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Obama Makes Two Major Foreign Policy Gaffes on Europe Trip
breitbart.com ^ | 3/27/14 | Raheem Kassam and Andre Walker

Posted on 03/27/2014 11:53:13 AM PDT by ColdOne

Speaking at the press conference after the EU-US summit yesterday the US President wrongly suggested that Georgia "is not currently on a path to NATO membership". In fact the country has been on the path to membership since 2008.

At the North Atlantic Council in Bucharest that year the attending Heads of State and Government agreed the following statement: "NATO welcomes Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that they will become members of NATO."

Former Georgian Ambassador to London Giorgi Badridze, told Breitbart London: "President Obama's remarks could hardly have come at a worse time – or have been formulated in a worse manner.

"Firstly, it's wrong to link Georgia's aspirations for NATO membership with those of Ukraine. Georgia has been working hard to achieve more progress in that direction, while Ukraine formally withdrew from the process years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: europe; europeanunion; georgia; kosovo; lurch; momjeans; nato; nuance; obama; obamagaffes; obamalies; obamatrip; serbia; ukraine; un; zero
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To: ColdOne

Obama Wins Gaffe Master Award 2014 and it’s only March


21 posted on 03/27/2014 12:58:27 PM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: COBOL2Java

You beat me to it.


22 posted on 03/27/2014 12:59:39 PM PDT by Wicket (1 Peter 3:15 , Romans 5:5-8)
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To: Don Corleone

Bingo.


23 posted on 03/27/2014 1:01:33 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: ColdOne

Imagine if Bush had said this - it would be headline news in the mdm. But with Obunghole saying it?......crickets


24 posted on 03/27/2014 1:13:29 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: ColdOne

Meant “msm”.


25 posted on 03/27/2014 1:14:38 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: ColdOne

Hasn’t Biden taken credit for leading the charge to get Georgia into Nato?


26 posted on 03/27/2014 1:42:18 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Cyclone59

I’ll answer that for you. Obama made a mistake. Quale is stupid. That’s exactly what they would say.


27 posted on 03/27/2014 1:45:24 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: ColdOne
Georgia "is not currently on a path to NATO membership"

No wonder he never talks to President Jimmy Carter.

28 posted on 03/27/2014 3:43:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Yeah, he’s been to Atlanta several times.


29 posted on 03/27/2014 3:44:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: tractorman

bump


30 posted on 03/27/2014 4:34:05 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: ColdOne
As I recall, the Kosovo "referendum" went something like this.

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31 posted on 03/27/2014 4:39:59 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: ColdOne

Barry at the Bat: A Ballad of the Former Superstar Sung in the Year 2014

The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the new G-8 that day;
The score stood one to zero, and Putin still had cards to play.
And when Kerry failed with Lavrov, and Merkel came up lame,
A sickly silence fell when Romney said Obama was to blame.

A straggling few got up and left in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the breast;
They thought, if only Barry could but get his chance to speak
They’d put up even money he’d be the hero of the week.

But Hollande preceded Biden against Putin on the make,
And the former was limp wristed and the latter was a flake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy grew
For there seemed but little chance of Barry getting his debut.

But Hollande collpsed so quickly, to the wonderment of all,
And Biden played the Joker and took another slapstick fall.
And when the dust had lifted they saw what had occurred,
There was Putin at the border making Yanukovych look absurd

Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the range,
For Barry, mighty Barry, was advancing to the stage.

There was ease in Barry’s manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Barry’s bearing and a smile on Barry’s face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he spritely took a bow,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt that Barry’d show them how.

Ten thousand eyes were on him as his Teleprompter spooled;
Five thousand tongues were cheering “Barry still looks really cool!”
Then while the waiting multitudes felt their heartbeats start to race
Defiance gleamed in Barry’s eye, a sneer crossed Barry’s face.

Then the mighty amplifiers shot Barry’s words hurtling through the air,
And Barry stood a-watching it in his haughty grandeur there.
But through the air and out the doors his empty words unheeded sped,
“That can’t be Barry speaking!”, his doting followers said.

From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore.
“What has happened to our savior?”, yelled the people on the strand.
And it’s likely they’d have walked away had not Barry raised his hand.

With the air of superiority, great Barry’s visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the speech go on;
He signaled to the ‘prompter, and once more the canned words flew;
But the audience still ignored it and Putin said, “Strike two.”

“Fraud!” cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered fraud;
But one scornful look from Barry and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Barry wouldn’t let Putin have his way again.

The sneer is still on Barry’s lip, his teeth are clenched in rage;
He pounds with child-like petulance, his fist upon the page.
And now the Teleprompter rolls and Barry’s words begin to flow,
But his words are fluff, the magic’s gone, the charlatan’s laid low.

Oh, somewhere in the liberals’ land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in The Netherlands - mighty Barry has struck out.


32 posted on 03/27/2014 4:40:03 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
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To: ColdOne

President MomJeans: “I are stupid - just axe me.”


33 posted on 03/27/2014 4:43:46 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: ColdOne

Maybe the Austrians slipped him a Joke Teleprompter that showed his speech in Austrian...


34 posted on 03/27/2014 4:45:26 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: COBOL2Java

Zero is gaining in wisdom.


36 posted on 03/27/2014 4:49:17 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: exit82

Five post in, and someone said what needed to be said.

I knew I could count on you. :^)


37 posted on 03/27/2014 5:18:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
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To: ColdOne

Is that the “flexibility” he mentioned to Medvedev?


38 posted on 03/27/2014 6:17:47 PM PDT by Antoninus II
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To: DoughtyOne

DO, good to “see” you.

Glad you saw my once-in-a-decade flash of brilliance!

Take care.


39 posted on 03/27/2014 6:22:04 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82

Ha! Once in a decade? More like once an hour...

:^)


40 posted on 03/27/2014 6:25:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
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