The STUP Award

Sen. Barack Hussein Obama

CSW 08-05

Barack Hussein Obama is a Harvard law graduate which doesn't say much for Harvard law. In response to a question about Iraq during the Tuesday 2/26/08 debate, Barack Hussein Obama said he would withdraw our troops, but if Al Qaeda would try to set up camps in Iraq he would send our troops back.

According to a Los Angeles Times article McCain responded thusly:

Reacting Wednesday morning in Tyler, Texas, McCain taunted: "I have some news: Al Qaeda is in Iraq. . . . It's called 'Al Qaeda in Iraq.' " Some in the town-hall audience laughed.

"If we left . . . they wouldn't be establishing a base," the Arizona Republican said. "They'd be taking a country, and I'm not going to allow that to happen, my friends."

Obama responded at a rally in the sports arena at Ohio State University in Columbus. "I have some news for John McCain," the Illinois Democrat said, leaning into the crowd for emphasis. "There was no such thing as 'Al Qaeda in Iraq' until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq."

Obama first says Al Qaeda is not in Iraq. Then he says Bush and McCain are to blame for Al Qaeda in Iraq.

For his ignorance of the situation in Iraq and his John Kerry like answers, Barack Hussein Obama is given the STUP Award.