Nouri al-Maliki had best watch out for Obamabus, because it hungers, and my first question just got answered: Maliki denies the report from Der Spiegel, saying that his words were “misunderstood, mistranslated and not conveyed accurately,” according to CNN.
Maliki became a quick friend to Obama as soon as that report came out, but now will he, too, go under the bus along with grandma?
Update: Via Gateway Pundit we have the original statement made by the Obama campaign on the ‘mistranslated’ remarks by Maliki:
Senator Obama welcomes Prime Minister Maliki’s support for a 16 month tieline for the redeployment of U.S [sic] combat brigades. This presents an important opportunity to transition to Iraqi responsibility, while restoring our military [sic] and increasing our commitment [sic] to finish the fight in Afghanistan.
It’s not a good idea when you’re trying to present yourself as a great diplomat, to go and fall so easily for an agenda-driven ‘mistranslation’ of an important allied leader by some European magazine, I should think. Oops.
P.S. What exactly was “increasing our commitment” supposed to mean? Does “commitment” come on a sliding scale for Barack Obama? That is, do some commitments not really mean he’s committed, but others do? Which commitments has he made on the campaign trail need increased so they’ll stick?
Prime Minister Maliki has spoke positively of the surge since it started, crediting it for averting civil war in his country. Now that Maliki and President Bush are talking about using the success of the surge and General Petraeus’s new strategy in order to pull our troops out earlier, will you admit you were wrong and Bush was right about the surge?
The Lakers have opted not to match the offer made to Ronny Turiaf. He seems like such a nice guy though. I hope he does well for his new team.
You published an article headlined Iraq Leader Maliki Supports Obama’s Withdrawal Plans, however you never quote him as such. You merely quote him agreeing with Obama’s proposed 16 month timeframe, but never any details of Obama’s actual plan within that timeframe.
Do you actually have a quote of Maliki endorsing Obama’s actual, written plan, or are you willfully exaggerating the contents of the interview, lying about Maliki in order to subvert our election?
I noticed something last night: In some update or other, they added an option to Spaces to turn off the switch-desktops-automatically ‘feature.’
Huzzah!
I finally set this aside about a week ago. My nephew loves the game (well, he has Diamond), but his inability to read has hindered him greatly the whole time. Being 6, he also gets lazy and selfish about the game.
So I got sick of him demanding unfair trades, and for me to give him everything I got. Plus, I decided the Battle Tower was a luckfest, and while I was very close to having in my boxes the entire Sinnoh Pokedex, I just didn’t feel like finishing. So, I got Action Replay DS and have been giving Daniel Level 100 Shinies of any type he wants, 5-10 a day when I see him.
I enjoyed the game though. I just can’t get into the post-victory stuff. Ultimately it gets too repetitive, and leveling to level 100 just is plain tedious. My only Level 100 is a Palkia I got in an Internet trade. I was able to clean up in the online trading once I had Ditto to manufacture eggs of anything in Pearl, plus starter types from the LeafGreen I bought (for this purpose plus the purpose of just getting Daniel Squirtle, Charmander, Bulbasaur, Jiggypuff, and others).
Thoguh Daniel sure had me going longer in this than I went in either of the other ones I played (Blue on an emulator, Ruby on the GBA SP).
According to the propagandists at the AP, being opposed to the so-called International Criminal Court is equivalent to being soft on genocide.
Anything to attack President Bush. And people actually trust and rely upon these articles to tell them the truth about the world?
So Turiaf has gotten an offer from Golden State for a frontloaded 4 years, $17 million. He’s a restricted free agent, though, so the Lakers can match it or let him go.
In the 80s it’d have been a no-brainer to keep him. He’d be a great enforcer. But now though, enforcers just get flagrant fouls, so we don’t need him in that role.
So the question becomes: Can Turiaf learn to defend without fouling all the time? If yes, keep him. If no, then move on. And I don’t really feel equipped to make that decision. If I’m Kupchak I get Phil and co. to tell me point blank if he’s going to improve.
He’s not critical though. The Lakers should start next year healthy, and so with no shortage of bigs.
ABRIDGE, v.t.. To shorten.
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Oliver Cromwell
Expose + Spaces = Much easier way of moving a window from desktop to desktop. It makes me happy, and makes Mac OS X Leopard that much more livable.