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Topic: Obama´s strongest opposition may come from within - over spoils, not principle |
Obama´s strongest opposition may come from within - over spoils, not principle
Daily Caller, by Joel Pollak
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Posted By:Hooverdog, 1/23/2013 11:32:39 AM
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| I have seen more powerful men than Barack Obama fall. I worked in South Africa during Thabo Mbeki’s presidency, when the ruling African National Congress (ANC) won 70% of the vote and earned the power to change his country’s constitution unilaterally. In 2005, I watched from the gallery as he told Parliament he was dismissing his deputy, Jacob Zuma, over allegations of corruption stemming from a lucrative arms deal. Two years later, Mbeki was ousted by his party and forced to resign his presidency of the country.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 1/23/2013 11:47:08 AM (No. 9134288)
Power hungry, greedy, and envious. Yes, it will get ugly - especially when Dems realize that Obama will siphon away ´´their money´´ every chance he gets.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lt.Mom, 1/23/2013 12:05:35 PM (No. 9134359)
Love the comment after the article. "Never get between a Democrat and someone else´s money."
Obama and his followers do remind me of the African regimes that are destroying former colonies in South Africa, Zimbabwe and now Kenya, among others. Greed has always been a major factor motivating the Democrat party, but when it is coupled with third world aggression and incivility, it really is so very ugly and even more dangerous to our freedoms than most liberals could have hoped for, when they first chose to support this rogue.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jond, 1/23/2013 12:09:56 PM (No. 9134377)
This is more or less what happened to "W".
Its a symptom, not a disease.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
southron, 1/23/2013 12:35:20 PM (No. 9134437)
As more people are personally affected by the declining economy, Zero´s poll numbers should begin to drop. Hopefully this should stall some of extreme Marxism that Zero is proposing.
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