Live Thread: Barack Obama Afghan Speech 8 p.m. EST - "Hello I Must Be Going"

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Live from New York...it's Barack Obama!

On the banks of the Hudson River at West Point, Obama will give his military strategy for Afghanistan, based on the tactical genius of Capt. Spaulding, aka Groucho Marx:

Hello, I Must Be Going

Oh dear, he is coming, At last he's here.

(Spaulding) Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I'm glad I came, but just the same I must be going. La La.

(Mrs. Rittenhouse) For my sake you must stay. If you should go away, You'd spoil this party I am throwing.

(Spaulding) I'll stay a week or two, I'll stay the summer thru, But I am telling you, I must be going.

(All) Before you go, Will you oblige us, And tell us of your deeds so glowing?

(Spaulding) I'll do anything you say, In fact I'll even stay!

(All) Good!

(Spaulding) But I must be going.

[Krodg]

Next time don’t vote for a Dem.

[Palladin]

The idiot O’Reilly says it was an OK speech.

[Carley]

Most likely O brought along his own cheering squad.

[mdel747]

beck stated today it wasnt 40k asked for it was 60k

he got it from the reformers he has now #10

[onyx]

Brutal is a good description. I hate him, so it’s awfully difficult to watch him continuously bash and blame ‘the previous administration’ while he brags and lies about his fantasy achievements.

Who knew he was a military genius? He sure tried to act like one. Cripes. I wanted to throw up, but I didn’t dare eat dinner BEFORE his speech...lol.

[kristinn]

Heck, Chicago is like Vietnam. Did you see the body count from last weekend?

[mystery-ak]

great thread as always kristinn

[jaz.357]

Its OVER!

[Karma Police]

All networks carried a pool feed. Bad production though.

[maggief]

O’Reilly: “It took him three months to come up with that?” (paraphrasing)

[jennyjenny]

Toldja! hahahahaha

[Dinah Lord]

He is a buffoon - I was just about to switch the channel when Karl Rove came on...

[Girlene]

Obama skipped over "God Bless our troops" at the end of the speech.

Not surprising for him. They weren't his biggest fans tonight.

[Robwin]

prompting him to start smacking his hand on the podium.

I noticed that pounding, too. It's symptomatic of his frustration that no one there was taking him seriously and he even he realized he was flopping.

[STARWISE]

Fox radio covering the aftermath

http://970wfla.com/cc-common/ondemand/player.html?world=st

[mikrofon]

I only hope they didn't make KSM watch the speech from his cell — his lawyer would get him off b/c of torture fer shure...

[who knows what evil?]

Now that I have the cat boxes cleaned out; I can catch up with this thread to see what I missed!

[StarFan]

Worse speech ever. So many mixed messages -- he tells us the situation in Afghanistan is vital to our security and in the next breath says we'll be out in the summer of 2011. Huh?

He wants stipulations from Karzi to uphold his end but what precisely is his end? O'Reilly said it was more like an academic speech without any feeling behind it. If the intent was to rally the troops, it fell flat.

BTW did he bless the troops at the end? I may have missed it out of sheer boredom.

[GRRRRR]

BOR is actually hammering OBOZO...said it wasn’t what was needed, NOT a Winston Churchill type speach, NO URGENCY to remind Americans that the TollyBon is BAD GUYS!!
Why send them to save the world and then withdraw them in just 18 months...insists the Afghans save their own freakin’ country...

Rove is rippin’ Obozo apart...

[bigbob]

I missed BORs intro but he’s also saying there was no fire, no “Winston Churchill” (maybe a bit of Ward Churchill?) and was poking fun at “Obama took three months and THIS is the best he can do?”

Not defending BOR but I think he’s sensing it’s time to flip on this flop.