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WHY IS THE PREZ SNUFFING OUT HOPE?
NY Post ^ | March 27, 2009 | Adam Brodsky

Posted on 03/27/2009 4:20:14 AM PDT by Scanian

BARACK Obama wrote a book about hope and be came president promising it. So why's he doing everything in his power to snuff it out?

Think about it: In Obama World, what are we supposed to "hope" for? Certainly not vast riches.

What would be the point? His budget swipes massive amounts of wealth from top earners.

Consider, too, his resentful rhetoric toward them. Recall his despicable failure to block the House from moving to rip up private contracts and confiscate past earnings via a 90 percent, retroactive tax.

Really, in this climate, who can muster enthusiasm for personal fortune-building?

"Bankers and executives on Wall Street need to realize . . . that the days of outsized rewards . . . have to be over," Obama lectured Tuesday.

Yes, bankers and Wall Streeters hurt the economy. But most of their dubious activities occurred before government involvement, when their own fates (and their firms') were still on the line. Wall Streeters couldn't have intended to fleece taxpayers, because until last year no one imagined federal bailouts. Indeed, many risky loans were made at the behest of government -- not in defiance of it.

No wonder people like AIG exec Jake DeSantis feel persecuted and betrayed. In his resignation letter, which ran in Wednesday's New York Times, DeSantis describes how he and others like him (folks who, he says, had little to do with the shenanigans that ruined AIG) view the threatening demands to return their bonuses as broken promises, despite their "years of dedicated, honorable service."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; aig; bho44; classenvy; first100days; negativity; obama
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1 posted on 03/27/2009 4:20:14 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian
Here's the reason Cloward-Piven Strategy
2 posted on 03/27/2009 4:22:46 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Scanian
BARACK Obama wrote a book about hope and be came president promising it. So why's he doing everything in his power to snuff it out?

That's not a serious question, of course.

Obama's written TWO books. Anyone who has read them knows EXACTLY what he is, and EXACTLY why he's doing what he's doing.

It's like saying "Hitler promised freedom and bread" without making reference to Mein Kampf.

Read the damn books. It's all in there.

3 posted on 03/27/2009 4:24:23 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They are willing to kill for socialism...but not to die for it.)
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To: Scanian
-- In Obama World, what are we supposed to "hope" for? --

Change.

4 posted on 03/27/2009 4:25:06 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Scanian

BARACK Obama wrote a book about hope and be came president promising it. So why’s he doing everything in his power to snuff it out?
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So many sheeple still do not get it: he is in effect the Manchurian candidate, and his true arxist agenda was kept hidden in the Trojan Horse of a masterfully built campaign, polished to a fine sheen by the complicit MSM.
He was not honest enough to run on “Socialism”, and spoke in typical trial lawyer/community organizer tongues.

Sarah Palin and her followers have long ago figured him out, and her speech at the convention was a blueprint that exposed him for the Cream of Nothing he really is. The conversation with Joe the Plumber put the icing on the cake for those who were paying attention.

Pundits who try to make sense out of nonsense without undertstanding the truth of where he is coming from is a hapless exercise. Trying to make sense out of his current destructive policies is futile. However, RESISTANCE SHALL NOT BE FUTILE.


5 posted on 03/27/2009 4:30:04 AM PDT by Canedawg (Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny- M. Levin)
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6 posted on 03/27/2009 4:30:20 AM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Cboldt

“— In Obama World, what are we supposed to “hope” for? —
Change.”

Spare change.


7 posted on 03/27/2009 4:30:43 AM PDT by balls (I have seen the enemy and it is Hussein 0)
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To: Scanian
The democrat president is preparing the country for hostile democrat communist takeover in the next four years and every evil communist plan the lefts agenda is being financed and implemented with the taxpayers money they are stealing at this moment. Gun control, speech control will be implemented next and the new US police force centered on the college campus's nationwide (democrat communist run) will be the muscle of every local community nationwide.
It seems obvious but most people are sheep, as the election proved, they elected a man who is heading up the communist takeover of America.
Stupid is as stupid does.
8 posted on 03/27/2009 4:38:31 AM PDT by kindred (Conservatives have 4 years to start a new conservative party or lose more elections.)
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To: Scanian
hopey changey was for the ignorants ... now it's back to the Rev Wright agenda, get whitey.
9 posted on 03/27/2009 4:40:51 AM PDT by Tarpon (It's a common fact, one can't be liberal and rational at the same time.)
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To: Scanian
most of their dubious activities occurred before government involvement

Ridiculously false. Government shenanigans began long ago in the Carter years.
10 posted on 03/27/2009 4:45:38 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Man50D
Interesting link. The thing is, though, that all of this openly obvious except to those who have blinkered themselves, usually with self hatred and self pity, and who adamantly refuse to see.
11 posted on 03/27/2009 4:50:13 AM PDT by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: Vaquero
The picture of Obama is the same type dictators use worldwide and the not communist press loves their dictator.
12 posted on 03/27/2009 4:53:12 AM PDT by kindred (Conservatives have 4 years to start a new conservative party or lose more elections.)
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To: balls

What is there to Hope for??

Free mortgage
Free gas
Free money

No more complicated than that. A minuscule percentage of Obama voters (elitists) voted for real Communism. The bulk of Obama voters don’t know anything at all about Capitalism or Socialism. They couldn’t define either if you gave them an encyclopedia and a week. And they don’t care. Idiots.

They voted for FREE STUFF.

They voted to take other people’s stuff. That’s it. That’s what they are still hoping for. Keep it simple...


13 posted on 03/27/2009 4:55:59 AM PDT by 240B (i will not pay my mortgage until i get free money from Obama)
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To: Scanian

Because he is a Muslim and America and everything it stands for violates the Koran, thus his goal is to destroy America bit by bit and then when everyone is against the ropes, out of money, out of hope then he will introduce the Hope of the Islamic way.


14 posted on 03/27/2009 4:58:57 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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15 posted on 03/27/2009 4:59:26 AM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Scanian

Only the poor are allowed to Hope. The Rich need to be punished.

Pray for America and Our Troops


16 posted on 03/27/2009 5:03:51 AM PDT by bray (Join the Rebel Republican Movement!)
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To: Jim Noble

I do not have the time to read the books. Would you summarize them?


17 posted on 03/27/2009 5:06:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union, then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Vaquero

But a much better TELEPROMPTER READER with a MUCH DUMBER Constiuency!


18 posted on 03/27/2009 5:09:11 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Scanian
Obama wants the early death of your fathers' America.


19 posted on 03/27/2009 5:10:32 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Scanian

“Hope and Change” were always code words for “revolution”. He’s keeping his “promise”.


20 posted on 03/27/2009 5:10:42 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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