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Topic: Minus 12: Obama Calls United States ‘A Former Colony’ |
Minus 12: Obama Calls United States ‘A Former Colony’
Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Burke
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 11/8/2012 2:35:00 PM
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| In his re-election victory speech on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama referred to the United States as a singular “former colony,” when the United States was actually composed of 13 separate colonies prior to gaining independence from the British. “Thank you so much. Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward,” said Obama, which was the first sentence of his remarks in Chicago, Ill. Before the United States won its independence from Great Britain with the Treaty of Paris in 1783,
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Comments: And to think we get four more years of this. A colony, 57 states, whatever.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
RIsailor, 11/8/2012 2:41:18 PM (No. 9000094)
Once again, Obama's speechwriter the ill educated Jon Favreau shows how his lack of history knowledge, and Obama of course would not know how to correct it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ScarletPimpernel, 11/8/2012 2:41:35 PM (No. 9000095)
He's as uneducated and ignorant as my 70-year-old neighbor, who didn't know that the Constitution is the law of our land and that we have a Constitutional Republic.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Emmajustin, 11/8/2012 2:43:37 PM (No. 9000104)
They don't call him idiot boy for nothing. Another sickening display of public education.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
voxlapidis, 11/8/2012 2:51:11 PM (No. 9000144)
Give him a pass.
We learned about the 13 Colonies in grade school. I doubt they taught American History in the Basuki School.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bobgray2, 11/8/2012 2:59:23 PM (No. 9000166)
Who would have thought that the movie "Idiocracy" would be so prophetic? And it didn't take decades to get there.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
msjena, 11/8/2012 3:01:52 PM (No. 9000172)
I think he was thinking of Kenya.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
yo-yo, 11/8/2012 3:03:51 PM (No. 9000182)
Okay, so maybe, just maybe, 0bama isn't perfect.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mitzi, 11/8/2012 3:08:01 PM (No. 9000190)
True to form ... the words go in his eyes and out his mouth without any passage through his brain. Then again ... maybe he's just ignorant.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
god of irony, 11/8/2012 3:11:24 PM (No. 9000195)
You would think an anti-colonialist would know better.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
veritas, 11/8/2012 3:18:37 PM (No. 9000213)
Indeed, 13 colonies.
And our self-determination wasn't so much "won" as taken. Takenby force of arms.
Oh. And retained by force of arms. Something that, like baseball, achievement, and exceptionalism, Americans are very, very good at.
Last -- there's absolutely no excuse for such errors to get into a pResidential speech, to make it to the teleprompter. To be uttered by even a usurper.
#7: Nice one.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rinktum, 11/8/2012 3:25:48 PM (No. 9000234)
Give him a break! I don't this was covered in the Madrassa.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
lala, 11/8/2012 3:41:12 PM (No. 9000275)
The idea of his "perfecting our nation" scares the bejeebers out of me.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
paulfromTexas, 11/8/2012 3:52:23 PM (No. 9000308)
Further proof the man is an unAmerican idiot.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
artman1746, 11/8/2012 3:52:37 PM (No. 9000310)
But he remembered there are now 57 states!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
nimby, 11/8/2012 3:57:13 PM (No. 9000324)
It is just amazing how many stupid Americans are out there!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
steveracer, 11/8/2012 3:59:02 PM (No. 9000333)
"former colony" What! I've never heard that phrase never was taught that phrase and have never used that phrase. Lord Barry sure has a different take on America than I do. (another 4 years with this dangerous idiot, can't wait)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Phantomll, 11/8/2012 3:59:58 PM (No. 9000337)
And we also have "Navy corpsemen"!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 11/8/2012 4:00:00 PM (No. 9000338)
Cut him some slack. He did not grow up here. He does not know our history.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
redwhite&blue2, 11/8/2012 4:00:25 PM (No. 9000341)
1. Navy CORPSE-man ! 2. 57 states ! 3. My MUSLIM faith ! 4. I ate DOG ! 5. A former colony ! 6. I'll close Gitmo ! 7. I'll UNITE the people of this country !
I never in my wildest dreams serving this country and working hard all my life thought that my vote would be negated by so many dumbasses voting for such an obvious dumbass liar...we truly are surrounded by idiots!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Philipsonh, 11/8/2012 4:04:52 PM (No. 9000357)
It is up to VP Biden to clarify the President's remarks- Oh, my.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
TexaTucky, 11/8/2012 4:06:35 PM (No. 9000363)
#2, judging by what happened on Tuesday, maybe your neighbor is the smart one and we're all the igmos.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
NYbob, 11/8/2012 4:22:10 PM (No. 9000399)
So what? The kids don't care, their parents don't care, the illegals here to grab what they can don't care, but most of all the media, Hollywood and education not only don't care. They really hate anyone who does, because personal accountability and personal sacrifice are wrapped up in the story of how 13 colonies that were tempted to become their own countries, pulled it together.
All the snarky elitists who flirt with socialism and communism want to throw that out and rule us with an iron hand. We will see, but I sure wish more people knew things like what countries border the continental United States.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
dcomd, 11/8/2012 4:40:13 PM (No. 9000428)
Time to 'throw the tea into the harbor' again?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
FilAm, 11/8/2012 4:41:14 PM (No. 9000435)
Take your average Obama drone and I bet you they dont even know any of these.They are not interested in any dead white males and whatever they did back then.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
zzzghy, 11/8/2012 4:54:34 PM (No. 9000472)
What's the point in continually pointing out the worn-out truth that stinky is a moron and a tool? Why bother? It comes across as sour grapes, and I think this might in fact be the case.
All the little stinkys ignored the blatant unavoidable truths and voted him in any way, and now we're in deep, deep trouble.
stinky lied, obfuscated and danced around his failures and disasters, and won. The United States is stuck with him for another four years. He won't be called to account for anything, and he definitely won't be impeached. He's wearing two sets of body armor -- sloe-joe biden and hairy reed. stinky is safe and tucked in for four years, and there's nothing we can do about it.
My home has been a stinky-free zone for four years. I think I'll try to make my life stinky-free as well; my postings here and elsewhere, conversations with friends and non-friends; as much as possible, li'l stinky is persona non grata in my home and life, now more than ever.
To hell with him. I can minimize to a small degree the damage his wicked treasonous actions inflict on me, and I will do that. We all will. But apart from that, I've scraped stinky off my boot for the last time. Like I said, to hell with him.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
BamaMan, 11/8/2012 5:39:55 PM (No. 9000578)
He don't need no stinkin history, he's makin it!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
KTWO, 11/8/2012 6:06:15 PM (No. 9000627)
Once? Not at all. We are the newest colony.
It is like a science fiction movie. The new masters (the federal government) has won and DHS agents arrive to issue orders and implant obedience chips into all the primitives (Conservatives).
The awed bumpkin's loyal dog barks and snarls but is promptly vaporized by a beam of light.
The farm cat has seen enough and goes behind the barn to look for for mice.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
enemyofthestate, 11/8/2012 6:16:51 PM (No. 9000658)
He's not an American. Regardless of the details of his birth, he's not an American.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
congma, 11/8/2012 6:33:09 PM (No. 9000691)
stupid
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
mathman, 11/8/2012 6:44:44 PM (No. 9000709)
Face it. The guy is a religious figure. He is an icon. He is the Savior of the World. He is the Chosen One. He knows nothing. He sees nothing. He does nothing. He is nothing. He is that empty chair Eastwood spoke with.
And the maroons in this country just re-elected him to four more years of horror.
I am glad I am not Syrian, Israeli, or a resident in any of a number of other countries.
Forget Israel. Tel Aviv will soon be given a Hydrogen Bomb.
Forget Seattle. Seattle will soon be given a Hydrogen Bomb.
And Zippy? He will be in Las Vegas.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 11/8/2012 7:01:46 PM (No. 9000753)
What a dumbass
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
get er done, 11/8/2012 7:23:42 PM (No. 9000789)
The solutions to dealing withe dumbasses who voted for this dumbass.
Boycott liberals in every aspect of your life. Life is so much more pleasant and simpler this way. Patronize conservative businesses.
Do not hire or do business with illegals in any way shape or form.
Red states citizens: Petition your governors and state congresses to cut off funding to illegals. Let illegals seek refuge in the blue states, or better yet, go home until they are legal citizens. Also petition your red state governments to exercise their Tenth Amendment rights and regain control of elections -- tell Holder to butt out. U.N. observers were amazed that ID was not required to vote.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
strike3, 11/8/2012 7:30:09 PM (No. 9000801)
I wonder if sailboat-ears even realizes that this "colony" won it's freedom by throwing off the shackles of tyranny and eliminating the oppressors by bloody revolution. In the coming years he will be dealing with a bigger and more determined TEA party and we are mad as hell already.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/8/2012 8:04:21 PM (No. 9000879)
Obama is illiterate and inarticulate, despite the msm's imagined Obama.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 11/8/2012 10:36:34 PM (No. 9001204)
How many more ways can the foreigner insult US ?
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