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Old 01-31-2011, 06:18 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Me think he's smoking crack.
Nah, just a wicky stick Marlboro's.
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Old 01-31-2011, 06:19 PM
 
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Obama swaps Iraq and Afghanistan | POLITICO 44



This would have been front page, above the fold, screaming breaking news headlines if an R had said it.
Making a small mistake when everybody understood the context of what he meant is far different from some huge gaff.
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Old 01-31-2011, 06:20 PM
 
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He gets states and rivers mixed up so why would you think he could get this correct?

He probably has the wars mixed up as he did promise to end the Iraq War and so far has not fulfilled that promise either.

Give him a break, he is just off one of the worst speeches in American history and needs to pick me up.
Even you can't believe that.
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Old 01-31-2011, 07:17 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Making a small mistake when everybody understood the context of what he meant is far different from some huge gaff.
Uh-huh. Let's see if you give others on the other side of aisle the benefit of the doubt in the future. Have you done so in the past?
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Old 02-01-2011, 10:39 AM
 
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Uh-huh. Let's see if you give others on the other side of aisle the benefit of the doubt in the future. Have you done so in the past?
Absolutely. I thought it was absurd when Obama / Clinton were attacking McCain for his "100 years of war" comment. We all knew what McCain meant. He meant he wouldn't leave until the job was done, not that he literally wanted 100 years of war. It was just childish politics preying on the weak-minded to attack him for that.

I am not sympathetic to more calculated mistakes, such as the "Mission Accomplished" banner. I have no problem with people making verbal mistakes after all the talking they have to do on the spot, but I do believe, if a president were being hired through a normal interview process, one of the job requirements would be "excellent public speaking skills". So, we'll just leave it at that.

This isn't a battle of one side versus the other, btw. You don't need to justify every attack you make by pointing out some crazy liberal that did the same in the opposite direction. We moderate independents see the absurdity of both sides and wish you extremists from both sides would stop.
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Old 02-01-2011, 11:27 AM
 
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Actually this kind of gaff happens when the United States has invaded, occupies or has intervene in the affairs of so many different countries that it can't keep them straight. Obama I'm sure will feel a sting from this gaff or perhaps Biden is rubbing off, who knows.

The result of decades of nation building and foreign intervention.
Yeah 2 countries are awful hard to keep straight.
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Old 02-01-2011, 11:39 AM
 
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Yeah 2 countries are awful hard to keep straight.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen, all that have US military assets engaged in active warfare. Or didn't you bother to read about our activities in Yemen and Pakistan or the fact I stated it was a mistake on Obama's part.

2 gazintoo fo tu times according to jethro.
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