Posted on 08/04/2011 1:18:48 PM PDT by curth
"It's been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together. Yes, we have. But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we're not even halfway there yet. When I said 'change we can believe in' I didn't say 'change we can believe in tomorrow.' Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we've got this big, messy, tough democracy," President Obama said at a campaign fundraiser in Chicago on Wednesday night.
Video by C-Span at http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/08/04/obama-blames-democracy-his-failures
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Are you SAERIOUS??? The 51% of AMericans who PAY NO FEDERAL INCOME !! These BLOODSUCKERS VOTED for him and they will again...we will NEVER WIN AGAIN!!
You are right -- you have the absolute right to property for which you have paid (providing, of course, that there is no law which restricts your possession of it -- e.g., nuclear weapons).
So when I disagree with your comment about having a right to a cell phone, I'm taking the tack that you don't have a 'right' to it in the sense that the government has guaranteed that you will have it.
From your point, the government's takeover of private property for development purposes is an affront to liberty.
From my point, the government's manipulation of the mortgage and housing industry to guarantee the recently discovered 'right' to own a home is a transfer of wealth.
Like I said -- smacking the same ball from two different sides.
Actually, I believe we’re smacking the same ball from the same side.
And would that ball have big ears and a penchant for teleprompters?
LOL - one could wish!
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