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Laura Ingraham accurately impersonates Hillary Clinton’s yoga instructor
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Posted on 03/14/2015 3:47:01 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal

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To: ObamahatesPACoal

We should have listened to Ben Franklin in 1787 when he said;

Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice—the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but, when united in view of the same object, they have, in many minds, the most violent effects. Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The vast number of such places it is that renders the British government so tempestuous. The struggles for them are the true source of all those factions which are perpetually dividing the nation, distracting its councils, hurrying it sometimes into fruitless and mischievous wars, and often compelling a submission to dishonorable terms of peace.  

2  And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable preeminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits. These will thrust themselves into your government and be your rulers. And these, too, will be mistaken in the expected happiness of their situation, for their vanquished competitors, of the same spirit, and from the same motives, will perpetually be endeavoring to distress their administration, thwart their measures, and render them odious to the people.  3


21 posted on 03/14/2015 11:22:37 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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That kind of thing is ineccusable!


22 posted on 03/15/2015 10:01:17 AM PDT by GeronL
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