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Blackwater Got the Gig Securing Obama in Afghanistan

July 25, 2008 05:00 PM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link | Print

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Don't you need to look for a real job, my word to say that "overheard comments" always send up red flags. Give names of who he said it to. Otherwise it's just school yard gossip

The Messiah's Many Campaigns

The Great Barack will say anything he has to in order to pander for votes to the particular audience he's addressing at the moment. That's why he takes any position needed for right now. He has no "real" position because there is no "real" at all to The Great Messiah -- it's all smoke and mirrors.

The Great Messiah has no genuine feel for any audience other than the black racist criminal Chicago community in which he has traveled his entire life, except, perhaps, for the times he associated with the pointy- headed liberals of academe after completing his affirmative-action admission and "education."

The Great Messiah does not appreciate the hatred he stirs in real Americans when he ignores meeting with wounded military personnel, and only associates with them at all in order to gather photo-ops for his phony campaign.

All Hail The Great Phony! Pfffffffft!!!

Oxymoron from a moron

"Our best chance: Obama!! (Along with an informed electorate!)"

Go Leebo!

The flip-flopping Obama

Obama being guarded by Blackwater . . . not surprise there. If Obama is elected he will probably replace the US military with Blackwater. Every time I think I understand his position on something he goes and changes it.

Thanks Leebo

Whenever I read "Bush's cronies" in a post, I know its a waste of time. I just wanted to thank you for saving me that. My time is precious.

Blackwater

SOBama spent all his time in the GREEN ZONE shooting hoops.

EASY "GIG" for him.

Too bad Blackwater has to keep Senators safe.

They should have taken him out into the field without the bread crumbs and left his butt there!

Blackwater

Too bad Blackwater took the "gig"

why aren't there any facts here?

What's more, Obama was overheard saying: "Blackwater is getting a bad rap."

^ copied from article; He made no statements, he was simply "overheard." and this article says nothing of who overheard this. It could have been Obama changing his mind, or it could have been a fragment of a larger sentence ("some people think that... Blackwater is getting a bad rap") for example.

And the fact that he used them is not all that surprising. It's a war zone, and he's a high-profile man. Personal security is precisely what companies like Blackwater are for. the fact that he hired them to provide security doesn't mean that he's suddenly in favor of hiring them to fight a war.

If you want to accuse the man of something, have some facts before you do it, not a couple of words that a nameless source "overheard."

"Citizen of the Wordl" needs security?

Why would Barack Hussein "Citizen of the World" Obama need security in one of his home countries?

Someone is pushing the story

If you believe this then you would believe that John McCain is an advocate of the United Nations. You name the source...and then perhaps it would have some merit. Unfortunately Erik Prince and his band of thughs will do anything to continue their cash transfers from the U.S. Treasury to their numbered Swiss bank accounts.

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