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Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States, as the country chose him as its first African American chief executive.
Share your thoughts on this historic election.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 7, 2009 8:35 AM
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> free,
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> What about the Real liberals and war weary
> Republicans who oppose the expansion from the very
> beginning?
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> Somebody like infoseek (D, R, I)?
As time travel is not available, what about them?
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 7, 2009 12:35 AM
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free,
What about the Real liberals and war weary Republicans who oppose the expansion from the very beginning?
Somebody like infoseek (D, R, I)?
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 7, 2009 12:31 AM
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The Obama administration has taken a page from the Clintons-the trial balloon. The week before his Afgan speech the 30,000 troop number "leaked"out. If there had been a strong public reaction either way, he would have adjusted the figure accordingly.There was no strong reaction, thus the number didn't change. The speech was pure politics - increase the troops, placate the right- set a withdrawal date, placate the left. The left cannot complain as he is only following what he said in the campaign-pull out of Iraq, concentrate on Afgan. There will be more "balloons" in the future.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 6, 2009 9:52 AM
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> > S2grand, bullshit on Lincoln. I think Wilson has
> Bush
> > jr beat.
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> FUCK LINCOLN & THE HORSE'S ASS HE RODE IN ON.
Wow. Persuasive. Bullshit. 
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 6, 2009 8:47 AM
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> Obamaphilia is waning.
How's that 9-11 conspiracy shit doing?
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 6, 2009 7:34 AM
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jetfuel:
> Obamaphilia is waning.
Meaningless rubbish.
If you want to write about something that matters, write about the Repug Obstruction, their propagandists in the MSM and the utterly phony "Teabagger" movement.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 6, 2009 7:16 AM
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Obamaphilia is waning.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 6, 2009 2:11 AM
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> S2grand, bullshit on Lincoln. I think Wilson has Bush
> jr beat.
FUCK LINCOLN & THE HORSE'S ASS HE RODE IN ON.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 5, 2009 8:02 PM
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Monkeypaw
Been enjoying your posts. On Taibbi, he helps me by explaining things in a way I can understand. And I like his flavor and dash 
He reminds me of HST but without the zaniness.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 5, 2009 7:20 PM
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Jimmy Carter redux........nuff said
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 5, 2009 7:09 PM
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> > Cynicalogy,
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> > I think you are oversimplifying. Germany
> provoked us
> > multiple times and Wilsonian policy carries his
> name
> > for a reason. If not for the second world war we
> are
> > the ones who could have been taken over by our
> > version of the nazis, aka kkk.
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> The "provocation" was not serious enough to declare
> war, Wilson wanted war because of his vainglorious
> ego. There was no more reason to get involved in
> 1917 than after the Lusitainia sinking in 1915.
> Although he welcomed the help, Winston Churchill and
> the rest of the western leaders didn't understand
> the timing either.
>
They may have come to understand it later. Based on what we've all seen recently with Halliburton/Iraq it's possible this is one the conspiracy-theorists have right, that our entry was done to ramp up the profits of the MIC of the day. And we've seen how easily moved to warfare Congress can be. It isn't a new phenomenon, either. It was done even before that, under McKinley, with the cry of "The hell with Spain, remember the Maine!"
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 5, 2009 6:38 PM
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At their peak they had around 15% of the voting population, basically ran the Midwest and around a third of all politicians were affiliated. The main reason they didn't take over is because their leadership was incompetent.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 5, 2009 6:36 PM
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Ok. Do we agree on Harding as a top 3?
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 5, 2009 6:28 PM
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> S2grand, bullshit on Lincoln. I think Wilson has Bush
> jr beat.
JaredP,
You're entitled to your opinions. I'm not debating the issue.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Dec 5, 2009 6:26 PM
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> Cynicalogy,
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> I think you are oversimplifying. Germany provoked us
> multiple times and Wilsonian policy carries his name
> for a reason. If not for the second world war we are
> the ones who could have been taken over by our
> version of the nazis, aka kkk.
JaredP,
KKK? You think they were that strong? Only in Indiana.
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