Video: Candidate Obama knocks Musharraf for … signing peace treaties with the Taliban
posted at 9:40 pm on October 8, 2009 by Allahpundit
More flashback fun via Omri Ceren, remembering the days when the Taliban were an intractable jihadist opponent rather than the plucky band of Afghan patriots we’ve come to know and respect. I’m sure there are dozens more gold nuggets like this buried in the YouTube mines in case anyone wants to go digging. The comic prospect of watching Gibbs try to explain them away, perhaps by distinguishing the “bad” Pakistani Taliban from the “good” Afghan Taliban, should more than compensate you for your labor.
To meditate on while you watch, a new poll from Gallup/USA Today finds that 48 percent want more troops in Afghanistan, 38 percent want fewer troops, and just seven percent want to keep the number as is — which of course is what the Obama plan is shaping up to be. It’s one thing to lose men when you’re trying to win the war, it’s another to lose the war but save Americans’ lives in withdrawing, but it’s something else entirely to keep men in the line of fire with no hope of victory. And yet, here we are. Do note the partisan breakdown at the link, too. If Obama decides to follow McChrystal’s advice he’ll have the support of just 36 percent of Democrats — and 73 percent of Republicans. Remember that the next time a liberal comes crying to you about the GOP reflexively opposing everything The One does.
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….And the beat goes on….2010 cannot come soon enough.
HornetSting on October 8, 2009 at 9:42 PM
No one in the world will take this dunce seriously when he says the taleeban and pokistan.
txag92 on October 8, 2009 at 9:44 PM
This is not the Taliban I used to know..
BobMbx on October 8, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Hehe. Classic.
But, you know that The Precedent is laughing about this more than anyone. He gets a real kick out of screwing America (his only enjoyment, really) but he really loves when he screws America and gets to do it while lying so transparently that no one can ignore the clear offense that is added to the injury. This is THE PRECEDENT. This is what he is all about. Learn to love it, because it only gets worse. Much worse.
progressoverpeace on October 8, 2009 at 9:44 PM
That occurred in the year 1 b.o., otherwise known as the pre-historical era. We are now in the hysterical era, and there is nothing funny about it.
ICBM on October 8, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Are these the same Afghan Taliban who used to execute women in soccer stadiums and beat women if their burqa rode up a bit and showed some ankle? Or is this a new and improved Taliban?
Buddahpundit on October 8, 2009 at 9:45 PM
He is a pimp.
BobMbx on October 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM
If you’d just look more closely, you’d see this particular Obamabite is past its expiration date.
Please dutifully destroy this outdated, and therefore, non-existent footage.
/s
ROCnPhilly on October 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Pokistan is going to glow before this ass captain decides what to do…I hope our guys and gals over there are safe.
HornetSting on October 8, 2009 at 9:47 PM
The taleebon are racist, Whoda thunked it.
SHARPTOOTH on October 8, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Barry has absolutely no idea how to do the right thing. He just keeps talking, hedging, ignoring, pretending, hiding, whining, and lying.
anXdem on October 8, 2009 at 9:47 PM
There’s volumes of stuff like this.
During the campaign, he was harder on the Taliban and Afghanistan than McCain.
Yep, it was all a ruse; the “right” war to wave to fool moderates into thinking he was hawkish against the Islamists.
SteveMG on October 8, 2009 at 9:47 PM
yeah this was when he was going to do unilateral strikes without informing the Pakistani govt, that went over real well
Hillarys position was “all our options are on the table but I wouldnt say that in a public stmt it endangers our current foreign policy”
and the 52% voted for him anyway
ginaswo on October 8, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Stumbling, bumbling idiot couldn’t converse with a paper bag.
What a turnaround in just a few short months; now we have to listen to Ogabe’s bullshiite reasoning behind making peace with the “Toleebahn”.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Change you can believe in… at least for a little while… maybe a day or two… until I change my mind again.
-Teh Won
red winger on October 8, 2009 at 9:49 PM
buddhapundit
why yes, yes it is those Taliban.
speaking of Buddha, I knew these Taliban would be bad news when they tore that ancient giant Buddha down, it ‘offended’ them with its existence, so thousands of years of history ahd to be destroyed just because
but TOTUS says there are ‘moderates’ among them
sickening
ginaswo on October 8, 2009 at 9:49 PM
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Yeah, well, maybe he said it, but that’s because he didn’t know how badly Bush had screwed things up and anyway … you’re a racist.
PackerBronco on October 8, 2009 at 9:50 PM
The Teleprompter of the U.S. screwed up again?
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Al Qaeda is almost non-existent in Afghanistan.
The Taliban is who we are fighting right now.
And President Present…….
‘Let’s make friends with the Taliban and go after Al Qaeda operatives.’
Path of least resistance.
‘PRESENT’
HornetSting on October 8, 2009 at 9:51 PM
we never got any answer on why the hexx he went to Pockestahn on his college break either and on what passport he did it
and it annoys me the way he coos Pckeeestahhhhn like he’s a damned expert while people are dying
frankly everything he does is starting to annoy me now, a menace really to everything he touches
3 yrs 3 months and counting
ginaswo on October 8, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Talk’s all he’s got. Talk. That must be where he got the Hope and Change slogan, because that’s BO’s MO for every international situation. Talk and hope things change.
ROCnPhilly on October 8, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Well you know it is just natural to hunt down some photogenic Moderate Taliban gentlemen, not the icky taliban, just the proto pro western ones. Wine them, dine them, ply them with whores. You know…hearts and minds and Ci*lis.
BL@KBIRD on October 8, 2009 at 9:52 PM
2010 and 12 will be here sooner than me thinks .. if the papers will report it ..How much more can we take of this guy..
wheels on October 8, 2009 at 9:52 PM
WOLF BLITZCRIEG SHOULD DO A FACT/BACKGROUND(?) CHECK ON THE TELEPROMPTER OF THE U.S.
IT COULD BE RAAAAAACISSSSST!!!!!!!!!!
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Hey Mr. Tallybon tally me bananna.
Daylight come and I wanna’ go home.
NeoKong on October 8, 2009 at 9:54 PM
FIRE THE TELEPROMPTER CZAR!
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 9:54 PM
And talk is cheap! Isn’t time for another prime time presser?
Knucklehead on October 8, 2009 at 9:55 PM
He is a pimp.
BobMbx on October 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM
HOLLA!
txag92 on October 8, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Or…throw acid in their face as they walk to school… I can’t thank God enough that I wasn’t born in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia or Pakistan etc… I have no respect for any country or religion which throws away half it’s brain power…
CCRWM on October 8, 2009 at 9:56 PM
And talk is cheap! Isn’t time for another prime time presser?
Knucklehead on October 8, 2009 at 9:55 PM
He’s been laying low since the Olympics disaster.
txag92 on October 8, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Obama is still looking for the “Moderates in the Muslim
Jihad”!!
And,Team Obama,has that work’n out for ya!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 9:57 PM
IS THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION LAUGHING AT US?
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 9:57 PM
TOTUS wasn’t there!
I really can’t stand how he pronounces Pakistan and Taliban. “Pahkeeestan” and “Taleeeban.”
Obama trying to prove how “worldly and cultured” he is. Just makes him annoying.
cubachi on October 8, 2009 at 9:58 PM
I have this suspicion that the Prezisadunce is lurking here, reading our comments and slapping his knee with glee while we poke our own eyes watching reruns of his “wisdom”
macncheez on October 8, 2009 at 9:58 PM
To be fair, the fat police here would have done the same thing. Can’t be having large images of happy fat people possibly killing our children with images of their enjoyable pulpitude. Fat kills. Mayor Bloomberg financed the takedown of the fat Buddha.
Well … many of the Tah-lee-bahn actually are moderate, if you compare their hate of America to The Precedent’s hate of America. There are very few people on Earth who hate our nation and everything we stand for as much as the Traitor-in-Chief. He hates our nation with a passion. I think The Precedent was the America-hating centerfold of Tah-lee-bahn Tatas last month.
progressoverpeace on October 8, 2009 at 9:58 PM
THE KEYSTONE COPS HAVE AN UNLIMITED SOURCE OF NEW MATERIAL!
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Why yes. I think it is.
Most likely the day before the Senate votes on government health control.
ROCnPhilly on October 8, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Hell, the French cheese and
whinewine club is laughing at us.HornetSting on October 8, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Hillary, how do you sleep at night?
SouthernGent on October 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM
It’s racist to use Lord Barry’s own words against him.
ronsfi on October 8, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Liberals are at WAR on the domestic front!!
Its clear,that this Administration,in their Lefty
educated doctrine,er mindset,don’t see Terrorists,
they,
see Freedom Fighters,and the Leftys don’t see thugs,but
future community organizers,
and they see,Dictators as legitimate leaders!!
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 10:03 PM
YEA; THE ONES WITH THE NIOSH APPROVED SUICIDE VESTS!
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Huh? Hillary sleeps during the day in her coffin.
Loxodonta on October 8, 2009 at 10:07 PM
From October 7, 2001….
“By destroying camps and disrupting communications, we will make it more difficult for the terror network to train new recruits and coordinate their evil plans,” Bush said.
“Initially the terrorists may burrow deeper into caves and other entrenched hiding places,” he continued. “Our military action is also designed to clear the way for sustained, comprehensive and relentless operations to drive them out and bring them to justice.”
“As we strike military targets, we will also drop food, medicine and supplies to the starving and suffering men, women and children of Afghanistan,” Bush said. “The United States of America is a friend to the Afghan people.”
“Today we focus on Afghanistan, but the battle is broader. Every nation has a choice to make. In this conflict, there is no neutral ground. If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocence, they have become outlaws and murderers themselves,” he said. “And they will take that lonely path at their own peril.”
I miss W.
massrighty on October 8, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Hell, the French cheese and whine wine club is laughing at us.
HornetSting on October 8, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Well, I hope they enjoy the gout!
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Y’know, if I didn’t know how proud he and Michelle are of this country, I would say he’s deliberately truying to destroy us. /sarc
kingsjester on October 8, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Ya know Allah – sometimes you DO nail it! :D
HondaV65 on October 8, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Hillary, how do you sleep at night?
SouthernGent on October 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM
SouthernGent:
I can’t believe I’m saying this!
I hope HilRod runs in 2012,and dumps every bit of dirt on Hopey!!
Maybe HilRod has his birth certificate,haha!!:)
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 10:08 PM
And, AP called them “gold nuggets.” Then he summoned us to find more of these precious nuggets on youtube. I, for one, can’t go another millisecond waiting for Barry’s next presser. There’s just never enough. Every little lie is such bliss.
sarc, sarc, sarc…
anXdem on October 8, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Poor Musharraf , it was down hill for him from the time W couldn’t remember his name while giving an interview to that major league , bigtime , exhaust pipe .
borntoraisehogs on October 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Hillary, how do you sleep at night?
SouthernGent on October 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Next to Bill… shudders!
txag92 on October 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM
I have heard from some of my friends who are retired special forces vets…
… and they are VERY pissed off.
Seven Percent Solution on October 8, 2009 at 10:12 PM
So where does Barry and the Mrs., sleep? Do they just hang upside down off cave walls?
anXdem on October 8, 2009 at 10:14 PM
The MSM is going to savage Ogabe about this, question after question at his next presser demanding to know why he lied, why the turnaround in attitude, why he blatantly misled the American people in an effort to get elected.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Pokistan is going to glow before this ass captain decides what to do…I hope our guys and gals over there are safe.
HornetSting on October 8, 2009 at 9:47 PM
HornetSting: I would feel better,if the US Military
had some deep bunkers,an emergency insurance
policy if Puck-is Stan achieves atom smashing:)
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Did you forget the “sarc” tag? You can’t be serious, right?
Knucklehead on October 8, 2009 at 10:17 PM
*Giggle*
Hey Foxy Loxy!
HornetSting on October 8, 2009 at 10:17 PM
I hope they miss and hit China and N. Korea while they sleep. Just sayin’.
HornetSting on October 8, 2009 at 10:18 PM
I have heard from some of my friends who are retired special forces vets…
… and they are VERY pissed off.
Seven Percent Solution on October 8, 2009 at 10:12 PM
I’d love to share a foxhole with Barack the Speaker; Wouldn’t you?
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Those two haven’t been awake for years.
Loxodonta on October 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Taliban cannot be eliminated, Obama administration concludes
http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_13518314
my wife says it may be best if I don’t comment so I’ll just post new articles coming in about this… sigh
brianpierre on October 8, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Maybe this was a deal made with the Saudi Prince after he kissed his ring.
kingsjester on October 8, 2009 at 10:20 PM
What’s your basic problem? The media will make sure that Ogabe answers all these questions and more, this is serious stuff and they will get to the bottom of it all. The fourth estate is here for the people.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Tell her she needs a shower.
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 10:22 PM
… and they are VERY pissed off.
Seven Percent Solution on October 8, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Seven Percent Solution:
Team Liberal is focused like a lazer beam on domestic,
while Foreign Policy,goes to h*ll in a handbasket!
Meanwhile,Jihadys know this,it buys them about 3 more years
of plotting and planning time,while Liberals are busy being
distracted by chasing the Right!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 10:22 PM
He sounds so sincere…so sincere…so sincere…so sincere…if I keep saying it, they will believe it.
Any way, that is his theory.
right2bright on October 8, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Has Obama tried talking to them?
/S
ROCnPhilly on October 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
The ecstasy of insentience.
Speaking of insentience, where’ve you been, Loxy?
anXdem on October 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Obama Afghan Cultural Adviser Tells General McChrystal She Doesn’t See Any Taliban-Al Qaeda Connections Through Burka: http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-afghan-cultural-adviser-tells.html
Mervis Winter on October 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
YES. YES. YES. This is the absolute worst thing he could be doing right now. Our guys are dying trying to implement a strategy HE APPROVED 6 MONTHS AGO, and he’s denying them the resources to accomplish it.
When you get ambushed (but this applies to most difficult decisions) you really have 3 choices:
1- Make the right decision and you get out alive.
2- Make the wrong decision and you might lose some guys.
3- Do nothing and you’ll get slaughtered.
Ask any leader, military or civilian, and they’ll tell you one of the worst traits a leader can have is the inability to make a difficult decision. And here we have guys literally being killed because their Commander in Chief can’t make up his mind whether or not giving them the resources for a mission HE SIGNED OFF ON is worth pissing off his left wing base.
It’s insane.
BadgerHawk on October 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Ogabe is a jihadi dream, the ultimate weak horse.
I’m glad I don’t live in a big city, though I am within ten miles of a nuclear power plant.
Maybe it’s time to move.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM
OK pass it over… you know what I’m talking about… cause if you honestly believe the MSM is going to ask one single question of Obummer about this you are smokin some serious $hit….
doriangrey on October 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM
The MSM today are the most intelligent, most informed, most fair, most honest and most patriotic Americans in our history. They would put Lincoln to shame.
Loxodonta on October 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Which means he will take the General to take a hike.
Pleasing the base comes first.
RobCon on October 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM
In this clip he also bitches about us giving Pakistan ‘billions of dollars’, even though his Democrat controlled Congress just tripled the amount of money we’re going to be sending them.
BadgerHawk on October 8, 2009 at 10:26 PM
I’m starting JIHAD FOR THE CONSTITUTION;
HOW CAN I MISS?
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Today–Via the AP–
This is outrageous. Dying soldiers just to keep Al-Qaida at bay? You don’t fight if you don’t make sure you do everything, and I mean everything, possible to win. This is a losing strategy. He should give his General what he needs for victory or withdraw our troops, anything less is unconscionable. Damn you Obama, You are scum!!
Dollayo on October 8, 2009 at 10:29 PM
It’s an old ultra-leftist meme, that we invaded the wrong country, Afghanistan instead of Pakistan. I’m not sure where it comes from, except from starting with anti-Americanism and working backward from there to find a political stance. I think even Michael Moore wasn’t clueless enough to go that far, though.
calbear on October 8, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Getting to 12/31/2009 sounds perty damned good to me.
Earlg on October 8, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Can’t do anything with this one, MSM?
RightWinged on October 8, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Well, excUse me.
Knucklehead on October 8, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Obama is still looking for the “Moderates in the Muslim
Jihad”!!
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 9:57 PM
YEA; THE ONES WITH THE NIOSH APPROVED SUICIDE VESTS!
Cybergeezer on October 8, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Cybergeezer: Exactly!!:)
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Someone else who evidently understands….and is probably ingesting the same muscle relaxants that I have been taking all day.
Look at the pretty colors. I like cake, do you like cake? I like cake.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Maybe it’s time to move.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Bishop: Yes,into your spanking new underground bunker!!:)
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Can we at least say that Obama is a Middle Eastern sympathizer?
kingsjester on October 8, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Reed has reservations about Afghanistan war plans
http://www.projo.com/news/content/AFGHAN_REED_MIDDLE_10-09-09_DLG1MQO_v12.3986b9a.html
brianpierre on October 8, 2009 at 10:36 PM
He’s a joke. A dangerous one.
Weight of Glory on October 8, 2009 at 10:36 PM
I hope they miss and hit China and N. Korea while they sleep. Just sayin’.
HornetSting on October 8, 2009 at 10:18 PM
HornetSting:Now that would be a shame,hehe:)
canopfor on October 8, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Hey, Bish! Did the back go out working at the Garage? Or it this just your reaction to this glorious news from Dear Leader?
kingsjester on October 8, 2009 at 10:38 PM
July 20, 2008
Guardian on October 8, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Oh I understand, I have a blog that pretty much spells out what I think in no uncertain terms.
I wrote this yesterday, and yes I am dead serious regarding everything I wrote…
doriangrey on October 8, 2009 at 10:42 PM
I think the body count that this administration will rack up directly and indirectly, mostly from his lack of firm foreign policy and lack of supporting allies, will be staggering.
bluemarlin on October 8, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Here you go.
Do you want some kool-aid to wash that down?
Loxodonta on October 8, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Do you have any left? I want what you’re having.
anXdem on October 8, 2009 at 10:47 PM
No, I really am on the muscle relaxant stuff. A chain hoist collapsed the other day and we lost control of a V12 block; it all went awry and I pulled something in my shoulder.
Great stuff if you don’t mind drifting off unexpectedly or find yourself talking into a phone with no one on the other end.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 10:52 PM
You’ve been talking on the phone with Obama?!
Loxodonta on October 8, 2009 at 10:54 PM
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