A nation turns its lonely eyes to … Newt?

Well, that does it! I’m hidin’ the missus! I like old Newt, but if he wins the White House that bed’s going to be used more than one in a Holiday Inn. And it’ll cost us a fortune to keep replacing springs. I bet Newt comes pretty close to 300 about now.

Oh, and I won’t be tuning in to anymore debates. I don’t need the missus to be getting any ideas.

Have a good night everybody.

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Well Jay primed the pump for jokes on this one.

Meh. The super committee is going down the drain, and if so, our debt will, and the country, and the people. So sad.

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As predicted.

They are running out of cons and don’t give Ron Paul a chance.

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I am sure there is a mailclerk at the RNC that has good hair and can be put up on stage for a chance.

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“lib ilk”.

Harry Con ilk.

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Sinkwich’s picture is on the ilk carton

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Hey: jonix! Quick question: which one of the Repubs were you refering to? The description’s kinda general.

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The fact of the matter is we are out of leaders after Clinton and Obama are gone.

Joe Biden?

Newt Gingrich?

See?

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Mr B…
Shalom

Newt, of course, but that summation could fit just about any of them from Uncle Sam’s Oldest Colony (and before any of y’all want to snit there, that’s Alan Tate’s summation…a liberal’s liberal, he )

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Someone throw witchy-poo an ilk bone.

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IMAM

If the GOP wants the chance of a prayer in h3ll of “taking back ‘their’ country” starting with 1600, he’ll be the nominee…and it galls the sh*t out of the lunatic fringe…

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Romney is a RINO and the lib ilk knows it.

Well, that, and the fact he’s not bat$#!^ crazy.

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“Mitt Romney clarified on a visit to Fairfax County, Va., that he does indeed support a restrictive Ohio labor law that he avoided commenting on this week. “I’m sorry if I created any confusion in that regard,” Romney said”

RINO.

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I think he is right in regard to Romney. 75% of R’s are polling away from romney……that can’t be good news for him.

It is the base that for the most part elects the candidate……..while the moderates (and I’s) wait in the wings for the general.

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You Republicans cannot really be serious. Obama scored some serious points with his comments about voting the GOP candidates off the island and that is not a good thing, in case you Republicans have not figured that out yet. He was talking about Gilligan’s Island, dontcha know.

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What can you do with leftover ilk?

It depends…are we talking about African or European ilk?

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Take comfort, Sink. The GOP is far too self-destructive to actually nominate Mittens.

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Why is it IMPOSSIBLE Cain can win?

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When you have a president that you think is as bad as most conservatives think Obama is, you can’t afford to take a chance on a risky candidate. The 1996 election was a good example. I didn’t particularly like Clinton, but I didn’t think it would be a disaster if he won (and it was far from it). So it would have been okay to get someone besides a “safe” candidate. But this year, Romney is the safe choice and has the best chance to beat Obama, so that’s who I hope wins. And I think there will be some on the left who hope the same thing whether they admit it or not. I can tell you there won’t be anyone on the right who secretly hopes Obama wins if Romney is the nominee. Well, except maybe Rush Limbaugh.

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“And Sink, that RINO ilk is going to be the nominee.”

If that happens, Jay, Hopey/Changey gets a second term and America is sooooooooooo screwed.

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Trotsky

There’s more than a little anti Semitism in OWS just as there’s more than a little racism in the Tea Party…not the mainstream by a long shot, but it’s there and, just like the Tea Partiers, it has gained a forum and the mainstream of the movements are making excuses rather than dealing with it head on…imo

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“I agree, md, but who’s the candidate who can reap that crop? I see none.”

I “see” a bunch of them……don’t care for too many, but they all have a shot at this point. That 75% is flitting around trying to pin-point a favorite, but none of them is jumping to Romney. That may change after the first couple of primaries…….folks do have a tendency to “jump on the bandwagon”. That is where I see Romney winning or losing…………

I suspect it may come down to 2 wonderful choices once again. (sarc)

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F. Sinkwich

“RINO.’

You may want to think about how it’s all fun and exciting for the Republican base to get all charged up and have rallies and wave flags and shout slogans and dream of a country with ever-wealthier billionaires, but when it’s time to pick a nominee it’s time to get serious with what the majority of the country will support.

Just think about all those polls that show about three quarters of the voters saying they’re conservative, but most Republican candidates lose or barely come close to Pres Obama.

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ADAM
Y’all’s summations of Newt…true what you say, and that’s sad…

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josef – thanks for the overly kind comments downstairs.

It appears if Newt is the nominee you may have as hard a time with it as will Jay.

Have to run. The wife/boss is home. If I’m a good boy, she cooks dinner.

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Boy, Jay! Three threadie thingies in one day! Your annual review must be coming up!

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josef: I seriously doubt the amount of anti-semitism in the legitimate OWS movement actually exists. You’ve got one or two people claiming they are part of the OWS movement, just by showing up and spouting anti-semitism. The people who are there and have been there from the beginning do NOT approve of this.

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” I can tell you there won’t be anyone on the right who secretly hopes Obama wins if Romney is the nominee.”

True, Gordon. But O’bozo will win if that’s the case. That’s why the lib ilk wants Romney to win the primaries.

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BTW, Jay, saw your hardcopy post in today’s paper. (I usually never read the hardcopy version, but I was in a restaurant where a stray copy was lying around.) Looks even better in print.

Course Kathleen (or is it Katherine) Parker’s got you beat in the looks department!

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Huh?

Adam, I took the “that’s sad” as shorthand for “It is sad that finding Republican candidates that do not sound bat$#!^ crazy when they open their pie-hole is more difficult than bringing down a North American ilk with a plastic spoon.”

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I should have said “none of the ones that vote” above. Sorry.

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ADAM

You will note I said they were far from the mainstream…but don’t delude yourself that it’s that “one or two.” The same as the overt and blatant racists with the Tea Party…but they ARE there…

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If the gop wants to win, their best hope is more than likely Romney…….the idea is to appeal to the swing voters, not necessarily the base. And maybe even pick up a few Blue Dogs.

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Newt may appear to be the candidate of the week. It is clear that Republicans, at least those likely primary voters that have been polled, are not thrilled about any of the candidates.

If you recall Bachmann was up at one time, then came Perry, then Cain and now Gingrich.

The problem is, and this is true among both parties, primaries tend to bring out the most ideologically driven among the electorate. Many even long-time Republicans or Democrats don’t bother to attend a caucus or vote in a primary. They just go and pull the lever or mash the appropriate square on the computer screen.

Most of the current slate of Republican candidates hold, or at least publicly express, views that are largely outside the American mainstream. Their views may express the same frustration as many Americans but they fall outside.

So while it may take fairly “out there” ideas to win the nomination, winning the general election takes someone who is perceived as being fairly mainstream, especially among independent voters. They are usually the ones that determine an election.

So if the Republicans nominate someone with extreme views, especially on the economy, they will have a challenge in winning the general election. Many independents will ask themselves, I may not agree with Obama on a number of policy issues but do I really want to vote with someone that holds such extreme views? I suspect many of them, despite their doubts about Obama, will opt for him rather than the extremist.

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detritusUSA

Look at Reagan’s record. By the standards of today’s Republican base, he’s way past RINO.

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Cain is to the Republicans what Obama was to the Democrats. Both appeal to the emotions of the extremes of both parties although Obama has lost much of that now that he has had to closer to the center. Cain has no experience political which has been devestating to Obama as president. Democrat president seem to have less control over their party than Republicans. Clinton did better with a Republican congress. Obama has had a tough time getting his own party to vote for his proposals.

I believe the longer the race remains more than two people the better for Romney. Romney is well position in terms of marketing for a multi-canidate race but if the election were norrowed to two canidates it would be tough unless the other canidate would be an obvious loser to Obama.

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Compared to the community organizer kenyan socialist anyone else will do. The bar can’t be any lower.

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Let’s remember, Newt famously dumped wife #1 for wife #2 while wife #1 was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. As in literally went to the hospital to present her with divorce papers while she was recovering from surgery for uterine cancer.

I found that I felt compelled to seek God’s forgiveness. Not God’s understanding, but God’s forgiveness. I do believe in a forgiving God. And I think most people, deep down in their hearts hope there’s a forgiving God.

Ri-i-i-i-i-ght, Newt!

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Well, if we can get him on the ballot, I’ve found my candidate…the Honey Badger Party!

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PAUL

“Look at Reagan’s record. By the standards of today’s Republican base, he’s way past RINO.”

And that’s sad…

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josef

Yeah.

And I could have added “Yet the Republican base idolizes Reagan. Which says what about the intellectual disconnects in the Party base?”

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I think you cons should nominate Pat Robertson since he seems to be the least extreme candidate you have at the moment.

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md @6:58,

Exactly. You can be energized to vote for someone or against someone. Unfortunately it will be the latter, but that will still get out the vote.

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“Just what we need, a pompous, half-illiterate, self-serving, pompous, hypocritical, hysterical, Republican Carpetbagging, snake-oil salesman…L-rd, G-d, what have we done to deserve this?”
You elected that racist bigoted communist liar affirmative action idiot Obama, that’s how.

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TruthBe
I trust that “you” there is the impersonal second person and not to be directly…I DIDN’T vote for Obama…

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Soothsayer…Please advise Lizard Man that I have personally spoken with God (just like W and Perry’s wife) and she is not in a forgiving mood. He may want to be planning for a roast, toasty eternity.

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getalife…. there’s a lot of room for a ilk to roam those wide open spaces in that head!

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C’mon wingers, secretly you love to hate obama. It gives you energy, passion and most importantly, a person where you can take all your ideological brainwashing and project those odd principles, then blame all the mistakes of the previous guy on obama as if he is only one at fault in your universe. It is your medicine…

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My biggest concern is not who our canidate will be but who the Democrats are going to run. The Democrat power brokers, the real democrats that run the party, as opposed to the ones on here who merely run their mouths, are seriously trying to ease Obama out. They know he will not only lose but will destroy the party for years to come. The democrats have a history of changing canidates at the last minute when their canidate trails in the polls. Look for Obama to make an announcement that he wants to spend more time with his family early next year.

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An ilk once bit my sister…..

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse ilk
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge – her brother-in-law – an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink”.

Mynd you, møøse ilk bites Kan be pretty nasti…

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“I guess I will never be in your ilk but I am in your head.”

Not at all, getalife. I am just concerned about the IQ of the lurkers of this blog. If they happen to read your “contributions” without understanding what a moron lib ilk you are, their IQ will recede a point or two.

It’s kind of like a PSA.

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TruthBe

Say what? How does what you said relate to me not voting for President Obama…? Please, clarify…

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Mick, Wake up it’s not a dream. Obama and his administration is destroying America
and the democrat party.

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Hillary/Newt….. now there’s a match in heaven. Both experienced, both determined and both electable. But the price of admission would be to see a Bozo/Newt debate. I cannot believe how Newt would hand the community organizer his hat and make him look like the amateur that he is. Newt would be a good president…… and Bookman knows it.

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truth

I’m awake but its your nightmare. Think mccain/palin where would we be now? Case closed…

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f.,

moron ilk?

I think the lurkers can speak for themselves and you and your ilk should stop projecting with that moron crap.

Yellow ilk card.

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Mick, Better than Obama’s economy. Didn’t like mccain either. Did you?

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I think Obama is just grateful that the Republicans have no racists amongst them. Otherwise, they might Huff and puff and try to blow his house down, likely with some sort of birther nonsense.

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“The democrats have a history of changing canidates at the last minute when their canidate trails in the polls.”

I’m tellin’ Redneck that you done stole his spelling of canidate! He’s gonna be madder than a wet hen!

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truth

I used to respect mccain but he wussed out when bush punked him and didn’t fight back. When he picked palin, that was the last straw, he’s as kooky as dingy harry.

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Mick-You are close except its no secret. You looney lefties on the other hand, blame Bush who had to deal with a democrat house and senate for most of his eight years while excusing Obama’s failure of thirty three months on 8 months of a republican house. You just can’t get it. Leaders lead, whiners whine. Obama was never qualified to be president and his record is proof.

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Gordon: You can be energized to vote for someone or against someone. Unfortunately it will be the latter, but that will still get out the vote.

Anyone want to remind me how well being “not Bush” worked out for Kerry?

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“Bush who had to deal with a democrat house and senate for most of his eight years”

You mean like this Democrat House and Senate?

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The only debate i have ever seen Newt “win” was when it was with Hannity or O’Reilly…

If he was as smart as the faithful pretend, he wouldn’t say the staggeringly stupid things he does with such regularity.

Hell, he even broke Ronnie’s moronic 11th Commandment…

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Jack: Lotsa smoke being blown here, but I don’t believe anyone in here will admit they’re gonna vote for Obama.

*raises hand* Uh, I will!

Your candidates suck. There’s really no choice BUT Obama.

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**and his record is proof.**

-Saved the auto industry
-got bin laden
-got awaliki
-orchestrated moammar’s demis
-ending iraq war

Republicans have done what to help? Sad NO to everything, record number of filibusters

Republicans are the losers, How have they helped america in any way?
OH I know, protected the wealthy from a 3% tax increase. Pathetic…

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“epic economic collapse have crippled this country for maybe another 6 to 7 years”

How about putting that on a bumper sticker, Mick?

Vote for 6 more years of misery!! O’bozo 2012!!!

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Yeah, we need another gop rubber stamp congress.

That ilk never learns from their mistakes.

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Newt, not like our present debacle, really loves this country. His books reflect his deep devotion to our country, our Constitution and what made America the country that it is. This says a lot about a person. Pick up a copy of “Valley Forge” and give it a good read. Not only is he a good author…. he expresses a sentiment for America that Bozo just does not have. Fewer and fewer people want to live in an Obama America. That is obvious to anyone but some dufus who has his head in the sand. We are tired of this clown, his failed policies and his naive approach to what a great country we live in. Bozo has failed again and again. The numbers, like James Carville said, just don’t lie. Newt would be a refreshing change, with ideas that this country needs to survive. We are broke and in survival mode. Nothing much is working and our great country is sliding toward second tier. We need someone with a vision and Bozo’s vision is killing us.

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Mick, My dear friend please open your eyes. Obama is a complete failure as the president and the Senate and Congress are to blame aswell. Bush failed with the economy too but not as bad as our liberal president Obama. Just look at the unemployement numbers. Bush’s highest 6%, Obama at least 17%. Some say Obama’s numbers as high as low 20%.

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“-Saved the auto industry
-got bin laden
-got awaliki
-orchestrated moammar’s demis
-ending iraq war”

Go sell that bilge to your neighbor who’s been unemployed because of O’bozo’s anti-business policies.

Be careful though. He might shoot you.

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uh-oh mick made a funny. Doesn’t matter who runs against him, urkle is toast and then peanuthead carter will be able to claim he’s the second worst president ever.

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Just look at the unemployement numbers. Bush’s highest 6%…

Not intended to be a factual statement.

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tb,

w collapsed our economy.

You can’t get any worse than that.

You are blind to facts like that.

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Keep Up the Good Fight, You Uncle Obama would be very proud of you. Keep drinking
the obamajuice. Adam that goes for you to precious.

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“But he is a better option that any other candidate that will be on the ballot!”

And that’s sad…

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Hmmm… obamajuice vs santorum. i’ll take more juice TB…you stick with the santorum! precious.

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josef, Take a breath please.
getalife, No 911 did.
kamchak, Numbers are true but Obama’s friend at Acorn tell another story. Fauld.

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Keep’s uncle is the President.

I had no idea I was among the President’s family.

When did ya’ll come out wit “Obamajuice”

Does it taste like ilk?

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“People are unemployed because of Wall Street and the deregulation efforts of Republicans over a decades.”

OMG.

I hope you got maced down at Woodruff.

Take a bath yet?

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I voted for Obama last go round and I believe the present GOP field will force me to do so again. The right wing extremists can call me a socialist all day long, but if a “socialist” is someone that would rather have Obama than someone who says the crazy crap these failed biological experiments put out in the national media…then I need to schedule my appointment to get a Che tattoo and I’ll read some Karl Marx while I’m waiting.

If Pat Robertson is telling you that you’re getting to extreme, you might be just a tad too far out there.

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josef, I agree it is sad. But I also acknowledge that any candidate has to appeal to a mass of voters and that much of Obama’s administration has been frustrated by a Republican party that has created a dsyfunctional congress the likes we have not seen in decades, if at all.

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kamchak, Numbers are true but…

There is no, “but”.

You bore false witness.

That’s one of those big ten thingies.

You are a lying ilk.

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deep south

We hear you, finally a lick of common sense…

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“Asked to rank the presidency of George W. Bush in comparison to those of the other 41 American presidents, more than 61 percent of the historians concluded that his presidency was the worst in the nation’s history.”

So AV drags this out to make his messiah, O’bozo, not seem as bad as everyone knows he is.

Won’t work, Dufuss. Learn a new tune.

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TruthBe: Because his ideology and policies have failed America and most of the people know this.

Funny. Polls say otherwise. Ask about any of his specific policies and most of them are supported by a majority of the public. Ask specifically about “unions” and suddenly you get a different result than if you ask about members of unions, such as teachers and firefighters. So you guys are good at making dirty words out of thin air, but you lose on substance EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

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Truthlacking……. so you say….Dewey wins!

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tb,

9/11 did not collapse our economy con.

Where in the world did you get that thought?

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“Adam that goes for you to precious”

To precious, or not to precious. That is the question, t’wether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous unfortunates, or to take arms against a sea of troubles…
josef, That was funny and very witty. Much enjoyed that.

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Keep, Now Now there no name calling. Jay’s watching.

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Oh, partisans, get real…neither Bush nor Obama are even in the top ten of worst presidents…Good L-rd do any of y’all blathering that have even a cursory acquaintance with American History?

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To today’s voters, he also comes across as a politician from another century, when men named Clinton and Reagan and Dole walked the corridors of Washington.

What utter nonsense!!!

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josef: Who are the top ten worst?

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Kamchak, The numbers don’t lie.

Exactly.

Let’s get in the wayback machine and review your original assertion, shall we?

TruthBe

Mick, My dear friend please open your eyes. Obama is a complete failure as the president and the Senate and Congress are to blame aswell. Bush failed with the economy too but not as bad as our liberal president Obama. Just look at the unemployement numbers. Bush’s highest 6%, Obama at least 17%. Some say Obama’s numbers as high as low 20%.

As BLS statistics show, unemployment rates starting in Aug 2008 are above 6% and climbed over 7.5% in Jan 2009.

You

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bore

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false

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witness.

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I really think that this love of country thing is something to hang your hat on. Look at Bozo during his formative years….. lived abroad in Indonesia, went to a Muslim school, was registered as a Muslim because of this father, traveled in Pakistan and other Muslim countries during in his teens. Some might say that that would be broadening his education but with him, it stuck. He emerged as a tainted liberal with world visions in mind. His mind wasn’t focused on America and loyalty to this country. In his book, he freely admits what his formative years meant to him and how it made a difference as to his philosophy today. He had no real grounding in America. His college years and years in law school simply were fertile ground for what he learned earlier and he made full use of it. He might go on and on in his campaign speeches about his love for this country but I don’t believe it and the majority of Americans don’t believe it either. A person with a real basic love for America, although not having experience, will make decisions based on America’s best interest. He has not….. far from it. Most Americans do not want to live in an Obama America.

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I’m out for the night. I’ll get to my attackers later

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Mick @ 7:51
I have to agree. Obama has been a huge letdown (especially to the younger, more idealistic voters), and his charisma definitely did not translate well from campaign to administration, but again…the current crop of GOP is so incredibly bad that the GOP will *finally* have to stop making chides about Dukakis and Gore.

Also have to take into account the obstructionist House and Senate GOP. And with the filibuster rules that Harry Reid left in place…the minority in the Senate can obstruct like mad men.

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yaker

That rant was seriously delusional. I’m not buying what you’re selling, what gives you the cojones to determine one’s americanism? That’s downright un-american…

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No, Frank, just proving how nonsensical your claim is that Carter was a worse president than George.

It’s not even close. (Excluding in your bizarre, made up parallel reality.)

BTW, N-GA made an astute observation about your moniker the other morning. He noted that you are a disgrace to use the name you use.

But I do love it when you try to go all intellectual, though.

“Reading his posts has a negative affect on my cerebellum.”

The cerebellum (Latin for little brain) is a region of the brain that plays an important role in motor control. It is also involved in some cognitive functions such as attention and language.

So getalife’s posts causes you to go into spasms, forget what you’re doing and talk in tongues?

(I suspect he is not the reason. LOL!)

Stick to the one or two syllable words that you can handle…

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This just in:

“Asked to rank the most ignorant, mentally deficient posters on Jay’s blog in comparison to conservatives, more than 61 percent of the Mensa members concluded that AmVet was the worst in the nation’s history, followed closely by getalife, Adam, and Mick”

“The competition is fierce for that crown,” said the Mensa president. “Many others, including the blog’s author, vie for it every day.”

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Talk about partisan.

Read kay’s rant.

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ADAM

Well, for some reason the blog won’t let me post my own 10 worst (tried twice) and since it’s not “in moderation” I have no idea why….maybe the Bruin could tell us…

But, Mick, it’s not being uppity…Obama and Bush both are not even “in history…” They’re still current events…

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Josef,

Its hardly partisan to claim w bush as one of the worst- his record is in the books and it ain’t pretty. The colossal foreign policy blunder of invading Iraq all by itself qualifies him, especially given all the long term social and economic consequences here at home, which have not yet even fully played out. Not to mention, I can’t think of a single positive thing he accomplished for the country as president. His signature tax cuts helped leave the country in record debt, along with the “off the books” accounting for the wars. Medicare part d, while a decent idea in theory, was completely screwed up in actual , being nothing more than a giveaway to the drug companies, and of course, also unfunded. He left the country in an economic shambles from which it will take many more years to recover.Over the course of the bush presidency there was a net job growth of ZERO. What other presidents have “accomplished” so much?

As for Obama, wait 7 years, (2 years after his presidency ends), and then begin to make a decision. To do so sooner truly is partisan.

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Mick,

One of the things that impressed me about Palin was her basic love for this country. I don’t think that she would have made a very good Veep but she has a certain spark that turns on patriots and I really don’t think that it is coming from some dumb ass*ed Wasilla AK governor. People recognize almost immediately how a person feels about the country that they live in and the electorate expects the person that they elect to have a love of country, a certain affinity for what made this country great. That’s why Newt would make a good president. Maybe not our best but a basically good president. Certainly head and shoulders over what we have now. We have to get some people back to work and Bozo is is just not doing it.

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saywhat…

I’m no fan of Bush by a long shot…and not much of one of Obama…but they come in well behind my list of top ten worst IMO

1.Andrew Jackson
2.Abraham Lincoln
3.Jefferson Davis
4. James Buchanan
5. U. S. Grant
6. Warren G. Harding
7.Richard Nixon
8.William McKinley
9.Herbert Hoover
10.Franklin Pierce

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I would only say that words have meaning. The word American either means something or it doesn’t.

Yep.

“America” is a continental distinction.

Fidel Castro is an “American.”

So is the Brazilian futbol player Ronaldo de Assis Moreira AKA Ronaldinho.

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The cons will never get over losing and smear our President with thoughts from rush and hannity.

He won fair and square cons and did not need the sc to decide.

He is a patriotic American and you cons have shown your true colors of unpatriotic and unAmerican behavior.

That is the truth.

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saywhat…
No fan of either Bush or Obama…but they’re small potatoes compared to what has been there before…

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Deep South Outlaw,

I would think that any liberal poster would appreciate the rather hidden desire of most any poster, liberal or conservative, to appreciate Ms. Palin’s wiles. As an old man, I could only dream.

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Let’s see if it gets through this time…my own top ten worst…

1.Andrew Jackson
2.Abraham Lincoln
3.Jefferson Davis
4.James Buchanan
5.U. S. Grant
6.Warren G. Harding
7.Richard Nixon
8.William McKinley
9.Herbert Hoover
10.Franklin Pierce

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…the rather hidden desire of most any poster, liberal or conservative, to appreciate Ms. Palin’s wiles.

This liberal has higher standards than Snowbilly Snooki.

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Saywhat,

She is only living out the American Dream…… would you trade places with her? How many others, both liberal and conservative, have done the same thing? The Clinton’s are worth millions and no one has ever questioned their loyalty to country.

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“The Clinton’s are worth millions and no one has ever questioned their loyalty to country.”

Except for people like you.

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Kayaker: I’ve never heard anyone seriously claim that Palin doesn’t love America, only that she wasn’t competent to be vice president of anything other than a hunting club.

Love of country is admirable, but it’s about as much a qualification for a very complicated job as having blue eyes. And as far as words having meaning, it seems that few on the right have a basic understanding of the words “communist”, “socialist” and “Messiah.”

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Sorry about that double posting of my list…for some reason it wasn’t going through, then it did…JAY? Did you release it? Just trying to figure out what the problem was…

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“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”

– Howard Zinn

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OK, I’m outta here. Look deeply into who you vote for, whether liberal or conservative. Pick the one who has a love of country above all else. Most of the rest of it falls into line, despite their experience. After all, we’re picking a person who will preserve what we have, give us a solid economic future and allow us to develop into the nation that we should. Right now, we are falling woefully short.

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saywhat

That’s why I say it’s way too early to be putting either of the two on such a list…distance lends perspective…

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josef

Your list is pretty accurate. Jackson was a nasty SOB, how he rates being on our currency is a mystery to me. Jefferson davis doesn’t count to me but I know why you have him there…

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There is absolutely no evidence to support that assertion, get.

Except for that whole swearing to defend the Constitution thingy. Or I dunno, returning to live here, unless you think he was hauled back by wild ilk.

Look, if you want to make up fruitcake assertions and then play “it’s true unless you prove it’s not” I’m sure Sooth will oblige you. Have fun.

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I think you’ll like this one from 1998.

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For those who haven’t heard, poverty has been eliminated.

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Jm

Realize you might not be a fan of his, but I read this today…author is listed as Gene Vallee

Warren Buffett, “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all
sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th
amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months
& 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in
1971…before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to
the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the
land…all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of
twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do
likewise.
In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the
message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*

1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office
and receives no pay when they are out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All
funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security
system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system,
and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for
any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans
do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay
will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the
same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American
people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen
made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor,
not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours
should serve their term’s), then go home and back to work.

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Any Bloom County fans here? This was done for the 2008 election cycle, but it still fits.

http://images.salon.com/comics/opus/2007/07/08/opus/story.jpg

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but…but….but….josef, I have a flag pin and I say the Pledge of Allegiance (well at least the words I knows)……

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“Eye of Newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,–
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.”

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Why Lincoln and Davis…those two egomaniacs plunged this country into the most destructive, brutal, and bloody war yet to beset anyone other than the that against the Indians…it was unnecessary and neither one wanted anything but blood, blood and more blood and were driven by the most evil of forces, the sacrifice of lives to advance a political agenda…and that both Northerns and Southerners would laud them in hagiology speaks to how little we ever learn from the mistakes of the past and, thus, allows us to keep repeating the mistake…

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Deep south

Yeah he’s said that before

If you passed an amendment to do that it would work
A regular law and they’d just change it right before election

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Hey! If you want to cut spending here’s a great place to start.

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Here ya go, Soothsayer.

Trust me, it is great fun to shove that one in the face of the Carter bashers…

http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html

And josef, you know I think you’re great.

But anybody who thinks Lincoln was one of the worst ever and Bush wasn’t is a tad bit outside of the mainstream!

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Mick

I will say this for Lincoln (sorry, Granny! ) , he was a wit of the first order…

“There are those who say I am two-faced. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“He could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”

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AmVet,

He is a tad bias against the Civil War loss.

I mean get over it already.

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josef: I curious as to your opinion of the following: Given the political climate in the preceding 25-30 years prior to 1861, and the fact that human slaves constituted a huge percentage of capitol investment in the pre-unpleasantness era, under what scenario could war have been avoided and the slaves freed? Note that I left out “perserving the union” as I think it was as much a smokescreen as “states rights.”

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“George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt are consistently ranked at the top of the lists.”

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Mr B…

I have often wondered that myself…the problem was that no one was willing to even try…overall, the United States would most likely have followed the patterns set in Cuba and Brazil…a gradual emancipation beginning around 1880 with compensation to the owners, land allotments to the freedmen, continued support for the aged and infirm, etc. Slavery as an insitution was considerably worse in those two societies and yet, today, their race relations are much better than ours…

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You know, the Flat Tax ain’t such a bad idea after all.

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getalife

I rank Teddy right below those 3.

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Deep South

Teddy? You’re not an Indian, are you?

wiccan

LOVE Bloom county,,,,

getalife

Yes, it is…and if we are wise we will look to the last time we had one and ask ourselves why…

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Newt has more wisdom in his pinky finger than you magic messiah Odumbass has in his whole body. Obama is a dedicated socialist and an ENEMY of the US! Why do you think his college records are sealed? Is that because he is so transparent?
It is because if the truth was revealed about this Marxist “community organizer” it would be over in a flash! 20 years in his racist church and he never heard a thing. Idiot!

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K’chak

The Scots should stick to banking, Calvinism, bagpipes and whiskey and stay out of the kitchen!

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Deep south

I might put TR above Franklin though he was great too

Lincoln saved the union but Adams and Jefferson are awesome too

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getalife

And because the North seems to have forgotten it, we keep on repeating the same mistakes…

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Getalife 9:18
Well, at least it’ll happen without slavery

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“That might be the most intelligent thing I’ve heard u say…”

And I am still waiting for you to do the same

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getalife- Mr. Buffett is an evil rich man.

fixed your typo.

I know you hate him with every breathe in your body. He’s made fortunes off the backs of the poor without ever lifting a finger to help. I’m sure you’ve reserved a special table for him in he!!.

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Our loss is San Diego’s gain…

http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2011/10/25/former-cbs-atlanta-weather-person-dagmar-midcap-lands-a-new-job-in-san-diego/?cxntlid=thbz_hm

(Loved the reference to the sweaters…)

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Deep South

Lincoln freed what? Have you read the Emancipation Proclamation? It didn’t free anybody…and the 13th Amendment was passed post Lincoln’s demise…he was lukewarm on emancipation at best and was not for equal rights of citizenship

Teddy was a great proponent of extermination (Dawes Commission…)

“.I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn’t inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.”

But, well, Geronimo DID get a Cadillac…

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So is Jay also worried about Gingrich? Yep, he’s worried about every Republican because he knows that Obama is in a heap of trouble against just about any challenger.

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Life in America

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“We’ll take care of picking our candidate.”

You seem to be having a problem with that simple task.

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The commander and chief campaigner is out on the road desperately trying to play his pathetic class warfare strategy to get re-elected against an electorate who has his number.

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…this let’s me know that jay is a little scared of newt b/c he knows in a debate he would wipe the floor with hussein…

No matter how many different names you post that under, it won’t make it true. Just sayin’.

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getalife,
you seemed to have a problem picking your candidate as well….seeing as how he is incompetent up to this point in his presidency…….

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The Republicans are going to have to quit their whining and pick their candidate eventually and they have so many left to vote off the island before their weiner is crowned.

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it’s the same process the dems went through to pick the most incompetent pres since carter…..better our weiner than yours(anthony)…..

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Billybob

As of yet, I have not heard that another Democrat was “throwing his hat in the ring”. So they seem pretty pat on their candidate thus far..or did I miss some breaking news?

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Warren Bluffet is a phony champion of the poor and middle class in this country.

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Deep South-I agree that the debt outliers are extremely dangerous…especially since it’s closer to $70 Trillion than $14 Trillion by some estimates

http://www.usdebtclock.org/ It’s $14.88T(already) with a total of $116T already promised. Why don’t we just send everyone a check fo a $1 million and call it a day?

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Deep South,

He is absurd.

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JKL2

I’ll take cash, if that’s ok with you.

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Recon

I dream of being absurd then. In fact, make it a double. Stark raving mad with a tendency to wear bad wigs and pointy shoes.

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Billybob

I was an avid fan of Hilary. She was the second smartest person in the Clinton WH, a few terms as US Senator and it would cause “El Rush Bo” to have a stroke. That’s winning in ways that Charlie Sheen could not even imagine.

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OK to the election…….

The thoughts…..

So far the bad guys are dead…… Bin Laden and Omar, and no new Wars have started.

We Know the deficit was huge when we began, but folks are going back to work in America.

Yes add some taxes, cut some loop holes. towards the balance of the budget, then continue the rebuilding of US infrastructure.

Focus on Solar / Wind for alternative energy so then Nuclear will not be a poison in the future.

The overall costs have been declining rapidly, and will continue to do so as the technology advances.

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I’m out…g’night

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Deep South Outlaw ,

I am a big Hillary fan too.

Just the karma of the Clintons back in the White House would have been great.

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I think you LP has a scratch in it, billy.

Either that or you really do live in that echo chamber I’ve read about.

getalife, to your point, we have one of the world’s great philanthropists and a paragon of modesty and quiet family man.

The cons adore that birther nutjob, tawdry TV clown, con artist and serial philanderer.

It epitomizes the difference…

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Deep South,

If that brings you wealth and happiness, God bless! Bluffet has been a highly successful investor or a gambler in our market system. He’s never started up a company that’s produced a product or has really contributed anything toward technical innovation in America. He is what he is and by no means an American hero. He’s a Democrat and thus a hero for the left but isn’t anyone special for main stream America.

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getalife,
try again you are 0 for 4 unless you read the old huffington post or hack-sites like that…..

amvet,
historians ,acting as journalists, ranking anything says nothing except that they are breaking the number one journalism ethics rule by inserting themselves into the story……….throwing random polls out there without describing the history of views of those ranking something is useless…..this does highlight how the liberal media tries to shape public opinion instead of reporting ON public opinion…..see how easy it is to dissect liberalism……the days of free reign for liberals in media and information is over thanks to people like me who will now speak up and enlighten people to your ilk’s deceits and manipulations that for years went unchecked…..

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Well, it’s been another groundhog day at bookman’s. That’s OK because you never know when some of these cons are going to wake up and see the light. Unfortunately, most are just zombies for the rich, what a crew permanently trapped in their own dark age….

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Recon

I have no idea if he’s indeed a “hero of the Left”. From my point of view, he’s the boy that played the game better. But if he’s a bad actor for his success…as I am guessing is your point, isn’t that sort of dirty pool to attack him for it since those on the Right are always going on about how the Left hates those with wealth?

Not trying to second guess your logic, rather I am attempting to understand it.

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Mick,

It does get old and they will never wake up but other Americans might be reading so it is worth a try to wake them up.

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Jay, don’t bank on it.

We cons never thought you libs would nominate a community organizer for pres.

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getalife

Yes, you are correct, keep hammering away until the job is finished….

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milton

Errr….I do believe he was a US senator…

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AmVet- Got any similar nuggets about Carter?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_index_(economics)

This is an area I truly believe obama could become the greatest at.

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recon

The wind is at our back, your side just might get walloped next november. Congress is at 9% approval, the party of no will not be trusted with governing, because they are incapable…

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Another tale of: government work is yum yum good

Bloomberg

Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) — Jean Keller earned $269,810 last year working as a nurse at a men’s prison on California’s central coast by tripling her regular pay with overtime hours.

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Question: How can you tell which Republican candidate will not get the nomination from their party?

Answer: It’s the one polling highest at any given time.

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The comrades find hope and change on Jay’s blog but reality escapes them. Pleasant dreams comrades. Taps

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Deep south 9:34

We’re already looking at financial he’ll

Growth will not bail us out this time

It will have to be done with old fashioned spending cuts and tax increases

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Boys, George had more f&ck ups in his first 100 days than Jimmy did in four years.

Then he really got rolling…

I know you rubes voted for him twice, but still.

Admit you screwed up really bad and just move on…

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mick,
once again a branding issue and if hussein shapes the conversation correctly people will side with him and his horrible policies……just like healthcare, huh…….been there done, that….try again lib…….too easy

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billybob

That’s a silly question and has nothing to do with our economics although if it makes you feel good – use it. The problem is that the wealthy class has convinced a bunch of rubes to protect their interests and they are the ones who don’t give a hoot about you. In reality they are job destroyers because all they are interested in is more money. So, they ship it all to communist china ore wherever they can make an extra buck and while your wage either is stagnant or diminishes, you say, “thank you sir may I have another?” Sad but true…..

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getalife- So blinded and brainwashed by ideology you can’t even admit the economy collapsed on w’s watch

No. I think you’ll find it all started going to he!! about the time the Demwits took control of congress. The worst of Bush (tarp, med D) is what you call the best of obama (obamacare, stimulous 1,2,3, working on 4)

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mick,
i guess that’s the mindset of someone who’s top advisor is a marketer……..it’s not the policies, stupid, it’s the branding of those socialist policies that are causing them to fail and not the actual failure of those said policies……my guess is the libs are learning a little something this evening fellow conservatives…..

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Milton and fellow Carter bashers,

Good that you gave up when you were behind.

http://tinyurl.com/3l92uty

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Deep 10:28
Doesn’t have to be (sunk)

If politicians won’t cut spending (dems) they must be forced to raise taxes

Go back to pre bush rates, close loopholes, reform entitlements, and cut current spending from 24% to 21% (pre Obama spending level) and we’re done

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Mick

Maybe, undoubtedly you’ve exchanged more with him than I have. I try hard to keep an open mind and exam issues from both sides as no one is every 100% and I haven’t seen too many instances of anyone being 100% wrong.

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I omitted “right” after the first 100%..sorry, tired.

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“….now”

But punt and change keeps putting off doing anything about the deficit

Vote Romney 2012

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mick,
it’s a simple question….one word…….if you can’t answer, shouldn’t you be in centennial park right about now complaining about people who have things that you wish to take from them b/c you deserve the same things…….is that equalization of outcome……redistribution……socialism…….the new democratic way led by the socialist in the white house……this mindset will lose in a landslide in 2012…..keep talking please…..

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AmVet- Of course, the fake conservatives won’t admit they brought this country to the brink of complete collapse under George Bush

He wasn’t conservative. That was the problem. (Ever heard of the Tea Party?)

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Jm

To take the position of no future growth is akin to saying that our country is “done”. Which makes us a very large and troublesome Greece scenerio. If that is the case, no future course of action will make any difference other than a massive reset. Which means we could elect a blind cat with one leg and still get the same results.

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define ’spread the wealth’ for me mick….straight from the horses mouth……another easy question

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Author Steven F. Hayward, who has labeled Carter the “worst ex-president” certainly thinks so.

A fellow at the conservative AEI doesn’t like Carter?

I’ll act shocked and awed if it will make you feel any better.

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you’ll hear from them again in nov 2012 taxpayer….just like nov 2010……nice Lib 101 name-calling….feel like i’m back in 2nd grade with all the lib name-calling….it’s fun to see and hear….

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The iced tea party? You mean all those grumpy leftovers from the mccain/palin rally’s? Inconsequential at this point, maybe they’ll regroup to simmer another day in an off year non- presidential election. Truthfully, that movement is all but dead, especially after the debt limit debacle, they cannot govern…

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Mick- So, that’s why your a herman cain fan, all that gov’t experience, right?

Not sure he’s the man. The computer quiz Kyle had last week said he was my guy. Still too early for make to make a decision. I can tell you I have voted against obama three time and predict that trend will continue.

At least he’s ran something before. obama had never had to make a decision on anything before he became president. I like my leaders to have leadership experience. obama is still a scared little boy hiding in the corner and he’s been in charge for three years.

My 10 year old daughter has more leadershop skills than obama.

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We have to do it the old fashioned way this time

You’re a still wet behind the ears weaned on trickle-down naif.

Old fashioned?

Too funny

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Recon/USMC:

http://www.youtube.com/v/X7jE_Sn96YU&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam

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He wasn’t conservative.

OF COURSE, he wasn’t!

It was patently obvious back in 2000! But you boys sure were singing a different tune then, remember?

And guess what? Virtually all of these frauds in the hijacked, hemorrhaging GOP are not either.

And there’s the rub; and the primary reason this republic is reeling backwards.

The neo-cons, and frankly the nation, desperately needs a conservative intervention.

OK, I’ve got a very early meeting in the AM.

We shall take up this “debate’ later, gentlemen.

Until then…

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amvet,
the conservative intervention started with brown and continued through nov 2010 and will continue through nov 2012 and you will have your wish…..

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good night all

Toodles, Billy-poo.

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mick- All that wealth envy smokescreen is a waste of time – no one is buying that canard…

OWS says,”What?” It’s the basis of their movement….

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“OCCUT*RD” ALERT:

Headline (New York Times): “Cities Crack Down on ‘Occupy’ Protests”

“After weeks of cautiously accepting the teeming demonstrations spawned by Occupy Wall Street, several cities have come to the end of their patience.”

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AJC Headline “Metro jobless rate stuck at 10.3%”

The article should be about the “hope and change cheerleader” the nation turned to…

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NATIONAL NEWS HEADLINE:Gap between U.S. rich, poor is widest in Atlanta

The article IS about why we still need hope and change.

Obama/Biden 2012

Hell yes we can.

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Not a big Newt fan, but I will say he’s the only one with a really good grasp of space policy, and the vision to take us in to a future where humans live there.

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ahem … OH, SNAP!!

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-heritage-foundation-speech-6530510

Sentence No. 1: pure Ayn Rand. “Makers vs. takers.” Moochers and leeches. You and Them. But especially Them. But not in a divisive way. Oh, no. The Congressman doesn’t believe in divisive class rhetoric. He said so — “To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment…” — earlier in his remarks. And he is not engaging in the politics of division himself. Oh, no. He’s just sad — mournful, even — that the “conceits of liberalism” are on their way to dividing the country into “makers versus takers.” And you know who you are, don’t you? And who They are. And what They are taking… from You.

worth the read …

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All the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not put this wrecked economy back together again.

Not in three scant years.

Dig in peeps, the middle class LOST ground in the “lost decade” o f2000 – 2010.

For those keeping count, that is four decades in a row of flat-lined income for most of us.

And you really expect this one to be a bed of roses?

And you really think that had the president had an R after his name, things would be all on their way to Groovyville now?

But here’s the kicker.

The most myopic and willfully stupid of you cannot figure out what all the fuss on Wall Street and elsewhere is all about.

No worries. Sit at home, suck your thumbs and suck up to the plutocrats. Others will take the lead…

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http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/10/26/funny-pictures-history-gps-s-o-s/

…must be customer service…

http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/10/26/funny-pictures-history-is-your-name-really-steve/

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First we hear Steve Jobs warned President Obama he’d be a one termer if he wasn’t more business friendly.

The right cheered.

Then we heard Steve Jobs was excitedly looking forward to supporting President Obama in 2012 and wanted to do some ads for him.

The right ignored it.

Now we hear what Steve Jobs said about Fox news….

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Jm

October 27th, 2011
7:07 am

Well then. Instead of pointing fingers, offer solutions. Yes, solutions would be nice.

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Normal
I do that every day on this blog

It’s pretty simple math. Cut spending, raise taxes by reducing deductions.

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Jm

October 27th, 2011
7:13 am

Explain to me how that would create jobs…I just must be dense, because I don’t see it.

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Normal
It won’t create jobs in the short term

It will balance the budget and prevent calamity and massive unemployment in the future

(granny, if you want to point out the fact that the earth rotates eastward, then have at it. Thanks for pointing out the obvious)

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Jm

Any comments on Jobs’ comment on Fox?

I mean a superstar business stud says what he said about Fox,,,,,

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“He travels with more baggage than a 100-piece marching band.

Who cares? We survived Bill Clintons and JFK’s antics and the left has notoriosly told us that what people do in their private lives doesn’t matter . We need someone who knows the difference between campaigning and leading. All we’ve got now is Mr. Lollypop promising everyone something whith no clue how to get it implemented or how to pay for it. Newt’s feasible and he will be able to expose the great pretender in the white house for who he is in a debate.

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Mad Max

October 27th, 2011
7:29 am

Bless your pea pickin’ little heart.

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stands for decibels

October 27th, 2011
7:32 am
It’s early- where did Obama stand at this same relative time against a hugely unpopular president?

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The right ignored it.

Now we hear what Steve Jobs said about Fox news….

GG, jm’s iPostgarbage app needs an update, apparently.

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Mad Max

Candidate Obama was 20 points behind Candidate Clinton.

I hope you do all you can do for Newt’s campaign!

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Jay, UnU, yeah it’s a good read.

But I’ll just say this–I already caught a bite of that speech on last night’s news. I heard something that sounded like “it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback.” Mostly I heard “division.”

and all I could think was “you Koch sucking SOB, you’re standing there telling me about ‘divisiveness’ standing in front of a m-fing Heritage Foundation logo!”

I didn’t actually *say* it because the kid was within earshot, of course.

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Mad Max

Are you doing this from the 700 club? Club for Growth?
Freedom works? Heritage ? Club Voyeur in West Hollywood?

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Mad Max

Dismissive?

Try realistic.

Newt will never be President.

Bank on it.

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USinUK: (Let us pause briefly here to point out that anyone who takes Ayn Rand seriously at Paul Ryan’s age desperately needs to get out in the fresh air and sunshine more.)

AHAHAHA!

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as to the headline–and even though Jay already Tweeted this–

woot woot woot.

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I think the esquire piece is comical in it’s lack of analytical heft

Just more leftist hyperbole

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Granny
I’m sure jobs had plenty of bad things to say about Fox. Fine by me but I haven’t read them

Feel free to provide a link, I may catch it later…. Out

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Stands – Believe it or not, it is. The only one’s who still believe he is a good orator are his believers. At one time I believed he was, but he’s grown smaller in office. I now see a whiny guy who tries to blame his lack of effectiveness on everyone else. We had a guy like that here in my office as Sr. of OPs. Big, articulate, everyone believed him. Two years later, he’s no longer here, cleared out his desk one Friday night..

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Granny, Bless you too.

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“He travels with more baggage than a 100-piece marching band.

Who cares?

I think it quite funny that the uptight right who in the name of God, want to control the morals of all, including all women’s uteruses, sexual choice, and marriage as defined by a man and a woman, conveniently “forgive” the sexual promiscuity of thieir Republican slimeballs when they need them… soon after impeaching a Democrat for sexual promiscuity…situational ethics at it’s best.

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I would love to see Newt in a debate with Obama, it would be classic.

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Believe it or not, it is. The only one’s who still believe he is a good orator are his believers.
Well, now you’re getting into incredibly subjective territory. For what it’s worth, Reagan always made me wince. I thought he sounded, at best, mean and nasty, and at worst, just mentally feeble. I never bought the “kindly old man” BS foisted by his apologists (although I’ve later come around to accept that he was probably not a terrible guy on a one-to-one level—and that’s only because I’ve heard his son talk about him often enough to convince me).

Point is, most Americans didn’t seem to share my personal dislike of that President. And I think you’ll find that most Americans don’t share your personal dislike of this one.

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“I would love to see Newt in a debate with Obama,”

the guy who threw a strop because of where he was sitting in AF1???

oh, yeah, he’d be a MASTER debater

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I remain bemused, and frankly, utterly flummoxed by your wild-eyed, child-like faith in the GOP electorate Jay. From whence doth it come?
You actually believe there is someone – anyone – too ridiculous for this group to nominate for the Presidency? And that would be based upon … what?
You do realize, do you not, that most of the overwheening criticism of the current crop of
candidates is that they’re not quite stupid enough, right? That it’s their occasional stumble into
sane sensibility that tarnishes them with the GOP electorate?
Jay, Jay, Jay. (Sigh.)

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stands: And I think you’ll find that most Americans don’t share your personal dislike of this one.

I disagree. He’ll find whatever he wants to find, and ignore the rest.

Personal approval at 72%? I thought you said he was personally moveable with 72% power….

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Donavan

Have you committed some of your hard earned wages to Newts campaign?

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Newt must have got someone on his staff to dredge up a few supporters this morning to attack Bookman, lol. Hopefully they’ll post fast before the field trip to Tiffany’s.

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“BO MUST GO”

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“The Obama / Soros’ Occupy Wallstreet Mob” / “Uganda ” / “Obama Giving Solyndra 535 Million Of Our Money”/ “Obama’s Fast And Furious Criminal Operation”/ “Obama Buying His Union Votes With Our Tax Money” / “Obama Empowering The Muslim Brotherhood” / ” Obama’s Hate Speech Provocations” / “Obama putting Muslim’s Rights Over All Other American’s Rights” / “Obama Ignoring North Korean Aggression” / “Obama’s Democrats Voting Against Auditing The Corrupt Federal Reserve Bank” / “Lopsided Nuke Deals” / “Obama’s Expensive & Unnecessary Trip To India” / “Obama’s Illegal Aunt Living Off Our Taxes” / “Obama Taking 500 Billion From Medicare And From Our Senior Citizens To Fund His Illegal’s On welfare”/ “Obama Having The Christian Crosses Covered Up At Notre Dame University For His Speech” / “Mosque At 9-11 Ground Zero”/ “Obama and Hillary calling in the UN to slam Arizona, 22 States & our nation’s laws”/ “Our Tax Money Being Used To Fund The Democrat Propagandist National Public Radio” / “Obamacare” / “Abortions paid for under Obamacare” / “Suing Arizona” / “Obama’s Wealth Redistribution” / “No Social Security Cost Of Living Increase For Retired Americans For Two Years”/ “Bailouts”/ “Bribes”/ “Obama’s & BP’s Mishandled Gulf Of Mexico Oil Aneurysm” / ” Cap & Trade Tax”/ “535 Billion Of Your Money Spent On Illegal’s Every Year” / “Obama’s 2.6 Trillion Amnesty” / “Economy Trashed By The Democrats” / “Democrat Voter Fraud” /” No Real Border Security Enforcement” / “Siding with the Marxist Zelaya in Honduras against the will of the people there” / “No Jobs” / “Beer Summit” / “Calling Our Returning Veterans Potential Terrorists” / “AG Holder setting the 9-11 terrorist trial just blocks from the 9-11 attack site” / “Calling Christians Potential Terrorists” / “Hands Holding Crotch During Pledge Of Allegiance” / “Rev Wright” / “Michelle” / “Massive & Reckless Spending” / “Harry Reid” / “Nancy Pelosi” / “Sestak”/”Obamacare Death Panels” / “Nationalizing Banks” / “Nationalizing US Industry” / “Obama’s Massive Stimulus Failure” /”Calling Tea Party Activist’s Racist’s” / “New Black Panther Party Thugs empowered by Obama’s AG Holder” / “Using the NAACP to spread Racist Propaganda” / “Obama’s Dept Of Justice Refusing To Prosecute Black Racist Discrimination Against White People”/ “ACORN” / “Dead People Voting As Democrats” / “Calling Terrorism A Man Made Disaster” / “Calling America a Muslim Nation” / “Obama Giving One Billion Of Your Money To The Hamas Terrorists Of Gaza”/ “Bowing to the Saudi king of Terror” / “The Obama Apology Tour” / “Obama’s Marxist Czars” / “Obama’s Muslim Czars advocating for Islamic Sharia Law in America” / “Obama mistreating our friends” / “Cap & Trade Tax” / “Obama’s Terrorist Appeasement” / “The Islamization Of NASA” / “Muslims exempted from Obamacare” / “Obama’s Mistreatment Of Israel”

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OH GAWD! Another right wing propagandist…how funny!

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Mornin’ Butch,
How come y’all’s in Yankee land?

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Paul @ 6:34 pm…

What’s with the jealousy thing against “ever-wealthier billionaires”? You seem to have that Democrap communist class envy thing down pretty well.

I do believe that living in this capitalist country with the dream of doing well and enjoying the fruits of our labor is what it is all about.

Get off your “ole poor me” butt and quit hating what the other side is enjoying.

Jealousy is a child’s game.

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Yeah Tommy…that’s right. No one has ever discussed anything in Obama’s prior life. You must be making a early run for the silliest post of the day, right?

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Morning Butch…. can you send me some good bagels this morning?

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Eli Jones: HEADLINE: Obama turns 50 despite Republican opposition.

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Normal – “How come y’all’s in Yankee land?”

Moved up here about 15 years ago from the ATL. Still like to keep tabs on you though. It’s actually more interesting now, seems to be a LOT more people with their heads in the sand than there was back in th 90’s. Besides, the AJC posters seem to have cornered the “obozo” comments market.

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“Obama’s Terrorist Appeasement”

if killing OBL and helping oust Gaddhafi is appeasement … please, sir, may I have some more???

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I think Eli dumped his load and ran away in hopes of escaping the fumes.

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Newt Gingrich is the triple option of politics. He has gotten farther with less appeal than maybe anyone in the history of politics. He moved around like a gypsy, gerrymandering Congressional seats in Georgia to find the soft spot in the electric that would send him to Washington. He then played to the rich man’s greed and became his man in Washington, protecting his interest. He used this money to make himself the speaker. He is totally disingenuous to the point that I wonder if he even believes what he says himself. He is exactly what is wrong with American in 2011. He takes up a lot of room, produces very little and gets paid a huge amount of money. By the way this is the man who fathered shutting down Washington with non-compromising positions when he was the speaker. Now he wants to restructure the judicial system in the same manner. What he can carry in a majority movement, which he has never had except in the Republican congress, he hijacks like a domestic terrorist. I wonder if he didn’t influence that last debate floor mate, where he could sit back say nothing and look like the winner. He is a genius at evil, exactly what some of this country seems to want.

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Obama has bigger things to be concerned about than a debate with Newt. On the news I just heard the leader(Tim Franzen) of the Occupy ATL protest say he was a” Community Organizer”. He also is a convicted felon and paid by a liberal activist group. Apparently, most of the protesters are paid and not local citizens. I can see it now, two Community Organizers(Obama and Franzen) going head to head in the Democratic primary?

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tom

Some would consider jesus a godlike community organizer…not a bad role model..

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