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Mark Steyn: Due diligence never done on Obama
Orange County Register ^ | september 30, 2011 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/30/2011 6:18:58 PM PDT by passionfruit

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To: Venturer
They still support this scumbag, after they have seen what he has done.

Many of them support what he has done.

41 posted on 10/01/2011 9:14:16 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Graewoulf
If your following statement is true: “Our ludicrously unqualified chief executive would have been regarded as a joke candidate in any serious nation.” then how do you reconcile that statement with the fact that Obama received The Nobel Peace Prize, an INTERNATIONAL prize, in the very first year of his illustrious presidency?

Simple. The other nations aren't serious either.

42 posted on 10/01/2011 9:24:50 AM PDT by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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To: Graewoulf

Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize not for what he had done, but for what he said he WAS GOING TO DO. Since he’s put us on the verge of bankruptcy, he should give it back.


43 posted on 10/01/2011 10:48:10 AM PDT by kitkat (Obama, rope and chains)
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To: kitkat

Maybe, maybe none of the above. In my humble, but ALWAYS correct opinion, I think that Obama got elected to The Big House, and was selected for the Nobel Peace Prize due to White Guilt over slavery in the USA.


44 posted on 10/01/2011 11:00:52 AM PDT by Graewoulf ( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.)
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To: kitkat

Maybe, maybe none of the above. In my humble, but ALWAYS correct opinion, I think that Obama got elected to The Big House, and was selected for the Nobel Peace Prize due to White Guilt over slavery in the USA.


45 posted on 10/01/2011 11:00:52 AM PDT by Graewoulf ( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.)
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To: passionfruit

More energy is devoted to investigating the background of an applicant for a middle management position of any company in America than was devoted to investigating Obama’s by the self-appointed gatekeepers of “news.”


46 posted on 10/01/2011 1:00:20 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Cobra64

Does he not realize everybody is laughing at him?

47 posted on 10/01/2011 1:39:43 PM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: passionfruit
When is someone going to launch a class-action malpractice lawsuit against these major media outlets?

Their malpractice has cost trillions. Divided by 300 million or so Americans yields a tidy sum for each and every American they defrauded.

I say "defrauded" because members of the Press have certain rights, access to information and individuals the rest of us don't have.

With these rights, they also have responsibilities to practice their profession to high standards.

They didn't do that. They lied to us. They failed their professional duties. Clearly malpractice.

Somebody please sue ABC,NBC,CBS,NPR, AP, UI, Reuters and every other so-called "News" organization foe every penny they have!

48 posted on 10/01/2011 1:54:06 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats: the Party of NO!)
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To: passionfruit
I agree about the rotten stupidity of voting for Obama, even if the alternative was as wretched as McCain.

69,456,897


49 posted on 10/01/2011 2:30:23 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: passionfruit
...Regulation is about cleaner air, healthier restaurants, safer children's toys. Sounds so nice. But federal regulation alone sucks up ten per cent of GDP. That's to say, Americans take the equivalent of the Canadian economy and toss it down the toilet just in complying with federal paperwork. Obama and the great toxic alphabet soup of federal regulation – EPA, OSHA, SEC, DHSS – want to take that 10 percent and crank it up to 12, 14, 15 percent...After all, a key reason why 53 percent voted for a man who was not, in Tina Brown's word, "ready" is that Tina and all her pals assured us he was.

The other day, a letter emerged from ATF supervisor David Voth authorizing Special Agent John Dodson to buy Draco pistols to sell directly to known criminals. Over 200 Mexicans are believed to have been killed by "Fast and Furious" weapons – that's to say, they were killed by a U.S. government program. Doesn't The New York Times care about dead Mexicans? Doesn't Newsweek or CBS News? Isn't Obamaism with a body count sufficiently eye-catching even for the U.S. press? Or, three years in, are the enablers of Obama still so cynical that they accept it as a necessary price to pay for "change you can believe in"? You can't make a hopenchange omelette without breaking a couple hundred Mexican eggs?

Wow, Mark is hitting it hard today!

50 posted on 10/01/2011 3:12:13 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Aria

Amen!


51 posted on 10/01/2011 4:47:01 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men And Women)
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To: passionfruit

Steyn sure can write:

“Hard statism is usually murmured in soft, soothing, beguiling terms:

Regulation is about cleaner air, healthier restaurants, safer children’s toys. Sounds so nice. But federal regulation alone sucks up ten per cent of GDP. That’s to say, Americans take the equivalent of the Canadian economy and toss it down the toilet just in complying with federal paperwork. Obama and the great toxic alphabet soup of federal regulation – EPA, OSHA, SEC, DHSS – want to take that 10 percent and crank it up to 12, 14, 15 percent.

Who could have foreseen that?”


52 posted on 10/01/2011 5:08:53 PM PDT by RicocheT (Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
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To: passionfruit
Due diligence never done on Obama

The media has been part of the problem for decades.

53 posted on 10/01/2011 6:44:08 PM PDT by irv (Live Tea or die!)
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54 posted on 10/01/2011 8:28:41 PM PDT by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: passionfruit

Digging through the claims and background of POTUS candidates is the bread-and-butter of journalists —here they’re simply stating, “I’m bad at my job”.

Hey they’re in the private sector. What do you do to someone Bad At Their Job in the private sector?

You fire them.

I fired them 10 years ago —the only time I see TV news is while on the treadmill at the gym:

Are you like me? Via FreeRepublic and Drudge about 80% of the “breaking news” stories I see flickering on that monitor up there on the Legacy Media is stuff that I read about the PREVIOUS DAY...!

Or even earlier.

What is “NEW” to them is OLD to me.

FIRE THE LEGACY MEDIA...! Be like me.


55 posted on 10/01/2011 8:56:57 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: irv

Yep, the first thing that needs to happen, is the media needs to be burned to the ground.


56 posted on 10/01/2011 9:24:37 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (Fight organized crime. Vote out all incumbent Democrats!)
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To: Venturer

“They still support this scumbag, after they have seen what he has done.”

Do you think in many cases, it’s the battered wife syndrome?


57 posted on 10/01/2011 11:31:15 PM PDT by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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To: Graewoulf

“how do you reconcile that statement with the fact that Obama received The Nobel Peace Prize, an INTERNATIONAL prize, in the very first year of his illustrious presidency?”

Look at what a leftist, knuckle-headed bunch comprises the Nobel Peace Prize committee and the socialist, globalist country that houses it. Heck, just look at the list of past recipients. Anti-semitic, terrorist-loving Jimmah Carter, for God’s sake.


58 posted on 10/01/2011 11:37:23 PM PDT by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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To: budwiesest

“Mark Steyn should be required listening among those with a voting ballot. His cutting humor and wit are without equal when it comes to deconstructing what politicians are trying to sell.”

I agree, Mark Steyn is a treasure, and brilliant. I heard him speak a few weeks ago about his new book - just excellent. I love to hear him fill in for Rush.


59 posted on 10/01/2011 11:41:30 PM PDT by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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To: Aria

“and instead fell for the ridiculous hype of the “FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT”. Idiots!”

It’s so tragic that our first black president couldn’t have been Herman Cain or Allen West. I just pray that BHO & Co.’s racism hasn’t poisoned the well for these two great guys.


60 posted on 10/01/2011 11:47:04 PM PDT by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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