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Posted By pc25 6 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsIf President Barack Obama's goal at the fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago this weekend was to be better liked by the region's dictators and left-wing populists than his predecessor George W. Bush, the White House can chalk up a win.
If, on the other hand, the commander in chief sought to advance American ideals, things didn't go well. As the mainstream press reported, Mr. Obama seemed well received. But the freest country in the region took a beating from Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Bolivia's Evo Morales, and Nicaragua's Danny Ortega.
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pc256 months, 3 weeks ago
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We have the weak willed, no spine, apologizing, groveling, terrorist loving Jimmy Bama on full display for the world to laugh at.
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http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-re...
Change! Obama Refuses to Defend US From Marxist Tirade at Summit of Americas
Barack Obama refused to defend the United States today after a 50 minute-long tirade by Marxist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
Ortega blamed the US for the problems in the hemisphere.
Obama sat silent during the speech and later would not comment on the tirade.-
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fiftynine6 months, 3 weeks ago
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You are a piece of work pcp..Nothing more than a sniveling POS anti American that didn't get his/her way in the election.
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"Ortega blamed the US for the problems in the hemisphere."....Guess what dumb azz...a lot of the problems in this hemisphere were caused by us...
Now you and Ortega have something in common... a pure racially motivated hatred of a U.S. president......You are not much different than him pcp.
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pc256 months, 3 weeks ago
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http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-de...
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Obama Defends Himself But Not His Country at Summit of Americas
Don't blame me!
After Nicaraguan Marxist President Daniel Ortega attacked America for 50 minutes in his speech today, Barack Obama smiled and shook his hand.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (L) talk during the official photograph session at the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, April 18, 2009.
REUTERS/Chris Wattie (TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POLITICS)
Latin American leaders continued to pile on the US at the Summit of the Americas on Saturday.
Barack Obama defended himself from attacks aimed at America today- but would not defend the United States.
And, he was wrong on his history.-
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antibrainwasher6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Where as your idol, the neocon coward draftdodging Dick Cheney would have not had the stones to even show at the meeting, and just order some more murders fromt he safety of his Texas bunker, and then called in Haliburton for another no bid contract to enrich the already rich right wing murdering death squad coporate owners.
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Cowards flock together, repugs of a feather.
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pc256 months, 3 weeks ago
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http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-po...
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Obama Poses With Marxist Hugo Chavez While Murderer Looks On(?)
A murderer looks on?
Winston at Spirit of Man passed this on.
"Having lived in Venezuela I recognize the man in the back ground between Obama and Chavez. He is Nicolas Maduro and is a murderer. I have seen, in person, the bullet wounds on people who survived his shots. Sadly, not all survived. It is so irritating when people pretend to know what they are opining on and have no true perspective at all!"-
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antibrainwasher6 months, 3 weeks ago
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As usual, the vacuous hatemonger and faux noise sychophant who gets on his knees each day for his mesaih Murdock, demonstrates his amazing ability to cut and paste copy from the tabliod rag of his master.
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The white supreamacist ideals you speak of are yours, not americas. You are just one more thug wanabee in the hyena pack of lockstepping loyalists, no brains, no new ideas, just more of the same swiftboating vomit.
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pc256 months, 3 weeks ago
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FTA
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Too bad Mr. Obama didn't have a copy of the late 1990s bestseller "The Perfect Latin American Idiot" as a gift for Mr. Chávez. Another way Mr. Obama could have neutralized the left would have been to announce a White House push for ratification of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. That didn't happen either. He only promised to talk some more, a strategy that will offend no one and accomplish nothing. It is a strategy that sums up, to date, Mr. Obama's foreign policy for the region. -
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Klarissa6 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Bolivia's Evo Morales, and Nicaragua's Danny Ortega reminded Obama of his 20 years of listening to Wright.
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If your life has been filled with hateful rhetoric, then you accept that as the normal way of talking and listening.
If you are raised where drugs and stealing are the norm, you think that those are the rules to live by.
No friend is perfect. If you will think about your friends, the probable reason that you are friends is because their fine qualities far outnumber the things that bug you about them.
I cannot see that that Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Bolivia's Evo Morales, and Nicaragua's Danny Ortega have qualities that are so admirable that we can overlook their black side.-
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antibrainwasher6 months, 3 weeks ago
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And, when you listen to the right wing extremist hate speech full of anti american bile from faux noise, owned by the billionaire you worship, the anti american Murdock, owner of the WSJ, faux noise, and hundreds of tabloid media outlets dedicated to one thing only, to make the rich richer, when you listen to that Goebles level Glen morman Beck raving crap 24 hours a day, you end up with your head so far up your rectum, all you can do is crap it back out on the blogs and wait for more on your tv.
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pc256 months, 3 weeks ago
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20 years sitting in Rev Wrights church, listening to his hate speech and his views on BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY, which was based on LIBERATION THEOLOGYT as espoused in South America. No wonder the tyrants, dictators and murdering thugs in the southern hemisphere love him
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http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/03/obamas-ma...
1. Liberation Theology has it center of power in Latin America and in African Theology, but is found in many Christian denominations throughout the Third World.
2. Liberation Theology is a NEW INTERPRETATION of Christian reality.
3. Liberation Theology is radically Marxist. “ . . .the world must be interpreted in terms of the class struggle and that the only choice is between capitalism and Marxism.”
4. Liberation Theology thrives on perpetuating class struggle. The only people of the Church are those who participate in class struggle.
5. Liberation Theology is a theology of bloody political revolution. All of Christian reality is reduced to politico-social liberation praxis (action).
6. Liberation Theology rejects traditional scriptural interpretations. “The experience of the "community" determines the understanding and the interpretation of Scripture. . . Ultimately, what is normative for interpretation is not historical research but the hermeneutic of history experienced in the community or the political group.”
7. Liberation Theology makes the Bible subject to a Marxist view of history. “The "historicality" of the Bible must justify its absolute dominance and thus legitimize the' transition to materialist-marxist philosophy, in which history has taken over the role of God. . . historical criticism has loosed Scripture from the traditional interpretation, which now appears to be unscientific.
8. Liberation Theology is a threat to the faith of the Christian Church.
As we now see Obama's beliefs do not stray far from what he was taught by Wright. This is precisely why his 20 year association WAS IMPORTANT. This is what he believes, it is his core value system, and what he is going to try and bring about in America.
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pc256 months, 3 weeks ago
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funny that no one has yet to bring this up...........
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A month later, still no church for famously religious president
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/07/a-month-late...
President Obama has not attended church services on any of the 11 Sundays since he took office, despite his pledge to find a new church after quitting Trinity United nearly a year ago because of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s incendiary rhetoric.
“We probably won’t make any firm decision on this until January, when we know what our lives our going to be like,” Obama told reporters last May at a press conference that he called to announce his break with Trinity.
But the president made no decision in January, February or March. And now, with Easter just days away, Obama has yet to reveal what church he may have chosen or when he might attend his first Sunday services as president…
Obama is not the first president to opt out of church services in Washington. Former President Ronald Reagan refrained from services, saying the security requirements were too much of a strain on a congregation.-
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antibrainwasher6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Its a whankfest of one, a con party nobody else comes too. Welcome to9 the cut and paste choke the chicken faux noise/wsj murdock worshipping hate america PC spew.
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witness joe the plumber, cutting and pasting and pretending he actually knows anything other than he hates anything but the status quo, war, enriching the rich, and white supremacy.
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pc256 months, 3 weeks ago
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The moral compass and spiritual advisor to the now President of the United States
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo
he has affirmed Wright's teachings and beliefs on his World Wide Apology Tour, first in Europe, and Now in South America........and the liberal lemmings bought it lock, stock and barrel.-
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antibrainwasher6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Speaking of buying something lock and stock, seems you lockstep with your masters, the converted mormon Goebbles Beck and the procine pedophile Oxy Limpboy, swallowing the militia line like a good little brown shirt brown nosing lemming.
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What, do you think faux will pick you up for some free hour, or maybe Oxy Limpboy will notice your lunatic ravings, and give you a job cleaning the stains off his kiddy porn collection?
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pc256 months, 3 weeks ago
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some more info that the MSM outside of Chicago chose to ignore
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Sweet: Obama distances himself from Farrakhan after Washington Post column about Farrakhan getting the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/01/sweet_obam...
LAS VEGAS, NV.—Following a column in Tuesday’s Washington Post titled “Obama’s Farrakhan Test,” noting that a magazine linked to Obama’s minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, honored Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Barack Obama said he condemned “the anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan” and disagreed with a decision to honor him.
The column, by Richard Cohen said that Trumpet Newsmagazine last year, gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to Farrakhan because he “truly epitomized greatness.”
Cohen made clear that Obama has nothing to do with Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic views. Cohen, however, called on Obama to distance himself from award because, Cohen wrote, Obama had an obligation to speak out because he could be the next president and wondered where is Obama’s “sense of outrage.”
After the column was published, Obama said in a statement, "I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan. “I assume that Trumpet Magazine made its own decision to honor Farrakhan based on his efforts to rehabilitate ex-offenders, but it is not a decision with which I agree."
Obama’s campaign sent the statement to several major Jewish organizations and armed some of Obama’s most prominent Jewish supporters with talking points about Obama’s strong support of Israel. The matter came up during a previously scheduled conference call w the campaign’s Jewish Community outreach.
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, said he welcomed Obama’s condemnation of Farrakhan and his disagreement with him getting the honor. " Issues of racism and anti-Semitism must be beyond the bounds of politics. When someone close to a political figure shows sympathy and support for an individual who makes his name espousing bigotry, that political figure needs to distance himself from that decision. Senator Obama has done just that.” -
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nostalgia6 months, 3 weeks ago
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It seems Obama and Chavez has something in common - Bill Ayers!
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William Ayers and Hugo Chavez
Barack Obama's original political sponsor Wiliam Ayers has ties to the Hugo Chavez regime that apparently continue today. Here's how Hugo Chavez advertises Ayers as a member of the directorate of the Miranda International Center, a think tank funded by the Venezuelan government.
There is zero doubt he approved of this description of who he is below on the Venezuelan government Web site.
Bill Ayers
USA
bayers@uic.edu
212-576-8274
William Ayers was the leader of the revolutionary and anti-imperialist group The Weather Underground which initiated armed struggle against the government of the USA during most of the 10 years from inside the empire.
Now, he's a professor of education and executive investigator of the University of Illinois in Chicago. He's developed courses around the urban reform of schools, problems of capitalist education, and investigation. He is the author or editor of more than 11 books, including a memoir titled Fugitive Days on the struggle against the government of the United States.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/willia...-
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nostalgia6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Then of course there is the following:
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Ayers has described Chavez's Venezuela in glowing terms. At the World Education Forum in Venezuela, he concluded his speech with the following gem:
...we, too, must build a project of radical imagination and fundamental change. Venezuela is poised to offer the world a new model of education- a humanizing and revolutionary model whose twin missions are enlightenment and liberation.... Viva Mission Sucre! Viva Presidente Chavez! Viva La Revolucion Bolivariana! Hasta La Victoria Siempre!
Ayers' adopted son, Chesa Boudin (offspring of Weathermen Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, (the latter is still in prison) has worked extensively in Venezuela as "a foreign policy advisor to the Chavez government" - without registering as a foreign agent as required by the U.S. government -- and is co-author of a propaganda book, The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions and 100 Answers. As the Amazon.com book review describes it, the authors: "demonstrate considerable sympathy for Chavez and his efforts, and are ultimately dedicated to revealing Chavez as a legitimately elected patriot bent on social justice..."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/guilty_as_h...
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Wolfie20076 months, 3 weeks ago
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Obama apologizes for America and Americans all over the world and hse sit through a tyrant, like Ortega's, tirade against the country he leads and his best reply was, "I hope I'm not blamed for things that happened when I was only 3 months old." Not only was his remark narcissistic and self serving, I was also struck by just how stupid, juvenile and inane it was to say something like that.
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fiftynine6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Klarissa
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When you look at this submission by the anti American pc2.5 and then those that propped it...lol..No need to wonder why the repug party is seeing some of the lowest ratings in it's history.
The same reason that they lost the election..The American people have seen through their lies and see the racist anti American crap that still resides at the bottom of the barrel.-
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ranchhasawhiteass6 months, 3 weeks ago
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It is a shame that we must be viewed as inferior, appoligetic and murderous, greedy fools by our President to get our enemies to consider peace talks. By his comments, and actions, president Obama has shown he is a coward to those stronger leaders than he. And has proven that he will let nothing stop his applause from others. let the show go on, and on, an on, for three years and eight months and x many days. til we can look at new leadership that will be leadership not only in name but in quality.
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You see I still remember New York, USS Cole and those that have sacrificed their lives for us ,and to an ungrateful bunch of Americans.-
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pokydoke6 months, 2 weeks ago
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What a terrible thing to say and not even close to being true. How can you turn what he has done into something so negative? The last administration did a great amount of damage to our reputation world wide. Someone needs to return us to the shinning beacon of hope that we once were instead of the bully with a big stick. I certainly remember the attacks on 9/11 and the attack on the USS Cole and the other atrocities committed by terrorists. They were committed and promoted by Bin Ladin, not by Chavez or Ortega or any other South or Central American leader. I might want to point out again that most of our war making efforts by the last administration were put towards Iraq which also had nothing to do with 9/11 or the Cole.
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