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Would you have voted for a man named Hirohito in 1948?
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BHNOBAMA
4:35PM Aug 18th 2008
Don't surrender this great country to the media and the DNC. Vote Republican!
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In God We Trust
1:27PM Aug 22nd 2008
Subject: In God We Trust
Here's your chance to let the media know where the people stand on our faith in God, as a nation. NBC is taking a poll on "In God We Trust" to stay on our American currency. Please send this to every Christian you know so they can vote on this important subject. Please do it right away, before NBC takes this off the web page.
If you agree forward it, if you don't, delete it. By me forwarding it, you know how I feel. I'll bet this was a surprise to NBC
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afellowamerican
4:33PM Aug 18th 2008
GUESS its over..... CALL it a DAY .....
SORRY ,but no TRESPASSING by MARXIST and FRIENDS
WE THE PEOPLE refuse to choose people like YOU ,now go back and help the VICTIMS of HURRICANE OBAMA in southside of CHICAGO ,the hurricane that lasted 20 years ,and no rebuilding only making developers MILLIONAIRES without even developing one APARTMENT ,NOW some are in JAIL ,others will join REZCO soon,BUT BARACK you did not KNOW what was going on ,because you are BARACK the RAT .
MCCAIN 78 to OBAMA 22, :)
OBAMA WRIGHT FOR MARXIST
OBAMA WRONG FOR FREE PEOPLE
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Ralph
4:20PM Aug 24th 2008
I'll take John McCain any day, over Barack Obama. Obama is slick and people more and more are finding out just how clever he is. I don't like who he associates himself with - now or in the past. He drops them too fast when he supposedly learns how much hatred they have to the United States. I don't like socialists, so I can't vote for one.
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John
4:36PM Aug 18th 2008
It's really a choice between a liberal Republican and a really liberal Democratic.
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afellowamerican
4:35PM Aug 18th 2008
Alina4:31PMAug 18th 2008
Aol, Another choice plz. ..................................
ANOTHER CHOICE ??? BY VOTING FOR ANOTHER you will elect OBAMA ,by staying home you would have elected OBAMA
IN BOTH SCENARIOS MARXISM wins
ALINA ,your country and FELLOW FREE PEOPLE ,need your vote ,MCCAIN 2008
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Cynthia
4:37PM Aug 18th 2008
I was for BO, but then changed my mind and am against BO. After watching the interviews with both men I came away wanting McCain as President. I'm so thankful they aired that Saddleback Church segment. I wish they would have had it on all "so called major channels." I taped it to watch this a.m. What I'm also thankful for is that this election process has taken so long. Really gets you involved in learning about both men.
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The Last Patriot
4:37PM Aug 18th 2008
The US GOVT. is 9 trillion in debt and Obama wants to greatly expand its giveaway programs even though the ones that have already been established (precious social security and medicare/medicaid are in terrible financial condition. He also wants to increase taxes on the middle class to pay for them. If you want that then he's your guy. I personally think that is the worst thing we could possibly do during a recession.
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Steve E.
4:40PM Aug 18th 2008
This nation is corrupt...To have two of the worst canidates there was to be leading this election is an outrage!!!!There is a war on our mind through the media, govenment, and other outlets it's a shame most 'Americans' are so brainwashed to believe ANY of this non-sense....Prisonplanet.com
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Dragonfighter
4:39PM Aug 18th 2008
Why is there no "None of the above" choice. Neither candidate listed is anything but a promise anything while running, then do what the money contributions and the party direct. Neither is truely interested in the individuals that make up this country and their concerns. Both only want their "Brand" or party in control.
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Strange Man, this Obama
2:02PM Aug 19th 2008
RENO, Nev. (Aug. 18) -- So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged an embrace during a faith forum at a California megachurch, Obama called the U.S. economy a disaster thanks to "John McCain's president, George W. Bush," and chided his Republican rival's campaign team for trying to make him look unpatriotic and weak. ============================== Don't you just love the statement: "JOHN MC CAIN'S PRESIDENT, GEORGE W. BUSH" Here is a candidate for President making such a stupid statement. Maybe, if he becomes "our" President, he would like to be referred to as "My neighbor's President, Barack Obama?" This is an ego driven man, Obama, and I will not vote for him. He has done absolutely nothing to deserve your vote. Sorry, not in my back yard!
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Kara
4:42PM Aug 18th 2008
Obama is marching lock step with McCain. Democrat is not the opposite of Republican. It's the Republicrats and Demopubs.
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afellowamerican
4:42PM Aug 18th 2008
ON JUNE 6th ,THE GREAT BARACK ,the sore loser of a Q AND A FORUM,was at 330 electoral votes to MCCAIns 208...............TODAY its :
Barack Obama 275 John McCain 263 FREEDOM is ringing ..louder and louder and we have united in a commmon cause ,to stop a marxist,we the people are determined and are willing to save AMERICA from this MARXIST ,hater of AMERICA ,with a mindset filled and polluted by FOREIGN BELIEFS ,not filled with AMERICAN VALUES !!
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POS
4:48AM Aug 23rd 2008
I can stop terrorism ,I know those people , they are my friends !
They owe me , well they will owe me !
Trust me I'm a lawyer !
Obama !
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afellowamerican
4:43PM Aug 18th 2008
NORTH DAKOTA no votes CAST ??????? not one !!!!
SOUTH DAKOTA one vote cast for OBAMA!!!! just one ???
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DEMs
1:27AM Aug 25th 2008
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal Government to "put away," you may be interested in the following:
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent "Trust" fund and put it into the General fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratically-controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the "tie-breaking" deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.
Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive SSI Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violation of the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is, uninformed citizens believe it! Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during this 2008 election year! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.
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DEMs
4:57PM Aug 18th 2008
I hate to break the news to you hyper-partisans, it is true and a cadre of administration and CIA insiders say so, and you are about to see the proof.
Michael Scheuer, the CIA agent in charge of hunting bin Laden in Afghanistan told CBS News:
The CIA had more opportunities to capture or kill bin Laden that has been reported previously. He says there were 10 such chances between May 1998 and May 1999. It was not clear who decided not to take those chances.
In May of 1998, after months of planning, officials called off a CIA plan to have Afghan allies capture bin Laden and send him out of Afghanistan for trial. The plan was apparently scrapped because of worries about the chance of killing bystanders, and even bin Laden himself, as well as concerns over the strength of the legal evidence against bin Laden. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/10/terror/main635038.shtml)
CIA field agent Gary Bernsten told ABC News that the “CIA provided an American president, first Bill Clinton, multiple opportunities to capture or kill bin Laden,” Bernsten said. “We provided those opportunities, tactical opportunities which were not taken.” Bernsten said that CIA Director George Tenet gave the word to stop three opportunities to kill bin Laden. (ABC News The Blotter, September 10, 2006)
Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger also refused to authorize several strikes against bin Laden according to documents released by the 9/11 Commission. A document dated December 4, 1999, the National Security Council’s counterterrorism coordinator, Richard Clarke, sent Mr. Berger a memo suggesting a strike in the last week of 1999 against Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. Reports the commission: “In the margin next to Clarke’s suggestion to attack Al Qaeda facilities in the week before January 1, 2000, Berger wrote, ‘no.’ ” (NY Sun July 23, 2004)
So was it President Clinton who refused to authorize Tenet, Clarke and Berger to give the go ahead to nix bin Laden? Dick Morris, Clinton’s chief political strategist, said that there were at least three times that Clinton refused to give that authorization that he knows of. The military officer who carries the nuclear football (who also carries the presidential mobile phone), Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, who wrote a book about this very subject titled Dereliction of Duty, said in television interviews that “in December 1996 with bombers and fighters in the air, Berger called the President through me and the president, knowing what the call was about, refused to take Berger’s call. Berger was getting angry at me because I couldn’t get an answer out of the president.”