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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf we had rescued two US hostages during a Bush SOTU...
...well, the mind boggles. I'm thinking a balloon drop during the speech at minimum.
There are some things I really like about Obama and his relative discomfort with crass self-aggrandizement is one of them.
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If we had rescued two US hostages during a Bush SOTU... (Original Post)
cthulu2016
Jan 2012
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annabanana
(52,791 posts)1. He doesn't have to tell us how cool he is.
He just does what he does and lets us discover it..
Raven
(13,893 posts)2. The bad guys should worry anytime
Obama gives a speech.
DeathToTheOil
(1,124 posts)3. K'd & R'd
And amen!
blm
(113,065 posts)4. agreed....
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)5. The "liberally-biased media" would be breaking in with a pic-in-pic like the white Bronco chase
with all kinds of mentions of how the soldiers were working under Bush's direct orders (and praising Bush for not mentioning it during the speech - he wouldn't have had any idea what was going on).