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Obama takes his first foreign trip
cnn ^

Posted on 02/19/2009 9:07:16 AM PST by dascallie

( Fidgety in the White House? In office one month and on the road 25% of it already)

Afghanistan, trade on table as Obama visits Canada

OTTAWA, Ontario (CNN) -- President Obama touched down in Canada on Thursday in his first foreign trip as head of state.

And though he enjoys an 81 percent approval rating north of the border, Obama is expected to tackle several explosive issues with America's largest trading partner.

• The war in Afghanistan: Canada has about 2,800 troops in Afghanistan, but Parliament has voted to pull them out by 2011.

At the same time, Obama has approved a significant increase in U.S. troops in Afghanistan, bringing the total there to 55,000. View a chart of U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan »

Obama said he will take up the issue of Canada's troop withdrawal with Prime Minister Stephen Harper when the two meet in Ottawa.

"My hope is that in conversations that I have with Prime Minister Harper, that he and I end up seeing the importance of a comprehensive strategy, and one that ultimately the people of Canada can support, as well as the people of the United States can support," he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday.

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


TOPICS: Canada; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhocanada; bhotrade; bhovisit
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1 posted on 02/19/2009 9:07:16 AM PST by dascallie
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To: dascallie

As if Obama gives a flying *&^% about what the American people will or won’t support....


2 posted on 02/19/2009 9:08:45 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: dascallie

More like hiding from the revolting peasants.


3 posted on 02/19/2009 9:09:06 AM PST by utahson
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To: dascallie
But, I can't go in to Canada without producing a Birth Certificate!
4 posted on 02/19/2009 9:10:27 AM PST by digger48
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To: dascallie

Hillary Clinton took a ‘foreign trip’.

Obama took a seven hour day trip.


5 posted on 02/19/2009 9:13:25 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: digger48

And soon.....only a passport.....


6 posted on 02/19/2009 9:14:33 AM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: dascallie

Is Obama going to meet the “President” of Canada? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp9KpbWjT-o


7 posted on 02/19/2009 9:15:17 AM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: Badeye

Obammma’s little voyage reminds me of Gilligan


8 posted on 02/19/2009 9:16:07 AM PST by shadeaud (Time to smell the roses and not the stench coming from D .C.)
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To: dascallie

So far he’s been on the road since last Friday.

Washington - Chicago - Denver - Phoenix - Canada

Personally I think he’s checking out all the gadgets on the plane. See if he can rule from the air. I hear AF 1 has some really neat stuff.

What’s next? What’s he going to do next week? Sit in the Oval Office?


9 posted on 02/19/2009 9:16:56 AM PST by bergmeid (It's a secret.)
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To: dascallie

Just stay there Zero!......


10 posted on 02/19/2009 9:21:24 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: bergmeid

If he would stay put, he’d have to W O R K ... an alien concept for this jerk!


11 posted on 02/19/2009 9:21:45 AM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: bergmeid
So far he’s been on the road since last Friday. Washington - Chicago - Denver - Phoenix - Canada

Longer than that - he was in a different state each day before going to Chicago. He's really enjoying AF! - it's becoming a daily obsession for him!

12 posted on 02/19/2009 9:22:32 AM PST by noexcuses
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To: SMARTY
If he would stay put, he’d have to W O R K

Flying out every day keeps him out of Rahm's hair.

13 posted on 02/19/2009 9:23:59 AM PST by noexcuses
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” What’s next? What’s he going to do next week? Sit in the Oval Office? “

You just know that soon he’s going to pencil in Hawaii on his busy social calendar .
Obama’s never put in a 40 hour work week in his life-why should he start, now ?
He’s treating the most serious job in the world like an endless Spring Break.


14 posted on 02/19/2009 9:27:00 AM PST by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: digger48

“But, I can’t go in to Canada without producing a Birth Certificate!”

Obama must think Canada is one of the 57 states, so he wouldn’t need one to travel there.


15 posted on 02/19/2009 9:28:09 AM PST by Brookhaven (Until the three traitors are removed from the Republican Party, I am no longer a Republican.)
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To: dascallie

No mention of the Egypt trip to appear on moslem tv?


16 posted on 02/19/2009 9:30:26 AM PST by printhead
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To: dascallie
He took his first foreign trip when he left Kenya to come to the US.
17 posted on 02/19/2009 9:33:32 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Each "Yea" vote for porkulus is equivalent to $3,267,973,850. (D) = corruption)
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To: digger48
But, I can't go in to Canada without producing a Birth Certificate!

Along with another form of ID.

18 posted on 02/19/2009 9:34:11 AM PST by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: shadeaud

Airforce One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNEz07cQADY

too bad the audio is missing


19 posted on 02/19/2009 9:35:06 AM PST by sunny48
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To: dascallie

Is this why the hildebeast, prissy pelosi & skerry were sent ahead to clear the way so that obozo can look good. EEEwww!


20 posted on 02/19/2009 9:53:21 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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