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Ken Burns: Why I am voting for Barack Obama
Manchester Union Leader ^ | October 18, 2012 | Ken Burns

Posted on 10/20/2012 4:29:19 AM PDT by billorites

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To: billorites
a small-town hard-work ethic

Hard-work ethics and government dependancy are antithetical. This man is truly, sadly deluded.

21 posted on 10/20/2012 4:44:50 AM PDT by stormhill
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To: billorites

So ‘Big Bird’ has finally been exposed... I didn’t realize Ken Burns was so tall. It’s too bad that he’s so short sighted.


22 posted on 10/20/2012 4:45:07 AM PDT by jerod (Pro-Abortion Gun Control Freaks & Environmental Nuts who hated Capitalism? The Nazi's)
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To: billorites

Stick this guy in the “Loone” category. 4 Daughters? He is crazy to put their futures in BO’s hands.


23 posted on 10/20/2012 4:45:53 AM PDT by marygam (#Hurry November 2012, we might not make it#)
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To: billorites

I have two daughters, Ken. I raised them to make their own way in the world, not relying on government subsidies to be successful.

I am proud to say that they both have far surpassed my modest achievements. How are yours doing?


24 posted on 10/20/2012 4:46:21 AM PDT by Makana
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To: billorites

Cocaine. It’s a hell of a drug.


25 posted on 10/20/2012 4:46:44 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Gaffer

Obama film grant — I agree. There is much work ahead on the infrastructure of Barry’s image. They’re going to have to shore him up and turn him into a “Jackie Robinson” kind of character. It’s going to take years, and I’d say Ken Burns and PBS are already in preproduction.


26 posted on 10/20/2012 4:47:57 AM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: Vaquero
"Stupid metrosexual fruit loop"

Everything you need to know about Ken Burns can be explained in one word: Hampshire College.

27 posted on 10/20/2012 4:49:01 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: duckworth

How many undecided voters were out there just waiting to see how Ken Burns was going to vote? He is irrelevant.


28 posted on 10/20/2012 4:50:27 AM PDT by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: duckworth

How many undecided voters were out there just waiting to see how Ken Burns was going to vote? He is irrelevant.


29 posted on 10/20/2012 4:50:27 AM PDT by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: ronnie raygun

This crap begs one to question where he researched his understanding of history. Maybe someone with a good grasp of history like Beck’s researchers need to pick this little self absorbed idiot apart.


30 posted on 10/20/2012 4:51:17 AM PDT by mazda77 ("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
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To: billorites

Like most liberal intellectuals Ken Burns has to write an elaborate and mostly fictional explanation for his actions. The reality is probably far simpler - he has made a fortune from PBS, and he wants to keep his income stream and posh lifestyle going. Like most liberals he reaps outsized benefits from the tax money taken from other hard working Americans.


31 posted on 10/20/2012 4:52:02 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: billorites

“unfortunately, unlike FDR, who had great cooperation from across the aisle for many of his programs, Obama has had to pretty much go it alone”
Did not Obama have two years of total control?


32 posted on 10/20/2012 4:52:02 AM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: billorites

“Ken Burns: Why I am voting for Barack Obama”

Because he’s a socialist/Marxist little twerp!


33 posted on 10/20/2012 4:53:08 AM PDT by kenmcg (t)
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To: billorites

There must be a pony in there somewhere!


34 posted on 10/20/2012 4:54:21 AM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: VaRepublican

I’m sorry Mr burns but once again your political leanings suggest that compromise means I agree with you which, I do not.


35 posted on 10/20/2012 4:54:31 AM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: billorites

What a miserable, selfish little communist jackass...


36 posted on 10/20/2012 4:54:38 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: billorites

Sure makes me question the veracity of every other “documentary” he’s done. Oh, and with my money, too.

Just another Dem Fluke.


37 posted on 10/20/2012 4:54:56 AM PDT by Thom Pain (U.S. Constitution is a CONTRACT!)
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To: billorites

So, let’s talk about Bedford Falls, under an Obama administration. They’d regulate businesses to the point that most would close down, and move off down the road to the next town.

Bedford Falls would have a crisis with the local banks because they might have money, but because of regulations...they really can’t loan money out unless you have outstanding collateral (zero risk is the hint here).

Bedford Falls would be trying to lure energy companies to relocate into the town and provide set-up capital...only to find each company failing within a year and carving out the set-up capital as profit.

Bedford Falls would tell you that 30 man-hours a week is the new full-time level (not forty hours). So you’d flip your employees over to 28-hour weeks to avoid any unnecessary new taxes that Bedford Falls created.

Bedford Falls would have a problem in functioning beyond the mayor’s level. Out of the nine-man city council...the mayor just won’t talk to four members under any condition. So the mayor kinda runs the city by his orders. To be honest, Bedford Falls hasn’t had a real budget agreed upon by the full city council....in three years.

Bedford Falls has the highest pension level of any city in the state, but can’t possibly ever sustain that pension.

Bedford Falls has high priorities for the school and library in the city...to the point that it’s consuming a huge amount of the yearly revenue collected.

Bedford Falls has empty houses, which the banks can’t get rid of, and they sit mostly empty.

Yeah, Bedford Falls might have been a neat place to live years ago...but this modern-age Bedford Falls is Detroit, and it’s crumbling around the edges of society. End of story.


38 posted on 10/20/2012 4:55:16 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: billorites
Barrack Obama has done nothing but try to destroy the timeless American values It's A Wonderful Life promotes.

Obama’s wears a ring adorned with the first part of the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada: “There is no god except Allah.”. So much for Obama’s opinion on Christian and American timeless values

39 posted on 10/20/2012 4:55:18 AM PDT by hflynn
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To: billorites

“In the film, Stewart’s character, a despondent and near suicidal George Bailey, who runs a small savings and loan in the town of Bedford Falls, is given a gift: the chance to see what his town would be like if he’d never been born”

Oh, if we could only make it so.


40 posted on 10/20/2012 4:55:33 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason)
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