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Old 02-26-2013, 07:31 AM
 
Location: Earth
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The losers are our children and grandchildren. We have every right to be bitter. These Chicago thugs and the lamestream media stole this election on the graves of 4 brave Americans. They are disgusting, low-life, lying thieves, statist capitalists, snivelling, egomaniacal, self-absorbed POSs and yes, i hate them.

BENGHAZI! BENGHAZI! BENGHAZI!

FAST & FURIOUS! FAST & FURIOUS! FAST & FURIOUS!

Wait, was this the civility thread? Ooops! LOL!
Oh please, your poutrage is so boring.
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Old 02-26-2013, 07:38 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Holding up, for public ridicule, Obama's words, actions and abuses of power is not engaging in satire?
No, it's not. What you did was try to attribute those words.."Shared sacrifice will be forced upon thee, but never for me." to words spoken by Obama, when, in reality, they never were.


Still didn't get access to a dictionary, I see.
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Old 02-26-2013, 07:39 AM
 
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Barack Obama abandons Guantánamo closure plan after Congress veto | World news | The Guardian
The Obama administration is abandoning attempts to close the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba and will shortly begin new trials there after Congress blocked the president from bringing accused terrorists before courts in the US.

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All you are doing is illustrating how ignorant Obama is. He seldom bothers to think thru things before he goes public and promises to do them.

1) As soon as he said he was going to close Gitmo I wondered where the hell he thought he going to put all those mass murdering, war criminals, that even their own countries would not be willing to take back.
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Old 02-26-2013, 07:41 AM
 
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Yeah, forget all about "Tear down that wall, Mr. Gorbachev!" I guess you were in a cave since you claim you lived through that time.
And he spent us into debt that we'll never see the end of.
He was part of a process, not the entire thing.
Oh please, look at the citizens on the ground who made at least as big an impact, for example, Leipzig.
The world doesn't move on sound bytes.
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Old 02-26-2013, 07:44 AM
 
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All you are doing is illustrating how ignorant Obama is. He seldom bothers to think thru things before he goes public and promises to do them.

1) As soon as he said he was going to close Gitmo I wondered where the hell he thought he going to put all those mass murdering, war criminals, that even their own countries would not be willing to take back.
Nice backtracking.
Don't like the response, move the goal post.

Where did he meet resistance?
Shall we say the R side of the house?

Most of the people at Gitmo were never charged. But you know that.
There was no evidence to convict them.

Did you bother to look at the charts I presented.
I'm sure you didn't.
There are thousands more on the internet.
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Old 02-26-2013, 07:45 AM
 
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No, it's not. What you did was try to attribute those words.."Shared sacrifice will be forced upon thee, but never for me." to words spoken by Obama, when, in reality, they never were.


Still didn't get access to a dictionary, I see.
So in your world, you cannot engage in satire if you make a parody of the things people say? Is satire something that can only performed by mimes?
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Old 02-26-2013, 07:57 AM
 
Location: Texas State Fair
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Default Do The Obamas Think They Are Pop Stars?

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Do these two people think we need to see their smiling faces on the TV in our living rooms every day? They act as if they were pop stars, and think their fans can't see enough of them.
Spoiler


Michelle Obama - unprecedented appearance on Oscars

and last week:

Michelle Obama dances with Jimmy Fallon - CNN.com


Don't politicians know that they are elected to act as public servants, and their families are not pop stars, and we work hard for the money that is used to fly them around the country. An entourage of fifty people prob follow the First Lady around, it's not free.


The Obama's seem be taking that old saying to heart, that politics is Hollywood show business for unattractive people. Jetting off to Hawaiian vacation in December, then off to Aspen and Palm City in February. I'm guessing these two are only just getting started. Over the next four years they will be having a blast, hobnobbing with pop stars and millionaire celebrities, and vacationing all over the world on our dime. All during what Obama calls "the worst economy since the Great Depression."
I view it as the O's seeking that leftist quest for equality. Of course, the pursuit itself negates the results although it does pad the ego with a false sense of achievement. Like a perp who commits a crime for notoriety, they get the attention but at a loss to any who are aware of the act.

The real failure is in not recognizing that equality is nothing more than self acceptance.
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Old 02-26-2013, 08:05 AM
 
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I don't want our politicians thinking the voters in a presidential election are electing the next winner from American Idol. We hire them to hold office and do a job, not dance, sing, joke and show up in every single form of media and entertainment in our lives. Just do the freaking job we elected you to, and stop trying to pretend you are a pop star. what a waste of taxpayer money and resources.
I'm pretty sure politicians don't think that.

On the other hand, FDR used the means available to him to connect with the American people, to have them feel like they knew him. Kennedy used the means available to him to connect with the American people, to have them feel like they knew him. And Obama is using the means available to him to connect and communicate with the American people. It's not a waste of taxpayer money or resources. It costs very little for Michelle Obama to broadcast via satellite from the White House. It costs a heckuva lot less for a President to appear on the View, than it costs to mount a series of appearances across the country. The whole point of FDR's Fireside Chats was that they were a cost-effective way for the President to get his message to the country. And television was an improvement over radio. And recognizing that people today get their information from a variety of sources, and that the traditional methods fall short, is simply a President recognizing reality before it bites him.
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Old 02-26-2013, 08:08 AM
 
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First of all, there wasn't even a TV in every home when FDR did whatever he did. Ronald Reagan was nominated 7 times for an Academy Award. And what was it GW did in 2002? I couldn't seem to find any mention of it on the web, unlike what a propagandist disgrace it was to have Queen Moochelle present the award for Best Picture. My God, how much did the Obamas rake in from Hollywood?
So you've apparently got nothing intelligent to say about the fact that 3 presidents previously appeared on the show, including Laura Bush in 2002. Your hatred of the Obamas is pathological.
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Old 02-26-2013, 08:11 AM
 
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First of all, there wasn't even a TV in every home when FDR did whatever he did. Ronald Reagan was nominated 7 times for an Academy Award. And what was it GW did in 2002? I couldn't seem to find any mention of it on the web, unlike what a propagandist disgrace it was to have Queen Moochelle present the award for Best Picture. My God, how much did the Obamas rake in from Hollywood?
Clearly you have lost touch with reality. Ronald Reagan was NEVER nominated for an Academy Award. He wasn't even an A-list actor.

And it wasn't a disgrace to have the First Lady announce the winner of Best Picture. Jack Nicholson was the presenter.
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