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Between Soccer Games in Rio, Obama Urges Arab Countries to Follow Brazil’s Democratic Lead

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As U.S. warplanes pounded faraway Libya, President Barack Obama praised Brazil’s transition from dictatorship to democracy as a model for the Arab world where decades of stability enforced by strongmen are giving way to an uncertain but potentially brighter future.

Between Soccer Games in Rio, Obama Urges Arab Countries to Follow Brazils Democratic Lead

The president spoke from a theater in a historic Rio de Janeiro square where a 1984 protest set the stage for the eventual end of a 20-year military dictatorship.

He said those protesters showed how a popular revolt could produce a thriving democracy. And without specifically mentioning the military action he authorized just a day ago in Libya, the president drew a connection to the events there and throughout the Middle East.

“We’ve seen the people of Libya take a courageous stand against a regime determined to brutalize its own citizens. Across the region, we have seen young people rise up – a new generation demanding the right to determine their own future,” the president said.

Between Soccer Games in Rio, Obama Urges Arab Countries to Follow Brazils Democratic Lead

“From the beginning, we have made clear that the change they seek must be driven by their own people. But as two nations who have struggled over many generations to perfect our own democracies, the United States and Brazil know that the future of the Arab world will be determined by its people.”

The events in Libya had threatened to overshadow Obama’s three-country, five-day Latin American tour, so Obama sought on Sunday to use Brazil‘s own history to illuminate what’s happening halfway around the world.

The president, speaking on day two of his trip, underscored that the people of Brazil determined the country’s future, as he said must happen in the Middle East. It‘s a message Obama has conveyed ever since Tunisia’s uprising in January set off a chain reaction through Egypt and to Libya.

With the U.S. now involved in military action to enforce an internationally authorized no-fly zone over Libya, Obama wants to be particularly clear to his audience back home that the U.S. will not write the final chapter in that country, or any other. He’s insisted there will be no American ground troops in Libya.

“No one can say for certain how this change will end, but I do know that change is not something that we should fear,” the president said.

“That is the example of Brazil. Brazil – a country that shows that a dictatorship can become a thriving democracy. Brazil – a country that shows democracy delivers both freedom and opportunity to its people. Brazil – a country that shows how a call for change that starts in the streets can transform a city, a country, and the world.”

Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship from 1964-85, a regime that was eased from power not by a sharp, violent revolution, but through a long, massive popular movement of peaceful protest and strikes led in large part by labor unions and dissident political groups. New President Dilma Rousseff, the nation’s first female leader, who took power in January, was a key member of a Marxist militant group that battled against the dictatorship.

Brazil is now enjoying one of the strongest democratic moments in its political history, and analysts have lauded the quality of its leadership during the last 16 years.

Obama, who met Saturday with Rousseff, repeated that he hoped to strengthen ties between the two countries. Brazil’s large and vibrant economy stands out in the region.

The speech was originally planned as an outdoor event on the plaza open to all, but U.S. officials decided at the last-minute to move it inside the theater and make it invitation-only “due to a number of concerns,” according to a Friday press release from the U.S. Embassy.

While the speech was billed as an address to the people of Brazil, his audience was relatively small – about 1,800 fit in the ornate theater – many elegantly dressed. Judging by the number who listened without translator headphones, many spoke English.

Obama, who earlier Sunday visited a notorious Rio slum called City of God where he played soccer with local kids, made a direct pitch to common bonds. He recalled how his mother’s favorite movie was Black Orpheus, filmed in the shantytowns of Rio during Carnival. He cited the similar histories of the U.S. and Brazil, two countries that emerged from colonial pasts, grew through vast immigration and “eventually cleansed the stain of slavery from our land. ”

The president cheered Brazil’s remarkable economic growth, but gently prodded Brazilians saying that such expansion also brings responsibility. And he called on Brazil to join the United States in demanding universal rights around the globe.

“These are not American or Brazilian ideas,” he said. “They are not Western ideas. They are universal rights, and we must support them everywhere.”

The president’s sightseeing and speech in Brazil on Sunday were sure to endear him even more to the diverse and multicultural country where his personal story already makes him popular. That advances the overall goals of the five-day Latin American trip – with Chile and El Salvador next on the itinerary – which aims to cast Obama and the United States as attentive neighbors from the North, eager to capitalize on the region’s economic successes while addressing common security concerns.

From the start, however, Obama’s attention has been divided. He’s been forced to shuttle from events in Brazil to briefings with his national security team on Libya. On Sunday morning he conferred with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other top officials by secure phone before motorcading from his hotel across from the famed Copacabana beach to a helicopter, and finally by car into the City of God slum. It’s one of more than 1,000 slums, or “favelas,“ that dot the urban hills surrounding the city but also one that has become part of an ambitious ”pacification” program aimed at reducing violence in Rio.

Advisers said the favela tour was designed to illustrate Obama’s push for what officials call “citizen security,” an emerging concern in Latin American countries as they wrestle with narco-crime and lingering poverty. The president was met by cheering crowds hanging from rooftops and balconies as he visited a community center in the shantytown.

The president was to end his stay in Rio with a nighttime walking tour of Corcovado Mountain to the Christ the Redeemer Statue that is the very symbol of the city. Initially, Obama had planned to visit the Christ statue at mid-morning. Aides said the change in schedule and shifting the speech to an indoor venue were due to logistical adjustments. They said they feared the statue would be shrouded in fog Sunday – a mist did cover the hills around Rio.

But the changes had the effect of lowering Obama’s profile in the city, reducing the opportunity for clashing images as international attention remained riveted in Libya.

Obama departs Brazil early Monday and heads for Chile. On Tuesday he goes to El Salvador.

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  • judy1270
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:42pm

    I can’t tell you how much I hate this guy…………………..he makes me puke

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  • caprica
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:42pm

    obama reads Koran and Marixist manual ! he hates United States Constitutuon ! and spit on United States Constitution and Ameria Law……this man is as pathetic mistake ! a nobel winner ! it is absolutely sick ! they communsits gave jimmy carter and hussein obama their worthless crap ! call noble price ! now that price is as good as tolete paper !

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  • caprica
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:38pm

    hussien obama the african king looks his best playing soccer….he is not good for anything else.
    Seriously, this man is not fit for a president …..it is like living in a bad nightmare to know that such a man like him..liar, muslim pretending to be christian ….born in kenya village of mombasa is running our beautiful country……those who elected him are real sorry ! they did not know any better – CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC lied about who obama is (marxist-dictaorrrrrrrr form Kenya Mombasa-no one remember barry husseisn obama at the Columbia Unversity-500 students were intervied form the classes that obama suppose to attend – no one remember obama ) the Africnan King is a fraud !

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    • Grandmadar
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:44pm

      I agree but, “pretending to be a Christian”? Obama is not pretending. Everthing he says and does proves he is not a Christian. However, I will say only God can judge a person’s soul. The Bible does say A Christian will be known by his/her love and we shall know them by their fruits. Hmmm, not sure he passes those tests.

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  • KEA
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:34pm

    This President makes me sick! He is a discrace to our country!

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:09pm

      @KEA –

      He is and continues to be a disgrace to our country. Why are we allowing this?

      People can make “citizen’s arrest”, right? Can We The People NOT arrest this man for the impostor illegal alien that he is? Is anyone working on this to make it happen? I do not believe we can wait until the 2012 elections, AMERICA.

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  • Wyatt's Torch
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:32pm

    Soccer is a great metaphor for Barry…….he is great at “kicking things down the road” and he always seems to keep his hands from actually touching anything…

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:04pm

      @ WYATT’S TORCH ~~~ Indeed! You are correct. The good news is “God is not mocked for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap….” Galatians6:7-10

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  • ClockKing
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:28pm

    Those slums in Rio will still be there for decades. The communist leadership won’t solve the problems or lift people out of poverty.

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  • headbtweenlegs
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:22pm

    Obama at home

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  • Chicago Ray
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:18pm

    SO can we now use this image for Obama the Fiddler on the Roof as the lefties used endlessly the picture of GWB reading to children on the morning of 911?

    Especially Since we KNOW as he‘s goofing around in the ghetto’s of RIO, (something he doesn‘t even do in the ghetto’s of America who elected him) Mohamar Quaddafi is planning which American and or European Airliner or city to terrorist attack as he did to Pan am 103 over Lockerbie?

    Reminds me of Slick getting Oral Office wobblewashess while Al Queda was planning not their first but second attack on the trade centers and while Fidel was out in the Rose Garden being told Slick was constipated and would be there in about 2 minutes… ;(

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:17pm

    Is it appropriate to say, “This man is a complete a$$”?

    Please can someone start impeachment proceedings NOW??????

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  • democratgirl
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:14pm

    Guerrino_P:
    Conservatives ARE the backbone of America and people like you have no clue what that means. And, I do not feel sorry for you or your libertard friends. WE, the people, the conservatives, the patriots, the backbone of this great, great country WILL take back our country. Your days are numbered.

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    • Chicago Ray
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:22pm

      You would know since you’re the gatekeeper of the Trailer park huh Guerrino?

      By the way what’s your momma doing tonight? She was busy over here last night, and I thought I’d rehire her, she gives nice Monica but her cell’s turned off.

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  • joedog73
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:11pm

    I hope the Obamas have a good time in Brazil while the rest of us are struggling with $3.60+ gas and a bad economy. I don’t think he has a clue what the average american family deals with every day. It shows what electing a person with NO prior leadership experience gets you.

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  • Guerrino_P
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:07pm

    Have you ever wondered why conservatives are total losers? The poison of America.

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:19pm

      @GUERRINO_P My lost-in-the-muck-and-mire friend,

      Bless your heart. You are so deceived. You are on my prayer list and that will either bring you great comfort or send you running for cover.

      GOD BLESS AND PROTECT YOU.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:31pm

      @GUERRINO_ P,
      Please check out the latest D.S.M.! You are exhibiting classic Projection.
      I am sure you will find other things in there that descibe you too…,but hey, projection for sure!

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    • Chicago Ray
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:15pm

      Hey Guerrino! did they let you out of the dinner line early tonight over at that ‘Home for the hard of learning’? Better get all the trolling in before headcount and lockdown at 8

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    • beboc1
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 7:31pm

      guerrino_p

      NO…never had to wonder because you’re wrong. Sorry you’re such a angry, sorry wad. Often wonder what it is that’s made you so miserable.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:07pm

    This just in

    Barack Obama took a Soccer Ball to the Groin . No reaction at all, Explains that Michelle took his juevos long ago.

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  • JJCon
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:57pm

    Dear Mr. President,

    Democracy does not deliver freedom or opportunity. Freedom delivers opportunity.

    Democracy is merely a tool. Free people use it preserve freedom and opportunity. Dictators use it to legitimize and preserve their tyranny.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:51pm

      Excellent comment! — though the salutation is undeserving.

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:55pm

    this man makes me want to puke.. I just can not stand how he is running the country into the ground

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:28pm

      Hey, Ladyizshy, I know the feeling. Wish there were a quick remedy to the problem.

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    • Chicago Ray
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:29pm

      I beg to differ Lady……you mean RUN INTO THE GROUND!! ;)

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  • sbenard
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:53pm

    What does it say about AWOL Obama that he considers the election of a communist guerrilla as its president to be the model of a “democratic” movement? Must we be reminded that former East Germany’s official name was The German “Democratic” Republic and North Korea’s official name is The Korean “Democratic” Republic? To Marxists, the term “democracy” means a socialist dictatorship, NOT a representative constitutional republic like what the United States’s founders created.
    This is further proof that Obama is the Commie in Chief! He just hasn’t enough integrity to acknowledge it openly, but I wonder how often he acknowledges it with his collectivist cousins (like HIlda Rousseff, Brazil’s new marxist president) behind closed doors.

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  • tiredofprogressives
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:51pm

    While this muslim is in Brazil, Our “Commander in Chief” while he just declared War against Libya, yes he is in Brazil kicking a soccer ball around for 5 year olds while our country is in another muslim war he nows says arab countries should follow Brazil democratic process.

    This garbage still hates America.

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    • Tnredneck
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:14pm

      His speech about sums it all up. Where are the trolls at on this one?

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    • Chicago Ray
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:22pm

      “His speech about sums it all up. Where are the trolls at on this one?”

      They‘re only allowed to use the ’net connection at the ‘home for the mentally challenged’ while under supervision and all the supervisors are busy in the intake unit from 9-5 processing all the libs who’ve finally snapped like Gerald Laughner and others. ;)

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  • saneromeo
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:45pm

    I’m surprised at Mr. Obama, everyone knows that soccer is filled with violent rhetoric (he shoots, he scores!), and in today‘s political climate he’s just fanning the flames.

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  • lcassavaugh
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:32pm

    does BO have as much respect for the Tea Party as he does for rebels around the world….?

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:11pm

      lcassavaugh

      I can answer that for you, NO he respects all religons more than Christianity, he likes any form of Government better than that of the USA . The TEA PARTY was a joke to him now he has to take us seriously but hates the fact that we exist. He in fact I believe hates anything that has to do with the constitution and the founding fathers. He thinks he has all the answers, and in fact is doing his best to ruin this country.If we don’t get him out soon he will succeed in ruining everything we know and love.He has proven he does not care what “WE THE PEOPLE” want. Now he has made Congress irrelevent.Before long he and Soros will be running our country for sure. Can anyone tell I am becoming discouraged? Another day another war.

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    • Hisemiester
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 7:01pm

      Does BO have as much respect for the Tea Party as he does for rebels around the world….?
      No dey be on the udder side of the fence. Obama has respect for no one not even himself.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:31pm

    Hey Blaze – Your so called advertisement should disclose as such and not camouflage as a survey
    “The Japan Catastrophy”

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:29pm

    “The president was to end his stay in Rio with a nighttime walking tour of Corcovado Mountain to the Christ the Redeemer Statue that is the very symbol of the city. Initially, Obama had planned to visit the Christ statue at mid-morning. Aides said the change in schedule and shifting the speech to an indoor venue were due to logistical adjustments. They said they feared the statue would be shrouded in fog Sunday – a mist did cover the hills around Rio.

    But the changes had the effect of lowering Obama’s profile in the city, reducing the opportunity for clashing images as international attention remained riveted in Libya.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    You can’t see the statue of Christ as well in the dark — hmm — convenient.
    And the clashing images of him playing soccer while Libya burns — can’t have that, either!

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    • democratgirl
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:12pm

      If I were Obama, I would be scared, very scared to stand before Christ, too.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:20pm

      @Democratgirl
      You mean the REAL Christ or that statue overseeing a pagan city??

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    • Morris21654
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:29pm

      They light up the statue at night. A fog on Corcovado (the mountain of the statue) means you can’t see the city below — a beautiful view, day or night. To tell the truth, when you are up next to the statue, it is just too big and crudely done to be all that attractive. It is best seen from a distance, which is why people go to Corcovado for the view, not the statue.

      As for Obama not hanging around Washington during the Libyan crisis — he is on Air Force One, so his communications are excellent and he can send and receive information about Libya from anywhere in the world. Brazil is a big customer for U.S. exports and has money to invest in the U.S., so that means jobs for the U.S. If you put priorities in order of importance, does getting more jobs and growing the economy trump ousting a North African dictator? I think Obama has the right priority.

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    • Dale
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 7:15pm

      Morris21654;

      Given his laser-focused jobs creation success, I think we would be better off if he worked on the Libyan crisis.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 8:51pm

      @Morris21654
      Obama has not tried to create jobs. He is not trying to create jobs. Obama is trying to bankrupt the United States, throwing entitlements right and left. When the people become dependent upon the government, they forget that what the government gives, the government can take away.

      The government cannot boost the economy with stimulus money. The government does not make a product. Private enterprise creates jobs by making a product, sells it, makes a profit, and hires more people to make more products to sell — to make a profit. And so forth.

      If Obama doesn‘t know what the hell he’s doing, why doesn’t he just say, “I’m going back to Kenya!”?

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  • Dale
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:28pm

    barry missed his calling: a soccer ‘star’.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:46pm

      You misspelled “stupid.”

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 7:34pm

      8^)
      (Was kidding with you.)

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    • AmeriCat
      Posted on March 21, 2011 at 3:58am

      While he’s playing and gaming and giggling…
      Check out the SPENDING AND DEBT CHARTS on Heritage.org.

      Then, look at the ENTITLEMENT AND SPENDING vs %GDP 1920 to 2011.
      Yikes! O couldn’t be happier….while America falls, Alinsky-Fox-Piven style.

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    • TXMD
      Posted on March 21, 2011 at 7:46am

      And yet, he keeps on going on, and on, and on, and on…. like the Energizer Bunny. All the way up to 2012 when he may be deposed. Dear God my friends, let us make sure it is not Bill’ wife. Isn’t it time for the Republicans (?) to find and nurture and unite behind a star who can beat this idiot we have in Washington?

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:28pm

    I just shake my head and say to myself; What a fool we have for a president.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:30pm

      And I thought it was a countrywide disease that was causing people’s heads to shake, including my own!

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:16pm

      In a way, it might be a blessing that he is a fool. A bright Marxist would have us in even deeper trouble. Still, he’s a pathological narcissist and that is what makes him truly dangerous, since he won’t want to step down no matter what.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:26pm

    Obama surprises himself! Goes with the level of competition I suppose.

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:39pm

      With possible threats surfacing, had to blow off some missles in Libya to show how much of a bad ass ruler he is before showing up for soccer and stating, I’ll take all you kids on.

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    • Chicago Ray
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:25pm

      Yea, lol….. it reminds me of the Seinfeld episode when Kramer is all ‘jacked up’ because he‘s a ’Karate’ expert, but Jerry and Elaine find out after his dumb decision making it‘s only in the 7 and under class where he’s ‘king’…. ;)

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    • 101
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:14pm

      .
      Every time I think of Obama & his administration I get this warm fuzzy feeling to hold hands and sing Koombaya. You know the same feeling you get when a pit bull bites your nuts and rips them from your body, taking your manhood and making you just another one with the heard!

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 10:44pm

      He’d love to hold you hands, or play golf with you, or basketball, or kick a ball around, anything to get away from Michelle.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:24pm

    1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

    2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

    3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who
    are very good at crossword puzzles.

    4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really
    understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.

    5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the country — if they could find the time — and if they didn’t have to leave Southern California to do it.

    6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a poor job of it, thank you very much.

    7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren‘t too sure who’s running the
    country and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

    8. The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who is running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

    9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.

    10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure if there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country, or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.

    11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

    12. The Minneapolis Star Tribune is read by people who have recently caught a fish and
    need something in which to wrap it.

    Wonder which one Obama reads?!

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    • hersey10
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:32pm

      Really Bam ? Brasil’s democracy ? The newly elected President is a communist ex-con . Wolf in sheep’s clothing .

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:32pm

      Obama reads Sal Alinski.

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    • chips1
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:35pm

      He looks at the pictures in EBONY.

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    • NickDeringer
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:38pm

      Like most Progressives Professor O’Barry has no problem speaking from both ends of his digestive track.

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    • Cymry
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:43pm

      Glenn’s scenario of Good Cop (Hillary) and Bad Cop (obama) is freighteningly accurate. They (globalists) always…….always leave God (Elohim) out of the equation to their detriment and eventual defeat.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:44pm

      But as two nations who have struggled over many generations to perfect our own democracies, the United States and Brazil know that the future of the Arab world will be determined by its people.”
      ——————–
      WTF is this bumbling idiot saying ?
      We are a Representative Republic here Hussain .
      Brazil just ‘ elected’ a marxist guerrilla as president .
      So I guess thats what a perfect ‘ democracy’ is for your kind, right Obama ?
      Whats next ? Tingles telling us that USA has perfected democracy now that Obama is in WH ??

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:44pm

      I like him and his family and hope they continue to do well. I am glad that they make friends in other nations too.

      MONICNE  
    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:48pm

      @ Showtime
      Wonder which one Obama reads?!
      —-
      He reads a teleprompter

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:50pm

      @sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:44pm
      I like him and his family and hope they continue to do well. I am glad that they make friends in other nations too.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      I’m glad that SOMEBODY likes him.
      It would suit me if he would STAY on vacation!

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:50pm

      While the speech was billed as an address to the people of Brazil, his audience was relatively small – about 1,800 fit in the ornate theater – many elegantly dressed. Judging by the number who listened without translator headphones, many spoke English.
      ————
      So now Obama is meeting lobbyists in…… Brazil ?

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:51pm

      Obama can not read. Some one reads it to him and then explains what it says.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:53pm

      His favorite book is “Out of Africa”, He remembers playing SOCCER growing up as a kid. Not SURFING

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:57pm

      Sometimes I just have to wonder how clueless Obama really is…

      From a dictatorship, to the election of a Marxists Geurilla as the president of their country…

      And this is suppose to be democracy in action?

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:59pm

      Obama finds another “game” to play .. hope he is better at soccer than he is at golf or throwing a baseball.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZjc7q2h5dA

      Of course he has gotten A LOT of golf practice in the last year! Too bad he didn’t spend as much time learning about being a President. Then again he seems to be a VERY slow (if at all) learner.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:01pm

      @Hersey,
      Actually, the new president was put in by the former president, Lula da Silva, who was also a Marxist, much like Putin handed the baton to Medvedev. The newly elected Salvadorian “president” is also a product of Chavez’ Bolivarian revolution.

      Scr*w your Marxist friends and their “democracy,” O’bum, and you don‘t throw a soccer ball at another player’s face, idiot.

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    • exdem
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:01pm

      @SHOWTIME
      Excellent post. So funny, so true.

      Hussein O states that: “No one can say for certain how this change will end, but I do know that change is not something we should fear.”
      Translation: I cannot yet reveal my plan for world wide communism, but trust me ,don’t be afraid , I’m here to drag you to it.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:02pm

      sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:44pm
      I like him and his family and hope they continue to do well. I am glad that they make friends in other nations too.

      ___________________________________________

      ROFL .. I guess you “missed” this. ….

      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/violent-protests-erupt-us-consulate-firebombed-ahead-of-obamas-brazil-visit/

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    • Don
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:05pm

      Very good:

      You can be sure it “ain’t” the WSJ

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    • democratgirl
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:08pm

      sleazyhippo:
      Please tell us all, WHY ARE YOU HERE? Name 1 thing Obama has done right while in office….for that matter, while NOT in office? Just 1 thing….I DARE YOU.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:11pm

      Isn’t it interesting that we no longer go around the world and urge countries to follow our democratic lead…oh that’s right…we no longer lead in that department.

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    • Chicago Ray
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:19pm

      The KORAN…

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    • Mad_as_Hell...
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:21pm

      I an‘t say I’d be able to do a better job, but with all that‘s going on in the world I sure wouldn’t be playing ball with young boys in Brazil.
      Lord, please watch over us.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:26pm

      @ SHOWTIME
      Thank You! Great post!

      @SLEAZY HIPPO
      Hmmmm,you like them?! You’re glad they make “friends” in other nations too?
      Obviously your paper of choice is “The Weekly Reader”.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:27pm

      Obama has to be the shallowest president in American history.

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:50pm

      Peopel with criminal intentions always enjoy meeting other people with criminal intentions.

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    • avenger
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:54pm

      owe bama examining the next country for the caliphate

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:54pm

      They said they feared the statue would be shrouded in fog Sunday – a mist did cover the hills around Rio.
      ————-
      So the man who can make Gabby open her eyes, make the oceans stop rising and make the planet heal
      CANNOT blow away a measly fog ?
      I think it wasn’t the fog that kept him away.
      He realized the statue was toooooooooooo big to stand next to it and appear taller than the Lord.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:01pm

      @Cheez

      I would imagine that they were looking for safer venues … don’t you think the “fog” would burn off pretty quickly?

      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/violent-protests-erupt-us-consulate-firebombed-ahead-of-obamas-brazil-visit/

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    • Morris21654
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:19pm

      Gonesurfing: It is Saul Alinsky, not sal alinski.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:19pm

      @hersey10,

      “Really Bam ? Brasil’s democracy ? The newly elected President is a communist ex-con . Wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

      He knows this, which is why he’s saying it.

      It’s time to start forming militias, if you haven’t already.

      We are a Republic, not a Democracy.

      US Constitution, Article 4, Section 4

      “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.”

      US Bill of Rights, Purpose Statement

      “THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.”

      US Bill of Rights, Second Amendment

      “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

      Militias are necessary to the security of a free state, and it is the government that is forbidden to infringe on the people’s right to bear arms – which means that this amendment was written for the people’s protection against corrupt government.

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    • Cymry
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:19pm

      …..from the Politico: By JOHN BRESNAHAN & JONATHAN ALLEN | 3/19/11 4:27 PM EDT

      A hard-core group of liberal House Democrats is questioning the constitutionality of U.S. missile strikes against Libya, with one lawmaker raising the prospect of impeachment during a Democratic Caucus conference call on Saturday. ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS “TAKE A NUMBER”

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    • deadpammy
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:22pm

      Still kicking like a girl, surprised he is not wearing his helmet. Who voted for this loser?

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    • Grandmadar
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:26pm

      This is great! Couldn’t stop laughing. The answer though is “None of them” because he is too busy playing golf, basketball, and traveling the world”!

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:28pm

      CatB
      I would imagine that they were looking for safer venues … don’t you think the “fog” would burn off pretty quickly?
      ———-
      Those demonstrations were outside US embassy in RIo, the Jesus statue is waaay up there in the hills.
      There was no risk . They are just making it up as they go along to control the narrative and deflect attention away from the vacationing moocher.
      Also I seem to recall he wanted the Cross and representations of Christ covered up when he spoke @ Notre Dame, maybe he wasn’t cool with hanging out with the giant statue of Jesus in Brazil .

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    • Mannax
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:38pm

      CHEEZWHIZ
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:44pm
      But as two nations who have struggled over many generations to perfect our own democracies, the United States and Brazil know that the future of the Arab world will be determined by its people.”
      ——————–
      WTF is this bumbling idiot saying ?
      We are a Representative Republic here Hussain .
      ****Brazil just ‘ elected’ a marxist guerrilla as president .****
      So I guess thats what a perfect ‘ democracy’ is for your kind, right Obama ?
      Whats next ? Tingles telling us that USA has perfected democracy now that Obama is in WH ??

      ****US and Brazil have perfected democracy… Well, they both have elected marxist guerillas as president.

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    • mill
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:39pm

      Hey Baama!! did you get a loa of the slums in that wonderful democratic country>>> worse than we have and that’s a low cut. did you see the demonstrations of people that hate yo and didn’t want you there??? bet not

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 7:32pm

      @CHEEZ & CatB ~
      Those demonstrations were outside US embassy in RIo, the Jesus statue is waaay up there in the hills.
      There was no risk . They are just making it up as they go along to control the narrative and deflect attention away from the vacationing moocher.
      Also I seem to recall he wanted the Cross and representations of Christ covered up when he spoke @ Notre Dame, maybe he wasn’t cool with hanging out with the giant statue of Jesus in Brazil .
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      I’m thinking that, since it would be dark, he thought maybe he would blend into the night a little better?

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    • NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 7:41pm

      You know, that’s good. I don’t have an answer, but thanks for a good laugh.

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    • CarolinaGirl
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 7:54pm

      This is absolutely the funniest thing I have ever read! I love it! You must be a professional comedy writer.

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    • hannahh
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 7:59pm

      Wonder which one Obama reads?! — Islam Tribune

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 8:01pm

      Maybe Obama should talk to ‘himself’ a little more often, because what he says in Brazil and what he does in the good ol U.S.A. are two different things. Would that make him a hypocrit, or a……..liar?

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    • newrepublic7
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 8:19pm

      @ Hersey10

      Really Bam ? Brasil’s democracy ? The newly elected President is a communist ex-con . Wolf in sheep’s clothing .

      Your exactly right !!! Well put!

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    • Rob
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 8:45pm

      This anti-American muslim loving basTURD has almost destroyed this nation. We need a John Wayne at the helm to put us back on track.

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    • Fitz of DE
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 8:56pm

      well this is one of the best sigmas( summary) ! one must understand that Pres O being a CIA from Kenya, reads NOTHING put is only a string player.. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, as Ben Franlin said, we have a republic, but can we keep it,,,,,NOT WITH THIS LOW o & HIS STAFF

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    • REB182
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 9:43pm

      Awesome…

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    • isobamamadd
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 9:45pm

      None of the above,,,He reads the Graffiti on the ” POOPER’S” Stall Walls , And He thinks he got another Doctorate

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 9:46pm

      Good Show, SHOW! Thanks!

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 9:49pm

      “Isn’t Japan the source of Kobe and Wagyu beef? I would think that fact alone would cause little Barry to forget about playing soccer long enough to focus on the diplomatic steps necessary to guarantee an uninterrupted supply of “radioinactive filets”…perhaps the Brazilians have provided him with an acceptable alternative…We certainly wouldn’t want him going hungry-what with all the bracketizing and other important stuff he has to do…for the people…and the children…

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    • restorehope
      Posted on March 20, 2011 at 10:56pm

      Having a Marxist president in Brazil IS Obama’s new definition of democracy. After all, we have something very similar here in America. By the way, US armed forces are engaged in warfare in Libya and Obama’s playing soccer? Can you imagine any other president before him doing that?

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on March 21, 2011 at 2:31am

      SHOWTIME, that was clever.

      I hate every photo I see of Obama and avoid looking at them, or hearing him (I automatically click ‘mute’ when he’s speaking) I hate looking at photos of her even more, but now and then I like to see how angry she looks, or how bad she looks, or how big her butt looks. I never look at the kids. I couldn’t tell them from anyone else. Have no idea what they look like. Can’t wait until 2012.

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    • home_of_the_brave
      Posted on March 21, 2011 at 2:39am

      @Showtime- That was freaking funny!

      Was he trying to play soccer? With his hands on his hips I thought he was auditioning for “Lord of the Dance.”

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    • jbl8199
      Posted on March 21, 2011 at 8:13am

      Wow. The world‘s falling apart and Obummer’s playing soccer. Why am I not surprised.

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    • beebacksoon
      Posted on March 21, 2011 at 8:33am

      He reads (with teleprompter) the March Madness stats. He must watch a lot of basketball, since he appears to know so much about each team.

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 21, 2011 at 10:53am

      This is a pretty effective president, he closed the doughnut hole in prescription drugs under medicare part D for or seniors with more than $2,250 but less than $5,100 in annual drug costs. His administration also eliminated insurance companies from restricting pre-existing conditions for “being a woman.” I really think he cares about as Americans as a people.

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 21, 2011 at 11:03am

      DemocRatGirl; you are shouting! (smile) You yell, why am I here; Am I allowed to be \“here”/ -??
      I am a “patriot” by everybody’s definition, have live my American dream the “right way,” – but I am Independent minded so every now and then I want to share some thoughts. That’s why I am here. I have a very critical eye to every politician but I am not blind to the fact they occasionally do well, do the right things, and serve the National interest. Fair and Balanced.

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    • the_zazzy
      Posted on March 21, 2011 at 1:38pm

      President Obama’s To Do List:
      1) Shoot hoops
      2) Play 18
      3) Take afternoon nap
      4) Make March Madness picks
      5) Appear on ESPN’s Barack-etology show to demonstrate college basketball knowledge
      6) Shoot hoops
      7) Play another 18
      8) Fly to Rio
      9) Attend some soccer games
      10) Play street soccer with Brazilian kids
      11) Shoot hoops
      12) Comment of Japan’s disaster 8 days after the fact
      13) Take a nap
      14) Shoot some hoops
      15) Threaten Quaddafi
      16) Play 18 more holes
      17) Host fundraiser for own 2012 campaign
      18) Host St. Patty’s Day WH party
      19) Shoot some hoops
      20) Encourage protests and riots in Wisconsin

      When does this poor guy find time to rest? I used to want to be President, but after looking at this poor man’s schedule, no way!

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