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Live Thread: Obama to Address Terror Threats 4:15 p.m. EDT 10/29/10
Friday, October 29, 2010 | Kristinn

Posted on 10/29/2010 12:22:29 PM PDT by kristinn

Obama will speak about today's terror threats. Besides speaking about Christine O'Donnell closing the gap with Chris Coons, Obama is also expected to talk about the packages from Yemen via UPS planes scare (and probably the plane getting a fighter escort to NYC now.)


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: obamaforeignpolicy; obamalegacy; obamunism; octobersuprise; octobersurprise; proislamist; totus; wagthedog; waronterror; wot
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To: little jeremiah

I noticed that too.


361 posted on 10/29/2010 4:00:58 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: penelopesire

“A spokesman for the Jewish Federation of Chicago said it was alerted early yesterday and had advised local synagogues to take security precautions.”

Early yesterday? OOPS!

(And just when Jewish supporters and dollars were waning.)


362 posted on 10/29/2010 4:02:39 PM PDT by maggief
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To: 1035rep
Wrong.

Republicans continue to be trusted more on national security issues and the war on terror, with 49% of voters trusting the GOP versus 39% who trust the Democrats more.

Good point then, thanks for the information. I had thought Terrorism/Nat'l Security was one of their bright spots. Historically I know defense issues were always the weakest area for Democrats, but I had thought they closed that gap some. Apparently not.

So long as this terror threat doesn't help them I am happy.

363 posted on 10/29/2010 4:10:12 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: tapatio

A UPS plane leaving Dubai (I think it was Dubai) crashed and there was a fire onboard first. Probably one of these things went off prematurely.


364 posted on 10/29/2010 4:22:18 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

When did this happen?


365 posted on 10/29/2010 4:34:18 PM PDT by angcat (YANKEES, YANKEES, YANKEES)
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To: little jeremiah

Wall Street Journal online article from 9/4/2010

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703946504575469830201125788.html

“A statement posted Friday on the UPS website said that at approximately 12 p.m. Eastern Standard time, or 8 p.m. local time, UPS flight number 6 from Dubai and headed to Cologne, Germany—a Boeing Co. 747-400—crashed after takeoff.

The United Arab Emirates’ official state media reported late Friday that the bodies of two pilots had been recovered.

“The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately clear, but it appeared to have been preceded by a fire on board.”
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229 posted on Friday, October 29, 2010 11:58:35 AM by alancarp (Please don’t tell Obama what comes after “trillion”)


366 posted on 10/29/2010 4:39:35 PM PDT by txhurl (If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
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To: Longbow1969
Good point then, thanks for the information. I had thought Terrorism/Nat'l Security was one of their bright spots.

You just woke up from a long coma, I take it. "Bright spots" - I'm going to tear a muscle from laughing.

367 posted on 10/29/2010 4:40:45 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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To: txhurl

Thank you! I saw that posted today and didn’t realize the incident was from a while ago.


368 posted on 10/29/2010 4:41:47 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

Yeah, a couple months ago and the only thing I can think of that lends this threat any credibility.

I tend to think zero did NOT want to have to address it. And now with W’s book coming out, what a strange mess all around.


369 posted on 10/29/2010 4:46:31 PM PDT by txhurl (If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
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To: kristinn

Gee,,,just in time for the elections. What a coincidence. Now they can say “see how safe us commies are keeping you?” DU`ers are already saying what a great opportunity this is for the donks for the elections.


370 posted on 10/29/2010 4:49:18 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: penelopesire

Our savior!

http://www.daylife.com/photo/05hb1noae54jZ?q=obama

Getty Images 51 minutes ago

US President Barack Obama walks past press microphone booms on the way to board Marine One on October 29, 2010 at the White House in Washington, DC.


371 posted on 10/29/2010 4:52:47 PM PDT by maggief
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To: txhurl

I’m not one who thinks the administration engineered this. Doesnt’ make sense. I read on another board about jihad stuff and it’s apparently they’ve been working on stuff. Muslims have not given up what they normally do which is kill infidels.


372 posted on 10/29/2010 4:55:06 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

“I’m not one who thinks the administration engineered this.”

Not me. He is such a sob that this is exactly something he would do.


373 posted on 10/29/2010 4:59:14 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: maggief

Now this:
(snip)

“CBS News national Security Correspondent David Martin reports Saudi Arabia tipped off authorities to the threat. Intelligence officials have been monitoring the suspected plot for days, an official said.”

Huh? I thought it was the Brits that tipped us off?! Which ‘intelligence officials’ were ‘following this for DAYS’ and yet failed to alert Obama until last night at 10:30 pm?

SOMEBODY IS LYING!!


374 posted on 10/29/2010 5:00:10 PM PDT by penelopesire ('Obama's Wars' are with our own military..Bush's Wars were with our enemies!)
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To: maggief

Why is he smiling? Weren’t we just almost ‘attacked’ today?

(eye roll)

I can’t possibly despise this man more than I do already. He is a poseur and anti american fool.


375 posted on 10/29/2010 5:02:58 PM PDT by penelopesire ('Obama's Wars' are with our own military..Bush's Wars were with our enemies!)
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To: All
Okay folks one last question on this an I'm not a conspiracy nut BUT with most bombs ( I don't know SOP on this) the bomb squad comes in with a robot, eyeballs the thing from a 1/4 mile away and then they blow the package. I can guess the bomb squad figured out which package it was...bomb sniffing dogs or the people( Saudi's ) who called this in paid back the waffling kowtow'er. What I don't understand is was the printer packaged and if so how did they know the bomb would not go off when opening the printer? If NOT packaged, what bombmaker in his own right mind would leave wires hanging out. Granted again sh*t happens and we did have a shoe bomber that tried lighting a match to a fuse but this was an electronic wired bomb.

It was SOPHISTICATED wasn't it? So, if so sophisticated why take a chance? Granted these nutballs are ingenious and of course nefarious but this whole thing confuses me. Am I making a mountain out of a mole hill here?

376 posted on 10/29/2010 5:10:45 PM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: chessplayer

I disagree, because this thing is not going to make Dems or him look good. I think he’ll try to take advantage of it, maybe play it somehow.

Just because he’s evil doesn’t mean he’s clever.


377 posted on 10/29/2010 5:18:55 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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To: penelopesire
“A spokesman for the Jewish Federation of Chicago said it was alerted early yesterday and had advised local synagogues to take security precautions.”

Anyone know Obama's schedule yesterday? Was he out on the campaign trail by any chance?

378 posted on 10/29/2010 5:19:42 PM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: maggief

Someone should Photoshop a copy of “My Pet Goat” into that picture.


379 posted on 10/29/2010 5:23:44 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Worst. Post-Racial. And Post-Partisan. Agent Of Hope And Change. EVER.)
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To: HollyB

Another thing.....all the media are giving zero credit now because “the system worked”, and comparing the improvement to his handling of the Christmas Day bomber and Ft. Hood. I just heard it on the news. And this is coming off zero’s epic failure on Jon Stewart. And Bubba’s epic failure to get Meek to drop out. And Bubba is buddies with the sheik or whatever he is of Dubai, as is zero. The UAE has no reason to lie because if there was a package from Yemen on board when the plane got to the UAE, before it went to Dubai, and there really were explosives, the UAE would be really stupid to claim there was no package from Yemen on board, lol.

So we have zero out front about unseen “terrorists” (new word for him) for the first time instead of ignoring it, over non-existent explosives, according to the FBI, but, oh, yes, there were explosives, according to zero. When has he ever commented directly about specifics and details before about these kinds of events? Never. Why, if they were going to let the story out in full, did they wait until all the news media were on hand in the morning instead of in the middle of the night when they supposedly found out?

The whole thing in the UK and Dubai, and the plane not being stopped in either place is absurd.


380 posted on 10/29/2010 5:26:46 PM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants)....... would step ince 2006,up)
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