Obama claims of "Kennedy talked to Kruschchev over Cuba" goes unchallenged in the press

05.19.08 | Perdogg

[SoldierDad]

To say that he would have to admit that he does not know anything about foreign diplomacy. That is just not something he will voluntarily state. His big push in this election is that the Bush Admin. blundered with their diplomacy, and that only he can fix their mistakes.

[SoldierDad]

President Kennedy didn't negotiate with the Soviets. He instituted a naval blockade of Cuba and informed the Russians we would attack Cuba unless the missiles were removed.

Well, actually, Kennedy entered into "aggressive" negotiations with the Soviets.

[Don Carlos]

Yeah, knew it was teletype.

Looks like McCain picked up on the Kennedy talked to Khrushchev comment Obey made and will hit him with it in a news conference this morning!

[okie01]

...placed my pilots on at the basic NAO School on a 24 hr alert as we moved into DefCon 2...convinced we were heading back to our carrier squadrons, forthwith. Very serious times, indeed.

Every President who thought he was the smartest guy in the room and fell off the international high-wire has been able to rely on the world's greatest safety net -- the U.S. military.

We all thank you for your service.

[potlatch]

Excellent graphic, I like the ‘running words’.

[devolve]

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Thanks potlatch -

I had to use a (Table BG or the bandwidth would be huge!

[potlatch]

Yes, I said once before that it would be too hard compositing all those lines of words anyway.

[devolve]

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“TYPICAL” fills about the center 80% of a 980 pixel wide graphic

I double-spaced it and easily composited “still” TP-BG “TYPICAL” texts over on 735 pixels high Obama .jpg - a “Che Obama” graphic
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Obama is backtracking fast on meeting with Raoul Castro

“I never said I would do it right away!” - Obama

[potlatch]

I meant that compositing the moving text would be a job.

I probably do it in a much more tedious way than you do, but you sometimes get some unusual results. lol.

[devolve]

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Easy to get a 1000K .gif with a high frame composite!

56K dialup users on FR would scream!

[potlatch]

[Easy to get a 1000K .gif with a high frame composite!]

You will find this hard to believe. I found a unique gif. It has 35 different movements of a hand.

Whoever made it had the delay on ZERO and had 9 frames for each of the 35 scenes!!!!!! 315 frames, couple of megs.

I cut it down to the 35 scenes and put a 100 delay on each. It’s 250KB now.

[potlatch]

Nice new graphic Phil!

[hunter112]

We really got a good deal - not. We gave up our missiles in Turkey.

Let's also not forget that we gave up our right to go after that bastard Fidel Castro, as well. Sending the Marielitos over here was more than enough reason to kill him by any means necessary.

[devolve]

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I dunno how they do those million frame .gifs

I try to keep frames to a minimum

[Recovering_Democrat]

No one in the press ever challenged him.

Do you want to know why? I can give you TWO absolutely accurate reasons.... 1. The older people in the press (and their numbers are SHRINKING) don't care because Obama is a 'rat. 2. The majority of people in the press (and their numbers are GROWING) are people who barely remember the disasterous presidency of Jimmy Carter--if at all! And they have no interest in history, economics, or being astute about political philosophy. I'm being kind, but the bottom line is: they're KIDS. They're ignorant of the past.