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[President] Obama Jokes About [Senator] Gregg During Tribute To [President] Lincoln
CBS News ^ | February 13, 2009 | Brent Lang

Posted on 02/13/2009 3:43:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama is a freak.


21 posted on 02/13/2009 4:10:29 PM PST by Jeff Gordon ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Churchill)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It was a harmless joke. Let’s not get caught up in ODS here.

We have enough legitimate things to criticize him on.


22 posted on 02/13/2009 4:13:30 PM PST by Our man in washington
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To: RummyChick
HE IS EXACTLY LIKE LINCOLN

Within 4 years of Lincoln's inauguration, 600 000 Americans were dead and 1/3 of the nation was ruined.

As a proportion of the population, Obama will have to cause the deaths of >5 million Americans.

Let's hope he's not like Lincoln.

23 posted on 02/13/2009 4:14:43 PM PST by Jim Noble (Tom Daschle's favorite tune: "Baby you can drive my car")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are exactly the same except, Honest Abe was a Republican, White, and oversaw the greatest slaughter of man in our history. Other than that, they’re twins.

Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Guidance


24 posted on 02/13/2009 4:15:11 PM PST by bray (The District of Corruption fits Obama like a Glove)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll bet there are already millions of Obama voters regretting their decision.
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My guess is that those millions don’t have a clue as to what is happening. They are simply waiting for their handout(s).


25 posted on 02/13/2009 4:18:51 PM PST by Joan Kerrey
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To: Our man in washington

Another Obama apologist. Excuse, no matter what he does or says or in what historical setting he shows his thin skin. He does need those to carry his water.


26 posted on 02/13/2009 4:18:57 PM PST by utahson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do.”

Yeah, like drag our nation down to destruction.

This guy just thinks the s*** of himself doesn’t he?
Anyone who disagrees with his socialism is “petty” I guess.


27 posted on 02/13/2009 4:29:48 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares (Refusing to kneel before the socialist messiah. 1-20-13 Freedom Day.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a punk ... another Shep Smith.


28 posted on 02/13/2009 4:38:42 PM PST by NonValueAdded (May God save America from its government)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"In 1854, Lincoln was simply a Springfield lawyer who'd served just a single term in Congress,"

Interesting. 1854 was midway in the presidential term of Franklin Pierce, a northern Democrat with southern principles. Why Obama would choose this year, which would correspond politically to 2010, not 2009, is beyond me.

It was the year the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, which restarted Lincoln's interest in national politics after almost a decade of non-involvement by opening the territories to the spread of slavery, erasing the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

29 posted on 02/13/2009 4:42:39 PM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: utahson

I’ve been involved with FR for almost a decade now. I am an apologist for no one. If we start getting crazy, we marginalize ourselves.

I like to apply the “If Bush had done it, would I have cared?” test. If Bush had made a joke about having a hard time filling a cabinet position, I would have laughted it off. I’ll give Obama the same respect.

On the other hand, If Bush had tried to pass a near-trillion dollar pork-filled bill, I would have been extremely critical, as I am with Obama now.


30 posted on 02/13/2009 4:45:25 PM PST by Our man in washington
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bambi believe me you are no Abraham Lincoln


31 posted on 02/13/2009 4:46:20 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: jersey117
My sister and her union lock step voting husband regret voting for him big time.

I wish I could say that for my moonbat relatives, but they are still having an Obasm.

32 posted on 02/13/2009 5:06:09 PM PST by HerrBlucher
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To: anglian

Thanks for the link. Printing out for tonight’s reading.

Sooner or later Obama will over-reach: it’s what he will get away with in the meantime that is scary!


33 posted on 02/13/2009 5:08:55 PM PST by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: justiceseeker93

I am no historian, but when was the Dept of Commerce opened?


34 posted on 02/13/2009 5:22:01 PM PST by OldEagle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"And when posterity looks back on our time, as we are looking back on Lincoln's," Mr. Obama said. "I don't want it said that we saw an economic crisis but did not stem it; that we saw our schools decline and our bridges crumble but we did not rebuild them; that the world changed in the 21st century but America did not lead it; that we were consumed with small things, petty things, when we were called to do great things."

Future generations that are paying for this mess will ask "what the heck were those fools thinking?"

35 posted on 02/13/2009 5:25:00 PM PST by plain talk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Emancipation Proclamation did nothing to make Obama’s presidency possible!!!

His mother was WHITE. His father was African.

HE HAS NO SLAVE HERITAGE!!!!!! Is he too stupid to realize this???


36 posted on 02/13/2009 5:28:35 PM PST by GatorGirl (Proud member of the Gator Nation!)
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To: OldEagle
Gosh, you are absolutly correct to point out the there also was no Commerce Dept. in Lincoln's time. It began during the Theodore Roosevelt administration. (But, yes, there was a census which was first conducted in 1790.)
37 posted on 02/13/2009 5:58:00 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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Obama has no allegiance other than to his next narcissistic movement. What has more importance is how he says something rather than what he says. In the rare event he is confronted by the media with his own contradictions, it is simply an annoyance, and they are content to accept his annoyance with no answer.

For him to associate the Lincoln birthday event with Gregg’s withdrawal is seems odd and out of place, but I can see the satisfaction he might get from it. Most people aren’t going know “there was no Commerce Dept. in Lincoln’s time,” but apparently it was important for him to make this dig.

He is cold ... his passion is negative. That’s not to say that trait isn’t useful, but I don’t think he cares much about being President of our 50 states (or is it 57 — whatever). Is his administration a finely-tuned unit running cleverly or is it running frantically out of control?

The denial of MSM is beyond anything i would have imagined. But my guess is it can’t go on indefinitely.

Interesting times.


38 posted on 02/13/2009 7:48:51 PM PST by alreadythere
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s just another narcissistic politician from IL


39 posted on 02/13/2009 8:12:54 PM PST by virgil
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Says President J. Ignorant Stumblebum


40 posted on 02/13/2009 8:13:37 PM PST by Octar
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