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To: PA-RIVER; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; rxsid; ...

Daily News has an online poll about Lakin.

Poll shows 50 percent believe this is settled.

34 percent believe it is not settled, and Obama should show his Kenyan BC.

Hmmm ... 34 percent ... one-third. And ironically, Benjamin Franklin was called crazy by his critics, too.


Although an online poll, it reflects our nation's Politics from the very beginning.

At the outset of the Revolutionary War:

- one-third of the public were Patriots, proclaiming the Declaration of Independence on
July 4, 1776 and jabbing their collective finger in the very eyes of Tyranny

- one-third of the public were Tories, loyal to the King and the yoke of Government control (Patriot Nathan Hale's own Tory cousin Samuel Hale exposed him, leading to Hale's capture and hanging by the British in NY on September 22, 1776)

- one-third were along for the ride! (today's independents, who drift from Left to Right)


The reason we DON'T say “God save the Queen” today is that the TRUE leaders — the Patriots during the Revolutionary War — were the LOUDEST and were willing to SACRIFICE more than the Tories.


There IS a lesson learned there, and I think Patriot Samuel Adams perhaps said it best:

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.”



647 posted on 04/14/2010 8:14:39 AM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: BP2

What about the remaining 16%?


649 posted on 04/14/2010 8:19:50 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: BP2
For the record, DRUDGE now carrying--- top-left headline

Army to court martial 'birther' officer; Refuses to deploy, considers orders from Obama void...
VIDEO [Lakin statement]

653 posted on 04/14/2010 8:48:14 AM PDT by thouworm
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To: BP2

Typical tyrannical ploy to insist the patriot is insane.


683 posted on 04/14/2010 10:04:03 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Double your income... Fire the government)
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