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Obama loses his bearings
The Virginian/Powerline ^ | 5/15/2008 | Moneyrunner

Posted on 05/15/2008 7:18:15 PM PDT by moneyrunner

Do you know what language is spoken in Afghanistan? NO? Obama doesn't either. But it's not Arabic.

From Powerline:

There is occasionally an improvised quality to Barack Obama's critique of the conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He sometimes seems to be making up his critique as he goes along. This improvised quality comes through clearly in the ABC News Political Radar blog report on Barack Obama's appearance earlier this week in Cape Girardeau:

Sporting a shiny new American flag pin at an appearance in Rush Limbaugh's hometown, Sen. Barack Obama came up with some novel reasons why the U.S. may be struggling in the war 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.

Obama posited -- incorrectly -- that Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan -- forgetting, momentarily, that Afghans don't speak Arabic.

(Excerpt) Read more at moneyrunner.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; hesarticulate; nobama2008; obama; potatoehead
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1 posted on 05/15/2008 7:18:15 PM PDT by moneyrunner
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To: moneyrunner

bttt.


2 posted on 05/15/2008 7:20:23 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (the jihadis are the shock troops of communism.)
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To: moneyrunner

Pashtun. Everyone knows that.


3 posted on 05/15/2008 7:20:34 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: proxy_user

And Dari.


4 posted on 05/15/2008 7:24:59 PM PDT by HAL9000 ("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
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To: proxy_user
"Pashtun. Everyone knows that."

Oh, I wish that were true. Have you watched "Jay Walking" on Jay Leno's Tonight Show? LOL

5 posted on 05/15/2008 7:25:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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To: moneyrunner

A Little bit of Urdu in some areas Bordering Pakistan and persian


6 posted on 05/15/2008 7:31:49 PM PDT by philly-d-kidder (From Kuwait where the Weather is always Partly Sandy!)
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To: moneyrunner

“THE MOOPS!”

< /Seinfeld >


7 posted on 05/15/2008 7:32:49 PM PDT by weegee (Vote NO on Marxism in 2008.)
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To: HAL9000

Both Indo-Iranian, closely related to Farsi.


8 posted on 05/15/2008 7:33:28 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: moneyrunner

So Osama Obama is an ignoramus. Yawn.


9 posted on 05/15/2008 7:34:58 PM PDT by LiveFree99
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To: LiveFree99

57 out of 59 states can’t be wrong.

P-O-T-A-T-O-_


10 posted on 05/15/2008 7:36:04 PM PDT by weegee (Vote NO on Marxism in 2008.)
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To: moneyrunner

His nose is starting to grow.


11 posted on 05/15/2008 7:37:15 PM PDT by lolhelp
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To: weegee

Obama is a skinny,dorky looking jack ass.
Does anyone care to hear how I really feel.


12 posted on 05/15/2008 7:38:13 PM PDT by TLEIBY308 (I AM PRO CHOICE,I BELEIVE EVERYONE SHOULD CARRY WHAT EVER GUN THEY CHOOSE)
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To: moneyrunner

The languages of Afghanistan are Indo-European languages and are actually linguistically closer to English (also an Indo-European language) than it is to Arabic (a Semitic language).


13 posted on 05/15/2008 7:40:05 PM PDT by reg45
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Obama loses his bearings”

A lot of assumption going on here …

Did Obama have any bearings to begin with!

14 posted on 05/15/2008 7:45:51 PM PDT by doc1019 (I was taught to respect my elders, but it's getting harder to find one.)
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, what you just heard was the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee wandering aimlessly in desperate hope for a cogent thought. His point was, he was trying to tell these people in his audience in Cape Girardeau yesterday that our foreign policy is all screwed up because every asset that we need to actually win the war against Islamofascists is in Iraq, and that's a phony war, it shouldn't have happened, we don't even have any Arabic translators for Afghanistan. And then he quickly realized, wait a minute, they don't speak Arabic there, oh, God, what am I going to do, then he makes up a couple languages that they speak, but then he said, we need some Arabic translators there because you never know who is there. They speak Dari and Pashto in Afghanistan. I have been there. Afghans do not speak Arabic. Now, this is from the guy who said he's visited 57 states. This is the guy who, by the way, when he was on the floor of the US Senate yesterday was not wearing his American flag lapel pin. When he showed up in Cape Girardeau, he was wearing his American flag lapel pin. (cont.)



Obama Goofs in Cape Girardeau

AUDIO: Barack on the Rush Hometown Tour | Shanklin
15 posted on 05/15/2008 7:48:56 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: moneyrunner

bump


16 posted on 05/15/2008 7:56:55 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: moneyrunner

Obama is a perfect example of high but baseless self esteem. He knows nothing, but he knows it with great confidence. Audacity, indeed.


17 posted on 05/15/2008 8:00:39 PM PDT by informavoracious (Freedom Isn't Free)
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To: weegee

B.O. Hussein can’t remember a trivial point like how many States are in Our Beloved Country and he holds his crotch when Our National Anthem is played or Our Flag passes. UUKK!
The Basswhole(BO Hussein) can remember that there are 57 unslamic Caliphates in The Organization of Islamic Caliphates! only he looks at them as the number of States in Our Wonderful United States. If he wore a Flag Pin, at least the stupid ignoramous could count the number of Stars on Our Flag! Stupid BO Hussein! There are FIFTY(Count them! 50, 50.000, not 51, not 49, certainly NOT 57 Islamic Stars as BO Hussein may wish!!) Stars for Our 50 States Including HAWAII and ALASKA!. NO OBAMA, Iran does not have a Star on OUR FLAG! B.O. Hussein should move to Kenya, maybe he can find happiness there, at least he won’t find bitter, guntoting, religious American Middleclass people there.


18 posted on 05/15/2008 8:17:22 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: moneyrunner

Is Obama one of those geniuses who never had to crack a book during college and law school?

You’d think he would know how to do a little homework. Who are his GWOT advisers?


19 posted on 05/15/2008 8:24:37 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, honestly - those people have had their brains sucked out by aliens! How does he find such idiots? But I must admit it makes me laugh...


20 posted on 05/15/2008 8:31:08 PM PDT by GnuHere
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