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More on the Company Obama Keeps: Anti-Semitic Hatred From Obama Supporter Shocks Jewish Donor
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/ ^ | April 10, 2008 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on 04/10/2008 4:12:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

More on the Company Obama Keeps: Anti-Semitic Hatred From Key Obama Supporter Shocks Naive Jewish Liberal Donor

By Debbie Schlussel

April 10, 2008

Many people have sent me this letter, below, and it now appears on many sites. It is an important read to remind people that anti-Semitism is all over, and that far too many key Barack Hussein Obama supporters openly hate Jews, and want you to know it. And that Obama is far too lax in looking the other way.

But the letter is also confirmation of another thing I and many of my readers and friends have known all of our lives: Foolish Jewish liberals continue to throw money at our enemies, and then they are shocked--shocked!--that those enemies tell them, "Hey, we hate Jews." Hello . . .?

(Excerpt) Read more at debbieschlussel.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2008; antisemitism; blueturban; donors; ericlee; jewishvote; nobama; obama; schlussel
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1 posted on 04/10/2008 4:12:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality." Saying attributed to Irving Kristol.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 04/10/2008 4:14:37 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Why would anyone be surprised at this? Obambi is a long-time congregant of a racist, anti-semitic “church,” and among his most ardent supporters can be counted some of the most hateful people on the planet, and they have nothing but ill will towards the United States. And this guy has a valid shot at becoming president?

Oh, how far we have fallen!


3 posted on 04/10/2008 4:20:15 PM PDT by ought-six
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Doesn’t matter.

The self loathing, utterly doomed idiots will overwhelmingly support and vote for Obama, a man whose followers make the Nazis look tame.


4 posted on 04/10/2008 4:23:57 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: Alouette; SJackson

Ping!


5 posted on 04/10/2008 4:24:46 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (McCain "conservatives" = hardcore liberals who nonetheless appreciate the occasional tax cut.)
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To: 1st-P-In-The-Pod; 2ndDivisionVet; A_Conservative_in_Cambridge; af_vet_rr; agrace; Aiko; ...
FReepMail to be added or removed from this pro-Israel/Judaic/Russian Jewry ping list.

Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.

6 posted on 04/10/2008 4:26:29 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: Alouette
"It was right after the mention of Malcolm X that he looked right at me and started talking about the African American children who are suffering because of the JEWS that have featured them as rapists and murderers. He spoke of a Jewish Rabbi, and then corrected himself to say "What other kind of Rabbis are there, but JEWS". He told how this Rabbi came to him to say that he would like to bring the AA community and the Jewish community together. " NO, NO, NO,!!!!" he shouted into the crowd, we are not going to come together. "The Jews have made money on us in the music business and we are the entertainers, and they are economically enslaving us."

"He continued as to how now the salvation has come and the gates have open for African Americans to come together behind Barack Obama, because now is the time to show them.(meaning the Jews)."

With just a little artful tweaking, here and there: this guy could be Pat Buchanan. ;)

7 posted on 04/10/2008 4:33:00 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (McCain "conservatives" = hardcore liberals who nonetheless appreciate the occasional tax cut.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Great column from Debbie, but we really need to think about this in much broader terms. After WW II, as the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed, the watchword of Israel, and of most worldwide Jews, especially in America, was "Never Again!!" And to that end they supported Israel.

And yet the American Jews continued, over the next half century, to support, in near lockstep, liberals and Dems with their money AND votes..well, now, reality is staring them right in the face.

Pelosi has been to Syria, Carter is going to meet the terrorists, Obama's minister of 20 years is a blatant anti-Semite, before the Iraq war three Dem congressman were actually inside Baghdad..the list goes on and on..ad nauseum, and lengthens each day.

But for American Jews, the day of reckoning is fast approaching. They won't be able to say they never saw it coming. When it comes, it will be their fault. But perhaps they won't have to look themselves in the mirror and admit guilt, for when you "sit shiva", be it for one person or a whole nation, you first cover all the mirrors. Is there enough sackcloth in the country to cover all that?

8 posted on 04/10/2008 4:43:10 PM PDT by ken5050
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To: goldstategop

Better late than never. i’ve been watching this type of thing in “The Community” for 40 years..Even the phrase “to give back” was born of extortion in Ocean Hill Brownsville, in NYC during a teachers strike.


9 posted on 04/10/2008 4:46:05 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

If Pat Buchanan was anti-Semitic, why was he President Reagan’s Communications Director?


10 posted on 04/10/2008 4:53:09 PM PDT by donna ("Women are not little men, and men are not big women.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This donor, I hope, will repudiate ‘Bama and ask for his donation back.


11 posted on 04/10/2008 4:54:02 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: donna

Buchanan was com. dir. for Reagan at the start of his second term, but remained only two years. Perhaps more memorable is Buchanan’s role as assistant and co-anti-Semite to Nixon.


12 posted on 04/10/2008 5:02:58 PM PDT by mtntop3
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To: donna
Pat Buchanan, His Fans, and Anti-Semitism
13 posted on 04/10/2008 5:13:30 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (McCain "conservatives" = hardcore liberals who nonetheless appreciate the occasional tax cut.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Great blog by Debbie Schlussel, one of her true masterpieces.

One of the most horrificly ironic factors in the story is that the Rev. Eric Lee, the man who uttered the slimy antisemitic remarks heard by the “liberal” Jewish philanthropist in the audience, is an official in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which is the organization once headed by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let’s hope that her bitter experience will be a big media story, a wake-up call for many other “liberal” Jews to finally see where reality is regarding the prevalence of and acquiscence to antisemitism in the black community at large.


14 posted on 04/10/2008 5:47:05 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; donna

Puh-leese. Not even Pat Buchanan ever said anything near as sleazy as this Rev. Lee.


15 posted on 04/10/2008 5:49:38 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

So, why did President Reagan hire Pat Buchanan?


16 posted on 04/10/2008 5:59:45 PM PDT by donna ("Women are not little men, and men are not big women.")
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To: ml/nj; firebrand; rmlew; dennisw; nyyankeefan; juliej; OldFriend; Sarah; ariamne; ...

Important ping to Debbie Schlussel blog!


17 posted on 04/10/2008 6:06:21 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: ken5050

Not this Jew. Not now, not ever..it comes to that day of reckoning...I’ll be on your side of the ramparts.


18 posted on 04/10/2008 6:07:05 PM PDT by Braak (The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
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19 posted on 04/10/2008 6:08:16 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I had accessed a book marked site called PYJAMAS MEDIA, subtitled, Sending the MSM down the river. Despite some good advice from my grand daughter, I did not dare try to copy the you tube video. I will have to have several lessons first. This was Daphna Ziman on her award for her good work with children of inner cities. This from Kosovo to the United States.

A little sexist I will admit, but she is a "looker". Someone did say a Carly Simon look alike. The hurt and distress was genuine, as she recounted the Reverend Eric Lee's diatribe. I would throw at the Reverend Lee a far greater insult that a racial one. He is even lighter in hue than the Reverend Wright.

My insult is that he is not a true Christian. This just in (as I logged back to check my first impressions). The Reverend has apologized. A lengthy statement. Nonetheless there are those of us had better heed the old adage- for those who take up the prize ring.

Defend yourself at all times. (chuckle).

20 posted on 04/10/2008 6:51:41 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: donna
So, why did President Reagan hire Pat Buchanan?

Irrelevant, unless you're working from the assumption that Reagan was an all-knowing psychic with the mutant power to peer into the souls of men.

Buchanan wrote what he wrote, and said what he said. Embrace the reality.

21 posted on 04/10/2008 6:57:49 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (McCain "conservatives" = hardcore liberals who nonetheless appreciate the occasional tax cut.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“The Jews have made money on us in the music business and we are the entertainers”

That’s gratitude!

They called your music “oga-bugie” “Jungle” and N****R music, you couldn’t even get a cup of coffee, in the very places you now freely “entertain” at.

So some evil Jewish promoters came along — and believed in you — and took a chance — and the rest is history!

Entertain that!

“We can rarely bring ourselves to forgive those who have helped us.” (Black Demagogues and Pseudo-Scholars)

http://web.archive.org/web/19990427143249/www.wiesenthal.com/resource/Blackdem.htm


22 posted on 04/10/2008 7:01:29 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Buchanan is NOT an anti-Semite. His frustration with the American Jewish community is merely that which is covered so well in this thread; why so many of them support Democrats and leftist causes that are CLEARLY counter to their interests and to the interests of Israel.

He’s not the only one who feels this way. Personally, I call it stupidity. Does it make me anti-Semitic to point out that so many American Jews support those who despise their very existence?


23 posted on 04/10/2008 7:09:29 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: donna; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
So, why did President Reagan hire Pat Buchanan?

(1) Buchanan is a skilled writer and a skilled public speaker, so he was qualified.

(2) Buchanan hid the darker side of his personality while he was on the rise within the conservative movement. After the unpleasant aspects of his personality lost him his White House job, he turned his back on the conservative movement and began to become a stronger and stronger advocate of the fascist populism he spouts today.

The most disgusting and egregious things he has said almost invariably date to the post-1987 era.

24 posted on 04/10/2008 7:13:33 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
It was right after the mention of Malcolm X that he looked right at me and started talking about the African American children who are suffering because of the JEWS that have featured them as rapists and murderers. He spoke of a Jewish Rabbi, and then corrected himself to say "What other kind of Rabbis are there, but JEWS". He told how this Rabbi came to him to say that he would like to bring the AA community and the Jewish community together. " NO, NO, NO,!!!!" he shouted into the crowd, we are not going to come together. "The Jews have made money on us in the music business and we are the entertainers, and they are economically enslaving us."

He continued as to how now the salvation has come and the gates have open for African Americans to come together behind Barack Obama, because now is the time to show them.(meaning the Jews).

I'm a terrible person, but this section made me laugh out loud. That liberal Jews are shocked, shocked to find out that the worst kind of racist Nazi antisemitism is endemic among black "leaders" of the type that Hussein holds dear to his heart...it's a black comedy, pardon the pun.

25 posted on 04/10/2008 7:13:37 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: RightOnline
Buchanan wrote a real charming book before The Death of the West. In A Republic, Not An Empire, he denied that Adolf Hitler had any malicious intentions toward the West, let alone toward the Jews living there. He also argued that Hitler was forced into pursuing the Final Solution because of British and American intervention in the war. Buchanan’s implication, in other words, was that Hitler wasn’t really responsible for what he did.

Buchanan has described Hitler as a "genius" and "an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War."

What feelings or beliefs would motivate a person to make such a tribute to Hitler?

That's from the link you didn't follow, in Post #13. There's a good deal more than that, quite frankly... but: it's enough.

If you share those same feelings with Buchanan... then: yes, absolutely. You're an antisemite, as well.

Do you?

26 posted on 04/10/2008 7:14:53 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (McCain "conservatives" = hardcore liberals who nonetheless appreciate the occasional tax cut.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I am astounded that the fact that many blacks don’t like Jews, and use Jews as whipping boys, is news to some in the Jewish community. Where have these people been the last forty years? This started in the 1960’s.

Liberalism is not a political philosophy; it’s a pathetic emotional stance.


27 posted on 04/10/2008 7:39:31 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: Braak
Not this Jew. Not now, not ever..it comes to that day of reckoning...I’ll be on your side of the ramparts.

Me, too. Somehow, I think that we'll have just a little bit more and better equipment than the Warsaw Ghetto heroes who fought off the Wehrmacht and SS for several weeks.

28 posted on 04/10/2008 8:03:38 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (An ex-citizen of the Frederation trying to stop Monica's Ex-Boyfriend's Wife from becoming President)
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To: dalight

Lookee here.


29 posted on 04/10/2008 9:19:59 PM PDT by Salem (What can men do against such reckless hate? ... Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Read the article at the link...


30 posted on 04/10/2008 11:08:28 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The best argument against democracy is a 5-minute conversation with the average voter.—WChurchill)
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To: wideawake

Bug off.


31 posted on 04/10/2008 11:09:10 PM PDT by donna ("Women are not little men, and men are not big women.")
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To: donna
Bug off.

Exactly the sort of intelligent comment I would have anticipated from a Buchananite.

32 posted on 04/11/2008 4:50:01 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No matter. This November all of my Jewish relatives will march into the voting booth, and with self-satisfied smiles and vacant eyes, pull the “D” lever regardless of whomever the cnadidate. They will then meet at Jack and Marion’s and, over chopped liver and corned beef sandwiches, congratulate one another on their nuanced understanding of politics and their high IQs while bemoaning the stupidity and bigotry of the rest of the country. The sick joke, of course, is if the Lib fascists gain control, Jews are one of the first groups that will suffer.


33 posted on 04/11/2008 6:08:24 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Please email this to every Liberal Jew that you know in an effort to open their eyes. Before, anyone posts that all Jews are Liberals, I can assure you there are many of us here on FR that are not. Hopefully, this will be printed on www.rjchq.org ASAP.


34 posted on 04/11/2008 7:08:24 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Free ThinkerNY; ml/nj; firebrand; rmlew; dennisw; juliej; OldFriend; Ancesthntr; Braak; ...
There is a video of an interview of Daphne Ziman (the "liberal," Israeli immigrant philanthropist who was the victim of Rev. Lee's antisemitic remarks) available at:

http://backyardconservative.blogspot.com

Please scroll down about a quarter of the page.

35 posted on 04/11/2008 8:41:42 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Obama’s “ridin’ dirty”..


36 posted on 04/11/2008 8:55:13 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: justiceseeker93; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ..

Thanks Justiceseeker.


37 posted on 04/11/2008 10:37:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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To: wideawake; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

The method of preventing a discussion about Obama by substituting Buchanan’s name is very clever. Are you getting a paycheck from the DNC or the Nation of Islam?

You are using to tool of liberal political correctness where anyone who has an opinion different than yours is a racist of some kind and must shut up.

You are using Marxist tools to destroy anyone who disagrees with you just like the Democrat party does.

It reflects more on you than it does the innocent people you gossip about and work to destroy.


38 posted on 04/11/2008 11:42:26 AM PDT by donna (We live in this fog of political correctness, where everything is perpetual deception.-John Hagee)
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To: donna
Couldn't defend the Buchanan writings and comments linked in Post #13, huh?

Dear, dear.

Are you getting a paycheck from the DNC or the Nation of Islam?

Report me, by all means, if that's your sincere (albeit pinheaded) belief. Here... let me make it so easy for you, you'll have absolutely no conceivable excuse whatsoever NOT to do so:

Jim Robinson's e-mail.

Put up or shut up, peanut.

39 posted on 04/11/2008 11:49:27 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (McCain "conservatives" = hardcore liberals who nonetheless appreciate the occasional tax cut.)
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To: donna
Are you getting a paycheck from the DNC or the Nation of Islam?

The DNC and the Nation Of Islam love Pat Buchanan.

Like Obama, he wants to cut and run in Iraq.

Like the Nation Of Islam, he hates Jews.

Like the DNC, he wants to split the GOP electorate.

If I shared your conspiracy paranoia I would be asking you if you were being paid by the DNC and the NOI to shill for their best buddy.

But I don't.

I think you have simply been gulled by Buchanan's rhetoric.

40 posted on 04/11/2008 11:52:06 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

Keep going.

You’ll cover Obama’s tracks just as you plan to do.


41 posted on 04/11/2008 12:15:02 PM PDT by donna (We live in this fog of political correctness, where everything is perpetual deception.-John Hagee)
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To: donna
You’ll cover Obama’s tracks just as you plan to do.

Please explain, as best you can, why the fact that Obama is as bad an anti-Semite as Buchanan - and tehrefore as unelectable as Buchanan - "covers" his "tracks."

42 posted on 04/11/2008 12:17:17 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Does Obama pay you based on the number of threads you hijack to divert attention from Obama?


43 posted on 04/11/2008 12:18:06 PM PDT by donna (We live in this fog of political correctness, where everything is perpetual deception.-John Hagee)
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To: wideawake

Please explain why you are working for Marxists.


44 posted on 04/11/2008 12:19:12 PM PDT by donna (We live in this fog of political correctness, where everything is perpetual deception.-John Hagee)
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To: wideawake

bttt


45 posted on 04/11/2008 12:19:12 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: donna
Please explain why you are working for Marxists.

When did you stop beating your girlfriend?

46 posted on 04/11/2008 12:22:54 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: donna
Does Obama pay you based on the number of threads you hijack to divert attention from Obama?

Once again: R-E-P-O-R-T M-E to Jim, if you pull anything else out of your southernmost gunnysack to go along with that, evidence-wise.

Jim Robinson's e-mail.

Otherwise: you're simply a cartoon. Nothing more.

47 posted on 04/11/2008 12:23:55 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (McCain "conservatives" = hardcore liberals who nonetheless appreciate the occasional tax cut.)
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To: wideawake
Please explain why you are working for Marxists.

Are they paying you better than Obama pays me, man? Any bennies, like full dental? "Casual Fridays"...? ;)

48 posted on 04/11/2008 12:25:49 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (McCain "conservatives" = hardcore liberals who nonetheless appreciate the occasional tax cut.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
We get paternity leave and 20% off all meals at the Rainforest Cafe.

Of course, so does Pat, because we both work for his former running mate, Lenora Fulani.

49 posted on 04/11/2008 12:28:43 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; wideawake

Why would anyone bother to report an Obama operative like you?

You’re so obvious it’s enough to expose you on the thread. You are following your master’s voice:

“If your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place.”
- Saul Alinsky


50 posted on 04/11/2008 12:32:02 PM PDT by donna (We live in this fog of political correctness, where everything is perpetual deception.-John Hagee)
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