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Besieged Barack
The honeymoon ends abruptly. Little guys don’t like big ACORNs. Look out for the union label.
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She also possesses a sense of humor…very important.
Obama doesn’t like being president anymore. The fun is already
over. Being decisive has consequences, and he can’t take
criticism. His allies have noticed, so have America’s
enemies.
— P. Aaron Jones
Michigan
ONE THING IN MIND
Re: Matthew Vadum’s No
Justice, No Peace:
Wade Rathke and the other members of the ACORN 8 being at war
with the main body of ACORN is no surprise. These people are not
out for the “little guy.” The little guy is a means to an ends
for them and their ilk. What interests them is power. Raw.
Unadulterated power. Those who are neither part of this modern
day mafia nor part of The Fellowship of the One are best served
by staying out of this donnybrook and cheering for complete and
utter implosion. Revolutions have started with less firepower
than this.
— Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York
The Feds and IRS are taking too long to uncover the
wrongdoing of Wade Rathke who is the mastermind of
financial corruption in ACORN. ACORN 8 is a great
example of members taking charge of demanding truth and
transparency.
— Roslyn Dodge
NEGATIVE ACTION
Re: Ralph R. Reiland’s Isn’t It
Reich?
This is rich! The labor unions were forced on construction (and mining and manufacturing) by the Democrats during the New Deal. Roosevelt knew they would directly and immediately throw black men out of work, but decided it was a price worth paying.
If you’re old enough to remember the early days of affirmative
action, you know it was practically designed for labor unions
(and local and state government in the old South). When I was
young you couldn’t get into a union unless you had a relative in
it, so black men had to use their Uncle Sam.
— D.M. Duggan
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ruth| 2.6.09 @ 2:14PM
Thanks for your great letter, Mr. Jones, I've also recognized these positive characteristics of Governor Palin. President Obama already looks exhausted, uh oh, the job doesn't seem fun anymore.
ThinkTank| 2.6.09 @ 5:18PM
Sarah may have the 'aw shucks' and the 'yer durn tootins' down pat, but she is just not a smart woman.
She's plenty authentic, but you need to be clever and curious about the world to be President. She's not.
WendyG| 2.6.09 @ 6:43PM
I remind myself often, that time wounds all heels. Obama's true nature is emerging, and pretty it ain't.
Alan Brooks| 2.6.09 @ 9:09PM
but he is the black JFK and he would actually have to try to screw it up to lose his re-election bid.
he and family are instant royalty--his daughters will run for office someday.
Alan Brooks| 2.6.09 @ 10:03PM
you guys aren't looking ahead. this isn't like Clinton; in this case it is a done deal.
O. wont leave office till 1 /20/ '17 .
Obama would have to cavort with interns on the white house lawn to lose in '12
but in this day and age, perhaps even if he did play with interns he might still win. he is JFK & MLK rolled into one.
you may not agree with this now, but someday you will.
ruth| 2.7.09 @ 3:05AM
Obama hasn't been lookin' too clever lately, ThinkTank. Pretty incompetent is more like it.
Paul| 2.7.09 @ 12:39PM
Amazing to me how people can question Palin's intelligence. Here's a woman who at 44 has accomplished more than most of us ever will, the most popular governor in the country, who rose from nothing but a good family, a purely self-made woman. A negotiator who worked successfully with Canadian provincial governments and Ottawa in pipeline negotiations. She has just the street smarts a successful executive needs.
Or, she's not "curious." Unlikke Obama she hasn't been running for persident for years. She was plucked out of a governorship where she was plenty busy with state issues, but she's supposed to become an expert in international affairs from day one. Please, Think Tank, think. Besides, given her superior record as governor she'll undoubtedly be a pretty quick read as a president.
Sub MOA| 2.7.09 @ 3:22PM
It amazes and saddens me the extent to which the paleoMedia's hatchet job on Palin worked, even on Conservatives. As per Paul above, this woman has been hung with baggage from nowhere, deemed less competent with her 80-some-percent approval rating in AK than most of congress with ratings in the single digit range.
My impression is that she has discernment and the best interests of the country at heart. I'd rather have someone with fair smarts and unassailable character than a traitor genius who could pull off whatever devilment he dreamed up.
Ever notice how many formost experts disagree? Nobody is smart enough to crank off good decisions in a vacuum in these times-- that's where the cabinet comes in.
Marc Jeric| 2.8.09 @ 1:12PM
Abu Hussein from Kenya started his career as a community organizer; he then continued as a lawyer for community organizers; finally, before being elected to Illinois Senate by suing his opponents as inelligible, he was law instructor for future lawyers for community organizers. His economic stimulus bill has $5.1 billion reserved for ACORN community organizers. The latter remind me of Hitler's brown shirts and Stalin's block committees (soviets).
reads1| 2.8.09 @ 5:16PM
thinktank; ( a misnomer if there ever was one,) your elitist comments, judging one who you are probably not worthy of speaking her name, are a prime example of "know nothing' liberalism with all its worst in view.
ruth| 2.9.09 @ 12:08AM
SubMoa, don't worry about Palin, she just needs a chance to define herself on her own terms. I still say that MCain put her in an impossible position. I don't know who could have aced that situation--especially with the lame stream media (the rodent, Katie Couric comes to mind) gunning for her. Even then, she blew me away with her first speech in Ohio and the one she gave at the Republican Convention. I am curious to see what she does next. I also admire her for what she has accomplished on her own; no trust fund baby, she. Whatever she chooses to do, she has my support.
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