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Pruden: Obama "apologiz[ed] to the Islamic world" perhaps because "Al Qaeda just couldn't resist the temptation" to attack

July 13, 2009 2:07 pm ET by Media Matters staff

From Pruden's July 10 Washington Times column, "Ministry of Apology would cure all ills":

Apologies, as every wayward husband knows, are plentiful and cheap (and rarely effective). President Obama's major accomplishment so far is a speech apologizing to the Islamic world for nobody is quite sure what. Maybe it was for building the Twin Towers so tall that Al Qaeda just couldn't resist the temptation to take them down. Maybe it was an apology for saving Sunni Muslims in Bosnia, which offended Shi'ites. Or maybe it was for saving the Shi'ites, which irritated Sunnis. Maybe it was just for being an American in the first place; shame is the default position on the leftmost fringe of his party.

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    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (July 13, 2009 2:18 pm ET)
         
      Sounds like it's time for the Ruthless People movie quote once again:

      "This may be the stupidest man on the face of the Earth."
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    • Author by nerzog (July 13, 2009 4:12 pm ET)
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      These people are morons. They simply cannot acknowledge that our foreign policy decisions have consequences. It's not a value judgement... it's not a condemnation... it's not an excuse for terrorists.... it's just a fact.
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    • Author by shaggles (July 13, 2009 4:27 pm ET)
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      First of all did Obama actually "apologize to the Islamic world?" I don't really remember that but maybe I just missed it. Second doesn't equating Obama (and by inference the US) with a "wayward husband" imply culpability of some sort on our part?
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