Barack Obama: Graying of a president

Fixing the mess that the Bush Republicans left behind would be enough to make anyone turn gray.

Josh Marshall makes a good point:

Dear Corporate Media,

"When does the story become the GOP's unprecedented politicization of a terror attack? Three days before the first fund-raising letters go out? The obviousness of the point would seem even more obvious since the main complainers are demonstrably hypocritical on their basic arguments"

Love, America
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Causing 10% Unemployment will do that to a person.

There is a lot of stress when a political hack without the ability to articulate clear principles is forced to make decisions. Maybe it was the three months spent dithering over an Afghanistan strategy or the four days it took to recognize a "systemic" failure in a system he vowed to change on Jan 20th. The only thing that comes easily to this marxist is spending other peoples money to buy off his supporters and replace one set of special interests with another. Empty promises from and empty suit. He looks as old and tired as the failed policies he is trying to cram down the throats of the American people.

Did you really think he would get younger as President Obama and performing all of the "so called" miracles, those darling Republican-Libertarians often point to !!
SUPPORT OUR TROPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, TO OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN OUR ARMED FORCES.

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There is a lot of stress when a political hack without the ability to articulate clear principles is forced to make decisions.
Posted by: Hans | December 30, 2009 3:07 PM
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Clown,
We got rid of that guy on Jan 20, 2009. Remember?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGRYPYuFZLk
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The graying happened when his telepropter lost power
during a recent speech...

Either that or Michelle caught him with a hula girl while on vacation. Oh wait that was his golf buddy Tiger, sorry.

Looks like president panty waist is finding this job a little more difficult than his major in community organizing.
What did he think...turning this great nation into a socialist style Europe was going to be easy, ha!
Go back to your Sol Alinski playbook obama, we will fight you at every turn...old man.

Paulo

If an underwear bomb means we're not safe under Obama, does a shoe bomb mean Bush didn't really keep us safe after 9/11?

Terry, I noticed your postings and rarely have they any merit.
You must enjoy reading your own mindless thoughts and relish in any attention they garnish. You are not as sharp as you think you are.

Grayer and can you believe even dumber then when this whole mess began

Republicans have no crediblity when it comes to Foreign policy (or anything else for that matter). They are responsible for wars that have not resulted in ending the war on terror, but actually inflaming it. Nothing is more laughable than hearing the usual Cheney's, Lindsay Grahams and Liebermanns say that we need to start more wars to solve current crisis. It is also Republicans who never implemented the 911 Commision's recommendations. But I think what is even more worse is the corporate media's treating the Republicans like they have some sort of crediblity all the time.

Obama’s Insecure Last War Doctrine Part I

All the hullabaloo over the Obama administration’s original laissez faire attitude toward the Christmas Day near-catastrophic event in the Detroit skies is bewildering to my simple mind.

First, DHS Secretary Janet “What Threat?” Napolitano says it’s all good, that the “system worked,” after it didn’t work, then says the system sucks, then says it was an isolated incident.

Three days later our vacationing president chimes in with a call for action to forestall any repetition of such isolated incidents.

Isolated? My foot! Is anyone in charge here?

The pols on both sides of the aisle are shocked, shocked, I tell you, at the ineptitude and complacency of our . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1396)

Considering the shape of things when he took over, I think he's done pretty damn good. If a Republican had become elected, we would be deep into a depression by now. I'm not surprised at the increase of gray in his hair. It's comes with having to fight wars both overseas and here in Washington DC.

I'm pretty sure no one forced him to run for president.

What's with that long scar the makes hair growth impossible?
Implant for the Manchurian Candidate?

Evidently pitching the greatest country on earth into the dumpster leads to gray hair!

Another field day for the rabid...grey hair. And would somebody please start reading berlet98"s (genelalor) special type of vitriol so he can stop advertising here. Read more at:http//wwwI'mjustasrabidasyou.com

Perhaps Obama will someday grow into the job where he will keep at least ONE of his campaign promises. So far, no improvement in public safety from terrorists (oh, can't call them that); no middle class tax cut; no universal health care; no "line by line" checking of the budget; no elimination of pork spending; no elimination of lobbyists from his administration; no reduction of unemployment; no new jobs in the private sector; no increased respect from Europe, the Middle East or Brooklyn. Hope and change? Right now, there's no hope and any changes have been for the worse.

This is the hardest job in the world to have, and anyone holding a is going to age in front of us all. Just thank of the information that this person would have to take in every day and then make the decisions based on that information. I may not like Obama's policies but, I still do not like to see what happens to him why he is in office.

Hans, most of your post could easily describe our last president, but keep trying...

Good one Terry, but as I'm sure you know the unemployment rate started heading upwards in 2008 when I believe GWB was president though UE is a result of a cyclical labor demand market not a result of any presidential action, but you knew that right? ;)

George W. Obama.

This administration is inept, clumsy, petulant, and worse yet: hypocritical. What happened to transparency?

Yet, unfortunately, elections do indeed have consequences - and the idiots who elected this guy on 'hope' and 'change' are now seeing he is well over his head.

The good thing is that these democratic party dopes will see their control self-implode starting in 2010.
Let's 'hope' it's not too late...

If Obama was truly a Marxist/Communist, most of you people would have not been able to post anything and probably jailed, so when comparing him to those people is a bit much. Comparing Obama to those communist regimes is an insult to those people who lived through and/or resisted those communist/marxist regimes.

I know what will get the gray out of Pres Obama's hair.

PROSECUTE THAT WAR CRIMINAL DICK CHENEY!!!

According to ABC News, two Al Qaeda figures purportedly involved in the Northwest Airlines plot were released from Guantanamo Bay by the Bush administration in 2007. But given the GOP's full-court press to gain maximum political advantage from the near-disaster in Detroit, we're apparently supposed to forget that.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/men-believed-northwest-airlines-plot-set-free/story?id=9434065

Call Dick's bluff. He's on the air as often as possible because he knows he has criminal exposure, and he wants to innoculate himself against prosecution. He wants to be able to claim that any investigation or prosecution is politically motivated.

The answer? Prosecute him.

Just like the Republican party always says: rule of law, folks. rule of law.

Hans, most of your post could easily describe our last president, but keep trying...

Good one Terry, but as I'm sure you know the unemployment rate started heading upwards in 2008 when I believe GWB was president though UE is a result of a cyclical labor demand market not a result of any presidential action, but you knew that right? ;)

Posted by: Kate | December 30, 2009 5:12 PM

Ringing endorsement Kate, the current idiot in chief is as stupid as the last one. As to your brilliant insight into economics, you should have shared it with the fool that thought spending $700B+ on teachers unions, corrupt state and local governments and people that spent more than they could afford would keep UE from going over 8%. Carter proved that the uncertainty of changing government regulations and high taxes can keep UE well above historic levels but you knew that.

That's what happens when you make incorrect decisions repeatedly.....you can't sleep at night, you become restless, it weighs on your mind. Just the thought of how he is ruining America should not only turn him grey but also bald.

Darn, his hair is graying. Just think what he and his ineptness and his corrupt administration are doing to the hair of the population of the U.S. By the time Bury "NICHOLAE CARPATHIA" Obama is done screwing up this country, the entire population will wish that their only problem was gray hair. Assama Bin Laden must be the happiest guy in the world. He no longer has to do anything but sit back and watch as Bury Obama does his dirty work of destroying the U.S. for him.

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Looks like president panty waist is finding this job a little more difficult than his major in community organizing.

Posted by: Paulo | December 30, 2009 4:12 PM
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What's wrong, Pablo?

Are you scared cause your President isn't stuffing a cod piece down his pants and running around his fake ranch pretending to cut brush for the TV camera's?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/bush-drops-fake-cowboy-sh_b_158186.html

Put your diaper back on Pablo, the adults are in charge now.

Napolitano erred in her speech.

It was silly to suggest that the system worked.

The Tribune editorial suggested we were "lucky," as if that were a bad or unusal thing.

Of course we were lucky.

The entire fight against terrorism will be dependent on luck.

Even if the would-be "underwear bomber" (I'm coining that phrase here and now) had been stopped at the airport, we would have been lucky that he had a father that had the courage to turn him in.

To those who blame Obama for any of this: would torturing someone have been any more productive than acting on the father's tip?

Get a grip, you would-be Jack Bauers.

For the Wingnut cretins who want to pretend after Jan 20, 2009 that George W. Bush never existed:

Republican leaders and their amen corner Wingnutters may have forgotten what happened when the record-setting President Bush took his month-long summer vacation in 2001, but the American people haven't. While Bush spent weeks in Crawford fretting over the politics of stem cell research and brushing off CIA briefers he said "covered your ass," Bin Laden was indeed "determined to strike in U.S."
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http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001528.htm
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http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001420.htm

As Slate detailed five years ago, "while Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard." Those missed alarms not only took the form of that bone-chilling August 6, 2001 presidential daily brief (PDB) but in CIA briefings that never occurred. While George Tenet, Richard Clarke and others told the 9/11 Commission they were running around that summer with their "hair on fire" about potential terrorist attacks from Al Qaeda, Tenet acknowledged that in August, "I was not in briefings at this time." President Bush, as he told Commissioner Tim Roemer, "was on vacation."
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http://www.slate.com/id/2098861/

And what a vacation it was.

As USA Today told Americans on August 3, 2001:

"Six months after taking office, President Bush will begin a month-long vacation Saturday that is significantly longer than the average American's annual getaway. If Bush returns as scheduled on Labor Day, he'll tie the modern record for presidential absence from the White House."
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/august01/2001-08-03-bush-vacation.htm

Of course, at that same time, a host of other people frantic about American national security made another point to George W. Bush. On August 6th, 2001, Bush received and was briefed on the now notorious PDB which ominously warned just five weeks before the September 11 attacks that Osama Bin Laden was determined to strike in the United States. President Bush's response to the briefing, as Ron Suskind revealed in June 2006, was one for posterity:

"All right. You've covered your ass, now."
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http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/06/20/911pdb/index.html?source=refresh

For all of Presideny Bush's vulgar cynicism, his administration's nonchalance about the growing threat from Bin Laden was perhaps best expressed by then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Rice, who held the first principals meeting to discuss the Al Qaeda danger only on September 4, 2001, was asked about the PDB memo in April 2004 by Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste:

BEN-VENISTE: Isn't it a fact, Dr. Rice, that the August 6 PDB warned against possible attacks in this country? And I ask you whether you recall the title of that PDB?

RICE: I believe the title was, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."
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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/10/se.01.html

Of course, Rice's pathetic testimony before the 9/11 Commission only added to her embarrassment. Despite the well-publicized warnings from Richard Clarke (who helped lead the 1996 effort to protect the Atlanta Olympics from, among other things, threats from hijacked aircraft), Rice on May 16, 2002 protested:

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. All of this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking."

To be sure, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano's initial statement (since recanted) about Friday's airliner incident that "the system worked" was comically misguided, ranking up there with John Ashcroft's hastily called Moscow news conference in June 2002 to claim credit for breaking up the supposed "dirty bomb" plot of Jose Padilla. Still, Napolitano's gaffe pales in comparison to President Bush's post-Katrina ode to "Brownie" that "you doin' a heckuva job or dog-ate-my-homework claim, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."

According to ABC News, two Al Qaeda figures purportedly involved in the Northwest Airlines plot were released from Guantanamo Bay by the Bush administration in 2007. But given the GOP's full-court press to gain maximum political advantage from the near-disaster in Detroit, we're apparently supposed to forget that.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/men-believed-northwest-airlines-plot-set-free/story?id=9434065

Just like that August 6, 2001 PDB that said, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

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Assama Bin Laden must be the happiest guy in the world He no longer has to do anything but sit back and watch as Bury Obama does his dirty work of destroying the U.S. for him.

Posted by: Don | December 30, 2009 5:41 PM
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It's OSAMA, not ASSAMA, you moron. And he wouldn't be running around loose right now if the Republican idiot that you voted for twice (Bush) hadn't decided that it was more important to invade Iraq for no reason than to catch him.
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http://www.newyorkslime.com/osama-mission-accomplished-01.jpg

Perhaps folks are seeing more gray in the President's hair because he goes natural, just like me! You people are use to seeing hair dye, wigs, and plugs. I am a few months younger than the President and I have absolutely no stress in my life, yet this year my hair also has become grayer. Folks it might be a GENETICS and his clock in ticking ITS GRAY TIME. I got the gene from my dad and perhaps if y'all took the time to look at pictures of his grand-dad you all would see that his grand-pop was completely gray at President Obama's age.

paolo:
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Go back to your Sol Alinski playbook obama, we will fight you at every turn...old man.

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oooooh you sound like such a big tough guy !

I think I hear your mama calling your name.." paolo, nighty-night time "

Posted by: Tell the Truth | December 30, 2009 5:44 PM

She erred? The administration that has bragged about how they play the media and control their message at all times? She knew exactly what she was saying, that's why the same thing was repeated by this incompetent and the waterboy gibbs. And if you think that barry or his chicago thugs weren't aware of this lie well before she said it, you are delusional.

As for the chairman of nigeria's largest bank notifying the embassy and speaking with the CIA about his son, you can characterize it as a tip as this incompetent administration did, or you could actually try to track him down. Since there are many others that apparently are training for similar missions, one could even consider this the ticking timebomb scenario. Mr grey hair however thinks this is just another isolated nut so he will let the guy lawyer up and keep pretending the world will love us, oh and not rest until everyone is caught.........come on in, the water is fine.

Tawanda,

That breaks my heart you think my postings rarely have they any merit.

Kate,

I know unemployment is a lagging economic indicator in a recession but if you remember BO and his minions stated - pass the Stimulus and unemployemnet will not go over 8%.

He was going grey during the campaign.

I ran into O at the DNC in Denver and was surprised at the snow collecting on his roof.

Oh, and Penny ("They are responsible for wars that have not resulted in ending the war on terror, but actually inflaming it.") ... look at the Congressional votes for these wars.

Lots of "D"s piped in to the affirmative (Durbin, Clinton, Kerry, et al).

Not saying you're wrong re: the GOP, but don't let the DNC get off scot-free.

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As for the chairman of nigeria's largest bank notifying the embassy and speaking with the CIA about his son, you can characterize it as a tip as this incompetent administration did,
Posted by: Hans | December 30, 2009 6:44 PM
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Yeah, and if we're going to use your blame game logic, and since the CIA was first tipped off about this guy in the fall of 2008, I guess we can call this what it really is:
~~ANOTHER REPUBLICAN BLUNDER!~~

Just think Hans, if the Republican cretins that you cheerlead for weren't so incompetent it wouldn't be so easy for me to smack you around everyday.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/31048.html
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Was there a Chicago Tribune story on George W's grey hair 11 months into his presidency? Just checking. I'm off to the Tribune archives to find out.

Being completely incompetent at the most important job in the free world would turn anyone's hair gray.

Three things to learn from Ronnie Reagan:

Exercise every day. Ride a horse, lift dumbbells, whatever works.....

Get plenty of sleep. Even if you have to steal away in the late afternoon...... You are much more productive on 9 hours than on 7.5 or less......

Reach down and open the lower right hand drawer on the Resolute Desk, for the bottle of black hair dye he left behind......

Obama has made progress on several of his campaign promises. Impressive given the typical inertia in Washington. One recent victory (for citizens) is the air travelers bill of rights that recently passed. Next will be healthcare reform.

Really?????????????!!!!!!!!!! Everyone is fooling themselves if they can't see that his dye job is just wearing off! I watched his hair get darker then lighter then darker then lighter throughout his entire campaign! He wants us all to "see" the toll all of his hard work has taken. It was his plan, that coupled with his vanity - he can't bring himself to ask one of his aids to go buy some dye ..that would be all over the news! Or would it???????????? Or will you guys just continue to report on how hard this man is working on change that we can believe in! HA!

Obama’s Insecure Last War Doctrine Part II

One of the great yogi-isms and far more perspicacious than “You can observe a lot by watching,” is Yogi’s classic, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” That should be obvious in baseball as well as in war.

Our supremely-confident president felt that America’s War on Terror was over with his ascendancy to his office, that is, if that war ever existed. Perhaps influenced by his Muslim roots, Obama doesn’t believe in any such thing as worldwide Islamic terrorism so how can we have a war against it?

This allegedly brilliant man could learn a great deal from the wisdom of the very uneducated Yogi Berra who might have appended another word for Obama to his quotation: ”It’s not over til it’s over, Dolt!”

And, don’t try to feed me the lie that “Obama just sent 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan so that proves he’s serious about battling terrorism!” Those troops, whose numbers suddenly grew to 40,000 according to some Democrat Party hack on Fox News Wednesday, are a charade.

At best, they will save some American lives but with Obama’s 2011 deadline for a political miracle in that sorry nation, the Taliban and al Qaeda are gleefully waiting until Obama’s troops come marching home so they can pick up where they left off in 2001.

These terrorists, as well as being a blood-thirsty lot, are a smart and patient lot.

Meanwhile, Commander-in-Chief Obama is failing to fight the most proximate last war, George W. Bush’s War on Terrorism launched on October 7th 2001 and amazingly concluded by Barack Hussein Obama in short order on January 20th, 2009.

Precisely what war, if any, . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1397)

Mark, when you read the inane nonsensical comments to your article about presidential gray hair, do you have second thoughts about posting similar drivel?

The comments on the Swamp are too much. George Bush replaces Osama to most of you. Get a grip on reality. Your survival depends on it. Bush is not going to blow you out of the sky, or plant a dirty bomb in a major city. So, you didn't like his policies, grow up! Deal with what is. You elected a marxist lawyer that has no experience. He doesn't have a clue other than his silly failed radical theory. And, you know what they say about radical theory: it is based on taking over power, but has no plans to actually operate a government once power is achieved.

Why? Because Marxist theory doesn't work when actually applied. It's great for those "elitist" conversations between the ivory tower dewbs that look down their noses at the "uneducated hicks" that make up most of America and have made our country what it is. By the way, that's why you leftists hate Sarah Palin, because she is a voice for normal people.

Now back to the elitist and arrogant left; all one has to do is look at your maniacal plans to see how you want to control everthing: healthcare, what kind of car you can drive, your thermostat, your pets, YOUR MONEY, the number of children you should have, what you eat, what you drink, what you watch (Fox News), your toilets, what your children think, did I mention you MONEY? How fat you are...I'm sure I have left out...cell phones. Is there anything that you obsessive leftists don't want to regulate? Guns? freedom? free speech? NOPE there is nothing that you don't want to regulate and restrict, except your own stinkin' corrupt politicians.

Ornery,

One more lesson BO should take from Reagan - cutting income tax rates spurs economic growth and job creation

Maybe President Obama should take a good look at the " Shinola Kid ", Senator Shelby, to see how ridiculous it could get. Senator Shelby must be a major stockholder of that Corp !! 'The Waterloo Kid ", Senator DeMint, is another he could look to, as to why he shouldn't get cosmetic about growing older !! Neither of those two Senators look real. They look artificial, phony.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR ARMED FORCES.

Posted by: Repugtard: "It's OSAMA, not ASSAMA, you moron. And he wouldn't be running around loose right now if the Republican idiot that you voted for twice (Bush) hadn't decided that it was more important to invade Iraq for no reason than to catch him."

You must be as stupid as you look, if you can't recognize a play on words. And if your hero Billy Bob Clinton, whom you voted for twice, had gone after ASSAMA the three or more times that he was handed him on a silver platter, then this country would have 3000 more of its citizens and 6,000 + more of its military members alive as Iraq and Afganistan would not have happened. So tell me, how does it feel to be so s-t-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-p-i-d?

@ Posted by: HHH | December 30, 2009 7:29 PM

The CIA received a vague warning four months ago about the Nigerian suspect in the Christmas Day bombing attempt, although officers did not learn his name until last month, administration officials said Tuesday night

H, you might try reading your links before misquoting them, not that you leftists really care about the truth any more than you care about national security. As for defending repubs, none are in power now so this is O'bumbles mess all the way. Get over it, you supported a completely inept, unprincipled goof pushing an adolescent marxist pipe dream.

stupid
s-t-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-p-i-d?

Posted by: Don | December 31, 2009 10:23 AM

Which is it Don? Stupid or stoopid?

He's not getting grey hair from working too hard, that's for sure. It's from PLAYING too much. Poor baby.

Wendy,
"Considering the shape of things when he took over, I think he's done pretty damn good."
#### Yeah sure. We're trillions in debt. The govt. is taking over our heathcare. Unemployment has skyrocketed. The govt. now owns most of banks, auto manufacturers and soon our insurance and healthcare companies. And in spite of the massive infusion of taxpayer, recently printed, and borrowed dollars, they're all going broke. Our Prez. is a fraud and liar who bows to our enemies. Terrorist attacks have escalated and we've learned we have essentially no National Security.

Only a govt. employees, all of whom got a big raise this year would say "he's done a good job."

If a Republican had become elected, we would be deep into a depression by now.
#### Wake up Wendy. I can assure you, the millions unemployued as a result of Obama's idiotic policies would say, "We are in a depression!!"

I'm not surprised at the increase of gray in his hair. It's comes with having to fight wars both overseas and here in Washington DC.
#### Nothing like the fight Bush so gracefully fought with the liberal media who spouted hatred and ridicule day and night.

Wendy, you need to look at the facts. On every scale, our country is in worse shape since the Obama Terrorist took over. Every statement you make could have been dictated by the Liar in Charge himself and we've seen what his word isworth. NOTHING!!

terry the'bagger

Ornery,
One more lesson BO should take from Reagan - cutting income tax rates spurs economic growth and job creation

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..and let the churches take care of the poor, so sayeth saint ronald of reagan.

Do you think building more churches will stimulate the economy, Terry ?

Considering how many millions of the former middle class have become poor, jobless and homeless, thats a lot of churches..and a lot of jobs being created.

Imagine the possibilities!

And writer, just imagine if those millions hadn't lost their jobs, they wouldn't have to sponge off the government or churches. We know though that the stimulus wasn't about jobs, it was about making people more dependent on government. It has worked out so well for the dems in the inner cities that they are just trying to nationalize.

Imagine, generation after generation learning how to live off the largesse of the compassionate dem party. The only party that can build your self esteem as you are taking handouts. Don't attend classes, can't pass the test, no problem Arnie and his pals in the teacher's union will just lower the standards but be sure to show up the first day so we can enroll youin all the wonderful government programs.

Work, that's for repub losers that stayed in school but don't worry, St. Barak, the wise one with the grey hair, will make sure they don't get to keep their obviously ill gotten gains. Isn't your life so much nicer with the smart and compassionate dems taking care of your every need?

Still Writing Wrongs,

Building more churches will stimulate the economy as much as building new schools.

It's hard work moving from the Illinois Senate to the White House in 4 years.

In fact, no one else has ever climbed the ladder so fast.

hans:
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And writer, just imagine if those millions hadn't lost their jobs, they wouldn't have to sponge off the government or churches.....

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..and if the passengers of the Titanic had chosen not to embark on the maiden voyage, they would not have drowned.
Typical r-con logic and compassion.

terry the 'bagger:
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Still Writing Wrongs,

Building more churches will stimulate the economy as much as building new schools.

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Funny, I don't recall saint ronnie of reagan telling the schools to take care of the poor.....hmmmmm

Still Writing Wrongs,

I don't recall that either. The gov't run union schools have a hard time just teaching kids.