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For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country
JohnnyTheTech

Posted on 11/07/2008 2:47:57 AM PST by mullinjf

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1 posted on 11/07/2008 2:47:57 AM PST by mullinjf
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To: mullinjf

I’m proud of my country. Why wouldn’t I be? Because 52% of VOTERS (not the population of the nation, but maybe 1/5 of the entire population) were taken in by a snakeoil salesman?


2 posted on 11/07/2008 2:56:02 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (1-22-13)
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To: Darkwolf377

Well, the same were taken in by Bill Clinton and gang!


3 posted on 11/07/2008 2:58:13 AM PST by DooDahhhh (AMEN)
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To: mullinjf
time to quit winning and become(very) active.Expressing feelings here is just preaching to the choir
4 posted on 11/07/2008 3:03:56 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: DooDahhhh
Well, the same were taken in by Bill Clinton and gang!

We need to show compassion toward the mentally challenged.

5 posted on 11/07/2008 3:06:27 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (1-22-13)
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To: mullinjf; Admin Moderator

Good grief! Can we have a ‘vanities only’ section added to FR?


6 posted on 11/07/2008 3:06:52 AM PST by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: Darkwolf377

Noooooo. Not about to! The last thing I have on my mind is compassion for these leftist bigots.


7 posted on 11/07/2008 3:08:54 AM PST by DooDahhhh (AMEN)
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To: t1b8zs
For real. It seems no one listened to my Vanity to end all Vanities thread.
8 posted on 11/07/2008 3:09:43 AM PST by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: mullinjf

America was a great country and has done good in an evil world being based on biblical ethics. I am proud of my country but despise the political elites who destroy our constitution and the marxist left as well as the foolish liberal run GOP and RNC.
We conservatives need a new conservative party , no liberals allowed, and should remember it is impossible to convert a corrupt political party. This election proved that liberal lite does not work and I truly wonder how many illegals voted and how many people of the left voted more than once.


9 posted on 11/07/2008 3:13:16 AM PST by kindred (Conservative for a conservative party, GOP &RNC are liberal run, owned.)
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To: cweese

If you don’t like the vanities, then don’t READ them. Seems simple to me. I never understand the complaints from those like you, howling about the “vanities”- get over it.

For right now- let the folks vent. They are scared and disappointed.


10 posted on 11/07/2008 3:13:20 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: mullinjf

I am ashamed of my country.

Remember, it’s dissent is patriotic


11 posted on 11/07/2008 3:14:20 AM PST by Def Conservative (Palin, Jindal, Pence, Sanford, Steele= the new GOP...out with the old)
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To: mullinjf

Ahh, yes, another of the vaunted, sacred “independent voters”.


12 posted on 11/07/2008 3:17:31 AM PST by JamesP81 (A loyal son of the great commonwealth of Kentucky)
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To: mullinjf

Beyond everything, you may not agree with the outcome of this or that election, but the system of democracy is the best ever devised because it does give the people the government they want. And later they can change it.

Winston Churchill is one of the great leaders of history and how he rallied his people to overcome the Germans will be remembered as long as humans exist. Yet in the election of 1945, without any hostile media and while the war was not yet won, the people who lived through those dark days voted him out of office.

Most democracies on average change the ins and outs every decade. In the long run, it benefits them in that it invigorates the society in a way that never happens in one-party states. It would have been nice if the first black president had been a class guy whom everyone could respect and not a “charlatan” in the words of Eagleburger, but it didn’t happen; but the people did speak, as they did in 1945 in the UK.


13 posted on 11/07/2008 3:18:51 AM PST by idov
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The debauched, greedy of gain Clintons (both of them) callously took this country a long way down the socialist hole. Strangely, a lot of people who voted for them and who are now very afraid of Obama still are enamored of them and cannot connect the dots.

. . and still, “Bush” will be blamed for the latest round of Dow Jones slumps with investors reacting to an Obama victory. - Anyone worshipping Obama and Joe Biden just research Chicago and see what America has become. Obama “community organized” in Chicago and see the results of the decay in the communities in his realm of influence. Might as well change the name of the blue states to Chicagoica, or perhaps Obamaville.


14 posted on 11/07/2008 3:19:12 AM PST by Twinkie (REPENT! Look Up! The Lord's Return Is At Hand . . . . .)
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To: mullinjf

Interestingly, my Italian/American friend...dual citizenship, but her heart lies in Italy...is a racist. She’ll tell you, quietly, that what’s wrong with this country starts and ends with broken borders and black people. Yet she voted for Obama. Why? Because she wanted socialized medicine. She and her husband pay $800 plus a month for coverage, and this cuts into their hefty vacation fund. She’d like us to pick up the tab for their aches and pains.

I wonder what she’ll have to say in the coming months as Obama trots out his Marxist plans. (She denies he’s a Marxist, but then she refuses to see any warts on the Great One.) And she thinks Hitler wasn’t really all that bad.


15 posted on 11/07/2008 3:22:52 AM PST by hershey
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To: 13Sisters76

There are too many of them here. FR used to be a great source of news - and members’ opinions posted in the article’s threads - without wading through the countless number of vanity posts. Get over yourself.


16 posted on 11/07/2008 3:23:33 AM PST by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: cweese; 13Sisters76

“FR used to be a great source of news”

FR is still a great source of news, I meant to say. Just too many vanities.


17 posted on 11/07/2008 3:25:28 AM PST by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: mullinjf
It's the Great Wall of Text!

Paragraphs are your friends.

18 posted on 11/07/2008 3:27:38 AM PST by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: mullinjf
I hold that life is like a wheel. Sometimes we're on the upper position, others we're on the lower position. I still have trust on the American System. This is how I see it. Eight or Four years ago, people on the other side were also feeling what we feel today. They worked hard, and the system allowed them to take the power. I still believe that we, too, will be in power again.

As for 0bama, just look at Dubya. Eight, four years ago, so many people loved him. Today, how many Freepers actually hate him?

19 posted on 11/07/2008 3:34:25 AM PST by paudio (Conservatism is a word with various meanings. To win, we need unified issue and message.)
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To: idov

The UK never fully recovered either!


20 posted on 11/07/2008 3:37:13 AM PST by Darth Gill
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