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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
Sep 25, 2009 11:42 PM
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The state of Massachusetts is a disgrace. They changed the law, because they feared Romney might appoint a republican, and now when Kennedy died, they wanted to law changed again. Since the vote did not equal or exceed the required two-thirds, the governor had to declare a state of emergency in order to get the bill passed, so he could appoint a successor.
Changing the laws and misusing their power for their own benefit, and people wonder why they don't trust politicians and gov't. This is not a way to run a democracy and not what the founding fathers had in mind.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 25, 2009 10:57 PM
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Stinker was certainly consistantly deluded.
I'm convinced he was/is a RNC paid Troll. Nobody could be that stupid for real.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 25, 2009 10:39 PM
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s2g,
Speak REVERENTLY of the FreeStinker. When he STUNK, he REALLY STUNK. Likewise, when he didn't, he REALLY STUNK NONETHELESS!
SHOULDN'T WE ALL!
FREE was MY MAN, and I just won't HEAR ANYTHING ELSE!
DaN
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 25, 2009 10:08 PM
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> s2grand:
>
> > I believe mechadave would like the book "Feeding
> the
> > Beast". Dust jacket blurb begins "No
> administration
> > of the 20th century can challenge Ronald
> Reagan's
> > record for corruption." Of course this book was
> > released in 1990. Many familiar names are the
> cast of
> > perps.
> > The Federal prosecutor against Wedtech et al was
> "ta
> > da"
> > Rudy Giuliani.
>
> Since the late Troll FreeStinker had accused me of
> being this "mechadave" I always figured that he and I
> would agree most of the time.
>
> Speaking of books on RayGun, have you ever heard of
> the book, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star
> Wars and the End of the Cold War? I read it
> years ago, and it was alternately hilarious and
> infuriating. How could people have been so stupid to
> have been taken in by that imbicile/fraud?
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Way-Out-There-Blue-Reagan/dp/068
> 4844168
>
> Amazon.com Review
> Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald
> (Fire in the Lake) offers a history of the politics
> surrounding American antiballistic missile
> technology. She focuses most of her account,
> appropriately, on President Reagan's efforts to
> establish a Strategic Defense Initiative (popularly
> known as "Star Wars") to provide the United States
> with umbrella-like protection from nuclear attack.
> FitzGerald, like many of her fellow Reagan
> detractors, is relentlessly critical of this
> initiative. Her book, in fact, is partly a
> psychobiography of the 40th president. She makes the
> familiar claim that Reagan's acting career had a
> profound effect on how he governed. Yet she takes it
> a step further by arguing that specific movies had a
> deep influence on his political decisions. "SDI was
> surely Reagan's greatest triumph as an
> actor-storyteller," she writes, and goes on to
> suggest that Reagan was favorably disposed to
> spending billions on ABM technology because, in the
> 1940 film Murder in the Air, he played a secret agent
> assigned to protect a new weapon "capable of
> paralyzing electrical currents and destroying all
> enemy planes in the air."
Cyn,
mechadave had a lot to add to the discourse & usually had a good rejoinder to debunk freestinker's Bushshit. & a couple of others.
I wasn't aware of that book, perhaps I'll get it later when finances may be better. Thanks for mentioning it, sounds worthwhile. "Star Wars" was a huge wasteful boondoggle to enrich Ray-gun's cronies & never would have worked. I don't know how anyone who even just scans the book "The Clothes Have No Emperor" much less reads the whole thing cannot come to that Ray-gun was an imbecile/fraud who shouldn't have been Governor either or SAG prez.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 25, 2009 9:54 PM
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> s2grand
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> good suggestion, hon, credit unions. Like It's a
> Wonderful Life. We're watching a Jimmy Stewart
> western tonight to boot. 
Rainy,
Republican Jimmy Stewart was in a lot of good movies in late 1940s & early 1950s directed by Anthony Mann:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542649/
Jimmy was in "The Naked Spur" which I have on DVD & is very good, lots of great scenery. "The Tin Star" is also good with Henry Fonda. Another one really worth getting on DVD is "Man of the West" with Republican Gary Cooper & Lee J. Cobb, Jack Lord (also Naked Spur) & Julie London one of her first big acting roles & she wasn't very good in some love scenes with Coop that got cut. Most of Mann's Westerns aren't the "light" kind but often "dark" & make you think, especially this one & usually great scenery in the Westerns.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 25, 2009 9:38 PM
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Cynic
My husband's still watching, I bailed to the computer...lol
This one's about a man from Laramie, same one?
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 25, 2009 9:33 PM
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Cynic,
You'll have to explain that one to me.
DaN
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Edited by DaNihilist at 09/25/2009 6:33 PM PDT
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 25, 2009 9:19 PM
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Ever seen The Cowboy Way?
That's the "Western" we're watching.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 25, 2009 9:18 PM
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s2grand
good suggestion, hon, credit unions. Like It's a Wonderful Life. We're watching a Jimmy Stewart western tonight to boot.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 25, 2009 9:15 PM
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s2grand:
> I believe mechadave would like the book "Feeding the
> Beast". Dust jacket blurb begins "No administration
> of the 20th century can challenge Ronald Reagan's
> record for corruption." Of course this book was
> released in 1990. Many familiar names are the cast of
> perps.
> The Federal prosecutor against Wedtech et al was "ta
> da"
> Rudy Giuliani.
Since the late Troll FreeStinker had accused me of being this "mechadave" I always figured that he and I would agree most of the time.
Speaking of books on RayGun, have you ever heard of the book, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War? I read it years ago, and it was alternately hilarious and infuriating. How could people have been so stupid to have been taken in by that imbicile/fraud?
http://www.amazon.com/Way-Out-There-Blue-Reagan/dp/0684844168
Amazon.com Review
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald (Fire in the Lake) offers a history of the politics surrounding American antiballistic missile technology. She focuses most of her account, appropriately, on President Reagan's efforts to establish a Strategic Defense Initiative (popularly known as "Star Wars") to provide the United States with umbrella-like protection from nuclear attack. FitzGerald, like many of her fellow Reagan detractors, is relentlessly critical of this initiative. Her book, in fact, is partly a psychobiography of the 40th president. She makes the familiar claim that Reagan's acting career had a profound effect on how he governed. Yet she takes it a step further by arguing that specific movies had a deep influence on his political decisions. "SDI was surely Reagan's greatest triumph as an actor-storyteller," she writes, and goes on to suggest that Reagan was favorably disposed to spending billions on ABM technology because, in the 1940 film Murder in the Air, he played a secret agent assigned to protect a new weapon "capable of paralyzing electrical currents and destroying all enemy planes in the air."
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 25, 2009 9:15 PM
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> Looks to me like, with the arrest of Zazi, and
> uncovering his bomb making activities and possible
> ties to Al Qaeda, can we now say that President Obama
> is doing everything possible to keep us safe.
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> Makes me think of all of the Righty Tightys claiming
> that W kept us safe. Cheney kept us safe. Rummy
> kept us safe. Well, yeah, for a few months and then
> 9/11 blew their record, no?? They didn't keep us
> safe on 9/11.
>
Not to mention Global Warming inaction, Enron, Katrina, the Robber Bank economic meltdown.
Pretty lousy track record on safety if you ask me.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 25, 2009 8:48 PM
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I believe mechadave would like the book "Feeding the Beast". Dust jacket blurb begins "No administration of the 20th century can challenge Ronald Reagan's record for corruption." Of course this book was released in 1990. Many familiar names are the cast of perps.
The Federal prosecutor against Wedtech et al was "ta da"
Rudy Giuliani.
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