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Why Obama Could Not Stage a Coup
The American Thinker ^ | September 12, 2009 | Bruce Walker

Posted on 09/12/2009 6:01:43 AM PDT by Scanian

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To: dools007
Mid-term elections have the potential for neutering Onada,
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I expect rampant voter fraud. The Democrat secretaries of states will ignore it. The federal prosecutors will turn a blind eye, and Repubs have gonads the size of dust mites.

41 posted on 09/12/2009 10:12:09 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: Scanian
Obama knows all the things this guy knows, and will not try to stage a coup....yet. Has Chavez staged a coup? And, nonetheless, is he running an authoritarian socialist regime where free speech is gone, the media is controlled, the judiciary is compliant and industry is under the thumb of Sr. Chavez himself?

The Chavez playbook will do very nicely for Obama for his first two terms. In the second term, he will borrow a page from Zelaya and Chavez, and create a movement to beg "Dear Leader" for a third term. If they can't get an amendment, they will phony up some argument that will allow him to get that third term. Once he is in for life, more and more people will fall in line.

He knows he can't push too hard, or the military and the American people will rise up. So he will spend 8 years destroying the military, putting his people in place, and creating his thug armies. In 8 years, all the teenagers that grow up under him will be young 20 somethings who have never learned about the Constitution, and Obama is all they know. Conditions will be better for what he wants to do. I can hear it now: "The polls say 60 percent want Obama to stay. This is a democracy, isn't it"? He can be stopped, but the window of opportunity is narrowing.

42 posted on 09/12/2009 10:15:35 AM PDT by Defiant (Baby Boomers: The first generation in human history to not want to become adults, and they haven't.)
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To: wintertime

Hey! Don’t insult us dust mites! Our gonads are just the right size and no where near as small as those other people’s balls - even we need magifying glasses to find them when we are on their bodies. We are fully unionized - and you know what that means. Don’t you?


43 posted on 09/12/2009 10:19:18 AM PDT by PIF
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To: bereanway
I think that ultimately his biggest obstacle will come in the form of states and governors
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Gee! You mean the kind of Repub governor like mine? The one who thought that it was just fine with him that Obama spoke to the state's school kids, and says Obama is natural born because Obama’s mom was American.

Or how about the Chairman of the Repub party in my state who said that he didn't know much about Obama’s natural born status? He hasn't followed the issue.

Or...How about my Repub Senators who voted for Bush's stimulus package? One wrote to me and said that Hawaii has said that Obama was natural born, or the other who said he'll follow the issue but has done squat?

Repubs are repugnant! They have gonads the size of dust mites.

44 posted on 09/12/2009 10:20:10 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: PIF
Sitting here laughing and laughing!
45 posted on 09/12/2009 10:21:20 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: Defiant

Just remember one thing....

Petraeus, Odierno, McChrystal and the rest of the military brass doubtless have this same conversation on a regular basis among themselves. They know what’s going on.

Henry Kissinger may regard the military as “stupid animals to be used to impliment foreign policy” but those guys are far from dumb. And I’ll bet that damn few of them are willing to do down the road to oblivion to back up a traitor whom they surely despise.

The question is often asked, why does Obama continue the war in Afghanistan? For my money, it is a sop tossed to the military to keep them from getting too “uppity”(a favorite Obama word”). But that’s not enough. If he appears to be embarking on a strategy to emulate Chavez in the U.S., the generals will explain to him in a matter-of-fact manner that their role is to defend the Constitution.

The military has lost hundreds of thousands of brave men defending our way of life and our Republic. It stretches my credulity to believe that they’ll agree to act as the errand boys for a lying, scheming Chicago Marxist.


46 posted on 09/12/2009 12:52:58 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

He will continue in Afghanistan in order to ruin the Army.


47 posted on 09/12/2009 12:55:06 PM PDT by Jim Noble (I hope Sarah will start a 2nd party soon)
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To: Scanian
TAKE ACTION NOW - NO MORE SITTING ON THE SIDELINES
The thing we have to do now, without any hesitation, is vote out this current Congress in 2010. Then take back our Nation in 2012. If we do not mobilize ourselves and others now to do this in ways far beyond where most of us have ever engaged in political matters, we will lose this country. And have ourselves to blame.
FRIENDS, WE CAN NO LONGER JUST 'PREACH TO THE CHOIR' -- WE MUST CARRY THIS MESSAGE TO ALL WE KNOW AND ACT NOW. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
48 posted on 09/12/2009 1:08:03 PM PDT by UncleVanya
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To: Jim Noble

I don’t doubt that Hussein has a number of reasons for wanting to stay there and none of them are good.


49 posted on 09/12/2009 1:08:24 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian
Petraeus, Odierno, McChrystal and the rest of the military brass doubtless have this same conversation on a regular basis among themselves. They know what’s going on.

I know they do, but as I said, Obama has 8 years to install compliant, Weasley Clark types in the upper echelons of the Pentagon. Clinton did great damage to the military brass in his time, putting political hacks in a lot of positions. Obama can do far more damage, and he will try. He won't make a move unless he feels he has control of the military, and even then he may not be sure. But commies will try if they can.

50 posted on 09/12/2009 9:11:21 PM PDT by Defiant (Baby Boomers: The first generation in human history to not want to become adults, and they haven't.)
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