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Obama: I Traveled To Pakistan In College
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Posted on 04/07/2008 11:25:27 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
Wasn't Pakistan a much more moderate country back in the 1980s? Weren't they on our side during the Russian-Afghan War? Weren't we supplying Osama Bin Laden back then?
Just a hunch -- Obama's mother probably got a grant from all that money the US was pumping into Pakistan back then, doing some liberal project - micro-finance for women?
Mom and little sis then took the opportunity to do some cool sight-seeing - traveling the old Silk Route to China. Obama heard about this and went for a visit.
I don't think Mom let her precious Barry anywhere near the Afghan border.
This is just a junket by a liberal, wacky mom, who brought the kids along.
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posted on
04/07/2008 12:58:55 PM PDT
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: Sub-Driver
I stayed at a Hilton hotel in NJ the other day.
I think I’ll run for governor!
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posted on
04/07/2008 12:59:34 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
To: Enchante
I find it extremely curious that Obambi would have found his way to Pakistan in that era.... WHY? Who or what brought him there?
The usual reasons I know of for visiting Pakistan: mountain climbing in the Himalayas, return visits by Pakistani living abroad, and education in Islamic madrassas. Just saying.
To: Timeout
holy cripes...I wasn't lookin for anything else...
good catch... I wonder if this has legs...
To: Timeout
“But Wright was a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago,..”
???WHAT???? This is the first time I have ever seen something like this. Although, I would not be 100% surprised, since he is good friends with Louis Farrakan, I’m still shocked that this hasn’t been brought up before, if true.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:03:44 PM PDT
by
KEmom
(Please send viable Republican candidates to Massachusetts!!)
To: CharlesWayneCT
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:09:55 PM PDT
by
WildcatClan
(Don't blame me...............I supported Duncan Hunter.)
To: F15Eagle
Uhhhhhh...
That places the trip between 1979 and 1983...
Never mentioned before.
That would place it during the Afghan War and the extensive travel of foreign volunteers through that country.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:11:10 PM PDT
by
furquhart
(John S. McCain for President)
Comment #68 Removed by Moderator
To: maggief
In 1986, Dunham did a one-year development project in Pakistan.
Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983, so his trip wouldn't have been to see his mother, who was there in 1986.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:13:23 PM PDT
by
Beckwith
('Typical White Person')
To: trumandogz
I went to the Greek Islands, on a nude beach...In fact, the island was gay and it gave me keen awareness of gayness...
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:13:25 PM PDT
by
nikos1121
(typical white person)
To: Williams
I wonder where all the money came from for all this schooling.?
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:16:02 PM PDT
by
Unicorn
(Too many wimps around.)
To: Unicorn
I am guessing, typical white grandma.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:16:55 PM PDT
by
WildcatClan
(Don't blame me...............I supported Duncan Hunter.)
To: indcons
I wont be too surprised to learn that his mother converted to islam.
In an interview with the New York Times, published on April 30th, 2007, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obamas younger half sister, told the Times, "My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.
I assume Maya thinks of her brother, Obama, as a member of her family?
Although Anna is often described as an athiest, I assume Maya thinks of her mother as a member of her family?
How else would one interpret that statement?
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:18:07 PM PDT
by
Beckwith
('Typical White Person')
To: Enchante; AnotherUnixGeek; ARCADIA
I find it extremely curious that Obambi would have found his way to Pakistan in that era.... WHY? Who or what brought him there? Pakistan was not anywhere on the travel agenda of any of my fellow hippy-dippy student travelers who longed to explore Europe, Africa, Latin America, east Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and India/Nepal.
I also traveled to Pakistan in the 80's, did Lahor and then the Karakoram Highway route thru the tribal area (I know, it's almost impossible to imagine doing something like that today without a death wish, but it wasn't that long ago when the people weren't so radicalized and frontier Pakistan was, perhaps a bit off the beaten path, but still very do-able trip either on your own or with a guided tour) , great scenary, some of the most wild and beautiful places on earth.
To: stylin19a
Let's ask him to release his passport information, that'll tell us where he's been and when. It is my understanding that his "passport information" doesn't include where he has been, only which details were included on the passport registration form.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:24:55 PM PDT
by
maclay
(America First - The rest of the world comes second)
To: Timeout
This too . . .
At the University of Chicago Divinity School, Wright earned a masters degree in the history of religions with a focus on Islam.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:27:03 PM PDT
by
Beckwith
('Typical White Person')
To: indcons
Usually, theres only one reason for most non-Pakis to travel to Pakistan (except for commercial reasons) - madrassa-based training. Pakistan has had some tourism in years past. I spent about five weeks there in 1987 just traveling around, mostly in the north. It was physically very beautiful. The people were poor but pretty friendly and easy to do business with (with just a few exceptions). I'm really glad I went but of course I wouldn't even consider taking the same trip now.
To: Republican Party Reptile
Me too. Same same in reverse. 1987. Kashgar -> Gilgit over the Kharakoram (Sp?) Pass. Awesome!
To: Sub-Driver
Remember Bill Clinton’s mysterious dead-of-winter trip to Moscow in, what, 1969?
To: Beckwith
Where did you find that quote?
I searched the article I had referenced and could find those words.
Thx
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:53:02 PM PDT
by
Timeout
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