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Originally posted by SailorinAZ
reply to post by redhatty
Ok Alpha, Red, and other well educated liberals.
The world would have been a better place if Lincoln would have never been born and he was indeed a racist and a bad man.
Originally posted by SailorinAZ
reply to post by redhatty
Ok Alpha, Red, and other well educated liberals.
The world would have been a better place if Lincoln would have never been born and he was indeed a racist and a bad man.
Originally posted by tjeffersonsghost
reply to post by Murky
Well said Murky I was about to go into the rant but you did it for me. Another thing why was this moved to skunk works? If this isnt a conspiracy thread then I dont know what is.
Now on subject. I was just thinking this same thing today when I listened to the media all day compare him to Lincoln. Its like why would they do this. He hasnt even been in office yet. Then he goes on telling us how we have to contribute and get ready for the hard times and lalalala. I think he knows we are going to hit very hard times and he seems to think he can prevent a war. I really do feel war is coming. The side I will go with is the side that gets rid of the FED. If Obama says its time to disband the FED then I will know who Obama is fighting against and I will join Obamas side. If Obama continues to defend the FED and the international banking cartel then I will know he is a puppet.
Originally posted by fooffstarr
I'm just happy to be over here is Australia, where the closest we get to a civil war is bogans/rednecks rioting in housing estates.
I don't like Obama. I like the way he speaks, and what he supposedly stands for, but when push comes to shove, I think he will be the same as the last President, and the one before... and the one before that.
However, the last thing I want to see is his assassination. I watched his victory of election speech live, fearing the worst would happen. It didn't.
I'll be up at 3am here tomorrow morning to watch his Inauguration. The biggest security event in US history, it seems, but searching people in crowds and blocking off streets still wouldn't stop a sniper-esque event like what happened with JFK.
If Obama does get killed (and I really really really hope nothing happens to the man) I'm pretty sure many black Americans and Obamarites would riot.
Originally posted by WETHEPEOPLE
reply to post by redled
LOOK at the Brits.: turned their people into criminals with anti-gun legislation, As for any future strife, the people who know and defend the constitution as our forefathers intended it will be one side; and the other I suspect , will be the the majority that just voted that have little or no understanding of what it means. Apathy and non involvment are the greatest threat to OUR FREEDOM. LOOK AT THE BRITS.
Originally posted by DaMod
Most of all, what if your wrong? If he follows the speech then his ideals are not greedy which is uncharacteristic. He is not another C average president! (Best grades ever!) He was not in skull and bones in Harvard. Many will say he was, I know factually that he was not.
I say for now let us hold off on him, until he gives us a real concrete reason to hate him. I am by the way very anti govt, but you cannot let your hatred cloud your judgment. Do not accept every hypothosis as fact!! Wait first until that hypothesis is fact! Thank you have a nice day. Dont forget to tip your waitress.
Almost forgot. Obama said the government was going to do business in the sun. Aka let the public access government spending and account for every penny. It would be hard to hide something with the budget moreso in the public eye and more available then ever before.
[edit on 20-1-2009 by DaMod]
Originally posted by Murky
Originally posted by DaMod
Most of all, what if your wrong? If he follows the speech then his ideals are not greedy which is uncharacteristic. He is not another C average president! (Best grades ever!) He was not in skull and bones in Harvard. Many will say he was, I know factually that he was not.
Since Skull and Bones is at Yale, that, at least was easy for him.
I say for now let us hold off on him, until he gives us a real concrete reason to hate him. I am by the way very anti govt, but you cannot let your hatred cloud your judgment. Do not accept every hypothosis as fact!! Wait first until that hypothesis is fact! Thank you have a nice day. Dont forget to tip your waitress.
Almost forgot. Obama said the government was going to do business in the sun. Aka let the public access government spending and account for every penny. It would be hard to hide something with the budget moreso in the public eye and more available then ever before.
[edit on 20-1-2009 by DaMod]
Since Obama is owned by Wall Street, I would be very pleasantly surprised if the main problem with our economy - the investment bankers skimming their cut off of every transaction, the raiding of corporate treasuries - legalized theft from their stockholders, and from every American who has insurance or other securities secured by these companies - is curtailed by Obama. Obama's ride to the White House was financed by these people, unfortunately, so I can't see him biting the hand that put him in the Oval Office.
And if he's assassinated, it won't be by psychotic extremists (well, they'll find their trigger man - their Lee Harvey Oswald - who'll have the proper psycho background), but by the people who put him in office if he fulfills his promise for real change. Wall Street put him where he is, and I can see them taking him out forcibly if he screws them over by doing something like putting American finance on an equitable, honest basis.
I really wish your guy turns out to be honest, but the fact is that he lied all the way through his campaign.
If the past is any indication, Obama will turn out to be much nearer Nixon than Lincoln, because of all the duplicity in his recent background.
[edit on 20-1-2009 by Murky]
Originally posted by WETHEPEOPLE
reply to post by redled
I will clarify, If you were a British law abiding citizen owning guns, then through legislation you were imediatately tuned into a criminal if you did not turn them in to be destroyed! The word is the Obamanation has some of the same aspirations. Hence loss of freedom..rebellion...Tea Party Type of thing. Our forefathers words, if read today, may be put on some terrorist watchlist
Given the grave threats that we face, our national security agencies must have the capability to gather intelligence and track down terrorists before they strike, while respecting the rule of law and the privacy and civil liberties of the American people. There is also little doubt that the Bush Administration, with the cooperation of major telecommunications companies, has abused that authority and undermined the Constitution by intercepting the communications of innocent Americans without their knowledge or the required court orders.
That is why last year I opposed the so-called Protect America Act, which expanded the surveillance powers of the government without sufficient independent oversight to protect the privacy and civil liberties of innocent Americans. I have also opposed the granting of retroactive immunity to those who were allegedly complicit in acts of illegal spying in the past.
After months of negotiation, the House today passed a compromise that, while far from perfect, is a marked improvement over last year's Protect America Act.
Under this compromise legislation, an important tool in the fight against terrorism will continue, but the President's illegal program of warrantless surveillance will be over. It restores FISA and existing criminal wiretap statutes as the exclusive means to conduct surveillance – making it clear that the President cannot circumvent the law and disregard the civil liberties of the American people. It also firmly re-establishes basic judicial oversight over all domestic surveillance in the future. It does, however, grant retroactive immunity, and I will work in the Senate to remove this provision so that we can seek full accountability for past offenses. But this compromise guarantees a thorough review by the Inspectors General of our national security agencies to determine what took place in the past, and ensures that there will be accountability going forward. By demanding oversight and accountability, a grassroots movement of Americans has helped yield a bill that is far better than the Protect America Act.
It is not all that I would want. But given the legitimate threats we face, providing effective intelligence collection tools with appropriate safeguards is too important to delay. So I support the compromise, but do so with a firm pledge that as President, I will carefully monitor the program, review the report by the Inspectors General, and work with the Congress to take any additional steps I deem necessary to protect the lives – and the liberty – of the American people.