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Obama: “The Louisiana Purchase would cover an earthquake in Hawaii”?
Hot Air ^ | March 17, 2010 | Cassy Fiano

Posted on 03/17/2010 7:30:25 PM PDT by penelopesire

"This moment, from Bret Baier’s interview on Fox News with Obama, might just be one of the biggest “WTF?!” moments from Obama’s presidency yet. Obama is either completely making things up, living in an alternate reality, or really, really confused. Actually, my guess is that’s it’s probably a combination of all three.

Apparently, there was a devastating earthquake in Hawaii that we all somehow missed. Oh, wait, no. That’s right. There was no earthquake, and Obama is just totally clueless, as usual. In fact, the last earthquake in Hawaii to cause any deaths at all was in 1975, and two people died."

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Video link at site, as well as some great comments. Apparently even Jake Tapper noticed this smoke and mirrors line from Obama's Fox News interview.
1 posted on 03/17/2010 7:30:25 PM PDT by penelopesire
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To: penelopesire

This is from a 2007 contact list of congressional aides. Some might not be there any longer, but worth a try.

Contact congressional aides.
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2 posted on 03/17/2010 7:31:59 PM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: STARWISE; SE Mom; maggief; hoosiermama; onyx

Good catch here from Hot Air. The replay tells it all. Obama is all hat and no cattle...lol.


3 posted on 03/17/2010 7:32:01 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire

Will it cover an earthquake in CA?


4 posted on 03/17/2010 7:32:18 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: penelopesire

Further proof of Jack Squat Barry’s idiocy...


5 posted on 03/17/2010 7:33:54 PM PDT by cranked
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To: penelopesire

Maybe the earthquake was in one of our other 57 states and he got confused...


6 posted on 03/17/2010 7:35:20 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: penelopesire

I saw this transcript on the Fox News site and wondered what the heck Obama was talking about.....


7 posted on 03/17/2010 7:36:29 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: RummyChick

daily snob photo
8 posted on 03/17/2010 7:36:57 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: penelopesire

Well, it might be simpler for him to tell just a simple lie: “Obamacare will cover your butt everywhere and at all times, and I plan to use it too”.

That all is not well in the belfry is becoming evident if it has not been before. Could he really be a writer?


9 posted on 03/17/2010 7:37:45 PM PDT by givemELL (Does Taiwan Meet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
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To: RummyChick
obama looking for his brain

10 posted on 03/17/2010 7:38:20 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: penelopesire

all kefiyah and no goats


11 posted on 03/17/2010 7:38:25 PM PDT by xp38
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To: penelopesire

The Hilo tsunamis?


12 posted on 03/17/2010 7:38:58 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (1.416785(71) x 10^32)
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To: penelopesire

Silly rabbits - that was the earthquake that ate Obambi’s birth certificate.


13 posted on 03/17/2010 7:39:31 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: BunnySlippers

Probably not..that prospect will be covered in the upcoming USA tax-payer funded California bail-out....to be delivered right before the November elections in order to help Boxer.


14 posted on 03/17/2010 7:39:59 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire
Why do some people think he's smart? He makes up crap about an earthquake in HI, he bribes Louisiana and think that that saying "Katrina" will somehow convince us that this is assistance due to a natural disaster, and he stumbles over his words and spews forth confusing sentences that don't really go anywhere. He just drones on, hoping to eat up the air time and avoid awkward questions.

He's not even fit for a state-level job.

15 posted on 03/17/2010 7:40:14 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We're all heading toward red revolution - we just disagree on which type of Red we want.)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

Wait until Rush gets a hold of this gem....lol!


16 posted on 03/17/2010 7:41:21 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire

Isn’t Hawaii the 57th state?


17 posted on 03/17/2010 7:41:38 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: penelopesire

BTW Jake did NOT notice this. The byline is Sunlen Miller and Karen Travers . Jake often chastises people on Twitter for missing the bylined.

Jake, not involved.


18 posted on 03/17/2010 7:42:07 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: ClearCase_guy
He's not even fit for a state-level job.

Are you serious? He isn't fit for volunteer work.
19 posted on 03/17/2010 7:42:50 PM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: penelopesire

Jimmy Carter was epitome of competency compared to Obama. I just cannot imagine this fraud getting re-elected. If he is, then there is no more America.


20 posted on 03/17/2010 7:42:59 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: penelopesire

Yes and what about Mississippi, where are our hundreds of millions from Katrina related disaster. Oh, I forgot both of our Senators and our Governor are Republicans. And how about the states that were flooded so badly by the Mississippi river a couple of years ago, where is their special deal?


21 posted on 03/17/2010 7:43:03 PM PDT by fatrat (extremely extreme right-wing radicalized veteran)
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To: BunnySlippers

Actually, nobama seems preoccupied with Hawaii. Maybe he’s wondering who got to his birth certificate before he did and where it is now. Dear deceased Granny (”typical white person”) probably had it squirreled away somewhere safe in case he (the ingrate nobama) tried to throw her under the bus.


22 posted on 03/17/2010 7:45:14 PM PDT by hal ogen
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To: BunnySlippers

Thanks for the clarification. I guess Jake’s head is still planted firmly up the potus’s posterior...lol


23 posted on 03/17/2010 7:45:45 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: fatrat

Also, hurricane Ike hit Galveston in September of 2008, if I remember correctly. Does this mean that the state of Texas will get special treatment?


24 posted on 03/17/2010 7:46:18 PM PDT by Free State Four
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To: penelopesire

Yup, I just checked his Twitter feed. He;s still an Obama shill.


25 posted on 03/17/2010 7:46:45 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: penelopesire

AFAIK, President Obama is just lying by leaving out the details. The provision he speaks of gives a state that has “every county” declared a natural disaster special money. Not “states that have natural disasters”.

There are very few states that this will ever happen to. And the bigger states like Texas, California and probably Hawaii too (because it is spread apart) will never qualify because it is hard to imagine a disaster that would cover so much geography.

The New Louisiana Purchase is a raw deal. Obama knows it but flat lies on TV. This is really disturbing.


26 posted on 03/17/2010 7:47:25 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: penelopesire

I posted about the Hawaii earthquake too....LOL.

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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

He’s spinning... won’t answer the CT question.
Talking about LA and Katrina.

“Hold on a second, Bret. Hawaii went through an earthquake.” LOL. Good grief.

FL in or out? He dances.

55 posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:08:08 PM by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)

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27 posted on 03/17/2010 7:48:09 PM PDT by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: BunnySlippers

Will we all find out one day our messiah has had brain surgery ? There is a big scar going all the way across his skull. Spooky Stuff


28 posted on 03/17/2010 7:48:46 PM PDT by manonCANAL
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To: Free State Four

Tennessee has been host to TWO Al Gore homesteads. Al Gore is a disaster so we should be exempt as well.


29 posted on 03/17/2010 7:50:15 PM PDT by CrappieLuck
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To: fatrat

Didn’t some SEIU hospital workers in Louisiana start killing their poor patients after Katrina for no reason? I guess Obama wants to reward them for a ‘job well done’ and include it in the ‘deathcare’ bill.


30 posted on 03/17/2010 7:51:09 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: RummyChick
That picture is just evil.
31 posted on 03/17/2010 7:51:25 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (God IS Coming Back........He WILL NOT permit this evil to continue much longer)
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To: penelopesire

Obama talks about Katrina like it just happened so he can try to justify the deal. The “special healcare emergency” he cites happened over five years ago.


32 posted on 03/17/2010 7:53:09 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: onyx

I missed that gem. Glad you caught it...lol. It’s going viral now.


33 posted on 03/17/2010 7:53:15 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: RummyChick

Whose flags are those? (not the US of course)


34 posted on 03/17/2010 7:53:42 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (God IS Coming Back........He WILL NOT permit this evil to continue much longer)
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To: penelopesire
It’s going viral now.

I'm so glad to hear that!

35 posted on 03/17/2010 7:55:23 PM PDT by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: Starboard

Of course and why would we need a special provision in a healthcare bill for disasters? Don’t we already cover that with our taxpayer dollars to FEMA, etc.? Obama is just spinning and trying to shut up his critics by bringing up Katrina. The aftermath of Katrina rests soley on the democrats and their corrupt governing of La. for decades. We should NEVER have conceded any ground to their lies and propaganda during that time.


36 posted on 03/17/2010 7:59:40 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire
Has anyone else noticed the "telegraphed" Hawaiian destruction themes for the last year?
Ill Dong with icbm nukes, tsunamis, now earthquakes?

Trying to prepare us for the dog ate my homework / the disaster ate my BC excuse?

Buy Reynolds!!!

37 posted on 03/17/2010 8:00:13 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:31 Behold, I am against you," O " you most proud, said the said the Lord GOD of hosts)
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To: penelopesire

“we are the ones we’ve been waiting for, to come along and just make this crap up”.


38 posted on 03/17/2010 8:01:18 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: penelopesire

I’m waiting for the media to go after Obama for this latest major gaffe. If Sarah Palin had said this they would have had a field day, but for Obama they will make excuses, saying how Bret was too hard on him and how he meant to say Haiti and not Hawaii


39 posted on 03/17/2010 8:03:52 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: monkeyshine

I did not realize that every county in La. was declared a disaster area. If that is true then it is a total farce. Only the coastal areas of that state sustained any major damage, Mississippi counties over one hundred miles north of the coast got hurricane force winds. the eye of Katrina basically followed Interstate 59 and did not go into Louisiana.


40 posted on 03/17/2010 8:04:20 PM PDT by fatrat (extremely extreme right-wing radicalized veteran)
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To: rawcatslyentist

It’s just a media game. They think that if somehow they can make us ‘worry’ about Hawaii, that it will subconsciously make us care more about ‘supporting’ Obama.


41 posted on 03/17/2010 8:04:58 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: BunnySlippers

I hope it doesn’t. That place call fall into the Pacific for all I care.


42 posted on 03/17/2010 8:05:42 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (STATE CONTROLLED ECONOMIES SUCK ! LONG LIVE AMERICA.)
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To: penelopesire

The disaster “connection” just shows how invasive and expansive the healthcare bill would be. Anything that remotely touches on health related issues will be an excuse for more government control and wasteful spending.


43 posted on 03/17/2010 8:06:49 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: penelopesire
No, no, no!!! That wasn't Hawaii that just endured an earthquake -- that was on of the OTHER 57 states that starts with H-A...

Haiti!

Oh, he's just too SMART for us...

44 posted on 03/17/2010 8:06:55 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (How's that change workin' out for ya, Obama voters?)
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To: cranked

Obozo ois a Flaming Butt Aperture who is clueless about what he reads from his Teleprompter! Brett Baier proved it tonight when he had the Butthead Stuttering and Stammering and stewing one Lie after another......


45 posted on 03/17/2010 8:08:41 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: When do we get liberated?

Free Republic will be gone. Gotta find a new website. There are more CA Freepers than any other state.

Get used to it.


46 posted on 03/17/2010 8:10:42 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: penelopesire

Earthquake?! Send in the corpse-men!!


47 posted on 03/17/2010 8:11:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, the Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)
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To: RummyChick

Contrary to the Libtard’s adoration, OBOZO is the only Zero in the Univverse that makes “PLUGS” BIDEN appear like an Albert Einstein by comparison!!... My GOD!! W.C. Fields was really right!!.............:-(


48 posted on 03/17/2010 8:12:33 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL!


49 posted on 03/17/2010 8:12:38 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire
earthquake in Hawaii?

"Not on my watch!"

"Danno..quit looking for obama's Birth Certificate and track down that earthquake..and then "Book em Danno!!"

50 posted on 03/17/2010 8:13:36 PM PDT by BerniesFriend (Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
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