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Live Thread: Barack Obama Afghan Speech 8 p.m. EST - "Hello I Must Be Going"
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 | Kristinn

Posted on 12/01/2009 3:54:38 PM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; escalate; grouchomarx; helloimustbegoing; novictory; obama; obamaswar; oef; oefsurge; traitor; treason; usma; weak
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To: STARWISE

Thank you, Star. I am suffering BOR. Rove is a guest, that’s why. :)


581 posted on 12/01/2009 5:52:02 PM PST by onyx
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To: uncitizen

O’Reillys yelling now about how “academic” the speech was.

Ooh now he just poked Obama over not having to say somethings “because he won the Nobel Peace Prize”....


582 posted on 12/01/2009 5:52:06 PM PST by bigbob
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To: tet68

Obama said the Troops make good photo ops... Living ones help him with one side of Politics and Dead Ones help him with the other.


583 posted on 12/01/2009 5:52:11 PM PST by Typical_Whitey (Eric Holder and Obama are making a mockery of our justice system.)
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To: hyperconservative

how about ston and ollie!


584 posted on 12/01/2009 5:52:31 PM PST by kempster
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To: All

Was that a speech or a lecture??


585 posted on 12/01/2009 5:52:52 PM PST by LkRonkguy ((Truth, Justice and the American Way!))
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To: kristinn
After that speech. Would you want to send you son/daughter off to war?

HORRENDOUS SPEECH!

This speech was prepared for at least three months.

Supposed to another Roosevelt! HA!
Maybe another Elanore.

586 posted on 12/01/2009 5:52:57 PM PST by cruise_missile
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To: jwalsh07

He DID NOT say God Bless the Troops?


587 posted on 12/01/2009 5:53:07 PM PST by txhurl (troubling times....)
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To: jennyjenny

No applause for almost the entire speech. Only applause came near the very end after a half hour of dead silence when Obama mouthed some actual patriotic lines off the teleprompter. (Hey, how’d those get in there) Good on the cadets. The applause following the speech-long silence was a pointed rebuff of everything he’d said up until then. Sharp men and women.

Obama would have been better off if they’d not clapped at all. That way, the Obama flacks could maintain that the silence was academy protocol, a military convention, a show of respect not to interrupt, blah blah. But the cadets stopped em cold.


588 posted on 12/01/2009 5:53:09 PM PST by Eroteme
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To: Las Vegas Ron
"Only the shadow knows for sure..."

LMAO! Thanks for making my night!!!

589 posted on 12/01/2009 5:53:15 PM PST by MountainDad
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To: mikrofon

LOL. Ya think? KSM might be a fan of Obama’s....


590 posted on 12/01/2009 5:53:20 PM PST by onyx
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To: maggief

stop messing with my hair, it took me hours to place the ‘bumpit’ just right!!


591 posted on 12/01/2009 5:53:27 PM PST by malia
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To: bigbob

O’Reilly compared Obama’s speech to a dry academic lecture. That sounds about right.


592 posted on 12/01/2009 5:53:40 PM PST by Robwin
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To: Indy Pendance

Please thank all your family and friends who serve. We love them. We pray for them every day.


593 posted on 12/01/2009 5:54:14 PM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama terrorize New Yorkers.)
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To: txhurl
He DID NOT say God Bless the Troops?

Don't know but with him in charge he should beseech the Lord to protect the troops at least a thousand times a day and do it while not looking in the direction of Mecca.

594 posted on 12/01/2009 5:54:47 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: tiredoflaundry

Hey TOL!

Do you still have that beautiful bar open for the Great One’s daily listeners?


595 posted on 12/01/2009 5:55:05 PM PST by onyx
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To: 444Flyer

Like I said earlier, my brother is active duty USAF and I have a lot of friends that are active duty USN. Knowing this idiot Obama is their CinC is pure hell for me.


596 posted on 12/01/2009 5:55:50 PM PST by Severa (I can't take this stress anymore...quick, get me a marker to sniff....)
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To: onyx

BOR was right about ONE thing- the guy who was campaigning is gone.

Because that was ALL about him. He’s so out of his element now that he’s just utterly lost.


597 posted on 12/01/2009 5:55:56 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Robwin

Who is the idoit that wrote it...guess what’s his name approved it and added the rambling...


598 posted on 12/01/2009 5:56:07 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: Eroteme; StarFan; Dutchy
No applause for almost the entire speech. Only applause came near the very end after a half hour of dead silence when Obama mouthed some actual patriotic lines off the teleprompter. (Hey, how’d those get in there) Good on the cadets. The applause following the speech-long silence was a pointed rebuff of everything he’d said up until then. Sharp men and women.

I wonder if it was Rahmbo Emanuel or Valerie Jarrett that cued the applause... I'm certain it didn't start with the cadets.

599 posted on 12/01/2009 5:56:07 PM PST by nutmeg (Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin agree: NO third parties! Take back the GOP)
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To: Typical_Whitey

As the jerk spoke, the sun was rising on the center of the jihadist world... in more ways than one.


600 posted on 12/01/2009 5:56:07 PM PST by upstanding
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