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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 02:59 PM
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Just a reminder.....
Edited on Thu Oct-20-11 03:24 PM by FrenchieCat

Wannabe.....



Willard Mitt as written in his book....



Video - Herman Cain: Obama Will Try to Take Credit on Libya

"This President decided to follow instead of taking the lead...
He can't sit back now and claim look how well our strategy worked...
He did not show the proper leadership on this....
Now, he's going to try, and once again, take credit for something he had
no reason to get credit for, because he did not take leadership on this particular issue."<[/b>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Gkhu9H9CA


Then of course, there's the Newt, Bachman, Sarah Palin
and endless others, including pundits.....:boring:









We were, as Mitt Romney put it, “following the French into Libya.” The President was “dithering,” Sarah Palin declared. John McCain wanted boots on the ground. Michele Bachmann, the G.O.P.’s arch-isolationist, said, “I would not have gone in,” while Newt Gingrich declared, “This is about as badly run as any foreign operation we’ve seen in our lifetime.” John Bolton, George W. Bush’s U.N. Ambassador, was sure that Obama had “set himself up for massive strategic disaster.” Rick Perry, for his part, shot an elephant in his pajamas.

Six months later, as Libyans rejoice at the prospect of a world without an unhinged despot, many of Obama’s critics still view a President who rid the world of Osama bin Laden (something that George Bush failed to do) and helped bring down Muammar Qaddafi (something that Ronald Reagan failed to do) as supinely selling out American power.
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The trouble with so much of the conservative critique of Obama’s foreign policy is that it cares less about outcomes than about the assertion of America’s power and the affirmation of its glory. In the case of Libya, Obama led from a place of no glory, and, in the eyes of his critics, no results could ever vindicate such a strategy. Yet a calculated modesty can augment a nation’s true influence. Obama would not be the first statesman to realize that it can be easier to win if you don’t need to trumpet your victory. ♦
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/09/05/110905taco_talk_remnick#ixzz1bLytIFeJ


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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 03:09 PM
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1. They've got nothing.
Mitt: President Obama "went around the world and apologized for America."

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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 03:25 PM
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2. They've got less than nothing!
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 04:16 PM
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3. After careful consideration of their positions...
<a href="http://imgur.com/T3WSy"><img src="" alt="" title="Hosted by imgur.com" /></a>
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BlancheSplanchnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 01:13 PM
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7. rofl!!!
great graphic!!! :D
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-20-11 11:59 PM
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4. Thank you, this is valuable.
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madamesilverspurs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 10:23 AM
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5. Republicans - The New Ipecac
k & r
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BlancheSplanchnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 01:11 PM
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6. Thank you, great observations here
I hadn't read up on those speeches, thanks for this--very informative and inspiring. Important point here: in the eyes of his critics, no results could ever vindicate such a strategy. Yet a calculated modesty can augment a nation’s true influence


I couldn't help noticing McSame's lil' ol' critique-by-quote-mark there..... "ranch". Oh really, john? You never had a problem with commander codpiece's "RANCH". !!
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 04:54 PM
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8. the republicans are totally fucked if ...
obama starts drawing down Afghanistan next year.

i`ve been a critic of obama`s presidency but this is a brilliant move at just the right time. puts pressure on the thugs to pass a jobs bill,creates several hundred thousands of people who are grateful that their loved ones are....home for christmas!,and he did`t break his promise to end the war in iraq.

so it`s my


to our president...

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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-24-11 04:56 AM
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9. Sadly, I missed this when you posted it
I'd have recommended it had I seen it
It's good
Thanks for posting
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