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Where Was Obama on 9/11/01?
vanity | 9/11/09 | Saab-driving Yuppie

Posted on 09/11/2009 7:57:07 PM PDT by Saab-driving Yuppie

Yes, this is a vanity, but I seriously want to know the answer to this question:

Where was then-state-senator Barack Obama on September 11, 2001?

Not looking for a smart-aleck answer. This is a serious question for which I hope there are serious answers.


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 8thanniversary; 911; eighthanniversary; obama
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To: Arthur McGowan

But, we can’t be certain


21 posted on 09/11/2009 8:06:51 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Playing golf.


22 posted on 09/11/2009 8:06:58 PM PDT by Patrick1 (I'm not calling in sick; I'm calling in gone!)
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To: StandUpChuck

He was also high-fiving Louis Farrakhan and Rashid Khalidi!


23 posted on 09/11/2009 8:08:54 PM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: BunnySlippers

LOL!


24 posted on 09/11/2009 8:09:27 PM PDT by 1035rep (The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.)
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To: Patrick1

He missed his plane.


25 posted on 09/11/2009 8:10:07 PM PDT by Patrick1 (I'm not calling in sick; I'm calling in gone!)
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To: 1035rep

Once a year. ;)


26 posted on 09/11/2009 8:11:34 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie

Ulalating for the hijackers who martyred themselves.


27 posted on 09/11/2009 8:11:42 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: BunnySlippers

That’s FANTASTIC! I downloaded it and am going to post it on all the blogs I go to.


28 posted on 09/11/2009 8:12:16 PM PDT by Cobra64
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To: oblomov

What did obama say when he met his goat HEY YEW


29 posted on 09/11/2009 8:12:22 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom ;))
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie
Where Was Obama on 9/11/01?

He was in Rev. Wright's racist church. Counting them chickens coming home to roost.



30 posted on 09/11/2009 8:12:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie

This is illuminating: http://www.redstate.com/bs/2009/09/10/obama-and-the-911-murderers/


31 posted on 09/11/2009 8:13:10 PM PDT by Mustachistan (Al Gore made the Internet, but George Bush made it plural.)
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To: 1035rep

LOL!


32 posted on 09/11/2009 8:13:59 PM PDT by SoKatt ("Change" is not a strategy!)
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To: Cobra64

Go for it. Please do!


33 posted on 09/11/2009 8:17:20 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie

He was community organizing and voting present on something.


34 posted on 09/11/2009 8:19:59 PM PDT by 12chachacha
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie

He was parachuting over Pennsylvania.


35 posted on 09/11/2009 8:20:06 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie

Listening to Rev Wright chant blame-America rants...


36 posted on 09/11/2009 8:21:01 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie

On his prayer rug, ass in the air, faceing Mecca.


37 posted on 09/11/2009 8:23:38 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054201/posts

Shortly after Obama’s unsuccessful run for Congress in 2000, he was deeply in debt, with little cash at his disposal (his annual part-time salary as a state senator was $58,000) and a stagnant law practice that he had largely neglected during a year of political campaigning.

In early 2001 a longtime political supporter, Chicago entrepreneur Robert Blackwell, Jr., hired Obama to provide legal advice for his (Blackwell’s) growing technology firm, Electronic Knowledge Interchange (EKI). In exchange for his services, Blackwell paid Obama an $8,000 retainer each month for roughly a 14-month period -- a total of $118,000.

In return for these payments, Obama pressured the Illinois state tourism board to send a $50,000 grant to EKI. He also issued a formal written request for Illinois officials to furnish a $50,000 tourism promotion grant to another Blackwell company, Killerspin, which sells equipment and apparel related to the sport of table tennis. The day after Obama wrote this letter, his U.S. Senate campaign received a $1,000 donation from Blackwell.

Killerspin would not receive the full $50,000 it was seeking that year, but only $20,000. With Obama’s help, however, the company eventually secured $320,000 in state grants between 2002 and 2004 to subsidize the table tennis tournaments it sponsored. As blogger Ed Morrissey observes: “This looks like a rather obvious quid pro quo…. In exchange for $118,000 in salary, Blackwell received $320,000 in state taxpayer money and influence at the highest level of state politics.”

Obama’s presidential campaign website reported that Blackwell in 2008 committed to raise between $100,000 and $200,000 for Obama’s White House run that year.

Obama was an outspoken opponent of the Iraq War ever since it was first discussed as a possible means of unseating Saddam Hussein from power. On October 2, 2002, Obama gave an antiwar speech alongside Jesse Jackson on the very day that President Bush and Congress had agreed on a joint resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq. Suggesting that the prospect of war was largely a Republican ploy to distract voters from domestic issues that were impacting minorities negatively, Obama said: “What I am opposed to is the attempt by potential hacks like [Republican strategist] Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty state, a drop in the medium income, to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone thorough the worst month since the Great Depression. That’s what I am opposed to.”

38 posted on 09/11/2009 8:23:45 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: jwalsh07

Did you get the “Sorry sir, too long of break in service” answer?


39 posted on 09/11/2009 8:26:51 PM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating heart)
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To: jwalsh07

Not to be too nosy but why wouldn’t they take you and your brother? (It’s okay to tell me to mind my own business.... I don’t want to embarrass you.)


40 posted on 09/11/2009 8:27:11 PM PDT by kittykat77
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