Posted on 05/08/2009 3:45:07 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
News reports described the meeting as a touching and powerful coming together of the president and these long-suffering families. Mr. Obama had won over even those who opposed his decision to close Gitmo by assuaging their fears that the review of some 245 current detainees would result in dangerous jihadists being set free. “I did not vote for the man, but the way he talks to you, you can’t help but believe in him,” said John Clodfelter to the New York Times. His son, Kenneth, was killed in the Cole bombing. “[Mr. Obama] left me with a very positive feeling that he’s going to get this done right.”
“This isn’t goodbye,” said the president, signing autographs and posing for pictures before leaving for his next appointment, “this is hello.” His national security staff would have an open-door policy.
Believe … feel … hope.
We’d been had.
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"Obama sObama shifts FBI from Counter Terrorism to Fraud"
Chief Petty Officer Richard Costelow, Morrisville, Pennsylvania.
Signalman Seaman Recruit Cheron Luis Gunn, Rex, Georgia.
Seaman James Rodrick McDaniels, Norfolk, Virginia.
Seaman Recruit Lakiba Nicole Palmer, San Diego, California.
Operations Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Lamont Saunders, Ringgold, Virginia.
Ensign Andrew Triplett, Macon, Mississippi.
Seaman Apprentice Craig Bryan Wibberley, Williamsport, Maryland.
Hull Maintenance Technician 3rd Class, Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter, Mechanicsville, Virginia.
Mess Management Specialist Seaman Lakeina Monique Francis, Woodleaf, North Carolina.
Information Systems Technician Seaman Timothy Lee Gauna, Rice, Texas
Engineman 2nd Class Mark Ian Nieto, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Electronics Warfare Technician 3rd Class Ronald Scott Owens, Vero Beach, Florida.
Engineman Fireman Joshua Langdon Parlett, Churchville, Maryland.
Fireman Apprentice Patrick Howard Roy, Cornwall on Hudson, New York.
Electronics Warfare Technician 2nd Class Kevin Shawn Rux, Portland, North Dakota.
Mess Management Specialist 3rd Class Ronchester Mananga Santiago, Kingsville, Texas
Fireman Gary Graham Swenchonis Jr., Rockport, Texas
Oh yes, he’s the great pretender
Pretending he’s doing well
His need is such
He pretends too much
He’s lonely but no one can tell
Oh yes, he’s the great pretender
Adrift in a world of his own
He plays the game but to his real shame
He’s left us to dream all alone
Too real is this feeling of make-believe
Too real when the feel but press still conceals
Oh yes, he’s the great pretender
Just laughing and gay like a clown
He seems to be what he’s not you see
He’s wearing his heart like a crown.
Pretending .. but still around
That is beyond disgusting.
Thank you for the pictures no one should forget or forgive.
Obama will make posting them, discussing them, referring to them,
a federal crime, and with only one penalty.
ping
Democrats are so easily able to be faked.
Why does Obama always look so arrogant? Why isn’t he called on that? Well, FDR was, too.
BTW, what is that next-to-last pix in the WTC pix? Or rather, right after all the “falling” pix?
Wow - that works real well without much parody effort...
‘He appealed to moral vanity by saying that fighting a war against fanatic barbarians “with one hand tied behind your back” is being on “the better side of history,”’
Did moron Uhbama ACTUALLY say these things?!?
The words are within quotation marks and she was there.
And there were 40 non-WH folks present.
“We’ve been had.” Very powerful words. So when is Ms Burlingame going to be made a big celebrity on the Today show, the View, etc? I have a feeling that sure won’t happen. But in the midst of the 2004 campaign when a bunch of those widows came forward and trashed Bush, they were all over the media. No double standard there, for sure.
So the “Jersey Girls” have fallen out of love with Obama?
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