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Claim: Obama ´Uncomfortable´ at Touted Skeet Shoot
Breitbart´s Big Government, by Warner Todd Huston
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/30/2013 11:05:55 PM
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| In a recent interview, President Barack Obama tried to blow off criticism for his gun control push with a revelation of regular firearm use. "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," he claimed. As soon as Obama´s quote went public, critics expressed incredulity. Fox News´ Jana Winter went looking for any eyewitnesses that could corroborate Obama´s claim. Winter did find a source who admitted that Obama had once been skeet shooting at Camp David—with the caveat that the President couldn´t get away from it fast enough.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MissMann, 1/30/2013 11:13:30 PM (No. 9149646)
This "guy" is ripping apart our beloved country and selling chunks off to the Communist Chinese and the big news from conservatives this week is about him lying about skeet shooting????
No wonder we´re turning off more and more lo-fos...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/30/2013 11:21:09 PM (No. 9149654)
obama started to squeal at the sound of the shotgun. Probably covered his ears and pranced off.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jl80863, 1/30/2013 11:30:47 PM (No. 9149660)
Just imagine his umbrella act with a shot gun. I can hear the screams of terror.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Th-Gr-Sil-Majority, 1/31/2013 12:36:20 AM (No. 9149689)
...he´d rather be bowling...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
thewarden, 1/31/2013 12:39:33 AM (No. 9149691)
Sissy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Alpha91c, 1/31/2013 12:51:40 AM (No. 9149697)
I am transmorgafied, transmorgafied I tell you, to find out that my beloved Dear Leader is not really an accomplished skeeter.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
OperaBuff, 1/31/2013 12:52:55 AM (No. 9149698)
Big stick go Boom! Boom! Me scared, mommy. Me no like big stick.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 1/31/2013 12:58:45 AM (No. 9149701)
"Those poor skeet! I can´t watch this! You ANIMALS! Ohhh, bwhahahaha, mommy. Mommy!"
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bamapreacher, 1/31/2013 12:59:26 AM (No. 9149702)
I imagine his idea of skeet shooting is like that of Mel Brooks as King Louis in History of the World Part 1. "I love the peasants. They are my people and I am their king. Pull!"
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
steveW, 1/31/2013 1:23:50 AM (No. 9149712)
His Majesty is like a ninja sniper. Himself can do anything, so endless are His talents. He can - behold! - make entire economies contract while his scribes and minstrels praise the contraction. He can make the worthless opposition scramble like mice to appear more Compassionate than Himself, the ninja sniper.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sparky joe, 1/31/2013 1:25:30 AM (No. 9149714)
No 1. - it´s about his congenital LYING - about All Things, Big and Small
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 1/31/2013 1:52:23 AM (No. 9149724)
#11 ... and its about how the media lets him slide on those lies as well.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
iamtinman, 1/31/2013 2:18:15 AM (No. 9149729)
Notice that he said "we" not "I". That is the type of statement that the press lets him get away with all the time.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bumbleshorts, 1/31/2013 2:36:47 AM (No. 9149731)
Obama is "uncomfortable" about the skeet shoot?
Is Dick Cheney participating?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mrsbash, 1/31/2013 3:26:20 AM (No. 9149744)
First clue: I have never met an actual person who says he ´does skeet shooting.´
Nope, if this were true, he would say he shoots skeet.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/31/2013 4:15:52 AM (No. 9149760)
Obama fecklessly tried to pimp himself out as an all around sportsman and it backfired on him.The reason nobody believed it is because of his feminine attributes in his personality.
This isn´t that much different than Romney getting a lifetime membership at the NRA to boost his right wing credentials.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers, 1/31/2013 6:38:13 AM (No. 9149857)
Gateway Pundit nicknamed him "Skeets" Obama - HA HA HA !!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Muguy, 1/31/2013 6:43:12 AM (No. 9149867)
As much as his ever-loyal media follows his every move, we have yet to see him shooting skeet!
When challenged to produce proof, they just go to another story for a convenient CYA.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ida Lou Pino, 1/31/2013 7:12:25 AM (No. 9149887)
"Waaah! Waaah! Waaah! OK - - OK - - I did it - - - - - but I didn´t LIKE it!"
Yup - - maybe some perp who´s up on a murder or rape charge can use this one too.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Bad Dog, 1/31/2013 7:14:22 AM (No. 9149890)
´´Can I git me a huntin´ license around here?´´
Oh wait - that was our new Secretary of State back in 2004.... with freshly starched camo huntin´ jacket.
I keep picturing Emperor Zero in those same new-off-the-designer-rack camo and cap. They say politics is Hollywood for ugly people.... they´re all pretenders.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
leesum, 1/31/2013 7:23:55 AM (No. 9149909)
Chairman Mao swimming in the Yatzee.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 1/31/2013 7:41:26 AM (No. 9149942)
This whole skeet story reeks of nothing but scat. (Got a dictionary? Look it up!)
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
M2, 1/31/2013 7:46:57 AM (No. 9149954)
So five minutes of a forced photo op of skeet shooting turns into "We shoot skeet all the time." Spoken like a true pathological liar.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
wyspen, 1/31/2013 7:47:31 AM (No. 9149956)
No. 20 stole my thunder. I can see Skeets and Horseface going hunting together, a couple of good old boys. Maybe they could take Dick Cheney with them and maybe, just maybe, Dick nails ´em both with a scatter load. Just a thought!!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
MDConservative, 1/31/2013 7:53:58 AM (No. 9149978)
I´d love to see Obama and NorKor´s Dear Leader compete head-to-head in golf, basketball and shooting skeet.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
kahunavol, 1/31/2013 7:57:52 AM (No. 9149989)
I am sure from his perspective it turned out he was pretty good at it.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mrduc, 1/31/2013 8:08:06 AM (No. 9150019)
I think you meant Yangtze River. Yahtzee is a dice game, but it kinda fits here. ´Skeets´ rolls the PR dice and hopes we don´t catch on to his big fat lies.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Holeymoses, 1/31/2013 8:13:51 AM (No. 9150033)
Yes, this is very small stuff to what he should be paying attention to, but if it keeps him annoyed and busy trying to worm out of it, I´m ok with it. Let´s aggravate him to the point that he takes up smoking again.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/31/2013 8:37:50 AM (No. 9150082)
Yes, 29. That´s his vulnerability -- so let´s exploit it.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 1/31/2013 8:44:30 AM (No. 9150097)
Skeet? Them´s some good eatin´! /s
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
udanja99, 1/31/2013 8:49:54 AM (No. 9150113)
Only his most rump swabbing useful idiot followers believe he ever stopped smoking. I didn´t watch any of the inaugural activities but there were reports that he was gnawing away on gum like a dog with a bone. That´s telltale behavior for someone who´s dying for a cigarette.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
benignczar, 1/31/2013 8:50:44 AM (No. 9150115)
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 1/31/2013 8:54:46 AM (No. 9150128)
He probably thinks clay pigeons are good eatin´ too.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 1/31/2013 8:56:58 AM (No. 9150133)
#1 see #11 as to why this is a story worth talking about. Sometimes lo-fos are like donkeys, you have to hit them over the head to get their attention.
#6 sent me to my dictionary with "transmorgafied". For a minute I thought you meant "transfigured", but that is a Christian term associated with a story about Jesus which doesn´t work for Bammy.
The closest I could find is "transmogrified" which fits for Obama. Dictionary meaning of "transmogrify":verb: to change or transform into a different shape, esp a grotesque or bizarre one. Thanks for helping me to learn a new word. Dear Leader "transmogrifies" all the time. I wonder how he will "transmogrify" at this year´s State-of-the-Union speech?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
US Veteran, 1/31/2013 9:04:06 AM (No. 9150148)
I bet he shoots skeet just like he throws a baseball...
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
beat the press, 1/31/2013 9:15:34 AM (No. 9150177)
Maybe o´sissy can teach all those people he´s helping on the south side of chicago to shoot skeet rather than children.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
bradcro, 1/31/2013 9:21:32 AM (No. 9150188)
This is just a misunderstanding. He thought skeet shooting was good pool table technique.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
benignczar, 1/31/2013 10:04:59 AM (No. 9150296)
You people have clearly never hunted for the dreaded skeet !! Our heroic president faced graave danger and clearly felt threatened by the carnivorous skeet and he doubtless had no choice but to shoot in his own self-defense. Thank goodness his gun laws had not passed at that point in time.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Felixcat, 1/31/2013 10:06:54 AM (No. 9150301)
Obama would probably prefer target shooting where all the silhouettes had the faces of the "Loyal Opposition" on them.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
ida Lou Pino, 1/31/2013 10:14:41 AM (No. 9150314)
Elmer Fudd hunting wabbits.
Only Elmer was a lot funnier - - and more sympathetic.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 1/31/2013 10:24:43 AM (No. 9150336)
The LIAR is proficient in the use of Drones so let´s lay off the skeets.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Aunt Agnes, 1/31/2013 10:27:36 AM (No. 9150347)
It´s exactly what I thought - the noise gets to him. When I used to go shooting with my ex & his friends, he tried to teach me but after a few shots my ears were ringing. I did learn how to operate the thrower (which is why I suspect he wanted me to go along!) Also the gun was heavy & the whole business seemed like more work than fun & my husband shot for target practice to be a better hunter. BO´s hobbies are passive - chooming, watching ESPN, drinking, listening to himself talk & if you believe reports of his gay activities, he´s even passive & lazy in that dept. He´s not a person who wants to handle a heavy, NOISY gun.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
rocket-j-squirrel, 1/31/2013 10:35:41 AM (No. 9150369)
Those arms have never lifted anything heavier than a curtain, an umbrella, a golf club, a joint...I´m sure there are more items in his photo ops.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Eheu Fugaces, 1/31/2013 10:40:58 AM (No. 9150385)
And Sarah Palin, who can handle a gun in the field, is laughing.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy, 1/31/2013 11:04:52 AM (No. 9150447)
What this all boils down to is that Zero is full of skeet. Which we already knew.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
drbulb, 1/31/2013 11:05:54 AM (No. 9150451)
I´d pay money to see a Sarah Palin vs. Barky Øzero skeet match...
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Dignitary Protection, 1/31/2013 11:08:13 AM (No. 9150461)
Maybe he and Jimmy Carter can get together and hunt killer rabbits.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
sadc, 1/31/2013 11:37:50 AM (No. 9150532)
He shoots skeet, goes figure skeeting and was a Boy Skeet and just does it all. The point is #1, not that we care about what he does for recreation, it is that he lies, Hillary lies,they sit together and lie and Bill Clinton lies. Then they thumb their noses at us to say, "what difference does it make.... I won?!!"
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack, 1/31/2013 11:45:48 AM (No. 9150552)
"all the time"? come on barry do the math!!
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
FilAm, 1/31/2013 12:09:00 PM (No. 9150619)
What a liar.I ll ask him what´s the difference between a high house and a low house or ask him what is an over under.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
strike3, 1/31/2013 12:14:06 PM (No. 9150628)
The Secret Service would be very nervous at the thought of a republican congresswoman holding a shotgun near Ear Leader but in reality, they should be nervous about him dropping his own gun and having it go off on the ground. Many legs would be in danger. This challenge will not take place, for a number of reasons, all centering on barry´s incompetence.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
lencu255, 1/31/2013 12:22:29 PM (No. 9150639)
Ask a dictator (or wanna-be-dictator) what they want to do the most. Ask hitler/stalin/mao/pol_pot/mugabe/castro/chavez: they love to kill people. Oh, sorry, I forgot, you can´t ask dictators.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
garyhope, 1/31/2013 1:06:04 PM (No. 9150724)
#7, you had me ROFLMAO.
Excellent.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
wexfordcounty, 1/31/2013 1:17:08 PM (No. 9150741)
I hear the snipe hunting´s great at Camp David, too.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
K.I.S.S., 1/31/2013 1:23:51 PM (No. 9150754)
how many tax paid obamawriters and obamaspinners were needed to come up with this lie?
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 1/31/2013 1:59:36 PM (No. 9150813)
He might not be good at shooting skeet, but he probably can yell "Pull!" pretty well.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
GoodGrief, 1/31/2013 2:43:28 PM (No. 9150897)
I have soaked raw Skeet for 30 days and they are still harder than golf balls. They were not even shot.
Yes, I tried adding salt, no luck, but it helps with the lables.
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
GoodGrief, 1/31/2013 2:46:47 PM (No. 9150904)
#55, I understand Camp David was stocked only with down-hill Snipe. They are almost impossible to keep up with until you are in town again.
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
flaming sword, 1/31/2013 2:49:51 PM (No. 9150912)
Better be careful with that last question #51. Bathhouse Barry might have an unusual answer for that one.
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
Talega, 1/31/2013 4:50:17 PM (No. 9151073)
#51 - If you ask him if he uses screw-in chokes, he´d say ´I never choke when we´re doing skeet shooting.´
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
Rafter, 1/31/2013 5:26:17 PM (No. 9151125)
From the mouth of the Wannabe Kommie Dicktater, Obie WON Kenya-Obie...
"I love skeets. Saturday Night Live has some of de fonniest skeets I haff effer seen."
"Moochelle and I shoot our own skeets weeth the children standing in for various roles. It be hilarious."
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
walcb, 1/31/2013 5:45:02 PM (No. 9151151)
Is there any license required to shoot these skeet animals?
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
JediJerry, 1/31/2013 7:17:44 PM (No. 9151294)
Zippy skeet shoots as often as he surfs Jaws or Waimea Bay when he is in Hawaii.
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Reply 65 - Posted by:
shurnuff, 1/31/2013 8:08:59 PM (No. 9151387)
I wonder if he knows how to skin and dress those skeets?
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Reply 66 - Posted by:
WimeTarmerFable, 1/31/2013 8:40:08 PM (No. 9151420)
The recoil from a Red Ryder would lay him on his keister.
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Reply 67 - Posted by:
vlams, 1/31/2013 8:42:45 PM (No. 9151422)
Maybe Dick Chaney would be willing to give the present president some lessons on shooting -- among other things!
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Reply 68 - Posted by:
WIBadger, 1/31/2013 9:45:35 PM (No. 9151511)
Maybe his big ears are overly sensitive to the noise.
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Reply 69 - Posted by:
Happy Trails, 2/1/2013 2:32:16 AM (No. 9151714)
Hearing those guns going off reminded him of his worst nightmares, where his enemies are unloading their hostilities on him. Can you really trust a true blue, red blooded American Secret Service guy with so much opportunity to become a true blue, red blooded American hero?
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President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´ GOP filibuster on guns
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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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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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM
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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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Mother Of Slain Benghazi Officer To Sean Hannity: ‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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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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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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White House Blames Jobs Numbers on Sequester
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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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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Broadcasters worry about ´Zero TV´ homes
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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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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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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