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Commentary Magazine: Time to Get Serious (About Barak Obama )
commentarymagazine ^ | April 2013 | John Podhoretz —

Posted on 03/29/2013 10:42:50 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Obama makes Hitler look like a choirboy.


21 posted on 03/29/2013 11:27:32 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: brownsfan

“No executive order, no legislation, simply have DHS buy up all the ammunition.”

So are people really unable to buy ammunition because there’s none available due to these DHS purchases?


22 posted on 03/29/2013 11:28:42 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: TexasFreeper2009
world historical figure!?!?

History remembers people who changed the world for the bad as well as the good: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Caligula, Nero, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Mao, Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, etc.

The magazine wasn't saying he'd likely be remembered as one of the "good guys," but possibly for bringing down the American Republic.

23 posted on 03/29/2013 11:30:17 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

“So are people really unable to buy ammunition because there’s none available due to these DHS purchases?”

For almost anything but a shotgun, yes.
I have a 9mm, I can’t find ammo at any stores, I can find it on a classified site for much more than it’s normally worth.


24 posted on 03/29/2013 11:30:56 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; All

The Pod is wrong as usual. The GOP are loaded with COWARDS who are afraid to be called racist. THAT is the problem.


25 posted on 03/29/2013 11:35:13 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

0bama could go on TV for a “major policy announcement” naked with a feather duster up his ass, and he can get away with it because his lap-dog media will gush over how it was a very nice designer feather duster. That ought to be the real point of this article. Hell, I could be a flawless president if I had media and entertainment carrying my water 24/7.


26 posted on 03/29/2013 11:52:46 AM PDT by henkster (I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)
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To: brownsfan

That is very scary. Very. I don’t recognize my country at all anymore. Honestly.


27 posted on 03/29/2013 11:57:09 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Obama is backed by: almost all of the MSM; almost all of academia; almost all of the public school system; almost all of the mass entertainment industry; almost every international organization; all of organized labour; most “liberal” religious organizations, etc.

A more accurate way of putting it would be: Obama is the figurehead for an ideological movement, that has systematically taken over nearly all of the important opinion-formers in the country. Obama could spend all of his time on the golf course, or flying to expensive taxpayer-paid holidays, and still appear as “successful”.


28 posted on 03/29/2013 12:00:09 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Podhoretz, January 2012:

Perplexing but true: Mitt Romney is on the glide path to the most easily secured nomination a Republican presidential candidate has ever had — while being one of the weakest major candidates either party has ever seen.

29 posted on 03/29/2013 12:01:42 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: Noamie

Hitler benefited from plain old dumb luck, the foolhardiness of his adversaries, and the advice of some people around him who were decidedly smarter than he.

However, Hitler suffered from that same dumb luck, foolhardiness of his adversaries (that worked out for them), and bad advice of some people around him that were dumber than he.


30 posted on 03/29/2013 12:05:29 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Obama has turned America into an aristocracy of the unaccomplished.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Obama is a puppet. He believes strongly in his leftist agenda, but he is controlled and manipulated by others. He still doesn’t know what is in obamacare, and he doesn’t care. He cares more about his march madness basketball brackets.

He and Biden are foolish little puppets.


31 posted on 03/29/2013 12:09:13 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (bahits.com)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obama is very possibly the antichrist!
32 posted on 03/29/2013 12:09:51 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (It's not "GUN CONTROL"! It's "PEOPLE CONTROL"!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

John Podhoretz recognizes that Obama, while nothing close to the ‘genius’ his supporters claim, is clever and dangerous. I blame voter apathy, Republican cowardice and media influence for Obama’s ability to do so much damage and yet not be held accountable. Something we’ll all pay for, one way or another.


33 posted on 03/29/2013 12:10:42 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: FreeAtlanta

“He cares more about his march madness basketball brackets.”

And he’s incompetent at that, too. He picked Indiana.


34 posted on 03/29/2013 12:23:25 PM PDT by henkster (I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)
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To: Iron Munro
Judged by the standards that should be applied to Presidents--how well they defended the Constitution and the nation--Obama is probably the worst President of all time (with James Buchanan as his only serious rival), but judged by his impact, he could be one of the most significant--he may change the US more than any President since FDR.

Of course that change is 100% for the worse but that doesn't make it less real (greater government control, less freedom, driving the economy toward ruin, etc.). Obama may be merely a front man who lets others do all the heavy lifting but look at the results so far--Obamacare, massive increase in spending and debt, probable inevitability of amnesty and same-sex marriage. For some of these there will be no turning back regardless of who wins the 2016 election. If Hillary or another Democrat wins in 2016, there will definitely be no reversing of the damage Obama has wrought.

35 posted on 03/29/2013 12:30:26 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: brownsfan

So, have companies stopped making ammo?


36 posted on 03/29/2013 12:32:37 PM PDT by mc5cents
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
That is very scary. Very. I don’t recognize my country at all anymore. Honestly.

Well, I still recognize my family and my church. That to me is what is important. The country is important too, but in the end it is those two things that matter. Remember, we are only on this earth for a short time.

37 posted on 03/29/2013 12:37:17 PM PDT by mc5cents
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To: mc5cents

“So, have companies stopped making ammo?”

Nope. Eventually some ammo will make it to the public market. But as far as I know, the manufacturers are going fill tilt trying to fill DHS’s buy of nearly 2 billion rounds.


38 posted on 03/29/2013 12:47:46 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Iron Munro

“Just consiider how the history and accomplishments of Lincoln, JFK and MLK have been inflated and how they have been pushed on the country.”

Did you forget FDR?


39 posted on 03/29/2013 12:51:39 PM PDT by RipSawyer (I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
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To: Logical me

Ain’t it amazin’ how some folks keep sayin’ “It can’t happen in America” when it already has?


40 posted on 03/29/2013 12:53:32 PM PDT by RipSawyer (I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
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