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Posted January 25, 2009 8:06 AM
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The utter nonsense of the Bush-McCain Republicans, and that certainly includes Neut Getrich, and their constant whine, since President Obama took Office, is deafening and grossly unfair. But of course, that is their whole point of attack! They do not wish President Obama and America, well. They would rather, " Flush Limpbag " was " on the money ", and see President Obama fail, than to see him pull America out of this crater, where the last two Republican administrations, have left us!! What a great bunch of psuedo-Americans, these wonderful Republicans turned out to be !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.


Redstate.com has the kind of story you'll never read in the Swamp:
"Who worries about “the cow” when it is all about the “Ice Cream”? The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year. The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. I decided we would have an election for a class president. We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote. To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.

We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot. The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia’s mother.

The day arrived when they were to make their speeches. Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded.

He sat down and Olivia came to the podium. Her speech was concise. She said, “If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream.” She sat down. The class went wild. “Yes! Yes! We want ice cream.” She surely could say more. She did not have to.

A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn’t sure. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it? She didn’t know. The class really didn’t care. All they were thinking about was ice cream. Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide.

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and fifty-two percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want ice cream. The other forty-eight percent of us know we’re going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess."


Nice to see you back, Don. Hope you are doing well.

The test of whether the Obama administration will foment division or heal it will be whether it succumbs to the pressure of the organized labor lobby to give them control over whether employees who do not support a particular union at a particular time have any voting rights protected by the privacy of a secret ballot. If the Employee-Free Choice Act is slipped in quietly, we will know this is traditionaly ideological warfare in the sheepskin of unity: the real unity being "our way or the highway."

As for those responding to dissenters and critics by personal attacks, name-calling, and shouting, "Shut up!" please remember that dissent is patriotic.


Be fair, Dissent. Jamie said he wanted to wage war for eight years, and would charge all of the cost to his grandchildren.


Obama would do well to ignore claptrap about centrism--the Repugs sabotaged Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton--NOTHING is to be gained by rolling over on the rights of workers, indeed al citizens. I hope Obama remembers it was the LEFT that supported him and built him up.


Call University of Houston and have them remove this PUNK, this THUG from the scholarship:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Please-note-that-Chase-Budinger-s-face-is-not-a-?urn=ncaab,136602


Bruce, you have cemented your tired rhetoric solidly in the third grade. Why am I not surprised?

More ice cream please.


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