Posted on 04/30/2009 11:49:46 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
Last night, Barack Obama said he had recently read an article about Winston Churchill during the London blitz. "Churchill said, 'We don't torture,' when the entire British -- all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat," Obama said. "And then the reason was that Churchill understood, you start taking short-cuts, over time, that corrodes what's -- what's best in a people. It corrodes the character of a country."
It was, perhaps, the most powerful anecdote of the night, and an apparently powerful moral condemnation of President Bush, an admitted admirer of Churchill who kept the British leader's bust in the Oval Office. But it was not entirely true. Churchill may well have said that Britain did not torture, but British archives show clearly that captured Nazis were subjected to harsh treatment in order to extract information during World War II. This morning, Michael Tomasky points to this 2005 story in the Guardian about a secret World War II detention center called the "London Cage":
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.blogs.time.com ...
...”He’s a rudderless jerk... and an opportunist, nothing more.”...
Barack Obama is, in a nutshell, a product of Affirmative Action preferences who was “educated” in leftist Ivy League institutions that are bastions of groupthink. He seems to have a minimal grasp on history and how it relates to America and vice versa, which is all too typical of his ilk, many of whom have not put in an honest days work and are not in touch with the realities of daily life in America.
Yeah, just like he laughed at tea-party attending Americans.
The Obamamaniacs are so brainwashed and lack the education (because of our socialist schools and colleges) that they are arrogant when told that Obama said something wrong. It is really sad for our country that so many are stupidly following this man like a bunch of lemmings marching off of a cliff into the sea.
Maybe the Bama Lama Ding Dong was thinking of Ward Churchill..
What more ever need be said?
No, I consider it just desserts.
I read an excellent analysis posted on Pat Dollard’s site today, regarding the real issue surrounding Obama’s release of torture memos, his possible motives for allowing prosecutions of former Bush administration personnel, and the ripple effects of doing so. A must read! (This is the first time I’ve tried posting a link. Hope it works, if not, perhaps another freeper with the know-how can post it?) Warning: the comments posted by some of the readers on that site contain foul language. The article is fine, but if offended by foul language, I’d suggest not reading them.
http://patdollard.com/2009/04/obama-torture-memos-and-the-real-issue-no-one-is-talking-about/
bRack needs a “Clarification Czar.”
Reference Bump!
why would the truth every matter to odumbo
Churchill, terrorism, and water-boarding
In The Agora
Posted on 04/29/2009 5:24:51 PM PDT by mnehring
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240870/posts
You think Obama would have the stones to incinerate anything besides a Marlboro or some freebase?
If you can trust Newsweak...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/143763
Obama: Christian, Not Muslim
By Richard Wolffe | NEWSWEEK
July 7-14, 2008 issue
“Barack Obama has never been Muslim and never practiced Islam.” (note their first sentence is an outright lie, he practiced Islam when he attended Koranic studies class, something he wrote about in his own book)
“But rumors about his religion intended to frighten some voters persist, and they mostly return to one point of fact: his name. “Barack” is the candidate’s Kenyan father’s name; Obama’s middle name, “Hussein,” is his grandfather’s name. Hussein embraced Islam—after first converting to Christianity under the name “Johnson.” According to Obama’s memoir, Hussein valued discipline and strength and found Christian forgiveness to be sentimental. Obama has described his father as atheist or agnostic...”
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Note: this topic is from 4/30/2009.Thanks BuckeyeTexan.
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