Letter: Obama’s handling of tragedy brings pride
November 8, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Worthington Daily Globe
It was with a heavy heart I read, in the Marshall Independent editorial, through the long list of failures, mistakes, unfulfilled promises, etc. of President Barack Obama, all the while realizing that most of what was made to look like his failure to do his job was due in fact to the failure of those who should be helping to make them happen were instead being critics rejoicing and pointing fingers Continue Reading
Are you serious? Have you watched any of the coverage, even as this morning the victims of this storm are reeling. Remember Katrina….it was all Bush’s fault! Was hurricane Sandy obama’s fault..absolutley not but, obama makes a campaign/photo stop and he’s hailed as a hero and savior?
I’ll be praying allright, praying for the American people.
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AS you can see in Nobles county Romney won and bouth amendments passed.. That might explane why your opinion is often hidden. See Here: http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/enr/enr/home/1
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 1 RECOGNITION OF MARRIAGE SOLELY BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN
Nobles County Results by Municipality Results by Precinct 4102 precincts in contest. 40 of 40 precincts reported.
Yes 6393
No 2035
Estimated Blanks 172
Estimated Total Number of Voters 8600
Estimated Percent of YES* 74.34%
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 2 PHOTO IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR VOTING
Nobles County Results by Municipality Results by Precinct 4102 precincts in contest. 40 of 40 precincts reported.
Yes 5227
No 3149
Estimated Blanks 224
Estimated Total Number of Voters 8600
Estimated Percent of YES* 60.78%
State and Federal Results in Nobles County
U.S. President & Vice President 4102 precincts in contest. 40 of 40 precincts reported in County.
Party Candidate Totals Pct Graph
Republican MITT ROMNEY AND PAUL RYAN 4581 53.77%
Democratic-Farmer-Labor BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN 3793 44.52%
Libertarian Party GARY JOHNSON AND JIM GRAY 58 0.68%
Socialist Workers Party JAMES HARRIS AND MAURA DELUCA 5 0.06%
Constitution Party VIRGIL GOODE AND JIM CLYMER 21 0.25%
Constitutional Government DEAN MORSTAD AND JOSH FRANKE-HYLAND 3 0.04%
Green Party JILL STEIN AND CHERI HONKALA 15 0.18%
Grassroots Party JIM CARLSON AND GEORGE MCMAHON 14 0.16%
Socialism and Liberation PETA LINDSAY AND YARI OSORIO 0 0.00%
Justice Party ROSS C. “ROCKY” ANDERSON AND LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ 3 0.04%
Write-In WRITE-IN** 27 0.32%
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And the point of sharing these results is what, exactly? If Romney were running for President of Nobles County, it’d be relevant.
You guys need to accept that your guy lost. Get on with your lives.
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Obama won 60 percent of the 18 to 29 year old vote and 52 percent of the 30-40 vote. He won 69 percent of the vote in big cities and 58 percent of the vote in mid-sized cities. He won 93 percent of the black vote and more than 70 percent of both the Asian vote and the Hispanic vote. He won over half of the female vote. And he won 76 percent of the gay, lesbian and bisexual vote.
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Mitt Romney won the white vote, the male vote, the elderly vote, the small cities vote and the high-income vote.
The base of Democratic support in this country is expanding. The Republican base is shrinking, becoming more racially homogenous, more rural and older.
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. If your idea of America’s power structure is rooted in a 1950s or even a 1920s sensibility, here’s an update: that America is no more.
Republicans are trying to hold back a storm surge of demographic change with a white picket fence. Good luck with that.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/picket-fence-apocalypse/
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The blacks voted for obama because he is black. The Latinos voted for him because they want amnesty. Women voted for him because they want abortions and birth control, which should not have even been an issue, it had been settled years ago. The gays want to get married. Oh yeah, all the minorities voted for him because they don’t really want a job, they just want to make sure they keep their government assistance. Sounds to me like Romney won the wiser peoples vote and obama won the younger not as wise and the special interest vote. You have to admit that a 93% vote for color is probably not the wisest. Probably explains why the country is in decline! I’d rather have the wiser ones at the helm. I don’t care how many nonsensical ones they bussed to the polls.
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Good stuff Deano and Ben! I’d like to see the percentage of people who approve obama’s handling of the hurricane tradegy now.
How will I handle the next four years eastender….like all true Americans, with dignity and honesty, unlike what we saw with your side in this election.
I also plan to watch the obama admin implode…the rats are already jumping ship.
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It appears you and the rest of the Tea Party crowd are content to sit in your recliners and do absolutely NOTHING except hurl potshots at the President. Well, if that makes your life worth living, go for it.
I see very little “dignity” in your posts. And if you were truly “honest”, you’d realize that your guy lost and that you will have to make the best of what you consider to be a bad situation. YOUR side – Rove, Limbaugh, Fox News crew, etc., showed VERY LITTLE dignity. Don’t get us started on that. The election is OVER.
Some of us prefer to get involved. If the problems of the US are ever going to be resolved, it’s going to require support from everyone. Partisanship sunk the Republican boat in this election. There are lessons to be learned.
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eastender…..is the USA better off today than 4 years ago? You know it’s not…what is obama going to do differently? Be specific.
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Ask President Obama next time you talk to him. Or do a little non-partisan research. I cannot speak for him and I won’t take the bait on your loaded question. I have better things to do than debate you.
And, YES, the country is better off in many ways… will still more to do. The President is the first to admit it.
For the millionth time, the election is OVER. Don’t waste the next 4 years of your life whining about “what could have been”.
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Better off? Higher unemployment, home value dropped, and taxes being raised. Not something I would say makes me better off.
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Pick and choose, greatfan. There is a very long list of accomplishments but I’m not wasting time delineating it for you.
You obviously didn’t understand my comment. “the country is better off in many ways… with still more to do. The President is the first to admit it.” Did I say in ALL ways? Nope.
Regardless, the President was re-elected to do a job — with a majority of the popular and electoral votes. You can choose to continue to criticize, or you can get involved.
Just curious … what are you a “greatfan” of? It doesn’t seem like you find much to praise.
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Simple question for those that didn’t vote Obama, Do you want him to succeed now that he has won a 2nd term? Or will you simply just point out, what you perceive as, his failure and enjoy your schadenfreude?
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Unlike the Liberal hero Chris Matthews most people don’t enjoy the misery of others for political gain. So no, I don’t hope Obama fails because I do live here in the US and want to have a decent life. However I wouldn’t be shocked if things don’t work out as well as planned.
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Then, why not give it time? Even Romney, in his concession speech, said that he and Ann would be “praying for the President”. Is that too much to ask from everybody else who didn’t vote for Obama? If Mitt can do it, so can you.
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“Give it time”, that’s been done. Four years of disaster, nothings changed, and you expect something other than continued disaster.
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Typical obama. Make it look good up front, tell’em what they want to hear and then crap on them. Nothing he said came to pass, he is full of it and deserves no pride…
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“78% of Americans approved of Obama’s handling of the Sandy hurricane.” It’s those that approve, that are not enduring the pain and suffering. My sister IS living this nightmare and believe me, her thoughts and beliefs in how this is being handled is very far from what the “78%” believe.
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“Here is some wisdom from Rachel Maddow” Rachel Maddow and wisdom have never crossed paths I assure you.
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“And if you were truly “honest”, you’d realize that your guy lost and that you will have to make the best of what you consider to be a bad situation. “- Bad situation like: St. Lucie County, Florida having a 141.1% voter turnout? Or, getting 99% of the votes in the precinct in Philadelphia where the GOP observers were kicked out? Or, the fact that Obama LOST every state that required voter I.D.?” Truly honest,” would have had a very different result on November 6
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“Do you want him to succeed now that he has won a 2nd term?” Answer; NO. I want our COUNTRY to succeed. His success, appears to be based on HIS agenda. I’m not 100% sure what HIS agenda is but, after the last four years, I don’t want anymore of it. We can’t afford it!
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Good point, he would have to come up with a lot better agenda then he has before I’d want him to succeed. Then if he did you couldn’t trust him to do it in an honest and beneficial way for our country and its people.
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Exactly how, in your mind, could the country succeed and yet the president of the US doesn’t? As you have stated, “NO” in reply to Obama having success in his 2nd term.
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That’s exactly my point if obama succeeds the country loses and if obama fails the country wins. Simple as that. The only thing he has succeeded at so far is weakening this country and I believe that is his true agenda. I don’t bereave he has the best interests of this country at heart! Hope it’s not so but it’s either that or he’s a lot dumber then he gets credit for.
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The spell checker changed it and I didn’t catch it soon enough. I’m not as perfect as you but thanks for the self-righteous, condescending, disdainful, personal attack again.
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Don’t let this descend into a two-person bickering match, folks.
Stick to the topic at hand, which is neither spelling, nor deano, nor eastender, but Obama, Christie and hurricanes.
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“Get a grip, ben. Whatever you’re trying to dredge up here obviously had NO impact on the election’s outcome. You DO know the election is over, right?” That’s exactly what the Nixon folks said and thought. How’d that turn out? Will be VERY interesting when Gen. Petraeus gets his subpoena to testify on just how much obama did know.
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I don’t know what should make us happier:
The fact that the election is OVER and that President Obama won — by a wide electoral vote margin – OR -
Watching the sore losers / Obama haters whine to the point where their heads are about to explode – OR -
Knowing that we don’t have to live with any of these miserable people 24/7. I do feel sorry for your families.
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“St. Lucie County, Florida having a 141.1% voter turnout? Or, getting 99% of the votes in the precinct in Philadelphia where the GOP observers were kicked out? Or, the fact that Obama LOST every state that required voter I.D.?” Any thoughts eastender on how this can happen? And, for your informatuion, no one here is miserable. Actually, my family prays for people like you who is blinded by partisanship, closed minded when it doesn’t benefit your candidate, and dismissive of facts that are covered up for political expediency. You too will suffer the consequences of the next four years, so in closing WE feel sorry for your families AND future generations that you have pretty much saddled with insurmountable debt. All with a single vote.
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Wow. Incredible. You say no one here is miserable? What’s the word YOU would use to describe the mood, then? As you have said in the past, “LMFAOROTFL.” I don’t need your prayers. The President and the Congress need them. You also have NO idea what the next 4 years will hold, so don’t try to anticipate any “consequences”.
I leave “election oversight” to the authorities in each state. Your claim about Obama and states with Voter ID is, typically, a lie. Here are the facts:
Right wing claim: Obama Lost in Every State with a Voter Photo-ID Law
While it sounds incredible, even a casual check finds it is not true.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are 11 states with a Photo ID law on the books, with an additional 19 states with an ID requirement not tied to a Photo ID (utility bill, mortgage, etc).
The 11 states with a Photo ID requirement are:
New Hampshire — Obama won.
Louisiana
Georgia
Florida — Obama won
Tennessee
Indiana
Michigan — Obama won
Kansas
South Dakota
Idaho
Hawaii — Obama won.
Out of 11 states with Photo ID requirements, Obama carried 4 of them, a solid 22%.
Out of the 19 with ID requirements, but not Photo IDs, you have the following :
Connecticut — Obama won
Rhode Island — Obama won
Delaware — Obama won
Virginia — Obama won
South Carolina
Alabama
Kentucky
Ohio — Obama won
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Colorado — Obama won
North Dakota
Montana
Utah
Arizona
Washington — Obama won
Alaska
How do YOUR “facts” compare to these? Do you want to “dismiss” any of them?
If you want to spend the next four years in misery , and that’s exactly what it looks like to me, go ahead. Just do it in private. You do yourself – and the country – no favors when you continue to rant.
For the life of me, I can’t understand why some people can’t accept the fact that their candidate lost. The whiners are the “close-minded” ones. Wishing things weren’t a certain way isn’t going to turn things around.
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“Wow. Incredible. You say no one here is miserable? What’s the word YOU would use to describe the mood, then?”— How about inflammatory? Neither side wants to open their eyes long enough to possibly admit the others may be right. Or, hyper partisan? Not once have I ever seen you or a couple others admit that their politician of choice is wrong on certain things. That appears to go for both sides of the argument at times. As for myself? I will continue to point out things that the MSM refuses to report on due to political slant to the far left. I’m not miserable one iota. And Obamas handling of Sandy was much worse than Bushes handling of Katrina. And isn’t it peculiar to you that now that election is over, and obama got his photo ops and false image of handling it, it’s no longer in the news much?
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When the facts don’t support your case (see above), you can’t be right. And once lies are identified, anything else one says is automatically suspect.
Inflammatory rhetoric about the president is good??? What purpose does it serve to continually call him “dumb”, “a liar”, and “praying for him to fail”, etc.? How is that positive? It isn’t only you, but a select faction of the Tea Partiers who are still in a state of denial.
I don’t know what MSM you follow, but I see coverage of the hurricane EVERYWHERE, everyday. Thousands of people are working very hard to try to restore some sense of order in the NE region. To continue to hurl potshots at these people (or to blame the Obama administration) does them a tremendous disservice. They’re working night and day. You’re not. They don’t need criticism, they need support — mostly financial.
If you think you can do better, head East! Then, no one could accuse you of “armchair quarterbacking”. You’d be getting your hands dirty instead.
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I’m proud of the continued incompetence of the Obama administration. Power is still out for many on the left who voted for more disaster.
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And how is it that you know how the people who are still without electricity voted?
Do something constructive. Write a big fat check to the Red Cross.
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Why, Obama fixed it already?
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“Inflammatory rhetoric about the president is good??? What purpose does it serve to continually call him “dumb”, “a liar”, and “praying for him to fail”, etc.? How is that positive?”— Well I’m not sure. Why did all the democrats constantly demonize Bush and call him much worse names? Did you happen to admonish them when that was going on? And how is it that you know how the people who are still without electricity voted?”— So the election hasn’t been decided yet? He hasn’t actually been awarded the Electoral College votes for them?
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What? You’re making less sense. You’re “not sure” how bashing President Obama is not positive? Try to stay in the here and now and defend YOUR OWN behavior.
I have no idea what you’re talking about when it relates to the electoral college.
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“You obviously have never watched her show or read her writings.
Rachel has a degree in public policy from Stanford University; was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University; holds a PhD from Oxford University. ” She OBVIOUSLY skipped class when they were teaching honesty, integrity & ethics in journalism. And I tried to watch her show once and found her to be obnoxiously partisan. What happened to non partisan journalism? On the opposite side, I won’t watch her, Hannity, Limbaugh, Matthews, O’Brien etc. for the same reason, waaaay to far to each end.
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So, your entire opinion of Rachel Maddow’s “wisdom” is based on watching part of one show, God knows when? You were able to definitively judge her “honesty, integrity and ethics in journalism” from that glimpse? That seems a bit hasty to me but, hey, who am I to judge?
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After the short viewing, she came off as very partisan so I did a bit of research via the web. Turns out, she IS very partisan and as far left as you can get without completely falling off the wagon. Appears as though she has stretched the truth numerous times in her reporting, but is never called out for it because it benefits her political leanings. Bias in the media is getting quite old. I yearn for the days when the news was reported as it happened, not reported or buried depending on who could be damaged , or look back by it. As I said, it’s the same reason I won’t watch Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. (even though you constantly accuse me of getting my information there)
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The Rachel Maddow Show is a daily news and opinion television program. Rachel is smart and witty and polite. I can see how conservatives are put off by that.
In 2011, the Rachel Maddow Show won a News and Documentary Emmy in the Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis category for the segment, “Good Morning, Landlocked Central Asia”.
In March 2010, Maddow won at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in the category, Outstanding TV Journalism—Newsmagazine for her segment, “Uganda Be Kidding Me”.
The Rachel Maddow Show has been nominated 2 times for a Television Critics Award in the “Outstanding Achievement in News & Information” category.
Maddow also took home a Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award for her work in covering religion and politics.
The show took home the Planned Parenthood Maggie Award for exceptional news coverage of reproductive rights and health care issues.
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Rachel is smart and witty and polite. Wow, I’ve heard a lot of things, but that?? Polite?? Come on now, she might be polite to somebody who agrees 100% with her, but if you don’t, look out! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/03/rachel-maddow-drudge-report-obama-racial-appeals_n_1935272.html
She has been caught in numerous lies over the years, and cheers with Chris Matthews and Michael Moore about the perfect timing of Hurricane Sandy. I wouldn’t call that polite for one second.
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Now we just need to work on the tragedy of having Obama as president.
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How do you propose to do that, Smartimus?
You clearly don’t know what real tragedy is, or you wouldn’t be so flip.
You’re going to be one miserable person for the next 4 years unless you grow up and accept that Obama is everybody’s president. No matter how much you complain, the facts don’t change.
Get over it, get used to it, or get out.
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We’re all going to share in the Obama misery index. Maybe I will get out and go to Texas or North Dakota after they secede.
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Obama truly is a tragedy for the country and it also is a tragedy that the people who are below average in intelligence are all democrats amd the small fraction over 50% that elected him are just plain ignorant.
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Obama’s handling of tragedy brings NO pride for me and judging from the election results, the poll in the globe, and your dislikes in this thread, people in this area aren’t liking your position either. The people here have every right to their opinion and if that is making you miserable, as it appears it does, maybe you should follow your own advice. “Get over it, get used to it, or get out”
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Why is it the people who always complain about government handouts and overreach are always the first ones to complain when the government doesn’t fix the problems of a natural disaster fast enough?
Chris Christie was an example to his party when he dropped the political posturing and worked with Obama to help all the constituents he represents, Republican, Democrat, and everyone in between.
Christie has taken a lot of heat from his party for doing so, but he did what was right.
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I just complain about unfair and biased treatment. Pres. Bush got hammered by the main stream media for his administrations handling of Katrina. The same main stream media hasn’t said much at all about people on Long Island still without power. I haven’t seen Rev. Jackson in the street yelling for discrimination. Then Rep. Obama made references that it was the gov’t abandoning the minorities in the south. I haven’t seen Pres. Obama make any remarks about why people are still without power, and FEMA closed up shop because of bad weather while people don’t have power. As for the Red Cross this is what they have been doing: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/14/us-storm-sandy-redcross-idUSBRE8AD08E20121114
Give your money to charities that aren’t affiliated with the gov’t, that way bureaucrats can’t mess it up!!
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Speaking of pride, Michelle obama said she had no pride in this country; surely her husband had the same feeling and still does. I’m thinking that a lot of the people voting for him didn’t do it out of pride. They did so in hope of a piece of the pie. My thought is that this is the hope and change. Hoping against hope that obama is going to hand them the American dream. That’s never going to happen. You have to earn (build) that if you can. In his first four obama actually diminished the chance of all Americans ever achieving that, by trillions! I hope the next four are not the same, BUT! So you might have voted against yourself. Just because he won the election in no way makes HIM a winner! Hugo Chávez and the like come to mind….
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It’s very easy to ‘armchair quarterback’, ben. No one’s saying the situation isn’t serious there. We’ve all seen the misery and you can be grateful nothing like that has happened to you or yours. It is, however, not MOST of NY and NJ that are still without power or facilities. MOST is more than 50%. That’s simply not true.
Who in NJ and NY have YOU spoken to personally? Or are you getting your information from the media, like 99.9% of the country?
What are you personally doing about it? Did you donate to the Red Cross? I did.
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Ah… media-supplied information! Not first hand directly to ben. Give me a break.
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Get a grip, ben. Whatever you’re trying to dredge up here obviously had NO impact on the election’s outcome. You DO know the election is over, right?
This serves no purpose whatsoever and is so far off the letter writer’s topic. The fact that the “reporter” Bret Baier comes from Fox News makes the motive all the more suspect.
From what you said about your brother losing his house, it would seem you have more important things to focus on. Like it or not, Obama is YOUR president. Get used to it. Or get over it. Or get out. Your choice.
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I think I’m pretty intelligent, but I have NO idea what you’re asking for here. Don’t waste any time trying to explain it. I’m not going to debate you.
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Eastender is not a moderator on this site.
Stay on topic and don’t start a two-person bickering match or you’ll be blocked from the site.
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Ben pretty much hit the nail on the head in regards to what is going on out there. The media is NOT reporting a lot of the problems going on out there, (wouldn’t look good for the Fed. Gov. and how this is being handled) No “armchair quarterbacking” here, have a sister and her husband living there that I HAVE spoken to a couple times and it’s not as rosy as the media would have you believe. 99% of the country getting their information from the media IS a problem. Especially when they will only report what is favorable to a failed administration they so dearly support.
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