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White House says Obama getting updates on pirates ("aides met at 8 a.m. and at 2 p.m.")
AP via Yahoo ^ | 4/11/09

Posted on 04/11/2009 3:47:08 PM PDT by maggief

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The White House says the president has received updates on paper and by phone on Saturday. Administration aides met at 8 a.m. and at 2 p.m. to discuss the four-day-old situation off the east coast of Africa.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; maritime; obama; richardphillips; somalia; somaliapirates; usnavy
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1 posted on 04/11/2009 3:47:08 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

And has done and said NOTHING.

IOW, all is normal until TOTUS tells him what to say.


2 posted on 04/11/2009 3:48:18 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: maggief

Wow that’s so reassuring. /s


3 posted on 04/11/2009 3:48:53 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: maggief

I certainly hope the piracy updates did not draw Obama out of his pizza party.


4 posted on 04/11/2009 3:49:03 PM PDT by JoeGar
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To: freedumb2003

sorry

TOTUS????????????????????????????????????????????


5 posted on 04/11/2009 3:49:13 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick queer sham--- end racism end affirmative action)
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To: All

Sorry, link is via google not Yahoo.


6 posted on 04/11/2009 3:49:19 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief
president has received updates on paper and by phone

Big whoopee frickin' doo... if he isn't going to act on the information... then who cares?

7 posted on 04/11/2009 3:49:29 PM PDT by John123 (The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
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To: maggief
Obama may have met with his aides but the topic probably was the White House Dog not pirates.


8 posted on 04/11/2009 3:49:37 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon (I don't trust Obama with my country. Do you?)
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To: manc

Teleprompter
Of
The
United
Status

(TOTUS)


9 posted on 04/11/2009 3:50:14 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (The only thing Obama is capable of running is his mouth...(with help from a teleprompter))
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To: maggief

Are the aids watching CNN for Obama?


10 posted on 04/11/2009 3:50:35 PM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: maggief
Well.....He wouldn't want Code Pink to get all upset again???


11 posted on 04/11/2009 3:50:52 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: maggief
The White House says the president has received updates on paper and by phone on Saturday.

So the Obama's have finally acquired their White House dog, eh?

12 posted on 04/11/2009 3:51:43 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: John123

if he isn’t going to act on the information

Like all actors, he’s pretending to care..


13 posted on 04/11/2009 3:51:46 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (The only thing Obama is capable of running is his mouth...(with help from a teleprompter))
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To: JoeGar

no course not he’s getting ready to greet homos and cross dressers to the white house Easter egg hunt so they can play families.

Notice the media do not even mention that phony thought Austrian was a language too

For the media if you are reading

you are complete idiots who have no excuse at all for being stupid.
If you had done your job none of this would be happening and instead of getting to the truth you stand there and obey like little sheep

it was not a bow and you idiots believe it even when the video shows differently

IDIOTS


14 posted on 04/11/2009 3:51:47 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick queer sham--- end racism end affirmative action)
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To: All

Wow! I’m really impressed that he’s getting updates twice a day and even on a Saturday! What a hard working guy he is. \s off now


15 posted on 04/11/2009 3:52:00 PM PDT by YLLady
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

thank you


16 posted on 04/11/2009 3:52:08 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick queer sham--- end racism end affirmative action)
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To: maggief

The most recent piracy attacks off the coast of Somalia and Gulf of Aden. A shipmate of the US merchant captain captured by Somali pirates hailed him as a "hero" Saturday, as an Italian ship was the latest vessel to be hijacked in the Gulf of Aden. (AFP/Graphic)


inmates.. asylum..
horses.. barn door..


17 posted on 04/11/2009 3:52:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: maggief

Really? Could’a fooled America. The PRES__ENT hasn’t said boo to us about it, maybe he doesn’t even know himself.

In any case, whatever he’s doing, it ain’t enough, obviously.


18 posted on 04/11/2009 3:52:52 PM PDT by papasmurf (Save us from 0bama, I prayed. Then I heard, "the 2nd, I saved")
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To: manc

That is the Teleprompter of the United States.....I am trying to remember the keyword for a lot of the threads...goes back to the Irish PM reading Obama’s speech off of the teleprompter....then it got funny when Obama welcomed himself to the White House.....or something like that...


19 posted on 04/11/2009 3:53:05 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: maggief
A strongly worded letter is being crafted I'm sure
20 posted on 04/11/2009 3:53:25 PM PDT by skully (Hey Barney Mouch...how much can I earn??)
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To: JoeGar

Just off an unproductive Euro tour, hosting Seder, flying in a pizza chef, planting the WH garden, hanging at the new swing set, locating an Easter church service, and preparing the for the new puppy-in-chief, I’d say the SMOTUS has his teleprompter full.


21 posted on 04/11/2009 3:54:04 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Don’t worry boss. We’ll stop them at Detroit.


22 posted on 04/11/2009 3:54:12 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Reagan is back, and this time he's a woman.)
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To: maggief; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; BOBTHENAILER; BIGLOOK; Marine_Uncle; blam; ...

Man....I really feel better now with this news and the FBI treating the ship as a crime scene....


23 posted on 04/11/2009 3:54:23 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: maggief

With the gaggle of blundering boobs in this administration they are probably giving him updates on the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team so the easily confused one is even more confused why they keep telling him things like “Pirates winning 3-1 on a homerun by Jack Wilson”.


24 posted on 04/11/2009 3:54:27 PM PDT by cubsfanconswoman (OH MY GOD THE BEARS HAVE A QB!)
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To: maggief

Four days and couinting to combat 4 ragtag pirates in a lifeboat without gas hundreds of miles offshore surrounded by US warships!!!!


25 posted on 04/11/2009 3:54:36 PM PDT by kabar
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To: maggief

Four days!!! GWB would have had them in four hours ....


26 posted on 04/11/2009 3:54:58 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: maggief

Since BO is watching a lot of tv, maybe he thinks there are talking about the release of this movie?
27 posted on 04/11/2009 3:55:19 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I'm so anti-pc, I use a Mac)
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To: maggief

I hate it to break it to you all but our chickensh!t present doesn’t work on weekends.


28 posted on 04/11/2009 3:55:21 PM PDT by bergmeid (How about another massive nationwide protest against the MSM media on July 4?)
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To: mainepatsfan

You said — Wow that’s so reassuring. /s

Don’t worry, he’s studying very diligently with this study course...

How to talk like a pirate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWgxuc45YCY

He’ll have it down pretty soon, and then he’ll be able to speak to them properly...


29 posted on 04/11/2009 3:56:00 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Andy from Beaverton

While I loved those movies I’m afraid those movies and other stuff has romanticized pirates to a generation of mindless boobs.


30 posted on 04/11/2009 3:56:37 PM PDT by cubsfanconswoman (OH MY GOD THE BEARS HAVE A QB!)
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To: maggief

Want to bet this will be his excuse for skipping Easter church services tomorrow??


31 posted on 04/11/2009 3:57:13 PM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: JoeGar

> I certainly hope the piracy updates did not draw Obama out of his pizza party.
Did taxpayer money pay for the pizza plane ride?


32 posted on 04/11/2009 3:57:42 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (To stand up for Capitalism is to hope Teleprompter Boy fails.)
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To: mainepatsfan
Wow that’s so reassuring. /s


Deception at Core of Obama Plans


Obama let the skipper of the freighter (and America) down when he failed to destroy the pirate's dingy right after the skipper tried to escape from the pirates!

33 posted on 04/11/2009 3:57:55 PM PDT by B-Cause (It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.)
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To: manc

http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/


34 posted on 04/11/2009 4:01:06 PM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: manc

TOTUS: Teleprompter Of The United States. It tells our fuhrer what to say.


35 posted on 04/11/2009 4:01:37 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: maggief
Here we are with the MSM reassuring us that Hussein is in control, engaged and invested in the situation with the fullness of his immense intellect. So many Americans will continue to be beguiled by this. However, all the antagonistic powers who have hatred or some degree of animosity towards the United States of America, see him and his administration for what it truly is. They will become bolder and increase there assaults against American interests anywhere and everywhere imaginable.

God help us.

36 posted on 04/11/2009 4:01:57 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard. One faithful harp shall praise thee.)
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To: maggief

Hell, Barry is probably rooting for the pirates in this whole thing. Poor, oppressed Africans just want to spread the wealth a little.


37 posted on 04/11/2009 4:03:07 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: maggief

What is it this time, BELOW his pay grade?


38 posted on 04/11/2009 4:03:29 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: skully

Yes indeed. A strongly worded letter is just the thing to deter illiterate pirates. Should bring about an end to the hostilities in time to invite them to the White House for Ramadan in August.

In a show of good will to muslims everywhere, Ibn al’0bama might even invite the pirates to accompany him on his annual haj to Mecca, just to demonstrate the power of brotherly love.


39 posted on 04/11/2009 4:05:29 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: maggief

Hmmmmmmmmmm interesting, white house getting updates and all, and what? oh yeah, the captain IS STILL HELD HOSTAGE AND THEY’VE TAKEN OVER ANOTHER BOAT.....yep,...,you just keep getting updates there obama and keep sitting on your hands like a scared little girl.....yep yep yep, if anything happens to that captain and the hostages on the other boat, their blood will be on your hands.........yep, why don’t you fly in another chef for another pizza party......take your mind off the hostages who’s lives hang in the balance because you’re a freakin’ pansy..........


40 posted on 04/11/2009 4:06:12 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are soooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: irishjuggler

Agree, Barry is rooting for the pirates. See my #39 on this thread.


41 posted on 04/11/2009 4:07:00 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: maggief
Administration aides met at 8 a.m. and at 2 p.m. to discuss the four-day-old situation off the east coast of Africa

Meeting takes 1 hour, then they can give O a summary/explanation of the situation at the start and end of his shift.

42 posted on 04/11/2009 4:07:54 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Obama decision of the week. To order in Pizza)
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To: maggief

8 and 2, Oh Boy, he must be working overtime carrying the weight of our country on his shoulders.

Lord please be with the hostage and his family. Give them peace and send an angle to free him.


43 posted on 04/11/2009 4:08:08 PM PDT by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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To: maggief

The Punk, like Carter and Clinton before him, is hoping that this will all just go away.


44 posted on 04/11/2009 4:08:46 PM PDT by surely_you_jest
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To: Jeff Gordon

I can hear Berry the pantywaist telling the commander in charge he must keep all weapons unloaded and aimed at the sky when they are within a mile of the pirates. Berry is more worried about the lives of pirates then he is about American lives.


45 posted on 04/11/2009 4:08:49 PM PDT by peeps36 ( Al Gore. Is A Big Fat Lying Hypocrite. He Pollutes The Air By Opening His Big Mouth)
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To: maggief

Do we have any active battleships, or did the Dem’s cut back on those ships?
Pound the coast of Somolia and Yemen with the 16” guns until you have nothing but dust in the air.

Then chase the pirates and vaporize any port offering refuge


46 posted on 04/11/2009 4:08:54 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: maggief

Nto a freakin’ word from this dirt bag that occupies Our House. America is in such bad straits because of this “Useful Idiot”, B.H.O.

I continually pray four our country; that brings these leftists to Justice.


47 posted on 04/11/2009 4:09:26 PM PDT by rambo316 (God help America....)
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To: rockabyebaby
This whole piracy thing and Obama’s reaction reminds me of the Doomsday Machine episode of Star Trek where Commodore Matt Decker assumes command of the Enterprise, only to demonstrate his ineptitude.
48 posted on 04/11/2009 4:11:09 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Dallas59
Notice the similarities?

Democrats the same throughout the generations

49 posted on 04/11/2009 4:11:13 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: skully

All things considered, I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama’s teleprompter authorized the use of a larger font. Enough is enough after all.


50 posted on 04/11/2009 4:11:46 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Telling it like it is since "revolver" was released)
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