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November 02 2010 at 10:14 AM PermalinkWhat a wonderful day. We can finally start reversing the damage done by the democrats.
November 02 2010 at 10:13 AM PermalinkBefore they passed Obamacare the Dems held a series of town meetings. When angry voters showed up at the meetings to protest Obamacare the Dems claimed they were just a small group of radicals. When the voiters promised that they would throw out the people who voted for Obamacare the Dems viewed it as an idle threat. Now in the wods of the immortal Reverand Wright "The chickens are coming home to roost." Shame on the Dems and shame on Obama for ignoring the American people. We are not as dumb as you think we are.
November 02 2010 at 10:06 AM PermalinkBoth parties had there shot? Really? Interesting twist on your grasp of reality unless your only source of input as to what reality might be is hate radio and faux network propagandists. There have been careers made and I mean millionaire careers made demonizing and hating all things Liberal or Democrat or Clinton or Obama. The airwaves are consumed with allegations of some fictitious demon called the liberal press when in fact anything truly liberal is rarely ever given any fair exposure in any form of media. Billionaires like murdock and koch et al, have bought up more and more media outlets and removed anyone who might let slip something that does not fit the hard-line right-wing mentality of these controllers. They stroked the small minded egos of rednecks and others of minimal comprehension of the printed word and turned this into a mob they control with a few words to instill fear and hate and intolerance to easily manipulate as a distraction of the masses away from their own personal agenda of destroying the middle class, destroying the education system and destroying any hope of an honest election in this country. The republican party has one job and that job is to scream NO and sit on their hands and do nothing so the uber rich can continue to strangle the life out of a weak and ill-informed middle class. There has been no chance for any opposition to this since the truth is hung up on daily on talk radio and dismissed in editorials and never make it to print. There is no balance and has not been any semblance of such a thing since the 70"s.
November 02 2010 at 10:06 AM PermalinkThis is just another left leaning rant trying to appear non-partisan. The press in this country is totally corrupt and out of touch. Congress needs to cut taxes and reduce the federal budget by at least 20% and that means a 20% cut across all departments. The idea that the only reductions would have to include Social Security and Healthcare are just the typical scare tactics. All funds to the UN should be cut off. HEW should be dissolved entirely, then the DOE and EPA should be reduced significantly because they are job killers.
November 02 2010 at 9:57 AM PermalinkThe far left has had a plan for some time and they have been working toward their first major goal of having America become a socialist country. Europe is already well on their way. With the election of Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress a perfect storm was created for their dream to become a reality. The traditional Democratic party had already been taken over by the far left. The Republican Party had lost it's strength through a diffusion and lowering of their values, so they would not be able to stop it. At breakneck speed they began to implement steps that would drive America into the depths of socialism and globalism. The feeling was that the American people, even if they complained and were opposed to what was going on, were not organized enough to stop the movement. But then something unexpected happened. The will, the strength, and the voice of the American people were grossly underestimated. Suddenly ordinary Americans, many of whom never participated in any political movement before, began to rise up. A true groundswell, and grassroots movement, began to emerge. And emerge they did. They were senior citizens, grandparents, and parents, deeply concerned not only about themselves, but the future of America for their children and grandchildren. They were conservative Republicans, traditional Democrats, Libertarians, and Independents who were strongly opposed to the new socialist direction. Scared to death of it, in fact. They were informed younger people, and minorities who think for themselves and object to adhering to mass block thinking where it is "expected" that they will just comply. They were people who have a deep faith in God. They were people who are patriots and love America. They are veterans who had served their country and who had fought to preserve freedom. Spontaneously they came together. Millions upon millions of them. They came together under the title of "Tea Party". The left was flabbergasted, they hadn't planned or expected anything like this. They were so close to achieving their goal. At all costs the Tea Party had to be stopped. Immediately they began to try to discredit the Tea Parties, a tact that had worked for them so many times before. Truth is irrelevant, but discredit they must. They began to call them crazy, radicals, Nazi's, every name in the book...and finally the one that always seemed to have worked before...racists. Many major media sources fully complied with the unfounded and unwarranted attacks. Yet the Tea Parties kept coming, without a flinch. What the far left and the media failed to realize is that Tea Party IS America...the vast majority of the American people. You can't turn the vast majority of the American people on themselves, especially with what are KNOWN to be falsehoods. The far left then engaged union leadership, and organizations like the NAACP to help discredit the Tea Party movement, call them racists, etc. Again this didn't work to say nothing about violating the 9th Commandment of God by bearing false witness. Many of the good and decent people of the NAACP don't like being part of false accusations. Neither do the union MEMBERSHIP, in fact many of them are either in agreement with the Tea Party movement, if not actual members. Nonetheless the great strength of the administration in power, with the help of nearly all major media sources is immense. In addition, over time, deep seated roots have been established by the far left into many organizations throughout the country. Further, there are some very wealthy backers who have their own agenda toward turning the United States into a greatly weakened, yet socialist country that will allow globalism to continue. The future of United States is now dependent upon the people of America. This includes all those who want to preserve our great democracy irrespective of party affiliation, race, religion, ethnic, or any other socio, political, or economic group. And it depends greatly, as the far left fears, on the Tea Party since they have the strength of organization. All of this comes down to two dates..November 2010 and...November 2012 and our sacred right to vote. The choices are simple yet dramatic and potentially tragic in our history: socialism that will lead to the destruction of America as we know it.....or the preservation of our great country and democracy. Thankfully the Tea Party movement has given us at least a choice, now it is up to us.
November 02 2010 at 9:55 AM Permalink +11Thank you....and 70 liberals in congress are now known to be members of the Socialist Party of America and includes the list. Howard Dean and AFL-CIO president working with european socialists (which is failing all across europe) to bring socialism here along with photos and articles. Soros is sponsoring an anti-capitalist think tank with millions of monies while telling European financial and political leaders that America does not want to be number one any longer.....(is this a plan about something and they don't tell americans what it is).....
November 02 2010 at 10:09 AM PermalinkSo what? In the last mid-term elections, the voters booted out all the Republicans because they thought they were doing a crappy job...and they were! How soon we forget.
November 02 2010 at 9:48 AM Permalink -5I agree. How could anyone follow a party that sent this country into an endless war? I have only one complaint on Obama and that is for remaining in a sensless war that can not be won. Even Russia pulled out of the discord in the mid east. How, HOw, can anyone support this war with the drain on our next generation by killing and maming them? Some hard hearted people out there.
November 02 2010 at 10:08 AM Permalinkgood morning my fellow americans. well today is election day across this great nation. i am a 65 year old gentleman from west virginia that has gone through this process many many times. i am a registered democrat and have been all my life but i ask that you dont hold that against me. you see i have voted for both parties in the last many years, depending on whom i thought would be the best candidate, not just because he/she was a democrat or republican. thats just one of the many RIGHTS i, along with millions of other young women and men have given this nation, some with their own life. today being election day i find myself angered, somewhat confused, and mad as heck that my party, the democratic one, has deserted me and moved to far to the left. i am ashamed to say that i voted for obama, but then again like millions of others i have come to realize that i was professionally fooled by this snake oil salesman from illinois. his phony and lieing tounge had me so convinced that he was a bit of some honesty, good dreams for us the american people etc etc. but under his lieing deceitful image of leadership and the to far left agenda of the present congress and senate i again will be forced to vote them out. they have deserted me and many other long time party democrats. my hope today is a simple one. most importantly that everyone that has a right to vote, do so, and most importantly that they vote with the facts we see and have seen in the last 4 years. i will not vote democratic this year and pray that all those that are as mad as i am do the same. they have totally ignored the will and desires of their constiuency and its high time we the american people tell them, THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS IN AMERICA. we the people must take back our country and tell them and future politicians that we are and will continue to watch observe what you do and dont do that we demand of you. get out and vote and god bless america. and one final note if i may. TO THE PRESS OF THIS GREAT NATION, we are tired of your left leaning bias reporting. you will be next. i already gave up on the media being a democratic owned media and do not watch anything other than fox, the others lack the integrity that a good journalist should have. go america....................
November 02 2010 at 9:48 AM Permalink +11You're buying in to the snake-oil salesmen from the right. Actually, the Democrats haven't moved to the left at all. They're to the right even of where the Republican party was back in the 1950s and 1960s. President Obama has been an honest man--those who claim otherwise are twisting things in a Karl Rove style. You have been fooled by Fox news, the propaganda station. Actually, there is no "democratic owned media." It's all owned by the far-right radicals, and Fox is the worst of the lot. No wonder you have been fooled.
November 02 2010 at 9:58 AM PermalinkThere is no such entity as "Republicorp". That label has been assigned by the leftists from MoveOn.org and Media Matters. This nonsense will not work this time. Maybe next time you could talk about issues that matter. Oh, I forgot. The issues that matter to the people DON'T matter to the Democrats.
November 02 2010 at 9:43 AM Permalink +10The last time I checked, Democrats ARE people. "Republicorp" is obviously not intended to refer to an actual entity, but to illustrate the Republican party's servitude of big corporations and forsaking of the people, which certainly is something that matters to the people.
November 02 2010 at 10:00 AM PermalinkIf the Republicans do take control: I hope you fail. You have no time to right the economy. If I don't see jobs, jobs and more jobs coming the first days you are in charge, I will start to hold rallies to get you thrown out of office for not getting our economy running. No excuses. The futures of my family and their families depend upon it. Getting cracking.
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