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Teleprompter breaks; Obama rips U.S., praises China and Russia
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... Why does Barack Obama hate America? Powerline adds : Barack Obama without a teleprompter is an accident waiting to happen. Sometimes he reveals his ignorance of history, sometimes he stumbles incoherently, and sometimes he blurts out what he really believes. That's what happened today when Obama tried to talk about Georgia, a topic that has embarrassed him more than once already, beginning when, in the first hours after the invasion, he parroted the Russian line. Today Obama equated Russia's invasion of Georgia with our toppling of Saddam Hussein: “We’ve got to send a clear ...

Obama's moral equivalence
Betsy's Page — ... and Russia’s recent military activity in Georgia. “We’ve got to send a clear message to Russia and unify our allies,” Obama told a crowd of supporters in Virginia. “They can’t charge into other countries. Of course it helps if we are leading by example on that point.” Does he really see an equivalence between our invading a bloody dictatorship to establish a democratic government and Russia invading a democracy to extend their power and establish a puppet government? John Hinderaker sums this up perfectly. So our "charging into" Iraq--with dozens of allies, ...

Hugh Hewitt: Which Obama Gaffe To Cover? Obama's Anti-Exceptionalism: "Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now."
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — Powerline's JohnHinderaker notes Obama's pratfall on the Russian rape of Georgia --comparing it to our invasion of Iraq-- is just the latest in a string of gaffes , and John didn't even know when he wrote it that Obama had also sung the praises of totalitarian engineering around Beijing. Here's what Obama said yesterday about China: Everybody's watching what's going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics , Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now , which means if ...

Hugh Hewitt: Which Obama Gaffe To Cover? Obama's Anti-Exceptionalism: "Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now."
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Powerline's JohnHinderaker notes Obama's pratfall on the Russian rape of Georgia --comparing it to our invasion of Iraq-- is just the latest in a string of gaffes , and John didn't even know when he wrote it that Obama had also sung the praises of totalitarian engineering around Beijing. Here's what Obama said yesterday about China: Everybody's watching what's going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics , Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now , which means if ...

Dispatches from Up-is-Down World
The Anonymous Liberal — There are things that you just wouldn't know unless you read right-wing blogs. For instance, did you know Barack Obama is a "Gaffe Machine"? That's a common theme on right-wing blogs. For exampke, in this fairly typical post at Powerline (entitled "Has the Gaffe Machine Gone Too Far?") John Hindraker writes: ...

Obama - Communist China Infrastructure Is Vastly Superior To America
Flopping Aces — ... to the Iraq war, which his comment clearly referenced, is well known. But this was the first time the Democratic presidential candidate has made a comparison between the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Russia’s recent military activity in Georgia. “We’ve got to send a clear message to Russia and unify our allies,” Obama told a crowd of supporters in Virginia. “They can’t charge into other countries. Of course it helps if we are leading by example on that point.” John Hinderaker was a little po’d by the remark: So our “charging ...