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Obama: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Bat?
Pundit Press ^ | Friday, August 3, 2012 | Timothy Knight

Posted on 08/03/2012 1:15:50 PM PDT by therightliveswithus

It is not unusual for President Obama and our allies to communicate on a regular basis, especially with the Turkish Prime Minister in regards to the ongoing situation in neighboring Syria, however the Turkish press and government are bewildered over a photo released by the White House of President Obama talking to the Prime Minister earlier this week:

Maybe the President really likes baseball, or maybe he's trying to create the image of Teddy Roosevelt's famous "walk softly and carry a big stick" quote for the fall campaign, but either way it's a massive failure.

Why do I say that?

Well, for one if you're trying to create the image of toughness while dealing with foreign leaders - you (a.) don't pick a friendly ally to do it with, (b.) don't post the picture on the internet detailing which friendly ally your using as a campaign prop, (c.) don't use a friendly ally that you need on a crucial and strategic issue -

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 2012; 201207; 201208; baseballbat; baseballbats; bats; batty; benghazi; erdogan; middleeast; obamabat; optics; turkey; turks; weird

1 posted on 08/03/2012 1:16:00 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
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To: therightliveswithus

Must've been peanut-butter-jelly-time.

2 posted on 08/03/2012 1:19:06 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

Well, last time I looked at bats was quite a while ago, but this picture looks like a softball bat if you aks me. Appropriate, softball bat for a softball (appeasing) phone call to another Muslim.


3 posted on 08/03/2012 1:23:22 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: P.O.E.
What do Muslims use those bats for?
4 posted on 08/03/2012 1:29:28 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: therightliveswithus

Never bring a bat to a gun fight.


5 posted on 08/03/2012 1:30:23 PM PDT by bikerman (Obama lied,economy died.)
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To: Gaffer
He pitches soft also...
6 posted on 08/03/2012 1:33:28 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: P.O.E.

Will this mean we’ll be seing photoshoped pictures of Obama in spandex like AlGore did.


7 posted on 08/03/2012 1:37:52 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: therightliveswithus

Clinton only used cigars


8 posted on 08/03/2012 1:39:02 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: therightliveswithus

He is just trying to keep it away from his sweet wife MoochHell. She found out that her daily lobster delivery was going to be delayed.


9 posted on 08/03/2012 1:44:05 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: therightliveswithus

The White House Press Office must be filled with idiots. Oh, wait, that’s right, they’re liberals. Never mind.


10 posted on 08/03/2012 1:52:28 PM PDT by upchuck ("Definition of 'racist:' someone that is winning an argument with a liberal." ~ Peter Brimelow)
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To: therightliveswithus

“Hello, Larry (Sinclair)...I was just thinking about you and decided to give you call. Friday, at Chick-Fil-A, OK, see you there...”.


11 posted on 08/03/2012 1:53:13 PM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: therightliveswithus
Rant moderately maybe...  He's way beyond too desperate to just talk softly, and soon I expect to see him screaming at folks.  That worked for someone else about thirty years into the 20th Century.  Not convinced it will today.  Talk about being out.  this guy is OUT!!!!  (not to be confused with 'out of the closet')

Oh the claims about the Right and the promises to the Left this guy is about to make.

Stand back Chicago, The White House in Washington, D. C. and the DCNp are going to be taking a new run at winning it the title 'Windy City'.  Ah that's not cutting edge enough.  Maybe we should refer to it as, BoH5, for Barack Obama Hurricane level five.
  "Welcome to a BoH5 level city, Washington, D. C..."  Well, I guess that's better than a BoH5 level nation.

We should have cut this blow-hard off decades ago, somewhere short of the Dominican Republic.

12 posted on 08/03/2012 1:59:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Remove all Democrats from the Republican party, and we won't have much Left, just a lot of Right.)
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To: therightliveswithus

Obama surrounds himself with a mean bunch of commies and queers, but at heart he is just a snotty, little sissy.


13 posted on 08/03/2012 2:23:46 PM PDT by pallis
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To: therightliveswithus
Captain A-Hole is channeling Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men.

In the screen adaptation of his play A Few Good Men, writer Aaron Sorkin includes a scene where Navy lawyer Daniel Kaffee suddenly begins a frantic search of his D.C. apartment for his baseball bat. When his co-council, Sam Weinberg and JoAnne Galloway, appear confused, Kaffee explains, “I think better with my bat. Where’s my bat?”

14 posted on 08/03/2012 3:14:27 PM PDT by hflynn
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To: FrankR
Is that Vaseline I see on the barrel of the bat? I wonder why that would be on there?
15 posted on 08/03/2012 3:15:40 PM PDT by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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To: P.O.E.

Thinking of Larry Sinclair?


16 posted on 08/03/2012 3:50:52 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Fun for women ages 21 through 35)
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To: P.O.E.

Gypsies in the palace! What kind of a JERK would have a baseball bat in the Oval Office? He thinks this is some kind of sport? Can the blacks really be proud of their “First Black President?” I’d be ashamed. And if this is a representative sample of what a Black President does ... well, who would vote for another black at any level? They’ve got to start coming out (Rev Owens) and start saying “This emperor has no clothes” ... he’s a joke and he’s making all blacks look like fools. Obama is setting a historical precedent ... and it isn’t pretty for the black race.


17 posted on 08/03/2012 5:00:12 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag
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