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A Moderate Manifesto (David Brooks: "Barack Obama is not who we thought he was")
New York Times ^ | March 2, 2009 | DAVID BROOKS

Posted on 03/03/2009 5:02:37 AM PST by publius1

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To: sausageseller
Take your $250,000 and pay up , you MORON!

The only cold comfort I take from BO being elected is that the unprincipled center will have to suffer for their blindness when taxes go up.
161 posted on 03/04/2009 11:02:22 AM PST by JamesP81 (I shall give their president the same respect they gave mine)
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To: WOSG
The middle-of-the-roaders did NOT want nor vote for 30% of GDP going to the Federal govt, for trillion dollar deficits, etc.

The middle of the roaders are both unprincipled and blind to the point of stupidity. If anyone who watched this election couldn't have determined what Obama was going to do with the budget, that person is a damned fool and deserves every bit of what he has coming for him.
162 posted on 03/04/2009 11:04:59 AM PST by JamesP81 (I shall give their president the same respect they gave mine)
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To: publius1
I'm starting to think that the inteligensia who read the New York Times and who vote for liberals are not as smart as they think. Obama, Madoff,... Seem like a bunch of suckers to me.
163 posted on 03/04/2009 11:06:33 AM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: JamesP81
The only cold comfort I take from BO being elected is that the unprincipled center will have to suffer for their blindness when taxes go up.

Unprincipled morons like Brooks ( rumored to make 300,000 a year) have no way to adjust their income. Their gonna take a hard hit and I won't cry a bit for them!

164 posted on 03/04/2009 11:08:15 AM PST by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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To: JamesP81

Also Maureen Dowd is gonna get hit too! HAHA!!!!!


165 posted on 03/04/2009 11:09:31 AM PST by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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” Obama is not who we thought he was “

Obama was the most liberal congressman in DC and yet this man thought he'd somehow transform into a moderate once elected president?

166 posted on 03/04/2009 11:13:45 AM PST by warsaw44
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To: publius1
Those of us who consider ourselves smarter than the average, uneducated, Walmart-shopping, gun and Bible clinging conservative voter moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was.

And those of us who knew all along just who he was and tried to warn you despite you smugness and arrogance will never let you forget it. You and Buckley can rot in hell together for what you have brought down upon us.

167 posted on 03/04/2009 11:47:37 AM PST by JrsyJack (Oh dem golden slippers!!)
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To: publius1

Too bad Davie, you should have paid attention to what the conservative commentators and thinkers were saying about Obama during the campaign for election. We are not one bit surprised by what he is attempting to do. Too bad you are such an arrogant jackass. When the dust settles it is the moderates who are always found dead in the middle of the political road.


168 posted on 03/04/2009 11:48:43 AM PST by conservative blonde
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To: syriacus

No one is too stupid to have a column in the NYT...


169 posted on 03/04/2009 11:48:53 AM PST by JrsyJack (Oh dem golden slippers!!)
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To: publius1

Brooks the backstabber wakes up. Gee, thanks.


170 posted on 03/04/2009 11:53:37 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Praise and worship" is my alternate lifestyle.)
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To: publius1

How much of a brain-dead, pie-in-the-sky media boob do you have to be to write something like this?


171 posted on 03/04/2009 11:55:26 AM PST by Antoninus (It's a sad time when Pravda's reporting is more reliable than anything in the major US media.)
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To: publius1
...Barack Obama is not who we thought he was.

Who is "we," David? You and the gerbil in your pants?

Idiot.

172 posted on 03/04/2009 11:55:59 AM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: publius1
"Barack Obama is not who we thought he was."

Everyone on FR tried to tell you guys at the NYTs and all the rest of the mesmerized journalists but you were too busy calling everyone racist who looked passed Obama's skin color and saw the truth.

173 posted on 03/04/2009 12:14:40 PM PST by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: publius1

Duh...Welcome back David.

Can you say useful idiot?


174 posted on 03/04/2009 2:57:59 PM PST by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW ,)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

‘I’m Maureen Dowd, and I’ve Been Had’ (Supporters of Obama disappointed)
Pajama Media | March 4, 2009 | Jennifer Rubin
Posted on 03/04/2009 7:00:54 AM PST by RobinMasters
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198936/posts

Kneale: Is Obama Out of His Freakin’ Mind? (do bears poop in the woods?)
CNBC | 3/4/2009 | By: Dennis Kneale
Posted on 03/04/2009 9:16:29 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199072/posts

Loan Charity’s High-Flying Guests Exposed (Daschle, Mayor Daley, Panetta etc.)
CBS | 3-4-09 | Sharyl Attkisson
Posted on 03/04/2009 11:31:22 AM PST by STARWISE

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199217/posts

Top Democrats cross Obama on earmarks
Washington Times | March 4, 2009 | S. A. Miller
Posted on 03/04/2009 9:10:04 AM PST by Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199065/posts

Some Senate Democrats Shun Huge Spending Bill
(4 Rep’s support it, 2 wavering)
Associated Press | March 4, 2009
Posted on 03/04/2009 3:09:02 PM PST by reaganaut1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199362/posts


175 posted on 03/04/2009 6:03:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: JamesP81

Well, yeah.

But calling people stupid for doing stupid things is hardly a way to win them back.

Maybe we need “Obama voter remorse & forgiveness cards”.

It would be a pledge something like:
“I, an Obama voter, was blind and fell hook,line and sinker for the phony “hope and change” of a big Government left-liberal charlatan. I am deeply remorseful for what I’ve done to the country and I pledge now to never vote for another Democrat again so long as Obama is in the White House or his fellow liberal Democrats run Congress. I pledge to turn back to candidates and parties that are fiscally responsible and put people and the economy first. So Help Me God,
- Remorseful Obama Voter”


176 posted on 03/05/2009 7:10:51 PM PST by WOSG (tagline is now unemployed due to Obama economy)
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