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   mickey1339 said, 2 months ago

   Credit where credit is due. This man is second only to Bill Clinton for campaigning. Obama should be half as good a leader as Clinton was. But he is a great campaigner…
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   Uncle Joe said, 2 months ago

   @mickey1339

   Have you seen the stories about Republicans who said, “I didn’t know Obama was willing to move to chained-CPI on Social Security”? This was hardly a secret. One can only guess that many Republicans in Congress are relying on people who are lying to them for their information.
   
   Obama is willing to budge on entitlements to the dismay of many Democrats. What he won’t budge on is raising tax revenues from a 50 year low as a portion of GDP. The Republican “leadership” has said they are, “done with revenue.”
   
   The lack of leadership is on the GOP side. As I’ve said over and over and over: Republicans are not serious about reducing the deficit.
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   Clark Kent said, 2 months ago

   rethuglicons are serious about crushing the middle class into grinding poverty. They want us on our knees, begging to live.
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   wmconelly said, 2 months ago

   GUESS WHAT IT’S THE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF!!
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   We were lied into the Iraq war – 935 documented times – and the same people who told us the war lies lied about the folly paying for itself, that we would be seen as “liberators” rather than war criminals, that we needn’t worry about fighting and our kids dying but instead should “go shopping” (Pres. Bush actually said this).
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   Now the same party that sold us Iraq wants us to believe lies about a non-existent deficit problem, about a manageable national debt, and about why we must take money and health care away from grandma, food from children in poverty and affordable education away from college-age students, so the likes of Mitt Romney can get another tax cut.
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   (with a tip of the hat to Charley James)
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   uh-oh said, 2 months ago

   Just lie to me.
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   Ms. Ima said, 2 months ago

   It’s so much easier to be the president’s wife. Free stuff, access to jets and unlimited vacations, telling everyone else your kid is a big fat slob and not having any responsibilities to name a few.
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   SwimsWithSharks said, 2 months ago

   The deficit’s like the weather. Everybody complains about it but nobody really wants to do anything about it.
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   mikefive said, 2 months ago

   I can’t find where the White House has submitted a budget. The last I read, his budget wasn’t to be submitted until the week of April 8. It can’t be vague if it hasn’t been submitted. (And where is it? It was supposed to be submitted, by law, not later than the first Monday in February) The Senate and House budgets, 112 and 91 pages respectively, are nothing more than political fluff that could be reduced to fiver or less pages of real numbers. All we are paying these people for is for them to strut, posture, and pontificate. The things that the House and Senate call budgets are nothing more than political rhetoric with a few numbers thrown in to support that rhetoric.
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   gmgodsil said, 2 months ago

   She isn’t, but he is! We’re just told she is a fashionista.
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    David said, 2 months ago

    It’s too bad the President can’t tell us the truth because teh so-called conservatives can’t handle the truth. They fold like baby kittens in front of a pit bull and run crying with wet undies to mommy rupert .
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    Respectful Troll said, 2 months ago

    @Uncle Joe

    Hello Uncle Joe,
    I couldn’t find the article I was looking for and two of the sources listed below are from liberal news sources, some will say three, however, they are offering bipartisan blame so hopefully, conservatives won’t be too abusive of my use of them.
    ^
    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/03/12/life-of-a-congressman/1980817/
    ^
    http://www.salon.com/2013/01/09/congress_is_awful_because_members_spend_all_day_long_talking_to_rich_people/
    ^
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/call-time-congressional-fundraising_n_2427291.html
    ^
    http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/03/26/149390968/take-the-money-and-run-for-office
    ^
    Both parties spend more time raising money than passing bills. There is a lack of leadership on both sides and when one looks at the perks and benefits they give themselves, it gets uglier and uglier.
    Until they improve the product they produce for Americans, they do not deserve the perks of their office and as part of the sequester should take a 20% pay cut and have their gym and other congressional “entitlements” closed until they do their jobs.
    Respectfully,
    C.
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    mikefive said, 2 months ago

    @wmconelly

    “…we would be seen as “liberators”…."
    ♦
    We were seen as liberators and would still be seen as liberators if we hadn’t done such a botched, ad hoc job of trying to put the country back together. Of course, it might have helped if the factions in Iraq were willing to seek real compromise or accommodation between themselves.
    ► “…rather than war criminals,…”
    As for the war criminal thing, the last I knew, only one country has legally declared anyone a war criminal. (That was of as last summer)
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    1opinion said, 2 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    your a sad little thing.
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    David said, 2 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    lol… I’ve led you to the water, howzie, but I can’t make you drink it. Thank you for proving my point that cons can’t handle the truth, it seems like poison to them.
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    Respectful Troll said, 2 months ago

    @Howie and David –
    2+2 = 4, 7-3 = 4, 12/3 = 4, & 4 x1 = 4.
    These are all true. The chief argument should be, which path is the best one to reach 4.
    ^
    Sadly, the formula our “you must keep ME in office so I can defend America from THEM” politicians use is more like…
    ^
    T x 5((3 x X -2) + pi x Y divided by 15z +9 = 4.
    And lobbyists, and special interests get to decide what the value of T,X, Y, & Z are.
    ^
    The result is, the numbers don’t add up. It is a bipartisan fiasco where ends justify means and the difference between excuses, lies, and actual reasons is effected by where you get your “facts”.
    ^
    Since they can’t make the math work, they tell us – “Don’t vote based on our ability to run the country, vote for us based on where we stand on homosexuality, birth control, gun control, marijuana, etc. The war, jobs, debt, infrastructure, education, and healthcare is a distant unimportant second set of concerns.”
    ^
    The first set of concerns don’t cost as much money to the nation but keep people angry & divided. The second set of things requires they make the math work.
    ^
    The fact you two intelligent gentlemen are arguing over legislators’ definitions of truth, show they are succeeding in keeping us divided as a people and away from reaching the important things worth “4”.
    Respectfully,
    C.
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