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Obama's Secret Shame
The Washington Times ^ | April 20, 2010 | Editorial

Posted on 04/19/2010 9:08:45 PM PDT by Abakumov

Mr. Obama is a product of a leftist intellectual current, in which American global power and influence has generally if not exclusively been viewed as a negative force. This brand of revisionism arose from 1960s radicalism and opposition to the Vietnam War. The United States is portrayed as a neocolonialist bully, imposing its will on helpless people in the developing world for the benefit of American corporations. U.S. military power is viewed through the distorted lenses of the My Lai Massacre and Abu Ghraib. The CIA is a tool for assassination, coups and disinformation. Nuclear weapons are an unqualified evil. In general, the U.S. national security apparatus is seen as a malevolent force both at home and abroad.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0hatesamerica; forpol; military; obama

1 posted on 04/19/2010 9:08:45 PM PDT by Abakumov
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To: Abakumov
Obama uses the teleprompter because when he doesn't he screws up and tells the truth.

I don't mean that as a snide crack, btw. He says some what he feels when he speaks without a script: "Sharing the wealth," "Muslim faith..."

2 posted on 04/19/2010 9:12:10 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Conservative Bostonian, atheist pro-lifer, outnumbered by the clueless)
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“Like it or not, we’re a superpower...I wouldn’t want my kids saddled with a baby...clinging bitterly to their guns and bibles...and...”just the police acting stupidly.”


3 posted on 04/19/2010 9:19:59 PM PDT by jessduntno (I've never been a member of the Democrat Party. I stepped in it once, but scraped it off.)
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To: Abakumov
"I don't know all the facts...but the cops acted stupidly."

"I've been to all 57 states."

4 posted on 04/19/2010 9:23:58 PM PDT by lonestar (Better Obama picks his nose than our pockets!)
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To: Darkwolf377

I loved one Tea Partier’s sign that read: “Somebody please put the Constitution on Obama’s teleprompter.’


5 posted on 04/19/2010 10:17:49 PM PDT by no dems (Palin / Rubio 2012)
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To: no dems

LOL! That is excellent!


6 posted on 04/19/2010 10:22:31 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (The bureaucrat is the natural enemy of liberty.)
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To: Abakumov

bttt


7 posted on 04/20/2010 2:48:40 AM PDT by PogySailor (We're so screwed.....welcome to the American Oligarchy)
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