday:

In response, Obama’s campaign said McCain would pick judges who would threaten abortion rights as well as McCain’s own campaign finance reform bill.

“What’s truly elitist is to appoint judges who will protect the powerful and leave ordinary Americans to fend for themselves,” Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said.

Someone should tell Vietor’s boss that appellate court judges are supposed to rule on the constitutionality of cases, not act as an unaccountable superlegislature. If a group of people need protecting, then it’s Congress’ job to craft legislation that protects people.

Finally, I’d make sure that people knew how radical Barack Obama’s views are. I’d start by asking him if appellate court judges have a greater responsibility to the Constitution than to any person. I’d ask if our commander-in-chief had a greater responsibility to keeping America safe or in making America popular in the eyes of the world.

The truth is that Barack Obama isn’t qualified to be president. His foreign policy is dangerous, which we can’t afford in these troubled times.

Technorati Tags: Obama, Foreign Policy, Ayatollah Khomeini, Hostage Crisis, Jimmy Carter, Pacifism, Ahmedinejad, Iran, Judicial Nominations, McCain, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog