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Obama calling Lee over North attack
Politico44 ^ | 11/23/10 | MATT NEGRIN

Posted on 11/23/2010 12:39:32 PM PST by ColdOne

President Obama is "outraged" by North Korea's attack on a South Korean island, White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said Tuesday.

Obama plans to call South Korea's president, Lee Myung-bak, on Tuesday, Burton said, adding that Tom Donilon, his national security adviser, called Obama at 3:55 a.m. to tell him of the attack.

"The president is outraged by this action," he told reporters on Air Force One. "We stand shoulder to shoulder with South Korea."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barryandisaster; bho44; bhoasia; breaking; northkorea; southkorea
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To: ClearCase_guy
How nice. I picture Obama being super busy with golfing and everything, but it looks like he's hoping to make some time to maybe call this guy and chit chat.

Well, if he's not on the golf course, you can surely find him on the campaign trail - which is where he was today. BS'ing the blue collar workers.

21 posted on 11/23/2010 12:49:41 PM PST by jersey117
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To: ColdOne

He plans to call him? Plans to call him? Shouldn’t he have already called him?


22 posted on 11/23/2010 12:50:08 PM PST by scott7278 ( "...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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To: ColdOne

S. Korea had better make preps to fend for themselves on this one. ozero is just too busy today.


23 posted on 11/23/2010 12:51:41 PM PST by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: scott7278
He plans to call him? Plans to call him? Shouldn’t he have already called him? That is what I was thinking... He should have already called him.. Maybe he didn't want to wake up Lee? /s?
24 posted on 11/23/2010 12:53:04 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Hah!

Can anyone here imagine our French metrosexual president being “outraged” over anything but a bad latte or someone calling him a name during recess?


25 posted on 11/23/2010 12:53:09 PM PST by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: ColdOne
Yes a phone call with one of those “Sternly” written letters on really thick stationary will do the trick and put North Korea in their place.
26 posted on 11/23/2010 12:53:19 PM PST by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: republicangel

> Ah, the much talked about 3AM phone call. Wish Hillary
> was there to answer it instead of Obama.

Why? They are both committed communists and America-haters.


27 posted on 11/23/2010 12:54:16 PM PST by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: scott7278
Shouldn’t he have already called him?

Perhaps he would have, if SK hadn't rejected his free trade agreement. If you reject this narcissist in any way, it costs you something.
28 posted on 11/23/2010 12:54:16 PM PST by ZX12R (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!)
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To: ColdOne

I’m inclined to believe his communication was more along the line of his conversation with Bobby Jindal after the oil rig issue: “Don’t criticize me on TV!”


29 posted on 11/23/2010 12:55:10 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: ColdOne

By the headline, I was thinking Obama must have gotten Dr. Who’s cellphone doodad to make a long distance call like that.


30 posted on 11/23/2010 12:55:56 PM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: ColdOne

S.Korea embarrassed Obama.
He probably told the N.Koreans to bomb the S.Koreans.


31 posted on 11/23/2010 12:56:24 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: RC one
"maybe they’re more interested in buying some US exports now?"

That's the way I'm seeing it. Why should we get bent out of shape about North Korea walking over South Korea, when South Korea refuses to trade fairly with us? They enjoy annual $11B-14B trade surplus with the US, while we spend who knows how many billions each year keeping US troops on their border.

If they want to continue to enjoy the umbrella of US protection, it's time to start opening their markets, immediately. I'm no longer eager to borrow money from China to protect South Korea from North Korea. It's insanity.

32 posted on 11/23/2010 12:56:37 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: ColdOne

By the time his gofers set up the teleprompters and dial the telephone for this ninnyhammer, Korea will be unified.


33 posted on 11/23/2010 12:56:47 PM PST by IbJensen (The Marine Corps - When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight.)
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To: ColdOne

He PLANS to call??? He hasn’t called yet?


34 posted on 11/23/2010 12:56:57 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: ColdOne
"Look here, my yellow brother. You can't make me look bad in this!"

"I'll come down on you like stink on sh!t."

"You take the arty, and you'll by God like it! Just like we're doing to our sheep here with the TSA molestations!"

35 posted on 11/23/2010 12:57:09 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: ColdOne

By the time his gofers set up the teleprompters and dial the telephone for this ninnyhammer, Korea will be unified.


36 posted on 11/23/2010 12:57:15 PM PST by IbJensen (The Marine Corps - When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight.)
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To: ColdOne

I read it as Obama calls Robt. E. Lee over North attack.
Expected an Onion article.


37 posted on 11/23/2010 12:57:23 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: ColdOne
After a force opens up on me with field artillery I would feel reassured, knowing the potus was going to drop a dime on me sometime today.

The nk pigs want to publicly compromise us, and they have succeed.

Both Bushes, Reagan and even Clinton would be addressing the nation about the five square mile artillery emplacements in the north they rototilled with harpoons. Then explaining to the nation why the pentagon is going to need a few extra billion this year for "inventory maintenance"

obama will send them a couple billion dollars backed by chinese bond sales, and a few cargo containers of corn/wheat... And whatever else they want. We are playing an end game with a mouse.

38 posted on 11/23/2010 12:57:42 PM PST by mmercier (others shall act in our stead)
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To: scott7278
If Obama got the call at 3:55, he should have called at 3:56.
39 posted on 11/23/2010 12:58:37 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
He'll get around to it... sometime.


40 posted on 11/23/2010 12:59:23 PM PST by Cementjungle
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