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pampango Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 06:11 AM
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Barack Obama defiant at Mumbai's Taj Hotel
Source: BBC

US President Barack Obama has delivered an uncompromising address on the first day of his visit to India.

Speaking at the Taj Hotel, in Mumbai, he said his decision to stay there was a deliberate message to the terrorists who besieged it in November 2008.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11703901


There's also a short video of his speech on the significance of their choosing to stay at the same hotel that was attacked 2 years ago.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 06:21 AM
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1. Good for him
:-)
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 06:22 AM
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2. In other words...
"Bring it ON!"

Too bad he can't stand up the the Repubcons that way.
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Fruittree Donating Member (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 07:35 AM
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5. Yes..
Let's look for a negative in everything...Way to go!!!
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 08:11 AM
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7. Ya betcha. That way I might be pleasantly surprised someday.
Edited on Sat Nov-06-10 08:11 AM by RC
Instead of being continuously disappointed.
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Fruittree Donating Member (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 10:57 AM
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16. Sorry you're continuously disappointed but
keeping expectations realistic and looking at the long term help with that too. (no sarcasm intended just my way of looking at things)
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Psephos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 12:15 PM
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17. I'm with you. n/t
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-10 08:31 AM
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25. That is exactly what I am doing, keep exceptions realistic.
Until we have War Crimes trials and Crimes Against Humanity trials for the obviously guilty in this country, history will keep repeating itself.
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 06:26 PM
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21. Here are some facts...
Take a look: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=obama+calls+out+republicans&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 06:43 AM
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3.  i can tell you no republican would have had the balls to stay there.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 07:37 AM
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6. If republicans had balls, there would be a WTC exactly like the previous one
only one story taller.
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 08:14 AM
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8. that's silly. a hole in the ground with a fence around it is worth more than any building.
keeps the wounds open. keeps the fear alive.
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molly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 09:02 AM
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11. Anybody ever gone to the site with a geiger counter?
Why would cars burn way far away from the WTC building on 9/11? Why are so many people who were there that day dead now?
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 12:23 PM
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18. Al Queda wind turbines done it!
:D
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 10:46 PM
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24. Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winnah!
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 06:37 PM
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22. Nah, it was a crappy building design.
No rooftop evac, and it depended too much on too few support columns.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-10 05:00 PM
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27. OK, doesn't have to look the same then.
But make two office buildings, and make them just as tall.
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ProgressiveEconomist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 07:05 AM
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4. What a great photo-op! The President already has started to rebuild his political capital.
Compare his macho to Dubya's scurrying from hidey-hole to deeper hidey-hole, leaving Rudy Giulani and Big Mama Karen Hughes to rally the American people--see http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a355karenhughes#a355karenhughes for documentation of the first statement from the WH on 9/11, PAST 3PM after attacks beginning at 7AM.
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groundloop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 08:38 AM
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9. So that's his $200 Million per day hotel......
( :sarcasm: )
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 08:54 AM
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10. Pfft. Some heroism. The terrists won't kill one of their own.
:hide:
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Zambero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 09:31 AM
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12. O.K. Michele Bachman
Edited on Sat Nov-06-10 10:19 AM by Zambero
Or Wackopedia contributor. Put down the cup of bitter tea and advance to be recognized.
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-10 02:51 PM
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26. What? You obviously didn't get the meaning of the "hide" emoticon that was put there so that
people like you would understand that it was all in jest and not hit me over the head.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 10:06 AM
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13. What's a "terrist?"
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pampango Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 10:47 AM
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15. In right wing parlance it means "terrorist" and used when you don't want to sound too intellectual.
:)
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cartach Donating Member (361 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 05:33 PM
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20. Sounds to me
like he's drunk again.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-10 05:25 PM
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28. No, we just need much bigger emoticons for the humor impaired.n/t
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-10 06:34 PM
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29. Thank you! nt
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 10:12 AM
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14. That's the same hotel Hillary stayed in on her last trip to India.
A few months after the attack. The security is so tight that a bedbug couldn't get in.

;)
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disndat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 01:30 PM
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19. It's a tonic to read DU
after the downer last Tues. I've since gotten mostly over it. DUers are the smartest people. They just "get it". I think Obama is ready to unload his ammunition on the RW. He has been liberated since last week to play 'Mr. Nice Guy' with the Repugs. Even more so, since Stoopnagle McConnell announced that he will see to it that Obama will be a one-term President.
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cutlassmama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-10 07:30 PM
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23. +4
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