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The Day I'm Inaugurated The World Will Look At Us Differently

OMG the president asked them to do something. How horrible of him. That totally shows his ability to request things. And then i came back to earth and realized asking them to remove it was not a big deal at all.
 
even ezzie, caricature of the kiddie crowd on msnbc and FOUNDER of journolist:

Even Ezra Klein not buying apparent White House belief that anti-Islamic video is responsible for Libyan ‘unrest’ | The Daily Caller

The death of a militant al-Qaida leader in Pakistan at the hands of a U.S. drone set the stage for the violence in Benghazi, according to Klein.

“Since 2004, U.S. drone strikes have killed 49 militant leaders in Pakistan, according to analysis by the New America Foundation,” Klein said. “One of those leaders killed was Abu Yahya al-Libi, a man recently named al-Qaida’s number two, which turns out to be a dangerous job these days. Foreign Policy magazine connected the June strike on al-Libi with fatal attacks on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, by saying, quote, ‘as details emerge, it appears increasingly probable that al-Qaida-linked groups were behind the violence, likely acting in reprisal in for the death of Abu Yahya al-Libi.’

Klein took issue with the White House's apparent belief that the violence in the Middle East, including the deadly embassy strike in Libya, is simply “a reaction to a video that many Muslims find offensive.”

“That’s something we should be real clear on right now,” Klein said. “From what we think we know, attacks in Benghazi were not about the weird Internet video which created the attacks in Egypt. The attacks in Benghazi appeared to have been a response to an American drone strike against an al-Qaida leader. And that drone strike wasn’t an anomaly. It wasn’t some rare event. This is how the Obama administration has chosen to prosecute its offensive against terrorism.”
 
OMG the president asked them to do something. How horrible of him. That totally shows his ability to request things. And then i came back to earth and realized asking them to remove it was not a big deal at all.

So what, every time some douchebag posts something offensive on Youtube, the President has to publicly denounce it and ask Youtube to "look into pulling it?" This approach this Administration has taken is utterly baffling. They'd be making announcements everyday. It makes us look weak and petty and worse off gave this video far more viewership than it deserves.

They should all be standing up for our basic freedoms, even if they produce something that offends.
 
So what, every time some douchebag posts something offensive on Youtube, the President has to publicly denounce it and ask Youtube to "look into pulling it?" This approach this Administration has taken is utterly baffling. They'd be making announcements everyday. It makes us look weak and petty and worse off gave this video far more viewership than it deserves.

They should all be standing up for our basic freedoms, even if they produce something that offends.

Yes, if it causes massive protests and violence asking would be reasonable. Just because people have a right to be dicks does not mean our government should be standing behind them going hell ****ing yeah.
 
the attacks had NOTHING to do with the stupid video. The video has been out for several weeks, hardly anyone has seen it. The attacks had been planned for months to begin on 9/11. Why were our embassies not prepared? Why were the marines not allowed to have ammo?

Almost makes one think that Obama wanted the attacks to happen.

So if a dozen guys meet up and planed an attack. The president must know about it? How?
 
So what, every time some douchebag posts something offensive on Youtube, the President has to publicly denounce it and ask Youtube to "look into pulling it?" This approach this Administration has taken is utterly baffling. They'd be making announcements everyday. It makes us look weak and petty and worse off gave this video far more viewership than it deserves.

They should all be standing up for our basic freedoms, even if they produce something that offends.

So whats he suppose to say? "Nice job guys, we don't mind bigots here in the US, ROCK ON!!!"? I wouldn't be surprised if more embassies came under attack.
 
Yes, if it causes massive protests and violence asking would be reasonable. Just because people have a right to be dicks does not mean our government should be standing behind them going hell ****ing yeah.

Thats a strawman. I'm not saying they should have said "hell yeah," which would in fact be mildly retarded. What they should have said is this, "In the US, we support one of the key foundations of democracy, the right of free speech. Its codified in our Constitution. That doesn't mean whats said by a random citiznen is representative our country as a whole. But know this, we will defend that right as well as US sovereignty."

Diplomatic and strong at the same time.

So whats he suppose to say? "Nice job guys, we don't mind bigots here in the US, ROCK ON!!!"? I wouldn't be surprised if more embassies came under attack.

See above.


Sorry guys, you don't empathize with a reactionary mob. It does nothing but embolden them, as clearly demonstrated by the Cairo Embassies limp response.
 
Thats a strawman. I'm not saying they should have said "hell yeah," which would in fact be mildly retarded. What they should have said is this, "In the US, we support one of the key foundations of democracy, the right of free speech. Its codified in our Constitution. That doesn't mean whats said by a random citiznen is representative our country as a whole. But know this, we will defend that right as well as US sovereignty."

Diplomatic and strong at the same time.



See above.


Sorry guys, you don't empathize with a reactionary mob. It does nothing but embolden them, as clearly demonstrated by the Cairo Embassies limp response.

And this is why obama should be president and Romney should stick to being a pundit. What he said was very reasonable, and what he did was absolutely appropriate for easing tensions and taking a diplomatic stance in a world where the US is not always right.
 
And this is why obama should be president and Romney should stick to being a pundit. What he said was very reasonable, and what he did was absolutely appropriate for easing tensions and taking a diplomatic stance in a world where the US is not always right.

Riiiggght. So are tensions eased? Hows that working out so far? He took a stance that emboldened this movement. Didn't do one thing at all to remotely slow it.

And when is defending on our core fundamental rights, wrong? This video maker is getting questioned by the FBI, does that sound like something the US should be doing? What law has this man broken? Why should he be questioned right now? Douchebag...sure, criminal...not for a friggin video.

This is a policy of appeasement.
 
So if a dozen guys meet up and planed an attack. The president must know about it? How?

it was a lot more than a dozen. He should know about it through contacts with the government of that country and/or info gathered by the CIA or other intelligence services. The facts are comiing out that the info was available but that the adminstration either ignored it or did not pay attention to it. Even the current president of Libya has come out sayin it was a coordinated planned attack.

The incompetence of the obama state dept directly caused the death of 4 americans in libya.
 
Riiiggght. So are tensions eased? Hows that working out so far? He took a stance that emboldened this movement. Didn't do one thing at all to remotely slow it.

And when is defending on our core fundamental rights, wrong? This video maker is getting questioned by the FBI, does that sound like something the US should be doing? What law has this man broken? Why should he be questioned right now? Douchebag...sure, criminal...not for a friggin video.

This is a policy of appeasement.

yes, the obama admin seems determined to appease muslims to the detriment of americans. makes one wonder about obama's real agenda.
 
yes, the obama admin seems determined to appease muslims to the detriment of americans. makes one wonder about obama's real agenda.

Yes, you have nailed it. Obama is a super secret Muslim Nazi Fqascist Socialist Anti-Christ super agent, hell bent on destroying America and turning it into the next Nazi Germany. Thank you and the other righties for bringing this to our attention. Your due diligence should be awarded with a star on a paper with your name on it equipped with a special tinfoil hat so you too can be a super agent.

And now we return you to our regularly scheduled show 'How the righties have fallen into complete stupidity".
 
Yes, you have nailed it. Obama is a super secret Muslim Nazi Fqascist Socialist Anti-Christ super agent, hell bent on destroying America and turning it into the next Nazi Germany. Thank you and the other righties for bringing this to our attention. Your due diligence should be awarded with a star on a paper with your name on it equipped with a special tinfoil hat so you too can be a super agent.

And now we return you to our regularly scheduled show 'How the righties have fallen into complete stupidity".

:lamo thats funny NE, funny how you and your left wing buddies refuse to look at who your kenyan messiah really is and what his plans are to "change" america.

why do you ignore his obvious marxist ideology? is it because you too subscribe to the marxist mantra? "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"

sound familiar? "you did not build that" "we need to redistribute the wealth"
 
:lamo thats funny NE, funny how you and your left wing buddies refuse to look at who your kenyan messiah really is and what his plans are to "change" america.

why do you ignore his obvious marxist ideology? is it because you too subscribe to the marxist mantra? "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"

sound familiar? "you did not build that" "we need to redistribute the wealth"

Your comments demonstrate nothing but conspiracy nonsense. You wouldn't know a Marxist if you tried.

If the right wants to rail against Obama's policies, no problem. However, when they take it to stupid extremes, like "He's a Marxist, He's a Muslim, He's not born in the U.S." it takes it to another level of stupid.

Have fun with your circle jerk conspiracies, only the really stupid are buying it. Thankfully that is a minority.
 
CNN, got anything from a legitimate news source? and how does CNN have access to info from the CIA, FBI and State dept? How do they KNOW that no attack info had been received? they are telling you what they want you to believe so obama does not look completely incompetent, its part of their job as the state controlled media.

Which news sources will you accept? Besides conspiracy theory blogs, that is.

Let's just get it out there, what sources will everybody accept? My experience with most of the right is that they will accept CNN as a legitimate source, even if they don't like the bias. You and travis007 are 2 peas in a pod. Any extreme right blog about Odinga is obviously true, CNN and the New York Times are not. Am I right?
 
Your comments demonstrate nothing but conspiracy nonsense. You wouldn't know a Marxist if you tried.

If the right wants to rail against Obama's policies, no problem. However, when they take it to stupid extremes, like "He's a Marxist, He's a Muslim, He's not born in the U.S." it takes it to another level of stupid.

Have fun with your circle jerk conspiracies, only the really stupid are buying it. Thankfully that is a minority.

try to pay attention. its his policies that we disagree with, and his policies show marxist tendencies. And sadly for you, we are not a minority. A vast majority of americans do not like the direction that obama is trying to take this country.

your attempts to deflect vaild criticisms of obama by calling us names only makes you look foolish.

Now, if you would like to have a debate on the success of obama's policies, lets do it.
 
I don't get why it's so hard. He apologizes to the Muslim community for the outrageous video some stupid bigots made. He does not apologize, and in fact strongly criticizes the attacks on our embassies. Anything with the slightest complexity and situation dependency seems to be "flip flopping". Goes for both sides ...but as usual A LOT more from one.

OMG.. You are a critical thinker and HONEST!:applaud
 
Which news sources will you accept? Besides conspiracy theory blogs, that is.

Let's just get it out there, what sources will everybody accept? My experience with most of the right is that they will accept CNN as a legitimate source, even if they don't like the bias. You and travis007 are 2 peas in a pod. Any extreme right blog about Odinga is obviously true, CNN and the New York Times are not. Am I right?

No, whats true is true no matter who is comes from. But you need to accept the left wing bias of most of the MSM and sort out the truth from the partisan BS. Your asssumption that anything that comes from Fox is a lie is a case in point.
 
try to pay attention. its his policies that we disagree with, and his policies show marxist tendencies. And sadly for you, we are not a minority. A vast majority of americans do not like the direction that obama is trying to take this country.

your attempts to deflect vaild criticisms of obama by calling us names only makes you look foolish.

Now, if you would like to have a debate on the success of obama's policies, lets do it.

What direction?

A Republican democracy cannot survive without a free press, an educated populace and a robust middle class.
 
So whats he suppose to say? "Nice job guys, we don't mind bigots here in the US, ROCK ON!!!"? I wouldn't be surprised if more embassies came under attack.

it was none of the presidents business to comment on a stupid video, his commenting on it only gave it more credibility than it would have had otherwise.

in reality he was apologizing for american free speech. Do we attack muslim embassies in the US when Bibles are burned in muslim countries? The double standard here is amazing. Why does obama feel the need to kowtow to muslims?
 
What direction?

A Republican democracy cannot survive without a free press, an educated populace and a robust middle class.

of course, but obama is trying to create a society where the govt controls the actions of every citizen, even down to telling you where to set your thermostat and what kind of toilet you can have. Under obama's version of america, all of the control would be in a tiny group of elites and everyone else would be equally miserable and under the thumb of government dictates.

you have no idea what you are advocating.
 
try to pay attention. its his policies that we disagree with, and his policies show marxist tendencies. And sadly for you, we are not a minority. A vast majority of americans do not like the direction that obama is trying to take this country.

your attempts to deflect vaild criticisms of obama by calling us names only makes you look foolish.

Now, if you would like to have a debate on the success of obama's policies, lets do it.

Tendencies are subjective at best. Much like some on the left said Bush had tendencies of a fascist. As a whole Obama's policies are nothing of Marxism, just like Bush's weren't fascist, so please stop your ridiculous claims there. When the rights starts taking it to extremes by calling him a socialist, Muslim, Marxist, Not U.S. born, etc, that is plain stupid.

And no, the right does not just complain about the policies, but also makes claims as to Obama wanting to ruin America or destroy it. That is plain stupid.
 
Yes, you have nailed it. Obama is a super secret Muslim Nazi Fqascist Socialist Anti-Christ super agent, hell bent on destroying America and turning it into the next Nazi Germany. Thank you and the other righties for bringing this to our attention. Your due diligence should be awarded with a star on a paper with your name on it equipped with a special tinfoil hat so you too can be a super agent.

And now we return you to our regularly scheduled show 'How the righties have fallen into complete stupidity".

20 years in Wrights church of BLT bigotry.. but Obama never saw it.. even though he was on the cover of Trumpet Mag with Farakan and helped Farkan in the million zombie march..

Obama is a scumbag
 
What I have failed to hear from the left, is what do you think Obama should "do" about these attacks?

Should he simply condemn them and move on? Or should he actually "do" something? I want to know what liberals want Obama to "do" about the attacks, the ongoing attacks, and the future attacks of sovereign US territory?

Obama has already condemned the attacks in Libya and Egypt, since then, there have been dozens of other riotous attacks on other embassies around the Middle East and Northern Africa. Is this not proof enought that "condemnations" and "words" to not dissuade these people?

Now, it's being proven that the Obama administration is lying through their teeth about receiving warnings from Libya and Egypt about attacks on the consolate and embassy. Jay Carney was attacking the maker of the video, and not the terrorists who attacked us. Here's the point liberals, WHO CARES IF A BIGOT MADE A VIDEO??? The business of our government is to protect our citizens and our embassies abroad. The business of our government isn't to "condemn" free speech, even if it's offensive to others. You either believe in our sacred right to free speech, or you don't. When you condemn this man's speech, you are condemning his freedom to say it, produce it, YouTube it, Tweet it, Facebook it, Preach it, write it, whatever. When we get into the business of condemning free speech, I'm not sure we're even "American" anymore.

But liberals don't believe in freedom. They believe in regulating, curbing, and limiting freedom, which is why they are attacking this man's video, and not Obama's and the State Department's response to murderous attacks.

Keep it simple stupid!!!! What violates human rights more, an offensive video? Or murdering innocent people? But the left attacks the video maker before they condemn the attacks. They condemn the attacks, but their condemnation is attached with a major caveat....the condemnation of the exercise of free speech by an American citizen right along with it!

It's like if my neighbor killed my wife, and I came out and condemned him for killing her by saying this. "The murder of my wife is abhorant, and I stongly condemn the actions of my neighbor, and I will seek any legal ramifications against him as humanly possible. However, I also want to say to the murderer of my wife, that I also condemn her comments towards you when she called you a "racist". Those comments were disgusting and offensive."

Now, can you imagine that crap? On one hand, you are strongly condemning his actions, but on the other, you're offering up a statement of understanding, which is apologetic. It completely undermines the condemnation for the murder! THAT'S how Obama operates. On one hand, he condemns the attacks, which he should. But then he and his administration offer up the caveat, which is condemning the offensive video! NO! That sends a signal to the terrorists that the Obama administration will slap you on the wrist, but then turn around and condemn free speech. So, what do they do? They plan yet another attack because they know they can get away with it. It's poor, poor leadership. Liberals are embarrassed to stand up and say "no, we're right!, and You're wrong!".

I don't care how offensive the language is. We don't believe in killing over offensive language. THAT'S what he needs to tell them, and then he needs to follow up with some kind of action. I'm not saying we should necessarily "kill" them, but why not punish them in some way???? Instead, no punishment has been doled out. Not cutting of funding, nothing. No sanctions. Nothing. Just words. He's a weak leader is what he is, and it's putting Americans in more danger.
 
Tendencies are subjective at best. Much like some on the left said Bush had tendencies of a fascist. As a whole Obama's policies are nothing of Marxism, just like Bush's weren't fascist, so please stop your ridiculous claims there. When the rights starts taking it to extremes by calling him a socialist, Muslim, Marxist, Not U.S. born, etc, that is plain stupid.

And no, the right does not just complain about the policies, but also makes claims as to Obama wanting to ruin America or destroy it. That is plain stupid.

Obama doesn't "want" to destroy America. He literally thinks his ideology is good for America. Did you ever read "Of Mice and Men"? The retarded guy, I can't remember his name, didn't "want" to kill the bunnies either. He wanted to love them and pet them. He didn't "intend" on killing them. Nevertheless, he did.

That's kinda like Obama. While he doesn't "intend" or "want" to hurt America, his ideology inadvertenly does. I can get really specific on this topic, and illustrate precisely "how" his ideological policies "hurt" America. But I think you get the point. He's hurting America unintentionally, but nevertheless, he's hurting America.

His foreign policy literally endangers this country and our troops abroad. Liberals make the mistake of assuming that Arabs "reason" like Westerners, and they don't. You can't sit Iran down and "talk" to them rationally like you can Westerners. They understand "peace through strength". In a society dominated by who has more guns and soldiers, how do you expect them to "negotiate" or "reason" with the United States? why are liberals that naive? It literally endangers this country while it emboldens our enemies. They kill us without reservation. Then they laugh because the liberal response is, "we offended them, and we shouldn't offend them".

Terrorists don't "need" a reason to kill Americans. That's why blaming the offensive video for the embassy and consulate attacks is stupid. They were killing us long before the video came out. The video just gave them an excuse to escalate the already escalated violence against ANY American in that region. Why do they target American contractors over there? Because of some video? lol...no. They target and attack ANY American over there for many other reasons. So for Carney to say that this attack wasn't in response to America or its' policies, he's just being stupid and trying to cover for Obama's philosophy behind foreign policy, which is appeasement.
 
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