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What exactly has Dick Cheney started?PD toolbar!
By removing himself early on from contention as a presidential candidate, Cheney ended a half-century political tradition. Since Dwight Eisenhower's time in the White House, every incumbent vice president who has had the chance-Richard Nixon in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968, George H.W. Bush in 1988 and Al Gore in 2000-campaigned to win the top spot.
Though three of them lost close contests, a strong sense of continuity and the opportunity of a president having a direct political legacy existed for voters. Not so with Cheney--or for George W. Bush.
This makes Cheney's recent media blitzkrieg seem a rearguard action, similar to shooting spitballs at the new class president without being willing to make the run on his own. Sour grapes as a metaphor also come to mind, especially for someone now more visible out of office than when he was serving seemingly in blissful secrecy.
Taking a wider view, however, Joe Biden is closer to the Cheney model than to the previous vice presidents who were a heartbeat away from their presidents from Eisenhower through Bill Clinton. Like Cheney, the longtime former senator is older than the Oval Office occupant with whom he currently works. Without getting too far ahead of ourselves, if Biden stays on the ticket in 2012 and Barack Obama wins a second term, that would mean a 73-year-old Biden in 2016, making him older than John McCain during his candidacy last year.
For the sake of argument, let's assume Biden decides against seeking his party's nomination. This circumstance could create a replay of 2008 in 2016--a wide open presidential race for both Democrats and Republicans. More importantly, perhaps, America could face another national election where the choice between continuity and change is less clear for voters.
Since Walter Mondale's term as vice president under Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, the country's Number Two elected officer has had growing responsibility--and with Cheney real power. In recent decades, the post has consistently evolved in significance beyond being what Franklin Roosevelt's first veep John Nance Garner considered "not worth a bucket of warm spit"--or whatever he actually said.
A vice president looking ahead to a possible run for the top job can bring political self-interest of a very legitimate kind to White House discussions. Acute political antennae can be a service for governance and an acknowledgment of factors (involving specific constituencies and regions) that deserve merit in making decisions. A definite political viewpoint also enlarges thinking and introduces another variable into the calculus. It's an additional check to arrive at the right balance.
A Cheney or a Biden might well bring considerable experience to presidents wanting guidance in Washington's ways. But there's a price to be paid--including the one we now see of someone making his case with passion and certainty at a time after he should have left the stage.
Robert Schmuhl is Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also Director of the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy.
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don Mitchell
7:12AM May 27th 2009
When one's approval rating is in the 20% range, and obviously the same amount of people agee with the stances of the one, it is only right, just and proper to be the lightning rod for unpopular sentiments. Far be it from a person who realistically might run for national office to espouse views so far from the beliefs of the majority of the public. Heck even Indiana could not vote to perpetuate more years of the stuff that slid off the fan from 2001 through 2008.
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markeschu
11:12PM May 27th 2009
jmamusic1247
Yea, but unfortunatly we had to keep Bush's choice as govenor. Sigh.
Yea, but unfortunatly we had to keep Bush's choice as govenor. Sigh.
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(0) bob
7:15AM May 27th 2009
So your point is that since Cheney didn't follow the "traditional" path of running for president after his term as VP, he's now got to leave the stage?
Nobody's forcing you media types to cover him. You do so because he's news. If he's news then, apparently, there's no need for him to leave the stage.
Al Gore's been promoting his private citizen ventures for a good 6-7 years and getting free publicity from the media the whole time based, primarily, on his status as a former VP. In addition to promoting his business ventures, he spoke out against the then current administration when the urge moved him. The significance of his presidential run ended in 2000.
If you don't like Cheney, don't think he deserves a place on "the stage". then don't cover him. You're not obligated to.
Nobody's forcing you media types to cover him. You do so because he's news. If he's news then, apparently, there's no need for him to leave the stage.
Al Gore's been promoting his private citizen ventures for a good 6-7 years and getting free publicity from the media the whole time based, primarily, on his status as a former VP. In addition to promoting his business ventures, he spoke out against the then current administration when the urge moved him. The significance of his presidential run ended in 2000.
If you don't like Cheney, don't think he deserves a place on "the stage". then don't cover him. You're not obligated to.
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(-2) richie
8:10AM May 27th 2009
i agree , cheney has the right as an american citzen to say what he wants , i don't remember you libs telling jimmy carter , bill clinton and al gore to go away and may i add carter and gore a number of times were out there attack bush but i don't remember you libs having a problem with that , don't like what cheney is saying then don't listen
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(0) ondinea
9:27AM May 27th 2009
well said bob......well said.....
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(1) markeschu
10:52AM May 27th 2009
Please keep Cheney in front of the news, so that I can enjoy watching the Republican Party crash completly. The only people who want to shut Cheney up, are the few intelligent Republican who want to rebuild their party.
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(4) cjjanis
8:04AM May 27th 2009
Well I read countless right wings post about how Cheney is just worried for the country? I got news for you the word is out, Cheney is trying without much success to sell his book 4 million and no takers. So all these Cheney sightings are just to drum up support for his book, sorry rightys it was all about Dick after all................
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(4) ondinea
9:28AM May 27th 2009
So Obama is the only who can seek a book deal??? Thought that this was America, the land of the free, the home of the brave..... sounds like it has become a dictatorship...
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(-4) nickknight74
7:26AM May 27th 2009
F&ck all Republicans and their evil ideology!!
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(-2) WADE....
5:35PM May 27th 2009
Democrat Socialist Party?
Straight out of the horses mouth:
watch this~ Maxine Waters let's it slip....watch the two people on the left sit back and laugh at her SOCIALIST PUKE ASS!
http://tr.truveo.com/Waters-Lets-Congressionial-Agenda-Slip-Socialism/id/3368603275
Redistribution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
and these morons believe the documented liar (MARXIST) that the middle and low class won't be effected with his TAX PLAN. everything will be going up around you "WE WILL SOON BE DROWNING IN TAXES" with the bull-shit theory of the TAX AND SPEND PARTY.....Carter all over again but worse!
Government Healthcare......How will this be paid for? oh, By taxing the shit out of what the Government deems UNHEALTHY FOR YOU, you know LIKE Socialist France is doing : Taxing...Sodas, chips, candy..ect...what else will they tax you might ask? How about red meat anything you put in your mouth will be TAXED.
Socialism requires funding via taxation without representation.
Government run Healthcare...The post office is Bankrupted for gods sakes what does that tell you?
http://www.facesofgovernmenthealthcare.com/
See the Faces, Listen to the Voices
Before Congress considers any form of government-run health care, they should hear the voices of patients denied care because the government deemed it too costly or delayed care because of long waiting lists for surgery or diagnostic tests.
Any serious discussion of health care reform that does not include choice, competition, accountability and responsibility — the four "pillars" of patients' rights — will result in our government truly becoming a "nanny-state," making decisions based on what is best for society and government rather than individuals deciding what is best for each of us.
Obama’s $1,300 car tax
By Michelle Malkin • May 19, 2009 07:02 AM
Nobody in the White House is going to call the president’s “mileage and pollution” plan what it is.
It’s a $1,300 car tax. On the working class. On the middle class. On everyone who has responded to the government’s consumption-mania incentives — loosened credit, tax deductions — and bought/planned to buy a new car without taking into account these unanticipated costs:
Socialism requires funding via Taxation without Representation. So if you oppose everything Obama is doing, and you continue to fund it with your tax dollars it's just the same as if you fully agreed? If we want to get Washington DC’s attention for real, we must stop the flow of tax dollars that they must have to fund their agenda.
"Cloward-Piven Strategy" named after two anti-capitalist sociologists calls for packing the welfare rolls to encourage dependency on the government and to overload it with financial demands in order to hasten the collapse of American capitalism.
THE SOCIALIST STEAMROLLER CONTINUES:
By Dr. Laurie Roth Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Though President Obama and this democrat controlled congress have all but nearly created a filibuster proof, totalitarian rule with Arlen Specter going democrat and Pee Wee Herman number 2, Al Franken looking like he will come on board, the junior high antics, assaults, name calling and bullying continues in Technicolor.
Obama is on a roll to transform the U.S. into a highly controlled, socialist, communist regime. He already through the guise and game plan of “bailout” rescue packages, seized control of the banking industry, much of the auto industry, has drastically changed and manipulated the health care industry and plans to force all kinds of abortion in all states, hospitals and with all Doctors regardless as to their beliefs or state laws against it.
Napolitano and Homeland Security, the day before the Tea Parties, identified vets, prolifers, those interested in border security, sovereignty, less taxation and 2nd amendment rights as dangerous, domestic terrorists in the making. There was no attempt to intimidate anyone away from the Tea Parties then. That must just be made up in my mind that this document was released nationally reading like a declaration of war against the American people.
CALIFORNIA TAX REVOLT:
You won’t see it in the L.A. Times. They only cover rallies they agree with:
Gov. Taxinator is pulling out all the stops with a desperate fear-mongering campaign to scare voters into approving billions in new tax increases. Five of six measures are failing:
The yes side has spent six times as much as the no side, but five of the six propositions are losing, according to a statewide 10News poll.
Proposition 1A, which would set aside money for a rainy day fund and extend recent tax increases, is failing by 13 points.
Proposition 1B, which would require payments to schools, is losing by nine points…
…Schwarzenegger also said no votes would add $6 billion to the state deficit and lead to cuts in schools, health and welfare programs and a wide variety of other state programs.
[Escondido City Councilmember Marie] Waldron said, “I would call that a scare tactic.”
But with more money spent and the support of firefighters and police, and teachers and health care, why are the propositions trailing?
“People are tired of other people reaching into their pockets. That’s what it really boils down to,” said [San Miguel Fire Chief Augie] Ghio.
The only proposition passing in the 10News poll is Prop. 1F, which would prohibit pay raises for legislature, governor and other elected officials if the state is expected to have a deficit.It is leading by 10 points, according to the poll.
Obama had an admitted MARXIST Mentor, Obama's mother was a Communist and he had other Communist connections, Obama studied Marxism in College:
Does any of this sound familiar?
Vladimir Lenin Quotes:
"The goal of socialism is communism."
Vladimir Lenin
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
(USEFUL IDIOTS and there are plenty on this AOL thread.)
Wake up and smell the B.O. !
Straight out of the horses mouth:
watch this~ Maxine Waters let's it slip....watch the two people on the left sit back and laugh at her SOCIALIST PUKE ASS!
http://tr.truveo.com/Waters-Lets-Congressionial-Agenda-Slip-Socialism/id/3368603275
Redistribution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
and these morons believe the documented liar (MARXIST) that the middle and low class won't be effected with his TAX PLAN. everything will be going up around you "WE WILL SOON BE DROWNING IN TAXES" with the bull-shit theory of the TAX AND SPEND PARTY.....Carter all over again but worse!
Government Healthcare......How will this be paid for? oh, By taxing the shit out of what the Government deems UNHEALTHY FOR YOU, you know LIKE Socialist France is doing : Taxing...Sodas, chips, candy..ect...what else will they tax you might ask? How about red meat anything you put in your mouth will be TAXED.
Socialism requires funding via taxation without representation.
Government run Healthcare...The post office is Bankrupted for gods sakes what does that tell you?
http://www.facesofgovernmenthealthcare.com/
See the Faces, Listen to the Voices
Before Congress considers any form of government-run health care, they should hear the voices of patients denied care because the government deemed it too costly or delayed care because of long waiting lists for surgery or diagnostic tests.
Any serious discussion of health care reform that does not include choice, competition, accountability and responsibility — the four "pillars" of patients' rights — will result in our government truly becoming a "nanny-state," making decisions based on what is best for society and government rather than individuals deciding what is best for each of us.
Obama’s $1,300 car tax
By Michelle Malkin • May 19, 2009 07:02 AM
Nobody in the White House is going to call the president’s “mileage and pollution” plan what it is.
It’s a $1,300 car tax. On the working class. On the middle class. On everyone who has responded to the government’s consumption-mania incentives — loosened credit, tax deductions — and bought/planned to buy a new car without taking into account these unanticipated costs:
Socialism requires funding via Taxation without Representation. So if you oppose everything Obama is doing, and you continue to fund it with your tax dollars it's just the same as if you fully agreed? If we want to get Washington DC’s attention for real, we must stop the flow of tax dollars that they must have to fund their agenda.
"Cloward-Piven Strategy" named after two anti-capitalist sociologists calls for packing the welfare rolls to encourage dependency on the government and to overload it with financial demands in order to hasten the collapse of American capitalism.
THE SOCIALIST STEAMROLLER CONTINUES:
By Dr. Laurie Roth Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Though President Obama and this democrat controlled congress have all but nearly created a filibuster proof, totalitarian rule with Arlen Specter going democrat and Pee Wee Herman number 2, Al Franken looking like he will come on board, the junior high antics, assaults, name calling and bullying continues in Technicolor.
Obama is on a roll to transform the U.S. into a highly controlled, socialist, communist regime. He already through the guise and game plan of “bailout” rescue packages, seized control of the banking industry, much of the auto industry, has drastically changed and manipulated the health care industry and plans to force all kinds of abortion in all states, hospitals and with all Doctors regardless as to their beliefs or state laws against it.
Napolitano and Homeland Security, the day before the Tea Parties, identified vets, prolifers, those interested in border security, sovereignty, less taxation and 2nd amendment rights as dangerous, domestic terrorists in the making. There was no attempt to intimidate anyone away from the Tea Parties then. That must just be made up in my mind that this document was released nationally reading like a declaration of war against the American people.
CALIFORNIA TAX REVOLT:
You won’t see it in the L.A. Times. They only cover rallies they agree with:
Gov. Taxinator is pulling out all the stops with a desperate fear-mongering campaign to scare voters into approving billions in new tax increases. Five of six measures are failing:
The yes side has spent six times as much as the no side, but five of the six propositions are losing, according to a statewide 10News poll.
Proposition 1A, which would set aside money for a rainy day fund and extend recent tax increases, is failing by 13 points.
Proposition 1B, which would require payments to schools, is losing by nine points…
…Schwarzenegger also said no votes would add $6 billion to the state deficit and lead to cuts in schools, health and welfare programs and a wide variety of other state programs.
[Escondido City Councilmember Marie] Waldron said, “I would call that a scare tactic.”
But with more money spent and the support of firefighters and police, and teachers and health care, why are the propositions trailing?
“People are tired of other people reaching into their pockets. That’s what it really boils down to,” said [San Miguel Fire Chief Augie] Ghio.
The only proposition passing in the 10News poll is Prop. 1F, which would prohibit pay raises for legislature, governor and other elected officials if the state is expected to have a deficit.It is leading by 10 points, according to the poll.
Obama had an admitted MARXIST Mentor, Obama's mother was a Communist and he had other Communist connections, Obama studied Marxism in College:
Does any of this sound familiar?
Vladimir Lenin Quotes:
"The goal of socialism is communism."
Vladimir Lenin
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
(USEFUL IDIOTS and there are plenty on this AOL thread.)
Wake up and smell the B.O. !
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(1) WADE....
5:39PM May 27th 2009
Hawaii passes “Islam Day” law
Hmmmmmm, OBAMA'S HOME STATE ~ WHAT'S NEXT SHARIA LAW?
Islam is not just a religion it's a system:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smCCeBqlsds
http://fromtheduke.blogspot.com/2008/04/cia-islam-as-system.html
Where's the ACLU and Barry Lynn?
Hawaii’s state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to celebrate “Islam Day” _ over the objections of a few lawmakers who said they didn’t want to honor a religion connected to Sept. 11, 2001.
…The resolution to proclaim Sept. 24, 2009, as Islam Day passed the Senate on a 22-3 vote. It had previously passed the House.
The bill seeks to recognize “the rich religious, scientific, cultural and artistic contributions” that Islam and the Islamic world have made.
There is, as far as I know, no “Christianity Day” designation in Hawaiian law, though the state did designate Good Friday a government holiday, which courts ruled was “primarily proposed to increase the frequency of legal holidays.”
Islam will overwhelm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent."
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:
"Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet...."
According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam. Obama chanted it with pride and finesse.
Hmmmmmm, OBAMA'S HOME STATE ~ WHAT'S NEXT SHARIA LAW?
Islam is not just a religion it's a system:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smCCeBqlsds
http://fromtheduke.blogspot.com/2008/04/cia-islam-as-system.html
Where's the ACLU and Barry Lynn?
Hawaii’s state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to celebrate “Islam Day” _ over the objections of a few lawmakers who said they didn’t want to honor a religion connected to Sept. 11, 2001.
…The resolution to proclaim Sept. 24, 2009, as Islam Day passed the Senate on a 22-3 vote. It had previously passed the House.
The bill seeks to recognize “the rich religious, scientific, cultural and artistic contributions” that Islam and the Islamic world have made.
There is, as far as I know, no “Christianity Day” designation in Hawaiian law, though the state did designate Good Friday a government holiday, which courts ruled was “primarily proposed to increase the frequency of legal holidays.”
Islam will overwhelm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent."
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:
"Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet...."
According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam. Obama chanted it with pride and finesse.
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(1) fc4u2do
7:53AM May 27th 2009
L.O.L cheney L.O.L NO BODY WANTS HIM.....AND THIS PIECE OF CRAP WANTS ;;HIS COUNTRY TOO FAIL;;;;ANOTHER VERY SIC ;;;EX LEADER;;ALONG THE LINES OF STALIN, HITLER,KIM.
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(-1) whereisvic
8:14AM May 27th 2009
Well bob, At least Al Gore is trying to help save the WORLD instead of doing what he can to destroy it. Cheney is lying to sell books much like the Bush administration misled the world with stories of Saddam's involvment with WMD's and now Cheney wants us all to forget about that. In an effort to justify the war they wanted to bring on Iraq, Tenet/Rumsfeld/Bush/Cheney tortured al-Libi and got "faulty intelligence" and ran with it. They all knew the "confessions" of al-Libi were tainted because of torture and did not tell Congress or their cabinet. One year later al-Libi said of the "confession" "They were killing me, I had to tell them something." Why is anyone listening to Cheney...he's a liar and a criminal who will never be brought to justice...that is until that faulty ticker of his stops working altogether and God places judgment on him.
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(6) ghibliss
8:19AM May 27th 2009
What are all you people smoking? While the war in Iraq was probably the stupidest thing any president has ever done - Vietnam is another beauty thanks to Kennedy/Johnson - it sure as hell exposed the dangers of Islam. The greatest threat to world peace, now and in the future, is going to come from the middle east. Currently, there are now 46 countries that have Sharia Law as the basis of their legal system. There is even a push in England to have Sharia Law replace English law in areas that are predominantly Muslim. Rome is burning, and you bloggers can't even smell the smoke!!
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(1) jparchery02
8:55AM May 27th 2009
ghibliss you hit it dead nuts the kumbaya crowd that chairman obama has a hold over will still be talking to these terrorist when their head is in the basket bush was wrong on a lot of things but knowing that talking to these muslims was as useless as tits on a bull made him look like a guinness compared to the chairman obama crowd, now chairman obama will tell the American people '' our prison system can hold the gitmo prisoners with no fear of escape'' as he loads our courts with muslim terrorist sympathizers the fear should not be of these terrorists escaping but of the liberal judges and activist's demanding we release these prisoners and monetarily compensate them for all OUR wrongdoing not to mention even if these prisoners don't get released they will instruct and influence hundreds maybe thousands of black muslim prisoners who will be released to fight for the cause
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(1) Rheinhart Moxon
5:08PM May 27th 2009
Vietnam is another beauty thanks to Kennedy/Johnson
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GHIBLISS - Did you forget it was Republican Eisenhower who embroiled us in Vietnam - sending US soldiers to South Vietnam in 1955, having pledged his support in 1954?
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GHIBLISS - Did you forget it was Republican Eisenhower who embroiled us in Vietnam - sending US soldiers to South Vietnam in 1955, having pledged his support in 1954?
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(0) cjjanis001
8:31AM May 27th 2009
What are we smoking? Try what are you smoking! A push in England to have Sharia Law replace English law? Man thats a hoot! Let me guess Glenn Beck is your weed dealer..........
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(1) whereisvic
8:40AM May 27th 2009
ghibliss, is that short for ignorance is bliss? I mean, the largest threat to world peace for the previous 8 years was the Bush administration. You are clearly not thinking for yourself...Turn off Fox and do some real critical thinking. Religious zealots and extremists have been a threat to world peace since the beginning of time...One of the things that makes America great is our ability to understand that a small rotten spot does not spoil the entire tree.
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(4) jparchery02
9:24AM May 27th 2009
whereisvics head up his azz ? one small rotten spot might not spoil the entire tree but one small suitcase nuke will ..it doesnt even have to kill anyone but it will make an entire city uninhabital for years imagine New York city ..closed for business , its one thing to be a threat to the world its another to really be able to destroy it and islam is hell bent on destroying America and if you cant see this you need to pull your head out of chairman obamas back side... I know your response will be bush bla bla bla but this has been going on longer than bush has been alive its not about bush or any thing he did its an ideology and a hatred that islam has for America
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(-1) whereisvic
9:53AM May 27th 2009
jparchery, How naive' are you? You don't think Bush has anything to do with how Muslim's feel about America? For real? You should be happy to know there are over ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND dead Iraqi's whose families/survivors feel America is quite a threat to Islam. There are millions of Iraqi's living in a country invaded who were/are completely innocent of any of the crimes committed against America by an extreme sect of Islam. What is wrong with people who cannot see there are 2 sides to every story and many views from which to judge?
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