Posted on 09/01/2009 12:51:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs may have slipped in yesterday's daily briefing when he referred to "our war on terror" in response to a question about the current situation in Afghanistan.
This morning he was asked why he used the Bush-era term, since the Obama White House quickly abandoned it after the president took office. Mr. Gibbs simply responded, "We're focused on getting the strategy right."
The phrase -- coined by President Obama's predecessor after the September 11th attacks -- has not been used at all by the current White House, whose budget referred instead to funding for "Overseas Contingency Operations."
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Incredible, lying to our faces with a straight face.
SCARY WORDS!!!
Time to hide under my desk and murmer “Man Made Disaster” in a soothing tone until my bad feelings go away.
I wonder if he got his wee-wee slapped over this?
It’s all about psychological deception, with Obama...
"That was my Baghdad Bob impersonation. Now I go into
my Vinnie Barbarino act. Who? What? When? Where?"
Sadly, to our current White House, the central part of getting the strategy right is choosing the right words that poll with with a focus group. obama and his staff are completely oblivious to the concepts of leadership and making decisions. Our whole country is going to be “wee weed up” by the time we’re rid of them.
I’m starting to think that Gibbs is Obama’s gay lover.
Gibbs was merely distracted with the thought that Michelle was back in the house.
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