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Obamas Top Ten Foreign Policy Blunders (telegraph columnist)

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Posted by lord garth 2009-12-24 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 You forgot Kenya. Thats number 1.

Posted by newc 2009-12-24 00:18|| 2009-12-24 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Also not mentioned:

Accepting a copy of Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina (The Open Veins of Latin America) from the punk Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-24 03:55|| 2009-12-24 03:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Galling, embarrassing, stupid,
Painful blunders!

Posted by whatadeal 2009-12-24 05:59|| 2009-12-24 05:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Too bad they couldn't have done a top twenty. I'm sure that giving the Queen an iPod loaded with Obama's speechifying would have made it.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-24 06:04|| 2009-12-24 06:04|| Front Page Top

#5 He is the Messiah.

the ONE who the whole world has been waiting for.

Isnt he just FAB-ulous ?

AND he's Black ( well half anyway).

What was the name of his little dog?

Posted by Angleton9 2009-12-24 06:59|| 2009-12-24 06:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Someone really ought to be keeping tabs and listing/inviting suggested means to rectify the likely unpleasant outcomes resulting from Obama's woeful lack of judgement.

In response to Blunder #10: Requesting the return of Churchill's bust to the White House. Should be done with some ceremony during the first days of the next president's term.

Posted by Bulldog 2009-12-24 07:22|| 2009-12-24 07:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Have you noticed any leaks or backstabbing from State as we saw during the Bush II era? They seem very content with these 'blunders'. No surprise there. So, it should have been titled Obama and State's Top Ten Foreign Policy Blunders.

Posted by P2k on vacation 2009-12-24 08:36|| 2009-12-24 08:36|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 Have you noticed any leaks or backstabbing from State

No, and you won't either. Barry is to the State Department what the eggs are to an omellete.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-24 08:44|| 2009-12-24 08:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Bulldog, I admit that the return of Churchill's bust was a very low point in the special relationship, but look at it from Obama's point of view: Could there have been a more embarrassing comparison?

Posted by Matt 2009-12-24 13:03|| 2009-12-24 13:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Not difficult to figure actually. It was Winston Churchill's army that arrested Barry's grandfather for spying for the Mau Mau.

Apples, they generally fall pretty close to the tree.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-24 14:06|| 2009-12-24 14:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Wouldn't it be easier to list the Top 100?

Posted by ed 2009-12-24 15:00|| 2009-12-24 15:00|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't understand why he didn't move the bust into a different room. Not very political.

Nobody would have loaned Clinton anything expensive ... that they wanted back.

Posted by Super Hose 2009-12-24 15:18|| 2009-12-24 15:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Here's hoping the next conservative President of the US (yeah, we can hope for one of those) makes time for "stick my thumb in obama's eye" one hour a day during 8 years of cleaning up the beltway cesspool. Could be great fun...

Posted by M. Murcek 2009-12-24 17:23|| 2009-12-24 17:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Wouldn't it be easier to list the Top 100?

No, that would be way more painful. It would be way easier to list the things he has done right. At least it would be a much shorter list.

Posted by gorb 2009-12-24 23:10|| 2009-12-24 23:10|| Front Page Top

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