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21 Nov 2009, 8:00 pm

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I disagree. Once she finds a way to fire clerks in various Presidential Libraries and expel military officers who get on the bad side of her extended family, even the most insane rightists will recall the Obama days with rose coloured glasses.


She's need to outspend him though, that much seems nigh impossible.



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23 Nov 2009, 1:57 am

Obama vs Palin. What a choice.

The choice between two nobodies that no one has ever heard of before?

In England or Australia you don't get the top job unless you have been serving your own political party and been a member of parliament for many years.

Three cheers for America where a total nobody can shoot for the top job if they have enough money and media behind them.



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23 Nov 2009, 3:10 am

Palin FTW.


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24 Nov 2009, 1:41 am

President Palin in 2012? In that case I guess the Maya would be right about the end of the world . . .


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24 Nov 2009, 12:12 pm

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President Palin in 2012? In that case I guess the Maya would be right about the end of the world . . .


The whole Maya thing sounds like it was taken from a headline in the Onion.


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27 Nov 2009, 9:07 pm

No, either Ron Paul wins the primaries or I'm not voting


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27 Nov 2009, 9:54 pm

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No, either Ron Paul wins the primaries or I'm not voting

So you're not voting?

You're 15, so there's a good chance your political views will change dramatically by the next election. (Yeah, I know I'm not much older- in all probably my views will also shift by then)


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27 Nov 2009, 9:57 pm

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No, either Ron Paul wins the primaries or I'm not voting

So you're not voting?

You're 15, so there's a good chance your political views will change dramatically by the next election. (Yeah, I know I'm not much older- in all probably my views will also shift by then)


Actually they've already changed.

I once supported Obama then I reallized he was a communist :)


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27 Nov 2009, 10:07 pm

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Actually they've already changed.

I once supported Obama then I reallized he was a communist :)

They can change again. And Obama is hardly a communist. He can be criticized well enough for what he actually is without making stuff up.


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27 Nov 2009, 10:15 pm

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Actually they've already changed.

I once supported Obama then I reallized he was a communist :)

They can change again. And Obama is hardly a communist. He can be criticized well enough for what he actually is without making stuff up.


I would consider any government with much control over the economy as Obama has communism


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27 Nov 2009, 10:22 pm

Josher wrote:
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Actually they've already changed.

I once supported Obama then I reallized he was a communist :)

They can change again. And Obama is hardly a communist. He can be criticized well enough for what he actually is without making stuff up.


I would consider any government with much control over the economy as Obama has communism



Actually, control by regulation is not the same as control by bureaucracy.



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27 Nov 2009, 10:32 pm

Josher wrote:
Orwell wrote:
Josher wrote:
Actually they've already changed.

I once supported Obama then I reallized he was a communist :)

They can change again. And Obama is hardly a communist. He can be criticized well enough for what he actually is without making stuff up.


I would consider any government with much control over the economy as Obama has communism


I think the right way to say it is he's pretty much for turning the U.S. into a wellfare state - its not communism, its not quite socialism, pretty much whatever people want to consider large parts of Western Europe - that's what he's for. There's a guy named Leon Duwinter who as a Danish columnist even explains why it would be terrible for Europe as well if we became the same kind of economy - let alone our own economic future.



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27 Nov 2009, 10:36 pm

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I would consider any government with much control over the economy as Obama has communism

Then you are severely mistaken on what communism is.


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27 Nov 2009, 10:42 pm

Orwell wrote:
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I would consider any government with much control over the economy as Obama has communism

Then you are severely mistaken on what communism is.

No, you are severely mistaken on who Obama is.

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28 Nov 2009, 4:27 pm

Let me make one thing clear-Sarah Palin scares the living sh*t out of me. I can't imagine a more frightening scenario than to have that woman run this country. The amount of people replying that they'd vote for Palin also greatly disturbs me. Another Republican candidate whom I wouldn't vote for in a million years is Mike Huckabee. Essentially, the only difference between him and Palin is their sex.



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28 Nov 2009, 4:37 pm

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Palin. She's the woman we need to put God back where he belongs: in our government.


God, nor any other religious diety, have no place in our government.