Carter meetswith Abbas gives legitimacy to Hamas (BAD)
Obama meets with Ayers to gain some legitimacy/street cred (GOOD!!)

if we are clear in improving the day to day lives of Palestinians”……….

But we can’t continue to improve the day to day lives of Iraqis, because, um, we need some of the three-hundred trillion, 60 bazillion dollars we spend in Iraq every day to improve the lives of Palestinians.

Thank you and pass the arugula, um, I mean waffles.

This is how you sound smart in a college class. This is how you bulls**t an essay question.
D0WNT0WN on April 22, 2008 at 4:16 PM

Right. But even then you don’t have the luxury of “I’ll get back to you tomorrow.”

Play it close to the vest or loss the vest.

These cards unfit for command? In spades.

News2Use on April 22, 2008 at 4:36 PM

Those are precisely the greenhouses I was talking about. ;-)

Nah, Obambi is SLICK and ARTICULATE.
He is also smart. And beautiful. Did i say he is Slick?

/AP

Aristotle on April 22, 2008 at 4:31 PM

You forgot clean. Joe Biden would disapprove.

That we’re … instead of protecting ourselves against terrorists, that we’re building diplomatic relationships and we’re investing in education abroad so that we’re making sure that kids are learning how to read as opposed to … fight us.

Here…

Michelle Obama

Fatah is Hamas with better PR savvy. Nothing more.

No thanks.

“To sit down with them, I think it gave them a legitimacy that was unnecessary.”

Can Barry ever say something declaratory without slipping around the edges?

Like: It gave them a legitimacy that etc…

What a weasel.

Peres told Carter that it wouldn’t work. The State Department asked him not to do it. Even Abbas is saying told ya so: Meanwhile, Abbas said on Tuesday that Carter failed in his attempt to talk Hamas into accepting……

And I thought only Bill Clinton could talk out of both sides of his mouth while eating a waffle.

Well, according to Monica, that wasn’t a waffle he was eating…!

they possess the dubious “legitimacy” that comes with rigging elections to secure their own power by disqualifying candidates of whom the regime disapproves?

Heh. No wonder Obama approves of them. Same campaign tactics.

“I’ll have my terrorists meet their terrorists and just hash it out over a few schwarmas, no problem.”

NoDonkey on April 22, 2008 at 4:38 PM

Brilliant!

Obama lied and now hope has died.

Here’s a thought, take some of the time and ingenuity spent building bombs and refurbish some greenhouses. If they were half as successful at building things as they are blowing stuff up they wouldn’t be in need of that international aid that just gets stolen anyway.

trubble on April 22, 2008 at 4:15 PM

You mean these greenhouses?

As shown by the September 2005 occupation of Gaza by the Palestinians, this is not a joke but a statement of fact. The Israeli settlers had built a number of greenhouses in which to raise food and other agricultural products. When the settlers were ordered to leave Gaza, some affluent but misguided Americans (mostly Jewish) raised several million dollars to buy the greenhouses and turn them over to the Palestinians. [I say "misguided" because, as proven here, giving anything of value to any Islamic militant is like presenting a baboon with a delicite glass or china plate; you can expect it to be broken for amusement or out of sheer malice within the hour.] Within hours of the Palestinians’ occupation of Gaza, the greenhouses were RBP. It took the Palestinians but hours to turn the gardens they were given into barren and sterile deserts. Now, of course, terrorist Mahmoud Abbas will be whining that he needs money from the United Nations, Europe, and of course the United States because he is unable to feed his people.

“if we are clear in improving the day to day lives of Palestinians”……….

Would a better transportation system for Kassum rockets be considered an improvement? A better lunch program for “Explosive Vest” graduates?

Mr. Obama, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

natesnake on April 22, 2008 at 4:20 PM

Nah, Obambi is SLICK and ARTICULATE.
He is also smart. And beautiful. Did i say he is Slick?

/AP