Obama loses his bearings

The Virginian/Powerline ^ | 5/15/2008 | Moneyrunner

[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.

[the invisib1e hand]

bttt.

[proxy_user]

Pashtun. Everyone knows that.

[HAL9000]

And Dari.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Pashtun. Everyone knows that."

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

[philly-d-kidder]

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

[weegee]

“THE MOOPS!”

< /Seinfeld >

[proxy_user]

Both Indo-Iranian, closely related to Farsi.

[LiveFree99]

So Osama Obama is an ignoramus. Yawn.

[weegee]

57 out of 59 states can’t be wrong.

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

[lolhelp]

His nose is starting to grow.

[TLEIBY308]

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

[reg45]

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).

[doc1019]

Obama loses his bearings”

A lot of assumption going on here …

Did Obama have any bearings to begin with!

[Miss Didi]

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

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[informavoracious]

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

[True Republican Patriot]

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.

[sinanju]

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?

[GnuHere]

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...