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Obama applauds Eagles for giving Michael Vick second chance (Obama supports dog killers)
NBC Sports ^ | 12/27/10 | Miek Florio

Posted on 12/27/2010 10:51:42 AM PST by LdSentinal

Though the Eagles didn’t have a chance to make news on the field tonight, they made some more news off the field.

Peter King of NBC reported during Football Night in America that President Barack Obama recently called Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie to congratulate the team for giving quarterback Mike Vick a second chance.

President Obama explained that a level playing field rarely exists for prisoners who have completed their sentences. Vick’s success gives all of them hope.

In our view, Obama’s gesture also provides Vick with the kind of positive reinforcement that will help keep him out of any trouble during the 2011 offseason, once he is left to his own devices.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: obama; pardon; scum; vick
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To: JennysCool

Big deal.

So were Rae Carruth and O. J. Simpson


101 posted on 12/27/2010 2:28:46 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine (I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
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To: rawhide

Vick should have been marinated in beef gravy for a week then locked in a room with a dozen hungry Rottweilers.

No second chances for dog-killers in the NFL.

I WANNA SEE HIM SUFFER A CAREER-ENDER.


102 posted on 12/27/2010 2:31:13 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine (I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
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To: nbenyo

“If dogs don’t go to Heaven, then I want to go where they go.”

-Will Rogers.

Right On, Will.


103 posted on 12/27/2010 2:35:51 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine (I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Amazing! You are worse in your thoughts than Vick ever was!


104 posted on 12/27/2010 2:38:56 PM PST by rawhide
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To: Osage Orange

Big Ben, as in Roethlisberger.

Caught up in a he said - she said with some coed bimbo in Georgia last summer....of course in Ben’s case, the cops and DA dropped the matter.


105 posted on 12/27/2010 2:40:53 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine (I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
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To: SeeSac

IIRC the reports at the time, the guy was shot after Vick left the party?


106 posted on 12/27/2010 2:41:13 PM PST by rawhide
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To: GSWarrior

I totally agree with that.

No defense of what Vick did, but I think the cultural aspects have been completely overlooked. He will forever have to prove himself because of it. You can disagree with the price he paid, but he paid the price that was asked. The level of hatred expressed toward him here IMO borders on pathological.


107 posted on 12/27/2010 2:42:19 PM PST by Jenny217
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Excuse me, but MY dog is a valued member of the family.

Its you “Oh, its just a dog” people that mystify me.


108 posted on 12/27/2010 2:43:18 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine (I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
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To: Castlebar
McNabb was the only portion of the Eagles franchise that had any class, and the ENTIRE team sh*t on him.

Nothing compared to what the Redskins have done to him.

109 posted on 12/27/2010 2:43:56 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Jenny217

I agree with your post. Sadly agree!


110 posted on 12/27/2010 2:44:51 PM PST by rawhide
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To: Pan_Yan

No one’s forbidding him to earn a living.

He could sit at the window and ask “You want fries with that?”


111 posted on 12/27/2010 2:47:00 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine (I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
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To: dfwgator
castlebar: McNabb was the only portion of the Eagles franchise that had any class, and the ENTIRE team sh*t on him.

dfwgator: Nothing compared to what the Redskins have done to him.

This is usually the point in the argument where I concede.

112 posted on 12/27/2010 2:48:24 PM PST by Castlebar
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To: LdSentinal

I have no words for this. If I really say what I want to say I will forever get banned from FR.


113 posted on 12/27/2010 2:48:29 PM PST by bergmeid
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To: Castlebar

Don’t forget Arlen “The Magic Bullet” Specter......


114 posted on 12/27/2010 2:49:03 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine (I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
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To: rawhide
IIRC the reports at the time, the guy was shot after Vick left the party?

Yes. He was shot after Vick left the party. Vick left the club four minutes before the shooting. He was shot about a block from the club. Police know who the shooter was but won't release the name since the victim is not cooperating. Wonder why the dude is not cooperating with the police?

115 posted on 12/27/2010 2:50:07 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: Jenny217

I’m not following his life with any degree of scrutiny, so I’m still wondering if he has or can awaken to reject the cruelty aspects of what allowed him to be so cruel to these animals? To my mind, that is the essence of this issue with Vic: is he reformed, awake to the wrong of his cruelty to these animals, not just playing a game of “I learned my lesson when I got caught.”


116 posted on 12/27/2010 2:51:25 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Castlebar
castlebar: McNabb was the only portion of the Eagles franchise that had any class, and the ENTIRE team sh*t on him. dfwgator: Nothing compared to what the Redskins have done to him. This is usually the point in the argument where I concede.

Well then of course there is what Michael Strachan did to him in that Dr. Pepper commercial, now that was cold.

117 posted on 12/27/2010 2:51:44 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: rawhide

No, its called letting the punishment fit the crime.

You are sadly deficient in your Gilbert & Sullivan

;=)


118 posted on 12/27/2010 2:52:24 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine (I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

OUCH - I stand corrected / amended......


119 posted on 12/27/2010 2:56:31 PM PST by Castlebar
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To: Whoa
There’s a big friggin difference between letting the man live his life after prison, and supporting his entertainment value as an NFL quarterback.

It's amazing how many here can't see the difference.

120 posted on 12/27/2010 3:06:40 PM PST by newzjunkey
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