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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
06/21/09

In reply to Barack Obama's Statement To Iran: "The World Is Watching."
diplomacy, let me show u it
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
06/21/09

In reply to Barack Obama's Statement To Iran: "The World Is Watching."
what if this had happened here after the election in 2000?
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jasonelias
06/21/09

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: I thought it was a possibility in fact I'm surprised nothing like that happened. Bush's first inauguration was a bit eventful if I'm remembering correctly. But nah we didn't do any of this shit, we should have.
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gawkimo
06/21/09

@jasonelias: Impossible. Americans have too many snack cakes, teevee channels and selection of sugary breakfast cereals to truly give a shit about the guy with the most votes losing an election on a call by the judges. If America had religious police and Supreme Leader Pat Robertson telling then they can't have beer. . . well that would be different.
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jasonelias
06/21/09

@gawkimo: True, I guess we all were distracted by so many shiny things and food (always food) that accepted that the election didn't deserve a riot or a recount. We should have gotten at least one of those things.
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gawkimo
06/21/09

In reply to Barack Obama's Statement To Iran: "The World Is Watching."
Time for the freedom bombs!
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Mediahohoho
06/20/09

In reply to Barack Obama's Statement To Iran: "The World Is Watching."
Yes. Republicans criticizing Barack Obama over Iran. Because George H.W. Bush's courageous words (* crickets *) in response to Tiananmen Square, 1989, are still ringing in their empty, empty heads.
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I Love New Jersey
06/20/09

In reply to Barack Obama's Statement To Iran: "The World Is Watching."
Seems like the son of a bitch doesn't want to offend the bastards.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
06/20/09

@I Love New Jersey: Whoa, that was some extremely insightful input that you just contributed, right thar!
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Thomas Paladino
06/21/09

@I Love New Jersey: Yup. His limp-wristed response is probably even more damaging than the deafening silence we've heard from him up until now.

Between his ass-kissing apology tour in Europe, his fantasy-laced speech in Cairo, his complete and utter mishandling of this Iran situation (to the point that he can't even recognize who the good guys and bad guys are there... and if he can, he's too much of a pussy to come out and say it), and the North Koreans looking at us as such weak-kneed pansies that they're actually going to fire a missile at fucking Hawaii on the fourth of July (because they know there won't be any consequence whatsoever from this guy)... not to mention our 'stimulus' plan that hasn't done jack shit to stimulate anything but the UAW thus far... I'd say it's pretty clear that it's amateur night up there in the White House.

I suppose we're finally seeing the second term of Jimmy Carter. Fortunately this will likely translate into only a single term for Barack Obama.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
06/21/09

@Thomas Paladino: and you probably don't have any friends
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Mediahohoho
06/21/09

@Thomas Paladino: Dude. Just turn off the Fox News, okay? There are a lot of news sources out there that don't just run the same bullshit over and over and over. And you, friend, are clearly brainwashed.
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Rumpelstilskin
06/20/09

In reply to Barack Obama's Statement To Iran: "The World Is Watching."
Can't Wanda Sykes parachute in and "straighten" those mullahs out?
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Novaload
06/20/09

In reply to Barack Obama's Statement To Iran: "The World Is Watching."
"universal rights to free speech and assembly" -- those are certainly goals, but not every country recognizes those as "rights."

How does this square with Obama's assertions in the same speech that we don't have the right to impress our system on other nations?
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eatsshootsleaves
06/20/09

@Novaload Misses Murilee: The whole idea of human rights is that they are innate, rather than granted by any government.

Also, he is criticizing the killings without explicitly endorsing a side while the outcome of all this is still uncertain. The relative wisdom of which is obvious to me, but apparently not to some others who would prefer the U.S. to be the global arbiters of right and wrong, because the world is exactly like the plot of Team America: World Police.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
06/21/09

@eatsshootsleaves:

exactly right. exactly what is needed. say clearly and loudly what is right and what is wrong, but countries shape their own destinies

the opposite of the us intervention in iraq
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