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    Terror Arrests Could Be Good News for Obama

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    Image of Lulupasternak Lulupasternak
    09/21/09

    In reply to Terror Arrests Could Be Good News for Obama
    In a perfect world, these guys would be best friends with Ward Chruchill.
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    09/21/09

    @Lulupasternak: Might just be a matter of making the introductions.
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    Image of DevilsAvocado DevilsAvocado
    09/21/09

    In reply to Terror Arrests Could Be Good News for Obama
    Bitch launched an assault on fashion week the minute he was photographed in public wearing a rumpled, short-sleeved plaid shirt and wearing Madonna's '80s merkin on his chin. As for "jotting notes on how to make a bomb", here's hoping that would be the "Nude Bomb"... [www.youtube.com]
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    09/21/09

    @DevilsAvocado: not the gay bomb from 30 Rock?
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/21/09

    In reply to Terror Arrests Could Be Good News for Obama
    So it turns out fighting terrorism is a law enforcement issue after all?
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    09/21/09

    @Mediahohoho: We're fighting them over there so we can defeat them with standard law-enforcement procedures over here.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/21/09

    @finite_elephant: Nice.
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    Image of newsnun newsnun
    09/21/09

    In reply to Terror Arrests Could Be Good News for Obama
    And, unlike the Bush administration, we might actually get convictions.
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    Image of The One The One
    09/21/09

    @newsnun: Yea, because convicting the '93 WTC bombers really prevented the 9/11 attacks. And putting away Omar Abdel-Rahman for good really stopped him from using his attorney and translator to get out his fatwas and terror commands!

    I find it interesting that so far, not one person has posted here that they're glad, relieved, whatever that something(s) very awful was averted, but that they think it can score political points against the other side.
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    09/21/09

    @The One: Hey, not so fast! My reaction upon hearing the news: oh this is great! But wait, will the charges be tossed in a few months because there is no case? No! That was the Bush admin's "terror arrests"! It might actually be different now!
    (happy Newsnun dance)
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    09/21/09

    @newsnun: Thanks for proving my point.
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    Image of johnny_carsick johnny_carsick
    09/21/09

    @The One: rather, i think you missed his/hers.
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    Image of The One The One
    09/21/09

    @johnny_carsick: Nice try, but no.
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    Image of pony_express pony_express
    09/21/09

    @The One: I think that is simply an understood?
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    Image of The One The One
    09/21/09

    @pony_express: Maybe, maybe not. But all I've seen is gloating about how this could crush the other side politically.

    I didn't vote for Obama, but I'll applaud anything that he does (or is done on his watch) to catch more terrorists and prevent further attacks.
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    Image of pony_express pony_express
    09/21/09

    @The One: It's about tone. People are excited because the tone of "the war on terror" has changed, no longer are we representing ourselves as cowboys in the wild west fighting "injuns," but any success in preventing terrorism that stems from mature tactics helps shift the dialogue.
    The right's message is that under Obama, a softy, we are not safe. The gloating here comes from the sense that we can prove them wrong, diplomacy and a well run CIA could help more to prevent future terrorist attacks than the idea that the rest of the world should cower in the presence of America's righteous wrath. I have spoken with Republicans and Libertarians that feel we should have a leader who instills fear in others. Most left-leaners do not want to believe this is true. I, for one, don't.
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    09/21/09

    @pony_express: OK, good points. Thank you.

    But most Libertarians I know lean more left than right when it comes to the war on terror thing and war, in general.

    They're also batshit crazy, for the most part.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    09/21/09

    In reply to Terror Arrests Could Be Good News for Obama
    As a precaution, Fashion Week 2010 will feature only bearded male models in black eyeliner and a goat auction -- it will be Pashtoobulus!
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    09/21/09

    In reply to Terror Arrests Could Be Good News for Obama
    Obama should raise the terror alert to at least turquoise.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    09/21/09

    In reply to Terror Arrests Could Be Good News for Obama
    Someone call Ben Stiller. We've finally got the plot for Zoolander 2 ready.
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    Image of ihatetwitter ihatetwitter
    09/21/09

    In reply to Terror Arrests Could Be Good News for Obama
    Scrapping the missile defense shield is already yielding dividends. Take that, national security!
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    09/21/09

    In reply to Terror Arrests Could Be Good News for Obama
    Nobody messes with Anna Wintour.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    09/21/09

    @Claire Buoyant:

    ...and her ma-gic hehw-met ♫
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    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    09/21/09

    @Claire Buoyant: I was going to write my own Anna Wintour line, but I dutifully scanned the comments before posting. I had to read all the way up to comment number two to find this. King's to you, Buoyant. I guess I'll try to come up with some crack about Zoolander or someth...God damn it, Airvault.
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    Image of pony_express pony_express
    09/21/09

    In reply to Terror Arrests Could Be Good News for Obama
    If Obama wants to see the right wing shrivel up like the wicked witch in a bucket of water he needs to capture Osama Bin Ladin.
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    Image of Cheruth Cheruth
    09/21/09

    @pony_express: If only to prove to Americans everywhere that they are not the same person.
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    Image of johnny_carsick johnny_carsick
    09/21/09

    @Cheruth: and obama brought osama before the american people, and said: lo, note that we are not the same person. and the heads of bigots and hack pundits esploded, and it was good.
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    Image of katastic katastic
    09/21/09

    @pony_express: My greatest dream is that we catch him RIGHT before the elections in 2012, and Glenn Beck literally explodes in a fit of petulance and gore.
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    09/21/09

    @katastic: haha. and imagine o'reilly: "say what you will about glenn beck - sure, he might have esploded all over the teevee, scarring an entire country psychologically, but the guy's ratings were through the roof!"
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    Image of pony_express pony_express
    09/21/09

    @Cheruth: I know, what would be the headlines? OBAMA NABS OSAMA. It has a lovely mouth feel to it, all those o's and m's.
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    Image of The One The One
    09/21/09

    @johnny_carsick: Too bad Ted Kennedy won't be here to see that, considering how he once famously mixed up their names.
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    09/21/09

    @pony_express: I don't care who nabs Osama, as long as it gets done.

    For all I care, it can be a team of Blago, Spitzer and Mark Sanford who do it.
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    09/21/09

    @The One: Absolutely. Ultimately the CIA had him under Clinton and Clinton failed to take action, something that doesn't get discussed a lot. But you can't avoid the politics of this, whoever resolves the War in Afghanistan and brings Osama to trial proves which methodology we use as a country going forward. As much as I have criticism of Obama, I appreciate the tone he is trying to take in foreign policy and would rather his diplomacy represent us for the next few decades than a return to Cheney world domination.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/14/09

    In reply to This Is No Way to Run a War on Terror, Mr. President
    Dude, if it wasn't a bunch of African American old men talking about blowing up JFK from a park somewhere in South Brooklyn, then it's not terrorism. I mean, that was the Bush standard, right?
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    Image of SachiMenelaus SachiMenelaus
    09/14/09

    In reply to This Is No Way to Run a War on Terror, Mr. President
    your link to" the FBI just raided residences in Queens" article goes to a frolicsome scene of people enjoying crab, dressing up as crabs, and so on.
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    Image of John Cook John Cook
    09/14/09

    @SachiMenelaus: My how strange. I do love crabs though. It's fixed now.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    09/14/09

    @John Cook: I'd kinda like to see the people dressed up as crabs.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    09/14/09

    In reply to This Is No Way to Run a War on Terror, Mr. President
    Dammit! I voted for this muslin terrorist supporting President to stop just this type of unwarranted harassment of terrorists. Change, my ass.

    I'm making a new sign.
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    Image of flossy flossy
    09/14/09

    In reply to This Is No Way to Run a War on Terror, Mr. President
    Since I'm assuredly going to hell anyway, let me just state for the record: Damn, I'd hit that.
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    Image of NorthernLite NorthernLite
    09/14/09

    @flossy: But he thinks he's getting virgins.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    09/14/09

    In reply to This Is No Way to Run a War on Terror, Mr. President
    But if there's no terror in terrorism anymore, what are the news channels to do? They have 24 hours to fill, and all they're left with is "ism".
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    09/14/09

    @misslinda: Well, they spent a good chunk of time over the weekend on promoting the teabaggers in Washington...

    liberal media, my ass.
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