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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on December 10, 2008, 12:16:38 PM
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(AFP) – President-elect Barack Obama plans to give "a major address" in an Islamic capital soon after taking office as he seeks to mend America's image in the Muslim world, a Chicago Tribune interview said.
"I think we've got a unique opportunity to reboot America's image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular," Obama said in the interview published late Tuesday on the Tribune's website.
Obama promised an "unrelenting" desire to "create a relationship of mutual respect and partnership in countries and with peoples of good will who want their citizens and ours to prosper together."
The world "is ready for that message."
While he described a fresh approach to diplomacy, Obama said his administration would not shrink from the struggle against terrorism, referring to the recent attacks on India's financial capital.
"The message I want to send is that we will be unyielding in stamping out the terrorist extremism we saw in Mumbai," said Obama, who gave the interview from his transition team's offices in Chicago.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081210/pl_afp/uspoliticsobamadiplomacyislam_081210083044
Where has the media been all these past few damn months :thatsright:
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081210/pl_afp/uspoliticsobamadiplomacyislam_081210083044
Where has the media been all these past few damn months :thatsright:
...riding around in Ooooobama's pocket.
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Let's see...major Muslim capital?
Iran's?
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Let's see...major Muslim capital?
Iran's?
Washington DC. Maybe London.
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Washington DC. Maybe London.
Chicago. :fuelfire:
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This is the hallmark of Obamashitbird's arrogance.
WTF makes him think that there is a "major" Islamic city (that one right there is puzzling all by itself -- most of 'em are hellholes) that is willing to put up with his ass? The security concerns, grip and grin sessions, the dog and pony show?
Won't be Cairo. Won't be Baghdad. Sure as hell won't be Teheran and it won't be Riyadh.
Amman, Jordan, is a possibility. He and King Hussein share the same name, so maybe they'll break some bread together. :whatever:
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Its either going to be Lansing Michigan or Mecca.
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...and if some moose-limb grabs Obama to give him one of those sloppy muslim kisses and they both just happen to explode........will the liberals be willing to fight then?
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Washington DC. Maybe London.
Gay Pa-reee.
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...and if some moose-limb grabs Obama to give him one of those sloppy muslim kisses and they both just happen to explode........will the liberals be willing to fight then?
mutually exclusive I believe
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This is the hallmark of Obamashitbird's arrogance.
WTF makes him think that there is a "major" Islamic city (that one right there is puzzling all by itself -- most of 'em are hellholes) that is willing to put up with his ass? The security concerns, grip and grin sessions, the dog and pony show?
Won't be Cairo. Won't be Baghdad. Sure as hell won't be Teheran and it won't be Riyadh.
Amman, Jordan, is a possibility. He and King Hussein share the same name, so maybe they'll break some bread together. :whatever:
Outside of Israel Jordan is the most western friendly country in the middle east
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Gay Pa-reee.
Oughta shore up his support from the peter-puffer constituency. Maybe he'll do a ceremonial grabbing of the ankles for the German Chancellor while he's there, in honor of the 69th anniversary of France becoming a part of the Third Reich or something.
That'll get the butt pirates behind Der Fuhrer for sure!
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Reboot America's image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular.
Translation: We will allow you to attack Christians and Jews around the world without retribution and I may even use my authority to assist when possible.
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Great. Now he's unabashedly flaunting what we all knew all along.
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Secret Service is going to have a long 4 years thanks to this moron.
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Secret Service is going to have a long 4 years thanks to this moron.
I'm kinda wonderin' how many of those guys would not want the POTUS detail, once inauguration happens.
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I'm kinda wonderin' how many of those guys would not want the POTUS detail, once inauguration happens.
I was thinking the same thing.
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I'm kinda wonderin' how many of those guys would not want the POTUS detail, once inauguration happens.
Isn't it considered a position of honor? At least in the past? Are they allowed to refuse?
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Isn't it considered a position of honor? At least in the past? Are they allowed to refuse?
Since the SS agent is supposed to take a bullet for his principal, if necessary, I can't imagine how the SS can force an agent to take that detail. It's still a civilian agency.
Of course, the political ramifications are such that refusing a POTUS detail would essentially be a career-ender.
But hell, if you in all honesty can't agree to take a bullet for a scoundrel, thug, and criminal-in-hiding, I think being honest with yourself enough to being able to look your mug in the mirror in the morning is more important.
Would be for me, anyway. :shucks:
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Let's see...major Muslim capital?
Iran's?
Detroit. :fuelfire:
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Since the SS agent is supposed to take a bullet for his principal, if necessary, I can't imagine how the SS can force an agent to take that detail. It's still a civilian agency.
Of course, the political ramifications are such that refusing a POTUS detail would essentially be a career-ender.
But hell, if you in all honesty can't agree to take a bullet for a scoundrel, thug, and criminal-in-hiding, I think being honest with yourself enough to being able to look your mug in the mirror in the morning is more important.
Would be for me, anyway. :shucks:
Wouldn't it be a volunteer post in the first place?
If so, wouldn't said volunteer have to apply for the next open slot? If you don't want to be a human shield for a human shitbag, don't submit the application, right?
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Wouldn't it be a volunteer post in the first place?
If so, wouldn't said volunteer have to apply for the next open slot? If you don't want to be a human shield for a human shitbag, don't submit the application, right?
What would happen if there weren't enough volunteers? :rotf:
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Secret Service is going to have a long 4 years thanks to this moron.
or less.
its already been a long one for them. but they're a dedicated crew, God love um.
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Since the SS agent is supposed to take a bullet for his principal, if necessary, I can't imagine how the SS can force an agent to take that detail. It's still a civilian agency.
Of course, the political ramifications are such that refusing a POTUS detail would essentially be a career-ender.
But hell, if you in all honesty can't agree to take a bullet for a scoundrel, thug, and criminal-in-hiding, I think being honest with yourself enough to being able to look your mug in the mirror in the morning is more important.
Would be for me, anyway. :shucks:
Always welcome at Blackwater.
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What would happen if there weren't enough volunteers? :rotf:
Der Fuhrer would contract out the open slots to his brown-shirted "community organizer" ::) minions, of course.
Maybe have some high schooler fill his/her 50 hours of "service" that way?
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Outside of Israel Jordan is the most western friendly country in the middle east
Kuwait, Qatar, Afghanistan?
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mutually exclusive I believe
:catfight: <<< That's about the extent of it. :whatever:
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Wouldn't it be a volunteer post in the first place?
If so, wouldn't said volunteer have to apply for the next open slot? If you don't want to be a human shield for a human shitbag, don't submit the application, right?
I wasn't able to find anything concrete about whether or not the POTUS detail is volunteer. In all honesty, and knowing the gummint, I would think that corporate/Secret Service politics would enter into a situation like that at least to SOME level.
Seems to me the gig would be offered based on lots of different criteria, not the least of which would be what you'd expect an SS agent to be -- watchful, competent, ego-less, diligent. But there is NO organization yet devised that doesn't have its own "methodologies" in appointing people to particular jobs.
Sure, I'd think that anybody who was to be appointed to the POTUS detail would have a say-so in the matter. But the attempt would be made to recruit/offer the gig in the first place. And there's no doubt in my mind that there are those who, because of the prestige associated with the gig, would defend Pol Pot from Cambodian survivors of the killing fields.
OTOH, how embarrassing would that be for the SS supervisor to offer the POTUS detail to an agent who calmly tells the supervisor to go **** himself? That he wouldn't defend the next POTUS from an self-inflicted attack of the farts?
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Kuwait, Qatar, Afghanistan?
OK I stand correctted. Kuwait & Qatar like US money more than they hate the infidels though. Afghanistan is in the process of deciding what they think about the US but they leaning towards we being OK. :tongue: