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For Obama, START is 'personal'
The Hill ^ | 12/21/10 06:00 AM ET | Sam Youngman and Ian Swanson

Posted on 12/21/2010 6:47:47 AM PST by onyx

President Obama is making a final push to secure the votes for an arms treaty that stands not just as a political goal but a highly personal one.

Obama seems near another victory in what has been a surprisingly productive lame-duck session. Every Senate Democrat is expected to support ratification, and several Republican senators, most recently Scott Brown (R-Mass.), have said they will vote to approve the treaty.

Ratification would be the crowning achievement for Obama in a post-election session that has already seen passage of an $858 billion tax package and the repeal of the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” law banning gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.

Yet to Obama, ratification of the arms treaty may be even more important.

“It's personal, but it's far greater than that,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday at his daily briefing.

Obama has long envisioned nuclear nonproliferation efforts as a part of his future legacy, and one of his first moves after being elected to the Senate in 2004 was to seek out Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) to advance the cause of nuclear nonproliferation.

Just months into his presidency, Obama promised to work for a world “without nuclear weapons,” a pledge that led the Norwegian Nobel Committee to honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize less than a year after Obama took office.

“The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations,” the committee said in explaining its decision.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: idiot; obama; start
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1 posted on 12/21/2010 6:47:52 AM PST by onyx
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To: onyx

"Forget Anna Chapman, Barak.
You are our most horrorshow, and deepest, agent, … ever."

The Kenyan undocumented Imposter:
Bomb them and kill them, already, before they demand my birth certificate again.”

2 posted on 12/21/2010 6:50:36 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: onyx

Once again... it’s all about 0bama, isn’t it...


3 posted on 12/21/2010 6:50:40 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: onyx
"surprisingly productive lame-duck session"

So...destroying America is The Hill's idea of "productive".

4 posted on 12/21/2010 6:50:59 AM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: maggief; STARWISE; hoosiermama; SE Mom; Liz

He almost has the needed GOP-RINO traitor votes.

According to Fox’n Friends this morning, the three that might break are

Corker (TN), McCain (AZ) and Lindsey Graham (SC).

These three need to be called.


5 posted on 12/21/2010 6:51:05 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: onyx
a surprisingly productive lame-duck session

To whom? Many have warned of the actions this lame duck Congress would take post election beat down. If anything, it's unsurprisingly vindictive.

6 posted on 12/21/2010 6:51:47 AM PST by edpc (It's Kräusened)
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To: onyx
Everything is "personal" for psychos.
7 posted on 12/21/2010 6:51:49 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (DEFCON I ALERT: The federal cancer has metastasized. All personnel report to their battle stations.)
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To: onyx

8 posted on 12/21/2010 6:52:51 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: ScottinVA

ALL ABOUT him.

I so want to swear or break something.

Stupid, idiot GOP-RINO damn, traitor senators to vote for this in the first place, but to vote for it to give him what he wants!

NEVER!


9 posted on 12/21/2010 6:53:02 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: jimbo123

Yes, that’s the pic!


10 posted on 12/21/2010 6:53:47 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s “personal” to 0bama, the anti-colonialist,

because America has taken the place of those historical empires in Europe that colonized African countries.

It’s payback time. Time to take America down.


11 posted on 12/21/2010 6:55:26 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: edpc

Vindictive, yes, you’re right - in our faces, vindictive.


12 posted on 12/21/2010 6:58:52 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: onyx

...for Odumbo, coconuts are personal, least one be mistaken for his highness.


13 posted on 12/21/2010 6:59:11 AM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: onyx

The two faced repubs will cave just like they did on DADT.


14 posted on 12/21/2010 6:59:31 AM PST by Rappini ("Pro deo et Patria.)
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To: onyx

I am done with the Republican Party if this passes. As a lifelong, generational conservative and direct descendant of Revolutionary, Civil, WWII, etc. wars, I am no longer interested in people who surrender our sovereignty for money, weakness or hatred of this country.

You are not my countrymen.

I call down, in Jesus name, electricity going out for some reason at Congress, trees to blow over, pictures to fall off the walls, Michael, Gabriel and the Heavenly Host, to cause the gavel to break and fly off the podium, the flags to flutter, and a wind to sweep through the Senate and its offices, as a warning to Senators and Representatives who are traitors to America. I ask God Almighty Himself for vengeance, which is His alone.

Amen


15 posted on 12/21/2010 7:00:06 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: onyx

Destroying our ability to defend ourselves is “personal” for Obama.


16 posted on 12/21/2010 7:00:57 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: onyx

We are to be nuclear free while our enemies are enabled by the Russians and Chinese.


17 posted on 12/21/2010 7:01:26 AM PST by Carley (PREPARE FOR THE REINSTATING OF THE MILITARY DRAFT)
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To: Rappini

The two faced repubs will cave just like they did on DADT.
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Sad, isn’t it. I am so sick and tired of the GOP, most all of them are worthless as teats on a boar hog.

They are very good at begging for money and spending it, though. They do that damn well!


18 posted on 12/21/2010 7:02:47 AM PST by Irenic
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To: onyx

PHONE TIME TODAY! Start Treaty and FCC Net Neutrality

FIRE UP THE SENATE PHONE LINES!

Toll-Free number to the Congressional Switchboard (866) 338-1015.

Tennessee’s 2 GOP senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker are pro Start Treaty.


19 posted on 12/21/2010 7:06:03 AM PST by GailA (NO JESUS, NO CHRISTmas!)
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To: onyx

As far as the “Progressives” are concerned the destruction of the United States that they envision is right on track.


20 posted on 12/21/2010 7:08:57 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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