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Good To Know [Jonah Goldberg]: Obama says we're still working on our democracy
NRO/"the corner" ^ | 4-12-10 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 04/13/2010 8:23:58 PM PDT by pillut48

Obama says we're still working on our democracy, and the White House adds that they're making progress:

President Obama said Sunday that the United States is still "working on" democracy and a top aide said he has taken "historic steps" to improve democracy in the United States during his time in office.

The remarks came as Obama met with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev — one of the U.S. president's many meetings with world leaders ahead of this week's nuclear summit.

04/12 11:29 AMShare

(hat tip Allahpundit via Twitter)

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To: himno hero

Obama is not simply pretentious. He is mad. His are the words and actions of insanity.


21 posted on 04/13/2010 8:49:24 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (He is the son of soulless slavers, not the son of soulful slaves.)
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To: pillut48

Furthermore, all democracies have been short lived, unstable, unperfectable in history. Democracies in modern times have all been compromised of specifically socialist, communist, fascist regimes....a democracy must develop to one of them or to a non-democratic dictatorship or oligarchy. No democracy has ever evolved to a constitutional republic. Our Constitutional Republic is being trashed in favor of an unstable, temporary democracy that will be totalitarian as all the others, except with new technological tools to make the totalitarianisms of the past even more “efficient”. Fascism is to the “right” only under the democracy umbrella and has NO relation to a constitutional republic. What the dems and Obama want is a dictatorial, one party “democracy”...Russia had one in the recent past...the dems think they have the model to establish it with...healthcare. I hope not, and hope is not a plan. The country needs more awakening to prevent this and time has run out.


22 posted on 04/13/2010 8:49:34 PM PDT by givemELL (Does Taiwan Meet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
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To: pillut48

He is working on creating mob rule by replacing the people.


23 posted on 04/13/2010 8:55:07 PM PDT by rmlew (There is no such thing as a Blue Dog Democrat; just liberals who lie.)
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To: rmlew

If you don’t like the mob you got...


24 posted on 04/13/2010 8:56:12 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Amos the Prophet

Mad like Napoleon. Needs a Waterloo.


25 posted on 04/13/2010 8:57:28 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: pillut48

Apparently he’s not comfortable with the representative Republic.

Even if we were a democracy, how could you then justify going against the popular will?

It has worked against us with respect to the popular vote at times; the electoral math doesn’t help when solid red states are overwhelmingly red, and borderline states are barely blue, winner take all.

I guess that’s what they mean about still working on it. They haven’t figured out how to negate us yet.


26 posted on 04/13/2010 8:58:04 PM PDT by One Name
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To: pillut48
And to prove it, here's a photo of Obama working on our democracy right at the end of his meeting with Mr. Nazarbayev:


27 posted on 04/13/2010 8:58:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: pillut48

I think we safely say he is not a Constitutiona scholar.


28 posted on 04/13/2010 11:05:43 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
elect a new people.
29 posted on 04/14/2010 6:05:22 AM PDT by rmlew (There is no such thing as a Blue Dog Democrat; just liberals who lie.)
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To: depressed in 06
Democracy looks like dictatorship, who knew?

The Founding Fathers.
That's why they gave us a republic, not a democracy.

30 posted on 04/14/2010 6:07:53 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: pillut48

I don’t think we will survive another 3 years with this traitor running things.

He needs to be removed from office. He is no American President.


31 posted on 04/14/2010 6:10:04 AM PDT by dforest
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To: pillut48
During Nuclear Summit, Obama Says:

"Whether We Like it Or Not, We Remain a Dominant Military Superpower"

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Whether we like it or NOT!

32 posted on 04/14/2010 6:11:30 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: newfreep

BO’s statement of Super Power Status - unfreaking believable!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEvH_f9VADA&feature=player_embedded


33 posted on 04/14/2010 6:12:44 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: pillut48

The man is an unmitigated IDIOT!


34 posted on 04/14/2010 5:57:42 PM PDT by SuziQ
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