Posted on 05/05/2012 3:53:47 AM PDT by tobyhill
Placing a final punctuation mark on a week devoted to foreign policy, President Barack Obama on Saturday declared that his goal of defeating al-Qaida was within reach and said it was now time to turn the country's attention to more domestic concerns like strengthening the middle class.
Just four days after a surprise 36-hour round trip to Afghanistan, Obama said that money saved from ending wars should be used equally to pay down the debt and to spend on health care, education and infrastructure.
"After more than a decade of war, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home," he said in his weekly radio and Internet address.
The president took note of the agreement he signed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that shifts security to the Afghan people and reminded the American public, once again, of the special forces operation that killed Osama bin Laden a year ago.
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Obama gives another speech, time for another vacation.
Obama never studied history.
After every war the military is cut to the bone, our defense weakened and it always leads to another war.
The worst thing to ever happen to this country was to do away with the draft, and let the young men of America forget their commitm,ent to freedom and what it takes to keep it.
Murray Rothbard was right: government runs a Welfare/Warfare State.
one would think, for many reasons, that Obama would skip this summer vacation. Moochelle won’t let it happen.......and the saddest part, the MSM won’t question it, in fact they’ll glamorize it.
a surprise 36-hour round trip to Afghanistan
And how much did that little jaunt cost the
American people?
This dork would be pathetic if he weren’t such a
menace.
Obama 2.0?
Hell NO, we’re not THAT stupid!
Most of us WERE that stupid 42 months ago....
I’m almost (almost) surprised the words “peace dividend” weren’t used.
He always says this. He’s going to focus like a laser on the economy. How many times has he said this in the last 3 years?
Money saved! What money saved? We are BORROWING 40 cents or more of every dollar we spend!!!
Obviously they think that having him give a campaign speech in Afghanistan in front of some military vehicles will impress the undecided voters.
When Obama speaks, nothing come out but pure “bovine excrement”. How can anyone believe ANYTHING he says?
That’s what we’ll be doing today, in the months up to the election, in the voting booth, and thereafter, until the so-called Democratic Party has been eradicated from public life. Thanks tobyhill.
Did this Indonesian bastard just declare WAR on the US?
You can't deny, he's focused a death laser on our economy.
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