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To: thames_sider who wrote (67986)	10/31/2008 10:11:07 AM
From: J.B.C.	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

President, especially powers like the ability to deploy troops as he sees fit on US soil (under the unspecified 'conditions'). Troops are deployed throughout the US all the time; Camp Lejeune, Kirkland AFB, Hill AFB, Camp Pendleton, to name a couple. Been that way for centuries. Couple these powers with the ability to effectively suspend habeas corpus and imprison people without charge or redress, as granted in the post I replied to. Where's this been done? redact anyone in the US by military force without them ever knowing why. Not sure I know what you mean. Do you know the meaning of redact? Couple that with the ability to require call and IP logs and with the TIA follow-ons and he can also identify anyone who's ever expressed doubt or mistrust of him, or any intention to act against any of his rulings, by phone or online. Huh? WTF, what language do you speak? That's the agenda that bothers me. I'm wondering now if situational ethics will trigger concern in anyone else. Sorry, brother. I need an interpreter for your double speak. Never mind. I was refering to your agenda for being here at all. But I can see that your not quite sure yourself.

To: thames_sider who wrote (67986)	10/31/2008 11:20:24 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

In which alternate universe did this occur? And please don't reply with vague generalities. I'd like to see clear, credible specifics to support each of your assertions.

To: thames_sider who wrote (67986)	11/1/2008 12:48:13 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

From Being Watchdogs to Needing Watchdogs David Limbaugh townhall.com The mainstream media, who forgot Felix Frankfurter's admonition that "freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society," long ago abdicated their role as government watchdog and now require a watchdog themselves. Never has that been clearer than in the 2008 presidential election, during which they are covering up rather than covering Barack Obama's shady past and alliances, his knee-deep involvement in corrupt practices threatening the very core of our democratic system, and his many policy misrepresentations. Consider some items the MSM would have explored if they were guardians of liberty instead of the Obama campaign. --When Democrats insist every vote must count, do they also mean multiple votes from individuals and votes from dead and nonexistent people? If not, why aren't the MSM demanding answers about Obama's incestuous relationship with the criminal enterprise ACORN, whose serial crimes could alter the outcome of this election? --How can the MSM allow ACORN's dissemblers to deflect the charge that they are seeking illegal votes with "these are registrations, not ballots," as if there is any purpose in procuring illegal registrations apart from maximizing illegal votes? --The MSM preach that money in politics necessarily corrupts, so why do they ignore Obama's broken promise to accept public financing, his record-breaking campaign receipts, and the large number of untraceable contributions? --Why do they dwell on VP candidate Sarah Palin's lack of foreign policy experience but ignore presidential candidate Obama's thinner experience? --As champions of the "little guy" and privacy rights, why are they not outraged that the Obama campaign targeted, slandered and investigated Joe the Plumber by illegally using government computers merely for asking Obama one of the many questions they should have asked him? --Why did they let Obama get away with falsely denying his culpability in opposing an Illinois bill that would have provided medical care to infants born despite failed abortion attempts? --Why do they ignore what have now become real questions about Obama's birth certificate, when he could summarily end the speculation and win the lawsuit challenges on the merits rather than on technicalities simply by producing the document? --Why are they completely incurious about the many gaps in Obama's past, including his years at Columbia and Harvard? --How dare they accept Obama's insulting claim that he was unaware of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's anti-American, racist and blasphemous diatribes after attending his church for two decades and calling him his spiritual mentor? --Other than being sympathetic to Marxism themselves, why don't they ask Obama about his mentor Frank Marshall Davis and his admitted Marxist influence on him or that of his "openly Marxist" mother? Why was he "drawn to" Marxists? Why did he seek them out? Why don't the MSM explore the logical connection between that background, his alliances with Marxist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, and his advocacy of "spreading the wealth" today? --Why don't they examine his self-description as a post-racial unifier against his autobiographical accounts of personal racial bitterness and his alliances with the Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan? --Why do they conceal his complicity in Fannie and Freddie and his alliance with disgraced Fannie exec Franklin Raines? --Why don't they demand the release of the videotape of his appearance at a 2003 dinner with Palestinian supporter Rashid Khalidi? --Why don't they challenge his denial that he made a gross mistake in judgment in opposing the Iraq surge? It sure bothered them that George Bush couldn't admit a mistake. --Why don't they ask him how he would immediately withdraw from Iraq regardless of the advice of commanders on the ground and the inevitable consequences, including forfeiture of our victory and our precious lives lost in combat? --Why don't they ask him how he could possibly consider al-Qaida a threat if he thinks Iran is just a tiny country and not a threat? --Why don't they wonder how he dares to mock the Holy Bible while he claims to be a devout Christian? --Why do they give him a pass on his many duplicitous shifts of positions on the threshold income level for tax cuts from $300,000 to $250,000 to $200,000 to $150,000? How can they let him masquerade as a tax cutter and fiscal conservative when he has been the most liberal and tax-raising senator and his new spending easily would exceed $1 trillion? Does he support government control of our 401(k)s? --Why did they affect hyperventilation over Sarah Palin's supposed wardrobe extravagance, which was merely a matter of projecting her best image, yet wholly ignore Obama's obscenely idolatrous million-dollar Greek coliseum mirage? --And if he is really his brother's keeper, as Rush has noted, why can't he take care of his poverty-ridden brother and aunt, and why don't he and Joe Biden contribute more to charity? townhall.com

To: thames_sider who wrote (67986)	11/1/2008 2:33:28 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

The Obama Cult Cont'd Jonah Goldberg The Corner Look, I agree that there's a legitmate argument that Obama has not encouraged the craziest aspects of the Obama cult and therefore he shouldn't be held accountable for all of the "lightworker," Obama Youth and messiah stuff. But, it would be nice if more non-culty Obama supporters would at least acknowledge the profound creepiness of some of this stuff. Here's the latest example: <<< EL PASO — A man who jumped 60 feet to his death from the Spaghetti Bowl on Thursday left a note with a message for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. A note to "Obama" was found in the man's car, which was parked on the top ramp of the Spaghetti Bowl. Officials offered no further explanation nor interpreted the note's meaning. >>> What did the note say? "Obama take care of my family." corner.nationalreview.com