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the Republican playbook
[Read the article: When Democrats chase Hoosiers and Region Rats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is what Republican Party supporters are saying about Obama on the internet. If he was the Presidential candidate it would be much worse.
LET ME SEE IF I HAVE THIS STRAIGHT:
HIS FATHER WAS A KENYAN, MOSLEM, BLACK- WE HAVE SEEN PICTURES OF HIS AFRICAN 'FAMILY'
HIS MOTHER IS A KANSAN, ATHIEST, WHITE-
WHERE ARE THE PICTURES OF HIS KANSAN, WHITE MOTHER AND HIS WHITE GRANDPARENTS WHO RAISED HIM?
HIS FATHER DESERTED HIS MOTHER AND HIM WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG AND WENT BACK TO HIS FAMILY IN KENYA
HIS MOTHER MARRIED AN INDONESIAN MOSLEM AND TOOK HIM TO JAKARTA WHERE HE WAS SCHOOLED IN A MOSLEM SCHOOL
HIS MOTHER RETURNED TO HAWAII AND HE WAS RAISED BY HIS WHITE KANSAN GRANDPARENTS
HE LATER WENT TO THE BEST HIGH DOLLAR SCHOOLS, HOW?
HE LIVES IN A $1.4 MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE THAT HE ACQUIRED THROUGH A DEAL WITH A WEALTHY FUND RAISER. HOW?
HE 'WORKED' AS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN CHICAGO- HAS NEVER HELD A PRODUCTIVE JOB. THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHTS POST NOR IS IT SUBJECT TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SET- ASIDES
HE ENTERED POLITICS AT THE STATE LEVEL AND THEN THE NATIONAL LEVEL, WHERE HE HAS MINIMAL EXPERIENCE
HE IS PROUD OF HIS 'AFRICAN HERITAGE' BUT IT SEEMS THAT HIS ONLY AFRICAN CONNECTION WAS THAT HIS AFRICAN FATHER GOT A WHITE GIRL PREGNANT AND DESERTED HER. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT SPERM CARRIED A 'CULTURAL' GENE. WHERE IS THE PRIDE IN HIS WHITE CULTURE?
HE GOES TO AN 'AFROCENTRIC' CHURCH THAT HATES WHITES, HATES JEWS, AND BLAMES AMERICA FOR ALL THE WORLDS PERCEIVED FAULTS AND THEN REPEATEDLY COVERS UP FOR THE PASTOR AND THE CHURCH
HE CLAIMS THAT HE COULD NOT CONFRONT HIS PASTOR BUT HE WANTS US TO BELIEVE THAT HE CAN CONFRONT NORTH KOREA AND IRAN, RIGHT!!!
YEAH, I THINK I SEE HOW HE COULD BE A UNITER AND BRING US TOGETHER: I THINK THE HOPE IS THAT HE HOPES NO ONE WILL PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER.
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governing wisely
[Read the article: When Democrats chase Hoosiers and Region Rats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's more to government than cutting taxes gneubeck and hunthorse and why repeat that tired old lie that a national healthcare system is 'socialized medicine' and that it is a failure in countries who have it? It's just not true. We have a national health system in Australia and if you get knocked down by a car at 2am in the morning you will be taken to hospital and given any and every treament that you need and all the drugs you need to recover and physiotherapy or whatever else you need and at the end of it, because you're in a public hospital you won't pay for anything. The reason is simple, there is a 1.5% levy taken out of your taxes, so in fact you do pay but in a way that you can afford whatever your income. The argument against taxes is a rich man's argument.
It's just not logical when you think about it: if you can only save a dollar you've got a dollar but if 12 million people put a dollar in the pot you've got 12 million dollars.Why the hell would you keep screaming your head off to keep your lousy dollar when you can pool your resources and you and your children and grandchildren can benefit? As for the 'Clinton recession' my advice is, stop making a fool of yourself. Clinton left a huge surplus, and fixed the economy trashed by Reagan, who was also in love with other people's wars and cutting taxes. What's Georgie going to leave? A disastrous war in Iraq, a potential disaster in Afghanistan, chaos in the Middle East, a ruined US economy deep in crisis and recession, a demoralized military, thousands of soldiers who are physically and mentally destroyed and four thousand who are dead, nearly a million dead Iraqis, five million Iraqi refugees, oil at over a hundred dollars a barrel, the barefaced lies of the War on Terror, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay,the horror of the aftermath of Katrina,the threats to liberty and democracy contained in the Patriot Act, a collapsing infrastructure and a bitterly divided country which he's sold to China. Bush personifies the famous description of the war criminals at the Nuremberg trials- 'the banality of evil'. And then there's Cheney - but I don't even want to think about him.
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vote vote vote
[Read the article: When Democrats chase Hoosiers and Region Rats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Voting IS your business Ecw0647!You didn't get in this mess because people voted; it's because people didn't vote and left it all to others. Thoughtful, concerned voters like you have a duty to vote. No democracy is perfect but think of the alternatives.