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To: i-node who wrote (508078)	8/26/2009 12:15:39 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578281

You all want Obama to fail. Of course. If he succeeds, it will destroy the country. So, obviously I would want him to fail. Oh silly wabbit, the destruction of the country was nearly complete under Bush. Obama is rebuilding it. But you all are against the rebuilding. Instead, you want to drain the US Treasury dry by starting more wars. No president [including Bush in his last year] has experienced the level of derision you all have thrown at Obama. This is, of course, a lie. No president in history has been more unfairly criticized than Bush. From the first days of his presidency. A lie? OMG.......you have balls! Big ones! The man can't do anything without you all calling him out. He's been criticized for the dog he bought, the name he gave the dog, the shorts the First Lady wore on their vacation, the t shirt with the peace symbol that Malia wore......the list is endless and is as petty and facile as it is long. You all have become the most hated people in the land.

To: i-node who wrote (508078)	8/26/2009 6:36:32 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578281

I thought Rs always resigned when they behaved badly. Apparently Sanford and Vitter didn't get the memo. Lt. Governor of S.C. Calls on Sanford to Resign By Bernie Becker Updated South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer urged the state’s governor, Mark Sanford, to step down at a Wednesday news conference, saying Mr. Sanford’s “serious misconduct” had made it “virtually impossible for our state to solve the critical problems we’re facing without a change in leadership.” Mr. Bauer, who would be promoted to governor if Mr. Sanford did resign, also repeated an offer he had floated earlier this summer: that, if the governor stepped down, he would only serve out the remainder of Mr. Sanford’s term and not seek reelection in 2010. Mr. Bauer, a Republican, had previously expressed interest in running for what would have been an open seat next year. (Mr. Sanford, also a Republican, is barred from running for a third term.) “If the governor does not resign now, then the legislature must act quickly to resolve this matter, this year, so that the 2010 session of the General Assembly is not dominated by impeachment proceedings, taking away from far more important issues, like bringing jobs to our state, balancing our budget and improving education,” Mr. Bauer said at the news conference in Columbia, South Carolina’s capital. Update: At his own news conference a little while later, Mr. Sanford rejected calls for his resignation and argued that the state’s residents had already put his affair behind them. “I’m not going to be railroaded out of this office by political opponents or folks that were never fans of mine in the first place,” Mr. Sanford said. “Or — or put a different way, a lot of what’s going on now is pure politics, plain and simple.” Still, the governor also seemed to hint at the strain his affair has caused, saying “in a lot of ways it would represent heaven on earth” to hand the state’s reins over to Mr. Bauer. Mr. Bauer is now one of the more high-profile Republicans to publicly call for the resignation of Mr. Sanford, whose troubles began after he admitted in June to having an affair with an Argentinian woman. Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s Republican attorney general and an announced candidate for governor in 2010, has called for a state ethics inquiry into, among other things, whether Mr. Sanford’s use of state airplanes broke any laws. Meanwhile, in comments published earlier this month, Mr. Sanford’s estranged wife, Jenny, opened up to Vogue about her husband’s affair.