NBC’s Engel Notes Libyan Protesters Calling for President Obama to Speak Out in Support
On Friday’s NBC Nightly News, during a report which focused on a group of Libyans helping to organize protests against dictator Muammar Qadhafi, correspondent Richard Engel gave viewers a glimpse into oppressed people looking to America for support as he concluded his report by relating that these protesters "have been waiting for a strong message from Washington." He also recounted that he had seen graffiti at the rebel headquarters calling on President Obama to "choose between the Libyan people or Qadhafi."
Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Friday, February 25, NBC NightlyNews:
RICHARD ENGEL: In this burned-out courthouse, now the opposition headquarters, volunteers are gathering evidence of what they call war crimes, hoping one day to bring Qadhafi's regime to justice. Protesters have been waiting for a strong message from Washington. Written in graffiti on the wall at that protester headquarters today, it said that President Obama must choose between the Libyan people or Qadhafi.
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I thought Boy Blunder GAVE a
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 12:35am.
I thought Boy Blunder GAVE a 'strong message' the other day............isn't that what I heard?? Do these people think he's going to say or do much else?? It's not his style.........he figures if he gets up there, and says a few meaningless things, then everything is going to be OK, and he can go back to being the poser that he always is.
not his style
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 12:53am.
No, there's nothing in this situation that will make it work for him. He's got a similar attitude about it just like he did about the Christmas non-Bomber. Remember how effective he was about it then? Oh yeah, that's right, he was in your area at the time. He had to interrupt his vacation to talk about it. Oh his leadership skills shined just as much as they do now!(/sarc for those who can't tell)
-Jon
Yep, Jon-E-Boy, you're
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 1:12am.
Yep, Jon-E-Boy, you're absolutely correct!!! I WAS down at Kailua Beach Park with my son and grandson then, and I heard the sirens and saw the traffic jam when Boy Blunder had to interupt his golf game to come racing back to the beach to check on his friend's son and his (minor) injury............and I can attest to the traffic problems he caused over there in that beach town. And it took him 3-4 days to walk out, looking very uncomfortable, and say a few useless and meaningless things about the 'underpants' bomber..........which he did in record time, so that he could get back to the safe haven of his beach house!!
By the way, I STILL haven't figured out how that 'underpants' bomber was going to service the 72 'virgins' that he was going to be gifted with up there in Moooooooooooslem heaven!!!!!
Good luck to that. We got
Submitted by ant on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 12:44am.
Good luck to that. We got Americans stranded over there and Boy Blunder just had a party last night and another one lined-up for Monday. Didn't Michelle the fitness queen just get back from vail? The hardest working affirmative-action First couple ever.
Hey ant............I mean,
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 12:49am.
Hey ant............I mean, c'mon!!! Gladys Knight, Motown, high cholesterol spare-ribs, upscale Vail holiday.............who has time to think about these other things??? And anyway, Ghadaffi is Boy Blunder's friend, so it's no big deal, right???
You're right. I forgot we
Submitted by ant on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 12:55am.
You're right. I forgot we traded-in for a monarchy. Anyway, maybe the King will put in a good word for the rest of us with his muslim 'brothers'.
no bid deal alright
Submitted by stunned on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 1:41am.
We have an American with DIPLOMATIC immunity, a CIA agent according to the Administration, rotting in a Pakistan prison while Obie and Michelle party hardy. This guy, if he is CIA, was over there fighting Al Quida and Obama hasn't said anything to Pakistan about his treatment. Tell the those folks there they're on their own, Obama won't lift a finger to help one of our own but hey their motto is let the good times roll. I'm sure the Obama's vacation and party schedule comforts that poor man's family and friends and instills a lot of confidence he'll be home soon.
tired of liberal lies
in the meantime
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 1:53am.
In the meantime, we got some terrorists that want to come into this country from the UK to do a march for promoting sharia in the US. Hopefully they'll be denied entrance into this country and apparently there's a protest against them planned by some group. Only thing is, that group has it wrong about saying "we welcome muslims." That's like welcoming a bunch of poisonous snakes and then hoping they won't bite you. Wanna bet that Nappy Janet will let them in?
What a mess.
-Jon
Someone was asleep
Submitted by Injest on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 5:31am.
He also recounted that he had seen graffiti at the rebel headquarters calling on President Obama to "choose between the Libyan people or Qadhafi."
Oh NO! Someone was asleep at the “dump” button!
Still in the bathtub
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 7:58am.
All of a sudden, it's up to "the Libyan people."
What the?????
He had no problem telling Mubarak to take a hike....or something....
I guess he saw how that turned out, and doesn't want to have to keep "recalibrating" his statements.
.....makes me ashamed as an American.....Chris Matthews
Despots stick together,
Submitted by Vonu on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 8:28am.
Give them all the gold the can swim away with.
stunned you are so right
Submitted by CSM on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 9:02am.
We have a CIA agent that was outed by the Admin. Where is the outrage at this? Plame was a desk jocky and her CIA emploment was identified and there was a movie made about the "OUTRAGE". There were trials and a guilty verdict for Libby. Everyone who needed to know knew that she was nothing but a functionary. However that did not stop the media from going ape@@@@ over it. Now we have a true CIA agent with diplomatic immunity being outed and nothing is being said. HO HUM no story here because it is the O admin.
As for the Lybyan disaster. Where was the sense of urgency to get our people out of there??? If Lybia was not allowing them to leave or holding them up in some way. Well that is what the US Navy and Marines are for. Get our citizens out of trouble when needed. It is called "Forced Entry". Obama should have told Kadafi if you won't assure our citizens safety during this mess then we will. So stand back and watch the show and stay out of the way. Enter the country get our citizens out and then leave.I would not expect our country to go to war over this but the safety of our citizens is supposed to be Job 1 of the President is it not??
Our President and his wife's sense of entitlement knows no bounds. How many parties have they had now? I don't really want to know. That they would dance and sing at the WH while our citizens were in danger in Lybia is disgusting and immoral. That they have done this type of thing time and time again is even worse.
And just in case it was missed O declared himself a ruler or a dictator,your choice, by picking and choosing what laws he will obey and follow by declaring DOMA unconstitutional. I thought only the Supreme Court could do that!! I guess we have been wrong all through our history.
This admin has to go and quickly if we are to have a chance of survival as a country.
You are right.
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 9:30am.
If I were president, and I saw that a good number of my countrymen were trapped in Libya like that, I would have called in the armed forces, specifically the navy and its marine contingent on whatever carrier group that was in the area. That would have been Priority One until they were evacuated and cared for. That's the job and Constitutional duty of the President to protect and defend the United States and her citizens. I would have pulled out all the stops. And for the CIA agentwho got outed as well.
It should be so obvious that he did show how much he cared about what happened, in other words, he could care less! And during that time, they announce the ridiculous stance on the DOMA while taking another stance on Wisconsin(and backing off a bit) and throwing parties among a whole bunch of other things(violating court orders too)? Hell yes he's a dictator! And he's going after Republican governors like Jindal on phony charges of things that don't exist.(he's doing it through Holder)
As I said elsewhere, it's time to pick sides.
-Jon
The only problem is...
Submitted by Prester John on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 9:48am.
....is that there is NO carrier group there. Now you would think that when things started in Tunisia our geniuses at CIA and State would've considered the possibility that this thing could spread and pointed that out to BHO's advisors who would in turn recommend some prudent repositioning of military assets. On the other hand BHO was supposed to be the brilliant, perceptive, intellectual president in our history--I can't believe he couldn't have figure it out on his own (sarc) Unbelievable.Oh I knew that
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 10:06am.
I knew that about no carrier group, was moved out a while back I think.(I'll have to check again at some point, but it doesn't matter) I was just saying that if I were president, and knowing how the Islam machine works, I wouldn't have been so naive to think they were a religion of peace.
The writing was on the wall back in 1993 with the WTC. They are a far bigger enemy than Russia had ever hope to be.(I know they kinda aren't enemies, at least not the US in general, and after getting an attack on them by Islamists, they know they face a strong enemy too)
It's pretty obvious that Bush's advisors misled him(or were horribly wrong) when they were telling him that it's a religion of peace.(must have been the bro'hood visiting the white house and Bush along with others gave the benefit of the doubt) Not to mention that Islam even though it's been around for centuries, it wasn't well understood(relatively speaking) as it is now. It's almost like they covered it up after Jefferson's time with them dealing with the pirates.
People better wake up.
-Jon
The problem is,...
Submitted by Prester John on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 11:06am.
....in the immortal words of Hillary Rodham Clintion, is that we have a president and an entire bevy of advisors who, no matter what the subject is, have a 'willing suspension of disbelief' of history, reality, facts, and common sense.
This is pretty amazing stuff.
carriers in crises
Submitted by Agnostic on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 11:36am.
Even Clinton knew what to do in a crisis:
"When word of a crisis breaks out in Washington, it's no accident that
the first question that comes to everyone's lips is:
'Where's the nearest carrier?'"
President Bill Clinton
March 12, 1993
aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt
Really, noone should be
Submitted by ant on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 9:54am.
Really, noone should be surprised by his lack of concern for Americans abroad ( as evidenced by Motown parties, for one). Americans have technically been in danger from an unsecure southern border for years in terms of a jihadist threat and a real number of American victims from illegally crossing criminal elements, Nobody from the Democrat party seems to be too concerned about performing what is supposed to be job no. 1 for the government.
"We won't defend you people from enemies, foreign or domestic, but you better put down that salt shaker or else!"
Voting "present" yet again.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 9:57am.
Are they kidding?
He's still leaving his union pals swinging in the wind, in spite of promising to stand by them
And they voted for him!!
The eponymous Jay Carney explains:
I think that the president has different means of speaking out on issues and being heard,” he said. “And, clearly, he did. He made his viewpoints known on the situation in Wisconsin, the need for people to come together.”
Or, as Nancy Pelosi explained, in another context:
There are a lot things he was for....on the campaign trail.
translation
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 10:09am.
Different means of speaking out on issues and being heard?? The manchurian uses a teleprompter all the time, how does that translate to "different means??"
Oh this Carney-val guy is a real clown.
-Jon
Mullah Obama is more likely to support Muammar Qadhafi
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 10:16am.
After all, they have so much in common - far more so than with those protesting for freedom in that God-forsaken country.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
common denominators
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 10:37am.
Hm, Muslim, check.
Born in Africa(not America), check.
Wants to rule, check.
Rules don't apply, CHECK CHECK CHECK
has strange attitudes about certain things, check
Hates America, CHECK CHECK CHECK CHECK CHECK CHECK!!!!!!!
Dictators oh HELL YES CHECK CHECK CHECK CHECK CHECK
That about sum it up?
-Jon
jon,
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 8:12pm.
Yep, I'd say you nailed it there.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Satan's little helper
Submitted by Thoreau on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 2:07pm.
Why would Obama support anyone that isn't a muslim terrorist.
Egypt- Muslim Brotherhood- Supported
Palestine- Hamas- Supported
Iran- Protestors against a terrorist dictator- Hahahaha
North Korea- Starving people with communist dictator- HAhahaha
China- Jasmine revolution with communist dictator- HAhahahhaa
Christians in any County- HAhahahahha- ROFLOMGBBQ- You know what Obama calls Coptic Christians being exterminated? Change the muslims believe in.
I have to say, if I didn't know any better, it looks like Obama is growing up quite nicely if he's bucking to be the anti-Christ's little helper. Granted those are big shoes to fill, but the middle east on fire, and then setting the rest of the Planet on a course of collapse is alot better than Hitler did. It's not bad... really.
The middle east is in flames. All that is left to fall is Saudi Arabia- then it's all done.
The environmentalists have destroyed our ability to take care of ourselves with energy production. The muslims do what muslims have always done and killed everyone else that isn't muslim. So this is where Barry Hussein Soetoro, the Destroyer of Worlds, has left us.
I hope you enjoy riding a bike. Because once gas costs more than a trip to the dentist, that'll be all you have. Keep in mind though, the tires are made in China- so good luck with that.
Remember- when Saudi Arabia falls- It's Game, Set, Match. I hope they enjoy the show.
Saudia Arabia
Submitted by Agnostic on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 2:07pm.
SA doesn't need to fall - just remove the mask.
Obama will do nothing just as
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 8:04pm.
Obama will do nothing just as his controllers in Saudi Arabia have instructed him to do.
Silver lining
Submitted by Agnostic on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 8:47pm.
With media busy covering and covering up for the administration, dictators around the world and protestors there hasn't been a Palin hit piece in a week!
protesters
Submitted by chasbo on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 2:35pm.
Where were these protesters when the US was engaged in trying to get to the bottom of the Lockerbie/Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. This country has helped enough ungrateful people.