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Posted By ggleeson 1 year ago in News
A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship.
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GWHayduke1 year ago
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Ami,
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No one in their right mind believes that Obama WANTS to weild gestapo like power, let alone the fact that the American people would not ALLOW it to happen.
The Republicans are fast losing their credibility in a progressing world. The only hope they have to rebuild their staunch base that has splintered as a result of a maligned '08 campaign is to take the dialogue as far to the right as possible.
Fear of perceived and speculative policy making scenarios is unwarranted and baiting people to see something where nothing exists.
Get used to it. The man hasnt ever taken office yet, but these clowns are already classifying him as a Marxist with Gestapo-like ambitions.
They shoulda lumped in Athiest Christian, Bolshevik Revolutionary and Sandinista sympathizing Che Guevara loving Anarchist.
Too bad AlphaLuvmyTomato already used the best one: "The Antichrist Raping America".
Where'd she go anyway?
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hyperbola1 year ago
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It should be ever more clear to americans that the GOP has nothing to offer except fear-mongering and lies. The party will have to cleanse its ranks of the radicals and liars if it wants to regain credibility - on all fronts.
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Documents linking Iran to nuclear weapons push may have been fabricated
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has obtained evidence suggesting that documents which have been described as technical studies for a secret Iranian nuclear weapons-related research program may have been fabricated.
The documents in question were acquired by U.S. intelligence in 2004 from a still unknown source -- most of them in the form of electronic files allegedly stolen from a laptop computer belonging to an Iranian researcher. The US has based much of its push for sanctions against Iran on these documents....
... Other documents from the laptop collection, allegedly showing that Kimia Maadan was working closely with the team trying to redesigning the Shahab-3 missile, have also come under suspicion of fraud. ...
... In the past, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei has shown an ability to face off with the United States when evidence has been called into doubt. The infamous “Niger forgeries” – documents that purported to show an agreement between Niger and Iraq for the purchase of uranium oxide – were used by the White House as part of its case for war against Iraq.
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Sabretooth1 year ago
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All the repubs have is fear since all their other policies have been dismal failures, luckily they do not seem to realize that these tactics are no longer working, and their party is collapsing around them. Their inability to adapt and change means that they can only dig deeper and at a faster pace as they destroy all around them.
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slate1 year ago
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Hasn't this very thing been said about W?
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And after it being said even here on these blogs, he will leave after a few more weeks. These sorts of things were said about Clinton if I recall correctly.
No matter how much one disagrees with a politician on the other side of the political isle they tend to not be as evil as others try to make them out to be. Politics is a very ugly game, I can't imagine why anyone would be interested in putting up with the vitriol that either side puts forth. -
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not2needy1 year ago
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Why do these people deliberately attempt to deflect the fact that it was the Bush Dynasty who had ties to Hitler?
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It's amazing that they try to link Obama's policies to Hitlers, when it was really Bush who hoped to turn America into another Nazi Germany!
Google Prescott Bush, W's grandfather who left the United States to work for Hitler..
Get over it cons.. you lost, and you're not going to convince anyone that Obama is another Hitler, Hitler is leaving office on Jan 20th! -
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donald511 year ago
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Just more proof of hypocrisy from a repug who ignores the fact that his own party has approved of torture, preemptive war, eavesdropping without a warrant on Americans, overseas prisons and the removal of habeas corpus....plus backed out of more international law/agreements than any previous adminstration!
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Repugs. the true terrorists of the world and the USA! Global crony capitalism - the means of subduing the masses for the ultra rich to get richer - worldwide fascism!
And fools like slate just can't see their own evil and Un-American behavior!
What do you expect from the party of watergate, Iran Contra and Plamegate, all with convictions at the Presidential cabinet level in Repug administrations! -
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dcfixer1 year ago
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Talk about fear and paranoia... The President doesn't make laws, or appropriate money. Congress will have something to say about a security force. This Congressman has got to know better, and shows to me that he is just another partisan fool who will be one of those that will keep things from getting done.
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Jeboba1 year ago
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It is disgusting and sad that Republicans can't take their lickin without resorting to dirty smears, lies, and name calling. But then why should they deviate now. That is all they have been doing since the neocons destroyed their party.
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They need only to look in the mirror to see where the problem lies with their demise. The American people FINALLY woke up after 8 years of domination by the most corrupt and dictatorial administration in the history of our great nation.
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papa11721 year ago
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This the way it always starts. You promise the people something for little or know effort on there part. A car for ever faimly, food , health care and shearing of wealth. Then you creat the ploice force to enforce the policy on those who will reresist. I really have a bad feeling about the next four years.
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Dionys1 year ago
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djn3nunez31 year ago
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Hitler created his personal army well before he was um, elected. Fears that President Elect Barack "will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship" because during a speech in July he proposed "a civilian reserve corps that could handle postwar reconstruction efforts such as rebuilding infrastructure — an idea endorsed by the Bush administration." is on the other side of ludicus.
In fact I would say that Paul Broun is crying sweet neo-clown tears of despare.......yummy and so good for the country too.
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swvmd1 year ago
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Had a stroke or something? Go get abrain transplant. learn how to spell and remember that it was Bush who promised to restore honesty and integrity to the WH. Undoing the Bush years will take more than 4 years and the commitment of ALL Americans. The Peace Corps is the same sort of civilian involvement that Obama called for. I heard his speech. There was nothing in it about a civilian police force. Karl Rove would be proud of you and this idiot hatemonger from Georgia.
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csunbean1 year ago
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We have the Army Reserves and THE NATIONAL GUARD, BORDER CONTROL, CIA, FBI, Army, NAVY, Airforce, Marines, Border Control, National Park officers, National Security Council, State and Local Government police officers... did I leave anyone out? What in the heck would he want a civilian police force under his wing for? I thought he wanted to help us not make government spending bigger and more expensive to run. This is a real scary idea to me. If the president doesn't have enough armed people and cops to mess up our world with yet, give him some plastic G.I. Joes. That way, it will cost a lot less and he can't do as much damage.
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djn3nunez31 year ago
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FTA-during a speech in July he proposed "a civilian reserve corps that could handle postwar reconstruction efforts such as rebuilding infrastructure — an idea endorsed by the Bush administration.
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Keyword-postwar. As in foriegn countries......Paul Broun is crying sweet neo-clown tears of despare.......yummy (and trying that fear card once again.) -
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Charlson1 year ago
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"What in the heck would he want a civilian police force under his wing for?"
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What a crock! He never called for a civilian POLICE force. Get your damn facts right.
Obama's comments about a national security force came during a speech in Colorado in which he called for expanding the nation's foreign service.
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," Obama said in July. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." ...spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama was referring in the speech to a proposal for a civilian reserve corps that could handle postwar reconstruction efforts such as rebuilding infrastructure — an idea endorsed by the Bush administration.
Broun was making sh*t up. Like injecting gestapo as a code word and saying Obama would ban gun ownership. And you nuts want to believe him. Sad, pitiful creatures you are. -
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jhicks88721 year ago
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You nuts cases, believe the right wing of the Southern Republican Party. Obama proposed for people to work within the communities, ie, peace corps, community organizations and the army, and for there service he will encourage them to go to college. To many of our youth today have lost there way, by either selling drugs, joining gangs. He is attempting to inspire our youth the give of themselves, to help another human. Not create a Hitler like army. I am an old athlete, and one of things we learned is to give of ourselves to set a good example for the youth, not the political talk, of fear seperatism.
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ginwinner1 year ago
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I agree totally. I can't beleive what I've been reading. All of these idiots need to read about the Hitler years. How is our Country to be goverened by a man who sees himself as the all mighty savior? A man who believes that our Constitution is no more than a charter of bad advice is a man who will stop at nothing to disban democracy in the United States. The next four years will be horrible. Read his tax plan, look at his speeches and look to whom he cavorts with.
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ahsf4law1 year ago
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Let's see if George Busg & Dick Cheney actually vacate their offices in January before we start criticizing the Obama administration!
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This whole dialogue about Obama, or any US President we have ever had for that matter, is so phenomenally stupid I can't believe I am actually responding . . . while Bush is nationalizing 1/2 the financial system to protect his cronies!!! -
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maj1 year ago
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There is fear-mongering and then there is complacency. What did Obama mean when he talked of a privatized force? Instead of assuming the worst we need to just ask some legitimate questions. Smart, mature people know that you must always keep an eye on your leaders and keep them always accountable. Our country will only fall when we willingly blind ourselves and follow without asking any questions. I think all people, republicans, democrats, and independents, can all agree that we must always be dillegent that our freedoms (particularly free speech) are not erroded in any way.
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vor1 year ago
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Good point. In example last year when the Fourth Amendment was thrown in the trash when it was legistated that "no warrant" or FISA review was required to wiretap. Yet there was no major uproar from the public.
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Most of the "smart, mature" people I know voted for Obama. McCain would have been acceptable to me eight years ago but his turn to the Right during the last Bush term and his pick of Palin made him a completely different candidate this time around. We will watch Obama closely but he should be far too busy working on the real issues to be hatching a plot for interior control.
If anyone ever had a ready made army of "brownshirts" in the USA it was Bush right after 9/11. But the nationalist neo-con idealogy never quite took hold and as the public began to understand the long term consequences (unending war, massive debt, loss of allies,etc.) these policies became quite unpopular, dragging his approval ratings down into the 20's from what were once the 80's. -
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Charlson1 year ago
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I live in Paul Broun's district and the man is a right wing conservative with libertarian leanings. And he's also shown himself to be a nut from his ignorant rants. Man is a chameleon and will do and say what's needed to win an election. The rabid right likes him just fine.
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JamesMarcus1 year ago
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Wow, the hilarity never ends. I was hoping Election Day might put a damper on this kind of rubbish--how wrong I was. I don't know which is a more frightening prospect: that Paul Broun is a cynical demagogue, or that Paul Broun actually believes that Barack Obama will establish a Marxist dictatorship via a Nazi-style coup (let's skip the fact that Marxists and Nazis have traditionally killed each other as rapidly as possible). Meanwhile, the guy wiles away the hours concocting such legislative bombshells as H.J. Res. 82 ("Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States allowing castration after conviction for the rape of a child under 16 years of age") or the other items contained herein:
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http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/R?d110:FLD00...
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artofracing1 year ago
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I can't believe the republicans are worried about a dictatorship. When that is what we have had for the last 8 years. The top 4 or 5 % prosper while the masses are forced to live off of peanuts. Now you tell me who established a dictatorship.
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debbie7411 year ago
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If you live off peanuts it is not the fault of the "richest 4 or 5 %". They did not take your money, nor did they do anything to hold you back financially so why are you blaming them? Why do you think you or anyone else is entitled to their money? That is the problem with most people... they think the world owes them a living. I don't owe anyone anything and I'll be damed if Obammie is gonna take my money and give it to a bunch of lazy, food stamp reciepient, welfare drawing, disability faking, system sucking loosers. If you work for peanuts... then .... hello... get an education. But if you are "living off peanuts"... then maybe you should just get a job!!!!
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louis28651 year ago
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Leave it up to AOL to give this kind a nut a platform to view his pea brained opinion. Hypocrisy at its finest, we all have been under the rule of right winged religious consevatism for so long that their mind set was: if your not with us you are un-american/un-patriotic. it worked for a while but then it became old, tired and ugly (like Mccain) So, we as americans have had enough bs. The reason Obama won is bcuz He speaks so well, that bush seem so incompetent with words. Bush speaks with no flow or conviction. he just regurgetates...
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forestfoxxx1 year ago
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FOR THOSE OF US WHO LIVED IN THAT ERA, WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE SMACKS OF THE SAME INDICATORS ... YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A KOOK, A REBEL A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN NOT TO RECOGNIZE IT OR WHAT OBAMA REALLY IS ... A RADICAL WITH ULTRA SOCIALIST IDEAS/COHORTS ... HE REMINDS ME OF ALL THE WARMED OVER HIPPIES WHO FINALLY RECOGNIZED THAT OUTRIGHT REBELLION DOESN'T WORK, HAVE PUT ON SUITS/TIES AND TURNED TO POLITICS TO PUSH THEIR RADICAL AGENDAS!!! ... AS USUAL, YOU LIBERALS ARE LOOKING THROUGH ROSE-COLORED GLASSES AT A POTENTIAL DISASTEROUS SITUATION!!!
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djn3nunez31 year ago
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Oh joy. Another neo-clown crying tears of desperation. Wow I didn't know that ALL CAPS cry-baby tears tasted sooooo good. Yes you must be a kook. Remeber what your candidate said about barack.
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cleare1 year ago
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i hope you are right. i hope obama is a progressive in moderate's clothes. i hope he is radical as all get out.
and i don't think i'm alone in my hopes. we need a "radical" change from the way things are going. we need to "progress" instead of regress.
unfortunately, while liberal, obama is neither progressive nor radical. he is a pragmatist, which on consideration is probably even better than if he had true progressive/socialist ideology.
i'm bound to be disappointed because he won't be able to go as far left as i'd like to see him go. still his election is a move in the right direction. the pendulum which has been stuck too far right for far too long, has been freed and is swinging left. and if he can at least get most of us rowing in the same direction, i will be well pleased. -
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DarkWizard1 year ago
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forestfoxx,
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You can yell (write in caps) all you want, but the fact of the matter is, you and those who think like you are now the minority and are trying to prop-up a dying system that has buffaloed you into believing it is governing in your best interest. My parents are 77 and 78 and voted for McCain for the same reasons you did...they're out of touch (just like McCain). They sit around watching FOX (entertainment) News and think it is real. So, yell your head off if it makes you feel better, but you are making yourself irrelevant by your own choices.
Modern America is embracing socialistic elements because we've seen the alternative and that alternative caters to the rich and stifles the voices of the public. We The People are tired of being run by an out-of-control government that is supposed to be doing OUR bidding.
All those comments you meant as insults have no meaning because you have marginalized yourself and there is no power in your words. The people have spoken and President Obama is the people's choice. Live in fear if you want because that is what you Neandercons do best. Personally, I want to be that liberal, hippie, socialist, with renewed ideals and rose-colored glasses! -
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Jeboba1 year ago
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Ya know what....nothing will ever change. The ignorant lemmings on the right will never change because they get re-fed their daily dose of lies and discontent by Limbaugh and Hannity and O'Reilly and then it is all confirmed in the pulpit on Sunday.
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I'm gonna sit back, relax, and let Obama be the best President he can be considering the smoldering pile of doodoo left to him by Bush and the neocons.
It takes HOURS to follow a thread on propeller. It is so slow, although I'm on a T-1 high speed line, that it drives me crazy.
Starting today, I'm breaking my addiction to propeller and all blogs. I'm gonna get a life! Maybe some of the rest of you should try it! It will be nice to get outdoors again!
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jordan111 year ago
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For crying out loud! I swear some of these people are on drugs! Bush trashes Habeas Corpus, Illegally spies on Americans, builds detention centers, puts a para military force on the streets of LA and Iraq, defies Congressional oversight, pads our Department of Justice with third rate attorneys who categorically ignore the wrong doing of CONS....& this nincompoop thinks Barack Obama wants to be a dictator? He's nuts!!! Certifiably nuts!
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cleare1 year ago
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i wish i could keep punching in positive ratings for this comment! i am also incredibly frustrated at everyone on this and other threads crying that the sky is about to fall because obama got elected.
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mar04621 year ago
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could not agree with you more. Don't these idiots get it, we don't want trash talk, we want action and true leadership and that is Barack personfies. It's a waist of time for the republicans to continue their attack on Barrack, the nation is hopeful for the first time since I cant remember and I'm in my late 40's.
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mar04621 year ago
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could not agree with you more. Don't these idiots get it, we don't want trash talk, we want action and true leadership and that is Barack personfies. It's a waist of time for the republicans to continue their attack on Barrack, the nation is hopeful for the first time since I cant remember and I'm in my late 40's.
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lvrofwolves1 year ago
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I know, right? seriously some of you need to keep your wits about yourself. there's a lot of hard work ahead of us, this is no time to be trashing the new President elect, trash him if he deserves it, if he proves to be a failure, but I can't see how things could get much worse then they've been in the last 8yrs. Time to pull together and move forward. Obama is not the antichrist, or a Hitler, anymore then he is a savior. Have confidence in our people that we would not allow a dictatorship, hasn't there been plenty of bitc#ing about the things Bush has attempted and has done? Because of Bush and crew, Obama will be under much higher scrutiny, we can't allow anymore fuc#ing up our country.
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Klarissa1 year ago
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"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," Obama said in July. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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antibrainwasher1 year ago
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Here's the good news:
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What may have ended on Election Day, though, is the centrality of the South to national politics. By voting so emphatically for Senator John McCain over Mr. Obama — supporting him in some areas in even greater numbers than they did President Bush — voters from Texas to South Carolina and Kentucky may have marginalized their region for some time to come, political experts say.
The region’s absence from Mr. Obama’s winning formula means it “is becoming distinctly less important,” said Wayne Parent, a political scientist at Louisiana State University. “The South has moved from being the center of the political universe to being an outside player in presidential politics.”
One reason for that is that the South is no longer a solid voting bloc. Along the Atlantic Coast, parts of the “suburban South,” notably Virginia and North Carolina, made history last week in breaking from their Confederate past and supporting Mr. Obama. Those states have experienced an influx of better educated and more prosperous voters in recent years, pointing them in a different political direction than states farther west, like Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and Appalachian sections of Kentucky and Tennessee.-
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wtagg1 year ago
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I disagree with the analysis. I think that Obama showed that inroads can and could be made into such areas as pointed out. I think there is a need for common sense being demonstrated in election talk. It was really the secret to Perot in 92. I think that if either party actually fulfills the idea of McCain's straight talk, it could do wonders. McCain's problem was he pretended to be a straight talker, but all his pandering to special interest groups by flipping on his traditional positions provided evidence that his talk was exactly that, talk.
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KISA452a1 year ago
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You scare me with every post... 1/2 of voters voted for Mccain. I've come to the realization that you are the epitome of brain washed. You don't have a single thought outside "Bush bad, Democrats good".
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Looking for futher destroy US unity? Take ABW's philosophy and continue to trample on 1/2 the people. Wise plan :/ -
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antibrainwasher1 year ago
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the republican racist party of the arian brotherhood inbred nascar mornons is dead, the corpse is festering, and the walleyed evangelican tent revivalist snake handling cousing humping racists are running around buying guns and hiding in their trailer parks, and posting on this right wing propeller blog.
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We flush in Ohio, it flows to kentucky, tennessee and georgia. Hey, its charity, they need the water in Georgia, since the baby jesus is visiting a droubt on that hick state.-
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DarkWizard1 year ago
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antibrainwasher! Cool!
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Although, I agree with JamesMarcus that not all of the South is (fill in the blank). But, I understand exactly what you are saying. Unfortunately, there are many in the North and West that have the same "hick" mentality portrayed in the South. Luckily, there seem to be pockets of enlightened and educated people mixed in with these groups to offset the total and blind ignorance and prejudices of our backward brethren.
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Klarissa1 year ago
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During a February 15, 2008 press conference, Obama stated, "I think there is an individual right to bear arms, but it's subject to commonsense regulation."
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Obama has also stated his opposition to allowing citizens to carry concealed firearms and supports a national law outlawing the practice, saying on Chicago Public Radio in 2004 "I continue to support a ban on concealed carry laws".
Obama initially voiced support of Washington DC's handgun ban. Following the Supreme Court decision that the ban was unconstitutional, he revised his position in support of the decision overturning the law, saying, "Today's decision reinforces that if we act responsibly, we can both protect the constitutional right to bear arms and keep our communities and our children safe."He also said, in response to the ruling, "I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms... The Supreme Court has now endorsed that view." [After being elected as President, Obama has announced his support for reinstating the expired Assault Weapons Ban.]
In 1996, during Obama's run for the Illinois State Senate, he was surveyed by a Chicago nonprofit, Independent Voters of Illinois about criminal justice and other issues.
Obama's questionnaire showed that he supported a ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns. Subsequently, Obama denied that his writing was on the document and said that he never favored a ban on the sale and possession of handguns.
In 1999, he urged prohibiting the operation of any gun store within five miles of a school or park, which according to gun-rights advocates would eliminate gun stores from most of the inhabited portion of the United States. He sponsored a bill in 2000 limiting handgun purchases to one per month.
As state senator, he voted against a 2004 measure that allowed self-defense as an affirmative defense for those charged with violating local laws making it otherwise unlawful for such persons to possess firearms. He also voted against allowing persons who had obtained domestic violence protective orders to carry handguns for their protection.-
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JamesMarcus1 year ago
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It's certainly reasonable to demand that Obama clarify his position on gun control. He has taken some contradictory stands on the issue. In a February 2008 interview, he tried to sum things up: "I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of law-abiding citizens use it for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill. We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions."
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What will that mean in practice? We will see. But taking handguns off the streets of urban neighborhoods and demanding more rigorous background checks for gun purchasers is a long way from ruling the country via a personal Praetorian Guard.
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JEBUS081 year ago
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its more hypocrisy, its ok when they run hog wild, but now the thought/ chance of someone else doing it scares them - yes it does scare me, but i dont think it is going to happen like it has for the last eight years - bunch of paranoid whiners
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cleare1 year ago
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yes midnightprism, it'll serve them right. funny how they didn't think ahead when they assumed the "imperial" presidency that their successors would also have access to that power.
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kimarshall771 year ago
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We do not know what will come of Obama term until he is in office. The changes that he plans to make will not happen over night. We the people should know that. The economy is in ruin. Obama is not to blame for that. Give him a chance to see what he can do. I think that he will do better than what most think. I'm sure he can make something out of nothing, that is what's in him to do. All the states that won McCain votes were mostly southern states. That would figure. They are same states that can not accept change. I am from Louisiana and my hat goes off to our President-elect
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cleare1 year ago
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we should have let the southern states secede when they wanted to. they and texas could go off and form their own banana republic and leave the rest of us in peace.
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or better still, fight the civil war, rescue the slaves, bring them north and THEN let the south secede.
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toph19731 year ago
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This representative needs to take a look at his party before making such accuasations. The only fascist that wants to be a dictator in this country is Bush. Look at what he has accomplished. Torture, suspension of habeus corpus, the patriot act, violation of the geneva convention, warrantless wiretapping. Tell me are these the actions of someone who loves America and her freedoms? The answer is a resounding NO.
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Interesting he draws comparisons to the Nazis. He also needs to look at Bush. Bush's grendpappy's company financed the Nazis. I guess the apple didn't fall far from the tree with Bush.-
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Pecossam1 year ago
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toph1973, and Joseph Kennedy as Ambassador to the court of St. James, just before and during the beginning of World War II, was pro-Nazi (as was Charles Lindbergh). So what exactly is your point, "Corruption of Blood"? But that is a NO-NO under our Constitution.
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I also respectfully request the name(s) of the AMERICAN CITIZEN(s) which had their right to habeas corpus withheld or their phone(s) tapped without a warrant (unless they were speaking to a NON-AMERICAN TERRORIST). This seems to have escaped my notice. Please inform me. Thank You.
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BB641 year ago
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Neither Bush nor Cheney ever told an aspiring business owner that he was going to tax you and force you to share with the lazy. Neither openly claimed they would tax an industry into bankruptcy. Mr. Obama has done both. That would be Marxist.
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gamecock1 year ago
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Obama's stance and ideas concerning the Second Amendment are well known and if you contact the NRA can be verified by official means. His record in the Illinois State Senate and the U. S. Senate preceed him. Voting records don't lie !! With the Democratic majority, Nancy Pelosi, The Brady Bunch, all of the naysayers about our Constitution. One small thing they forgot was the recent ruling by the Supreme Court and the back up by the defeat of Washington D.C's. end run to defeat the LAW didn't work then and won't now. To quote our recently deceased friend Charlton Heston: {"From my cold dead hands")!
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Diwiser1 year ago
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Thank goodness that many Americans used their brains this election. Many people vote only how their parents or church tells them too. Voting is like TV their are many channels and if you don't like a topic you have a right to disagree but you have to look at the bigger picture. You vote for who can help our country and keep us safe another words not someone only for the RICH! I am glad finally less political and religious hatred for awhile. Orgainzed relgion in the United States better take a look at Iraq and see what religous hatred can do. Religion and Government politics don't mix and should be a private matter. The president should be for all people and the Mormons in Utah should not be butting in California's Gay Rights or they should have their tax exempt status taken away from them. Even as a child my parents were mixed marriage (catholic and protestant)and the organized religion caused hatred then even though we are suppose to have freedom of religion. I belive in God and don't need a church building to pray.
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BB641 year ago
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Then you haven't been paying any attention. The KKK and race hating groups is on the decline, as they should. We should judge a man or woman by his or her actions not skin color. That being said, I wonder how longer we will be held down by Affermative Action laws? How long will Jessy "Get a Real Job" Jackson run his Rainbow rip off group and their selling forgiveness?
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The military will not cross that line. We took an oath to defend the Constitution. None will violate that. I trust the military, it's the left wing of the DNC that scares me more.
One other item, I've been shifting funds out of US based companies to the EU and Asia. Go figure I trust China more than I do a Barrack Administration when it comes to money. Sad commentary. -
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smpjr1 year ago
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Dictatorship in the US will never happen. Obama would be assassinated by the KKK and then we will have civil war. The ultimate defender of our homeland, the military will for the first time in US history will be forced to intervene to prevent a dictatorship.
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Sabretooth1 year ago
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"One other item, I've been shifting funds out of US based companies to the EU and Asia."
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Geez, sorry to hear, too bad you did not see what the repubs were doing earlier and pulled your money out about 2.5 years ago like i did...you must really have taken a bath. -
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GWHayduke1 year ago
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BB says - "One other item, I've been shifting funds out of US based companies to the EU and Asia. Go figure I trust China more than I do a Barrack Administration when it comes to money. Sad commentary."
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You work in a dying industry whose life cycle has passed expansion and is in a state of decline. Better be very careful with your money.
Very Patriotic of you to take your dollars offshore, phony American.
I have spent more money investing over the past 8 weeks than I had in the past 2 years, in AMERICAN funds and companies. Lots of good bargains out there.
If you had been paying attention you would not have gotten caught up in the banking and or real estate crises. But I digress, you do work in the oil industry after all.
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DarkWizard1 year ago
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BB64,
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"One other item, I've been shifting funds out of US based companies to the EU and Asia. Go figure I trust China more than I do a Barrack Administration when it comes to money. Sad commentary."
Yes, it is a sad commentary, but the commentary is on you and your lack of patriotism! You just added to the problem and sold your country out. I guess you feel it's your right to do this being President Bush is your example of what an American is. Next, you'll be moving to China because you'll be safer there than in America (your logic). See ya... -
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antibrainwasher1 year ago
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Do us all a favor, move to your beloved china, build your coal fired electric plants, and enjoy the censorship the government provides to facists like yourself. You'll feel right at home, in the mist of corporate corruption, and absolutely 0 human rights.
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I'm glad you finally came out and admitted you're a facist communist anti-american traitor.
Feel better now?
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