Obama in Afganistan

[Rich Jones]

Just heard that President Obama flew to Afganistan in the wee hours of the morning. He'll be giving a speech there at 7:30PM eastern time about the one year anniversery of the killing of Bin Laden.
I can just hear the right screaming foul! I love it!

[John of Phoenix]

Gutsy to announce it ahead of time.

I remember cheney sneaking in and out under cover of darkness to and from his undisclosed locations under radio silence in unmarked planes. The man was fearless. Know what I mean?

[wardd]

hey, i bet cheney has shot more people than you have

[Concordia 33]

I wonder if Afghanistan has a large prostitution industry. Probably not - that makes it one of the few countries that the Secret Service can go to where they can't further damage their reputation. Maybe that's why POTUS went there instead of Vegas for a campaign stump.

[Tall Boy]

I'm all for it, like to see him wagging his finger at the talaban "here I am come and get me"...go Bama go.

[S.V. Airlie]

What a waste of money. Oh right it's not his.

[wardd]

What a waste of money. Oh right it's not his.

it's not yours either

[Curtism]

Gutsy to announce it ahead of time.

I remember cheney sneaking in and out under cover of darkness to and from his undisclosed locations under radio silence in unmarked planes. The man was fearless. Know what I mean?

Roger that.
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BW, look busy . . . wouldn't want to get caught slackin'.

[ccmanuals]

What a waste of money. Oh right it's not his.

You don't believe the Commander in Chief should support the soldier in the field? If I was deployed I would find it a great honor to meet my CIC.

[wardd]

You don't believe the Commander in Chief should support the soldier in the field?

he doesn't believe in obama period

you know, when i type either obama or jamie both get underlined by spell checker, i wonder what else they have in common

[S.V. Airlie]

The point is, it's not his. Nothing else needs to be said.

[ccmanuals]

So, I guess you really don't have a point. At least anything worth discussing.

[Y Bar Ranch]

Gutsy to announce it ahead of time.

from WaPo

President Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday...

Good for him, by the way.

[wardd]

The point is, it's not his. Nothing else needs to be said.

your money was once someone elses, should you be told how to spend it?

[S.V. Airlie]

The libs want to discuss something? Do tell.

[skuthorp]

That's a bit lame SV, he's the C in C isn't he? Your head of state? Doing this stuff is part of the job that the office entails. Like the 'waste' entertaining foreign counterparts with bands and honour guards etc.

[S.V. Airlie]

To give a speech, fly what, 16,000 miles with a full guard of secret service men.A waste in my mind. He's just trying to make points or headlines in the papers. Afghanistan does have TVs don't they?

[wardd]

i would think when you have made a fool of yourself and someone points it, you should stop, but i could be wrong

[bobbys]

Just heard that President Obama flew to Afganistan in the wee hours of the morning. He'll be giving a speech there at 7:30PM eastern time about the one year anniversery of the killing of Bin Laden.
I can just hear the right screaming foul! I love it!

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So your saying its about sticking it to the right?

[S.V. Airlie]

wardd SU!Your not worth it.Until the libs take away my right to have an opinion, I'll still give opinions regardless even if everyone here just kisses up to Obama.

[bobbys]

Gutsy to announce it ahead of time.

I remember cheney sneaking in and out under cover of darkness to and from his undisclosed locations under radio silence in unmarked planes. The man was fearless. Know what I mean?

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Cheney could time travel and take out Hitler and Stalin and the guy that invented DISCO in a UFC match and you would cry.

[JimD]

...I remember cheney sneaking in and out under cover of darkness to and from his undisclosed locations under radio silence in unmarked planes...

Maybe because so many Americans wanted him dead.

[wardd]

Maybe because so many Americans wanted him dead.

apparently not enough

[Rich Jones]

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So your saying its about sticking it to the right?

It is a diplomatic trip, but the underlying message to the Republicans is: Stick it! I got the job done and you didn't.
This is the Obama I want to see. No more Mr. Nice-guy. Gloves are off.

[wardd]

It is a diplomatic trip, but the underlying message to the Republicans is: Stick it! I got the job done and you didn't.
This is the Obama I want to see. No more Mr. Nice-guy. Gloves are off.

but the republicans will whine that obama is cheating

[skuthorp]

Nobody minds opinions SV, it's the personal attacks that are out of place and frankly unnecessary. But then I'm not a US citizen and haven't a right to an opinion according to some. (That applies both ways BTW).

[bobbys]

It is a diplomatic trip, but the underlying message to the Republicans is: Stick it! I got the job done and you didn't.
This is the Obama I want to see. No more Mr. Nice-guy. Gloves are off.

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UUUMMM i thought it was a good thing when i heard it this morn, Not once did i say, Hey that basstards going over there.

Odd you are telling me the real reason is to "stick it" to Republicans and the "gloves" are off..

I hope to see him address the troops tonight on FOX.

[Rich Jones]

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UUUMMM i thought it was a good thing when i heard it this morn, Not once did i say, Hey that basstards going over there.

Odd you are telling me the real reason is to "stick it" to Republicans and the "gloves" are off..

I hope to see him address the troops tonight on FOX.

I watched him address the troops on MSNBC and thought he did a great job. And.... no teleprompter!

[johnw]

The point is, it's not his. Nothing else needs to be said.

So why do you keep posting?

[BrianW]

Gutsy to announce it ahead of time.

I remember cheney sneaking in and out under cover of darkness to and from his undisclosed locations under radio silence in unmarked planes. The man was fearless. Know what I mean?

I'm all for it, like to see him wagging his finger at the talaban "here I am come and get me"...go Bama go.

i would think when you have made a fool of yourself and someone points it, you should stop, but i could be wrong

No, you're right. Too bad it wasn't announced ahead of time, and was in fact a "surprise" visit.

I don't see any retractions, or expect them.

[BrianW]

It is a diplomatic trip, but the underlying message to the Republicans is: Stick it! I got the job done and you didn't.
This is the Obama I want to see. No more Mr. Nice-guy. Gloves are off.

It's over?

[Glen Longino]

The point is, it's not his. Nothing else needs to be said.

"Nothing else needs to be said."

But you'll say it anyhow, won't you?

[Paul Girouard]

hey, i bet cheney has shot more people than you have

You talking to John from Phoenix, if so I'd like in on that bet.

[johnw]

You talking to John from Phoenix, if so I'd like in on that bet.

Get him to give you odds.

[Paul Girouard]

Get him to give you odds.

Oh , I'm sure it would turn into a war of words about what "shot more" means.

[Nicholas Carey]

I seem to remember Bush fils flying to Baghdad on Thanksgiving (unannounced) for a photo op of him "serving" the troops their Thanksgiving dinner. The picture was of him holding a platter with a big roast turkey. The turkey, natch, was inedible, since it had been tarted up for the camera by the food stylists — greased with motor oil and the like for the cameras. After the photo op, he flew back to DC and the grunts got their Thanksgiving dinner -- processed turkey loaf and wonder bread stuffing, topped with instant gravy, I'm sure, with canned cranberry sauce on the side.

The right, was, ecstatic, about this show of "support for the troops", IIRC. Funny that they're whining about Obama doing the same sort of thing.

[brad9798]

Richard, why would you look forward to the 'right' screaming foul? In fact why would you lower yourself to even post something so biased and stupid?

Just curious. I am surprised ... to say the least with your assertion ... disappointed, really.

Oh ... and Obama got the job done? REALLY?

[purri]

I'm crying foul. He wasn't wearing a flight jacket with trendoid sewn patches.

[John Smith]

The point is, it's not his. Nothing else needs to be said.

Actually, I disagree. Once we pay our taxes to the government, it is the government's money. That's fodder, I suppose, for a thread of its own.

Meanwhile, after we had Bush declare "MIssion Accomplished", take his eye of Bin Laden and Afghanistan, and leave Obama with two wars, both of which Bush used for political purposes, it's pretty insincere when they blame Obama for politicizing any of this.

Obama has the great problem of how to best end the war in Afghanistan. If he pulls our troops out tomorrow and a disaster there follows, YOU would be all over him for it. If he chooses to keep everything going forever, YOU would be all over him for it.

The man has limited options. He is taking the best of several bad choices.

[seanz]

Oh , I'm sure it would turn into a war of words about what "shot more" means.

That's mean.

[Y Bar Ranch]

I'm crying foul. He wasn't wearing a flight jacket with trendoid sewn patches.

He's not a pilot. Bush was.

Good for POTUS for stopping by the hood to pump up the troops and do some face-to-face diplomacy.

[John Smith]

As usual, Jon Sewart says it best

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tu.../victory-lapse

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tu...-laden-s-death

[Paul Pless]

As usual, Jon Sewart says it best

fart

[Tall Boy]

Good for POTUS for stopping by the hood to pump up the troops and do some face-to-face diplomacy.

Well, 7 people would still be alive today if Obama would have stayed home...

Just hours after President Barack Obama delivered his pre-dawn, prime time speech in Kabul marking the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death and reaffirming his commitment to fulfill the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, at least two major explosions rocked the capital, killing seven.
The Taliban claimed credit for the attacks, which began with a suicide car bomb that went off near Jalalabad Road at 6 a.m. and was followed by a much larger explosion two hours later. Taliban leaders told media that they targeted Green Village, a heavily fortified compound home to many westerners including U.S. Department of Defense contractors.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told The Wall Street Journal that the attack was a direct response to Obama's visit.
"This delivers a message to President Obama that he is not welcome in Afghanistan," Mujahid said. "When he is in Afghanistan, we want him to hear the sound of explosions. Afghanistan does not want his imposed strategy."

[JimD]

Well, 7 people would still be alive today if Obama would have stayed home...

Yeah, if we'd all just do what the Taliban want think of all the lives that would be saved.

[Y Bar Ranch]

Well, 7 people would still be alive today if Obama would have stayed home...

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told The Wall Street Journal that the attack was a direct response to Obama's visit.

It takes extensive planning and effort to get those car bombs built up and ready to go, so I'm not buying your argument or his.

[BrianW]

I seem to remember Bush fils flying to Baghdad on Thanksgiving... ...After the photo op, he flew back to DC and the grunts got their Thanksgiving dinner -- processed turkey loaf and wonder bread stuffing, topped with instant gravy, I'm sure, with canned cranberry sauce on the side.

Have you ever had Thanksgiving dinner with the troops, in Iraq or Afghanistan?

[Curtism]

Have you ever had Thanksgiving dinner with the troops, in Iraq or Afghanistan?

I haven't but I vividly recall 8 years of Bush serving up one tukey after another.

[BrianW]

I haven't but I vividly recall 8 years of Bush serving up one tukey after another.

Yeah, the one-liners, and the completely baseless comments, from the peanut gallery are sure making the Bush haters look smart.

Or not.

[Curtism]

Yeah, the one-liners, and the completely baseless comments, from the peanut gallery are sure making the Bush haters look smart.

Or not.

Well, Brian, if you'd like more content of a different nature, maybe a good start would be for you to enlighten the 99.9% of us that have never set foot in Afghanistan or Iraq about what it's like to sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with the troops in a combat zone. I mean, since you can be pretty sure Nicholas and a whole host of others here have never had the pleasure of such an experience, and you apparently have, I'd bet there are others here that would find that interesting.

As far as "Bush haters" are concerned, some of us have damn good reasons to dislike what that man did while he was in office and more than a few of us see no real need to give him, his handlers or those who helped put him in office a pass for what a sorely misguided "leader" he was.

I'm sure the reverse will be true years after "That One" is gone from office.

Is that better?