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.
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And Farsi in parts of the west.
For those who excused his blunder, didn’t he say fifty-x SEVERAL times, not just one slip of the tongue?
I suppose though if he’d MEANT FIFTY he’d have SAID “Fiddy”.
Psyche!
Describes Al Gore as well. A rainmaker for the 21st century.
Obama needs to stick to whats spoken here in the 57 United States.
BTTT.
I know lots of people like this (grrr).
Wow! Maybe we should ask Barry how he plans to deal with all those Arabs in Iran.
When you’re part arab, perhaps it is easier to assume that every nation has a sizeable arab population.
Or maybe that just goes for those arabs who assume that arab and muslim are interchangable.
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