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knubbas skrev:

Gotta love that picture of yours.

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Btw, something people seriously undervalue is demographics, in particular, the largest voting bloc of all: women. The female hatred towards Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann, for example, are the reasons why they could never be elected and matched up so poorly against Obama. Ironically, it's women who are preventing a female president! Similarly, the female vote is obviously important for any other candidate. Obama is significantly less popular amongst white women now, except for professional white women (feminists etc.), amongst whom he's somehow increased his support. Gingrich is not likely to appeal to enough women (neither would say, Chris Christie, the fatass: Marco Rubio would, Romney does, Perry might), nor is "crazy uncle" Ron Paul. It is what it is. If you don't appeal to women in this country, you're basically DOA. In fact, if we never had female suffrage, we would have only had one or two Democratic presidents in the last 100 years. Literally.

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Unfortunately, it's not particularly important who gets nominated and who is the next president. The position demands a puppet & has had one for decades. Even if Ron Paul miraculously got in (the media would attack him, and ADD Americans don't find him charismatic) and wasn't JFK'd, what could he really do? We need more fundamental change: change nearer the base of the pyramid, where it's easier for regular people to have an impact. The presidency is the most controlled, money-dependent position on the planet. Thomas Woods talks about a pretty good solution (state's rights) in his book Nullification. Unfortunately, the feds have wisely made the states very dependent on money from them. Unless states act together, individual states will get crushed. Americans also aren't willing to cut government in any significant way. They say they are as a general sentiment, but then they only want small cuts to the military, and no cuts to ballooning-beyond-inflation social spending & medical care.

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It's being reported that the clampdowns on OWS across the country were coordinated, which obviously implies DHS and Obama administration involvement. Apparently, in NYC, Mayor Bloomberg and the cops won't allow the people to camp out any longer, and at least from one report I read, refused to allow a protestor to sit (I think batons came out), lest she be "camping out". Don't get me wrong, I think most of the OWS people are morons who haven't a clue (how many of them attack the Federal Reserve, for starters? how many voted for Obama?), but free speech needs to be defended for all. What a shameful country/police state we are anymore.

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I would be cautious on what this withdrawal -assuming it goes forward- might mean. As you know, Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama has dramatically increased drone strikes in foreign countries (which mostly kill innocents, shockingly, even if we believe that the government is killing some bad guys as well), recently involved the US in the overthrow of Libya's government (and what do you know, as soon as Gaddafi is dead -they claimed he wasn't a target- NATO announces it's time to pull out... nice job signing onto that one, Nobel Peace Prize winner), is screwing around with Iran and Syria... we could go on. Keep an eye on this, because it may be a prelude to action elsewhere, like in Iran, or worse: at home. Hopefully it just means it's "mission accomplished" in Iraq; the oil fields were sold off, Iraq is still a US puppet state complete with US military bases, etc., and now the bankrupted US is pulling out to save some $$$.

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One thing I find really funny about this "withdrawal" (which is yet to be a done deal, and the last one was a big sham - and it doesn't count the private contractors, who were at 100,000 at one point) is that the stupid liberals in the media were *utterly* silent about us staying in Iraq, thee years into Obama's presidency. They didn't hold the guys feet to the fire whatsoever, but now they want to pretend everything is cool. Pretty pathetic if you ask me; they clearly chose party politics over principle, like so many of the alleged anti-war people.

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Another tidbit from the LA Times. Sickening, but that's business as usual anymore in the grand ole USA. "The administration has also ratcheted up pressure on dispensaries by demanding back taxes and penalties after audits disqualified deductions for business expenses. Federal authorities also are leaning on banks to close accounts belonging to owners of dispensaries and telling firearms dealers they cannot sell to medical marijuana patients."

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Obama has ordered all medical marijuana dispensaries in California shut down (link, or they will be raided and prosecuted. I seem to remember a campaign promise in direct contradiction of this, but he plays for the blue team, so it's all cool. Are many of your college peers realizing what a fraud this guy is yet, or are many still drinking the kool-aid?

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