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What? Barack Obama Proposes Formation Of Civilian Army Equal In Size To U.S. Military!
Stuck On Stupid ^ | July 17, 2008 | Quaker

Posted on 07/17/2008 9:33:09 AM PDT by Quaker

A video that the MSM won’t show you. In fact the Obama campaign doesn’t have it on their website and no transcript can be found for this speech in Colorado Springs.

Peculiar…

Unfortunately for the Obama campaign the speech can be had on YouTube. (Video Included)

(Excerpt) Read more at stuckon-stupid.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; democrats; elections; gaffe; gaffes; msm; nobama08; obama; obamatruthfile; peacecorps; usmilitary
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1 posted on 07/17/2008 9:33:09 AM PDT by Quaker
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To: Quaker

Just stupid.


2 posted on 07/17/2008 9:33:52 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: Quaker

This man is becoming a carbon copy of Woodrow Wilson.

He wants to make us a police state.


3 posted on 07/17/2008 9:36:16 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Quaker

Kerry was a statesman compared to Barry.


4 posted on 07/17/2008 9:36:41 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Quaker
Wow.

That guy is nuts.

5 posted on 07/17/2008 9:36:54 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Quaker

Would that be a Civilian army without guns??


6 posted on 07/17/2008 9:37:06 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

More like that crazy Austrian with the funny mustache.


7 posted on 07/17/2008 9:37:26 AM PDT by SolidWood (Stop the Muslimarxist Obama.)
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To: Quaker
Arbiet macht Frei...sonst, tot.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - CHANGE YOU CAN COUNT ON, BUT DON'T WANT



THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
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8 posted on 07/17/2008 9:38:12 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Quaker
There is a transcript available, but it's the press release transcript that does not match the speech itself.

Youtube of speech

Released "transcript"

9 posted on 07/17/2008 9:39:14 AM PDT by Domandred (McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
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To: Quaker

Can see it now. Liberals running to Canada to escape serving in Obama’s army..ha


10 posted on 07/17/2008 9:39:21 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: Rush Limbaugh

Show Prep Ping.


11 posted on 07/17/2008 9:40:50 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: SolidWood
More like that crazy Austrian with the funny mustache.

Actually, Woodrow Wilson's American Protective League came before the Gestapo.

And Woodrow Wilson was the first fascist, that other fascists that followed, admired.

12 posted on 07/17/2008 9:44:38 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Quaker

1.2 million taxpayer-paid Community Organizers......So Obama can do for the nation what he did for Chicago (which is absolutely nothing).


13 posted on 07/17/2008 9:46:48 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: Fox_Mulder77

Well, you gotta give him credit for realizing that it’s gonna take FORCE to get the productive to continue to support his idea of ‘fairness’.


14 posted on 07/17/2008 9:49:04 AM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: Quaker
I Want You To...



PULL MY FINGER!

15 posted on 07/17/2008 9:49:10 AM PDT by Coffee200am ("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears..."/s)
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To: Domandred
"There is a transcript available, but it's the press release transcript that does not match the speech itself. "

Barack is victim again of another "poor phrasing" (and with a TelePrompter, no less).

Gosh, it's so-o-o-o darn hard to say what you mean.

16 posted on 07/17/2008 9:50:23 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: TLI
That guy is nuts.

Not if Jesse J. had his way...that guy would be nut-LESS!

17 posted on 07/17/2008 9:50:23 AM PDT by Mean Maryjean (Tribe Member: 'Runs with Rush')
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To: Domandred
I see two possibilities here and both are troubling.

Either the media purposely scrubbed that section from the printed transcript or, more likely, BHO veered away from his prepared remarks on the teleprompter and was" talkin' out the side of his neck" for a minute, revealing what he would really like to implement.

18 posted on 07/17/2008 9:50:47 AM PDT by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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To: Coffee200am

19 posted on 07/17/2008 9:52:21 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Domandred
From the transcript:

"As President, I will expand AmeriCorps to 250,000 slots, and make that increased service a vehicle to meet national goals like providing health care and education, saving our planet and restoring our standing in the world, so that citizens see their efforts connected to a common purpose. People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve. Because when it comes to the challenges we face, the American people are not the problem--they are the answer."

20 posted on 07/17/2008 9:56:00 AM PDT by polymuser (Those who believe in something eventually prevail over those who believe in nothing.)
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To: cookcounty

somebody’s got to make a commercial based on the ‘improvements’ he made in Chicago.

(Gov. planning to call out National Guard)


21 posted on 07/17/2008 9:58:00 AM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

The video has been pulled from you tube. replaces with another video.....


22 posted on 07/17/2008 9:58:38 AM PDT by Vlaxo
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To: polymuser

Ah, I opined that Hillarycare would lead to only politically correct persons getting appointed to medical school by the government. Looks like Obamacare will do that one better by adding a Goon Squad for coming after Christians.


23 posted on 07/17/2008 10:00:22 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Quaker

I’d say the odds are good that if he becomes President, there will indeed be a civilian army. In fact, there already is a civilian army, and if you’re between the ages of 18 and 45 you’re a member.


24 posted on 07/17/2008 10:00:24 AM PDT by Hazwaste (Vote! Vote for the conservative local, state, and national candidates of your choice, but VOTE!)
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To: Quaker

SAVING FOR LATER, THANKS.


25 posted on 07/17/2008 10:01:01 AM PDT by enduserindy (232 years and now we want to blow it?)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Actually, he’s becoming a carbon copy of Josef Stalin.


26 posted on 07/17/2008 10:01:02 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: polymuser

Also from the transcript:

“I wrote letters to every organization in the country I could think of. And one day, a small group of churches on the South Side of Chicago offered me a job working to help neighborhoods that had been devastated by steel plant closings. My mother and grandparents wanted me to go to law school. My friends were applying to jobs on Wall Street. Meanwhile, this organization offered me $12,000 a year plus $2,000 for an old, beat-up car. And I said yes.”

But, why didn’t he serve for free in Americorps or another service organization?


27 posted on 07/17/2008 10:02:20 AM PDT by polymuser (Those who believe in something eventually prevail over those who believe in nothing.)
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To: Vlaxo

Post #9 video valid at this moment. Section of speech in question is at 16:41 into the video


28 posted on 07/17/2008 10:02:20 AM PDT by Domandred (McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
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To: Quaker
Well, there's going to be about 100 million new residents in the U.S. over the next ten to twleve years. They're going to be looking for work. They won't feel so bad about going up against their fellow citizens, since they won't be full citizens for a while. Hmmmm... it's like a marriage made in Heaven hell.
29 posted on 07/17/2008 10:02:35 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Annapolis, flight school, Congress, Senate, MIAs, Keating 5, Soros, Kerry... tried & found wanting!)
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To: LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot; Domandred
The linked site clearly says:

Obama's Prepared Remarks July 2, 2008
Obama Prepared Remarks At University Of Colorado In Colorado Springs


Nothing about a "transcript" that I saw. Guess he was ad-libbing the remarks in question.
30 posted on 07/17/2008 10:03:28 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: Quaker
Does this idiot think he can take over the Government using this method?
Impose himself dictator for life?
31 posted on 07/17/2008 10:04:17 AM PDT by MaxMax (I'll welcome death when God calls me. Until then, the fight is on)
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To: polymuser

Americorp is such a rip-off: they pay a stipend, so they can pay less than minimum wage ($6.90/hr), the supposed health insurance they offer would take up most of that stipend, and you only get it for full time positions,which are very rare. How anyone could afford to serve full time is beyond me. But the administrators of it get paid quite well.


32 posted on 07/17/2008 10:08:03 AM PDT by Red Boots
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To: cookcounty
1.2 million taxpayer-paid Community Organizers......So Obama can do for the nation what he did for Chicago

To register each and every lazy tax parasite in the country to vote, and bus them all out for elections and liberal street demonstrations and such. That's what community organizers do.

Making this a federal program isn't national service, it's national suicide.

33 posted on 07/17/2008 10:09:13 AM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: Quaker

Jobs for his brothers. More affirmative action. He is obviously not black enough to realize his brothers in the hood don’t want jobs. Otherwise carjackings, muggings, rapes, and black on black shootings wouldn’t be their main activity. Generations born and raised on the welfare and food stamps. What makes this idiot think they would want to work.


34 posted on 07/17/2008 10:12:55 AM PDT by cquiggy
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To: Quaker

What the hell is a civilian army?


35 posted on 07/17/2008 10:18:11 AM PDT by Liberty 275 (Do. Not. Want. Barack. Obama.)
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To: Quaker

Here’s a direct link to the video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDoHZ0hVUY

I assure you, THIS IS NO GAFFE.

The Obamaführer means exactly what he says. Be sure to save a copy before it gets pulled, which will be soon.

http://keepvid.com/


36 posted on 07/17/2008 10:19:47 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains...)
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To: Quaker
Unfortunately for the Obama campaign the speech can be had on YouTube.

Not for long....

An "Obamarmy" - Scary stuff, indeed.

37 posted on 07/17/2008 10:20:31 AM PDT by rock_lobsta (Not Your Ordinary Crustacean.)
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To: AmericaUnited

The Limbaugh account belonged to someone spoofing the real deal. That account has been banned. If there is a FReeper account that belongs to anyone on Rush’s staff, I’d sure like to know so that we can send him material to consider for show prep. You’re right, this thread would be perfect.


38 posted on 07/17/2008 10:23:45 AM PDT by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
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To: Quaker

Ah, Snowball and Napolean want to take the puppies away for their own protection! How wonderful.


39 posted on 07/17/2008 10:26:46 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: Quaker
He wants a copy of Hitler's Waffen SS at his disposal. I wonder how this will play in congress?
40 posted on 07/17/2008 10:31:02 AM PDT by ANGGAPO (LayteGulf BeachClub)
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To: Fox_Mulder77
And Woodrow Wilson was the first fascist, that other fascists that followed, admired.

The father of the modern police state. Even FDR admired him. FDR even admired Mussolini to begin with.
41 posted on 07/17/2008 10:31:49 AM PDT by JamesP81 (George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a suggestion)
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To: lonevoice

Actully, I’m almost certain Rush persues here for show prep...


42 posted on 07/17/2008 10:32:36 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: cookcounty
Is this what you are talking about. Quoted from the Obama speech.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
43 posted on 07/17/2008 10:35:16 AM PDT by ANGGAPO (LayteGulf BeachClub)
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To: LearsFool

The Denver Post’s headline says

“Full transcript of Obama’s prepared remarks”

which sort of plays it both ways and thereby manages to miss, twice, in one headline.

See here: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_9765136


44 posted on 07/17/2008 10:37:20 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (<===Non-bitter, Gun-totin', Typical White American)
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To: cookcounty

“1.2 million taxpayer-paid Community Organizers......”

Well, sure. Haven’t Americorps and the Peace Corps solved poverty here and around the World?

These people won’t have anything to do, except stick their nose in other people’s business.


45 posted on 07/17/2008 10:40:27 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Boycott Washington D.C. until they allow gun ownership)
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To: Hazwaste
"...we need a civilian security force just as welll funded, just as strong as our military."

That is a 400 billion dollar ticket, but worse.....is he really proposing a Gestapo. Will they have an Air Force, an Army equipped with tanks, canons, missils, etc. What will be their mandate? That is what he said....'just as well funded, just as strong",....I have never heard a politician make such a statement. This should cinch the election for McCane.

46 posted on 07/17/2008 10:41:40 AM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: AmericaUnited

I’m sure of it too. More than once or twice, he’s actually read FR thread comments on his show. Still, it would be nice to be able to ping someone on his staff to relevant threads that might otherwise be overlooked. I remember one of his staff, I think it might’ve been Dawn, used to post here. But, back when the oxycontin scandal broke, some FReepers were posting really really ugly stuff about Rush. The staffer defended him for awhile, and then asked the mods to delete her account. I felt so sad for her.


47 posted on 07/17/2008 10:47:52 AM PDT by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
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To: lonevoice

On one memorable occasion, Rush used the phrase “barf alert” on his show.


48 posted on 07/17/2008 10:49:36 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains...)
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To: Quaker
Obama SA “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.” -Barack Obama July 2, 2008
49 posted on 07/17/2008 10:54:52 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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I think Obama uses broad analogies and has no clue that it makes no sense in reality. They try to put together phrases for the cadence of it and play with vague notions.

I be he couldn’t even tell you what he meant...or what the person who wrote it meant, because it probably doesn’t “mean” anything.

Which, in a way, is worse than if he meant it.


50 posted on 07/17/2008 10:58:19 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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