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Our Mean-Spirited President Gives a Press Conference and Talks About Guns
Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/14/2013 9:24:50 PM
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| Barack Obama gave a press conference today; Paul reported on Obama’s discussion of the debt ceiling a little while ago. Obama’s comments on the debt ceiling were breathtakingly dishonest: he admitted that there is a long history of budget negotiations accompanying past increases in the ceiling, and acknowledged that he himself voted against increasing the debt limit as a senator, even though it would have led to the same supposedly awful consequences he complained about today. But Obama said, at least three or four times, that this year is different
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
fishermanswife, 1/14/2013 9:32:42 PM (No. 9116791)
I believe like Patrick Henry - give me liberty or death.
Things are getting very scary.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/14/2013 9:34:52 PM (No. 9116797)
ValJar, the revenge Queen, must have been typing comments into totus at the so-called Press Conference.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
doctorfixit, 1/14/2013 9:41:12 PM (No. 9116808)
His Big Lie now is that the debt ceiling has something to do with paying bills. He´s a liar.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
kate318, 1/14/2013 9:53:20 PM (No. 9116823)
Barak Hussein Obama, how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways. I know I´m a broken record about this guy, but it just feels good to say it over and over. Hope you all understand.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 1/14/2013 11:08:37 PM (No. 9116904)
Swiping the credit card a few bazillion more time has nothing to do with paying last month´s bills.
Is this whole road show pitched at the low-info voters ???
Are there no serious people on the left ?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/15/2013 12:09:43 AM (No. 9116961)
#5: "Low-information voters," like the members of the media?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NMPatriot, 1/15/2013 1:15:42 AM (No. 9116988)
Just like obama(doesn´t)care was never about improving health care coverage or cost, so is this overt assault on the Second Amendment not about preventing massacres.
The only things keeping freedom free in the world is God and God fearing, gun owning, law abiding Americans. Both have been under attack for decades by the progressives and must be removed so they can have complete control to make us completely miserable thereby achieving their "utopia".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mr. Hanky, 1/15/2013 3:09:39 AM (No. 9117024)
Liar and charlatan. This from the party and Administration that refuses to pass a budget.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ladychatalie, 1/15/2013 4:38:05 AM (No. 9117037)
"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Barack Hussein Obama, June 13, 2008 Philadelphia fund raiser
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/15/2013 4:55:58 AM (No. 9117045)
This is just another instance of "get to the back of the bus" or "I won".
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Janjan, 1/15/2013 7:21:49 AM (No. 9117138)
Obama is a one man majority in DC. Condescending to his ignorant followers and openly hostile to the rest of America. He is focused on pushing the envelope and enraging conservatives. There is a strategy here.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 1/15/2013 7:23:37 AM (No. 9117140)
The votes of low info rabble put a thug in the Oval Office. Most of these Obama voters that do have jobs will be seeing smaller paychecks by the end of the month. Serves them right.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Michimatician47, 1/15/2013 7:44:25 AM (No. 9117174)
Running out of other people´s money is a nightmare for elected officials when it happens in Argentina, Greece, or the United States. The putative debt ceiling increase is one of the few opportunities that the GOP House has to make Obama squirm. Obama knows that his chance to demonize Republicans over the debt limit is short-lived. Once the great hardships imposed by curtailing the government´s borrowing power are being endured by the whole population (what could be fairer than that?), the party in power will bear responsibility for the outcome. If the Republicans retain any instinct for self-preservation, a big "if", then they will remain adamant in their demands that spending be cut and that a budget be produced by the Senate before another dime of borrowing capacity is authorized. Another epic cave-in from Boehner and McConnell would effectively terminate the loyal opposition.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Grace Veritas, 1/15/2013 7:57:40 AM (No. 9117192)
Sorry, #13, but the opportunity to demonize Republicans over the debt ceiling or anything else is not short-lived. The party in power simply will not be held responsible for the coming debacle, not by the lofo media and not by a majority of lofo voters.
Don´t get me wrong - I´m all for fighting to the bitter end for reigning in spending, but not because we will win politically, only because it is the right, principled, and patriotic thing to do.
We truly live in an era when no good deed goes unpunished. It takes character to do good in that kind of environment. God strengthen our character.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ronbet, 1/15/2013 8:24:36 AM (No. 9117246)
And by-the-way: the sitting yesterday was NOT a press conference but just another occasion for this thug to impress his subjects in the press, who dutifully gave him the audience to again show off his sociopathic behavior. He should be impeached and the press sycophants should be jailed for what they have done to our country!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
beca, 1/15/2013 8:29:41 AM (No. 9117259)
#4...with you all the way exceopt i probably loathe him MORE
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
hamrman, 1/15/2013 9:45:17 AM (No. 9117429)
King George´s rant yesterday was scarey!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
gwmcclintok, 1/15/2013 10:10:11 AM (No. 9117483)
Making someone else work, and give their hard earned money to support others is.....SLAVERY.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
LAW428, 1/15/2013 10:20:41 AM (No. 9117505)
We dare not accept an illegitimate power grab from this "imperial" dictator. He is testing the waters and he must be held accountable.
The big question that remains is whether or not there is a Congress with the fortitude to hold the bloviator-in-Chief accountable. He is about to step into an impeachable zone.
His threats of issuing executive orders to deal with handgun control and the "debt ceiling" shows his arrogant lust for power and his total disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America. Let him be damned if he tries this and our nation be damned if he´s allowed to get away with it!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chicodon, 1/15/2013 10:47:33 AM (No. 9117561)
We now have the takers clearly ruling over the makers. We have a President who has been on the gravy train his entire life. This situation was predictable and I fault prior generations for allowing it to happen. In short, people who pay no taxes should not be able to raise taxes on those who do. This scenario is beginning to look a lot like 1776.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bighambone, 1/15/2013 10:50:02 AM (No. 9117569)
Unfortunately only a small minority of the people who voted for Obama could get up and tell you exactly what he said about the debt ceiling in an accurate fashion.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DoktorFranken, 1/15/2013 11:03:01 AM (No. 9117600)
Whatever the subject or location or situation, it all comes down to,
"If his lips are flappin´....."
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/15/2013 11:38:28 AM (No. 9117690)
He had a difficult childhood. Still does.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
coldoc, 1/15/2013 11:56:12 AM (No. 9117743)
Barry constitutes a "clear and present danger" to our republic, our founding documents and principles. When push comes to shove, how many in the military will back him? How many colin powells and david petraeus´s are there? How many troops will be willing to fire on their neighbors? How many toadies who work for HS and ATF will risk their lives to promote his dictatorial policies? We live in "interesting times".
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
toinee, 1/15/2013 11:59:36 AM (No. 9117758)
#4 That´s o.k. Most of us here also have a deep loathing for the fascist. It´s natural to despise someone who is trying to destroy everything you love about your country.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
GreatPlains, 1/15/2013 12:40:39 PM (No. 9117840)
Probably the most unprofessional public behavior by a potus ever. Obama´s lack of grace and immaturity was on full display yesterday. In addition to his bizarre behavior, he found it necessary to use terms like ransom, self inflicted wounds and gun to head when referring to Republicans. When he wasn´t calling them absurd and happy to starve impoverished children. In private, this bum is even nastier and more narcissistic. It´s amazing that he decided to showcase the real Obama so soon.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
lencu255, 1/15/2013 1:08:14 PM (No. 9117909)
Well, how many times do I have to tell you that all dictators did 2 things in the beginning: 1.Seize control over the media. 2.Seize control over the money. In our country obozo has both! (Newspapers, alphabet tv, education, entertainment; Federal reserve, major banks, Wall Street). Without mainstream media our struggle is futile.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
peterfleming, 1/15/2013 2:45:58 PM (No. 9118119)
Read just a few of the author´s pages to come to a much better understanding of the unresolved psychological problems of the most vindictive, raging president ever elected to office. Forensic psychologist, Dr Paul Fick´s newest Amazon published book, THE DESTRUCTIVE PRESIDENT, explains all in logical, verifiable terms. Go to his website and read just a few of his descriptive pages that give incredible insight to this dangerously angry man. www.destructivepresident.com
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Rafter, 1/15/2013 3:57:24 PM (No. 9118300)
#17, how about...
King Curious George.
His lineage is from the Coconut Family Tree of Indonesia, Amnesia, Kenya, Hawaii... and apparently Hades.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 1/15/2013 4:14:14 PM (No. 9118349)
I´m sure that if Barack Obama ever has shot a pistol, that his palm was parallel to the floor.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
tulunk, 1/15/2013 6:39:31 PM (No. 9118669)
For too long tax paying citizens have been the frogs in the pot of warm water, tolerating poor schools,religious intolerance, more and more freeloading, but I think maybe Obama is kicking the wrong sleeping dog when he goes after guns. Lazy uninformed citizens may give in meekly to this despot, but gun owners are passionate about freedom to own firearms. Watch out, Adolph.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
ArtieC, 1/15/2013 6:40:24 PM (No. 9118671)
Ive tried real hard not to care about this, but now Oprah is involved, I just have to. ok I´m being sarcastic.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
srhcb, 1/15/2013 6:41:25 PM (No. 9118674)
mean : adjective. base - vile - poor - low - stingy - sordid - average (wiki)
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
ArtieC, 1/15/2013 6:42:09 PM (No. 9118677)
Ignore my previous post. I clicked on the wrong thread.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Bobn.T, 1/15/2013 6:44:35 PM (No. 9118681)
#27 - we still have an ace in the hole.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Bla Bla, 1/15/2013 6:45:39 PM (No. 9118684)
Yo -- Prez -- I´ll be happy to give up my right to own an automatic weapon if you can guarantee me that no one: no criminal, no government agent, no illegal alien will ever have one in their hands either.
. . . . . . . . Didn´t think so.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
strike3, 1/15/2013 8:13:57 PM (No. 9118827)
"Well, I think, for example, how we are gathering data, for example, on guns that fall into the hands of criminals, and how we track that more effectively."
Is this boy really this stupid? (rhetorical of course) And how can you achieve stronger background checks? Either you are in the national criminal data base or you are not. It´s a yes or no question. Although when I bought my last weapon, it took them two weeks to return an answer.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
bifgroovey, 1/15/2013 8:23:05 PM (No. 9118839)
Black socialists kiLl each other every day in his home Chicago (how are those strict gun bans working for you?). But he does not weep for them....
...He is only moved to act when rich white kids are shot by an insane criminal who obtained registered firearms from his mother.
The Democrat Party is the new plantation owner of America.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
connor, 1/15/2013 9:17:36 PM (No. 9118896)
Joined the NRA today. $35 annual dues. Please join if you can.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 1/15/2013 10:46:29 PM (No. 9119003)
He´s obviously feeling very secure, warm and cozy in his overly tight security system. He´s so isolated, he is losing touch even more on reality. Reality can be a huge meany. Even meaner than the little coward thinks he is.
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A three-minute video of Sarah Merkle’s testimony about Maryland’s new gun legislation has drawn more than 2 million views on YouTube, won her praise from gun rights advocates across the country and even scored her an interview on national television last week. But the 15-year-old from Baltimore said she cares more about her message. “The biggest part of this is that the pro-gun, Second Amendment argument is getting publicity,” she said. “I like that it actually got out there, and not just because it’s me, but because it’s the argument.”
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Filibuster gains support to delay gun control vote
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Gun legislation’s prospects improve
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Broadcasters worry about ´Zero TV´ homes
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Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi Officer To Sean Hannity: ‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Hillary Clinton Would Not ´Clear the Field´ for 2016
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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for his ´poorly chosen words´ on gay marriage
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Vanishing workforce weighs on growth
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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