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Live Thread: Barack Obama Afghan Speech 8 p.m. EST - "Hello I Must Be Going"
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 | Kristinn

Posted on 12/01/2009 3:54:38 PM PST by kristinn

Live from New York...it's Barack Obama!

On the banks of the Hudson River at West Point, Obama will give his military strategy for Afghanistan, based on the tactical genius of Capt. Spaulding, aka Groucho Marx:

Hello, I Must Be Going

Oh dear, he is coming, At last he's here.

(Spaulding) Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I'm glad I came, but just the same I must be going. La La.

(Mrs. Rittenhouse) For my sake you must stay. If you should go away, You'd spoil this party I am throwing.

(Spaulding) I'll stay a week or two, I'll stay the summer thru, But I am telling you, I must be going.

(All) Before you go, Will you oblige us, And tell us of your deeds so glowing?

(Spaulding) I'll do anything you say, In fact I'll even stay!

(All) Good!

(Spaulding) But I must be going.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; escalate; grouchomarx; helloimustbegoing; novictory; obama; obamaswar; oef; oefsurge; traitor; treason; usma; weak
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To: Candor7
I don't think he ever used the words 'victory' or 'win.' In any case, if I understand this correctly, it will take us 9 months to get the half-stepping step-up of troops in country. Then all of the troops must be out a year after that. ???

Is this just an exercise in moving troops and equipment around the globe and back?

601 posted on 12/01/2009 5:56:18 PM PST by TigersEye (Sarah Palin 2010 - We Can't Afford To Wait)
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To: Robwin
O’Reilly compared Obama’s speech to a dry academic lecture. That sounds about right.

O'Reilly thinks that obama is an academic which imo doesn't say much for O'Reilly's location of the Stanford Binet Bell Curve.

602 posted on 12/01/2009 5:56:24 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: PA Engineer

It was actually an Escalade, so the Escalade acted stupidly


603 posted on 12/01/2009 5:56:53 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: onyx

Yup everynight it is opened!


604 posted on 12/01/2009 5:56:59 PM PST by tiredoflaundry (I will not be silenced.)
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To: rodguy911

I’ve almost did a 180° as well (probably 150°). We’re at a point, watch the libs implode. There are so many things that are happening. Climategate, for example. The libs will try to ignore it, but the alternative media is KING! The biggest mistake obama did was not silencing talk radio or the internet BEFORE he tried imposing his commie policies. Americans will NEVER give up freedom. That’s a fact, take it to the bank. Freedom will win.


605 posted on 12/01/2009 5:57:37 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Conservatives: we are their worst nightmare)
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To: Candor7

Absolutely. And the enemy has millions of possible recruits....all those muslim young men on every corner of every town and city in the Middle East...and in Sweden and France and Croatia, etc....yes, and even in the USA and Canada.


606 posted on 12/01/2009 5:58:28 PM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama terrorize New Yorkers.)
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To: txhurl

He doesn’t believe in God. He believes in Allah.


607 posted on 12/01/2009 5:58:38 PM PST by Zman516 (socialists & muslims -- satan's useful idiots.)
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To: jaz.357

Fantastic!
I’m w/ Snoopy, no doubt about it.


608 posted on 12/01/2009 5:58:48 PM PST by hyperconservative (Fight 2 Win.)
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To: upstanding

Prophetic.


609 posted on 12/01/2009 5:58:55 PM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama terrorize New Yorkers.)
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To: kristinn

That is his haughty self just shining through. Liberal Academia loves that fake bull. Thanks for the thread.


610 posted on 12/01/2009 5:58:59 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: nutmeg

Honestly, it’s likely that a good 33% in the room support the douchebag. The rest clapped along as it is would have been disrespectful not to.


611 posted on 12/01/2009 5:59:28 PM PST by upstanding
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To: cruise_missile

No!


612 posted on 12/01/2009 5:59:48 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: Palladin
they look real enthused
613 posted on 12/01/2009 5:59:51 PM PST by mystery-ak (gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: mdel747

Beck is a useful tool. God, can he get anymore idiotic? He’s the poster boy for conservative mouth breathing dragons. What an utter buffoon.


614 posted on 12/01/2009 6:00:02 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Conservatives: we are their worst nightmare)
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To: going hot
"Hope he has back up plan B C D etc."

Agreed!

615 posted on 12/01/2009 6:00:26 PM PST by MountainDad
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To: shield

Obooboo threw in everything but the kitchen sink. I’m surprised I didn’t hear “Ask not what your country can do for you” and “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.”


616 posted on 12/01/2009 6:00:31 PM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama terrorize New Yorkers.)
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Why is Dennis the Menace on BOR? I thought Rove was on.
617 posted on 12/01/2009 6:00:47 PM PST by defconw (I'll keep my guns, religion and money. You keep the change.)
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To: relee

Wha??? I was listening in the car. He really looked into the CAMERA straight on for the Muslim world??? He never does that for us.

What really got me was when he scoffed at “some scribbles on parchment.” That Constitution IS us, Mister President.


618 posted on 12/01/2009 6:00:54 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: jwalsh07; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; ...
I'll sum it up.

Dipsh-t cut the baby in half. Then he says in one breath we have to win in Afghanistan and in the next breath that we're leaving in 18 months.

I don't know how todays young troops feel but I imagine that most of them will have the same reaction that I had to one of my CIC's Jimmy Carter. Disgust, disdain and disillusionment.

Great post, jwalsh07.

619 posted on 12/01/2009 6:01:31 PM PST by nutmeg (Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin agree: NO third parties! Take back the GOP)
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To: TigersEye

His own personal power trip and Marxist chess game.


620 posted on 12/01/2009 6:01:35 PM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama terrorize New Yorkers.)
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