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Obama: When Reagan Was Governor of California, the Smog Was So Bad It Was Like Beijing Now
Cybercast News Service ^ | January 18, 2016 | 1:35 PM EST | (CNSNews.com Staff)

Posted on 01/18/2016 7:25:12 PM PST by Olog-hai

Speaking at a town hall meeting in Baton Rouge, La., last week, President Barack Obama told the audience that when Ronald Reagan was governor of California the smog sometimes got so bad that "people just wouldn't go outside."

"And if you had asthma or some respiratory disease, you might die," said Obama.

"I remember as recently as 1979, when I first started college--I started college in Los Angeles--when I went running, the first week I was there, after about five minutes I'd start feeling a burning in my chest," said the president. "And it was just me sucking in soot and smog." ...

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: beijing; governormoonbeam; jerrybrown; obama; obamaliar; obamalies; obamamuslim; reagan; smog
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To: Skybird

He’s right, I was born in 37 and lived in it then.

It didn’t bother anyone that grew up in it.


101 posted on 01/19/2016 1:54:00 AM PST by dalereed
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To: jazusamo

Of course its a lie but it is interesting how he throws his ideological soulmates under the bus without even realizing it. Who runs Beijing?

BTW...did he really say Peking? I guess commie habits die hard.


102 posted on 01/19/2016 6:55:15 AM PST by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: super7man; humblegunner
Sun is like an orange ball that you can look right at. (I know, I know, the preposition thing)

I do not believe this sentence is one that ends with a prepositional phrase. humblegunner, we need a ruling!

103 posted on 01/19/2016 6:01:29 PM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: houeto; humblegunner

I believe proper grammar would be:

The sun is like an orange ball at which you can look.


104 posted on 01/19/2016 9:28:59 PM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting , knitting, always knitting.)
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To: houeto

And I think it’s gonna’ be all right
Yeah, the worst is over now
The morning sun is shining
Like a red rubber ball


105 posted on 01/19/2016 9:33:52 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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