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So you are saying that you

Black_Dog — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:23:34 +0000

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So you are saying that you voted for Uncle O Chi Minh because of the strength of his resume? If your vote was motivated by Bush fatigue, I regret to inform you that George W. Bush was not on the same ballot with the junior Senator from Illinois. McCain was hardly my first choice, but these are hardly times for loquacious lightweights that promise rainbows and unicorns. The scariest thing about Obama is that he really seems to really believe the fantasies that he peddles.

But let's talk turkey, not call names:

The so-called stimulus package (ARRA) failed to stimulate or hold unemployment as promised. It was a $787 billion boondoggle filled with bailouts for state government bureaucracies and pork.
Along those same lines, Mr. Obama blew open the [formerly] incremental growth in federal debt, far outpacing any of his peacetime predecessors.
Obama has repeatedly crapped on our strongest world allies (Britain and Israel) while extending the hand of friendship (cue violin music, please) to hostile nations that wish to destroy western society. He has been played for a fool by the Iranians and failed to prevent them from going nuclear. News flash: the world is NOT a safer place.
When the economy has needed help and relief the most, our benevolent leader has stepped on its neck with massive new entitlements (healthcare), tax increases (allowing the Bush cuts to expire), and regulations (that do not in any way address abuses in mortgage lending). If the political climate weren't so toxic for him right now he would be pushing for the job killing and economy destroying Cap and Trade scheme.
Obama has created an environment hostile to economic growth by continually spewing anti-business class-warfare Marxist rhetoric. He apparently doesn't understand that businesses, large and small, are the engines of our capitalist economy. If he wants an economic recovery, he needs to nurture the free market, not demonize it.

Fact check: I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh or watch Fox News. Nor do I Tea Party.

Nice takedown, Destor. Well

Doctor Cleveland — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:04:00 +0000

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Nice takedown, Destor. Well done.

Even, may I say it, elite-level work.

Excellent blog. I wonder

CVille Dem — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:47:27 +0000

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Excellent blog. I wonder about the people who claim to study history, the Constitution, etc, who don't even nosy attention to cuurent events, There is a world- wide recession. Has anyone noticed, or is it just more fun to blame Barack Obama?

Again, thanks for this informative and thought-provoking post.

This was a great read.

Rootman — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:42:30 +0000

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This was a great read. Thanks, Destor.

For Limbaughtomized zombies

NCD — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:36:33 +0000

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For Limbaughtomized zombies like Black-dog, anyone not a Murdoch employed GOP propagandist on Fox News is a liberal, and no one was more experienced, qualified, 'managed the economy' better, or was a more honest and truth telling Commander in Chief, than the guy he voted for twice, the chicken-shit tinpot dictator from Texas, George W. Bush.

Uh... there are not two

Michael Maiello — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:44:01 +0000

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Uh... there are not two liberals involved in this discussion.

"Republicans are almost

we are stardust — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:38:29 +0000

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"Republicans are almost certainly going to demonstrate that you can beat something with nothing,..." That part of the sentence is really true; most of the ads I've seen(admittedly not a lot) just say, "Taxes, Obama-care, and Your Money."

I'm really glad he's speaking to the Chamber of Commerce funding and ads; what a travesty. Hard to watch Karl Rove having such a good time, though.

Far be it from me to

Black_Dog — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:30:40 +0000

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Far be it from me to interfere when one liberal is bashing another, but you've got to face it: your guy is nothing but fluff and hot air.

Prior to his election, Obama had zero executive experience, zero foreign policy experience, zero military experience (all constitutional responsibilities of the office) and there is nothing in his background that indicates that he knew the first thing about managing an economy (a perceived power of the presidency), let alone fix one. Sarah Palin, who has no business running for the presidency, was better qualified.

Now this silver-tongued neophyte is being exposed for the fraud that he is. Truth hurts.

"Halperin, who is willing to

brewmn — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:29:39 +0000

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"Halperin, who is willing to speak for his fellow elites, is also willing to speak for tens of millions of middle-class Americans, another group that he probably thinks would count him as a member."

Mark Halperin contains multitudes.

I just completed a blog on

Richard Day — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:04:52 +0000

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I just completed a blog on elitism hidden in my Napolitano blog.

I contrasted rush and beck and our community college graduate Palin with Newt and Napolitano and Frisk and ....hell so many top GOPers who have these degrees from prestigious universities.

THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER was my plea.

But the GOP has been coloring us dems like this for decades.

It has gotten to the point where i give one good shite what your degrees are or where they came from. How do you treat the oligarchy and how do you treat the working man and woman.

But many segments of our citizenry just eat this shite up.

It is absurd for a person with a PHD to claim that he is part of the working class. Hell Newt would have graded someone with one of his recent speeches with an 'F' had he been reading this crap decades ago.

Beck really does know nothing of our Consitution or its rendering over the past two centuries.

Newt knows better. And so does Napolitano and so does Savage for that matter.

Evidently these people, uneducated or not are really really good at rhetoric whether or not they can spell it or not.