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America -- what have you done?
Spectator UK ^ | Feb. 9, 2009 | Melanie Phillips

Posted on 02/08/2009 5:18:55 AM PST by nuconvert

President Obama has had, by general consent, a torrid First Fortnight. To put it another way, it has taken precisely two weeks for the illusion that brought him to power to be exposed for the nonsense that it so obviously was. The transformational candidate who was going to sweep away pork-barrel politics, lobbyists and corruption has been up to his neck in sleaze, as eviscerated here by Charles Krauthammer. Despite the fact that he came to power promising to ‘ban all earmarks’, his ‘stimulus’ bill represents billions of dollars of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections -- which have nothing to do with kick-starting the economy and everything to do with favouring pet Democrat causes.

He has been appointing one tax dodger, lobbyist and wheeler-dealer after another. After appointing one official ,Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who had unaccountably forgotten to pay his taxes, he then watched his designated Health Secretary Tom Daschle fall on his sword because he too had taken a tax holiday. Daschle was furthermore a prominent actor in the world of lobbying and influence-peddling. Leon Panetta, Obama’s nominee for Director of the CIA has also, according to the Wall Street Journal, consulted for prominent companies and sat on the board of a public affairs firm that lobbies Congress. The Weekly Standard reports that Secretary of Labour nominee Hilda Solis was not only involved with a private organization lobbying her fellow legislators on a bill that she helped sponsor, but she apparently kept her involvement secret and failed to reveal a clear conflict of interest.

In foreign policy, Obama has started by trashing his own country through grossly misrepresenting its history and grovelling to America’s enemies such as Iran, which has flicked him aside with undiluted contempt.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; hitler; lenin; mao; marx; melaniephillips; obama; socialism; stalin
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1 posted on 02/08/2009 5:18:56 AM PST by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

Welcome to New Kenya! (Africa U.S.A.)

"Where the law of the jungle has replaced the Law of the Land."

note- Obama's clothes are Samali

Samalia is 96% Sunni Muslim

2 posted on 02/08/2009 5:23:03 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: nuconvert

Very simple,Obama is a Dem. he lied like all Dems


3 posted on 02/08/2009 5:23:08 AM PST by TLEIBY308 (Keep yer powder dry and watch yer top Knot.)
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To: nuconvert

It’s called socialism.


4 posted on 02/08/2009 5:26:25 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: nuconvert
his ‘stimulus’ bill represents billions of dollars of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections -- which have nothing to do with kick-starting the economy and everything to do with favouring pet Democrat causes.

Yep...But the only way to tell the difference between the Dems and the Repubs is to look at the beneficiaries of the give-aways...

At least under Osama Obama, some of the money may wander around the US before it heads to China...

5 posted on 02/08/2009 5:28:36 AM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: nuconvert

Just as that idiot Georgia peanut farmer was really the only thing that could make the GOP look good again after Nixon - Ford, so will Hussein, again. As an added bonus, he will further education of the youngsters growing up that did not go through the Carter years...


6 posted on 02/08/2009 5:30:25 AM PST by L,TOWM (Liberals, The Other White Meat)
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To: nuconvert
Good article:

And how did the 44th President react to the growing public dismay over the mess he was making? He threw his toys out of the pram -- or perhaps that should read, he got into the pram. For he fled the scene of the disaster and sought the company of seven year-olds instead. As the Telegraph reported:

‘We were just tired of being in the White House,’ he told a group of excited seven-year-olds before discussing Batman and reading them a book.

Tired of being President – after two weeks

7 posted on 02/08/2009 5:31:24 AM PST by dawn53
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To: nuconvert

Yep. We’re pretty much screwed.

But he’s laying the groundwork for 2010 and 2012 if the GOP can get it’s act together and go back to basic Conservatism; a platform that always wins by a landslide.

And we need a real Conservative in office and we need Conservatives in Congress and we need to win HANDILY at every race from Dog Catcher on up so we don’t have these STUPID re-counts (See MN) which continue until a ‘Rat whines long enough, wears everyone down at the SC level and wins.

It’s really pretty simple. But, can it be done? Therein lies the rub. *SHRUG*


8 posted on 02/08/2009 5:32:05 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Man50D

The only difference between “liberals” and socialists/communists is that the communists know what they’re doing.

The only difference between “liberals” and Satan is that he knows the end game.


9 posted on 02/08/2009 5:33:21 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Or, we all move to the 28 states that are drafting reassertion of state sovereignty legislation,

and tell the fedgov to go pee up a rope.


10 posted on 02/08/2009 5:34:32 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: nuconvert
What can we say to our British friends? We lost...I guess every generation needs it's Jimmy Carter to learn it's lesson. Apparently this one decided on a more Stalinesque jaunt down memory lane...
11 posted on 02/08/2009 5:36:10 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: nuconvert
America -- what have you done?

Exqueeze me?!

Yeah, a majority of our voters cast their ballots for him, but I recall the rest of the bloody planet egging them on. Now we all have to live with the consequences.

Note to rest of the world: Next time, but the Heck out of our election.

12 posted on 02/08/2009 5:38:16 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: nuconvert

Unless you are Rangel, Daschle, Dodd, Frank, Geithner, etc.

13 posted on 02/08/2009 5:38:25 AM PST by BigLittle
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To: nuconvert

BTTT


14 posted on 02/08/2009 5:39:09 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: mewzilla
...butt the Heck out...
15 posted on 02/08/2009 5:40:08 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: nuconvert

Lets face it, Americans got tired of being thought of as being dumb by the rest of the world and set to prove it! We are dumb.


16 posted on 02/08/2009 5:42:32 AM PST by engrpat (End the National Nightmare on 1-20-2013)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I will be working to organize my precinct for the Republican party in 1.5 weeks. I’m hoping my involvement at the lowest level will continue to open avenues of involvement up the chain of command.

It will take each person involving themselves in ways they’ve never done before to claw back liberties this country is putting in jeopardy even now.

I’ve been a passive supporter, vocal among my friends and family and immediate neighbors.

Time to do more.


17 posted on 02/08/2009 5:44:11 AM PST by steveyp
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To: MrB

We could do that, too. :)


18 posted on 02/08/2009 5:45:51 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: MrB

Where can I get a listing like that?


19 posted on 02/08/2009 5:46:50 AM PST by GWMcClintock (Frank Raines for spending czar in Congress! /s)
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To: GWMcClintock

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88218


20 posted on 02/08/2009 5:48:44 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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