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Aug 13, 2012 16:37:50   #
ntonkin Loc: western Upper Peninusla of Michigan
 
Here, here.... I second that!

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Aug 13, 2012 16:41:23   #
LARRYR. Loc: Saint Martinville, La.
 
Rich Maher wrote:
I thought this was a photography forum. Keep your right wing opinions to yourself.


Sorry lefty,I taught this was general chit-chat,or was I reading
wrong,I was sure I read Photography Forum-General chit-chat
but what do I know,I'm only one of those right wingers being
corrected by a know all

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Aug 13, 2012 16:57:19   #
dtcracer
 
John 1813 wrote:
dtcracer wrote:
John 1813 wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
HEART wrote:
Nikocarol wrote:
Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis of President Obama:
"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group (George Soros anybody?) took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.
In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.
His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.
He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?
He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.
And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.
The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.
Now, 3 full years into his presidency, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent
for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.
Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.
The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.
Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.
Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.
He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.
The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.
Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.
When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.
We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States. We the people are coming!
Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis of President Obam... (show quote)


A sock puppet! Love it!! (And the dimwits who respond to this post follow his mantra.....shame. They're helping to bury this nation.)
quote=Nikocarol Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis ... (show quote)


I gravitate to the word, Lemmings. BHO is, hands down, the worst president EVER. And the most damaging individual president to this country, EVER!
quote=HEART quote=Nikocarol Alan Caruba (WSJourn... (show quote)


Worse than "call out the National Guard on them homelesss" Hoover?
Worse than "I am the president I am above the law" Nixon?
quote=imntrt1 quote=HEART quote=Nikocarol Alan ... (show quote)


A thousand times worse. Even Nixon did not ignore the Constitution if the Supreme Court called him on something. And Nixon knew when he really screwed the pooch and resigned. I am president, I am above the Law is the Mantra for the BHO Administration - Nixon was an amateur compared to BHO.
quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=HEART quote=N... (show quote)


imntrt1,
If your username stands for "I'm in treatment". You should really ask for your money back.
quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote... (show quote)


John, can you not have an adult conversation, or a debate without resorting to insulting people? Every time you get involved in a debate you resort to insults. No one else here is being childish like that. Grow up!
quote=John 1813 quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quo... (show quote)


Excuse me, but are "dimwit" and "lemming" not insults? Is someone who still believes that the President is not an American really an adult in your mind? You obviously feel that imintrt1 is mentally incapable of defending himself or you wouldn't be so quick to jump to his defense. I applaud you for that.
quote=dtcracer quote=John 1813 quote=imntrt1 q... (show quote)


"Dimwit" and "lemming" were terms used in a generalized statement. There were no personal attacks, your statement was a personalized attack, and was not in context with the debate. I am sure imntrt1 is fully capable of standing up for himself, and has more mental prowess than many demonstrated here. This is just your usual strategy, to distract from the subject when you can't come up with a decent argument by calling names.

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Aug 13, 2012 17:16:16   #
CanonJC
 
john vance wrote:
Hey John1813 wake up and smell the flowers !!! quit trying to hide or denigh the truth uor boy is a total disaster in fact if he had a brain he would take it out and play with it.
your statments are specious and you know it !!
and if you don't I feel sorry for you and all like you. !!


Agreed!
:thumbup: :thumbup:

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Aug 13, 2012 17:24:09   #
imntrt1 Loc: St. Louis
 
John 1813 wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
John 1813 wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
John 1813 wrote:
Really! What did Obama ignore that the constitution said? But I agree Nixon was an amateur


How about his multitude of "CZARS" that circumvent the constitutional process of Congress making calls on issues - which also circumvents oversight. How about a Congressional Demand for Documents that AG Eric Holder ignored, when his Justice Department was being investigated about an issue that resulted in the deaths of two federal law enforcement officers. How about BHO stating an outright lie in the State of the Union Address when he said the Supreme Court did something that they did not do?
quote=John 1813 Really! What did Obama ignore th... (show quote)


If you had anything to back up your claims, you would be specific. Unless you are more ignorant than I think you are, you also know the whole AG issue is phony.
quote=imntrt1 quote=John 1813 Really! What did ... (show quote)


The AG Issue is phony??? If you knew anything about the workings of Federal Law Enforcement, you would not make such a Non-Informed Statement. As for my ignorance...I saw the real substance, or lack thereof, of BHO before the election and I am not ignorant enough to keep peddling the "Bush is at Fault" lameness that seems to be the only argument BHO Followers can come up with. Seems to me Congress, of which BHO was a part of, decided things that led to the meltdown. Bush requested they oversee Freddy Mack and the entire banking system, because of problems he saw evolving, and the Democratic Led Congress ignored his requests. Just look at the numbers under BHO...Unemployment is higher, the national debt was increased more than ALL the previous presidents increased it - his programs are not working and he is critical of prior attempts to fix the train wrecks - Train Wrecks that he says he inherited but actually HE helped create. His Foreign Policy is worse than we have ever had, and he makes a mockery of the US to the very Allies we should be supporting. BHO is the Reverend Jones of the White House and those that drink his cool aid will cause us all to perish if he is not given the boot in November - and that is if it is not ALREADY too late.
quote=John 1813 quote=imntrt1 quote=John 1813 R... (show quote)


You have failed to state any examples. You just parrot GOP talking points.
quote=imntrt1 quote=John 1813 quote=imntrt1 qu... (show quote)


You would not know an example if it hit you in the face. Perhaps some of those talking points are examples and you have just decided to ignore them. You seem to skirt the AG Issue by merely stating it was phony - Where is "your proof" of that? First of all the issue that got two federal agents killed, to them and their families, is REAL. Fast and Furious, which Holder says they knew nothing of - Blatant lie - was an off shoot of a program that the Bush Administration shut down because it was not controllable. And the fact that the HOlDER Justice Department went forward with it proved that by the deaths of two federal agents. In order for that program to have moved forward the Justice Department would have to become involved by law - Wire Taps and other investigative tools have to have oversight by the Justice Department in order for a Judge to sign off on them - and the approval of an Assistant AG for the judge to even consider issuing any orders. You can throw GOP at me all day long, but by doing that you are merely doing what you accuse me of doing - just throwing up the same old arguments in such a lame and sad way - with no substance - because the BHO Administration has no substance - Only Vile, Un-American policies that divide our country and circumvent the Constitution. Unfortunately Racism is alive and well and has headquarters in the white house. The entire American Public will pay a price if it is not changed. Oh, BTW, the deaths of two Law Enforcement Agents is pretty specific in my book.[/quote]

I'm well aware of the circumstances surrounding the Fast & Furious program. The story is outlined in a Fortune Magazine article which I am assuming you have not read. The conclusion is basically that the lax Arizona gun laws are primarily responsible for allowing the guns to be walked in the first place. Fortune is hardly a left wing publication. Link as follows:

http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com

GOP leaders have ignored the calls from law enforcers for Congress to grant them more authority to fight gun trafficking and drug smuggling on the border. When an ATF special agent told Issa's oversight panel last June that straw purchasers should suffer stiffer penalties to discourage gun trafficking, Issa stepped in to silence him. Have you done your homework on him?

You still have not given an example of how the Constitution has been circumvented. I'm waiting.[/quote]

Let me spell it out so even YOU can understand it.. C Z A R
That tactic is to circumvent the Constitution. As far as Darrel Issa is concerned, if he is not liked by Nancy Pelosi, then I am automatically on his side. As for homework on Issa, do you know he has filed suit to get the documents on F & F that would show the administration knew about it - Documents that are being withheld by Holder and the White House under executive privilege - which was not claimed until a few months before the November Elections, Conveniently. It took them 8 months after the documents were subpoenaed, to claim that by the way. As for more laws being requested by Law Enforcement to go after gun Trafficking...The White House sued the State of Arizona to stop enforcement of existing Immigration laws. There are plenty of laws on the books, but this administration seems to ignore that fact and tells states, Illegally I believe, that they cannot enforce those laws. Why is that??? To get more votes in November - A shameful event when you factor in all the crime and deaths related to illegal immigration. Not to mention the draining of Social Security/Medicare Accounts that we have paid into all our lives and expect to help us in retirement. You have failed to make any case for BHO or his administration/Failure to the American People. You can scream until you are blue in the face, but your accusations should be directed to the person you see in the mirror every morning. One other point of view from me. I see the failure of this administration, to lead this country in the direction it should be traveling - as a DIRECT Assault on the United States of America and in particular, its Citizens - And that is VERY SAD INDEED. It has been three years since the last election - Are things better? No! Are they getting better? No! If you want to play the blame game this late you have to look in the Direction of Washington D.C. Toward all Politicians, and the President.
Oh, BTW, the link you gave me for the Fortune Article took me to an address discussing a car that cannot crash. nothing to do with Issa.

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Aug 13, 2012 18:11:20   #
Kalskag2
 
imntrt1 wrote:
John 1813 wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
John 1813 wrote:
Really! What did Obama ignore that the constitution said? But I agree Nixon was an amateur


How about his multitude of "CZARS" that circumvent the constitutional process of Congress making calls on issues - which also circumvents oversight. How about a Congressional Demand for Documents that AG Eric Holder ignored, when his Justice Department was being investigated about an issue that resulted in the deaths of two federal law enforcement officers. How about BHO stating an outright lie in the State of the Union Address when he said the Supreme Court did something that they did not do?
quote=John 1813 Really! What did Obama ignore th... (show quote)


If you had anything to back up your claims, you would be specific. Unless you are more ignorant than I think you are, you also know the whole AG issue is phony.
quote=imntrt1 quote=John 1813 Really! What did ... (show quote)


The AG Issue is phony??? If you knew anything about the workings of Federal Law Enforcement, you would not make such a Non-Informed Statement. As for my ignorance...I saw the real substance, or lack thereof, of BHO before the election and I am not ignorant enough to keep peddling the "Bush is at Fault" lameness that seems to be the only argument BHO Followers can come up with. Seems to me Congress, of which BHO was a part of, decided things that led to the meltdown. Bush requested they oversee Freddy Mack and the entire banking system, because of problems he saw evolving, and the Democratic Led Congress ignored his requests. Just look at the numbers under BHO...Unemployment is higher, the national debt was increased more than ALL the previous presidents increased it - his programs are not working and he is critical of prior attempts to fix the train wrecks - Train Wrecks that he says he inherited but actually HE helped create. His Foreign Policy is worse than we have ever had, and he makes a mockery of the US to the very Allies we should be supporting. BHO is the Reverend Jones of the White House and those that drink his cool aid will cause us all to perish if he is not given the boot in November - and that is if it is not ALREADY too late.
quote=John 1813 quote=imntrt1 quote=John 1813 R... (show quote)


You have failed to state any examples. You just parrot GOP talking points.[/quote]

You would not know an example if it hit you in the face. Perhaps some of those talking points are examples and you have just decided to ignore them. You seem to skirt the AG Issue by merely stating it was phony - Where is "your proof" of that? First of all the issue that got two federal agents killed, to them and their families, is REAL. Fast and Furious, which Holder says they knew nothing of - Blatant lie - was an off shoot of a program that the Bush Administration shut down because it was not controllable. And the fact that the HOlDER Justice Department went forward with it proved that by the deaths of two federal agents. In order for that program to have moved forward the Justice Department would have to become involved by law - Wire Taps and other investigative tools have to have oversight by the Justice Department in order for a Judge to sign off on them - and the approval of an Assistant AG for the judge to even consider issuing any orders. You can throw GOP at me all day long, but by doing that you are merely doing what you accuse me of doing - just throwing up the same old arguments in such a lame and sad way - with no substance - because the BHO Administration has no substance - Only Vile, Un-American policies that divide our country and circumvent the Constitution. Unfortunately Racism is alive and well and has headquarters in the white house. The entire American Public will pay a price if it is not changed. Oh, BTW, the deaths of two Law Enforcement Agents is pretty specific in my book.[/quote]

What about the deaths of thousands of American soldiers in a war started under false pretenses?

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Aug 13, 2012 19:17:41   #
john vance Loc: Granbury,Texas
 
I'm not wasting any more of my time on this lunacy
by uall have a good one

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Aug 13, 2012 19:41:13   #
micro Loc: Texas
 
The Wall Street Journal was always a consertave paper (as one would expect from a financial papaer), but respected. Since Rupert Murdoch buoght them, the papaer has become a scandalous rag, like the rest of his properties (ie Fox News).

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Aug 13, 2012 19:47:32   #
docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado
 
imntrt1 wrote:
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
HEART wrote:
Nikocarol wrote:
Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis of President Obama:
"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group (George Soros anybody?) took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.
In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.
His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.
He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?
He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.
And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.
The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.
Now, 3 full years into his presidency, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent
for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.
Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.
The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.
Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.
Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.
He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.
The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.
Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.
When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.
We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States. We the people are coming!
Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis of President Obam... (show quote)


A sock puppet! Love it!! (And the dimwits who respond to this post follow his mantra.....shame. They're helping to bury this nation.)
quote=Nikocarol Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis ... (show quote)


I gravitate to the word, Lemmings. BHO is, hands down, the worst president EVER. And the most damaging individual president to this country, EVER!
quote=HEART quote=Nikocarol Alan Caruba (WSJourn... (show quote)


Worse than "call out the National Guard on them homelesss" Hoover?
Worse than "I am the president I am above the law" Nixon?
quote=imntrt1 quote=HEART quote=Nikocarol Alan ... (show quote)


A thousand times worse. Even Nixon did not ignore the Constitution if the Supreme Court called him on something. And Nixon knew when he really screwed the pooch and resigned. I am president, I am above the Law is the Mantra for the BHO Administration - Nixon was an amateur compared to BHO.
quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=HEART quote=N... (show quote)


Really! What did Obama ignore that the constitution said? But I agree Nixon was an amateur
quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote... (show quote)


How about his multitude of "CZARS" that circumvent the constitutional process of Congress making calls on issues - which also circumvents oversight. How about a Congressional Demand for Documents that AG Eric Holder ignored, when his Justice Department was being investigated about an issue that resulted in the deaths of two federal law enforcement officers. How about BHO stating an outright lie in the State of the Union Address when he said the Supreme Court did something that they did not do?
quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=... (show quote)


You may not recall because you were in treatment but the use of the word "Czar" and its associated connotations began back with Clinton...........so that would mean you've been on meds or in isolation for what - 20 yrs now? I am sorry. I do hope you will get better but you know how it is with the state of mental health care.....However, take heart if Romney /Ryan are elected there will no longer be any mental health care (except of course for those who can afford $150 per hour out of pocket.......thats the good news - the bad news is - under the Ryan Czarship folks with mental health issues will just be rounded up.........

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Aug 13, 2012 19:49:30   #
Jackinthebox Loc: travel the world
 
john vance wrote:
Hey John1813 wake up and smell the flowers !!! quit trying to hide or denigh the truth uor boy is a total disaster in fact if he had a brain he would take it out and play with it.
your statments are specious and you know it !!
and if you don't I feel sorry for you and all like you. !!


:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

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Aug 13, 2012 20:25:08   #
micro Loc: Texas
 
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
HEART wrote:
Nikocarol wrote:
Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis of President Obama:
"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group (George Soros anybody?) took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.
In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.
His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.
He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?
He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.
And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.
The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.
Now, 3 full years into his presidency, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent
for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.
Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.
The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.
Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.
Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.
He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.
The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.
Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.
When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.
We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States. We the people are coming!
Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis of President Obam... (show quote)


A sock puppet! Love it!! (And the dimwits who respond to this post follow his mantra.....shame. They're helping to bury this nation.)
quote=Nikocarol Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis ... (show quote)


I gravitate to the word, Lemmings. BHO is, hands down, the worst president EVER. And the most damaging individual president to this country, EVER!
quote=HEART quote=Nikocarol Alan Caruba (WSJourn... (show quote)


Worse than "call out the National Guard on them homelesss" Hoover?
Worse than "I am the president I am above the law" Nixon?
quote=imntrt1 quote=HEART quote=Nikocarol Alan ... (show quote)


A thousand times worse. Even Nixon did not ignore the Constitution if the Supreme Court called him on something. And Nixon knew when he really screwed the pooch and resigned. I am president, I am above the Law is the Mantra for the BHO Administration - Nixon was an amateur compared to BHO.
quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=HEART quote=N... (show quote)


Really! What did Obama ignore that the constitution said? But I agree Nixon was an amateur
quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote... (show quote)


How about his multitude of "CZARS" that circumvent the constitutional process of Congress making calls on issues - which also circumvents oversight. How about a Congressional Demand for Documents that AG Eric Holder ignored, when his Justice Department was being investigated about an issue that resulted in the deaths of two federal law enforcement officers. How about BHO stating an outright lie in the State of the Union Address when he said the Supreme Court did something that they did not do?
quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=... (show quote)


You may not recall because you were in treatment but the use of the word "Czar" and its associated connotations began back with Clinton...........so that would mean you've been on meds or in isolation for what - 20 yrs now? I am sorry. I do hope you will get better but you know how it is with the state of mental health care.....However, take heart if Romney /Ryan are elected there will no longer be any mental health care (except of course for those who can afford $150 per hour out of pocket.......thats the good news - the bad news is - under the Ryan Czarship folks with mental health issues will just be rounded up.........
quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote... (show quote)


Actuallt the term Czar goes back to, at least, FDR.

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Aug 13, 2012 21:23:48   #
docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado
 
micro wrote:
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
HEART wrote:
Nikocarol wrote:
Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis of President Obama:
"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group (George Soros anybody?) took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.
In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.
His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.
He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?
He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.
And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.
The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.
Now, 3 full years into his presidency, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent
for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.
Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.
The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.
Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.
Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.
He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.
The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.
Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.
When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.
We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States. We the people are coming!
Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis of President Obam... (show quote)


A sock puppet! Love it!! (And the dimwits who respond to this post follow his mantra.....shame. They're helping to bury this nation.)
quote=Nikocarol Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis ... (show quote)


I gravitate to the word, Lemmings. BHO is, hands down, the worst president EVER. And the most damaging individual president to this country, EVER!
quote=HEART quote=Nikocarol Alan Caruba (WSJourn... (show quote)


Worse than "call out the National Guard on them homelesss" Hoover?
Worse than "I am the president I am above the law" Nixon?
quote=imntrt1 quote=HEART quote=Nikocarol Alan ... (show quote)


A thousand times worse. Even Nixon did not ignore the Constitution if the Supreme Court called him on something. And Nixon knew when he really screwed the pooch and resigned. I am president, I am above the Law is the Mantra for the BHO Administration - Nixon was an amateur compared to BHO.
quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=HEART quote=N... (show quote)


Really! What did Obama ignore that the constitution said? But I agree Nixon was an amateur
quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote... (show quote)


How about his multitude of "CZARS" that circumvent the constitutional process of Congress making calls on issues - which also circumvents oversight. How about a Congressional Demand for Documents that AG Eric Holder ignored, when his Justice Department was being investigated about an issue that resulted in the deaths of two federal law enforcement officers. How about BHO stating an outright lie in the State of the Union Address when he said the Supreme Court did something that they did not do?
quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=... (show quote)


You may not recall because you were in treatment but the use of the word "Czar" and its associated connotations began back with Clinton...........so that would mean you've been on meds or in isolation for what - 20 yrs now? I am sorry. I do hope you will get better but you know how it is with the state of mental health care.....However, take heart if Romney /Ryan are elected there will no longer be any mental health care (except of course for those who can afford $150 per hour out of pocket.......thats the good news - the bad news is - under the Ryan Czarship folks with mental health issues will just be rounded up.........
quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote... (show quote)


Actuallt the term Czar goes back to, at least, FDR.
quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=... (show quote)


yes but in reference to American politics?

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Aug 13, 2012 21:47:20   #
micro Loc: Texas
 
docrob wrote:
micro wrote:
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
docrob wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
HEART wrote:
Nikocarol wrote:
Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis of President Obama:
"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group (George Soros anybody?) took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.
In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.
His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.
He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?
He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.
And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.
The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.
Now, 3 full years into his presidency, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent
for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.
Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.
The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.
Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.
Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.
He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.
The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.
Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.
When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.
We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States. We the people are coming!
Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis of President Obam... (show quote)


A sock puppet! Love it!! (And the dimwits who respond to this post follow his mantra.....shame. They're helping to bury this nation.)
quote=Nikocarol Alan Caruba (WSJournal) analysis ... (show quote)


I gravitate to the word, Lemmings. BHO is, hands down, the worst president EVER. And the most damaging individual president to this country, EVER!
quote=HEART quote=Nikocarol Alan Caruba (WSJourn... (show quote)


Worse than "call out the National Guard on them homelesss" Hoover?
Worse than "I am the president I am above the law" Nixon?
quote=imntrt1 quote=HEART quote=Nikocarol Alan ... (show quote)


A thousand times worse. Even Nixon did not ignore the Constitution if the Supreme Court called him on something. And Nixon knew when he really screwed the pooch and resigned. I am president, I am above the Law is the Mantra for the BHO Administration - Nixon was an amateur compared to BHO.
quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=HEART quote=N... (show quote)


Really! What did Obama ignore that the constitution said? But I agree Nixon was an amateur
quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote... (show quote)


How about his multitude of "CZARS" that circumvent the constitutional process of Congress making calls on issues - which also circumvents oversight. How about a Congressional Demand for Documents that AG Eric Holder ignored, when his Justice Department was being investigated about an issue that resulted in the deaths of two federal law enforcement officers. How about BHO stating an outright lie in the State of the Union Address when he said the Supreme Court did something that they did not do?
quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=... (show quote)


You may not recall because you were in treatment but the use of the word "Czar" and its associated connotations began back with Clinton...........so that would mean you've been on meds or in isolation for what - 20 yrs now? I am sorry. I do hope you will get better but you know how it is with the state of mental health care.....However, take heart if Romney /Ryan are elected there will no longer be any mental health care (except of course for those who can afford $150 per hour out of pocket.......thats the good news - the bad news is - under the Ryan Czarship folks with mental health issues will just be rounded up.........
quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote... (show quote)


Actuallt the term Czar goes back to, at least, FDR.
quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=docrob quote=... (show quote)


yes but in reference to American politics?
quote=micro quote=docrob quote=imntrt1 quote=d... (show quote)


Yes, Czar has been used as a slang title within US administrations for apointees heading up initiatives (ie Drug Czar) for decades.

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Aug 13, 2012 22:16:39   #
kalmuk
 
One rarely sees someone like Mr. Caruba who has his head so far up his rectum.

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Aug 13, 2012 23:19:34   #
Danilo Loc: Las Vegas
 
Rich Maher wrote:
I thought this was a photography forum. Keep your right wing opinions to yourself.


Yet another poor soul. If you will right-click on your mouse, you can exit the only Non-Photography section on this Forum. There are 14 photography related sections for your pleasure...no need to be trapped in this section!

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