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Posted By capj71 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsDuring his interview on ABC’s This Week program this morning, Obama laughed off the idea that Sarah Palin has more national security experience than he does. He also took the Republicans to task for mocking his time as a community organizer. “I actually knew that Russia was next to Alaska as well. I saw it on a map,” Obama said.
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tchef1 year, 3 months ago
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If you read the article he has done more than talk in front of Germans. He has served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and passed legislation on critical issues like nuclear proliferation. That is national security experience. Not to mention that he selected Joe Biden who has extensive foreign relations and national security experience to back him up. Who will back her up?
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miklkit1 year, 3 months ago
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http://factcheck.barackobama.com/factcheck2/legisl...
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injest1 year, 3 months ago
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“Sorta like talking in front of the Germans give Obama national security experience.”
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Not exactly cause she’s the CNC of the ANG and Obama is? Has ?
Errrrr uhmmm errr humm well
He thought about joining the Military ya that’s it ya!
Now here’s a hoot from Axelrod
Remember Obamas GREAT claims of leadership?
He co-sponsored? True he and 99 other senators were all co-sponsors!
Turns out the “bills” he’s claming were not even voted on. Didn’t have to
co-sponsored bills that passed by unanimous consent
Axelrod: One of the first things that Senator Obama did when he came to the U.S. Senate was push for the most far-reaching ethics reforms that we’ve seen since Watergate.
Passed on unanimous consent didn’t even have a vote! And he didn’t write it!
Blahahahaha
**** Lugar, the very respected Republican senator from Indiana, spoke out and said, These are just partisan attacks. I’ve worked with Barack Obama.’ They worked together on arms control.
Passed by unanimous consent, no opposition and he didn’t write it had 100 co-sponsors
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Bradgrp1 year, 3 months ago
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Whether Palin is qualified or not isn't the issue. The issue will always be how Mccain arrived at this choice. Some has said that the VP position is the most UNDEMOCRATIC position in our government. Imagine Mccain's demise and we're stuck with someone who we didn't elect and we didn't do enough checking into her beliefs and how she thinks we will be in a very, very serious Constitutional fight just to get her out of office. I don't want someone who didn't undergo the scrutiny of the American people and media to be in a position where they can be the leader of our country. Not me. Mccains VP pick is a MASSIVE SECURITY VIOLATION and borders on the line of treason against the American people.
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hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago
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It was imposed on McCain by shadowy far right extremists. This alone disqualifies McCain as a serious candidate.
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Secretive Right-Wing Group Forced McCain to take Palin
The Council for National Policy , an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy forced McCain to choose Palin as the VP candidate.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/09/02/secretiv...-
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Progressive1 year, 3 months ago
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And here's the next step for that crusade:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...
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NoWayMan1 year, 3 months ago
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spoken like a true kool aid drinker.
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what gives obama foreign policy experience? maybe its the fact that he's on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the committee in charge of foreign policy. Joe Biden is the chairman of this committee.
looking for some relevant national security experience?
Obama is also on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
but you go ahead and enjoy your kool aid.
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miklkit1 year, 3 months ago
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lovemylibs1 year, 3 months ago
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They won't believe you without a link:
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miklkit1 year, 3 months ago
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Here is a link to what Obama has been up to.
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miklkit1 year, 3 months ago
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What about the surge?
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miklkit1 year, 3 months ago
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This is one of the most important reasons you republicons invaded Iraq.
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Tangent0011 year, 3 months ago
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Any effect of the 'surge' was incidental at best. The surge initially increased casualties all around. It wasn't until our government effectively began paying insurgents not to target our troops and Al Maliki arrived at a ceasefire did the violence level come down to what we see now.
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Surge or no, if the ceasefire breaks, violence will return, perhaps worse than before, since everyone is now 'rested'.
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NoWayMan1 year, 3 months ago
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obama isn't the chair of this committee.
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Joe Biden holds the chair of the Sen. Foreign Relations committee.
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tchef1 year, 3 months ago
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Yes McCain does and look at his record. He has caved in on all the issues that used to make him stand out. He now walks lock step with Bush and his ideals. After the disaster that has been for this country why would we want to continue it? Even if you don't like Obama he is better than that.
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pc251 year, 3 months ago
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Obama chairs the European Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has oversight of military operations in Afghanistan
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http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/...
t's true that Obama has convened no meetings of the subcommittee, but his camp counters that he became chair of the subcommittee early last year, just as he was starting his presidential campaign. Clinton is technically correct that Obama could have used the subcommittee to conduct oversight of actions and policies related to Afghanistan. But the full foreign relations committee, under the guidance of Senator Joe Biden, has held several hearings on Afghanistan that covered NATO's role there. It's not as if the foreign relations committee did nothing on Afghanistan because Obama did not take on the mission. Also, as happens with many committees, the chair of the full committee reserves the right to handle the big issues him- or herself, and Afghanistan counts as a big issue.
seems nothing has been accomplished in Afghanistan under the watches of both Biden and Obama the Democratic candidates for President and Vice President.........
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Klarissa1 year, 3 months ago
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Doubts about Barack Obama's presidential credentials have crystallized during the past two weeks over his stewardship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs, which has convened no policy hearings since he took over as its chairman last January.
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Klarissa1 year, 3 months ago
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If Obama wants to show where he has been, he merely has to release his passport records.
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Then everyone would know that his boast about traveling extensively in Europe is true -- even if this year he didn't have time to convene a hearing on the momentous issues affecting our relations with that continent and the world.-
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hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago
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Your efforts to cover up for a "theocracy wacko" are getting more and more amusing.
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Palin lied about visiting Ireland as part of her foreign policy experience
...She didn't visit Ireland, which is what the McCain-Palin campaign claimed to Politico's Ben Smith on Saturday. She had a short refueling stopover, which means at best her extensive Irish diplomacy amounted to buying a sweater and a beer mug in the Shannon airport....
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vor1 year, 3 months ago
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The "momentous issues' largely created by which administration Klarissa?
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I will be in Europe in a few weeks and I talk to my German and Belgian friends quite often. They are not looking forward to America making another "momentous" blunder in November. Nor is the rest of the world. But it is what they have come to expect from us!
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moxxxxxxxxxx1 year, 3 months ago
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Palin was chosen because she was supposed to represent the common people. Can't people see how they are being manipulated? She is a pretty woman, with children involved in her local political scene. She didn't want to be in politics, she fell into it. after she got her start in broadcasting and PTA Meetings. She has NO experience or education to run a country. I am your average American and I d on't want someone like me to run this country. i want a person who has dedicated their life to poltics evidenct by their choice of education and career goals. The Pres and VP positions are the most important positions in America. We should expect the highest level of intelligence , experience and dedication. Palin never aspired to any of this, if she had she would have at least chosen a different college major than journalism.
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miklkit1 year, 3 months ago
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Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative." During her six years as mayor, she increased general government expenditures by more than 33 percent. During those same six years, the amount of taxes collected by the city increased by 38 percent. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax, which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefitted large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.
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The huge increases in tax revenue during her mayoral administration weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list, though — borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt but left it with indebtedness of more than $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? Or a new library? No. $1 million for a park. $15 million-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex, which she rushed through, on a piece of property that the city didn't even have clear title to. That was still in litigation seven years later — to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5 million for road projects that could have been done in five to seven years without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.
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tchef1 year, 3 months ago
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Typical Republican, telling the world that the Democrats are going to raise your taxes and create a larger government and once they are in office they do exactly what what they where warning you about.
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President Clinton = balanced budget
President Bush = highest deficit in history-
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vor1 year, 3 months ago
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I hope the thought of a leader of Obama's intelligence scares you. Before you say anything foolish remember he is a Harvard Law School graduate, first Black President of the Harvard Law Review. A school that has produced numerous US Presidents (6).Near the head of his class. If you have like credentials, state them! No he doesn't seem like the guy you could sit down and have a beer with, thank the FSM for that. But neither was the blue-blooded, teetotaling GW either. It was all just an phony image shaped by Rove. Besides Bush's issue was liquor, not beer.
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Whoever gets this job better be a miracle maker because bailing us out of the debt we have created the past 8 years will take a miracle!
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Klarissa1 year, 3 months ago
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mox - Obama has chosen a VP who meets your expectaoin "i want a person who has dedicated their life to poltics evidenct by their choice of education and career goals." Would you rather have a Margaret Thatcher type or a dedicated politician.
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JOE BIDEN: PATHOLOGICAL LIAR AND FRAUD: It was also discovered that, while at Syracuse Law School, Biden had plagiarized a law review article in a class paper he wrote.
Biden said the act was inadvertent due to his not knowing the proper rules of citation, and Biden was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F in the course. Biden also released at the same time the record of his grades as an undergraduate which were C's and D's and an F in ROTC during his first three semesters.
Further, when questioned by a New Hampshire resident about his grades in law school Biden had claimed falsely to have graduated in the "top half" of his class, (when he actually graduated 76th in a class of 85-
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jordan111 year, 3 months ago
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Yes indeed, we need another lawyer/politician. >>>>>
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Right, wouldn't want any one of intelligence who understands the law, being as how we're a nation of laws. Of course george showed us how ignorance works with that. He did a fine job of trashing our Constitution. Maybe palin can finish his fine work.
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moxxxxxxxxxx1 year, 3 months ago
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Grades do not measure intelligence. There are very intelligent people who do poorly in school. Law school is selective. You have to be intelligent to get accepted. Law school verses journalism school, hmmm, yes there is a diffrerence. Law school is far more rigorous and competitve than journalism school.
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Everyone has an opinion when it comes to politics. People think they know all the answers because they have an opnion. Do we think the same way about other professions? Do you pick a doctor because he tells you what you want to hear? Do you want a teacher who challenges you or makes you feel good?
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vor1 year, 3 months ago
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I will take any of Obama's advisors, namely men like Fareed Zakaria (Oh no!, another foreign sounding name)and Robert Reich (and be sure men like William Ayres and Jeremiah Wright will not be among them) over the current staff or anyone McCain (see i.e. Phil Gramm) has advising him. Presidents are made, not ready-made creations. Really did GW Bush seem so bad upon election? He was known as the "uniter" in Texas. And if you watch his speeches from that time he seemed almost reasonable. But add **** Cheney to the mix and all of the sudden this once reasonable man seems like a tyrant (which he has never of course truly been). Biden nor anyone else apparent among Obama's advisors holds any such aspirations.
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And you are right, intelligence does not necessarily make for a great presidency. Jimmy Carter was one of our most educated presidents. Nor is experience a predicator of success, see James Buchanan.
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ningyo1 year, 3 months ago
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try laughing off todays folls that have mccain/palin up by 4 to 10 %--the bloom is off the osamabama rose--from here on its just a matter of how badly he hurts the local tickets--voters are starting realize that he's just an empty suit fronting radical hard left socialism --palin is also a far better speaker than he is because she actually says things that have meaning--without his platitudes barry has nothing--oh wait he does--ayers--rev wright--rezko--achi--a shrew wife--community activism driving hundreds of families into decrepit housing---
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Tangent0011 year, 3 months ago
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I suspect the Palin 'breath of fresh air' will get pretty stale pretty quickly. She's already made her first 'gaffe': claiming that lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” Um, sweetie, neither company is taxpayer funded...well, until NOW that is. You don't have to be an economy wonk to know that.
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Her efforts to censor books at the library and her views on teaching Creationism will likely turn off the independents and Moderates McCain is courting, and her husband's secessionist tendencies could easily become a campaign drag chute for the 'red-meat' Right as well.
I imagine she'll be allowed to do only the most softball interviews and make campaign visits to only the most friendly red states. She'll be prominent in the campaign ads and can be easily trotted out for some crowd-waving at high-profile events.
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pf1 year, 3 months ago
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AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED MY CHILD HAS MORE NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA!I WOULD NOT VOTE FOR HIM ! NO WAY NO HOW NO OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!HEARD TOO MUCH ABOUT HIM TO FEEL SAFE AS MY PRESIDENT.YA'LL NEED TO CHECK INTO THIS ONE.BE SURPRISED AT WHAT YOU WILL FIND.HE IS DEFINITELY NOT A MESSIAH!VERY WARY OF HIM.
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ProudBlueTexan1 year, 3 months ago
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"...John McCain has been talking about putting country first and extolling the virtues of national service that’s what I did between the ages of 24 and 27 before I went to law school."
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MyCampingMall1 year, 3 months ago
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It makes no sense to compare Obamo to Palin. Obamo has a law degree from the most prestigeous university in the USA. He taught constitution law for 10 years. He was a state senator in Illinois for 7 years. He serves as US Senator almost 4 years (Foreign Affairs Committee) and have met with with many foreign leaders. His experience is actually more diverse than John McCain who only served in the Navy and US Senate. Sarah has served as Mayor of a small town and Governor for less than 2 years of a state less than the size of San Antonia, population wise.
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lloydm651 year, 3 months ago
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Well I'll take Palin's policies over Obamas anytime.I believe she is by far a better American.There I said it and I mean every damn word of it.Obama removed his flag pin.Why Mr. Obama uh uh ,it could,uh uh,or uh maybe uh offend somebody.Mr. Obama how come you won't salute,or put hand over your heart for the national anthem,The same as with the flag people around the world are watching,and I don't to be accused of taking sides
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Charlson1 year, 3 months ago
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Flag pin and hand over heart? Been shown to be irrelevant. He wore his flag pin when it was appropriate and the hand over heart incident never happened the way you right-wingers say it did. Show us some real evidence Obama is anti-American and not some contrived example of disrespect, or can't you?
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atgt741 year, 3 months ago
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It's funny how the republicans are mocking the community organizer credentials of Senator Obama. If it weren't for community organizers and people believing things should be different-the United States wouldn't be what it is today. Tell all those men, women and children that fought for civil rights and our other rights that community organizers do nothing-this if for blacks, women, gun owners, gays & lesbians... This is how much Gov. Palin thinks of everything this nation stands for-we are just peons in her world.
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willottica1 year, 3 months ago
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lloyd, if you want loyalty to flag to be an issue, you may want to rethink Palin's policies. Are you unaware of her support for the Alaska Separation Movement? I'd say she has done much more than "remove her flag pin" to demonstrate her lack of loyalty to the country.
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Tangent0011 year, 3 months ago
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The Pentagon asked Obama not to visit because it is against policy to use a military hospital as a backdrop for a political campaign, regardless of if there were cameras there or not.
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The thing is, if he HAD visited, you would be the first to scream that Obama was using the visit as a cheap campaign ploy.
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tchef1 year, 3 months ago
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And a good many of you right wingers are nothing but a bunch of bible thumping, gun slinging, looking to bring on the end of days morons following leaders who will tell you anything to get you to line their wallets and bankrupt the country.
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lloydm651 year, 3 months ago
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Yes I've had Bush,and peace of mind .Right now the democrat leader are praying for another attack,or a lot more military casualty.They been promising their voters this for seven years.The enemy can't attack until they can stop running,and that will when be when a pacifist takes the white house.God bless America,please don't damn it.
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Ratskii1 year, 3 months ago
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I think this is one of the more foolish posts that I've seen.
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First it betrays a complete misunderstanding how terrorists are organized. Al-Queda, like most underground movements, depends on cell organization that keeps numerous operations going at any given time.
Second it makes the assumption that there are a constant number of terrorists that can be reduced through military action when in fact our invasion of Iraq has created far more terrorist than it has destroyed.
Third, this person seems to think the only possible way to combat terrorism is through military invasions rather than good intelligence work, cooperation with foreign intelligence, hard police work and proper funding in critical areas. Don't believe me? Check and see how many incoming crates (from ships) get checked before being allowed into this country.
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ilovemryky1 year, 3 months ago
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My question is...If Obama can't protect HIMSELF from the hits he has been taking from Gov. Palin, then how in the world will he protect US from the delusional N. Koreans, the angry Iranians, the hostile Russians let alone Osama?
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Tangent0011 year, 3 months ago
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And McCain has foreign policy experience? How? He mixed up Sunni and Shia FIVE TIMES and couldn't recall that Iraq and Afghanistan don't share a border!
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BTW, If'n you recall, Reagan didn't have any such experience, neither did Bush (even though both California and Texas border Mexico LOL).
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bigurn1 year, 3 months ago
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McCain Chairs the Senate Commerce Committee and is on the Senate Armed Services Committee. He has actually negotiated trade deals with foreign nations, and has represented the nation's affairs under both Republican and Democrat presidents.
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Dude, you asked. It took 45 seconds to find that.
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