"I got two words for you, predator drones"

[Autumn]

I busted a gut laughing.

Obama was talking about his Daughters and warning the Jonas Brothers.


I caught just a clip of that a while ago. Not even sure what it was from. Has anyone posted a link to that? My lap top has been real glitchy the last couple of days.


Any one have a link. All of a sudden I have this untangle crap on my lap top and I can't do searches.

[DesMoinesDem]

1. Yea, joking about killing people with drones is funny.

Obama has killed hundreds of innocent people with drones, what difference does a couple more make? LOL!!!!

[Autumn]

2. It's all in context. True story here,

my older Sister is 72 years old. When I was a kid I remember she had gone to a church thing with a boy. He brought her home and they sat out in the car too long. My Dad get up from his chair, one suspender holding his pants up and gets his shotgun and turns on the porch light, goes outside and starts pointing the shotgun. fired off one shot into the air. My Sister was out in a flash and that boy was gone. I don't know, seems like a Dad thing to me.

[white_wolf]

10. Seems like a stupid thing to do to me.

If someone had fired a shotgun around my son, even in the air like that, I would have raised hell.

[obamanut2012]

3. Obama was discussing the JoBros

I have no idea why they haven't been listed on the FBI's Most Wanted List by now. Have you ever seen them perform?!

[coalition_unwilling]

4. Oh, come on. Whenever we kill a few terrorists disguised as

children (without so much as a by your leave, mind you), America's true greatness shines forth. (in case it was needed)

[shcrane71]

5. Agreed. nt

[white_wolf]

9. Thank you!

It's not funny at all. It's actually disgusting that he would laugh about this, it speaks volumes about him.

[Autumn]

12. I don't like drone strikes either.

But that was still funny. It was a joke.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. It's not funny and neither was bu$h when he joked about pretending to look for WMD

under he desk....

Now watch this drive


No one here thought any of that from bu$h funny.


Why is it funny coming from Obama?

[randome]

6. Think he made that remark years ago.

And yes, it is funny.

[Autumn]

7. I wonder why they played that clip on the news? That line was pure gold

[Tx4obama]

8. The Jonas Bros/Drone joke was made at the 2010 WH Correspondence Dinner

Here's a link with the past FOUR years of Pres Obama's Correspondence Dinner speeches including 2010:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101725025


And here's the video of just the drone joke:

[Autumn]

11. I got to watch it finally.

That was fantastic.

[Autumn]

13. I have daughters too. When they were young a

predator drone would have come in handy a couple of times

[whatchamacallit]

15. Maybe you should share that bit of levity with families who did lose their daughters

to our drones.

[polly7]

18. Not funny at all ...

“They feel this imminent threat of being attacked from the sky. And they feel helpless because they have no other place to relocate. Many have no skills, no education, so they cannot relocate to other parts of Pakistan,” he said. Advocate Akbar showed a photo of a teenager named Saadullah, who was helping his mother in the kitchen when a drone hit their home in Fata in 2009. He woke up in a hospital three days later without his legs.

Sanaullah, a 17-year-old pre-engineering student, burned alive in his car during another strike in 2010.

“We apologize to the people of Pakistan for the strikes that have killed so many civilians,” --Nancy Mancias, CodePink

Akbar also showed photos of the Bismillah family: mother, father, a daughter and a son, all killed in a drone strike.

Other speakers noted that US drone strikes in Pakistan had also killed 168 children. They quoted from recent surveys suggesting the number of ordinary people killed could be 40 per cent higher than previously reported. [...]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/30-2

[whatchamacallit]

14. Dredging up this unfortunate "joke" brings two things to mind

1) It's a deliberate attempt to provoke those of us who don't think our drone assassinations are hunky dory

Or

2) We've become a very sad, sick, nation

[Autumn]

19. I'm sorry that I offended you

I missed it when the Correspondence dinner happened and I saw it on the news. His delivery was very funny.

[whatchamacallit]

22. It's okay

The president is clever and affable, and surprisingly good at these dinners, but many of us equate that joke with Bush's 'looking under the table for WMD' shtick. The taking of lives is not a joking matter. Thanks for understanding.

[PufPuf23]

16. The joke isn't funny. Rehashing the joke is disgustingly sick.

I considered using the alert function for the first time at DU3.

[Autumn]

17. The alert button is in the bottom of my post, left side

feel free to use it.

[PufPuf23]

20. Not worth the bother nt

[Unaccountable]

23. Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)

[JHB]

24. Beats cleaning a shotgun in front of them all to hell