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Barack Obama the speechmaker is being rumbled
Times (UK) ^
| September 12, 2008
| Gerard Baker
Posted on 09/11/2008 6:31:04 PM PDT by presidio9
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:31:04 PM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
I don’t care what the rest of the world thinks or who they want to see elected. I really don’t.
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:34:32 PM PDT
by
nobama08
To: presidio9
The question is, who care what some Brits think. I don’t recall them having associations with Africans other than by subjugating them.
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:37:05 PM PDT
by
hgro
(Jerry Riversd)
To: presidio9
"...with the crackpot, mooseburger-chomping mother from the wilds of Alaska, rifle in one hand, Bible in the other, smiting caribou and conventional science as she goes..." And the problem with this is...?
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:37:18 PM PDT
by
skimbell
To: nobama08
He is left leaning Marxist with muslim sympathies. Even a pissed Englishman should be able to see that.
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:37:20 PM PDT
by
refermech
To: presidio9
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:38:34 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: nobama08; hgro; skimbell; refermech; Admin Moderator
I probably should have added a subheading about reading the entire article. The author is no fan of Obama, and cites David Freddoso to make a point further down.
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:41:45 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: presidio9
But neither can there have been a time when the world has watched what goes on in America with the nonplussed, horrified incomprehension it has now. And I love every second of it.
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:43:14 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("[Obama acts] as if the very idea of permanent truth is passe, a form of bad taste"-Shelby Steele)
To: presidio9
Great article. He explains what our MSM won’t...the difference between what Obama says and who he really is.
Thanks for posting.
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:43:34 PM PDT
by
Dawn531
To: expatpat
Thanks. Judging by the comments around here FReepers are getting lazy.
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:43:41 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: All
See, thing is, we fought a Revolution and a couple of World Wars so we wouldn’t have to give a flying f*** what the world thinks...
To: presidio9
UK? Are they under Sharia law, yet?
What, the muslims aren't taking the UK over fast enough? They need Obama to help speed it up?
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:44:50 PM PDT
by
ryan71
(My hockey mom bitch-slapped your soccer mom)
To: presidio9
To: presidio9
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:50:03 PM PDT
by
jackv
To: presidio9
Speechmaker Obama has built his campaign on the promise of reform, the need to change the culture of American political life, to take on the special interests that undermine government's effectiveness and erode trust in the system itself, Politician Obama rose through a Chicago machine that is notoriously the most corrupt in the country.
That pretty much says it all. Or at least enough, to anyone with an ounce of sense.
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:50:46 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: presidio9
The UK should pay more attention to thier troubles at home. your are all strangers in your own land, overrun by jihadists the government protects over your citizens, national healthcare that is pathetic, government officials that are selling your country down the river and into the septic tank. I believe you would feel more confortable having another in your boat, a kind of misery loves company, but we will prevail with Mccain Palin, thank you Get your own house in order before you start giving advice
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:51:31 PM PDT
by
ronnie raygun
(IF YOU ARE NOT CONSERVATIVE BY 35 YOU HAVE NO BRAIN. W CHURCHILL)
Comment #17 Removed by Moderator
To: presidio9
Great article.
I had to laugh however when I read the comments.
Loved this one:
He forgot the Nonproliferation Bill with Senator Lugar (a Republican), and then makes the foolish argument that Obama is somehow more a democrat than any other Democrat in history, in spite of blatant examples to the contrary like his believe in supporting faith-based charities. That’s blindness.
However if you read the column, Baker states:
His one act of bipartisanship, a transparency bill co-sponsored with a Republican senator, was backed by everybody on both sides of the aisle. He has never challenged his party’s line on any issue of substance.
I guess the commenter is either blind or foolish.
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:55:09 PM PDT
by
donnab
(some people use change to promote their careers...others use their careers to promote change.)
To: presidio9
While I don’t disagree with the author’s conclusion I take great exercise with his hopscotching across the simplistic squares he draws along his career toward landing on the true spot - the man has no substance - Obama will lose not because of party tricks or strategy but because there is no there, there.
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posted on
09/11/2008 6:59:35 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: presidio9
For those without the patience to read to the end:
"Here's the real problem with Mr Obama: the jarring gap between his promises of change and his status quo performance. There are just too many contradictions between the eloquent poetry of the man's stirring rhetoric and the dull, familiar prose of his political record. It's been remarked that the biggest difference between Americans and Europeans is religion: ignorant Americans cling to faith; enlightened Europeans long ago embraced the liberating power of reason. Yet here's an odd thing about this election. Europeans are asking Americans to take a leap of faith, to break the chains of empiricism and embrace the possibility of the imagination. The fact is that a vote for Mr Obama demands uncritical subservience to the irrational, anti-empirical proposition that the past holds no clues about the future, that promise is wholly detached from experience. The second-greatest story ever told, perhaps."
I think the writer is spot on.
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posted on
09/11/2008 7:00:40 PM PDT
by
JusPasenThru
(The only thing Obama's been running for 4 years is his mouth.)
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