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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Obama stumbles after smooth road to top

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chicagoknowsbarry

Oh, are the dumbocrats mad at each other? Is Barry being mean and not acting like a good socialist union boy? Well he sure got his from Hairball Reid today - " I don't work for Barry, I work with him." Tough guy that Hairball. "No way Burris, Luv ya Roland. I'm not a racist Bobby. Just a wimp." Leon Panetta makes a great appointment as head of the CIA. I understand he beat Joey B at Call of Duty 28 straight times.
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boarderthom

Compare and contrast, my high school english teachers said that over and over. Compare and contrast, gay rights and slave rights; the contrasts are easy, the comparisons are profound. Slaves were not allowed to marry either. Slaves were not allowed to make a contract and what is a civil marriage but a hugh contract. You can not deny that gay people are denied the rights involved in marriage. Stop gay apartheid. Navanethem Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights spoke there by video-phone last month saying, "That just like apartheid laws that criminalized sexual relations between different races, laws against homosexuality are increasingly becoming recognized as anachronistic and inconsistent both with international law and with traditional values of dignity, inclusion, and respect for all."
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CMPark

* boarderthorn - Compare and Contrast. Plums are not Apples. Homosexuality is not skin color. People are born with their skin color and cannot change it. Homosexuality is a DECISION and it CAN be changed. Medical Scientists have been seeking a homosexual gene since the 1950's and have recently been coming to the conclusion that none exists. To try to piggyback off the valiant civil rights struggles of the African American is a deception. Homosexuality is as deviant a behavior as pedophilia, beastiality, and heterosexual unnatural sexual activity. They are ALL moral perversions which are destructive to a sane civil society. You know something, I was in a nice restaurant this past weekend with my wife and our fourteen year old niece. At the table next to us were two homosexuals oggling, coddling, kissing, and fondling one another. That is behavior that heterosexuals do not practice in polite company because they generally respect the decency of others and the public establishment. I see this flagrant, in-your-face kind of offensive behavior from the homosexual community all too often. You people parade nude in the streets of San Francisco and then expect the rest of society to consider you "normal" and worthy of "marital" rights. May you continue your never-ending struggle and may it never find success.
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truthhurts2

Gee....It's too bad that his approval rating, OUTSIDE of the Washington Times, is only 70%..He should be ashamed!
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Dungmin

Yah, and that same 70% considers broadcasts of "Deal Or No Deal" world shaping events. Swept along in the current of Obama's astounding victory, you can count on these folks to be real "winners", and like Obama himself constitutional scholars all.
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MarieDevine

The smooth ride to the top ends when the leaders find their wishes will not stand. Now the people see what they got for their promises. Barack Obama promised a change in Washington; now he is trying to guarantee government jobs and is increasing government positions. He is not in control; nothing has changed. Groups of unions, etc. are marching, pushing the economic stimulus plan. When there was no text, no details to the stimulus package, just a dollar amount, the House and Democrats were trying to push it through quickly and enslave us further, even without adequate review. We are not being protected. We are already in a dangerous position with our present debt. China is loosing its appetite for American debt including treasuries and future money is not assured. God hates debt and being insurance for others and warns against it. What happens when the USA is unable to pay our debts? We slowly become the US of China etc. It was massive spending projects to solve recessions in the past that have led to the dangerous, stressful and expensive lifestyle that we have now. It has caused world problems of pollution, global warming, energy crisis, reoccurring financial crises, war, immigration, disease and the high cost of health care (soon to add health insurance costs to millions that cannot afford it), poverty, inequality, crime, child and elder care needs, and social security inadequacies and insufficiencies, etc. To get into massive debt and seek the same destructive lifestyle only destroys us all the faster. It takes more polluting energy to create all the expensive energy efficient items to try to save us and most people would not be able to afford them. We would also be encouraging other nations to do the same. Only destruction lies in this direction. The goal in life is not employment; it is retirement in a garden paradise we can create here and now easily. That will solve the world problems at the same time. It is how God promises to "heal the land" when we follow His simple plan for an abundant life with no sorrow added. God promises rain in due season to those who follow His guidance and wisdom. He has also provided a banking system that will not fail or run out of money, and it provides equally for the poor. Fear Not. The way is prepared for the paradigm shift and transformation of the earth that many expect. Our choice is between employment and retirement in a garden paradise we create here and now. Pray and let your leaders know you want real change we can count on.
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kgolfinghawaii

The guy on the last page cracks me up...his patience is wearing thin? Who gives a darn? Certainly not me. For once when will liberals learn that not one politician on their side of the issues gives a rats behind about them. They care about power, perks and money for themselves and their friends. In other words getting re-elected each election. They never do what is right for the nation as whole. They only do what is right for their voting blocks. And to some extent we have a few of those on our side of the aisle, but no comparison. I think another point in the article about Rick Warren and his view about homosexuals being "non-inclusive" is so stupid. Why is it ok for anyone on the left to not be inclusive but everyone on the right must not only respect their actions, but condone them? No way Ray. And one more thing....where are people clamoring for "Universal Health Care", certainly not in my middle class neighborhood where everyone works. They only people clamoring are the people that always want everything free because they don't actually pay taxes anyway so the rest of us will be paying for their "free health care".
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reenee

So BO's approval rating "OUTSIDE" the Washington Times is 70% What is this approval rating based on?? He's not yet president and he's done nothing except nominate cabinet members and spew vague plans about spending more money that we don't have (love his tax break idea for the middle class...gee, sounds a lot like the stimulus check that Bush sent out last year that was so ridiculed)....easy to have a high approval rating when haven't actually done anything. I'm praying for him
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RDH

The only person more important than the leader of the free world is a member of Congress.
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hipshot

I didn't know the president was their boss.
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ds80

"lauded as having the smoothest transition to power in modern history" ... because the network media continues to fail to do their job.
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chicagoknowsbarry

Maybe he can appoint the mental midget Rooland Burris as Commerce Secretary. I mean he's from Chicago and everything. Plus he says he never stole anything. That works.
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