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Jeff — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:05:31 -0000

Well said. I agree with your statesment about representative government, but I don't see a massive movement flowing back and forth between the two major parties simply because the challenging party is different. I see three groups: liberals, conservatives, and those unaligned. It seems that it is usually the unaligned that swing the momentum. Consider that Obama won the popular election by 2% to 3%. This is not a convincing argument that the nation as a whole has shifted emotionally. It does show that a small group of people who were unaligned or disgruntled swung the vote. This has been true for the past several elections. In truth the liberal versus conservative battle lines are proving to be more and more rigid over time. It is the clasic war of social values. The traditional view mostly represented by conservatives and a new (still evolving) view represented by liberals.

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Delmer — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:54:24 -0000

The best I could gather from these interviews is something that was understood many years ago. The public, so wide spread and disjoint from the true issues pending our nation, is incapable of directly voting for its representatives. To therefore check the dangers of democracy the constitution was written with "checks and balances." How do those work today? One change is we now directly elect senators; they are not appointed (assuming people see how that helped fight state corruption).
However, who decides how much of a threat the democratic process is becoming to this nation and its republican (the ancient ideology, not the party) balances. The average person doesn't identify with their representatives, but rather with their own immediate emotions: ethos, pathos (but logos?). Federalist, anti-federalist, Jeffersonian Republican, Whig, Democrat, Republican, etc: they all disagree(d) over use of powers and how well people actually use it.
Overall, the election was bound to go democratic this time around, just like how the majority leader always seems to lose public support (and seat). I don't see how some people didn't see that coming. People heard Republican policies for 8 years, so anything opposite of that sounded invitingly dramatic no matter the person. As far as Obama goes, I am sure if someone blinded us and told us his character flaws compared to Hitler’s we would all choose Hitler. It’s a common study done in history courses where FDR and Churchill are compared to Hitler and students unknowingly choose Hitler. So, I would just be worried if we elected someone with almost perfect reputation.

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Jeff — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:56:02 -0000

In the social/political contest the safest bet is to critize everyone. That way you really don't have to stand for anything. Ed, you don't like Bush and you don't like Obama, but you offer no constructive alternatives. If this is all you have to say I hope you don't vote until you actually have an opinion that carries more than trite insults. If you have further light and knowledge on an alternative...please feel free to share. On the other hand, once you've shown some courage and put forth an idea expect the rest of us to scrutinize it carefully. I promise not to call you an idiot or fool for your ideas.

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ed — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:14:32 -0000

If you fell for Bush, you're an idiot... if you fell for Obama, you're a fool...

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Jeff — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:07:04 -0000

Actually, I haven't heard Sarah Palin complain about losing the election. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that April is a liberal. If so, I find it ironic that she's playing the "get over it" card. I do recall the Dem's going on for eight years how Bush stole the election from Al Gore. As far as McCain moving on I think he moved on right after the primaries. I don't know a single conservative that took him seriously...my thought at the time was "are the Republicans trying to lose the election!" Hmmm...great stuff for all the conspiracy theorists out there.

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April — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:38:32 -0000

I think people should get over the fact that Obama won the presidential election whether or not the media had anything or something to do with his win. Sarah Palin should get over it and face the fact that the Republican Party lost, I mean obviously McCain moved on and so should she. Sounds to me she just has a hard time of letting things go. Honestly, I'm sick and tired of hearing her complaints. She lost, she needs to get over it.

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Jeff — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:02:38 -0000

To set the record straight...Letterman was talking about Palin's then 17 year old daughter...everyone who actually followed the campaign knows that. As for eco-terrorist connections to Obama, this is also true even by Obama's own admission. This is classic Liberal dribble. When Demo's voted for the war in Iraq they said they were misled. Bush must have lied to them. In reality, they had the same information President Bush had and amazingly enough came to the same conclusion. I will hand it to them though they have really perfected the strategy of taking the moral high ground, even on a pretense. Refer to my earlier comments.

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Jim F — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:06:06 -0000

Mr Ziegler s interview with MSNBC shows exactly how that "network" in so bias.He said the truth.Ms Brewer didnt want to hear it.Some how she couldnt understand why Mrs Palin was upset.Then Ms Brewer for some unknown reason was greatly insulted by comments her network was substandard????

You would have to be brain challenged not to see the Bias praticed by the likes of the goverment run media(MSNBC,CNN,etc)Keep up the great work,we need you to stay at the ratings bottom rows.

Dont stop protesting the take over of this country by the Obama prophets.Dont give in,keep fighting,dont be fooled!!!

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Vendel — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:43:43 -0000

Palin has again turned around a situation to suit her agenda with David Letterman's statement about her daughter.
Sarah knows that letterman was talking about her older daughteer, yet she tried to switch it around to make people think it was the younger 14 year old. It's the same thing she did in the campaign when she told people that Obama was " Paling around with terrorist" and he started his campaign in the living room of a terrorist. This is a classic tactic of the right, and if Palin is going to run in 2012, she needs to get her lies straight.

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Jeff — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:15:10 -0000

By all rights the Democratic Party should have died after the Civil War. Their main cause "States Rights" (i.e. - slavery) was defeated and their political relevance outcast until the close of the 19th century. However, as the Demo's began to immerge from obscurity they hit on a new recipe for success. Simply put, the exploitation of disaffected groups. At first this tactic produced positive change in America with the breaking down of barriers that prevented many from full participation in our society. Unfortunately, social justice was never their aim. Power and it's propagation was the ultimate goal. Today that tactic has aligned them with gay rights and abortion advocates projecting these acts and those who are associated with them as if they had the same moral currency as Blacks, Jews, and other social outcasts of past generations.

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Jeff — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:51:46 -0000

The phrase "tax the rich" has once again become popular. We heard it in the 60's with Johnson's "War on Poverty". We hear it today from President Obama, but it first got it's start back in 1913 when Democrats outmaneuvered the Republicans in a quest to create the first Income Tax. Their slogan was "Soak the rich". Ironically, it took only the space of a generation before the soaking became universal! We can say the same about Social Security, Welfare, and any other program that extends the influence of government. Extending their reach solidifies their power.

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Jeff — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:40:10 -0000

The Democrats have always been excellent at manipulating politics. They have painted Republicans as both stupid dunderheads and rich elitists all at the same time. How DID all those stupid people become rich anyway? Liberal huberis is so rampant that they can't see the obvious hypocracy in their views. They call rich Repulicans greedy while pushing "redistribution" of others wealth to support themselves. They advocate equality and respect for others while denying the unborn the right to live. This pattern has been going on since the 1830's, only the issues have changed. Whether its slavery, abortion, or taxing the "rich" they have always manipulated the issues to soot their wants. I should know...I used to be one.

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club penguin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:31:29 -0000

They pilloried Palin. They investigated her, her daughter. They spent an unseemly amount of time trying to dig up every single little bit of dirt that they could find on her and her family. Obama and his family had absolutely no investigation,no questions.No answers as for why he listened to Wright for 20 years yet never heard hate speech, even though recordings of it were sold in the church.

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Jefferson Spivey — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:34:01 -0000

I agree with you 100%.
As we all know by now, Obama is an empty book...the pages are clean and will be filled by those people around him. He is exactly what the Democrats want. He will do just as they say… for they run the show, not the other way around. Unfortunately, Obama will never be solidly on track. The Democrats will tear him apart with all their needs and greed’s. He is not a leader; he is a low level lieutenant, who without others telling him what to say and do will never know how to govern.
I am sure that Obama confers with Ayers and Jeremiah, if not everyday, at least once a week. Don’t you know the three of them get on the line they have a good ‘ole time, knee slapping laugh?
Obama's BlackBerry is his walkabout teleprompter. He can go no place, without it...he can say nothing, without it. Obama has not one thought that doesn't come from his BlackBerry. Obama is the latest designer puppet, programmed by a socialist upbringing to despise and destroy the very society that allows him the freedom to do just that!

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Bill Radford — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:02:04 -0000

You must be a KOOLAID drinking SOCIALIST

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thom — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:15:58 -0000

Obama was a result of an immaculate conception. He just appeared from Hawaii. Yeah right!

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IL guy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:33:23 -0000

Most of the electorate was asleep or misinformed about obama and with the media's help at every turn, he somehow snuck into the white house. Years from now ,when it is all said and done, history will look back and deem obamas election as one of the greatest shams ever. It will also be judged that obama's presidency will have made Bush look like a genius ,which is pretty hard to do! With obama , the US will no longer be the world leader and will eventually become just another third world country like mexico or kenya. Wait and see.

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scott — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:08:27 -0000

I heard Obama doesnt have a U.S. birth certificate. I though you had to have proof your an american citizen to become president

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WAKE UP — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:54:30 -0000

Sue, I used to say that, In about 50 years, historians will realise what a great President George Bush was - but at Obama's present rate (and ratings drops) , I think it'll only take about 50 more weeks.

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Ren Beck — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:50:04 -0000

After viewing the video, one can understand how this country is on the road to socialism under Barack Obama--uneducated voters. The mainstream media are on to this and are taking advantage of the uneducated. If you let the biased mainstream media tell you how to vote and you fall for a campaign that's a Hollywood production with a "rock star", then you will deserve what you get. Thomas Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was and never will be." This video shows us clearly what Jefferson was talking about. Every citizen has a right to vote, but all citizens should take it upon themselves to be educated about the issues when they step into the voting booth. That is the price of maintaining freedom.

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John Brown,IX — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:29:08 -0000

The best reason given for voting Obama and most common was: Don't you want to be part of History?

I recall all those who voted for Lincoln. Do You?
That book was too heavy to bring home and show my parentssbut, I am so proud of my Grandfather's, Grandfather!

I can never forgot that day in 4th. grade , 1958?

John Brown IIX
Harpers Ferry

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Truth B Told — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:11:30 -0000

Now you speak the Truth

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Truth B Told — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:09:47 -0000

I will post the lies in your statement

ok I'm done

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Truth B Told — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:06:21 -0000

Well, half breeds are now accepted by blacks because they all have a 50/50 in their family's.

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Truth B Told — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:03:31 -0000

My dog knows more than the dem's they interviewed,but they are of average mindset to their party.