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Obama Restructures a Remark on Deaths
New York Times ^ | February 13, 2007

Posted on 02/12/2007 10:11:24 PM PST by West Coast Conservative

Senator Barack Obama of Illinois said Monday that he had misspoken when he suggested that the lives of more than 3,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq had been “wasted.”

As he arrived in New Hampshire, Mr. Obama said he would “absolutely apologize” to military families if they were offended by a remark he made in Iowa while criticizing the Bush administration’s Iraq policy.

“What I would say — and meant to say — is that their service hasn’t been honored,” Mr. Obama told reporters in Nashua, N.H., “because our civilian strategy has not honored their courage and bravery, and we have put them in a situation in which it is hard for them to succeed.”

A New Hampshire reporter asked Mr. Obama whether he regretted the remark, made at a rally on Sunday that “we ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged, and to which we now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.”

“Even as I said it,” Mr. Obama said Monday, “I realized I had misspoken.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2008election; iraq; obama
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To: West Coast Conservative

Terrorist dropping like flies everyday and this clown says the policy isn't working? P.M. Howard nailed it, except Osama probably ain't praying for Obama, because he is probably dead, like scores of his comrades.


61 posted on 02/13/2007 12:57:56 AM PST by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Evan Bayh.


62 posted on 02/13/2007 1:01:08 AM PST by IslandJeff (that for every right there is a duty, for every benefit an obligation)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Mr. Obama said he would “absolutely apologize”

So, when is Obama entering mandatory rehab?

How many public apologies will he make before entering the treatment facility?

And who has the record for the most public apologies? Trent Lott? George Allen? Michael Richards?
63 posted on 02/13/2007 1:06:19 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Lancey Howard

Unless Obama self destructs, my money is on him. The MSM has already crowned him the next coming and the crowds of whites & blacks are already swooning. The anti-Hillary factor will demand that she go for a popular candidate and it makes sense that she would pick amongst the other Presidential contenders.

Bill Richardson is also a possibility, IMO. Time will tell.....


64 posted on 02/13/2007 1:20:38 AM PST by demkicker (In the minority or majority, I'll never stop kicking dems)
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To: West Coast Conservative
“What I would say — and meant to say — is that their service hasn’t been honored,” Mr. Obama told reporters in Nashua, N.H., “because our civilian strategy has not honored their courage and bravery, and we have put them in a situation in which it is hard for them to succeed.” What a dipsy-doodle side-step dance, Obama.

Your Jon Carry moment: how to say nothing in 50 words or less.


Talk radio hosts are gonna have fun with that non-sensical apology for several days.

“because our civilian strategy has not honored their courage and bravery..." [That doesn't even make sense, Osama Obama.]
65 posted on 02/13/2007 1:28:30 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: demkicker

Bill Richardson is a pretty good possibility. Also, Wesley Clarke.
I maintain that Obama is out of the question, but who knows?


66 posted on 02/13/2007 1:32:08 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: swheats
The whole Osama/Obama thing bugs me.

If it waddles like a duck, and if it quacks like a duck, and if it has bill like a duck...
67 posted on 02/13/2007 1:32:53 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Bernard
This guy is not ready for prime time.

The first time I really paid any attention to George Allen was when he was making waves to run for the WH (pre-06 election).

I caught him on Meet the Press. He just didn't come across as being 'ready for prime time'. I posted a comment to that effect and got skewered by the Allenites.

That was a few months before his macaca moment.

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I have a similar impression of Obama. I listened to some of his 'announcement' over the weekend. It was a typical political speech, written with a allot of high-sounding rhetoric that had little substance. It reminded me of many of John Kerry's speeches and responses to questions -- they could drag on and on and on, but when you analyzed what he said, he actually said nothing of substance.
68 posted on 02/13/2007 1:40:17 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: West Coast Conservative
Like John Kerry misspoke? No, this is who liberals really are and this is how they view our military.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

69 posted on 02/13/2007 1:42:08 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: IslandJeff
Liberals always tell us they're offended. Barack Obama and his ilk view our soldiers in Iraq as beneath being offended. They're just stupid fools wasting their lives for nothing.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

70 posted on 02/13/2007 1:43:58 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: kabar
Liberals view the military as evil. Obama was being completely candid. He's a hard-core Leftist and don't let his charm fool you. He meant what he said before he "apologized" for it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

71 posted on 02/13/2007 1:46:25 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

If the Left had their own GDP, Being Offended would be the leading employer.


72 posted on 02/13/2007 1:46:33 AM PST by IslandJeff (that for every right there is a duty, for every benefit an obligation)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Barack Hussein Obama says American lives were WASTED!

"... Mr. Obama [said] “we ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged, and to which we now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted."

Screw you, Barack Hussein Obama!

That certainly isn't how the soldiers look at it, it isn't how their families see it, and on the whole it isn't how Americans see it.

Barack Hussein Obama obviously cannot think well on his feet, he shoots from the hip, and knows nothing about the issues he praddles on about when it comes to foreign policy.

He needs some handlers, and he isn't ready for prime time.

No gravitas.

73 posted on 02/13/2007 1:49:41 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: TomGuy
Ah yes, the Democrats' Cut And Run civilian strategy. They refuse to get behind victory and want to cut off funding for the troops. You're right, Barack; you and your guys have placed them in a situation where its hard for them to succeed because you don't want them to win this war. Pure and simple. So let's cut out the BS that you didn't really mean what you said. Sir, your actions and that of your Democratic colleagues in Congress speak louder than your phony, self-serving, good old time plastic bananna rock n roller platitudes about supporting the troops.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

74 posted on 02/13/2007 1:53:37 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: swheats

Maybe it'll light a fire under Maliki's dead ass by cluing him in that he's probably got less than two years of help left.


75 posted on 02/13/2007 2:04:19 AM PST by Jezebelle (Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
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To: umgud

Not real fresh, either.


76 posted on 02/13/2007 2:05:29 AM PST by Jezebelle (Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
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To: jrooney

yeah, and a brilliant soldier who should get the Medal of Valor gave the bitch the finger.


77 posted on 02/13/2007 2:09:05 AM PST by Jezebelle (Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
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To: Lancey Howard

She also doesn't want somebody who outshines her with the media.


78 posted on 02/13/2007 2:17:48 AM PST by Jezebelle (Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

OsamaObama the Idiot!


79 posted on 02/13/2007 2:39:09 AM PST by OldFriend (Swiftboating - Sinking a politician's Ship of Fools by Torpedoes of Truth)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
OsamaObama's early deification forced hitlery into the race early and the two of them are self destructing before our eyes. Proving neither are ready for prime time.

I just hope republican candidates stay out of the way and watch the circus.

80 posted on 02/13/2007 2:40:34 AM PST by OldFriend (Swiftboating - Sinking a politician's Ship of Fools by Torpedoes of Truth)
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