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Leroy N. Soetoro

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Feb 17, 2010, 1:49:23 AM2/17/10
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Liberals had a blast mocking Sarah Palin last weekend when she was
caught addressing the Tea Party Convention with a cheat sheet scrawled
on her hand. Even the president�s press secretary, Robert Gibbs,
couldn�t resist getting into the act and treated a White House briefing
to a Palin hand gag of his own.

Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing
if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that the more
the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her cred with the
third of the country that is her base. Her hand hieroglyphics may not
have been speaking aids but bait.

If so, mission accomplished. Her sleight of hand gave the anti-Palin
chorus another prod to deride her as an empty-headed, subliterate clown,
and her fans another cue to rally. The only problem is that the serious
import of Palin�s overriding political message got lost in this
distracting sideshow. That message has the power to upend the Obama
presidency � even if Palin, with her record-low approval ratings, never
gets anywhere near the White House.

The Palin shtick has now become the Republican catechism, parroted by
every party leader in Washington. Their constant refrain, delivered with
cynicism but not irony, is this: Republicans are the
anti-big-government, anti-stimulus, anti-Wall Street, pro-Tea Party
tribunes of the common folk. �This is about the people,� as Palin
repeatedly put it last weekend while pocketing $100,000 of the Tea
Partiers� money.

Incredibly enough, this message is gaining traction. Though Obama
remains more personally popular than the G.O.P., Republicans pulled
ahead of the Democrats in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll,
among others, in a matchup for the 2010 midterms.

This G.O.P. populism is all bunk, of course. Republicans in office now,
as well as Palin during her furtive public service in Alaska, have
feasted on federal pork, catered to special interests, and pursued
policies indifferent to recession-battered Americans. And yet they�re
getting away with their populist masquerade � not just with a
considerable swath of voters but even with certain elements in the
�liberal media.� The Dean of the Beltway press corps, the columnist
David Broder, cited Palin�s �pitch-perfect populism� in hailing her as
�a public figure at the top of her game� in Thursday�s Washington Post.

That Republican leaders can pass off deceptive faux-populism as
�pitch-perfect populism� is in part a testament to the blinding
intensity of the economic anger and anxiety roiling the country. It also
shows the power of an incessant bumper-sticker fiction to take root when
ineffectually challenged � and, most crucially, the inability of
Democrats to make a persuasive case that they offer anything better.

The Obama White House remains its own worst enemy. No sooner did Palin�s
Tea Party speech end than we learned of the president�s tone-deaf
interview expressing admiration for �very savvy businessmen� like Lloyd
Blankfein of Goldman Sachs. With that single remark, Obama ingeniously
identified himself with the most despised aspects of both Washington and
Wall Street � the bailout and the bonuses. He still doesn�t understand
that to most Americans, Blankfein is a savvy businessman only in the
outrageous sense that he managed to grab his bonus some 17 months after
the taxpayers had the good grace to save him from going out of business
altogether.

Instead of praising bailed-out bankers, the president might have more
profitably instructed his press secretary to drop the lame Palin jokes
and dismantle the disinformation campaign her speech delivered to a
national audience. Palin, unlike Obama, put herself on the side of the
angels, railing against Wall Street�s bonuses and bailout, even though
she and John McCain had supported TARP during the campaign. Palin also
bragged that she had �joined with other conservative governors� in
�rejecting some� stimulus dollars when in reality she rejected only a
symbolic 3 percent of those dollars � soon to be overruled by the
Alaskan Legislature, which took every last buck.

This disingenuousness is old hat for Palin, who hired lobbyists to
pursue $27 million in earmarks while serving as mayor of the town of
Wasilla (pop. 6,700) and loudly defended her state�s �bridge to nowhere�
until her politically opportunistic flip-flop. What�s new is the extent
to which her test-marketed dishonesty has now become the template for
her peers in the G.O.P. �populist� putsch. Adopting her example � while
unencumbered by her political baggage � the party is exploiting the Tea
Party movement to rebrand itself as un-Washington while quietly
conducting business as usual in the capital.

There�s �no difference� between G.O.P. and Tea Party beliefs, claims the
House Republican leader, John Boehner. Not exactly. The three senators
named �porkers of the month� for December by the nonpartisan Citizens
Against Government Waste were all Republicans: Richard Shelby of
Alabama, Susan Collins of Maine and Thad Cochran of Mississippi. Shelby
is so unashamedly addicted to earmarks that he used a senatorial �hold�
to halt confirmation votes on 70 Obama administration appointees until
his costly shopping list of Alabama pork projects was granted. Or so he
did until his over-the-top theatrics earned him unwelcome attention and
threatened to derail his party�s pious antispending posturing.

While more brazen than his peers, Shelby is otherwise typical of them.
Jonathan Karl of ABC News last week unearthed photographs of various
G.O.P. congressmen posing in their districts with stimulus checks that
they had publicly opposed. The Washington Times uncovered more than a
dozen other Republican lawmakers who privately solicited stimulus money
from the Department of Agriculture while denouncing the stimulus to
their constituents and the news media, often angrily.

Even the G.O.P./Tea Party heartthrob of the hour, Scott Brown, is not
the barn-coat-wearing populist he purports to be. In her speech, Palin
saluted him as �just a guy with a truck� who was doing �his part to put
our government back on the side of the people.� In reality Brown�s
Massachusetts Senate campaign benefited from a last-minute flood of
contributions from financial industry donors � with 80 percent of the
haul coming from outside the state. It says all you need to know about
our politics that his Democratic opponent, Martha Coakley, matched him
by holding a fund-raiser largely sponsored by lobbyists for the health
care and pharmaceutical industries.

Now that he�s in the Senate, Brown is likely to junk the truck and side
full time with Wall Street against Main Street. To do otherwise would be
to buck his party�s entire establishment. Shelby, the ranking Republican
on the Senate Banking Committee, has already signaled that he�ll fight
the Obama administration�s push for a �Volcker rule� to rein in
too-big-to-fail financial behemoths. The conservative message guru Frank
Luntz has drafted a memo instructing G.O.P. legislators on how to defeat
a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency while camouflaging themselves
as populist foes of the very banks and credit card companies that that
agency would regulate. That�s a neat trick � Luntz�s nonpolitical
clients include Merrill Lynch and American Express � and it helps
explain why Wall Street is now tilting its contributions to
Congressional Republicans for 2010.

Yet it�s the Democrats who are now most linked to corporate interests,
thanks to all the backroom deals over health care. More Americans have
heard of the Medicaid money shoveled to the Democratic senators Ben
Nelson (the January �porker of the month�) and Mary Landrieu in exchange
for their health care votes than of Thad Cochran�s $8.75 million earmark
for the �Exchange With Historic Whaling and Trading Partners Program� (a
proposed cut in the Obama budget). The Republicans are so disciplined at
claiming the fiscal-hawk high road that even Jenny Sanford, the wronged
first lady of South Carolina, is still defending her husband, Mark, as
an uncompromising defender of �hard-earned tax dollars� in her new
tell-all memoir, �Staying True.� Though she gives us the skinny on her
husband�s philandering, she never mentions the subsequent revelations
that expenses for his trysts and other personal travel were billed to
taxpayers.

Before he was done in by his Argentine firecracker � and before the
emergence of Palin � Sanford was floated by The Wall Street Journal
editorial page and others on the right as an ideal ticket mate for John
McCain in 2008. As a congressman he had slept on a futon in his office
and voted against a breast cancer postage stamp as wasteful �feel-good
legislation.� As governor, he refused to take stimulus money despite the
fact that South Carolina had the nation�s fastest-growing unemployment
rate. When an unemployed man from Charleston caring for a seriously ill
mother and sister called in to C-Span last February begging Sanford for
help, he didn�t budge. But he did volunteer to pray for the caller and
his family.

So it went with Palin last weekend. Her only concrete program for
dealing with America�s pressing problems came in the question-and-answer
session. �It would be wise of us to start seeking some divine
intervention again in this country,� she said, �so that we can be safe
and secure and prosperous again.� That pretty much sums up her party�s
economic program, at least: divine intervention will achieve what
government intervention cannot. That the G.O.P. may actually be winning
this argument is less an indictment of Palin than of Washington
Democrats too busy reading the writing on her hand to see or respond to
the ominous political writing on the wall.


--
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact, to
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel of New York's
million dollar tax evasion. Charles B. Rangel is still under
"investigation" by a "closed door" House Ethics Committee.

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Christopher Helms

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Feb 17, 2010, 4:35:23 AM2/17/10
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On Feb 17, 12:49 am, "Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoet...@usurper.org>
wrote:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/opinion/14rich.html
>
> Liberals had a blast mocking Sarah Palin last weekend when she was
> caught addressing the Tea Party Convention with a cheat sheet scrawled
> on her hand. Even the president’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs,
> couldn’t resist getting into the act and treated a White House briefing
> to a Palin hand gag of his own.
>
> Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing
> if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that the more
> the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her cred with the
> third of the country that is her base. Her hand hieroglyphics may not
> have been speaking aids but bait.


That wasn't bait. Sarah Palin is this generations Chauncey Gardner.
Wisdom, political ability and strategic thinking are not gifts she
possesses, they are talents the fringe right obsessively projects onto
her and they do it in defiance of all the available facts.

Tattoo Vampire

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Feb 17, 2010, 7:42:55 AM2/17/10
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Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:

> Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing
> if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that the more
> the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her cred with the
> third of the country that is her base.

A third of the country is her base? LOL! Most of America doesn't think she's
qualified to be president.

--
Regards,
[tv]
Owner/proprietor, Trollus Amongus, LLC

...Do ministers do more than lay people?

VFW

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Feb 17, 2010, 12:05:49 PM2/17/10
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In article <1f8a0j97cqfw8$.dlg@sitting.at.this.computer>,
Tattoo Vampire <sit...@this.computer> wrote:

> Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
>
> > Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing
> > if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that the more
> > the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her cred with the
> > third of the country that is her base.
>
> A third of the country is her base? LOL! Most of America doesn't think she's
> qualified to be president.

I call it Sarah's Hand jOb.
--
Hint; Enjoy the moment !

Eddie Haskell

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Feb 17, 2010, 12:22:10 PM2/17/10
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"Christopher Helms" <Chrish...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Ghee, I bet she's got more sense than to think she could close Gitmo in a
year, would Mirandize the panty bomber, or think it would be a keen idea to
try KSM in NY. No, only Hussein could be that fucking STUPID.

Helms the KOOK explains that the Christmas day panty bomber was a Republican
/ Cheney plot:

"Going back to the Kennedy years, it has been common practice for the
Republicans to operate various bureaucratic "backchannels" when out of
power in order to spy on, undermine and generally harass whatever
Democratic administration is in power. That would certainly explain
the series of incredibly convenient "lapses" that allowed him to get
all the way to Detroit from Africa, waltzing through barrier after
barrier, airport after airport, security check after security check
while waving every red flag that was available for him to wave."

"It's all pretty fucking incredible that he was able to pull this off when
he shouldn't have ever been allowed to get on a plane in the first
place. In fact, this was such a perfectly tailor made Christmas
present for Dick "Keep Gitmo Open" Cheney that it comes very close to
either qualifying Cheney as the luckiest man on the planet or proving
the existence of God."

-Christopher Helms, fucking lunatic at large.

-Eddie Haskell


Christopher Helms

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Feb 17, 2010, 12:34:56 PM2/17/10
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On Feb 17, 11:22 am, "Eddie Haskell" <sb...@akot.com> wrote:
> "Christopher Helms" <Chrishelms...@yahoo.com> wrote in message


I'm right and there isn't a goddamn thing you can do about it.

Eddie Haskell

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Feb 17, 2010, 12:35:05 PM2/17/10
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"Tattoo Vampire" <sit...@this.computer> wrote in message
news:1f8a0j97cqfw8$.dlg@sitting.at.this.computer...

> Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
>
>> Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing
>> if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that the more
>> the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her cred with the
>> third of the country that is her base.
>
> A third of the country is her base? LOL! Most of America doesn't think
> she's
> qualified to be president.

And yet she is more qualified than Obama was.

What does that tell you?

-Eddie Haskell


Eddie Haskell

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Feb 17, 2010, 12:37:08 PM2/17/10
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"VFW" <geor...@toast.net> wrote in message
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> I call it Sarah's Hand job.

Do you call it Feinstein's hand job too?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/13/dianne-feinsteins-hand-no_n_461585.html

-Eddie Haskell


Mikey Mike

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Feb 17, 2010, 12:43:43 PM2/17/10
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Christopher Helms wrote:
> On Feb 17, 12:49 am, "Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoet...@usurper.org>
> wrote:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/opinion/14rich.html
>>
>> Liberals had a blast mocking Sarah Palin last weekend when she was
>> caught addressing the Tea Party Convention with a cheat sheet scrawled
>> on her hand. Even the president�s press secretary, Robert Gibbs,
>> couldn�t resist getting into the act and treated a White House briefing

>> to a Palin hand gag of his own.
>>
>> Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing
>> if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that the more
>> the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her cred with the
>> third of the country that is her base. Her hand hieroglyphics may not
>> have been speaking aids but bait.
>
>
> That wasn't bait. Sarah Palin is this generations Chauncey Gardner.
> Wisdom, political ability and strategic thinking are not gifts she
> possesses, they are talents the fringe right obsessively projects onto
> her and they do it in defiance of all the available facts.


You homos and other liberals really are afraid of Sarah's strength and
brains.

Mikey Mike

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Feb 17, 2010, 12:45:05 PM2/17/10
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Tattoo Vampire wrote:
> Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
>
>> Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing
>> if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that the more
>> the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her cred with the
>> third of the country that is her base.
>
> A third of the country is her base? LOL! Most of America doesn't think she's
> qualified to be president.
>
She never ran for President, but most Americans know she is more
qualified than Obama the Incompetent. He is the one President that could
resign and be assured of massive celebrations across the country.

Mikey Mike

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Feb 17, 2010, 12:45:32 PM2/17/10
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You call lunch a hand job.

Curly Surmudgeon

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Feb 17, 2010, 1:28:15 PM2/17/10
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:43:43 -0700, Mikey Mike <Sand...@cellblock.Min>
wrote:

> Christopher Helms wrote:
>> On Feb 17, 12:49 am, "Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoet...@usurper.org>
>> wrote:
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/opinion/14rich.html
>>>
>>> Liberals had a blast mocking Sarah Palin last weekend when she was
>>> caught addressing the Tea Party Convention with a cheat sheet scrawled

>>> on her hand. Even the president’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs,
>>> couldn’t resist getting into the act and treated a White House


>>> briefing to a Palin hand gag of his own.
>>>
>>> Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is
>>> nothing if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that
>>> the more the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her
>>> cred with the third of the country that is her base. Her hand
>>> hieroglyphics may not have been speaking aids but bait.
>>
>>
>> That wasn't bait. Sarah Palin is this generations Chauncey Gardner.
>> Wisdom, political ability and strategic thinking are not gifts she
>> possesses, they are talents the fringe right obsessively projects onto
>> her and they do it in defiance of all the available facts.
>
>
> You homos and other liberals really are afraid of Sarah's strength and
> brains.

Projection convinces no one.

--
Regards, Curly
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Republican Party: Our Bridge to the 11th Century
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Curly Surmudgeon

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Feb 17, 2010, 1:36:03 PM2/17/10
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:45:32 -0700, Mikey Mike <Sand...@cellblock.Min>
wrote:

> VFW wrote:

Oh, how would you know that and why would you be interested?

Eddie Haskell

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Feb 17, 2010, 1:40:27 PM2/17/10
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"Christopher Helms" <Chrish...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:37af1d42-58aa-4939...@f29g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...

Hahahahahaha!!

I mean..

Hahahahahah!

Is it that you e...

Hahahahahaha!!

Is it that you enjoy showing us..

Hahahahahaah!

..what a moron you are?

Bah hahahahahaha!!!

Oh, man..

Please! No more!

Bwahahahahahahah!!

-Eddie Haskell


Eddie Haskell

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Feb 17, 2010, 1:41:07 PM2/17/10
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"Mikey Mike" <Sand...@cellblock.Min> wrote in message
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> Christopher Helms wrote:
>> On Feb 17, 12:49 am, "Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoet...@usurper.org>
>> wrote:
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/opinion/14rich.html
>>>
>>> Liberals had a blast mocking Sarah Palin last weekend when she was
>>> caught addressing the Tea Party Convention with a cheat sheet scrawled
>>> on her hand. Even the president�s press secretary, Robert Gibbs,
>>> couldn�t resist getting into the act and treated a White House briefing

>>> to a Palin hand gag of his own.
>>>
>>> Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing
>>> if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that the more
>>> the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her cred with the
>>> third of the country that is her base. Her hand hieroglyphics may not
>>> have been speaking aids but bait.
>>
>>
>> That wasn't bait. Sarah Palin is this generations Chauncey Gardner.
>> Wisdom, political ability and strategic thinking are not gifts she
>> possesses, they are talents the fringe right obsessively projects onto
>> her and they do it in defiance of all the available facts.
>
>
> You homos and other liberals really are afraid of Sarah's strength and
> brains.

They're afraid of strong women.

-Eddie Haskell


Eddie Haskell

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"Curly Surmudgeon" <CurlySu...@live.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:43:43 -0700, Mikey Mike <Sand...@cellblock.Min>
> wrote:
>
>> Christopher Helms wrote:
>>> On Feb 17, 12:49 am, "Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoet...@usurper.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/opinion/14rich.html
>>>>
>>>> Liberals had a blast mocking Sarah Palin last weekend when she was
>>>> caught addressing the Tea Party Convention with a cheat sheet scrawled
>>>> on her hand. Even the president's press secretary, Robert Gibbs,
>>>> couldn't resist getting into the act and treated a White House
>>>> briefing to a Palin hand gag of his own.
>>>>
>>>> Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is
>>>> nothing if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that
>>>> the more the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her
>>>> cred with the third of the country that is her base. Her hand
>>>> hieroglyphics may not have been speaking aids but bait.
>>>
>>>
>>> That wasn't bait. Sarah Palin is this generations Chauncey Gardner.
>>> Wisdom, political ability and strategic thinking are not gifts she
>>> possesses, they are talents the fringe right obsessively projects onto
>>> her and they do it in defiance of all the available facts.
>>
>>
>> You homos and other liberals really are afraid of Sarah's strength and
>> brains.
>
> Projection convinces no one.

True, you do not convince.

-Eddie Haskell


Eddie Haskell

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Feb 17, 2010, 1:42:44 PM2/17/10
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"Mikey Mike" <Sand...@cellblock.Min> wrote in message
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Hahahahahaha!!

-Eddie Haskell


2nz

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Feb 17, 2010, 2:04:03 PM2/17/10
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On Feb 17, 2:35 am, Christopher Helms <Chrishelms...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> That wasn't bait. Sarah Palin is this generations Chauncey Gardner.
> Wisdom, political ability and strategic thinking are not gifts she
> possesses, they are talents the fringe right obsessively projects onto
> her and they do it in defiance of all the available facts.

Wow. GREAT call!!!!
I like to watch.

hal

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Feb 17, 2010, 2:38:48 PM2/17/10
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:49:23 +0000 (UTC), "Leroy N. Soetoro"
<leroys...@usurper.org> wrote:

>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/opinion/14rich.html
>
>Liberals had a blast mocking Sarah Palin last weekend when she was
>caught addressing the Tea Party Convention with a cheat sheet scrawled
>on her hand. Even the president�s press secretary, Robert Gibbs,
>couldn�t resist getting into the act and treated a White House briefing
>to a Palin hand gag of his own.
>
>Yet the laughter rang hollow. You had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing
>if not cunning, had sprung a trap. She knows all too well that the more
>the so-called elites lampoon her, the more she cements her cred with the
>third of the country that is her base. Her hand hieroglyphics may not
>have been speaking aids but bait.

BWWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!

Oh, please, stop it dude, you're killing me here......

oh, shit, too funny........

Just to think: Sarah Palin "springing a trap" on people 10 times
smarter than she is.


Tattoo Vampire

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Feb 17, 2010, 7:09:51 PM2/17/10
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Eddie Haskell wrote:

> And yet she is more qualified than Obama was.

Says who, fuckknuckle? Other than the right wingnuts, I mean...

--
Regards,
[tv]
Owner/proprietor, Trollus Amongus, LLC

...Groundwater. Do you mean crushed ice?

Tattoo Vampire

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Feb 17, 2010, 7:10:39 PM2/17/10
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Mikey Mike wrote:

> She never ran for President,

I know that, you fucking moron. But she's hinted she might run.

--
Regards,
[tv]
Owner/proprietor, Trollus Amongus, LLC

...Groundwater. Do you mean crushed ice?

Tattoo Vampire

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Feb 17, 2010, 7:11:25 PM2/17/10
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hal wrote:

> Just to think: Sarah Palin "springing a trap" on people 10 times
> smarter than she is.

Dead people are smarter than she is.

Spangliekins

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Feb 17, 2010, 7:58:09 PM2/17/10
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While I don't think it's beneficial to sit around and call each other
"fuckknuckles" about this, I'd like to remark that it's really not
even about left vs. right. Sarah Palin is barely even equipped to be
the mayor of Wasilla. She's got kids left and right and cannot even
keep a handle on her own teenager.

I've been wanting for a long time for somebody to interview one of the
members of Eunice Kennedy's family and ASK them, seeing as how they
were related to John, Robert and Ted, after all, and Eunice helped
start Special Olympics, what THEIR take on a MOTHER leaving behind her
CHILD WITH DOWNS SYNDROME to go to Washington for political reasons
is.

I'll guarantee you it's not the same. Regardless of WHICH political
affiliation, if any, a human being in this country of ours has got,
ETHICALLY, her judgment is wrong and that plays into how she would
perform in office. It's one thing to be the mayor of a tiny village
that lies above the Kenai Peninsula. It's one thing to be the Governor
of the LEAST populated state out of fifty in the United States; the
last frontier state, bascially.

It's entirely *ANOTHER* to be the Vice President, someone who is
supposed to basically be our country's spokesperson and task master
when it comes to Foreign Affairs; Someone who would have to TRAVEL
constantly and leave her infant child and the grandson of her unwed
daughter behind to so. It was a mistake in the makings. She never
could have won and McCain was foolish to have added her to the
Republican ticket. Mr. *BIDEN*, her opponent (not Mr. Obama, seeing as
how he's not a Vice President) is at a place in his life where his
heart will be more focused on his job than on babies, grandbabies,
foolish teenaged lovers who sleep with someone's son or daughter
unprotected and a Soap Operatic family life situation up in Alaska.


Spangliekins

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Feb 17, 2010, 8:01:10 PM2/17/10
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Dead people can't flex their joints to the degree where they could
stick their foot in their mouths. Sarah's foot seems to be there so
often that I'm amazed how she gets her lipstick applied so perfectly.
I honestly think that it's pointless to blame this on the Republicans
or the Democrats, though. She's just flat out crazy as a pet 'coon
regardless of who she's hooked up to or hanging with, quite honestly.
She is just a very uncomfortable person to listen to....period.

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Big J

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Feb 17, 2010, 9:55:29 PM2/17/10
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> "Tattoo Vampire" <sit...@this.computer> wrote in message

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> She's been running without formally announcing since September of 2008.
>
>

Look at her army of supporters - the Tea Party Tards. Evidently, their
brand of Family Values includes the murder of a U.S. Senator.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/17/idaho-tea-party-speaker-h_n_
466261.html

Tea Party Speaker: Hang Patty Murray

A tea party gathering in Asotin County, Washington turned more than a bit
ugly on Saturday when a featured speaker actually called for the hanging
of Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash), the fourth ranking Democrat in the Senate
and a vulnerable re-election candidate.

"How many of you have watched the movie Lonesome Dove?," asked an
unidentified female speaker from the podium. "What happened to Jake when
he ran with the wrong crowd? What happened to Jake when he ran with the
wrong crowd. He got hung. And that's what I want to do with Patty
Murray."

The event, which about 500 people attended, was organized by Lewis and
Clark Tea Party Patriots, a group that (somewhat appropriately) advocates
"Freedom of speech" as a cherished principle.

That a sanctioned speaker called for a hanging of an elected official,
however, seriously pushes the boundaries of First Amendment freedom. And
it's yet one more example of how the Tea Party movement is a double-edged
sword for the mainstream political officials who seek to harness its
energy.
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Big J

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Tattoo Vampire

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Feb 17, 2010, 11:19:35 PM2/17/10
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Spangliekins wrote:

Great post.

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Christopher Helms

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Feb 18, 2010, 7:36:00 AM2/18/10
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For somebody who thinks Sarah Palin is a brilliant political
strategist and Glenn Beck an example of mental health, you've got some
watermelon sized balls to be questioning anybody's grip on reality.

Christopher Helms

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Feb 18, 2010, 7:44:05 AM2/18/10
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I fixed the subject line for you. You're welcome, peter cheese.

Eddie Haskell

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Feb 18, 2010, 10:51:01 AM2/18/10
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"Christopher Helms" <Chrish...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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True or not, I'm sure you can grab your reality and cite where I have said
any of that.

Oh, the irony..

Oh, the projection.

Hahahahahaha!!

-Eddie Haskell


Eddie Haskell

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Feb 18, 2010, 10:54:26 AM2/18/10
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"Christopher Helms" <Chrish...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hey look at this, folks. Helms is talking to himself now.

Hahahahaha!!

-Eddie Haskell

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Eddie Haskell

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Feb 18, 2010, 12:31:29 PM2/18/10
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"Tattoo Vampire" <sit...@this.computer> wrote in message
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> Eddie Haskell wrote:
>
>> And yet she is more qualified than Obama was.
>
> Says who, fuckknuckle? Other than the right wingnuts, I mean...

Factual reality, dinkle-shit.

-Eddie Haskell


Tattoo Vampire

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Feb 18, 2010, 10:26:51 PM2/18/10
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Eddie Haskell wrote:

> F

Another useless knuckle-dragger, I see. And not even very original.

PLONK

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VFW

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Feb 19, 2010, 11:26:57 AM2/19/10
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In article <1i148gh3...@sitting.at.this.computer>,
Tattoo Vampire <sit...@this.computer> wrote:

> Eddie Haskell wrote:
>
> > F
>
> Another useless knuckle-dragger, I see. And not even very original.
>
> PLONK

what? you haven't Kill filed Eddie, Yet?
round file the idiot.
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