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Old 11-16-2008, 10:11 AM   #31
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Barack Obama and The Ugly American

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debat...ugly-american/
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Old 11-18-2008, 01:30 AM   #32
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Maybe the NAACP and the NRA can start a program to legally arm as many people in Camden as possible.
Probably a good idea.

Beats the shit out of the avowed bad guys having ninety percent of the neighborhood firepower.

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Old 12-28-2008, 08:37 PM   #33
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Rep. Frank: Obama 'Overestimates' Ability to Unify

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Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) thinks that President-elect Obama picked same-sex marriage opponent Rick Warren to give the inauguration invocation because Obama "overestimates" his ability to unify people.

"Oh, I believe that he overestimates his ability to get people to put aside fundamental differences," said Frank, the first House member to come out of the closet voluntarily.

Frank, on MSNBC on Monday, said that he's delighted Obama was elected and that the country is headed into the "best time" for public policy since the New Deal.

"But my one question is, I think he overestimates his ability to take people, particularly our colleagues on the right, and, sort of, charm them into being nice," Frank said. "I know he talks about being post-partisan. But I've worked, frankly, with Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, the current Republican leadership. The current Republican leadership in the House repudiated George Bush. I don't know why Mr. Obama thinks he's going to have them better than George Bush.

"And so, to be honest, when he talks about being post-partisan, having seen these people and knowing what they would do in that situation, I suffer from post-partisan depression," Frank said jokingly.
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Old 12-28-2008, 08:44 PM   #34
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Because the majority of voters have said with their vote that's what they want. Now it's up to those voters to clean up the Congress as well.
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Old 12-28-2008, 08:56 PM   #35
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Now it's up to those voters to clean up the Congress as well.
Wishful thinking, I'm afraid.
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:24 PM   #36
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I like Briannas idea in the "Bailing Out" thread.

Line every member of congress and house up single file, get out the guillotine, and look at their history.
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:36 PM   #37
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The fly in that ointment is who's the judge/jury? You? Me? The people of their home district that keeps reelecting them?
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:44 PM   #38
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The fly in that ointment is who's the judge/jury? You? Me? The people of their home district that keeps reelecting them?
Its a very dark joke. But you make your point.
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Old 12-29-2008, 08:25 AM   #39
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I just watched a History channel show on the French Revolution. Yes, they went a bit overboard with the head chopping but it's still a fundamentally sound idea.

/smirk/
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Old 12-29-2008, 08:26 AM   #40
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The fly in that ointment is who's the judge/jury? You? Me? The people of their home district that keeps reelecting them?
the Judge and Jury would be Common Sense. We need Benjamin Franklin.
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Old 12-29-2008, 08:40 AM   #41
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I just watched a History channel show on the French Revolution. Yes, they went a bit overboard with the head chopping but it's still a fundamentally sound idea.

/smirk/
True nuf. The cool part is how the choppers get chopped as well. Anyone who was that committed to their politics was fair game. I'm good with that.
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Old 12-29-2008, 12:18 PM   #42
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Common sense? Where ya gonna find that in Washington? You'd have to bus them all to Ohio or someplace.
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Old 12-29-2008, 03:10 PM   #43
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the Judge and Jury would be Common Sense. We need Benjamin Franklin.
Yea, we call that Military Tribunals.
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Old 12-29-2008, 03:28 PM   #44
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Old 12-29-2008, 03:30 PM   #45
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Yea, we call that Military Tribunals.
You'd be one of the top ten on the chopping block, merc!
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