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		<title>By: Bill</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/thinking-right/2009/09/29/more-obama-seemed-like-good-idea/comment-page-2/#comment-16247</link>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama never seemed like a good idea to me. But a whole lot of you people did think so. Or maybe you weren&#039;t thinking at all, but let your emotions get the better of you. You all thought you&#039;d be proving something to the world and to your compatriots by electing the first black president since you weren&#039;t quite ready for the first female president. But you were tempted to go that way too. So you had your big moment in the spotlight and the world applauded you and cheered.  However that may be, the party was short-lived and, more significantly, it&#039;s over. Don&#039;t make the same mistake twice. Anyway, it should never be about electing the first anything. But rather electing a person who can lead effectively and who upholds the foundational ideals that are distinctly American. If it turns out that that person is a minority or female, that should only count as coincidental, not the reason for casting your vote. You didn&#039;t like George W. So what did you do? You voted for a pair of hucksters you&#039;ll like even less. 

I realize politics exerts a strong influence on the emotions, but reason must come first. Control your emotions next time. Don&#039;t be carried away by your peers and the media circus. This is the hard-nosed world of politics, not American Idol.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama never seemed like a good idea to me. But a whole lot of you people did think so. Or maybe you weren&#8217;t thinking at all, but let your emotions get the better of you. You all thought you&#8217;d be proving something to the world and to your compatriots by electing the first black president since you weren&#8217;t quite ready for the first female president. But you were tempted to go that way too. So you had your big moment in the spotlight and the world applauded you and cheered.  However that may be, the party was short-lived and, more significantly, it&#8217;s over. Don&#8217;t make the same mistake twice. Anyway, it should never be about electing the first anything. But rather electing a person who can lead effectively and who upholds the foundational ideals that are distinctly American. If it turns out that that person is a minority or female, that should only count as coincidental, not the reason for casting your vote. You didn&#8217;t like George W. So what did you do? You voted for a pair of hucksters you&#8217;ll like even less. </p>
<p>I realize politics exerts a strong influence on the emotions, but reason must come first. Control your emotions next time. Don&#8217;t be carried away by your peers and the media circus. This is the hard-nosed world of politics, not American Idol.</p>
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		<title>By: SONYA MATTHEWS</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/thinking-right/2009/09/29/more-obama-seemed-like-good-idea/comment-page-2/#comment-15998</link>
		<dc:creator>SONYA MATTHEWS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OPPOSE ALL YOU WANT,  BUT WHEN &quot;IT&quot; (SICKNESS, SWINE FLU, HEART OPERATION, LONG TERM ILLNESS) HITS AT YOUR ADDRESS, AND YOU HAVE NO CURRENT COVERAGE, REMEMBER TO KEEP OPPOSING....

I TYPE IN CAPS BECAUSE I NEED TO SEE IT- NOT SCREAM...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OPPOSE ALL YOU WANT,  BUT WHEN &#8220;IT&#8221; (SICKNESS, SWINE FLU, HEART OPERATION, LONG TERM ILLNESS) HITS AT YOUR ADDRESS, AND YOU HAVE NO CURRENT COVERAGE, REMEMBER TO KEEP OPPOSING&#8230;.</p>
<p>I TYPE IN CAPS BECAUSE I NEED TO SEE IT- NOT SCREAM&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/thinking-right/2009/09/29/more-obama-seemed-like-good-idea/comment-page-2/#comment-15990</link>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Moonbat, glad your mom&#039;s letting you stay up late to keep churning out all those witty names you  have. You are an idiot. Really.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Moonbat, glad your mom&#8217;s letting you stay up late to keep churning out all those witty names you  have. You are an idiot. Really.</p>
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		<title>By: Charlie</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/thinking-right/2009/09/29/more-obama-seemed-like-good-idea/comment-page-2/#comment-15989</link>
		<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Enter your comments here Why not take the cap off Social Security and let the high-priced ballplayers and their owners plus all those bright-bulbs in Hollywood help shore it up some?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Enter your comments here Why not take the cap off Social Security and let the high-priced ballplayers and their owners plus all those bright-bulbs in Hollywood help shore it up some?</p>
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		<title>By: retiredds</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/thinking-right/2009/09/29/more-obama-seemed-like-good-idea/comment-page-2/#comment-15988</link>
		<dc:creator>retiredds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jim and all others, the chickens have come home to roost. Republican and Democratic fiscal and economic mismanagement over the last 40 years yields today&#039;s result: the deficit climbs because Americans in general have lived and continue to live, although a little less lavishly since the near depression that began in 2007, well beyond our needs and means. I guess you might say we reap what we sow and all of us participate. Looking to blame Obama for all our ills is an avoidance issue and just allows the blamers to push off their responsibility and accountability for the mess we&#039;re in. It is an age old axiom, blaming the other is a fools way out being responsible. Blame might make you feel good but does nothing toward a constructive solution.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jim and all others, the chickens have come home to roost. Republican and Democratic fiscal and economic mismanagement over the last 40 years yields today&#8217;s result: the deficit climbs because Americans in general have lived and continue to live, although a little less lavishly since the near depression that began in 2007, well beyond our needs and means. I guess you might say we reap what we sow and all of us participate. Looking to blame Obama for all our ills is an avoidance issue and just allows the blamers to push off their responsibility and accountability for the mess we&#8217;re in. It is an age old axiom, blaming the other is a fools way out being responsible. Blame might make you feel good but does nothing toward a constructive solution.</p>
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		<title>By: Proud American</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/thinking-right/2009/09/29/more-obama-seemed-like-good-idea/comment-page-2/#comment-15987</link>
		<dc:creator>Proud American</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>pd
Pretty dumb, I have been going to a Chiropractor for several years, my current healthcare provider that I CHOSE, does not cover chiropractor visits, I pay a very nominal fee per visit which is less than when the healthcare provider that I CHOSE did cover these expenses. Not to turn this in to a testamonial for Chiropractic care but it is very inexpensive for the care you receive.
Perhaps you may want to CHOOSE a more scrupulous golfing partner!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>pd<br />
Pretty dumb, I have been going to a Chiropractor for several years, my current healthcare provider that I CHOSE, does not cover chiropractor visits, I pay a very nominal fee per visit which is less than when the healthcare provider that I CHOSE did cover these expenses. Not to turn this in to a testamonial for Chiropractic care but it is very inexpensive for the care you receive.<br />
Perhaps you may want to CHOOSE a more scrupulous golfing partner!</p>
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		<title>By: Moonbat Patrol</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/thinking-right/2009/09/29/more-obama-seemed-like-good-idea/comment-page-2/#comment-15986</link>
		<dc:creator>Moonbat Patrol</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I wouldn’t have guessed that. I would have guessed that you were very angry.&quot;

I am happy, and no, I&#039;m not &quot;angry&quot; any more than libtards were &quot;angry&quot; at Bush for 8 years - back then of course dissent was the &quot;highest form of patriotism&quot; and being &quot;angry&quot; was just being &quot;passionate.&quot; Today of course when the libtards are facing down opposition, it&#039;s we Right Wingers who are the racists, the haters, the Nazis, the domestic terrorists, the violent prone, blah blah blah ad nauseum. 

The libtards are permanently &quot;angry&quot; and unhappy in life because they are looking for a Utopia that doesn&#039;t exist - as much as they want to destroy this nation from the core and rebuild it into one to their liking. Sorry libtards, that just ain&#039;t gonna happen. Moderates are the majority in this nation, not mindless libtards as much as they want to believe otherwise.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I wouldn’t have guessed that. I would have guessed that you were very angry.&#8221;</p>
<p>I am happy, and no, I&#8217;m not &#8220;angry&#8221; any more than libtards were &#8220;angry&#8221; at Bush for 8 years &#8211; back then of course dissent was the &#8220;highest form of patriotism&#8221; and being &#8220;angry&#8221; was just being &#8220;passionate.&#8221; Today of course when the libtards are facing down opposition, it&#8217;s we Right Wingers who are the racists, the haters, the Nazis, the domestic terrorists, the violent prone, blah blah blah ad nauseum. </p>
<p>The libtards are permanently &#8220;angry&#8221; and unhappy in life because they are looking for a Utopia that doesn&#8217;t exist &#8211; as much as they want to destroy this nation from the core and rebuild it into one to their liking. Sorry libtards, that just ain&#8217;t gonna happen. Moderates are the majority in this nation, not mindless libtards as much as they want to believe otherwise.</p>
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		<title>By: pd</title>
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		<dc:creator>pd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I’m happy as a clam &quot;

I wouldn&#039;t have guessed that. I would have guessed that you were very angry. I suppose it difficult to judge one&#039;s state of mind through their writings sometimes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I’m happy as a clam &#8221;</p>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have guessed that. I would have guessed that you were very angry. I suppose it difficult to judge one&#8217;s state of mind through their writings sometimes.</p>
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		<title>By: Moonbat Patrol</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/thinking-right/2009/09/29/more-obama-seemed-like-good-idea/comment-page-2/#comment-15980</link>
		<dc:creator>Moonbat Patrol</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey libtard Algore J. Cackle: if the MAJORITY of Americans do NOT want their health care to change, which IS the truth, it isn&#039;t going to happen. Know why libtard? Because even the idiot Democrats aren&#039;t THAT stupid. They know they&#039;ll get voted the hell out. Up yours, you fascist freedom hating libtard goon - and grow up beyond &quot;NAZI!!&quot; comments, you worthless trash hole.

Anyway, listen to the liberals at Newsweak downplay &quot;happiness&quot; now. I guess when Thee Appointed One didn&#039;t bring America together and make everyone happy overnight right after his election, things have to be downplayed now:

&quot;According to a study from the General Social Survey by economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers of Wharton, despite three decades of economic growth in America, men and women are no happier...The broader point remains—while Europeans are growing happier, especially Italians, Americans are not.&quot;

Speak for yourself, Newsweak. Conservatives are much happier than dwelling in the permanent misery of libtardism. I&#039;m happy as a clam and have just about everything I want short of a Lamborghini and Gulfstream V.

&quot;Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities. Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person&#039;s tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities..

Well that makes sense. Libtardism is an ideology born, bred, and fed off mindless emotionalism. Libtards are emotion driven, not rational and logical thought driven. No further proof of that need be said than that idiot libtard Janeane Garofalo saying that Conservatives have a synapse gap in their frontal lobes - she&#039;s a regular brain surgeon, isn&#039;t she. Reminds me of that other wacko libtard Rosie O&#039;Donnell who said &quot;for the first time ever steel melted&quot; with regards to the WTC attacks - she&#039;s a regular structural engineer and metalologist if you didn&#039;t know. Idiots.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/216147/?GT1=43002

This is all almost as much fun as listening to Jimmy Carter&#039;s senile lips say that the Bush II administration was the worst in American history. LAUGHABLE! Let&#039;s see here, under Carter, 12 nations went to communism, defeating 30 years of fighting it; 14% unemployment; 21% interest rates; 12% inflation; four hour gas lines; American hostages taken by Iranian goons and held captive for 444 days; Cuban criminal refugees running loose in America; the birth of radical Islam and the sellout of the Shah; Soviets invaded Afganistan; brother Billy (beer) ambassador to Syria. Finally, Ayatollah&#039;s son recounted that his father realized that America was a paper tiger and that we did not have the guts to do anything under Carter. That was when the phrase &quot;Death to America&quot; and &quot;America is the big Satan&quot; was coined. All of that happened under his watch and he has the gall to call the Bush II administration the worst ever. LAUGHABLE.

And now we have nothing but a Carter II administration. Go figure.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey libtard Algore J. Cackle: if the MAJORITY of Americans do NOT want their health care to change, which IS the truth, it isn&#8217;t going to happen. Know why libtard? Because even the idiot Democrats aren&#8217;t THAT stupid. They know they&#8217;ll get voted the hell out. Up yours, you fascist freedom hating libtard goon &#8211; and grow up beyond &#8220;NAZI!!&#8221; comments, you worthless trash hole.</p>
<p>Anyway, listen to the liberals at Newsweak downplay &#8220;happiness&#8221; now. I guess when Thee Appointed One didn&#8217;t bring America together and make everyone happy overnight right after his election, things have to be downplayed now:</p>
<p>&#8220;According to a study from the General Social Survey by economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers of Wharton, despite three decades of economic growth in America, men and women are no happier&#8230;The broader point remains—while Europeans are growing happier, especially Italians, Americans are not.&#8221;</p>
<p>Speak for yourself, Newsweak. Conservatives are much happier than dwelling in the permanent misery of libtardism. I&#8217;m happy as a clam and have just about everything I want short of a Lamborghini and Gulfstream V.</p>
<p>&#8220;Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities. Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person&#8217;s tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities..</p>
<p>Well that makes sense. Libtardism is an ideology born, bred, and fed off mindless emotionalism. Libtards are emotion driven, not rational and logical thought driven. No further proof of that need be said than that idiot libtard Janeane Garofalo saying that Conservatives have a synapse gap in their frontal lobes &#8211; she&#8217;s a regular brain surgeon, isn&#8217;t she. Reminds me of that other wacko libtard Rosie O&#8217;Donnell who said &#8220;for the first time ever steel melted&#8221; with regards to the WTC attacks &#8211; she&#8217;s a regular structural engineer and metalologist if you didn&#8217;t know. Idiots.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/216147/?GT1=43002" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsweek.com/id/216147/?GT1=43002</a></p>
<p>This is all almost as much fun as listening to Jimmy Carter&#8217;s senile lips say that the Bush II administration was the worst in American history. LAUGHABLE! Let&#8217;s see here, under Carter, 12 nations went to communism, defeating 30 years of fighting it; 14% unemployment; 21% interest rates; 12% inflation; four hour gas lines; American hostages taken by Iranian goons and held captive for 444 days; Cuban criminal refugees running loose in America; the birth of radical Islam and the sellout of the Shah; Soviets invaded Afganistan; brother Billy (beer) ambassador to Syria. Finally, Ayatollah&#8217;s son recounted that his father realized that America was a paper tiger and that we did not have the guts to do anything under Carter. That was when the phrase &#8220;Death to America&#8221; and &#8220;America is the big Satan&#8221; was coined. All of that happened under his watch and he has the gall to call the Bush II administration the worst ever. LAUGHABLE.</p>
<p>And now we have nothing but a Carter II administration. Go figure.</p>
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		<title>By: Algonquin J. Calhoun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Algonquin J. Calhoun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a bunch of Republinazi hacks!  health-care is going to change.  Get used to it!  As for doling out rescue money that was done by George W. Hitler.  AIG and Citi got money on weekends when no one could say anything about it.  Stop your damn lying!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a bunch of Republinazi hacks!  health-care is going to change.  Get used to it!  As for doling out rescue money that was done by George W. Hitler.  AIG and Citi got money on weekends when no one could say anything about it.  Stop your damn lying!</p>
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