Obama Backs Down on Sudan

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May 2008 - "Genocide is underway in Darfur, Sudan. Already, 50,000 African Muslims have been killed and 1.2 million displaced by the Sudanese Government and by Arab Janjaweed militias armed and encouraged by Khartoum. The Bush Administration itself warned of the magnitude of the crisis, if no action is taken. Andrew Natsios, head of USAID, said in June that "if nothing changes we will have one million casualties." We cannot, in good conscience, stand by and let this genocide continue.

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President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan — the man wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in Darfur — has been celebrating. His regime calls itself the National Congress Party, or N.C.P., and he was quoted in Sudan as telling a rally in the Blue Nile region: “Even America is becoming an N.C.P. member. No one is against our will.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/opinion/22kristof.html?src=mv

Can you say Rwanda?

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Can you say Rwanda?

I'm trying, is it pronounced fo-net-ik-al-lee?


Obama backs up in a sedan? WTH is that? Doesn't he have a driver?



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President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan — the man wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in Darfur — has been celebrating. His regime calls itself the National Congress Party, or N.C.P., and he was quoted in Sudan as telling a rally in the Blue Nile region: “Even America is becoming an N.C.P. member. No one is against our will.”

Hmm. I squinted real hard and looked for the part where Kristof solicited a response to Omar's presumptuous quote from the White House press office. You know, like a real journalist would do (instead of the old trick of just presuming "acquiescence by silence"). Couldn't find it.

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President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan — the man wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in Darfur — has been celebrating. His regime calls itself the National Congress Party, or N.C.P., and he was quoted in Sudan as telling a rally in the Blue Nile region: “Even America is becoming an N.C.P. member. No one is against our will.”

Hmm. I squinted real hard and looked for the part where Kristof solicited a response to Omar's presumptuous quote from the White House press office. You know, like a real journalist would do (instead of the old trick of just presuming "acquiescence by silence"). Couldn't find it.

You must be talking about this...

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Mr. Obama’s special envoy for Sudan, Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, pre-emptively defended the elections, saying they would be “as free and as fair as possible.” The White House showed only a hint more backbone with a hurried reference this week to “an essential step” with “serious irregularities.”

See, in the big picture I really don't give 2 shits about the Sudan except where it shows that politicians will say anything to get elected. And Barry's no better or worse than any of them.

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President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan — the man wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in Darfur — has been celebrating. His regime calls itself the National Congress Party, or N.C.P., and he was quoted in Sudan as telling a rally in the Blue Nile region: “Even America is becoming an N.C.P. member. No one is against our will.”

Hmm. I squinted real hard and looked for the part where Kristof solicited a response to Omar's presumptuous quote from the White House press office. You know, like a real journalist would do (instead of the old trick of just presuming "acquiescence by silence"). Couldn't find it.

You must be talking about this...

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Mr. Obama’s special envoy for Sudan, Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, pre-emptively defended the elections, saying they would be “as free and as fair as possible.” The White House showed only a hint more backbone with a hurried reference this week to “an essential step” with “serious irregularities.”

Nope, that's not a response to Omar's quote, which he made during an election campaign speech made to a domestic audience. OK, here's Journalism 101:

Kristof: Hi, White House press office? This is Nick Kristof, and I'm writing an article on the Administration's position on Sudan. President Omar recently said in a speech that ***. Do you have any comment on this?

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So you're OK with this turn of events and the silence from the WH?

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So you're OK with this turn of events and the silence from the WH?

What part of what I'm saying are you not getting? The WH can't be expected to learn of, much less unerringly reply to, every random quote in every random campaign speech made by this dumb asshole to a domestic audience in the Sudan. There is no acquiescence by silence!

You want to know what the WH thinks of this quote? Simple: ASK THEM.

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So you're OK with this turn of events and the silence from the WH?

What part of what I'm saying are you not getting? The WH can't be expected to learn of, much less unerringly reply to, every random quote in every random campaign speech made by this dumb asshole to a domestic audience in the Sudan. There is no acquiescence by silence!

You want to know what the WH thinks of this quote? Simple: ASK THEM.

I get it. You sure didn't have to ask back in '08 when he was making all kinds of promises.

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>You sure didn't have to ask back in '08 when he was making all kinds of promises.

And you don't even have to think to bash him now.

Hey, I hear he hasn't denounced rape recently. OBAMA SUPPORTS RAPE! How can you stand to live in a country where rape is supported by the government?

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>You sure didn't have to ask back in '08 when he was making all kinds of promises.

And you don't even have to think to bash him now.

Hey, I hear he hasn't denounced rape recently. OBAMA SUPPORTS RAPE! How can you stand to live in a country where rape is supported by the government?

Meet the new boss...same as the old boss.

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>You sure didn't have to ask back in '08 when he was making all kinds of promises.

And you don't even have to think to bash him now.

Hey, I hear he hasn't denounced rape recently. OBAMA SUPPORTS RAPE! How can you stand to live in a country where rape is supported by the government?

Meet the new boss...same as the old boss.

So you admit Bush supported rape. Excellent.

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Haven't you been complaining about all the money America has been spending?

I've heard it costs a lot of money to go to war.

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