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Obama: "We can absorb a terrorist attack" (Woodward book)
Washington Post ^
Posted on 09/22/2010 10:09:19 AM PDT by quesney
Woodward's book portrays Obama and the White House as barraged by warnings about the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and confronted with the difficulty in preventing them. During an interview with Woodward in July, the president said, "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger."
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To: quesney; onyx; penelopesire; maggief; hoosiermama; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; ...
"During an interview with Woodward in July, the president said, "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger." If there was ANYONE ... ANY American .. who brushed off the obvious radical takeover of this country by this exclusively partisan, impudent and incompetent CIC, who may have been blase or indifferent or thought it was 'politics as usual,'
this statement .. and this statement ALONE .. should disabuse them forever of the naive notion that this country is NOT on the brink of disaster.
God forbid, he's doing everything under the sun to encourage another attack, and is probably besot with the same twisted and insane Clinton melancholy of being CIC for a catastrophic event here .. to show off his 'hero' muscles and build legacy. .
God help us .. keep praying for His mercy
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posted on
09/22/2010 10:51:49 AM PDT
by
STARWISE
(The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
To: quesney
He simply doesn’t give a flying f&&& about American lives.
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posted on
09/22/2010 10:52:07 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged; Jackson57; All
Let us borrow from and paraphrase Tonto when the Lone Ranger and him were surrounded by Indians and Lone Ranger asked, “What are we going to do, Tonto?” and Tonto replied “What do you mean “we” (half) White man?”
To: quesney
We "absorbed" 9/11 because it was a conventional attack. What happens if a nuclear attack leaves Los Angeles, New York, or DC, a radioactive wasteland for 50 years? How will we "absorb" that?
-PJ
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posted on
09/22/2010 10:52:53 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
To: quesney
WORST PRESIDENT EVER
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posted on
09/22/2010 10:53:07 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
To: quesney
well, is he wrong? I wouldn’t trust his leadership but I do trust the majority of the American people to step up and do what they needed to.
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posted on
09/22/2010 10:55:07 AM PDT
by
misterrob
(Thug Life....now showing at a White House near you....)
To: STARWISE; maggief; SE Mom; hoosiermama; penelopesire; Liz
He’s completely detached, and IIRC, he blamed US, in part, for 9/11.
We are stronger, but NOT because of ANYTHING he ever said or did. He fought President Bush and our military every step of the way.
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posted on
09/22/2010 10:57:52 AM PDT
by
onyx
(If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
To: misterrob
The problem is that 52% of the electorate made him C-I-C!
If he doesn’t want to respond he doesn’t have to.
Which is why I believe we need to impeach this guy before it’s too late.
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posted on
09/22/2010 11:04:02 AM PDT
by
turfmann
To: quesney
Whose side is Obama on?
To: Freddd
WHERE ARE THE JOBS? Didn't you get the memo? We are not in a recession.
To: quesney
Great poll at the site with interesting comments.
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posted on
09/22/2010 11:10:01 AM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: quesney
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posted on
09/22/2010 11:14:29 AM PDT
by
GloriaJane
(http://www.last.fm/music/Gloria+Jane)
To: 9422WMR
The peons are expendable, easily replaced. Yeah, with illegal aliens, preregistered by the DNC...
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
09/22/2010 11:16:46 AM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: quesney
Hey whats another 3,000+ lives to this guy. He can care less what happens to us, he probably hopes those who die are Republicans. I don’t even think Carter would have said something like this, and that speaks volumes
To: Jackson57
Maybe we can absorb the attack if the target is the New York Times building? Now that I think about it, Obama is correct. We can absorb a lot of attacks, as long as they are against the left wing commies.
To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
“What measures are in place to remove a pathological imbecile liar harming America beyond words from office?”
That's been my question for some time. After reading many Vince Flynn books, I am praying that there are Special Forces, commandos, FBI patriots at work behind the scenes who will protect WE THE PEOPLE against this socialist who is hell bent on destroying America as we know it, only to re-build it in his hideous image.
We may not know who, or when or how, but we implore and pray that you are out there and that you will step up to save the Constitution, our life, our liberty and this country.
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posted on
09/22/2010 11:20:29 AM PDT
by
itssme
To: quesney
I can think of absorbing an accident or attack on a certain family but can’t talk too much about it because it might upset the Praetoria.
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posted on
09/22/2010 11:22:44 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming)
To: quesney
Something is strange. I went and read the entire article.
Woodward was allowed/invited to be in on the inside. This is not a leak from a disgruntled person that left the WH.
They had to know this was coming. The timing sinks Obama’s ship politically all around.
Are they so stupid and arrogant that they think all of this behavior and outlandish thoughts and comments are normal?
The timing... is uncanny. An expose’ of dangerous quotes not the norm of gossipy who is sleeping with who dirt on a seated POTUS right before November elections is strange...
Obama invited this exposure. This is very serious and scary.
Was it leaked because people are truly concerned with him in there? Can’t be because this book won’t cause any trials and we have to live with this man as POTUS now.If this is the Clinton Smear Machine it is beyond politics it is frightening.
To: Political Junkie Too
What happens if a nuclear attack leaves Los Angeles, New York, or DC, a radioactive wasteland for 50 years? How will we "absorb" that?
Lets see. Blow Los Angeles off the map. Well there haven't been any good movies out of Hollywood for the last couple of years so no loss there. It would kill 14.7 million Democrats. Obama's margin of victory in the 2008 election was only 9.5 million votes so perhaps he should worry. Oh wait, dead democrats still vote. So that must be why he thinks we can absorb it.
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posted on
09/22/2010 11:27:32 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: BenLurkin
That’s exactly what it means.
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posted on
09/22/2010 11:29:18 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
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