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CNN's Zakaria: ‘Obama could have given’ Trump’s Saudi speech
The Hill ^ | 05/22/2017 | Mark Hensch

Posted on 05/22/2017 5:05:30 PM PDT by ForYourChildren

".@FareedZakaria: Trump’s speech on Islam “was frankly the kind of speech Obama could have given" https://t.co/mxgAJY6Qbx " — Brooke Baldwin (@BrookeBCNN) May 22, 2017

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Monday praised President Trump's weekend speech in Saudi Arabia, saying former President Obama could have given it.

“It was nuanced. It was frankly the kind of speech that President Obama could have given. It had the kind of empathy and nuance that people look for," Zakaria said Monday on CNN, praising "both the symbolism and ... the substance."

“Because ultimately what you’re trying to do is convince these Muslim countries to in some way take on, battle, expel as President Trump said, the scourge of Islamic terrorism.”

Zakaria added that Trump’s remarks pleased Arab leaders by sounding “more resolutely anti-Iranian” than past presidents'.

“There’s no question people in the region, particularly the Arab dictators and Arab monarchs, like what they hear from Trump.”

Trump on Sunday implored Muslim nations to form a new coalition to defeat extremism.

“[Terrorists] do not worship God, they worship death,” he told leaders of more than 50 Muslim-majority nations. “A better future is only possible if your nations drive out the terrorists and drive out the extremists.”

Trump’s speech avoided the term “radical Islamic terrorism,” a phrase he often used during his 2016 election campaign.

The president, who repeatedly criticized Obama for avoiding the term, instead described a “crisis of Islamic extremism, and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; fakenews; obama; saudi
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To: ForYourChildren

Obama had his chance. His apology tour flopped like the rest of his tenure. He and Clinton are the cause of the Arab uprisings and fueled the birth of Isis.


21 posted on 05/22/2017 5:11:46 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: ForYourChildren
...could have

But NEVER did!

22 posted on 05/22/2017 5:12:01 PM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: ForYourChildren

This statement reeks of ENVY!

I am sure ENVY is boiling inside Obama and Hillary, as they are being shown as being one of histories most corrupt, and inept fools!


23 posted on 05/22/2017 5:12:17 PM PDT by FranklinsTower
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To: ForYourChildren
"@FareedZakaria: Trump’s speech on Islam “was frankly the kind of speech Obama could have given""

And yet, he didn't. It's as simple as that.

24 posted on 05/22/2017 5:13:07 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: ForYourChildren

No, because the word “I” was not stated 1,000 times.


25 posted on 05/22/2017 5:13:39 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ForYourChildren

What an ass. Yes could have given that speech, but he didn’t. The Bengals could have won the Super Bowl, but they didn’t. Hilliary could have won the election, but she didn’t

That is how you define a loser. Unfulfilled potential


26 posted on 05/22/2017 5:14:37 PM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: ForYourChildren
muzzies-CNNLIESBIG
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27 posted on 05/22/2017 5:14:56 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: ForYourChildren

What the reporter was trying to say...and probably wanted to say...was “SHOULD have given.”


28 posted on 05/22/2017 5:15:31 PM PDT by NELSON111
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To: ForYourChildren

But didn’t. The reason being is that 0bama was all about 0bama.


29 posted on 05/22/2017 5:15:54 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Well, duh. An Anonymous Source told the WaPoo that the Speech was accidentally left in the top drawer of the Oval Office Desk by Obama.

Apparently Trump’s henchmen chased Obama out of the White House on Inauguration Day so Obama didn’t have a chance to retrieve it.


30 posted on 05/22/2017 5:16:04 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: ForYourChildren

Obama was too full of himself to give any kind of meaningful speech. I, I, I, me, me, me, my, my, my, mine, mine mine, myself, myself, myself...


31 posted on 05/22/2017 5:16:21 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: ForYourChildren
CNN's Zakaria: ‘Obama could have given’ Trump’s Saudi speech

But he didn't.

32 posted on 05/22/2017 5:16:31 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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FareedZakaria: Reminds me of a little kid after losing, sticks that lower lip stuck out...”I coulda won if I wanted to”....*pout*


33 posted on 05/22/2017 5:17:18 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: ForYourChildren

Do. Not. Even. Try. This. Azzhole.

Jug Ear Jackass Obungho had 8 years and he was not even capable of this speech.

FUFZ


34 posted on 05/22/2017 5:17:22 PM PDT by dforest
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To: timestax
Fake CIA-CNN "news"

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35 posted on 05/22/2017 5:19:03 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: ForYourChildren

But didn’t & had 8 years to do it.
So its safe to say he is incapable of doing it.


36 posted on 05/22/2017 5:19:38 PM PDT by Reily
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To: ully2

Note to CNN:

Obama bowed.

Trump was presidential.


37 posted on 05/22/2017 5:21:35 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: ForYourChildren

But he didn’t. Instead, he sided with Iran, the terror state.


38 posted on 05/22/2017 5:22:06 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: timestax
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39 posted on 05/22/2017 5:22:28 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: ForYourChildren

zakaria is another wart on the face of pisslam


40 posted on 05/22/2017 5:24:25 PM PDT by TheBigJ
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