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Obama needs a history lesson.

In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen. Barack Obama said something that is all the more remarkable for how little it has been remarked upon.

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I guess we're going to have to put up with this babbling idiot 'till Nov. Expect a lot more BS

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Obama gave a historical speech when he won NC. The media agrees that he came through despite his challenges.
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May 11, 2008
 
LaughingPant wrote:
Obama gave a historical speech when he won NC. The media agrees that he came through despite his challenges.
So the media does your thinking for you?
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RO3K oN mAn Xie Xie
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May 12, 2008
 
LaughingPant wrote:
Obama gave a historical speech when he won NC. The media agrees that he came through despite his challenges.
It just goes to show that the media is as ignorant of history as you are. No where, at no time in history did any of what Obama attempted to connect occur. I suggest that you get a good history book, one written prior to 1970's and read just exactly with whom Roosevelt and Truman talked. Since you are probably to lazy to check the facts I will inform you of what occured.

I assume the Roosevelt to whom Sen. Obama referred is Franklin D. Roosevelt. Our enemies in World War II were Nazi Germany, headed by Adolf Hitler; fascist Italy, headed by Benito Mussolini, and militarist Japan, headed by Hideki Tojo. FDR talked directly with none of them before the outbreak of hostilities, and his policy once war began was unconditional surrender. FDR died before victory was achieved, and was succeeded by Harry Truman. Truman did not modify the policy of unconditional surrender. He ended that war not with negotiation, but with the atomic bomb. Harry Truman also was president when North Korea invaded South Korea in June, 1950. President Truman’s response was not to call up North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung for a chat. It was to send troops...

held a summit meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev in Vienna in June, 1961. Elie Abel, who wrote a history of the Cuban missile crisis (The Missiles of October), said the crisis had its genesis in that summit... Mr. Abel wrote,‘There is no evidence to support the belief that Khrushchev ever questioned America’s power. He questioned only the president’s readiness to use it.’... It’s worth noting that Kennedy then was vastly more experienced than Sen. Obama is now. A combat veteran of World War II, Jack Kennedy served 14 years in Congress before becoming president. Obama is an empty suit and pales in comparison to any of the above

"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Churchill

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