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Obama: Rescued captain showed model heroism
AP ^ | 4.12.09

Posted on 04/12/2009 12:36:13 PM PDT by libh8er

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To: chuck_the_tv_out

That’s what you get when everyone is rushing for headlines... LOL...

It means, basically, that the capturing of the pirate(s) was shown to be a model of heroism displayed by our military forces.

[but that’s too many words to put in a short title... LOL...]


42 posted on 04/12/2009 12:56:22 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: libh8er

Will our gutless wonder president take action against these pirates? Of course not


43 posted on 04/12/2009 12:56:27 PM PDT by dennisw (0gabe our very own Kenyan subprime president)
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To: rock_lobsta
True so true, maybe Obama confused heroinism for heroism.
44 posted on 04/12/2009 12:56:27 PM PDT by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: libh8er
I've just read that Somali pirates said along the following lines: “we are muslims, we don't kill anyone, we resent the p-word, we are coastguards”...

The world will now condemn us, the brutal murderers of the innocent. Obama was so somber in his “praise” because now he will have to apologize and probably make another of his fancy bows...

45 posted on 04/12/2009 12:56:47 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You said — Yep, he was silent on this issue for days. Now that it was resolved favorably, he’s going to get out there and tell us all about it????????

Actually that’s one of the smartest things he could have done.... just shut up and let the military do its thing... LOL..


46 posted on 04/12/2009 12:58:06 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Texas4ever

You said — Just heard OBAMA WILL NOW TAKE THE CREDIT!!

That’s because he just finished this course...

How to talk like a pirate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWgxuc45YCY

LOL...


47 posted on 04/12/2009 12:59:42 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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Easter Seals
48 posted on 04/12/2009 1:00:03 PM PDT by evad (YES!! I WANT FUBO's Agenda TO FAIL!!!)
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To: libh8er

Praise for the captain of the ship and to our navy seals....obama can go to hell!


49 posted on 04/12/2009 1:03:55 PM PDT by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd,you get no further than the crowd")
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To: fish hawk

and now , even FOX NEWS is announcing the NOBOZO ... PERSONALLY AUTHORIZED the ... awww geeez .. bULLS*** !!!

OK FOX NEWS ... you getting into SATIRE NOW, too???


50 posted on 04/12/2009 1:05:49 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (I GIVE UP .... HEIL Obama!!)
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To: libh8er

The Left never wastes a good crisis.


51 posted on 04/12/2009 1:06:34 PM PDT by Clock King
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To: libh8er

Now Zero gets on camera. Great.


52 posted on 04/12/2009 1:07:15 PM PDT by Poser (Typed on my Woot-off $169 Asus Web Book (Linux of course))
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To: libh8er; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
Re: President Barack Obama says the captain who survived capture by Somali pirates has courage that is "a model for all Americans."

But I thought the Øbamanation said it was racist... to disagree with, much less kick the ass of any black who you think is wrong?

53 posted on 04/12/2009 1:13:40 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Is Obama privately mad that we killed 3 of the 4 pirates?”

My guess is yes, he was busy drafting another letter to the UN.


54 posted on 04/12/2009 1:13:40 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Bender2

They should go in and clean out that pirates den!!


55 posted on 04/12/2009 1:18:36 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Poser

I’m surprised the headline wasn’t written like this:

Obama rescued captain; showed model heroism.


56 posted on 04/12/2009 1:21:12 PM PDT by T-Bro (Hey, dems... tax this!)
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To: libh8er

“The president says the United States needs help from other countries to deal with the threat of piracy and to hold pirates accountable.”

Well, he is correct in that piracy on the high sea IS a chronic problem of international importance, that has been ‘swept under the rug’ for various reasons including, but not limited to, how to relegate what country or countries ‘get involved’ when pirates attack in international waters?

STE=Q


57 posted on 04/12/2009 1:28:09 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Sorry but President Bush I began cutting the military due to the cold war ending...see below. Of course I was in the military under Bush and we had personnel cuts, defense cuts, base closures etc.

Bush, an experienced diplomat who knew every major figure in the world, built a strong foreign policy team around trusted long-times associates James Baker as Secretary of State, and Brent Scowcroft as National Security Advisor, along with Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Dick Cheney as Secretary of Defense.[1] The Berlin Wall fell in November, 1989, and in a matter of days all the Soviet satellites had revolted and proclaimed solidarity with the West. West Germany absorbed East Germany, and sent large sums to Moscow to stabilize Mikhail Gorbachev’s regime. Bush gave moral support (but no money) to prop up Gorbachev’s faltering regime, but it too fell in 1991 as Communism disappeared in Russia and the Cold War ended in American victory. There were no parades or ceremonies as Bush downplayed the event, fearing a Russian reaction. Soviet sponsored insurrections in the Third World all dried up as well. Welcoming the collapse of the entire Soviet bloc, Bush sharply cut the military budget, while continuing long-range research into Star Wars.


58 posted on 04/12/2009 1:34:31 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: libh8er
He was 'closely monitoring' the situation from a park bench outside the White House.

You mean....from a picnic table out back of the White House.
59 posted on 04/12/2009 1:38:46 PM PDT by gimme1ibertee (For the sake of our Republic....RAISE HOLY HELL!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The NPR reporter is trying to make the case for the Navy’s culpability in killing the three Somiali pirates . . . a-freaking-mazin’.


60 posted on 04/12/2009 1:39:46 PM PDT by mentor2k
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