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Obama reaches out to Paterno family(Jay Paterno was big Obama supporter)
ESPN ^ | 1/23/12 | Ivan Maisel

Posted on 07/23/2012 10:09:01 PM PDT by DallasBiff

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Jay Paterno, then the Penn State quarterbacks coach, worked for Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign before the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania in 2008. Paterno helped organize a campus rally and introduced Obama to a big crowd on the sloping lawn in front of Old Main, the university administration building. Obama lost the primary to Sen. Hilary Clinton but won Centre County.

Nearly a year ago, on Feb. 2, 2011, President Obama came to Penn State and met Jay’s parents, Nittany Lion head coach Joe Paterno and his wife Sue.

On Monday, the day after Joe Paterno succumbed to cancer, President Obama called Jay and Sue Paterno to offer his condolences.

“Jay, I wanted to call,” Obama said, according to notes that Jay took. “Both Michelle and I wanted to offer our condolences to you and your family.

(Excerpt) Read more at espn.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; donors; homosexualagenda; obama; oldnews; paterno; pennstate; pennsylvania; sandusky; sin; sodomy; steelers
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To: DallasBiff
now I don't feel so bad about Penn State...anyone idiot supporting bamey deserves the football "death penalty"...

next time "jay" think about character and morality and ethics...

21 posted on 07/23/2012 10:43:06 PM PDT by cherry (/)
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To: bmwcyle

Yup Screw these jerks.


22 posted on 07/23/2012 10:45:41 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: DallasBiff

Yep, he’s a big fan, huge fan, been so for years and years, knows everything there is to know about the Nittaly Lions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLTekcur-E


23 posted on 07/23/2012 10:57:06 PM PDT by waus (FUBO UFCMF, Just in case I stuttered, FUBO)
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To: doc1019
but he finally came around

Me thinks you had something to do with that!

24 posted on 07/23/2012 10:59:20 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: onedoug
Obama was fat when he was young, but the statue of him in Indonesia (boy playing with a butterfly) shows him as skinny. WTF?
25 posted on 07/23/2012 11:08:09 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: presently no screen name

;-)


26 posted on 07/23/2012 11:08:59 PM PDT by doc1019 (Romney will NEVER get my vote.)
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To: DallasBiff

Did Obama know Joe Paterno’s involvement during the whole Sandusky rape scenarios at the time of his death? What do all the freakazoid Penn Staters that started rioting and protested in favor of Paterno think of their beloved JoePA now he was just as complicit as Sandusky? Their whole world probably has no meaning as of now, correct?


27 posted on 07/23/2012 11:13:29 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: doc1019
My son went into college a right leaning Independent and came out a hard conservative.

I think that happened because he took mostly business courses and he hated group projects.

28 posted on 07/23/2012 11:22:06 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: DallasBiff

If Obama had a relative who molested children, would he look like Sandusky?


29 posted on 07/23/2012 11:38:16 PM PDT by freedomrings69
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To: DallasBiff

It figures that Obama would eventually lend his auspices to child molestation. That fits perfectly with his goals for the destruction of America.


30 posted on 07/23/2012 11:39:42 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Obama is probably hoping that since Paterno is still popular in certain parts of PA that he can take the state..everything with Obama and his commie cronies are deliberate.

And in Western Pennsylvania, there was Dan Rooney, creator opf the racist Rooney Rule, chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers doing Obama's bidding in the 2008 elections.

To make matters worse, Rooney's first words during the 2009 Lombardi Trophy presentation was a big sloppy "thank you" to Obama. Disgusting.

31 posted on 07/24/2012 1:46:07 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: DallasBiff

The “o” couldn’t pick a winner if the game was fixed! Let’s hope that streak continues until after November.


32 posted on 07/24/2012 5:12:15 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: huldah1776

It happened, and was written about, months ago.


33 posted on 07/24/2012 5:17:58 AM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama 07/22/12: "we all reflect on how we can do something about some of the senseless violence...")
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To: DallasBiff

disgusting people.


34 posted on 07/24/2012 5:18:36 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: bmwcyle

I agree!


35 posted on 07/24/2012 6:18:03 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: kenavi

As someone that has been involved with charities that deal with domestic viloence and CPS kids, I can tell you the wives KNOW about these nasty problems. That Mrs Sandusky or Patterno act like they never had a clue is a stretch. When they take away Joe’s pension, provided by the state, Mrs Paterno willhave some new work - screaming to wives, turn you husband in to the police, if you suspect they have harmed children...make no mistake he harmed those kids.


36 posted on 07/24/2012 6:44:07 AM PDT by q_an_a (the more laws the less justice)
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To: DallasBiff; All

Papa Paterno, relayed his true political views to his son.
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Maybe; maybe not. I’m a Reagan Republican and all three of my boys are too. But, then, in all fairness, look at Ronnie Reagan Jr. and his ultra-Lib Sister, Patti Davis (She took her mom’s maiden name instead of the last name “Reagan”.) What a liberal witch; or a word that rhymes with “witch”. They did not take the baton on Ronald Reagan’s Conservatism.


37 posted on 07/24/2012 6:49:25 AM PDT by pistolpackinpapa (Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Well, there goes whatever little sympathy I had left for the family.
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No s**t Bro. That’s exactly what I was thinking. I don’t feel nearly as badly for them now.


38 posted on 07/24/2012 6:51:10 AM PDT by pistolpackinpapa (Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
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To: DallasBiff

This article and any like it are nothing but pure political propaganda.

Obambi and his minions in the press know that a vast majority of PSU fans still worship JoPa and think PSU is getting a bum rap here.

By floating these articles they are trying to get these fans to think that Abama is with them even though he is not publicly saying anything.

It is all about trying to get these fans to vote for Obama in November.


39 posted on 07/24/2012 7:00:39 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: DallasBiff
Just my opinion, Papa Paterno's affection for the GOP(Reagan/Bush) was fake. Papa Paterno, relayed his true political views to his son.Papa Paterno's affection for the GOP(Reagan/Bush)

Or his father's affection was genuine and it just never reached his son.

40 posted on 07/24/2012 11:01:12 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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