Posted on 08/15/2007 3:14:08 AM PDT by sr4402
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama came under fire Tuesday for saying that U.S. troops in Afghanistan are "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians." The junior senator from Illinois made the comment Monday at a campaign stop in Nashua, New Hampshire.
"We've got to get the job done there," he said of Afghanistan. "And that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there."
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At some point you’ve got to wonder who’s not advising Obama to shut his pie hole. Every time he says something like this it makes Her Heinous look better. Does she have a mole in Obama’s campaign pushing him to say stupid things?
The “magic negro” is a moron...
America MUST do better than this “not ready for prime time” clown.
Obama is such an empty suit. His whole claim to fame is writing some vapid platitude Oprha style book.
Hopefully, the reality is becoming clearer to the star struck masses. This guy has never been (nor will he ever be) ready for prime time. But I was hoping he’d hang on longer to detract from the heinous one.
Obama is starting to sound pretty stupid with all this stuff; Dan Quayle and even Weird Al look like geniuses next to him.
“Obama is starting to sound pretty stupid with all this stuff; Dan Quayle and even Weird Al look like geniuses next to him.”
Weird Al is a genius.
He’s just pro our troops isn’t he!! Has he ever been in the military?
“”just air-raiding villages and killing civilians.”
“Kerry Obama 2008, the back to the 60’s campaign”
“Weird Al is a genius.”
Maybe Yankovic is but certainly not Gore.
LLS
The bottom line is all the Dem candidates are dangerous people. They have no idea what they believe in or are two afraid to say so because they will get slammed either by their own hard-core people or let the cat out of the bag to the rest of the American public. Take Bill Richardson and the question about gays being a choice or from birth. His answer may have been his most honest belief. But the gay left did not want to hear that and so tried to give him another chance. And he was too stupid to take the second chance.
No, I think that the pressures of the campaign and the length of it are getting to him. I'm predicting the Break Girl will be her running mate. John Edwards has been positioning himself as her kind of leftist.
I’m sure it was just a “botched joke.” Or “taken out of context.”
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