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1 posted on 08/17/2011 1:40:50 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

“I let Michelle have her way 90% of the time”

That explains his Mom Jeans. They are really Mom genes.


2 posted on 08/17/2011 1:44:22 PM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: humblegunner
...now everybody is on their own little blog...

Obvious "kind and gentle" ping to the blogger overlord.

3 posted on 08/17/2011 1:44:31 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: markomalley

Excuse me, but I distinctly remember Liberal Dems getting all lathered up over Reagan, and unless I miss my guess Algore had not yet ‘invented’ the internet. 0 is just spouting his usual line of BS.


4 posted on 08/17/2011 1:45:11 PM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger......)
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To: markomalley

And America pines for the day when you will be removed from the White House.


5 posted on 08/17/2011 1:50:28 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord deliver us from evil and from those perpetuating it, in Jesus name, amen.)
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To: markomalley
The President compared himself to Lincoln . . .

. . . and came up way short.

". . . and they don't listen to each other as much."

Yeah.

November next year, guess who's going to get to listen to the U.S.?

And 0 -- we've been listening to you more than you'd like for us to.

6 posted on 08/17/2011 1:50:38 PM PDT by Quiller (When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)
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“It used to be that everybody was sitting there watching Walter Cronkite...”

Yeah, you know, the good old days when the press could crucify anyone or lose a war because that’s what they wanted.


7 posted on 08/17/2011 1:51:59 PM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: markomalley

his resemblance to lincoln is undeniable...


8 posted on 08/17/2011 1:55:03 PM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: markomalley
The York report was that he "compared" himself to Lincoln. A better activity would have been to "contrast" himself with Lincoln, a person who considered "the principles of Jefferson" to be the definition of a free society. As a matter of fact, these are Lincoln's words on that subject:

". . . it is no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation. . . . The Principles of Jefferson are the definiations and axioms of free society . . . . And yet, they are denied, and evaded, with no small show of success . . . . All honor to Jefferson - to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a . . . revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression."

Lincoln was speaking, of course, of our Declaration of Independence, authored by Jefferson.

We should remember that Jefferson and America's Founders saw government's spending of "the People's" money through deficit, debt, and printing of paper money as evils to be avoided, in order to protect individual liberty.

"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39

"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322

"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23

"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40

These and other pertinent quotations come from here.

So-called "progressives" rely on what they believe to be the ignorance of American citizens when they make their claims. Technology has made it possible to make a more realistic evaluation of this particular claim, and the results definitely do not support it.

11 posted on 08/17/2011 2:16:18 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: markomalley

“people don’t listen to each other much”

Sounds like a good description of the Dems in Congress who enacted a health bill over persistent and undeniable public opposition to it.

Prove YOU’RE listening to the public, Mr. President. Since late May, those favoring repeal of Obamacare have outnumbered those who oppose repeal by double-digit percentages IN EVERY SINGLE POLL CONDUCTED. Prove you’re listening by telling the Democratic leadership in the Senate to enact the repeal bill that has already passed the House.


14 posted on 08/17/2011 2:22:33 PM PDT by DrC
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To: markomalley

“I let Michelle have her way 90 per cent of the time”.

Is it just me...or doesn’t that make him...submissive?

Paging Byron, paging Byron.


17 posted on 08/17/2011 2:57:00 PM PDT by berdie
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To: markomalley

“I let Michelle have her way 90 per cent of the time”.

Is it just me...or doesn’t that make him...submissive?

Paging Byron, paging Byron.


18 posted on 08/17/2011 2:58:22 PM PDT by berdie
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To: markomalley
So Obama wants to go back to the time when everyone was watching Cronkite for the news. There were three main channels in the old days, so a lot of people were watching someone else for their news.

Besides which, the internet is a much more efficient use of time for news gathering. Despite the complaint recently in a dinosaur media outlet that the art of composition is in decline due to the increase in visual communications, it is the opposite that has happened. A small constellation of talented writers have made their mark in the blogosphere. These are voices that would not have been heard in the Jurassic period of dinosaur media rule.


19 posted on 08/17/2011 3:17:43 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: markomalley

Many people make the mistake of calling everything on the internet a “blog”.

It’s not so.

Blogs are crappy little pages of poorly crafted and misspelled
garbage “written” by porn aficionados who eat pizza rolls and
need plastic mattress liners.


20 posted on 08/17/2011 3:26:45 PM PDT by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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To: markomalley

Help me out here. What’s the difference between “giving Michelle her way 90% of the time”, and Rep. Bachmann “submitting to her Husband’s wisdom”?

Anybody?


22 posted on 08/17/2011 4:42:17 PM PDT by papasmurf (War is hell, but not the worst hell. Having a PRES__ENT comes close!)
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To: markomalley

Pesky Internet. Al Gore’s fault.


23 posted on 08/17/2011 9:27:24 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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