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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: Saab-driving Yuppie
Found it! I knew I had read this somewhere today...

On Sept. 11, 2001, Barack Obama was driving to a state legislative hearing in Chicago when he heard the first sketchy reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center on his car radio. The 40-year-old state senator spent the afternoon in his law office watching "nightmare images" of destruction and grief unfold on TV.

Within days, he'd issued a statement about what the nation should do next.

Beyond the immediate needs to improve security and dismantle "organizations of destruction," Obama wrote, lay the more difficult job of "understanding the sources of such madness." He wrote of "a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers," of "embittered children" around the world, of the seeds of discontent sown in poverty, ignorance and despair.

The nuanced musings of an obscure state senator, Obama's statement never even made the big Chicago dailies.

link

41 posted on 09/11/2009 8:30:27 PM PDT by Dinah Lord
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To: StandUpChuck

Celebrating in Gaza.


42 posted on 09/11/2009 8:30:44 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of misery.)
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To: investigateworld; kittykat77
Did you get the “Sorry sir, too long of break in service” answer?

Exactly. Time served, in my case three years and my brother 6, was not enough to allow us back in because we were both near or over 50 so we wouldn't have enough time to get to 20 by the time we had to retire. I'm the older one BTW. But better looking. LOL

43 posted on 09/11/2009 8:32:27 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (CommieCare: Need a Stent, Take a Red Pill. Next!)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Don't remember reading or hearing Obama at any time saying “I was...” in reference to 9/11 like the rest of us do.

Indeed. Strangely odd, because TOTUS inserts himself centrally into every other commemoration and human experience when he speaks to the hoi polloi.

44 posted on 09/11/2009 8:33:04 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: jpf

Thank you for the answer. The question made me wonder.


45 posted on 09/11/2009 8:33:22 PM PDT by LakeLady (Remember 9/11, always, for what is truly was, lest it should ever happen again.)
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie

Reading buddy Bill Ayers column in the New York Slime praising terrorism.


46 posted on 09/11/2009 8:34:07 PM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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To: oblomov
He was getting a Monisha.

47 posted on 09/11/2009 8:34:10 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie

Here is a good article on him about his activities at the time.

Obama’s ‘Redistributive Change’ and the Death of Freedom
Beware the International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights.

By Andrew C. McCarthy

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWY3ZDkyNWJiMThmNjNlN2RjOTczYTc1MWI5ZmEzOWU=


48 posted on 09/11/2009 8:34:56 PM PDT by april15Bendovr (Free Republic & Ron Paul Cult = oxymoron)
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To: jwalsh07
I told them, "hey - I already got a pension, don't need the Armys". Not one to give up,I talked with one of the security companies with contracts in that area.

So I went a got a commercial D/L and racked up 50k cross courty miles, per the recruiter's request. Then I find out no guns for truckers, they have to rely on the Services.....

Not this kid, didn't get this old by relying on anyone but me.

Best offer I got was guarding an Ammo dump in one of the Emirates.....

49 posted on 09/11/2009 8:40:22 PM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating heart)
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To: All

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Barack Hussein Obama has banned the National Day of Prayer from the White House, now get a load of THIS!!
ISLAM ON CAPITOL HILL 2009 - islamoncapitolhill.com
http://islamoncapitolhill.com/Home_Page.html
As many as 50,000 Muslims may be congregating at the White House with the blessings of the usuper.
Read their plans for ‘Muslims on Capitol hill’!!
Alarming! Infuriating!!
Does THIS leave any doubt as to what we have sitting in the White House?
Be sure to read every page!
Every page ends with ‘OUR TIME HAS COME’!!

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Muslims in Michigan fighting us citizens
.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPod-hxD7g&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fislaminaction08%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2009%2F07%2Fmichiganmuslim%2Dmob%2Dsurrounds%2Dand%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

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On February 27th, speaking to Kristof of The New York Times, Barack Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent.”
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:

“Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet? “

According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim’s complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam. Obama chanted it with pride and finesse.

From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I WILL STAND WITH THEM (MUSLIMS) SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS OF WAR SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION..”

Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:
“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, THOUGH, WAS MY [half brother], ROY..HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM”.

From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “IN INDONESIA, I SPEND TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL” “..I STUDIED THE KORAN..”

From ‘Audacity of Hope: “LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED ISLAM....”I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE”.

From The Audacity Of Hope, “WE ARE NO LONGER JUST A CHRISTIAN NATION, we are also a Jewish nation, a MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
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http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html
http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html?cid=dc-article-obama

“My Muslim faith..” Barack Hussein Obama

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50 posted on 09/11/2009 8:41:07 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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Image and video hosting by TinyPic Image and video hosting by TinyPic Image and video hosting by TinyPic "On this occasion, we celebrate the holy month of Ramadan and we also celebrate how much Muslims have enriched America and its culture in ways both large and small." Barack Hussein Obama.
51 posted on 09/11/2009 8:42:08 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: All

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Let us NEVER forget those nearly 3,000 innocent Americans who were murdered by the Islamists.
Don’t let Obama desecrate the memory of those Americans who were murdered by his fellow Muslims. Send this video to everyone you know.
Every American should view this video made by a New Yorker who lived through the attack:

http://attacked911.tripod.com/

This video has been viewed by untold millions and is now in the Smithsonian.
(Sadly, the New Yorker who made this video has since succumbed to lung damage sustained during the attack)

The video includes the planes crashing into the buildings and victims jumping. There are pictures of many of those who lost their lives, and president Bush’s aftermath speech set to the haunting background music, ‘Only Time’ by Enya. It is truly awesome.
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52 posted on 09/11/2009 8:43:01 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie
Not looking for a smart-aleck answer. This is a serious question for which I hope there are serious answers.

You're new here, aren't you?

53 posted on 09/11/2009 8:43:23 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: jwalsh07

My husband, who is now 74, also wanted to sign up again. But, of course, he was too old.


54 posted on 09/11/2009 8:52:31 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie

“Present”????


55 posted on 09/11/2009 8:56:53 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Saab-driving Yuppie

Excellent question! I can’t wait to read the replies. Great job!


56 posted on 09/11/2009 9:02:37 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: jpf

“we have to get to the root causes of such acts. You know, poverty, resentment,”

This fits his profile perfectly along with the haters of war on terror, hollywood, the mass media. Oh yeah..so glad you read that.


57 posted on 09/11/2009 9:06:50 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: Responsibility2nd
LOL
58 posted on 09/11/2009 9:07:55 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: BunnySlippers

LoL !


59 posted on 09/11/2009 9:09:07 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: ilgipper

if Obeyme had put half the emotion in his speech today from the one he gave the other he just might come across as believable. He stunk at it today.If he thought he fooled people by his “sincerity” he is surely mistaken. Not one word of his rang true today, and yes that is my perception

Come this Sunday he will be on 60 Gagging Minutes and then another speech on finance that very Monday.


60 posted on 09/11/2009 9:14:22 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT ("Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow"C.Coolidge)
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