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Obama lied; the economy died
The Washington Times ^ | March 3, 2009 | Tony Blankley

Posted on 03/03/2009 12:16:37 AM PST by Scanian

I am trying to capture the spirit of bipartisanship as practiced by the Democratic Party over the last eight years.

Thus, I have chosen as my lead, the proposition: Obama lied; the economy died. Obviously, I am borrowing this from the Democratic Party theme of 2003-08: "Bush lied, people died." There are, of course, two differences between the two slogans.

Most importantly, I chose to separate the two clauses with a semicolon rather than a coma because the rule of grammar is that a semicolon rather than a coma) should be used between closely related independent clauses not conjoined with a coordinating conjunction. In the age of Barack Obama, there is little more important than maintaining the integrity of our language - against the onslaught of Orwellian language abuse that is already a babbling brook, and will soon be a cataract of verbal deception.

The other difference is that George W. Bush didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He was merely mistaken. Whereas President Obama told a whopper last week when he claimed he was not for bigger government.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoeconomy; blankley; demlies; democrats; economy; obama
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To: Scanian; All
...pictures from Cleveland.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w11/bredae/Tea%20Party/protestbredafallacy022709.jpg

21 posted on 03/03/2009 1:37:18 AM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: Scanian

I believe I’ve just found my new tagline. :-)


22 posted on 03/03/2009 1:43:28 AM PST by South40 (Obama lied; the economy died.)
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To: NavVet
Savage is constantly ripping off Rush, Levin and others.

Savage thinks if he yells it will cover up his lack of originality.

23 posted on 03/03/2009 1:46:27 AM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: backhoe

She’s cute. And smart.


24 posted on 03/03/2009 1:49:19 AM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: Scanian
Y'all need to come up with some ORIGINAL material like;

Somewhere in Illinois a ghetto is missing it's gangster

or

Somwhere in Kenya a village is missing it's liberal

or

GOT STIMULUS ?

or

Obama Lied and no ones surprised

or

don't blame me, I voted for Palin you know, something original like that

25 posted on 03/03/2009 2:04:13 AM PST by KTM rider (keep thy powder dry, gird thy loins, and brace for the winds of change)
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To: backhoe
How about the following as a placard: ' "HOPE"? MY ASS. I WANT MY VOTE BACK! '

This would be a good tactic, signs carried by conservatives who look somewhat "Democrat" or "liberal". Would convey the image of a disgruntled Obama supporter. I think it would be good psy war tactics, and reach those wavering, uninformed middle ground people who foolishly voted for him last year, but now have second thoughts. We can start the long road of peeling off more and more votes from that guy for the midterms next year. All we need is something like 10-15% away from his camp.


26 posted on 03/03/2009 2:08:57 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (2010 Conservative GOP sweep of primaries (knocking off RINO after RINO) and then winning in Nov)
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To: Scanian

It’s amuzing, men arguing here over who came up with certain expression first, and who stole them from someone else.

We all have thought of expressions that have been used ahead of us. Big deal!

If they are effective, let’s all use them.


27 posted on 03/03/2009 2:17:50 AM PST by John Leland 1789
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To: AmericanInTokyo
How about the following as a placard: ' "HOPE"? MY ASS. I WANT MY VOTE BACK! '

Sounds like a good idea to me. FWIW, my brother-in-law, who I used to think was a standup guy, voted for Duh!1, expressed remorse the day after, and then went full-bore MoonBat, replacing all the bumper stickers on his SUV with even more, and bigger, ones.

I suspect that for every Mo'Bot who has buyer's remorse there will be another one just like him, perpetually defending what he secretly fears was the most stupid decision of his life.

28 posted on 03/03/2009 2:24:47 AM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: Scanian

Bush would of spent the money Obama has.

Paulson rolled him just like the idiots at CIA/NSA did.

Let’s face it, by and large politicians are a group of people that couldn’t handle the realities of setting fence posts for a living, so they go into the popular bull shite ‘bidness’ and after a few years have no idea what is real or not anymore.

More ‘government’ in idea, means more deluded, warped, sick people running things, and of course if you accept my notion as politics as an mentally unhealthy environment that produces delusional people, more things run delusional.


29 posted on 03/03/2009 2:37:08 AM PST by Leisler
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To: darkness78
OK...but was the economy not dying already several months before he took office?

He was lying even before that. The man is toxic.

30 posted on 03/03/2009 2:47:43 AM PST by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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To: Scanian

I watch the business channels quite often. Buzzed by Cramer last night on the way to Cavuto on Fox Business. Cramaer, who supported Obama, I believe, was directing his comments straight to Obama. Telling him what he “needed to do” in order to stop the downward slide on Wall Street (of course, I have no sympathy for Cramer, funny how many of them are now having buyer’s remorse.)

Another guy on CNBC said, “Obama, call me, I’ll tell you how to fix this.” And yet another told Obama to fire Geitner right now.

Very interesting time we live in when the recognition of the President’s failed policies is being led by the people that supported him.


31 posted on 03/03/2009 2:51:03 AM PST by dawn53
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To: FormerACLUmember

maybe so, but isn’t obvious he’s a racist!


32 posted on 03/03/2009 3:14:58 AM PST by wny
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To: KTM rider
Somwhere in Kenya a village is missing it's liberal

It takes a (Kenyan) village to raise an idiot.

33 posted on 03/03/2009 3:19:49 AM PST by roamer_1 (Proud 1%er... Reagan Conservatism is the only way forward.)
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To: Leisler

Wow, that’s a pretty depressing way to start your day, FRiend.

For my money (what’s left of it), the focus must revert from scattershot at any and all purported and putative political leaders to laser intensity on the one attempting to subvert and dominate the system. He has acocmplices in his Hustle, but President Mickey Bricks is simply a good-looking, smooth-talking, well-dressed, utterly amoral huckster, just like his fictional avatar. His Albert Stroller is Bill Ayers and Rahm works as his Ash Morgan (Danny Blue he doesn’t need, yet). The team is almost in place. The only important crew member not present yet is Stacy Monroe (the bombshell lure). That girl would seal the deal, bypassing any number of midbrain responses in males everywhere. I’m guessing Annette Bening is currently auditioning for the role.

It’s a good thing the good looking women are mostly moral and conservative, or we’d really be in trouble.


34 posted on 03/03/2009 3:33:40 AM PST by BelegStrongbow (I'm still waiting for the One to say something that isn't a lie)
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To: KTM rider; Honeybunch
" don't blame me, I voted for Palin "

I like that one.

35 posted on 03/03/2009 3:45:03 AM PST by OKSooner ("He's quite mad, you know." - Sean Connery to Honor Blackman in "Goldfinger".)
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To: backhoe; Honeybunch

So, uh, is that a friend of yours? :)


36 posted on 03/03/2009 3:46:05 AM PST by OKSooner ("He's quite mad, you know." - Sean Connery to Honor Blackman in "Goldfinger".)
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To: John Leland 1789

“If they are effective, let’s all use them.”

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, it’s amazing how much can get done if no one worries about who gets the credit.

We all need to get serious about stopping this fool and give up trivial pursuit and other such distractions.


37 posted on 03/03/2009 4:01:07 AM PST by Scanian
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To: OKSooner
So, uh, is that a friend of yours? :)

Naw, just someone whose blog I ran across.

38 posted on 03/03/2009 4:04:14 AM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: BelegStrongbow

Reagan understood ideas. He became a conservative, because he knew ideas have physical consequences.

There are not one in a thousand, GOP/RNC elite, that have any, zip, nada, education in political thinking, the great books, names like Burke, Tocivell, never mind familure with Hyack, Mies, Buchannan. Not one has even read Adam Smith.

In a phrase, the GOP is a frat boy leadership. They come to the struggle of ideas, unarmed.

The left is well armed. Wrong ideas. Bad ideas. Evil ideas, well proved desatorusly in our life time. Heck, see the cities of Detroit, Newark, Oakland, East St. Louis.

But, the left blelives, so facts are irrevelent.

One party, see facts, but is with out belife in ideas.
The other party has ideas, but couldn’t care less for facts.

We are in the middle.

Money people are fleeing for the hills, or aligning themselves with either of the ignorent, or both if they are smart, parties.

Old story.

What do you think is going to happen when money people stop fighting the decline, and start trying to profit from it? You think the short selling hedge fund guys were bad, wait until everyone piles in. (They kind of have already started)

How many great city states, with fine public buildings, wealthy youth, sports arenas, merchant ships in the harbor, farmers bringing in harvests, with fine arts have come and gone?

Forget the city states. How many empires, spanning thousands of miles, with fine Armies, well equipped, postal systems, large educated Mandarin class of bureaucrat rule enforcers have come and gone?


39 posted on 03/03/2009 4:09:31 AM PST by Leisler
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To: snarks_when_bored
Offering a lesson on punctuation in which a key word is misspelled and a punctuation error is made is kind of embarrassing...

I noticed that misspelling too, the very reason I resigned from the grammar police here at F.R. - mine ain't that great.

40 posted on 03/03/2009 4:09:56 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Selah)
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