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Obama’s Youth Shaped His Nuclear-Free Vision
NYT ^ | 7/7/09 | WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER

Posted on 07/07/2009 9:27:32 AM PDT by Nachum

In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of “a nuclear free world.” He railed against discussions of “first- versus second-strike capabilities” that “suit the military-industrial interests” with their “billion-dollar erector sets,” and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhonukes; nuclearfree; obamafamily; obamas; shaped; youth

1 posted on 07/07/2009 9:27:32 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: SumProVita; HardStarboard; BradyLS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dervish; Twotone; Free ThinkerNY; ...

The list, ping


2 posted on 07/07/2009 9:27:52 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Obama as a child.......a not too bright child....he is still a not too bright child.


3 posted on 07/07/2009 9:28:53 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Nachum

How we raise so many clueless people is amazing to me...


4 posted on 07/07/2009 9:29:00 AM PDT by DonaldC
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To: Nachum

Hey, why don’t we politely ask N. Korea, Al Qaeda, etc to dismantle their nuclear facilities and then the threat of mass destruction will have ended and all will be hunky dory!


5 posted on 07/07/2009 9:32:18 AM PDT by rj45mis
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To: Nachum

I think 0bama took Lennon’s “Imagine” seriously.


6 posted on 07/07/2009 9:34:10 AM PDT by papasmurf (Save us from 0bama, I prayed. Then I heard, "the 2nd, I saved")
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To: Nachum

Scary, scary stuff.


7 posted on 07/07/2009 9:34:17 AM PDT by roaddog727 (Built Ford tough not Obama weak.)
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To: Nachum

I call BS.

President Squarepants’ records at Columbia have not been de-classified.


8 posted on 07/07/2009 9:35:41 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Nachum

No doubt he would have applauded the naval reduction treaty of the 1920’s that prevented another World War....no, wait a minute. :)


9 posted on 07/07/2009 9:36:01 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
President Squarepants’ records at Columbia have not been de-classified.

This was from an article he wrote. The actual copy of which is embedded in the NYT piece.

10 posted on 07/07/2009 9:37:17 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
Supposedly, it is we Conservatives who are "stuck in the past." Yet again we see another myth exposed.

I am not worried about Putin and Medyedev wanting to nuke New York. (Although the fact that they are engaging in massive and expensive investments in their strategic nuclear forces is insane-- we aren't out to get them!) But I am worried about Iran and North Korea.

Even if the Russians don't cheat on this agreement-- how does it address the more pressing threats of Iran, North Korea, or even China?

11 posted on 07/07/2009 9:39:50 AM PDT by Lysandru
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To: Nachum
So, his view on this was formed at the time when European protesters marched in the streets, opposing Reagan's deployment of Peacekeeper missiles and his development of Star Wars technology?

Obama still thinks the unwashed European mob is correct? That Reagan's successful effort to end the Cold War was wrong-headed? This man is the president today?

12 posted on 07/07/2009 9:40:27 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I don't believe anything anyone says about anything anymore.)
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To: Nachum

There is a saying that if you aren’t a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you aren’t a conservative at 40, you have no brain. Our President needs a visit to the Wizard of Oz.

(For the record, I wasn’t very liberal at 20 and my first Presidential vote was for Ronald Reagan, who I had liked since seeing him at the 1976 convention as a child.)


13 posted on 07/07/2009 9:53:22 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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You insensitive clod, Zero’s parents were killed by nuclear weapons! Need I say /s ?


14 posted on 07/07/2009 10:02:48 AM PDT by edge10 (Obama lied, babies died!)
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To: Nachum
Obama’s Youth Shaped His Nuclear-Free Vision

Was it the dope or the coke?

15 posted on 07/07/2009 10:05:59 AM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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“This is the moment,” he told cheering Berliners, to seek “the peace of a world without nuclear weapons.”


How He Does It!

16 posted on 07/07/2009 10:12:24 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Nachum

It must be fake.

;)


17 posted on 07/07/2009 10:20:17 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Nachum

bump


18 posted on 07/07/2009 12:22:07 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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