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Lazy8
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Feb 9, 2013 - 7:47am |
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geordiezimmerman wrote:Again, a forum full of Obama haters who are still not over the fact that they voted for the previous president and feel ashamed. A man who entered into an illegal war, started a war on terror which has seen America the most fearful country in the world to live in. A religious nut job who sent the country spiraling out of control, a racist right wing moron who became a laughing stock around the world who thinks invading anywhere he wanted to was good for America and therefore the world. Obama is far from perfect but if you imagine the carnage that Romney would have brought, it's beyond scary. His 'legitimate rape' colleagues, his ridiculous views on abortion, his staggering stance on health care and not to mention his dangerous military action he threatened. Frightening! You're right, we should shut up and quit whining about the president having the unchecked power to kill anyone he likes in other countries. After all, it could be worse—we could have high unemployment and a crippling debt too! And speaking of unchecked power to kill anyone he likes in other countries...better keep beating that drum. After all, you live in another country. Wouldn't want to wind up on the wrong list.
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hippiechick
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Feb 9, 2013 - 6:26am |
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kurtster wrote:
That would make you pro - elitist, eh ?
I am about as far from that as you can be, but I know several people who have gone to Harvard, and I would not call them elitist. I would call them smart, gifted, and talented.
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geordiezimmerman
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Feb 9, 2013 - 6:08am |
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bokey wrote: How do you know who voted for who?I think the majority of forum members are pro-Obama.
Many people here have either admitted to it, or it's plainly obvious. I read here just a few days ago someone wrote along the lines of ' I can't vote for someone who kills children' (speaking about Obama) yet is an admitted Bush supporter! Talk about double standards!
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bokey
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Feb 9, 2013 - 6:04am |
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geordiezimmerman wrote:Again, a forum full of Obama haters who are still not over the fact that they voted for the previous president and feel ashamed. A man who entered into an illegal war, started a war on terror which has seen America the most fearful country in the world to live in. A religious nut job who sent the country spiraling out of control, a racist right wing moron who became a laughing stock around the world who thinks invading anywhere he wanted to was good for America and therefore the world. Obama is far from perfect but if you imagine the carnage that Romney would have brought, it's beyond scary. His 'legitimate rape' colleagues, his ridiculous views on abortion, his staggering stance on health care and not to mention his dangerous military action he threatened. Frightening!
How do you know who voted for who? I think the majority of forum members are pro-Obama.
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kurtster
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Feb 9, 2013 - 5:48am |
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hippiechick wrote: He always spells that word wrong. Because he is anti-elitist,intelligence doesn't matter to him.
His argument is invalid because it's stupid.
That would make you pro - elitist, eh ?
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hippiechick
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Feb 9, 2013 - 5:47am |
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kurtster wrote:The current discussion started out speaking about the arrogant, priviileged, Ivy League elitists who have been running this country, into the ground, since 1988.
Obama is just one more in a succession of these bastids who have traded on their educations and come up way short when the rubber hit the road. We need to look elsewhere, far away from this inbred mindset and gene pool for new leaders of this country. That is my point.
We know what your point is, and it's stupid. BTW the term refers to athletics. The Ivy League is an athletic conference composed of sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group. The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, andYale University. The term Ivy League also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. The term became official after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954. The use of the phrase is no longer limited to athletics, and now represents an educational philosophy inherent to the nation's oldest schools. Seven of the eight schools were founded during the United States colonial period; the exception is Cornell, which was founded in 1865. Ivy League institutions, therefore, account for seven of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
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hippiechick
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Feb 9, 2013 - 5:45am |
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geordiezimmerman wrote:Again, a forum full of Obama haters who are still not over the fact that they voted for the previous president and feel ashamed. A man who entered into an illegal war, started a war on terror which has seen America the most fearful country in the world to live in. A religious nut job who sent the country spiraling out of control, a racist right wing moron who became a laughing stock around the world who thinks invading anywhere he wanted to was good for America and therefore the world. Obama is far from perfect but if you imagine the carnage that Romney would have brought, it's beyond scary. His 'legitimate rape' colleagues, his ridiculous views on abortion, his staggering stance on health care and not to mention his dangerous military action he threatened. Frightening!
Yup
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hippiechick
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Feb 9, 2013 - 5:45am |
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bokey wrote: Nice argument.His thoughts are invalidated because he made a typo in a different post on a different day.Now there's a great rebuttal.BTW-ya isn't a real word.I guees nobody should take you seriously.Oh, wait...
He always spells that word wrong. Because he is anti-elitist,intelligence doesn't matter to him. His argument is invalid because it's stupid.
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geordiezimmerman
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Feb 9, 2013 - 5:36am |
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Again, a forum full of Obama haters who are still not over the fact that they voted for the previous president and feel ashamed. A man who entered into an illegal war, started a war on terror which has seen America the most fearful country in the world to live in. A religious nut job who sent the country spiraling out of control, a racist right wing moron who became a laughing stock around the world who thinks invading anywhere he wanted to was good for America and therefore the world. Obama is far from perfect but if you imagine the carnage that Romney would have brought, it's beyond scary. His 'legitimate rape' colleagues, his ridiculous views on abortion, his staggering stance on health care and not to mention his dangerous military action he threatened. Frightening!
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kurtster
Location: where fear is not a virtue Gender:
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Feb 9, 2013 - 5:35am |
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The current discussion started out speaking about the arrogant, priviileged, Ivy League elitists who have been running this country, into the ground, since 1988.
Obama is just one more in a succession of these bastids who have traded on their educations and come up way short when the rubber hit the road. We need to look elsewhere, far away from this inbred mindset and gene pool for new leaders of this country. That is my point.
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bokey
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Feb 9, 2013 - 5:26am |
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hippiechick wrote: SO WHAT? ? ?
I wish I had the opportunity to live such a rich and interesting life. Why do you care so much? Ya jealous? Or do you think a black man shouldn't have such privileges (a word which you can't even spell. )
Nice argument. His thoughts are invalidated because he made a typo in a different post on a different day. Now there's a great rebuttal. BTW-ya isn't a real word. I guees nobody should take you seriously. Oh, wait. . .
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hippiechick
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Feb 9, 2013 - 5:20am |
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kurtster wrote:Pardon my error on the endowments. Obama's alma mater in Hawaii, has a net worth of $1 Billion with endowments and property holdings. Not bad for a little private school. It is what it is. If you wish to minimize the fact that Punahou is prestigious and exclusive and infer that it is just a little back water school of no special mention, feel free. My point was that Obama has led a privilaged life, from nearly the beginning. People try to make him out to be a rags to riches story. That is hardly the case. He chose to have salad years in Chicago, he was not born into them. SO WHAT??? I wish I had the opportunity to live such a rich and interesting life. Why do you care so much? Ya jealous? Or do you think a black man shouldn't have such privileges (a word which you can't even spell.)
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kurtster
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Feb 9, 2013 - 5:07am |
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pjcle wrote: kurtster wrote: His childhood from Indonesia through Hawaii was indeed most privilaged.
The private school he attended in Hawaii is one of the most prestigious and exclusive in the world. Its endowment rivals Harvard's.
Whoever made that information for you must have known you'd swallow that whole. All the info is on the internet and takes 1 minute to look up. His school in Hawaii has an endowment of 200 million, which only rivals Harvard's 30 billion dollar endowment in the minds of people who listen to liars. Pardon my error on the endowments. Obama's alma mater in Hawaii, has a net worth of $1 Billion with endowments and property holdings. Not bad for a little private school. It is what it is. If you wish to minimize the fact that Punahou is prestigious and exclusive and infer that it is just a little back water school of no special mention, feel free. My point was that Obama has led a privilaged life, from nearly the beginning. People try to make him out to be a rags to riches story. That is hardly the case. He chose to have salad years in Chicago, he was not born into them.
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pjcle
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Feb 8, 2013 - 5:33pm |
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kurtster wrote: His childhood from Indonesia through Hawaii was indeed most privilaged.
The private school he attended in Hawaii is one of the most prestigious and exclusive in the world. Its endowment rivals Harvard's.
Whoever made that information for you must have known you'd swallow that whole. All the info is on the internet and takes 1 minute to look up. His school in Hawaii has an endowment of 200 million, which only rivals Harvard's 30 billion dollar endowment in the minds of people who listen to liars.
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bokey
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Feb 8, 2013 - 2:43pm |
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aflanigan wrote:Yet if Powell is a man of principle, then he let himself down, and let us down, when it came to the run-up to the Invasion of Iraq, didn't he? He let himself be duped into mouthing Cheney's line regarding WMD in Iraq, and into essentially giving false testimony before the UN Security Council to try and justify Cheney's desire to invade Iraq. See HEREI wonder how many people could tell Powell was lying when he spoke about yellowcake uranium powder? I missed that, my Mom passed away less than a month before the testimony. Not that that's an excuse for ignorance, but I was indisposed.
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aflanigan
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Feb 8, 2013 - 2:21pm |
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sirdroseph wrote:Oh yea I called that one as soon as they started to make a case for invading Iraq though I expected as much from Wolfy, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the crew. However what I didn't see coming was Obama taking the torch and not only running with it, but ratcheting up the intensity of the dismantling of our civil liberties. I felt more duped by that considering I voted for him in 2008. White knights, in politics, seem to be as mythical and elusive as unicorns. Peeking under the armor is inevitably disappointing.
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sirdroseph
Location: Not here, I tell you wat Gender:
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Feb 8, 2013 - 1:34pm |
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aflanigan wrote:Yet if Powell is a man of principle, then he let himself down, and let us down, when it came to the run-up to the Invasion of Iraq, didn't he? He let himself be duped into mouthing Cheney's line regarding WMD in Iraq, and into essentially giving false testimony before the UN Security Council to try and justify Cheney's desire to invade Iraq. See HEREI wonder how many people could tell Powell was lying when he spoke about yellowcake uranium powder? Oh yea I called that one as soon as they started to make a case for invading Iraq though I expected as much from Wolfy, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the crew. However what I didn't see coming was Obama taking the torch and not only running with it, but ratcheting up the intensity of the dismantling of our civil liberties. I felt more duped by that considering I voted for him in 2008.
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aflanigan
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Feb 8, 2013 - 12:53pm |
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bokey wrote:
1- I was just pointing out the correlation between the brainwashing ,moral stripping elite white collar scumbag factories dominance of the country and it's death rattle years.
2- Powell hasn't run because of his wife's health issues.
Were he to do so,I would try to be the first in line to cast my vote for that man of character,strength and integrity.
When an Obama or Romney speak,a child can tell they are lying/spewing vapid platitudes.You can almost smell the evil intentions.
When Powell speaks, you can see his character and decency.
At least I can.I don't wear any tinted lenses or let myself get brainwashed by the TV news.I watch whats going on,try to figure out why and judge accordingly.
Yet if Powell is a man of principle, then he let himself down, and let us down, when it came to the run-up to the Invasion of Iraq, didn't he? He let himself be duped into mouthing Cheney's line regarding WMD in Iraq, and into essentially giving false testimony before the UN Security Council to try and justify Cheney's desire to invade Iraq. See HEREI wonder how many people could tell Powell was lying when he spoke about yellowcake uranium powder?
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Feb 8, 2013 - 11:18am |
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kurtster wrote: His childhood from Indonesia through Hawaii was indeed most privilaged.
The private school he attended in Hawaii is one of the most prestigious and exclusive in the world. Its endowment rivals Harvard's.
So? I have a friend who, through the benefit of affirmative action, went to some private school in MA with Uma Thurman, and a bunch of other rich people. Obama has been gifted through his entire life. Are only rich people entitled to a great education? What a ridiculous statement!
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kurtster
Location: where fear is not a virtue Gender:
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Feb 8, 2013 - 11:13am |
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hippiechick wrote: Obama is not a privileged (spell the word right!) elitist, at least he wasn't.
His childhood from Indonesia through Hawaii was indeed most privilaged. The private school he attended in Hawaii is one of the most prestigious and exclusive in the world. Its endowment rivals Harvard's.
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