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Ben Stein on Barack Obama : We've Figured Him Out
American Spectator ^ | 2009 | Ben Stein

Posted on 10/28/2009 12:37:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?

Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.

The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs

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To: Fred Hayek

He backed Franken.


21 posted on 10/28/2009 12:58:29 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR.....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: SeekAndFind; LucyT; Liz

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a “community organizer,” Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth.—————————————————————————————————————

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22 posted on 10/28/2009 1:00:19 PM PDT by GOPJ (Obama is the Milli Vanilli of authors. Freeper: Natural Law)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Thank you, I stand corrected. Still, how could he?!


23 posted on 10/28/2009 1:00:40 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (From this point forward the Democratic Party will be referred to as the Communist Party)
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To: roses of sharon

He was on TV stating “he could not stop smiling” when Obama was elected.

I did not see that, so what was the context?

Maybe “did you all know what you voted for?”.


24 posted on 10/28/2009 1:01:58 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (From this point forward the Democratic Party will be referred to as the Communist Party)
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To: SeekAndFind
Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

And the best doctors will retire - we'll all be treated with the "respect" the average medicaid gets...

25 posted on 10/28/2009 1:03:24 PM PDT by GOPJ (Obama is the Milli Vanilli of authors. Freeper: Natural Law)
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To: GOPJ; rocco55; thouworm; rxsid; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; ...
Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

Check out the article... now, I will be off-line for a while; ... carry on, anyway.

[You can do it. Yes, you can!]

26 posted on 10/28/2009 1:08:21 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: GOP Poet

Right, the author is being kind to a lot of criminally ill-informed voters who themselves could care less about America and care most about their own immediate, concrete and temporary gains.


27 posted on 10/28/2009 1:10:55 PM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: GOPJ

And the best doctors will retire - we’ll all be treated with the “respect” the average medicaid gets...””

I suspect that we will hen have a large influx of “affirmative action doctors”.

Glad I have a great Veterinarian.


28 posted on 10/28/2009 1:12:44 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Barb4Bush
He’s a smart guy and a fiscal conservative.

Not that smart and not that conservative. Stein gave money and his support to Franken.

29 posted on 10/28/2009 1:12:48 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Fred Hayek
Iirc he and Kelley Ann Conaway (who was supposedly a conservative) both said they were happy....as did Charles Krauthammer...the context was a historic one, but they all believed he was going to be calm, smart, and bipartisan.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Another time they did not listen to us.

30 posted on 10/28/2009 1:18:03 PM PDT by roses of sharon (Call the NFL and welcome their new Commissioner, Al Sharpton.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Great Ben. Love it...

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31 posted on 10/28/2009 1:18:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

He also dissed Sarah!


32 posted on 10/28/2009 1:19:37 PM PDT by RebelTXRose
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To: SeekAndFind
Here's Ben's hidden message:

"total zero"

Right on the money!

33 posted on 10/28/2009 1:19:40 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Tallguy

From the other thread...

I know it’s a long way off, but can you imagine Obama as an ex-president. We’re talking quantum leap over Jimmy Carter on the embarrassment scale.

I have had the same thought. It’s worth coming up with legislation now to set limits as much as we can.

With free speech being what it is, about all we can hope for is to so discredit this joker, that his statements will be seen as the mindless rantings of a mental deranged uncle that nobody talks about or listens to.


34 posted on 10/28/2009 1:22:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: GOP Poet

I figured him out from the beginning too. That means we are special in this re-educated society. We can say our abc’s and count to fifty.


35 posted on 10/28/2009 1:31:50 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SeekAndFind
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The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to act of graft committed for the benefit of Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

There. Fixed it. Ben doesn't usually slip up.

36 posted on 10/28/2009 1:35:06 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: SeekAndFind

bttt


37 posted on 10/28/2009 1:35:28 PM PDT by The Wizard
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, all of this was perfectly obvious last year. Too bad everyone was asleep, and the RNC chose McCain to help elect Obama.


38 posted on 10/28/2009 1:37:37 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: DoughtyOne
Unfortunately, he is modeling himself after Lincoln and Kennedy (or more accurately, an image of what he thinks we think are Lincoln and Kennedy)

I fear we won't have to worry about him as an ex-president.

Worse, we will have a martyr to liberalism, and the left and islamist will use his bloody corpse to ram home every foul idea he's ever voiced.

How long would it have taken us to get to the moon had Kennedy lived? By the end of the decade? I rather doubt it...

(Note to DOJy trolls, I am VERY MUCH AGAINST any physical violence directed at the current occupant of the White House)

39 posted on 10/28/2009 1:42:22 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 279 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Fred Hayek
Still, how could he?!

The same way people get married multiple times.

The triumph of hope over experience...

40 posted on 10/28/2009 1:45:01 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 279 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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