Ryan Gill (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} montieth) wrote,@ 2008-05-15 13:58:00 |
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Obama Gaffes
Invade Pakistan...
When I am president, we will wage the war that has to be won," he told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center in the District. He added, "The first step must be to get off the wrong battlefield in Iraq and take the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan."
Negotiate and sit down with the likes of Hezballah and their backers (Syria and Iran)...
And what we should be doing is reaching out aggressively to our allies, but also talking to our enemies and focusing on those areas where we do not accept their actions, whether it be terrorism or developing nuclear weapons, but also talking to Iran directly about the potential carrots that we can provide in terms of them being involved in the World Trade Organization, or beginning to look at the possibilities of diplomatic relations being normalized.
Now, there may come a point where those measures have been exhausted and Iran is on the verge of obtaining a nuclear weapon, where we have to consider other options. But we shouldn’t talk about those options now, when we haven’t even tried what would be a much more effective approach.
They speak Arabic in Afghanistan....We need more Arabic translators in Afghanistan!
"We don't have enough capacity right now to deal with it -- and it's not just the troops," Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
"We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan," Obama said.
57 US States...?
"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
We need more agricultural advisors in Iraq to help the Iraqi's NOT grow Poppies...
We need agricultural specialists in Afghanistan, people who can help them develop other crops than heroin poppies, because the drug trade in Afghanistan is what is driving and financing these terrorist networks. So we need agricultural specialists," he said.
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"But if we are sending them to Baghdad, they're not in Afghanistan," Obama said.
Oh I guess I find these interesting because I'm one of those bitter people in fly over country.....
"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Words of placation peace and unity. You have to love that. Really.
And then there's that whole Black Liberation Theology thing were if you're white, you might as well be satan or one of his minions. It's rife with hate and discord, but Obama is a uniter. All the snark aside, the more I learn about this guy, the less I like him.
Invade Pakistan...
When I am president, we will wage the war that has to be won," he told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center in the District. He added, "The first step must be to get off the wrong battlefield in Iraq and take the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan."
Negotiate and sit down with the likes of Hezballah and their backers (Syria and Iran)...
And what we should be doing is reaching out aggressively to our allies, but also talking to our enemies and focusing on those areas where we do not accept their actions, whether it be terrorism or developing nuclear weapons, but also talking to Iran directly about the potential carrots that we can provide in terms of them being involved in the World Trade Organization, or beginning to look at the possibilities of diplomatic relations being normalized.
Now, there may come a point where those measures have been exhausted and Iran is on the verge of obtaining a nuclear weapon, where we have to consider other options. But we shouldn’t talk about those options now, when we haven’t even tried what would be a much more effective approach.
They speak Arabic in Afghanistan....We need more Arabic translators in Afghanistan!
"We don't have enough capacity right now to deal with it -- and it's not just the troops," Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
"We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan," Obama said.
57 US States...?
"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
We need more agricultural advisors in Iraq to help the Iraqi's NOT grow Poppies...
We need agricultural specialists in Afghanistan, people who can help them develop other crops than heroin poppies, because the drug trade in Afghanistan is what is driving and financing these terrorist networks. So we need agricultural specialists," he said.
...
"But if we are sending them to Baghdad, they're not in Afghanistan," Obama said.
Oh I guess I find these interesting because I'm one of those bitter people in fly over country.....
"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Words of placation peace and unity. You have to love that. Really.
And then there's that whole Black Liberation Theology thing were if you're white, you might as well be satan or one of his minions. It's rife with hate and discord, but Obama is a uniter. All the snark aside, the more I learn about this guy, the less I like him.
