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1 posted on 07/19/2008 5:28:29 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: NormsRevenge; elhombrelibre; Allegra; SandRat; tobyhill; G8 Diplomat; Dog; Cap Huff; ...

A little twist with this one......


2 posted on 07/19/2008 5:29:05 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Why isn’t Barry going to Pakistan?????????????????????


3 posted on 07/19/2008 5:29:57 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

SOFTBALL is a big sport in Afghanistan I hear.


4 posted on 07/19/2008 5:30:49 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Obama is Jimmy Carter all over again, only a lot worse.


5 posted on 07/19/2008 5:42:00 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (Expose Obama))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
You said on “Meet the Press,” on May 4, 2008, “I think we have to be focused on Afghanistan.” So why is it that, according to The Hill newspaper, you have “missed two of three Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Afghanistan since joining the panel” ?

Actually, there is a good answer to that. The answer is that Senate committee hearings are not, in fact, designed to help inform anyone of the facts important to the issue. They are prescripted performances to advance various agendas. No one learns, or is meant to learn, anything about the facts.

That may be the truth but Obama can't say it, any more than any other congresscitter can say it.

But it's also not why he didn't care enough to attend.

6 posted on 07/19/2008 5:46:37 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
You said on “Meet the Press,” on May 4, 2008, “I think we have to be focused on Afghanistan.” So why is it that, according to The Hill newspaper, you have “missed two of three Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Afghanistan since joining the panel” ?

Actually, there is a good answer to that. The answer is that Senate committee hearings are not, in fact, designed to help inform anyone of the facts important to the issue. They are prescripted performances to advance various agendas. No one learns, or is meant to learn, anything about the facts.

That may be the truth but Obama can't say it, any more than any other congresscitter can say it.

But it's also not why he didn't care enough to attend.

7 posted on 07/19/2008 5:46:37 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I wonder how much money he’s raising there?


9 posted on 07/19/2008 5:50:33 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.)
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To: All
ABC News:

Obama Goes Globetrotting

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By JOHN HENDREN July 19, 2008

As Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama began his globe-trotting tour in Afghanistan today, he faced shifting sands in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

When the presidential race field narrowed to two major candidates, both of them staked out clear positions.

Obama said the troop surge in Iraq would fail to cut violence or improve political reconciliation, calling Iraq "an impediment" to success in the war on terror, which he said should be focused on Afghanistan.

John McCain, Obama's likely Republican opponent, called Iraq the center of the war on terror, and famously speculated that the United States could maintain a presence there for as long as 100 years.

In political campaigns, as in war, the sands shift over time. Both candidates pointed that out -- about their rivals -- this week.

On Tuesday, Obama said pointedly: "The central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was."

In his radio address today, McCain fired back, saying, "We all remember quite well that he said the surge would fail, and today we know that he was wrong."

With the situation in Iraq improving, and Afghanistan mired in a worsening insurgent fight, Obama's trip -- one of the most high-profile job auditions in history -- will give him a high-profile opportunity to seize on the changing calculus of the war on terror.

"In Iraq, he's playing defense; in Afghanistan, he's trying to profit from an opportunity," said Michael O'Hanlon, a military analyst with the Brookings Institution.

10 posted on 07/19/2008 5:50:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You can’t seriously think that his 3 press secretaries are going to interrupt their Obasm to ask questions. They are too busy fawning to ask about his hypocrisy.

Pray for W and Our Troops


11 posted on 07/19/2008 5:53:44 PM PDT by bray (Drill Congress!!)
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Obama will be our next POTUS book it.....
Way too many so-called Americans want “Change”....


12 posted on 07/19/2008 5:57:02 PM PDT by yield 2 the right
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Ask him about his foreign birth........


13 posted on 07/19/2008 6:07:37 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I would ask him: Barry Dunham, where is your WHITE GRANDMOTHER, why are you hiding her?/Just Asking - seoul62.......


14 posted on 07/19/2008 6:10:36 PM PDT by seoul62
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Good questions he’ll never answer, even if the best response is fed to him via a teleprompter.


17 posted on 07/19/2008 6:26:15 PM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“...in Afghanistan, he’s trying to profit from an opportunity”

Isn’t Obama committing a rather major blunder by supporting an escaltion of war in Afganistan? It seems to me that bringing the troops home from Iraq was the major reason for people supporting him. So now he’s saying he’d send them to Afganistan instead? This doesn’t sound like “change we can believe in” to me.


20 posted on 07/19/2008 6:47:06 PM PDT by Need4Truth
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

JUNIORS FIRST FIELD TRIP!!! aaaah

How cute....He’s a big boy now!!!


21 posted on 07/19/2008 7:04:03 PM PDT by Texas4ever (Anything off the dollar menu :))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
” Why do you think it’s a good idea to bluster in public about taking military action on the soil of an American ally? And if thee actions create turmoil and then revolution, resulting in a takeover of the Paki military by hardline ISI allied with al Qaeda, do you think Mr. Obamination, that the hardliners might want to take a grab at several nicely constructed nukes and then use "em over hear???
23 posted on 07/19/2008 9:41:37 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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