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To: Alighieri who wrote (702979)	3/6/2013 5:25:34 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572542

>> He was running against his wife then...c'mon man. He made the "amateur" remark in the context of trying to persuade Hillary to run against Obama again. I don't know what you think the difference might be. >> The guy has beaten a woman considered unbeatable then and now romney , with an economy that should have given mitt a significant advantage. Can you spell sour grapes? You can call it sour grapes if you like. But Obama should not have won either election, particularly the second, and would not have were it not for the media abandoning its special responsibility under our Constitution, in effect violating a sacred trust. Now, that trust has been violated frequently and with such abandon before, there's nothing new about that. But it was more of a factor in this race than even in the infamous race of 1800. And in 1800, neither candidate so blatantly lied about the other as Obama did in 2012. While the tactics in 1800 were disgusting, the candidates both distanced themselves from it for the most part. In 2012, Obama flatly, repeatedly, and intentionally lied repeatedly, and a complicit media allowed him to do it and covered for him. Finally, Obama used as a springboard political payments to constituents to guarantee his win in 2012. Hopefully, we'll see a repudiation before his second term is over. But the move toward single party rule because of payments to voters could well head us down the path of single-party rule and on to dictatorship. If it does that will be on those gullible voters who supported Obama in 2012. When you boil it down it was a confluence of unfortunate events -- a) The media shirking its responsibility b) Cash and in-kind payments to various voter constituencies, and c) A campaign of lies against one of the most decent men ever to run for the office. It worked for Obama, but may well be the undoing of the country.