http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3686523Oh my.
blues90 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:49 PM
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This really bothers me and I know many here could care less
I don't care. Put me on ignore .
Obama as far as I know is not the US president at this point in time. What business does he have going to europe representing the US when at this point he is the jr senator of ILL and the Dem candidate.
He won't talk impeachment and people give the excuse he would be at risk because he is african american yet acting as president is different.
How well would this have gone over if it were Hillary who did this? Just asking as they say.
BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:51 PM
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1. Oh. My. God. Pizza, now.
mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:51 PM
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2. I don't get your issue.
I have some issues with Obama but going to Europe and talking to leaders isn't one of them.
Aren't these the same primitives who objected greatly to the questionable reports that emissaries of Ronald Reagan met with the Ayatollah Khomeini when the Incompetent One was still president, so as to delay return of the hostages until the Incompetent One was humiliated out of office in November 1980?
Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:52 PM
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3. If it's possible for many here to care less, then they do care.
Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:52 PM
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4. Yeah, we should keep sending * there.
They love him.
exothermic (567 posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:52 PM
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5. You're not allowed to criticize him. He walks on water.
Haven't you heard?
JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:57 PM
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13. Criticism is fine.
If you have some, why not post it instead of hauling out the same tiresome rhetoric?
last1standing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:58 PM
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17. The problem is you want a free ride to insult him without a response.
There are plenty of other places on the net you can go to post lies and slander without being called out on it, but this isn't one of them.
Too bad for you, huh?
Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:54 PM
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7. Personally, I could NOT care less.
But that's just the grammar-Nazi in me.
No, that's just the Nazi in Pedro Picasso; it has nothing to do with grammar.
Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:54 PM
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8. Wasn't Limbaugh saying the same thing the other day?
Members of Congress go overseas all the time. Every year. No big deal.
And the impressive thing is that Obama does a better job acting President than Bush.
RazBerryBeret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:54 PM
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9. I think it was important for him to go...
his biggest criticism is on foreign affairs. and McCain has taunted him with not going to Iraq. I think it was important to see him talking with foreign leaders with no bad jokes, not yelling out "YO"...not trying to give shoulder rubs....I think diplomacy is such an important part of being our next president--this should make anyone who had doubts feel more confident in voting for him. As he said, all of those countries have been visited by McCain...so "turn about it fair play"...IMO...
JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:56 PM
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10. When did he say he was "representing the US" or "acting as president"?
I must have missed that.
Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:56 PM
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11. Isn't it better to have a US Senator representing the US than to have American Werewolves representing the US to people in Paris, London, and other parts of Europe?
last1standing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:56 PM
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12. That's a really ignorant O/P.
It's as justifiable to ask what business you have posting on this forum as it is to ask what business Obama has in going to Europe. He has the right to go anyplace in the world and to express his views publicly in whatever forum the host country is willing to permit.
What right do you have to suggest otherwise?
midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:57 PM
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14. I really don't know or have heard of other presidential candidates traveling abroad? Is this a first? Well, he apparently has money that many were afraid would be not there if Hillary stayed in the race. So I hope we have plenty of money this Fall for this race.
Garbo 2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 09:00 PM
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18. McCain has.
Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:57 PM
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15. He was not representing the US.
He was representing Barack Obama, Senator from Illinois and presidential candidate to a lot of people who look forward to a very gone Dear Leader just as much as we do.
Surely, there must be something...weightier...you might concern yourself with?
And as regards Hillary...ahem...well, that's quite rhetorical, isn't it?
Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 08:58 PM
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16. It's 'damned it he does, damned if he doesn't' - he was trying to counter criticism that he has no foreign policy expertise.
Oh wow.
With franksolich having spent 70 times more time in western Europe than Barry "Goldwater" Obama, and then nearly two years in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants, this must add up to some really awesome foreign policy expertise.
