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Washington Prowler
Have Presidency, Will Travel
So what will it be for Obama’s first foreign trip: Indonesia or Brussels?
Obama transition team members are already focusing and planning big overseas events for the President-elect. According to transition sources at the State Department, there are already sketchy plans being pulled together for Obama to travel to Indonesia, where he would make a major speech targeted to the Muslim world. “Given Obama’s ties to Indonesia, it’s a natural place for him to go to make the speech he’s already said he wants to make,” says a transition team aide.
Some believe that Obama’s first overseas trip, however, will be to Europe to attend the 60th anniversary of NATO, although the Obama transition team doesn’t believe his first overseas visit should focus on the military or the traditional alliances. “If we win, we’re sending him to Brussels first,” says another transition member. “The symbolism is right, and sends a message that new institutions like the European Union will be respected and have higher standing with him.”
Transition members for the Executive Office of the President, State and Defense are already weighing in on the proposals.
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Daphne| 12.12.08 @ 8:52AM
Obama's first trip is to the United Kingdom, where he has to take orders from. Obama is only a figure head.
This one world order, design comes from the people behind the seens. The same crooks who prints the Dollars, is the same type of crooks that runs America and the world.
Mister Correction| 12.12.08 @ 11:04AM
Daphne needs to learn basic sentence structure and spelling. Then she can proceed to things more profound, like worldwide conspiracies. Good luck Daffy: You have grammer school to redo.
stmichrick| 12.12.08 @ 1:32PM
Wherever he goes, the mission will be to apologize for being America.
Coming soon; Malaise 2, a new TV show about how neat it is to have a liberal Democrat in the West Wing again. The theme music will be a new arrangement of 'Movin' On Up', last heard on 'The Jeffersons."
Crusader| 12.12.08 @ 2:17PM
Less than 8 years after moslems murdered 3000 Americans and destroyed the WTCs, our prez is going to go to a moslem country and kiss butt.
Wow.
Ohsee| 12.13.08 @ 12:50AM
For Mister Correction.
I don't know; if you think about it a second, the phrase "...behind the seens" has certaint poetic clarity and insight.
Scarecrow| 12.13.08 @ 6:26AM
I think Daphne has a good point. Look at the record of the continuing leftward drift of this country and its ongoing surrender of sovereignty. Look at the schizophrenic record of the Bush administration and the McCain campaign, which have been touted as conservative, but have been anything but that. It reminds me of the Wizard of Oz- 'pay no attention to the man behind the curtain".
Interested Conservative| 12.13.08 @ 10:36AM
Sounds like a rerun of Bill's Global Apology Tour. Maybe he'll be the opening act this go around.
JSmith | 12.14.08 @ 11:24PM
This is good article but leaves out a major reason for the world trip, which is to evangilize the false science overseas.
1. Obamam (or Mamon as reefered in the old testiment) is a supporter (and possibly a reciprieant) of psychiatry.
2. Modern biological psychiatry is a materialistic religion masquerading as a science.
3. Psychiatrists are evil. 100% pure evil. Psychiatrists have been behind history’s worst human rights atrocities including 9/11, Apartheid, all genocide, and the Columbine shootings.
4. Obama entered into a tacit arrangement with a co-conspiratorial segment of the public whereby, if they were to contribute sufficient votes to his candidacy, Obama agreed to become their president.
5. Several prominent psychiatrists are the leaders of the conspiracy to conciel Obama's true birth circumstances from the public. They claim to be hiding behind the "Physician's Oath" in comitting this treason.