Posted on 09/12/2007 11:30:27 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Iraqi ethnic cleansing, a "positive thing"? That's what Barack Obama seemed to say on this morning's "Today." The Dem presidential contender spoke with substitute co-anchor David Gregory on the heels of Meredith Vieira's ill-tempered interview of Condoleezza Rice.
View video here.
DAVID GREGORY: You heard Secretary Rice say there is progress in Iraq that cannot be ignored. She spoke about when, not if, the United States prevails in Iraq. Do you see it that way?
BARACK OBAMA: I think it's important to understand that after two days of testimony [by Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker], here's the bottom line: that having put an additional 30,000 troops in, and continued the same course we were on, we are now back to the horrendous levels of violence that we were back in June of 2006.
So there's no doubt that we've seen some measured progress in Anbar province, primarily because the Sunni tribal leaders made a political decision there that they would work with the coalition forces. We've seen a very modest reduction of violence in Baghdad, partly because entire neighborhoods have essentially been ethnically cleansed. Those are all positive things, but we are now back at the levels of violence back at the levels of violence we were 18 months ago.
Do I think Obama believes that ethnic cleansing is a "positive thing"? No. But he said it, and made the "positive thing" comment immediately after speaking of the ethnic cleansing. This is yet another Obama gaffe, further proof he's a not-ready-for-time-prime player.
I expect the Hillary folks to pick up on this. Will the MSM? Can you imagine the woe that would betide a Republican who came within a million miles of suggesting that ethnic cleansing is a "positive thing"?
Obama’s latest big-time gaffe. Ping to Today show list.
That’s no gaffe. It’s the true (Sunni) Muslims inside him showing through. He already said that genocide in Iraq is irrelevant. Now he applauds ethnic cleansening.
Obama is a genocidal maniac.
If he likes it in Iraq, he'd love Darfur.
Osama is blessed with a wonderful case of hoof-in-mouth disease.
Draft Joe Lieberman!!!
The Kenyan Dan Quayle strikes again.
LOL - that’s classic.
Well he has a point. If they never cleansed, They would smell awful wouldn’t they?
He’s an idiot.
This boob is not fit to run a country. How did he ever get elected to the US Senate?
Maybe he thought ethnic cleansing just meant better hygiene for some of the smellier groups?
Ask Biden... Obama surely is clean and articulate.
“Maybe he thought ethnic cleansing just meant better hygiene for some of the smellier groups?”
Well, Osama Obama’s wife did say he was rather smelly in bed. So much so that the kids avoided the room if he was there.
1) His middle name is Hussein
2) He thinks we should attack our ally Pakistan
3) He thinks ethnic cleansing is a positive thing.
Some folks say he was killed at Tora Bora, but I hear he's running for president.
Just when I thought nobody could stumble over their words and communicate worse than Bush, Obama the wonder-boy comes along and proves me wrong.
This guy is a dumbass without peer. He is the MSM posterboy....posterperson. Whatever. He is a pure socialist and wants to impose his failed doctrine on this country. He and Mrs. Bill Clinton must be stopped.
There are four things.
He would be America’s first Halfrican american President.
Well, first he ran for the D primary against a divorced multimillionaire. During the campaign the sealed divorced records of his opponent came out and sunk the opponent. Then the exact same thing happened to his (initial) Republican opponent.
And they call Bush stupid.
Oh, those crazy totalitarians!
Quayle never said anything this stupid, and with such regularity.
I know it is unfair to the former Veep, but it’s something so simple even a driveby media type could understand.
42K40cleansing’ = That ‘ethnic cleansing’
This boob is not fit to run a country. How did he ever get elected to the US Senate?
Why single him out -- we already know that slightly more than half of the senators nicely fit into that category -- and I'm not so sure about most of the rest of them.
I heard the same talking point from Chucky Cheese (limberger) Schumer yesterday.
Isn't that exactly what we want??
The locals working with the coalition forces??
Exactly.
Mark my word. This dangerous goofball will be Hitlery’s 2008 running mate if she doesn’t Arkancide him first. I’ve said it from the day he announced his candidacy. GOD help us if they win the election.
For the sake of argument lets assume that your suspicion of his true motives is correct. He still would not want expose how he felt to the American voter. Thus either way, a gaffe.
He is a communist who supports abortion at all levels at all times. Why should it be different for fully grown humans? Communists love their purges.
Ethnic cleansing is not the same thing as genocide. Genocide is killing, mass murder, what Hitler did. Ethnic cleansing can mean relocating / confining (for example) all MoveOn.Org transgendered vegan wiccans to one neighborhood (LOL).
The dimwit media (with help from Madeline Half-wit) blurred the definitions of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
I’m not saying ethnic cleansing is a good thing. We certainly wouldn’t want to have it in this country. However, it is not the same thing as genocide.
As for Obama, he gets a pass on everything.He could have said the word “genocide” and the the lib press wouldn’t care.
. . . and as Joe Biden pointed out, Obamma is clean and well spoken.
“ill-tempered” ... you are so polite. Bitchy would have been my choice of words.
I wasn’t equating ethnic cleansing to genocide. I referred to Obamas previous comments in which he said that a genocide in Iraq is not good enough a reason for US troops to stay.
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