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Obama’s just as big a doofus as Bush
Toronto Sun ^ | 2011-05-26 | Lorrie Goldstein

Posted on 05/26/2011 9:45:48 AM PDT by Clive

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To: ilovesarah2012

he said it 3 times too and not a peep from our corrupt media, 57 states WTH


21 posted on 05/26/2011 10:31:08 AM PDT by manc (Hannity is a fraud , he admitted he's socially liberal on his show, he's took us for suckers)
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To: Lazlo in PA

plus once he gets off his TV screen he is a dumb arse fool, there is no way this man got his degrees in the right way.

Just because he read a speech well doe snot make him educated, the man has no clue about history, traditions, the world etc.

Late night shows had a big laugh at Sarah when she said a part of AK could see Russia, they changed it to her kitchen and look at the gaffs obama has made and they ignore this.


22 posted on 05/26/2011 10:34:18 AM PDT by manc (Hannity is a fraud , he admitted he's socially liberal on his show, he's took us for suckers)
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To: Da Coyote

Public speaking certainly wasn’t W’s strong suit, but I remember hearing his speech at Whitehall Palace in London back in 03 on a radio talk show. I was impressed by how great, inspiring and perfectly-delivered it was.(and without a teleprompter) It was at a time (when wasn’t it?) when the MSM was railing against him for being stupid and unable to string together a cohesive sentance.

That night I watched the Network News (which I rarely do) to see the media eat their words. NOT ONE mention of W’s speech. Something Michael Jackson was doing at the time had captured their undivided attention.


23 posted on 05/26/2011 10:41:38 AM PDT by Zman516 (muslims, marxists, communists ---> satan's useful idiot corps)
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To: Yo-Yo

What about signing 2008?


24 posted on 05/26/2011 10:47:41 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Da Coyote

Actually, President George W. Bush was, at times, a wonderful public speaker. He tended to do so-so on routine speeches or when he was tired. But he rose to the big occasions and gave several of the most consequential, even lyrical speeches in presidential history. The closing passages of his first inaugural are my personal favorite. “And the angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.”


25 posted on 05/26/2011 10:47:54 AM PDT by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
What about signing 2008?

That was mentioned in the second paragraph of the original article.

26 posted on 05/26/2011 10:54:32 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: manc
She never said it. It comes from an SNL skit. Remeber, to Liberals, lying is breathing air.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/seealaska.asp

One of the quotes most strongly associated with former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is the exclamation “I can see Russia from my house!” even though she didn't actually utter that phrase during the campaign.

The basis for the line was Governor Palin’s 11 September 2008 appearance on ABC News, her first major interview after being tapped as the vice-presidential nominee. During that appearance, interviewer Charles Gibson asked her what insight she had gained from living so close to Russia, and she responded: “They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska”:

Two days later, on the 2008 season premiere of Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler appeared in a sketch portraying Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.

FEY AS PALIN: “You know, Hillary and I don't agree on everything . . .”

POEHLER AS CLINTON: (OVERLAPPING) “Anything. I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy.”

FEY AS PALIN: “And I can see Russia from my house.”

As to the question of whether one can actually see Russia from Alaska, Governor Palin was correct: such a view is possible from more than one place in Alaska. A Slate article on the topic noted that:

In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated islands: Big Diomede, which sits in Russian territory, and Little Diomede, which is part of the United States. At their closest, these two islands are a little less than two and a half miles apart, which means that, on a clear day, you can definitely see one from the other.

Also, a 1988 New York Times article reported that:

To the Russian mainland from St. Lawrence Island, a bleak ice-bound expanse the size of Long Island out in the middle of the Bering Sea, the distance is 37 miles. From high ground there or from the Air Force facility at Tin City atop Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost edge of mainland North America, on a clear day you can see Siberia with the naked eye.

27 posted on 05/26/2011 10:55:03 AM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: 240B

thought I said she never said it and that the media twisted it.

sad part is that the late shows and the soros paid off media lied so many times that people thought she said it and yet the same media have ignored all the gaffs dumbo has made just on this trip alone let alone in the last two years.

He has shown why we need to address affirmative action as there is no way this man can even finish high school let alone Harvard or Columbia where no one remembers him


28 posted on 05/26/2011 11:19:56 AM PDT by manc (Hannity is a fraud , he admitted he's socially liberal on his show, he's took us for suckers)
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To: 240B

thought I said she never said it and that the media twisted it.

sad part is that the late shows and the soros paid off media lied so many times that people thought she said it and yet the same media have ignored all the gaffs dumbo has made just on this trip alone let alone in the last two years.

He has shown why we need to address affirmative action as there is no way this man can even finish high school let alone Harvard or Columbia where no one remembers him


29 posted on 05/26/2011 11:20:19 AM PDT by manc (Hannity is a fraud , he admitted he's socially liberal on his show, he's took us for suckers)
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To: Clive

bump


30 posted on 05/26/2011 11:43:53 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: Clive

Imagine if Bush had 20 consecutive quarters of GDP growth and 4.5% unemployment. Instead of that “worst economy ever” that he resided over....

Oh wait.


31 posted on 05/26/2011 12:43:07 PM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Wolfstar
Actually, President George W. Bush was, at times, a wonderful public speaker.

Yup, at times. The day after 9-11, when he was addressing the firefighters in the rubble with a bullhorn, and one of them said "we can't hear you" - his comeback of "well we hear you, all of America hears you, and soon the folks that did this will hear from all of us" was an absolutely brilliant, and spontaneous, answer.

There weren't too many as good as that, but that response was pure gold.


32 posted on 05/26/2011 1:56:29 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Clive

How can anyone in his right mind compare B.O. to President Bush? Pres. Bush was well brought up, well educated, and a good, kind and decent man. That idiot in the W.H. is so in love with himself it’s pathetic! He doesn’t appear to even know what year it is, and looks like a fool what with his constant effort to appear “cool”! It was embarrassing to people in this Country to see the Pres. of the U.S. looking like a babbling idiot on TV’s all over the world! When he was at the table with the British Royal Family—running off at the mouth like a blithering idiot during the British National Anthem, I was ashamed that he was the Pres. of our Country to be perfectly honest! He certainly needs some lessons in Protocol!!


33 posted on 05/26/2011 2:29:10 PM PDT by Patsygirl
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His wookie wife doesn’t help matters.

She’s just as embarrassing as he is.


34 posted on 05/26/2011 2:41:07 PM PDT by derllak
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