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HUGS FOR THUGS COULD SINK NAIVE OBAMA
NYP ^ | May 16, 2008 | Charles Hurt

Posted on 05/16/2008 2:35:47 AM PDT by Red Steel

WASHINGTON - What is it about the word "appeasement" that got Barack Obama's ears ringing?

Without once uttering the freshman anti-war senator's name, President Bush warned against negotiating with terrorists on the futile hope that a little more dialogue will turn these satanic beasts from their death pact to wipe Israel off the map and kill as many American men, women and children as possible.

Obama, who has proposed meeting with the leaders of Iran, Syria and North Korea just as soon as he gets into the White House, heard his name somewhere in the president's speech and quickly issued a press release.

The White House insisted Obama was simply suffering from the narcissism that convinces so many politicians that everyone is talking about them.

Top Democratic leaders, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, called it a below-the-belt political attack.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; obama; presbushknesset08

1 posted on 05/16/2008 2:35:48 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

My only problem with the President’s speech is that his administration is demanding Israel do exactly what he warned against. Directly negotiating with terrorists.

Mark


2 posted on 05/16/2008 2:40:54 AM PDT by MarkL
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To: Red Steel

Yep, Schumer’s half right, there’s nothing below the belt and it’s good Bush pointed that out.


3 posted on 05/16/2008 2:42:23 AM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Red Steel

What’s the matter there dumbo?
Can take the truth?
Sounds like a campaign issue to hit him like a paddle for months.


4 posted on 05/16/2008 2:47:34 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Red Steel

Where’s that crying baby?

I’ve always thought a guilty conscience plays a part in making people feel like everyone is talking about them. That and paranoia.


5 posted on 05/16/2008 2:48:19 AM PDT by whatshotandwhatsnot
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To: Red Steel

That’s the thing with “below the belt” punches, they almost always hit “pay dirt.”


6 posted on 05/16/2008 2:50:25 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: Red Steel
Top Democratic leaders, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, called it a below-the-belt political attack.

Of course Obama and the dems have NEVER used a below-the-belt political attack against the president.

7 posted on 05/16/2008 2:57:06 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: MarkL
My only problem with the President’s speech is that his administration is demanding Israel do exactly what he warned against. Directly negotiating with terrorists.

*Ding Ding Ding* !!!

We have a winner!

The fact is, the Bush so-called 'Roadmap to Peace' is a roadmap to peace alright, "Rest In Peace Israel" is what will be the result of this ill-conceived and anti-God approach to the conflict between Israel and her neighbors.

I don't think the average American would appreciate it very much if the Israeli Prime Minister (Olmert at the moment) were to urge the United States to negotiate with the illegals roaming around the southwest due to our porous borders, and establish a homeland for those wandering criminal hordes.

Aztland, anyone?
8 posted on 05/16/2008 3:00:06 AM PDT by mkjessup
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To: P8riot
The real kicker was “Plugs” Biden saying politics stops at the waters edge.
9 posted on 05/16/2008 3:00:53 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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To: MarkL

Bush’s administration is already negotiating with North Korea, so

HE’S ALREADY TALKING WITH TERRORISTS

HE’S ALREADY 1/3 IN AGREEMENT WITH OBAMA


10 posted on 05/16/2008 3:03:29 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Red Steel

The leftist Dems have no recourse but to support this first-class whiner with an MSM-supported media barrage defending appeasement. The net effect is like a burlap sack full of wet civet cats.


11 posted on 05/16/2008 3:03:44 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Red Steel
Mark Steyn was commenting about Obama's promise to "sit down and talk" to the thuggish President of Iran, the brutal Dictator of North Korea, and all the other crazy regimes out there.

He said the problem with the President of the United States doing this in such a public manner was that the minute you "sit down and talk" with them - it legitimizes their regimes and all of their crimes in the eyes of the world.

12 posted on 05/16/2008 3:12:00 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made.")
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To: Red Steel

Obama, naive? Come on!


13 posted on 05/16/2008 3:46:56 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (I'm just a typical bitter, white, heteronormative space worm clinging to guns and God.)
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To: mkjessup

As I listened to McCain’s “2013” speech, I waited for him to say “Every person in America now recognizes the word ‘Aztlan.’ “


14 posted on 05/16/2008 3:56:02 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: canuck_conservative

Difference is that Barrack would personally talk to the leaders


15 posted on 05/16/2008 3:59:05 AM PDT by igoramus08
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To: MarkL

True.


16 posted on 05/16/2008 4:01:29 AM PDT by commonguymd (Let the socialists duke it out. All three of them.)
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To: Red Steel
Obama ain't the only appeaser. From February....

Clinton Advisor and Hillraiser Meets Secretly With Syrian Regime

17 posted on 05/16/2008 4:14:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

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18 posted on 05/16/2008 4:17:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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19 posted on 05/16/2008 4:18:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

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20 posted on 05/16/2008 4:20:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla
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21 posted on 05/16/2008 4:21:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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Obama is a taller, thinner, younger Al Sharpton.


22 posted on 05/16/2008 4:28:48 AM PDT by syriacus (30,000 US deaths in Korea in 2 1/2 years, because Truman first withdrew troops from Korea in 1949.)
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To: syriacus
From January....

Iranian bloggers discuss Obama's Iowa victory

23 posted on 05/16/2008 4:33:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: canuck_conservative
Bush’s administration is already negotiating with North Korea,

I seem to have misplaced my copy of the 5X8 glossy showing Bush sitting down with Kim Jong-il.

A google image search for "Bush and Kim Jong-il" doesn't help me, either.
:-)

24 posted on 05/16/2008 4:36:25 AM PDT by syriacus (30,000 US deaths in Korea in 2 1/2 years, because Truman first withdrew troops from Korea in 1949.)
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To: syriacus
Here's one of Pelosi with Ferret Face....


25 posted on 05/16/2008 4:48:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Red Steel
Slurs against the great Hussein Obama are outrageous obaminations!
Accusations of Appeasement? Never!
Hussein Obama, peace be upon him, is peace loving,
Yes, only peace loving!
He will only acquiesce to others to keep peace and support justice!
26 posted on 05/16/2008 4:49:45 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Hussein Obama for Caliph 2008!)
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To: mewzilla
Great photo!


In 1939, an American senator declared:
`Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler,
all of this might have been avoided.'

27 posted on 05/16/2008 5:26:20 AM PDT by syriacus (30,000 US deaths in Korea in 2 1/2 years, because Truman first withdrew troops from Korea in 1949.)
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To: Red Steel
Sleep with dogs; Wake with fleas.

Pelosi gets her Islam on in Damascus.
28 posted on 05/16/2008 5:49:05 AM PDT by ricks_place
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To: Red Steel
The White House insisted Obama was simply suffering from the narcissism that convinces so many politicians that everyone is talking about them.

hussein...sweetie...unbunch those panties...
29 posted on 05/16/2008 5:53:07 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: canuck_conservative
"Bush’s administration is already negotiating with North Korea, "

HE’S ALREADY TALKING WITH TERRORISTS

Yes, but there is a distinction. Bush at least talks about pre-conditions, whereas OBambi just wants to go straight in with direct President-to-President chat sessions. Which gives the terrorists a huge coup in public relations, directly legitimizing them.

30 posted on 05/16/2008 6:05:53 AM PDT by cookcounty (Obama reach across the aisle? He's so far to the left, he'll need a roadmap to FIND the aisle.)
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To: canuck_conservative
Bush’s administration is already negotiating with North Korea, so HE’S ALREADY TALKING WITH TERRORISTS...

FNFs discussed this with John Bolton this morning and he put the blame on Condi Rice. I'll take his word on that and most everything else.

31 posted on 05/16/2008 6:12:15 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: Red Steel

Why is the little big eared plick worried about someone hitting him below the belt. There is nothing below his belt.


32 posted on 05/16/2008 6:16:56 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: whatshotandwhatsnot

No one on this thread seems to realize that the Dems want nothing more than to have this election campaign be between Obama and Bush. Bush is the most despised man in America, regardless of what we think, and Bush is going to hand Obama the WH on a platter. The timing of Bush’s speech almost completely pre-empted McCain’s own speech. Is Bush really as stupid as the lefties have been saying? He seems lost without Rove.


33 posted on 05/16/2008 6:43:59 AM PDT by Carcas
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To: firewalk

What’s funny is that I thought Bush’s remarks applied more to Carter and Pelosi than to Barry.


34 posted on 05/16/2008 6:45:43 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: MrB
What’s funny is that I thought Bush’s remarks applied more to Carter and Pelosi than to Barry.

Barack Obama's Middle East Expert

Malley may be gone, but he's not been forgotten...

35 posted on 05/16/2008 8:05:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

BTTT.


36 posted on 05/16/2008 8:21:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: MrB
What’s funny is that I thought Bush’s remarks applied more to Carter and Pelosi than to Barry.

Of course you'd be exactly right to assume that.
Why on earth would a sitting President refer to a wannabe like hussein?
When someone has something to say pertaining to him, I'm sure they'll refer to him by name.

I guess standing on the soapbox, shouting just isn't doing it for him...
too bad.
37 posted on 05/16/2008 9:22:21 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: Red Steel
Behold the Super Elite would be Sneerer in Chief!


38 posted on 05/17/2008 6:08:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein Obama"Hama's" Pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11")
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