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Why Is President Obama Speaking About Haiti Again?
ABC News ^ | 01/15/10 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 01/15/2010 11:15:25 AM PST by AtlasStalled

Jake Tapper from ABC News asks why Barack Obama "is speaking today about Haiti, for the third time in as many days":

White House officials say . . . Haiti is in dire straits. This is a nation that had little to begin with. As opposed to what might be the case had the earthquake struck elsewhere in the hemisphere, Haiti has nearly no ability to deal with this severe crisis on its own.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; haiti; tapper
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So Barack Obama now is President of Haiti? So because Haiti basically had no adequately functioning government for decades the United States must step into the breach to manage its affairs?
1 posted on 01/15/2010 11:15:26 AM PST by AtlasStalled
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It’s because he cares a lot more about Haiti than a terrorist attack on the United States, which he couldn’t be moved to talk about for days.
2 posted on 01/15/2010 11:17:27 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: AtlasStalled

He’s rushing into a Hatian quagmire.

Katrina politicised all future natural disasters.


3 posted on 01/15/2010 11:19:02 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: AtlasStalled

It’s Obama’s idea of looking Presidential.
If he appears often it seems as though he is
doing that much more, he is engaged etc.
Plus it only costs him some free airtime.


4 posted on 01/15/2010 11:19:02 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: AtlasStalled

Obozo is making sure his 95% base knows he cares about negros.


5 posted on 01/15/2010 11:19:38 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: AtlasStalled

“O” is out of his depth in the WH, so to speak publically at all without looking butt stupid, he has to stick to emotional issues. THAT his base can relate to... because THEY don’t know squat EITHER!!


6 posted on 01/15/2010 11:21:50 AM PST by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think. " Adolph Hitler)
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To: AtlasStalled

Because all the usual suspects are poised to go in and make a profit and they need/want the entire investment to be picked up by the American taxpayer. We pay, they profit.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 1, 2009
Clinton Cheers Investor Turnout At Haiti Meeting

Bill Clinton Cheers Turnout By Hundreds Of International Investors At Haiti Conference

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/01/ap/world/main5357203.shtml

From the article:
“Representatives from George Soros’ Open Society Institute told The Associated Press about a planned partnership with Haitian shipper Gregory Mevs and help from the IADB to build a $50 million free-trade zone of clothing factories near the Cite Soleil slum.”

Now they can just bulldoze the slums. They were already planning to build a new airport. I predict that two years from now instead of garment factories there will be hotels in place of the demolished buildings. The “investors” just had to figure out a way to get all those pesky Haitians out of the way.

Also, don’t be surprised to see the Haitian banking laws tweeked. Can you say Cayman Islands II? Why shelter your billions all the way over in Switzerland when they’ll rat you out to the Feds when shortly you will be able to park your $$$ off the coast of Florida. And its all in the name of HUMANITARIAN AID.


7 posted on 01/15/2010 11:22:42 AM PST by anonsquared (TEA PARTY 2010 - THROW 'EM ALL IN THE HARBOR!)
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To: Col Frank Slade

I think so too.


8 posted on 01/15/2010 11:22:42 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: AtlasStalled

Because he is a racist BASTARD(literally).


9 posted on 01/15/2010 11:23:18 AM PST by US Navy Vet
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To: AtlasStalled

someone forgot to change the TOTUS tape........


10 posted on 01/15/2010 11:24:05 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: AtlasStalled

Pssst, Barry....they’re not African Americans. You don’t have to pretend to be one of them.


11 posted on 01/15/2010 11:24:36 AM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: Col Frank Slade

Peggy Joseph the lady from West Lauderdale, FL who said on national TV during an O election rally - “Obama is going pay my mortgage and put gas in my car.”

She is a Haitian-”american.”

Rush and the GOP better step up and talk about how Obama wants to flood America with more Haitian “refugees.”


13 posted on 01/15/2010 11:25:07 AM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: AtlasStalled

Exactly! Last night on Greta, the Ambassador was on, talking about the talks and negotiations!, going on and said he did not want to hand over sovereignty to the U.S. !

That’s what’s holding up the aid.

What is Obama, Axlerod, Rham Emannuel demanding of them? We will never know.


14 posted on 01/15/2010 11:25:13 AM PST by Freddd (CNN is not credible.)
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To: Doogle
someone forgot to change the TOTUS tape

LOL

15 posted on 01/15/2010 11:25:31 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: AtlasStalled

There comes a time in every president’s tenure when they realize that they are not in campaign mode anymore...when will his time come?

Actions speak better than words Mabus. Like your action of canceling a Job’s summit citing preoccupations with the Haiti disaster the same day you spent in backroom talks with union leaders trying to get support for your horrible health care bill; on top of that planning a trip to Massachusetts to campaign for the wreck Coakley is leading.


16 posted on 01/15/2010 11:25:38 AM PST by GauchoUSA
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To: anonsquared

Guess they forgot what Bubba did to them when he got elected:

http://joytiz.com/2010/americas-exceptional-benevolence/


17 posted on 01/15/2010 11:26:07 AM PST by jazminerose
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To: AtlasStalled

Maybe he wants to be the President of Haiti after he gets impeached in 2010.


18 posted on 01/15/2010 11:26:24 AM PST by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: AtlasStalled
Here's question : what do George Washington and Hussein have in common?

Nothing, of course.

So why does this script reading oaf insist on posing in front of a painting of our first and greatest president?

19 posted on 01/15/2010 11:26:45 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Freddd

Wow, you bring a great point!!!


20 posted on 01/15/2010 11:28:00 AM PST by GauchoUSA
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