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The Obama Watch
Scoundrel Time
Everybody out of the pool — it’s not safe for the children.
Samuel Johnson’s famous late 18th century quote – “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel” – has been much misinterpreted and abused by scoundrels over the intervening years. Of course Johnson was not putting down the honest patriot, against whom he held no brief. Johnson was saying something important about scoundrels, not about patriots.
As was demonstrated again Wednesday morning at the press happening staged by the tag team of Biden (the dog) and Obama (the pony), modern scoundrels are versatile, able to enlist many more things than patriotism to promote their scams. In the current climate, the more effective hustle than appeals to patriotism is the popular chant: “It’s for the children.” This immunizes even the most crackpot and/or self-interested schemes from criticism, because who wants to be against the children? This approach paralyzes the marks.
Demonstrating that he not only never wastes a crisis, but never misses a cheap trick, Obama shamelessly trotted out four innocent children to act as props for his pitch for policies he and his evil sprites have wanted for ideological purposes years before Americans knew where Newtown, Connecticut, was. We can only be thankful that these four charmers didn’t fall prey to abortion, one of the sacraments of the First Church of the Democratic Party. When Obama croons that he will do all he can to control guns if it saves the life “of just one child,” he omits to remind us that children must be born to become objects of his cloying compassion.
Restrictive gun policies that Obama and the cultural left are and have been flogging at the same old stand forever have almost zero chance of making the world safer for the four children on stage with Obama Wednesday, or for the rest of the nation’s children and adults. But they will certainly restrict the freedoms of Americans, and perhaps even make our streets less safe as criminals ignore all the new laws that law-abiding citizens obey.
Pushing these hopeless nostrums will allow Obama, Biden, et al. to appear to be doing something about a national horror when in fact the level of risk to all and sundry remains unchanged. To push for these tired old non-fixes for an existential problem, one must be either cynical or stupid. In the cases of Obama, Biden, and the rest of the gun hysterics, alert TAS readers can make up their own minds which label applies in which instance.
On a related matter, I can’t wait for the Biden/Obama press happening on home swimming pools. As Biden and Obama are so keenly interested in the safety of American children, surely we will hear from them on home swimming pools. Many more American children drown in home swimming pools each year than are killed in shootings. A multiple more, in fact. So surely America will soon hear this administration’s pool control policies. What about a five-day waiting period before signing a contract to have a home pool installed? A background check before diving into the deep end? I’m sure Nanny Bloomberg can come up with some sensible depth restrictions. Perhaps the water can be locked away in a safe place when no one is swimming in it.
Sarcastic jest, of course. The cultural left in America doesn’t hate home swimming pools. It hates guns. So while the left continues to attempt to separate Americans from their guns, American children will continue to swim at their own risk (of course most parents are responsible and see that this risk is minimal). The grief of parents who lose children to drownings at home will be as heart-felt as that of Newtown parents. But it will remain private (as is proper) because it’s not a crisis that can be exploited by the left.
Scoundrels don’t change. They are ever with us. And children will always be better protected by attentive parents and teachers than by opportunistic politicians who enact useless or even counterproductive laws.
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TLP| 1.17.13 @ 6:10AM
Some of you people still don't understand what we're dealing with, here.
To Barack Hussein Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and every Democrat Politician in this Country: Newtown was Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, New Years, their Birthdays, and Winning the Lottery, all rolled in to one.
Like their Muslim buddies did on 911, I have no doubt that they were High Fiving, Dancing, and Passing out Candies and Pastries, when they heard what happened.
In their world of: Never let a Crises go to waste?
This was their SUPER BOWL.
As Rush would say: Don't doubt me.
Tommy Frisco| 1.17.13 @ 9:07AM
What's bad for America is good for the Democrats. What is frustrating is that crises like these seem to occur at just the right time for the Left. My first thought upon hearing about the Deepwater Horizon spill, for example, was that it occurred precisely when Obama would have wanted to minimize oil production. I sometimes wonder if it's too much of a coincidence, but even Obama couldn't have faked Hurricane Sandy.
jothepro| 1.17.13 @ 10:21AM
Hell Tommy, some on the left blamed Bush for Katrina.....
JmsA| 1.17.13 @ 11:26AM
Only some on the left?
vtwin| 1.17.13 @ 11:48AM
Duh, if not Bush than who would be responsible for the lack of response to hurricane Katrina?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 12:18PM
Hang on to that "Duh", it seems to summarize so much of what you are posting today.
I don’t believe he is talking about the response to Katrina, but that many people on the Left blamed him for starting the hurricane.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 12:54PM
They blamed him for STEERING the Hurricane to New Orleans.
Joellen| 1.17.13 @ 4:30PM
vermin, how about the DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR & MAYOR, who refused help from President Bush and FEMA.
Anthony| 1.17.13 @ 4:33PM
Ah vtwin, still stuck on stupid, after all these years. Try Gov. Blanco and Chocolate City Mayor Nagan.
FEMA was NOT a first responder. Never was, never will be, as Sandy demonstrated.
Gosh are you stupid!
Anthony| 1.17.13 @ 5:46PM
So what is this, every other day it's Purp and vtwin, and then we get Arnie and Jack London.
Tag team idiots.
Anthony| 1.17.13 @ 5:55PM
That is, Gov." dumb shit" Blanco, whose stupidity was such, she didn't even try to run for re-election, and Chocolate City" school bus" Nagan, who was too stupid to walk away from Chocolate City.
But then again he did get re-elected by the idiots of New Orleans. Hmmm kinda like Obozo.
Regardless, you're still dumber than a box of rocks vtwin. How can anybody be stuck on stupid as a permanent condition?
Oh wait, you're from San Fran,yes that does explain a lot.
spike59| 1.18.13 @ 9:38AM
how about the dumbass mayor on New Orleans, or the dumbass Governor of Louisiana?
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:04PM
Hmmm, and yet he didn't curtail oil production, and, no he didn't create Hurricane Sandy.
Seems like it is God's Will he be your President, huh?
CJW| 1.17.13 @ 3:25PM
Purpie/arnie the foul mouth Village Idiot wrote:
"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM
"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!
The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:
Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
So God killed and injured hudreds of persons, and destroyed millions of dollars of property to elect Obama, according the Village Idiot.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:08PM
Tommy Frisco.
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davidh| 1.17.13 @ 11:33AM
Their ultimate strategy is to silence opposition and defeat any resistance:
If you comment or question Obama or his political agenda you are a racist.
If you don't think Susan Rice deserves State then you are a sexist, misogynist.
They hate the 1st amendment but this strategy makes that amendment nearly moot.
Now to the rest of that pesky antiquated document.
I am surprised the internet is still up and running and still open to all views…amazing
The opposition has fled the cities and taken refuge in the south and west.
A false flag will be necessary to alienate the populace against this resistance to achieve the goals being pursued.
Pecos Pete| 1.17.13 @ 11:44AM
And rural areas.
davidh| 1.17.13 @ 12:01PM
Yes,
They have a very strong plan. It relies on the ignorance of the masses. A safe wager that people will believe what they are told.
I guess liberty can never last for long. When men believe that they deserve to rule the ignorant and the end justifies the means. Manifest destiny 101.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 12:56PM
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davidh| 1.17.13 @ 4:18PM
sounds good.
thanks for the invite
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:09PM
davidh.
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Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:06PM
"I am surprised the internet is still up and running and still open to all views…amazing" - actually it's not amazing at all.
You lose, you're sore, and you show it. That is all that has happened. You must not have played sports, huh?
Obama has been a transformational President - not like Bubble Head Bush that couldn't find his way around a peanut.
davidh| 1.17.13 @ 3:51PM
interesting points:
And I ain't no Democrat sure ain't no Republican I only know one party and it is freedom....I am a Patriot and I love my country
Patriot act came from Bush. You missed the mark on me, but I appreciate the response.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:10PM
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Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 5:28PM
Steve Van Zandt wants the credit for those lyrics, or at least an encore with "Checkpoint Charlie".
spike59| 1.18.13 @ 9:40AM
"Obama has been a transformational President"
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i have to agree there; he's transforming the United States into Greece
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:01PM
You're sick Timmy.
If anything, it was the right's and NRA's tone deaf and politics as usual reaction to it all that makes it all the more a Democratic win. "Blame Yo'self" for that.
No one in their right mind would think the tragedy in Connecticut was a good thing.
You are one sick dude.
CJW| 1.17.13 @ 3:26PM
Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM
"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!
The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:
Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials
CJW| 1.17.13 @ 3:27PM
Purpie/arnie
You are the sick dude who thought Hurricane Sandy was God helping Obama win.
spike59| 1.18.13 @ 12:31PM
and the turd who blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own murder
Occam's Tool| 1.18.13 @ 9:49PM
Well, a lot of children have been killed by drive-bys in Chicago, because criminals can get guns and those who want to protect their homes against animals, can't. But, as they are Black and Hispanic kids, their loss doesn't bother the Libs too much.
Kitty | 1.17.13 @ 6:14AM
Question about the mother on the right in that picture: Is it the same woman who's in this H&R Block ad about Obamacare? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w-zoseqxUw
Joellen| 1.17.13 @ 6:31AM
T & Kitty, NO one who adheres to the Constitution doubts the charade that has been put before us. If you think obama hasn't learned from the "father" of the year well, then think back to the bombing of the Federal building and how bubba (clinton) exploited that and blamed it all on Rush and talk radio.
They are truly evil - and those who defend these people are either evil themselves or are truly blind, deaf and dumb.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 9:06AM
Why am I reminded of 1990-1991, and see images of Saddam Hussein patting the head of the British boy/hostage /human shield whenever I view this photo of Obama and the children.
Appleby| 1.17.13 @ 9:11AM
His name was Stuart. P.J. O'Rourke wrote about him in his book "Give War A Chance."
vtwin| 1.17.13 @ 11:45AM
This is interesting. Does the Saddam Hussein with children video remind you of Bush reading to children in a Florida school, safely out of Washington DC, on 9/11?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 12:22PM
Actually, I think there is some projecting going on here, vtwin. By your use of the word safely, your post seems to suggest that he knew the attacks were coming, and deliberately went someplace else.
Is that what you are asking?
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 12:59PM
Go to Drudge, and read the story that accompanies the picture of Stalin holding up a Child, waiving the Soviet Flag.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 1:02PM
Hitler used to pose with all the children. He had his Hitler Youth.
The Soviets had their Young Pioneers.
Mao had his Young Revolutionary Fighters.
Castro had The Young Communist League.
And, Obama has the Public School System, and the Universities.
It's standard procedure for the left. It's as predictable as the Sun coming up in the Morning, or a Fastball on a 3 and 2 pitch, with the bases loaded.
It's that predictable.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 1:02PM
That was for vtwin douchebag.
Appleby| 1.17.13 @ 2:01PM
“The state must declare the child to be
the most precious treasure of the people.
As long as the government is perceived as
working for the benefit of the children,
the people will happily endure almost any
curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:11PM
Yes and YOU have the Young Conservadums, Private schools, and the Log Cabin Homosexual Republicans, so?
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:09PM
LMFAO - so I guess Obama can't count on your support? hahahaha ... sore Loser.
He's evil, I'm evil, everyone's evil - you are the ONLY one that is not in your self-righteous attitude, right? Seriously?
You sound not only snarky but jealous. Sad to be you.
Appleby| 1.17.13 @ 7:05AM
In point of fact, this IS a way to make people hate children -- although it's going to go through a stage of profound resentment as Our Betters try to baby-proof the world instead of world-proof the baby. I predict more and more places and events will exclude children; and that the definition of "child" will eventually be altered to include any unmarried offspring still living with its parents. It won't be long until even the most peaceful and well behaved children will not be welcome anywhere, because their very presence will take away the rights of all the adults in the facility.
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:12PM
That's stupid. If you can't tell a child from a young adult, you're hopeless.
Butch| 1.17.13 @ 4:00PM
The truth hurts, doesn't it? When you are an adult, you will realize that.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:12PM
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Occam's Tool| 1.18.13 @ 9:50PM
Europe is VERY child unfriendly, and New Zealand is much more so than the USA.
Nancy in NC| 1.17.13 @ 7:23AM
I bet all those children would sooner pick up a cobra than an unloaded gun. Their ignorant parents have them so paranoid about guns and life in general. I'm sure they will still be on their parents' insurance at 25.
Parents are now raising 25 year old toddlers. No one told them the goal should be to raise adults.
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:14PM
Oh, you mean like the shooter in Connecticut? THAT kind of adult? Soooo much better isn't he?
Butch| 1.17.13 @ 4:04PM
He was 20 years old and completely disinclined to leave the nest: no job, no higher education, just his nose buried in violent video games all day long. He was a child. Change the video games to this web site, and behold yourself.
Cobalt| 1.17.13 @ 7:32AM
If the United States Constitution had an amendment that protected the right of the people to keep a home swimming pool, then I the Left would want to ban them.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 9:10AM
Thus far, swimming pools (at least the in-ground variety) are too closely associated with the 1%, and as such, those who have them are less worthy of Obama's protection.
vtwin| 1.17.13 @ 11:50AM
Not in California.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 12:30PM
I will leave it up to your to do a tally of the amount of households in the Golden State [as opposed to, say, flyover country, where they can been seen (or not) in flight below 10,000 feet] that have an inground pool, though I seem to recall that Rodney King drowned in his pool only after he received his large cash settlement from the City of Los Angeles.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 1:07PM
So much for: Win For Life.
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:14PM
Another stupid comment that has no basis is fact, just made up bogeyman you can attack. Cowardly attack.
spike59| 1.18.13 @ 12:30PM
"Another stupid comment that has no basis is fact, just made up bogeyman you can attack. Cowardly attack."
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what's the matter, purpie, turd who blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own murder...worried that someone is taking a page out of the ObaMao campaign playbook?
Cobalt| 1.17.13 @ 7:54AM
"then the Left would want to ban them."
An edit button would be much appreciated.
Kwan| 1.17.13 @ 7:56AM
Of course Obama and the left are not concerned about children drowning in swimming pools. What's of real concern here is that when the Ministry of Internal Security sends Civilian National Security Force agents out to arrest some hapless chump to be transported to a Gulag labor camp for some trumped-up crime like doubts about his commitment to the Revolution, the chump might try to resist arrest. Of course no one can resist arrest with a swimming pool, and therefore the desperate need by leftist totalitarian dictators to disarm the citizenry.
JimH| 1.17.13 @ 10:25AM
Dooty! But seriously, as a Florida resident I see the nearly yearlong reporting of children drowning in pools (public and private). I suspect the number is higher than those who die from being shot.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:13PM
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Anthony| 1.17.13 @ 8:17AM
If you listened to the Muslim Marxist yesterday, it should have sent the hairs on the back of your necks up in rage.
Right out of Alinsky, Obozo used the words out of our founding documents, that we have inalienable rights, from our creator, and then proceeded to take executive action to limit them.
If you have any doubts, dispell them. This man is out to destroy our Constitutional Republic.
Von Mises Jr| 1.17.13 @ 9:00AM
In fact, like oil, liberals are not against guns. They are against liberty and free market capitalism.
The left is fine with Russia, Venezuela, Brazil and the dictators of the Middle East drilling for oil. We just can't do it here where people are free to earn profits and travel freely. The same is true for guns in that they think the Islamist in Libya and the Drug Lords of Mexico should have AK-47's, and their jack boot agents should have AK-47's. It is just freedom loving Americans that should not have guns.
The irony is that each of those kids owes $52K for the socialism of the progressives and will owe $1M by the time they reach retirement age continuing down this road. But long before they reach retirement, they will be broke and living in an Agenda21 "stack and pack" apartment working for Buffet’s or Immelt's crony capitalist kids. They will be the new serfs in bondage and without guns, while barry's daughters live high on the hog just like the Monarchs and Nobles of Europe in the Middle Ages.
That is what this is about and not much else.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:15PM
Anthony, and Von Mises Jr.
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DaPicayune| 1.18.13 @ 10:17AM
Obama is Vile,… vile for his murderous F/F Gun Violence that continues to kill innocent Mexicans/US Agents.
He’s more vile to now dance on the graves of the dead Sandy Hook children who were murdered by a Psyco on psychotropic drugs, just like Aurora, Tuscon, West VA, and so many more. But does Ovomit address the psychotropic drug/psych doctor problem behind all these mad mass murders that their patients continue to commit,... H!ll No, instead, for political gain only, he attacks his “enemies”, the NRA/Tea Party/GOP,… and our 2nd Amendment Rights.
Why, cuz he’s taking the political contributions from Big Pharma,… can’t offend them, or the AMA, nor his Hollyweird pals. Vile indeed. Remember in ’14.
Frank Drackman| 1.17.13 @ 8:28AM
I've seen this movie...
"The Dead Zone"
Christoper Walken plays the good guy, you know, an assassin,
Martin Sheen plays the war mongering Right Wing President to be, if Walken doesn't go all Spike Lee and do the right thing, you know, shoot him.
Walken takes his shot, misses at close range with a rifle, (def not a CMP graduate) and Sheen holds up a Baby as biological body armor, ending his presidential ambitions.
Of course we know a President would never do that in real life, it was just a movie afterall..
Frank
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 11:34AM
Excellent Movie.
I wish I had that power.
Whatever I shake hands with a liberal? All I see is them getting their hair and nails done while sitting in their sister's underwear, and getting a facial from some kind of tube, that's sticking through a hole in the wall next to their head.
Then I let go.
spike59| 1.18.13 @ 12:34PM
I hope you wash your hands REPEATEDLY afterwards...plenty of hot, soapy water...and then apply the hand sanitizer; you never know where a liberal's hands have been (besides in other peoples' wallets) given their penchant for poo-flinging
Jim Adcox| 1.17.13 @ 12:01PM
Exactly what I was thinking when I heard of this latest photo op. President 0, meet Senator Stillson.
Jim Adcox| 1.17.13 @ 12:03PM
Actually, I wasn't thinking what TLP was posting about. I was commenting on Frank's original posting.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 1:08PM
C'mon.
Be honest.
Arnie| 1.17.13 @ 8:57AM
Those liberals are so stupid. Don't they know that Jesus was most definitely packin'.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/d.....852926976/
sickofit5| 1.17.13 @ 9:00AM
Irony. These kids (parents) stand behind the president and support his efforts to deny citizens their second amendment rights yet this very same president could give a rat's ass about these kids if they were unborn and still in their mother's womb. That irony probably has never occurred to their idiot parents who probably thought it was so wonderful that their president wanted them on stage with him because of the letter they probably wrote. (Did we all notice the diversity of the children on stage, wm, wf, black and hispanic. He's wonderful.)
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 1:16PM
You left out that he couldn't care less that their Parents are Unemployed, or that they just Lost Their House, or that the School they go to is an Unmitigated Disaster, and when they Graduate, they'll have No Chance at getting a Good Paying Job, or that their Grandparents will never get the Medical Procedures that they might need to Stay Alive, should they fall ill.
Arnie| 1.17.13 @ 9:08AM
Yes, liberals are so stupid. Why do they care more about living children more than unborn and dead ones? If they're alive, and good, then it doesn't matter if they get shot, or bombs drop on their head, because they'll be in heaven (well, not if they're Muslim, or Jews, or athiests, or car salesmen, or russian....well, you get the point.)
spike59| 1.18.13 @ 9:44AM
arnie, you really need to hold off on hitting the glass pipe till AFTER you post
Appleby| 1.17.13 @ 9:15AM
This is a man who is fine with his daughters having unprotected, unrestricted sex, but doesn't want them "punished with a baby." A man who would execute his own grandchildren is a man beyond the reach of all human thought.
Arnie| 1.17.13 @ 9:20AM
Agreed. My mother never had unprotected, unrestricted sex. I came from a stork.
Warrior| 1.17.13 @ 10:43AM
You being a test tube baby would explain a lot.
Appleby| 1.17.13 @ 11:06AM
What the hades are you talking about?
Pecos Pete| 1.17.13 @ 11:46AM
Warrior is talking to Stupid Communist Arnie.
Pecos Pete| 1.17.13 @ 11:46AM
Maybe you were too?
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:16PM
Warrior.
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vtwin| 1.17.13 @ 11:57AM
Too funny!
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 1:18PM
Too Stupid!
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:20PM
Did Rush tell you this? I KNOW you aren't sinister enough to come up with this crap yourself - or are you?
Arnie| 1.17.13 @ 9:34AM
Yep, I was right. Jesus definitely thought everyone should have a gun.
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3py3h1/
Frank Drackman| 1.17.13 @ 10:18AM
If Anne Frank had a gun, like both of my daughters(Smith and Wesson 37 for the 17 yr old, the olders in Marine Officer Training, (M9, M16A2 I've got pictures!) instead of a stupid diary, she might not have died in Bergen-Belsen
And registering a gun?? Thats what the Nazis did(I know Jack, they invented Morphine, and Jets bla bla bla) makes it easier to confiscate them, which is whats coming Dummies, does anyone here seriously think a White Conservatives gonna win anytime soon??
Frank
Cobalt| 1.17.13 @ 10:47AM
We are headed toward an era of smart guns that will contain a microchip, or something similar.
When this happens, make no mistake, these smart guns will be able to be remotely disarmed by a third party..........national emergency, executive orders, Homeland Security, etc.
Frank Drackman| 1.17.13 @ 12:03PM
I'll keep my stupid Model 28, even if you run out of Bull-Wets(HT Elmer Fudd) it makes a good bludgeon...
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:16PM
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Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:22PM
How stupid Frank the Wiener -> You think any guns would stop the Nazis?
They wiped out the Polish/Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, who WERE fighting back WITH guns.
It's pointless to talk to an airhead like you.
Stormy| 1.17.13 @ 10:29AM
The political left does not hate guns. They surround themselves with guards who have guns, and they know how to use them. What they hate is for conservatives to have them. Guns make conservatives, and others, independent of the political left. The political left needs for us to be dependent upon them. It is power.
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:24PM
It's Libersals, Conservatives, Independents and almost everyone that wants to stop the gun violence - only the idiot radical right wingers - like y'all - who don't want to do a thing.
You have been listening to the wrong people if you think otherwise.
spike59| 1.18.13 @ 9:48AM
purp you idiot...there's nothing at all in the Obamafuhrer's proposals that will move the needle even in a little...feelings are a poor substitute for thinking
Louis Jenkins| 1.17.13 @ 10:44AM
"Suffer the little children to come unto me."
And they have been props for government agents time and again. Conservatives do not use children to get what they want, but a liberal, well, that's a different story. If it were cats and dogs, homeless people, or unemployed, Obama would use them. We've seen this tactic time and again for him to give a message. What I cannot figure out is that there were only four children? Surely he can do better than that!
Were they the only four that wrote him a letter?
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 1:19PM
Hitler used to pose with all the children. He had his Hitler Youth.
The Soviets had their Young Pioneers.
Mao had his Young Revolutionary Fighters.
Castro had The Young Communist League.
And, Obama has the Public School System, and the Universities.
It's standard procedure for the left. It's as predictable as the Sun coming up in the Morning, a Fastball on a 3 and two pitch with the bases loaded, or some old fool who's fixated on everybody's penis, writing garbage on a web site, and then signing his name at the bottom, like anyone gives a sh*t who he is.
It's that predictable.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:20PM
Oops.
I forgot to take that last part out.
Sorry, Drackman.
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:25PM
Guess it must be working, huh?
Why else would you care? You don't care about the 20 kids that had their faces blown off by a killer with an automatic gun, do you?
CJW| 1.17.13 @ 4:30PM
Purpie/arnie the foul mouth Village Idiot
You do not care that Hurricane Sandy killed and injured hudreds and destroyed millions of dollars of property because you said it was God helping Obam win.
So spare us your phoney concern about the "20 kids" because you probably believe it was God helping Obama again impose his agenda, right moron?
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:17PM
Louis Jenkins.
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BackToBasics| 1.17.13 @ 10:55AM
It is disgusting the way leftists hide their ugly and evil intentions for ultimate absolute control with thick coats of sickening syrup-like talk.
After awhile their talk itself becomes just another prop and they pretend to have an agenda for good when they use "sacred" words such as ch-ch-ch-chillldrennn and ch-ch-ch-choice and ch-ch-ch-change; genuflect and bow the head!
BackToBasics| 1.17.13 @ 10:57AM
It is also disgusting the way voters fall for this charade.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:18PM
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JP Jones| 1.17.13 @ 11:01AM
These people come and go.
Sure they seem full of themselves now
but as is always the case the
Over Reach will destroy them long term.
Two years after Obama is retired and living the life of
King Herrod in a Hawian fortress Paradise
The Poor Getto Folks will still be the Poor Getto folks only worse off then ever.
and the further decline of ethics and morals will only have served to make the whole place that much more sick to live in.
and yes those video games and movies will show
blood and gore only much more so.
but that's the nature of the beast.
And the only way to beat the beast is to out beast it.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 11:06AM
Good summary of the Treason Op, POST.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:18PM
Was that a poem?
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Arnie| 1.17.13 @ 1:44PM
64% of Republicans are birthers.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/1....._birthers/
Wow! You guys are never incorrect.
Drunken Sailor| 1.17.13 @ 2:35PM
Guess you missed the part in the article about 56% of democrats believing in at least one of the 4 myths they asked about.
The four theories they asked about were: Birtherism ; that the government knew about 9/11 in advance ; that Obama stole the 2012 election ; and that George W. Bush stole the 2004 election via vote rigging .
Seems your side has just as many conspiracy theorist out there.
Drunken Sailor| 1.17.13 @ 2:36PM
I particularly enjoyed this little gem.
"9/11 conspiracy theories were also more popular among Democrats, with 36 percent believing thatBush knew the towers would be attacked, while young African-Americans are particularly likely to believe this myth — fully 59 percent believe it."
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 2:42PM
Of course, that the source of the article is Salon has no bearing on the objectivity of the piece.
Drunken Sailor| 1.17.13 @ 2:56PM
Perish the thought Albert!
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:20PM
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Arnie| 1.17.13 @ 3:56PM
Yes, but 68% of ALL Republicans!!! That is higher than any of the Democratic percentages.
My God, are you watching FOX News? Oh, nevermind...
But anyway, yes, it's just not smart to swallow conspiracy theories, and just as bad to tolerate them or let them perpetuate. I assume that all you guys will start telling your fellow Republicans that any Birther talk is quite stupid, right?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 6:30PM
Arnie| 1.17.13 @ 1:44PM
64% of Republicans are birthers.
Arnie| 1.17.13 @ 3:56PM
Yes, but 68% of ALL Republicans
Ironically, in recent weeks Arnie spent an inordinate amount of time quibbling about the difference between 50.9 and 51.7 %, but can’t keep straight the difference between 64 and 68 %.
(A trillion here, a trillion there, and soon we’re talking about real money here.)
Warrior| 1.17.13 @ 8:13PM
My own poll (not pole or Pole) which TAS can use freely:
95% of liberal women feel the need to kill an unborn child.
75% of liberal woman would prefer a balsamic douche to vinegar.
82% of liberal men are afraid that they will go to hell upon death which will consist of 72 died in the wool liberal politicians, non-virgin (Pelosi, Clinton, Allbright, Doberman Schultz, Helen Thomas, Rosie O'Donnell...) with unusually increased libido activity and no available shopping bags. It gets worse, they will be taking sloppy seconds from Bill Clinton who believes he's in heaven.
99% of liberals believe that Mantei Te'o's girlfriend would have survived if Obamacare had kicked in two years earlier.
100% of liberals believe it to be racist to have to present an ID to vote, yet have no problems with this same requirement being applied to applying for a background check to purchase a legal gun.
Arnie| 1.18.13 @ 8:05AM
Warrior, your own poll, huh....Is that like the polls Republicans took before the election that were telling them, that they were going to win?
Speaking of polls, it seems about 75% of Americans support Obama's firearm and safety regulations.
http://www.reuters.com/article.....B120130117
Warrior| 1.18.13 @ 10:46AM
Leave your own pole alone and your thinking will clear up.
Arnie| 1.18.13 @ 8:00AM
Oh thanks Albert. That was an honest typo mistake. But thanks for reminding me. The Democrats did kick the shit of the Republicans again, didn't they?
JD| 1.17.13 @ 3:10PM
It's remarkable how boldly Leftists lie, even when they know that their lies will be revealed promptly. Perhaps this "Arnie" didn't think that anyone here would click his link?
The statistic is that 64% of Republicans believe that Obama is hiding information about his past. It's quite the big lie to assume that all of the 64% believe he was born in Kenya. There have been many other shadowy aspects of his past, including his schooling (how it was funded and his grades) and his past associations. I personally believe that it is more likely than not that he benefited by claiming to be foreign-born in applying for admission, scholarships, and jobs. See this:
http://alcuinbramerton.blogspo.....hy-in.html
Ultimately, his personal history is of little consequence relative to his terrible ideas.
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 3:27PM
Who cares what anyone believes - it's all a pack of lies on both sides to get ratings, attention, more money, something.
davidh| 1.17.13 @ 4:26PM
You are onto something here.
Patriot act
Homeland security
FEMA
War on Al Qaeda
Gun Control
National Database
Mass shootings with one white male shooter
Drones
Press is no longer free or independent
Again, I am amazed the internet is still working.
When animals sense a fire they run. Same as they do with any natural disaster. Why are Americans frantically buying guns? Can’t you smell the fire?
davidh| 1.17.13 @ 3:50PM
interesting points:
And I ain't no Democrat sure ain't no Republican I only know one party and it is freedom....I am a Patriot and I love my country
Patriot act came from Bush. You missed the mark on me, but I appreciate the response.
spike59| 1.18.13 @ 9:42AM
Patriot act came from Bush.
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news flash for ya...Bush didn't pass the Patriot Act, he only signed it...he didn't create the DHS; he resisted it while the Dems were pushing it
cicero| 1.17.13 @ 5:01PM
Patriotism - the last refuge of scoundrels. The thing that amazes me is that ALL of the Democrats that hold office in Washington seem to walk in lockstep marching this nation to the cliff. They can't all be blind. Do they really hate this country so much? They seem to be willing to do anything to cling to power, no matter the consequences to the country. I can almost excuse the undereducated and indoctrinated young who vote for this. I can't understand those in congress who know what is happening and fight for it to continue.
The 51% are just stupid. The Dem congress and their leaders, including O and B, are evil.
Purp| 1.17.13 @ 5:26PM
Because YOU say so? LMFAO
CJW| 1.17.13 @ 6:10PM
In addition to Cicero saying it, you prove it with every post, purpie the village idiot.
Pecos Pete| 1.17.13 @ 5:53PM
A good thread ruined by The Village Idiots.
CJW| 1.17.13 @ 6:12PM
That is their sole purpose in life, to be the skunk at the picnic. They had nothing to add, no logic, no facts, just the same old drivel churned out by the lefties.
spike59| 1.18.13 @ 12:36PM
they're like Slinkies...no real purpose, but exceedingly fun to push down the stairs; alone or in pairs!
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