Amateur Hour for Obama

Perhaps we need to impose a seven-day waiting period on politicians before they're allowed to make idiotic comments following tragic events.

Such legislation may have spared Barack Obama the incredibly dumb statements uttered just hours after the Virginia Tech massacre, as noted in this report.

The Senator described a culture in which "the violence of children and communities" is ignored, working class jobs are outsourced overseas, and foreign policies are put into place favoring military responses.

Obama also referenced comments radio host Don Imus made last week about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

"There's a lot of different forms of violence in our society, and so much of it is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other," Obama said to raucous applause. "Last week obviously had to do with Imus and the verbal violence that was directed at women who were role models for all of us."

Obama's harshest criticisms were reserved for current U.S. foreign policy that he felt implicitly said "the children in Darfur are somehow less than the children here," in addition to hammering home his contention that diplomatic means of settling foreign disputes have been given the back-burner in light of "the belief that somehow we can impose our wills on each other."

Obama called on Americans to mobilize and address a health care system "bankrupting our government" and families across the country; an education system that "despite the slogan is leaving too many children behind;" energy policies that are adversely changing climates across the globe and "leaving us to send $800 million a day to some of the most hostile nations on Earth;" and "a war that should've never been authorized or waged."

This is the sheer idiocy one expects from the Huffington Post, not a candidate for President (ok, well maybe except for Dennis Kucinich).

The Don Imus affair hadn't been milked enough, we had to drag it into this story? $800 million a day to hostile nations? What the hell is he babbling about?

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