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Old 03-31-2010, 09:23 PM
 
Location: Land of debt and Corruption
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Shame on them. Taking an interst in government. Shame.
I know right? We should just shut up and take our medicine like good little children.
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Old 03-31-2010, 09:23 PM
 
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I was listening to two Democrat congressman on a radio interview the other day saying how this is a very centralized government that works top-down only and that if you don't vote 95% along Obama lines, you're chastised and threatened.
I think that's what they're talking about.
Sort of like drumming up support for a trumped up war by claiming that anyone who disagrees with you is unAmerican. Yeah, I get it....
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Old 03-31-2010, 09:24 PM
 
Location: La lune et les étoiles
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Shame on them. Taking an interst in government. Shame.
Where were these citizens who were so interested in government when George W Bush was destroying it and Cheney/Rumsfeld were pulling the strings?

What is the logic behind their timing to wait until GWB left office and President Obama takes office when all of the damage was done under the previous administration?

There is NO LOGIC just extremely obvious motivations behind who they decided to target and why.
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Old 03-31-2010, 09:24 PM
 
Location: Columbus
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Voting out a dictator is kinda like retirees on social security and medicare saying they don't like government handouts.

Reality is odder than fiction.
You just can't make this stuff up..can you ?
They don't see those as handouts. They were forced to pay for them in their youth. Now they want was promised them.

See the difference?
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Old 03-31-2010, 09:24 PM
 
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Wasn't Hitler elected?

I'm not comparing Obama to Hitler.

Just saying it is possible to elect a dictator.
Wrong, Hitler was appointed, not elected. Do some research. Even if it is possible to elect a dictator, it's not possible to vote him out of office. If you can do that, he was never a dictator.
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Old 03-31-2010, 09:25 PM
 
Location: The High Seas
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Sort of like drumming up support for a trumped up war by claiming that anyone who disagrees with you is unAmerican. Yeah, I get it....
I didn't vote for W and think he was an awful president. I believe Obama is ten times worse. Just look at the deficit numbers he's racked up compared to Bush.
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Old 03-31-2010, 09:26 PM
 
Location: La lune et les étoiles
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If the Tea Party movement is so very much against government intrusion...where were they when Cheney was pushing for the Patriot Act which has to be the most invasive piece of legislation that the Bush/Cheney thugocracy pushed through riding on Americans fears following 9/11.
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Old 03-31-2010, 09:26 PM
 
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I didn't vote for W and think he was an awful president. I believe Obama is ten times worse. Just look at the deficit numbers he's racked up compared to Bush.
That doesn't make him a dictator or Communist. It must makes him fiscally irresponsible.
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Old 03-31-2010, 09:27 PM
 
Location: Columbus
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Where were these citizens who were so interested in government when George W Bush was destroying it and Cheney/Rumsfeld were pulling the strings?

What is the logic behind their timing to wait until GWB left office and President Obama takes office when all of the damage was done under the previous administration?

There is NO LOGIC just extremely obvious motivations behind who they decided to target and why.

Yawn. Where is the left now that Obama is fighting a war in Iraq?

Why was the left so mad about 400 billion dollar deficits under Bush but not a peep about Obama's 1.4 trillion dollar ones?

Why was the left so mad about AIG bonuses but not a word about GM and Chrysler muti-million dollar bonuses?

Politics. Whatcha gonna do?
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Old 03-31-2010, 09:28 PM
 
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Shame on them. Taking an interst in government. Shame.
No one oppose anyone taking an interest in government, we only ask that since government has been a concern since, let's say, 4th grade civics that they at least take the time to review what they had been taught and perhaps spend a little time learning what they did not during the 6 other years that made up the remainder of the their grade school education.
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