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Gaffe: Obama Thinks Hirohito Signed Japanese Surrender; "Victory" Not Goal in Afghanistan - Video
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | July 24, 2009 | BrianinMO

Posted on 07/24/2009 2:13:55 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot

Not a good week for President Obama. He's created the whole police "acted stupidly" fiasco. Now he has made another historical gaffe, this time by saying Japanese Emperor Hirohito signed the surrender of Japan to Gen Douglas MacArthur in 1945. Problem is: Hirohito didn't sign the surrender! On September 2, 1945, General Yoshijiro Umezu and Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu represented Japan in signing the Instrument of Surrender aboard the Battleship Missouri. Here's video of the surrender . . . . . Obama used the incorrect historical reference to support his statement that "victory" is not necessarily our goal in Afghanistan:

"I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur," Obama told ABC News.

This from the President who the media tells us is the smartest, most intellectual President we've ever had. . . . . (Watch Videos)

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TOPICS: History; Politics
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; gaffe; hirohito; obama; victory; wwii
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1 posted on 07/24/2009 2:13:56 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
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To: Federalist Patriot
He probably also thinks it was actually signed in Missouri....you know.....one of the 57 states.
2 posted on 07/24/2009 2:16:36 PM PDT by edpc (01010111 01010100 01000110 00111111)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Obama can not abide the notion of a national leader being forced to renounce his divinity at the hands of the US military.


3 posted on 07/24/2009 2:16:52 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Obama also think tosilectomies are wrong. Obama thinks a lot of stupid things.


4 posted on 07/24/2009 2:16:53 PM PDT by GeronL (UnitedCitizen.Blogspot.Com --------- United Citizens Nation! ------------- Join Today!)
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To: Federalist Patriot
Everybody knows that Hirohito signed the surrender.

Right there in Nagasaki harbor on the deck of the Arizona.

< sarcasm >

5 posted on 07/24/2009 2:17:38 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: edpc

He probably also thinks it was actually signed in Missouri....you know.....one of the 57 states.

LOL!


6 posted on 07/24/2009 2:18:36 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
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To: N. Theknow

Everybody knows that Hirohito signed the surrender.

Right there in Nagasaki harbor on the deck of the Arizona.

< sarcasm >

LOL!


7 posted on 07/24/2009 2:19:08 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
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To: Federalist Patriot

It is not difficult to see why Barry is so ignorant of U.S. History, he has never loved this countrya nd is now at work to sweep away the old Constitutional Republic and establish the tewisted ignorant version of what he believe Saul Alinsky would approve of and George Soros has directed.


8 posted on 07/24/2009 2:20:42 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

No wonder we cannot see Barry’s university transcripts....must have had a 2.0 average! LOL!


9 posted on 07/24/2009 2:21:45 PM PDT by BossLady (Obama = "Narcissus and the Pool of Corruption")
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To: Federalist Patriot
He could've said it was signed by "Kung Pao"

Obama is such an asshole....

10 posted on 07/24/2009 2:22:30 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: Federalist Patriot

The Democrats have completely outclassed the Republicans.

Dan Quayle was a rank amateur compared to the entertainment that the Obama/Biden duo can put out.


11 posted on 07/24/2009 2:24:16 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Federalist Patriot
Here's the Japanese surrender delegation on the Missouri's deck:

Here's Emperor Hirohito during WWII:

Do you see him in the first photo, Bambi?

12 posted on 07/24/2009 2:24:27 PM PDT by CholeraJoe (This is the worst economic crisis since Brittney Spears shaved both ends!)
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To: Federalist Patriot

I dislike this clown as much as any person. I hope to see massive rejection of his administration. However, to pounce on every little “Gaff” might alienate many potential friends of the aforementioned position. He exhibits enough imbecility, such as promoting the massive health care fraud and at the same time admitting he had not even read it. The latter errors are far more useful to our side than is harping on the fact he thought Hirohito was the one signing the surrender.


13 posted on 07/24/2009 2:24:39 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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TOTEMO BAKA!!!!!!!/Just Asking - seoul62.......


14 posted on 07/24/2009 2:24:50 PM PDT by seoul62
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To: edpc

Is Kenya one of the 57 states? That would make him natural born.


15 posted on 07/24/2009 2:25:22 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (America, Take the Red Pill and see things as they really are.)
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To: Federalist Patriot
This is something he was taught at Harvard.

Great education there. Germans bomb Pearl Harbor.

16 posted on 07/24/2009 2:25:50 PM PDT by A Cyrenian
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To: Federalist Patriot
This is something he was taught at Harvard.

Great education there. Germans bomb Pearl Harbor.

17 posted on 07/24/2009 2:25:59 PM PDT by A Cyrenian
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To: Lou Budvis

I’m sure he’s working on it.


18 posted on 07/24/2009 2:26:24 PM PDT by edpc (01010111 01010100 01000110 00111111)
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To: Federalist Patriot

This alleged President, Racist in Chief has got to go. He is now a proven racist as well as an traitor. If he is not interested in victory in Afghanistan, we all need to let our relatives in the service know that Obozo does NOT have their back, and that he has them fighting and dying in a war that he has no plans of winning. Impeach this imposter NOW!


19 posted on 07/24/2009 2:26:50 PM PDT by matthew fuller (FUBHO)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Obama made fun of Bush, yet, Obama is an ignorant idiot who can’t so much as speak intelligently without someone else writing the speech and putting it on a teleprompter.

Obama is made to be a news anchor, not a President.


20 posted on 07/24/2009 2:28:07 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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