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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-07-09 11:17 AM
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Obama gets shout-out of "love you" at troop visit in Iraq - answered "I love you back."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2009-04-07-obama-iraq_N.htm

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Meeting with troops at Camp Victory near Baghdad's main airport, Obama said "I want to shake as many hands as I can" and thanked the soldiers for their service.

"Thanks to all of you. I am so honored," the president said to a shout-out of "love you," to which he answered "I love you back."

Troops held digital cameras over their heads taking pictures of Obama with an American flag behind him.

"You face strain, sacrifice, controversy, difficulty, politics," the president said. Turning Iraq into a fledgling democracy is an "extraordinary achievement."

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"It makes me feel like he actually cares to where he'd come out here and talk to us," said Army Spec. Joshua Tisdale, 24, of Pekin, Ill., who's in his second tour and has been at Camp Liberty for three months.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-07-09 11:19 AM
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1. Funny, but if I had a nickel for every time...
I heard that exact scenario on the campaign trail ... well, I'd have a dime. But still.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-07-09 11:21 AM
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2. What? No "who cares what you think?"
It's amazing what a few years and a class act can do to repair our country's damaged image...
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Binka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-07-09 11:36 AM
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3. Fuck That
Bring them home. Obama should just shut the fucking thing down. Now. GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST. I am not listening to another word on the situation until all our troops are out. As the mother of a child who almost died in that hell hole I will not be bullshitted.
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BanzaiBonnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-07-09 11:45 AM
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6. Oh Binka, I too wish they were all home
It's such a mess.
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NatBurner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-07-09 11:40 AM
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4. Impossible. That soldier was obviously coerced
also too, ACORN!!!, muslin, and moran!!

© some freeper

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predfan Donating Member (769 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-07-09 11:41 AM
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5. Before the election, I asked a carpenter doing some work for me who he favored in the election.
We're both from rural Tennessee, he knew I was an Obama supporter, and I was interested in his answer.

" I was undecided, until yesterday", he replied. " I asked my son who he was for, and he answered Obama. So I decided that's who I'm voting for now."

"You see, my son's generation is going to have to climb out of the hole my and your generation has left them in, and if Obama can inspire them to do it, then he's my candidate."

Well put, and true. We've elected the right man at the right time. Thank God.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-07-09 12:22 PM
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8. Smart and care about their
lives and really our future generations.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-07-09 12:20 PM
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7. Prez Obama does care and he
didn't want to bomb Iraq in the first place.
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