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Winfrey, Bradlee, Clinton to Receive Medal of Freedom
Wall Street Journal ^ | August 8, 2013 | Jared A. Favole

Posted on 08/08/2013 3:20:24 PM PDT by Zakeet

The White House announced that President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, to 16 recipients including television star and businesswoman Oprah Winfrey, legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and former President Bill Clinton.

“The Presidential Medal of Freedom goes to men and women who have dedicated their own lives to enriching ours,” Mr. Obama said in a statement released by the White House. “This year’s honorees have been blessed with extraordinary talent, but what sets them apart is their gift for sharing that talent with the world.”

Mr. Obama will award the medals later this year. In total, 16 people will receive the award, the White House said.

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To: Chewbarkah
Other recipients include Al Sharpton, Nancy Pelosi, Trayvon Martin, Jesse Jackson, Jessie Jackson, Jr., Harry Reid, and Saul Alinsky

Nice job, lol...

But you forgot....SATAN!!

61 posted on 08/09/2013 9:26:53 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; laplata
Excuse me while I retch....

I'm saving that for when GW Bush wins his own well-deserved "Presidential Medal of Freedom"....

I mean he did allow the border-crossing of 50 million Illegal Invaders, plus hundreds of thousands of Muslims into the country, AND pushed for Amnesty -- ALL during waging a so-called "War in Terror" as granny's pants were checked for bombs at airports.

62 posted on 08/09/2013 9:32:31 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
Hey Bill din't you forget someone that was very close to you at one time she needs an award too..
63 posted on 08/09/2013 9:44:55 AM PDT by PLD
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To: onyx

” Why not add Susan Rice?”

Next year, no doubt.


64 posted on 08/09/2013 9:46:36 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: RetiredArmy; ronnie raygun

Nobody is surprised, but we ARE sickened by this.


65 posted on 08/09/2013 9:49:38 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: USS Johnston

Other recipients include Al Sharpton, Nancy Pelosi, Trayvon Martin, Jesse Jackson, Jessie Jackson, Jr., Harry Reid, and Saul Alinsky

Nice job, lol...

But you forgot....SATAN!! “

You never heard of the Devil’s Deciples ?


66 posted on 08/09/2013 9:51:42 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
You never heard of the Devil’s Deciples

Aaaah....+1

67 posted on 08/09/2013 9:53:52 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: USS Johnston; laplata

And Obama picked up the pace, when Bush left.


68 posted on 08/09/2013 9:54:10 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; laplata
And 0bama picked up the pace, when Bush left.

We were already doing 100 MPH on the authobahn with Bush; 0bama's dropped that Maserati's stick into 6th gear.

69 posted on 08/09/2013 10:00:35 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: USS Johnston; laplata

” We were already doing 100 MPH on the authobahn with Bush”

Now the entire Bush family tree are regulars in the Obama WH, and Obama is all smiles when he greets each of them.


70 posted on 08/09/2013 10:58:16 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

You get the Perfect Post of the Day Award.

71 posted on 08/09/2013 12:52:51 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker; All

I believe Yeats’ poem is what it looks like when a civilization begins to collapse. The evil of the age is different but always inspired by the same father. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold.


72 posted on 08/09/2013 1:54:10 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (You hear it here first.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

And to go along with the coronation of Shillary Clinton as the next heir apparent to the highest office in the land, look for Barry Sinclair to award her with Presidential Medal of Freedom a week before the 2016 election.


73 posted on 08/10/2013 7:00:56 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Just love the mutual admiration society that liberals have created for themselves.


74 posted on 08/10/2013 9:29:16 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: haircutter

Looking for a 5 mm lens so that I can get both Oprah and Michelle into the same frame.


75 posted on 08/10/2013 12:31:53 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: AtlasStalled

....mutual admiration society ...

I was just thinking that...also they play musical chairs...but the NEVER just leave!


76 posted on 08/10/2013 12:48:36 PM PDT by caww
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To: subterfuge

Well...Obama got one for peace prize along with Arafat..and that gal recently a Bortherhood supporter as well...

We have no borders anywhere in this country anymore...we’re up for grabs and the taking upon the dicktators who rule us now.


77 posted on 08/10/2013 12:50:10 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

..plus they're sexual preditors like this guy.....

78 posted on 08/10/2013 12:52:59 PM PDT by caww
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To: WorkingClassFilth
Yeats is one of my favorite poets.

I always liked that Yeats poem, but never quite "got" what it meant. Thanks for the interpretation. Makes sense.

79 posted on 08/10/2013 4:21:55 PM PDT by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Oh, come on now. Is Oprah really that fat lately?/s


80 posted on 08/10/2013 10:28:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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