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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (503458)	8/21/2012 5:11:06 PM
From: Honey_Bee	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794009

Right....And that is exactly what he and the lady SOS are doing....

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (503458)	8/21/2012 5:19:13 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 794009

Speaking of None Dare Call It Treason: If Allen Drury was alive today, I just wonder what he would think about our political situation......... The novel's title comes from the United States Constitution's Article II, Sec. 2, cl. 2, which provides that the President of the United States "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consults, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States...." Allen Drury was a conservative and anti-Communist, and these views permeate his fiction. He believed most liberals were naive about the dangers of the Communist threat to undermine the government of the United States: [2] The basic assumption underlying Drury fiction is that totalitarian Communism is intrinsically evil and that Communism's ultimate goal is world domination, an end or goal that Communists will strive to achieve by whatever moral, immoral, or amoral means are expedient, including propaganda, lies, subversion, intimidation, infiltration, betrayal, and violence. A Drury thesis is that in Communism's constant war against American democratic Capitalism, a steady progress is being made. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advise_and_Consent

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (503458)	8/21/2012 5:28:53 PM
From: simplicity	8 Recommendations Respond to of 794009

Dinesh D'Souza (the author of 'Obama's America', on which the new movie '2016' is based) expressed that opinion yesterday on Fox. Someone (I don't recall who) was talking about how inept Obama has been, and D'Souza vehemently disagreed, stating that the president is achieving exactly what he wants, because his genuine goals are diametrically opposed to the ones he says he plans to achieve.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (503458)	8/21/2012 5:50:13 PM
From: average joe	2 Recommendations Respond to of 794009

No one dares call it treason, but it is. That might not be his goal. It was once said that Obama does not want to see Islam succeed as much as he wants to see Christianity fail. By being the world's biggest compromiser and encouraging a charitable nanny state he is blurring the divisions between both. "A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' " Barack Obama "Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done." John Keegan "If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher "Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both." Tryon Edwards "In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." Ayn Rand "The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. Charles R. Swindoll "Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals." Talib Kweli "There can be no compromise between a property owner and a burglar; offering the burglar a single teaspoon of one’s silverware would not be a compromise, but a total surrender—the recognition of his right to one’s property." Ayn Rand "It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself." Sandra Day O'Connor "To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be." Golda Meir "When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism." Robert Green Ingersoll "Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong." Lord Edward Cecil "Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment." Michael Badnarik "Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts." Ron Paul "And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done." Herman Cain "The devil is compromise." Henrik Ibsen