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My American exceptionalism fantasy is over: How these midterms sealed the deal (Delicious tears)
Salon ^ | November 6, 2014 | Andrew Cotto

Posted on 11/06/2014 7:43:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can I get the author a BIG tissue?


21 posted on 11/06/2014 8:06:59 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: Zeneta
His name is also an anagram for:
Redcoat Town

It's also an anagram for:

Treat now, Doc!

And I believe it is self-admidittedly time to turn up the dosage.

22 posted on 11/06/2014 8:07:11 PM PST by FredZarguna (Begich going down...)
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To: FredZarguna
*admittedly. Damn Fingers.
23 posted on 11/06/2014 8:08:33 PM PST by FredZarguna (Begich going down...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As a liberal, he’s sad the country rejected Kerry. And now it kicked the Rats in the keisters.

Andrew, put some ice on it and shut up!


24 posted on 11/06/2014 8:10:26 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48H34ukFe8g

...your tears of unfathomable sadness are delicious.

25 posted on 11/06/2014 8:11:08 PM PST by FredZarguna (Begich going down...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
they latched onto reports ... that there were widespread voting irregularities that all favored the incumbent.

WHAT reports? I've never heard anything about that.

26 posted on 11/06/2014 8:12:21 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope our future elections drive this example of mental excrement to hopeless despair. Whatever it takes to drag this country back to sanity is worth the price of his misery.


27 posted on 11/06/2014 8:12:48 PM PST by pallis
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Then Obama came along and made corruption part of everything.
28 posted on 11/06/2014 8:15:24 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: pallis

The price of people like Cotto who hate this country and would rather live anywhere else but here.


29 posted on 11/06/2014 8:15:55 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: ari-freedom
entire political party made it their mission to do nothing but undermine a sitting president (not to mention mock, harass and humiliate him)

And he is NOT talking about the Democrat pogroms against W....

30 posted on 11/06/2014 8:16:48 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
they latched onto reports that the early exit polls favored Kerry and that there were widespread voting irregularities that all favored the incumbent

Leftist writers on crack, again

31 posted on 11/06/2014 8:17:37 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I connected with candidate Obama on such a personal and symbolic level — not to mention a redemptive one

He viewed Obama as the Second Coming, the Anointed One - and he wasn't alone. Here you have the pointy headed liberalism of academia in spades. They reside in an ivory tower, with no knowledge or understanding or the real world. It's a shame, really.

32 posted on 11/06/2014 8:17:57 PM PST by randita ("Is a nation without borders a nation?"...Noonan)
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To: Olog-hai

dammit! You beat me to it! I was just gonna translate! this may be the most pathetically clueless thing re:Obama, and in this author’s case, his NON-disillusionment with him, that I’ve read in years.


33 posted on 11/06/2014 8:22:49 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: BenLurkin

crack

It’s all I can figure


34 posted on 11/06/2014 8:22:50 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: randita

A lot of Americans once felt that way.

They no longer do.

Cotto will never appreciate the irony that Obama is now even more hated than Bush.


35 posted on 11/06/2014 8:23:02 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That part about Obama being an “amazing leader”: it is really quite stunning at this point in time that anyone could in seriouness make that statement. We’re looking at a genuine True Believer.


36 posted on 11/06/2014 8:28:15 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why does that have the World of Warcraft desktop icon on it?

Because generally people on WoW are crybabies, or what?


37 posted on 11/06/2014 8:33:17 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Some people will never stop believing in the Obama Myth.

You can’t convince some people he’s not who he is made out to be.


38 posted on 11/06/2014 8:35:57 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: JPG

“Those who ignore History are damned to repeat it” George Santayana

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (FROM BLACK WOMEN)
Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3-18-08 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,

“We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

Whereas in the early 1600’s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,

Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,

Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,

Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that:

(a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854,
(b) fought to free African Americans from slavery,
(c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans,
(d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote,
(e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, (f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws,
(g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon’s 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and
(h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,

Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,

Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,

Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,

Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,

Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,

Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was “stolen” from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,

Whereas the Democratic Party’s soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,

Whereas the Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,

Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.


39 posted on 11/06/2014 8:37:35 PM PST by Dqban22
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Si, Andrea, tu sei proprio cotto.


40 posted on 11/06/2014 8:40:36 PM PST by Salvey
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