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Ich Bin Ein Jet-Setter (Maureen Dowd on Obama's lack of foreign policy experience)
NY Times ^
| 7/21/08
| Maureen Dowd
Posted on 07/21/2008 6:57:12 AM PDT by redstates4ever
(snip)
Now Barack Obama is about to embark on his own Feats of Strength.
Maybe that’s why, back home in Chicago, he worked out three times on Wednesday. An Associated Press report jokingly compared his fitness regime to that of Mr. Universe and marveled at “a distinct lack of visible sweat on the Illinois senator.”
But even the perennially cool Obama may sweat this summer. In the next six weeks, he will have to successfully complete a number of tasks, some that he set up himself after being taunted by John McCain, some spawned from slaying the Clinton machine, and some that are a natural part of the path he’s on.
Because Obama started from scratch a year and a half ago in his amazing presidential odyssey, he has to swiftly and convincingly perform the political equivalent of the Labors of Hercules.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; democrats; electionpresident; elections; foreignpolicy; nobama08; obama; obamasbigadventure; obamavisit; unfitforcommand
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To: redstates4ever
Those shoes look painful.
To: redstates4ever
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:00:38 AM PDT
by
Trueblackman
(Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
To: redstates4ever
...marveled at “a distinct lack of visible sweat on the Illinois senator.”Actually, if Obama did work out for 188 minutes that day, an almost total lack of perspiration is not something to be proud of. A healthy body sweats when it's being taxed.
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:00:51 AM PDT
by
library user
(There's no sandwich like prawn sandwich.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Well I would help her get out of them shoes and dress anytime she asked me too.
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:01:26 AM PDT
by
Trueblackman
(Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
To: Trueblackman
I like a guy who helps out without anyone asking.
To: redstates4ever
An Associated Press report jokingly compared his fitness regime to that of Mr. Universe and marveled at “a distinct lack of visible sweat on the Illinois senator.” That's because a politician's sweat is the cure for cancer.
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:04:07 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
To: Trueblackman
She could leave the shoes on, like in one of those hotel movies...
That I’ve...uh...HEARD about...yeah...that’s right.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Those shoes look painful. Yep. I'm sure they would leave marks on many a freeper's back.
Levity aside, Obama is trying to make others think that he's worthy of international travel and diplomacy. This is a sales tactic with the media as a willing accomplice.
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:05:36 AM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(Tony's work will live on = it's up to us to see it through)
To: redstates4ever
Her last several columns have been ridiculing Obama for one thing or another. I can’t think that is good for Dem propects in the fall....
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:07:11 AM PDT
by
Amelia
To: Trueblackman
Yes, Obama does work out just like Mr Universe!
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:07:27 AM PDT
by
Holicheese
(Hillary deserves the CMoH for her time in Tuzla!)
To: library user
Actually, if Obama did work out for 188 minutes that day, an almost total lack of perspiration is not something to be proud of. She was making the point that Barack is a poser.
I don't think she's just acting like she doesn't like him.
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:08:15 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Public policy should never become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Ike Eisenhower)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
She could leave the shoes on, like in one of those hotel movies... That I’ve...uh...HEARD about...yeah...that’s right.
You mean like "Hotel" or "Grand Hotel". They all had shoes on, IIRC.
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:08:50 AM PDT
by
bcsco
(To heck with a third party. We need a second one....)
To: redstates4ever
I'll bet Mo Do is a hillary supporter and is just waiting for the August upset.
14
posted on
07/21/2008 7:09:18 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: redstates4ever
So now, MoDo is joining the rest of the media in the tank for Baraq Husyan ibn Mahomet.
15
posted on
07/21/2008 7:10:15 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
To: redstates4ever
MD didn’t get the MSM memo that Barry is not funny.
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:10:35 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: redstates4ever
That’s Zeta-Jones not Dowd(y).
Amazing Dowd gets paid for writing crap like that.
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:11:00 AM PDT
by
1066AD
To: redstates4ever
Too bad Obama won't get to see what E. Berlin looked like in the 60's, under socialism.
It was a lesson in what happens when governments manipulate people's lives.
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:13:59 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(Democrats got THEIR "change" in Election 2006. Are WE better off now?)
To: Trueblackman
This calls for an encore...
To: redstates4ever
Ooo, Ooo, Ooo as Al would say on Married With Children “whos the babe with the bigguns”
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:15:09 AM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(OBAMA aka Post Turtle the Forest Gump of American Politics ABORTION -Liberal Child Abuse.)
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