Wednesday February 15, 2012

nucular's past comments

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    nucular

    sezwho2 : "I think it takes the weakening of the office of the president to something more in line with what the founding fathers envisioned."

    The Long War, the War on Terror - of which Iraq is but one front - represents a completely new set of challenges facing the democratic governments of the free world that AlQaeda and those bent on reestablishing a world Caliphate are presently waging war against.

    You may not like it but the United States is foremost among these democracies, which makes all the more ludicrous the notion that a weakened presidency is what the founding fathers ever could have wanted:

    "Energy in the Executive, # 70 (Hamilton) (Federalists Papers) "

    "Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy...

    [...]

    "Those politicians and statesmen who have been the most celebrated for the soundness of their principles and for the justice of their views, have declared in favor of a single Executive and a numerous legislature. They have with great propriety, considered energy as the most necessary qualification of the former, and have regarded this as most applicable to power in a single hand, while they have, with equal propriety, considered the latter as best adapted to deliberation and wisdom, and best calculated to conciliate the confidence of the people and to secure their privileges and interests. "

    Posted in: Ex-State Dept employees allege corruption in Iraq

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    nucular

    "Ex-State Dept employees allege corruption in Iraq"

    Slow news day/week/month ?

    Basra too tranquil for the press these days?

    Posted in: Ex-State Dept employees allege corruption in Iraq

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    Hillary Rodham Clinton is struggling?

    Miss this? -

    A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds:

    "Pushing back against political punditry, more than six in 10 Democrats say there's no rush for Hillary Clinton to leave the presidential race even as Barack Obama consolidates his support for the nomination and scores solidly in general-election tests.

    "Despite Obama's advantage in delegates and popular vote, 64 percent of Democrats in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll say Clinton should remain in the race. Even among Obama's supporters, 42 percent say so.

    http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Vote2008/story?id=4837828

    Posted in: Obama turns focus to race against McCain, as Clinton struggles to keep campaign afloat

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    "Obama defends his patriotism"

    It's so not fair!

    Barack Hussein Obama launches his political career from the home of an unrepentant terrorist who tried to kill Americans on American soil and was even photographed in 2001 trampling on the Stars and Stripes and people have doubts about the junior senator's patriotism.

    Did they not get the memo? Were they too busy clinging to their guns and religion and antipathy towards illegal aliens to understand ?

    What's next - will he be forced to defend his voting record, the most liberal in the Senate, to the left of even Vermont's self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders?

    Posted in: Obama defends his patriotism, quarrels with McCain

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    Chavez might not be the only dreamboat of starry-eyed socialists who has ties to the terrorist group FARC.

    Obama's name also popped up on computer files Interpol has said can be traced directly to this terrorist group.

    '...the little Obama reference within the 15 FARC letters released by the Colombian government signals a disturbing pattern of contacts with rogue actors. It's not the first time, and Obama has yet to distance himself. In a Feb. 28 letter, FARC chieftain Raul Reyes cheerily reported to his inner circle that he met "two gringos" who assured him "the new president of their country will be Obama and that they are interested in your compatriots. Obama will not support 'Plan Colombia' nor will he sign the TLC (Free Trade Agreement)." '

    http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=289786626246641

    Interpol confirms data not manipulated -

    http://english.eluniversal.com/2008/05/05/enpolartinterpol-confirms-au05A1556571.shtml

    Dems shot down free trade pact with Columbia, our most important ally in S America.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120640555842961083.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

    Posted in: Documents indicate that Chavez helped Colombia rebels

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    'The junior senator from Illinois, a product of the most notorious political machine in the nation.' sushisake 3 :"You're clearly getting mixed up here. Obama never worked under Karl Rove."

    If you don't know of the Chicago political machine you don't know or understand Obama.

    Posted in: Obama turns focus to race against McCain, as Clinton struggles to keep campaign afloat

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    sushisake3 : "At 5-0 to America's Enemies, it's pretty clear Sen. McCain sure won't be representing Americans."

    Yes, but, exactly who are America's enemies?

    In the more than twenty debates they have been in to date neither Obama or Clinton have used the words Islam and terror while on the same stage, let alone in the same sentence.

    sushisake3 : "Sen. McCain needs to realize most Americans are interested in their next President dealing with issues and building schools, infrastructure and improving education and healthcare, etc. in America, not 8,000 miles away in Iraq."

    The junior senator from Illinois, a product of the most notorious political machine in the nation, the pol with the most liberal voting record in the Senate, is to be our next president, and it is destiny at work?

    Posted in: Obama turns focus to race against McCain, as Clinton struggles to keep campaign afloat

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    sushisake 3 : "That would be because - as has been explained very clearly many times on JT already - Bush as been vetoing Democratic leglislation, increasingly against the wishes of his own party."

    "Bush is now polling lower than Nixon was the week before he resigned."

    "...Osama bin Laden owes a great deal of thanks to Bush"

    Bush. Bush. Bush.

    Bush is not eligible for a third term.

    Does this not get reported in Canada?

    Posted in: Obama turns focus to race against McCain, as Clinton struggles to keep campaign afloat

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    nucular

    Great thread.

    McCain, nearly 40 years ago, crashed jet planes that were little more than fuselages with huge fuel tanks and bombs attached so this makes him unfit to be president.

    It's not much of a leap to equally silly "reasoning" which says Obama can not talk of invading Pakistan or of sending ships to Lebanon because he never served, and is therefore a chicken hawk.

    And his middle name is like one that lots of those terr'ists got!

    Taking this absurd exercise further:Iran absolutely does want Obama elected because they know that since he is a chickenhawk - and a Democrat - he would never do what Republican presidents with war experience might.

    Posted in: Obama turns focus to race against McCain, as Clinton struggles to keep campaign afloat

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    nucular

    "Clinton struggles to keep campaign afloat"

    I do believe the liberal drive-by media actually hates this woman even more than conservatives do, which will make her victories in W Virginia and Kentucky all the more infuriating.

    Posted in: Obama turns focus to race against McCain, as Clinton struggles to keep campaign afloat

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    nucular

    sushisake3 -

    David Axelrod is one of Barry Obama's closest advisors.

    You do know that?

    Posted in: Obama turns focus to race against McCain, as Clinton struggles to keep campaign afloat

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    nucular

    Marxism mailing list archive, Chronicle of Higher Education; Same diff.

    Posted in: Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegates

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    "Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegates"

    She's melting! She's melting!

    High-ranking Dems starting to sound like Rush Limbaugh, airing their fears and concerns on CNN -

    Paul Begala - The Democratic Party can't win with just 'eggheads and African-Americans.'

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM6GEx3ai88

    Posted in: Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegates

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    nucular

    "It is widely known that the number of uninsured is well beyond 40 million, and you know it! "

    20 million of them illegal aliens.

    Here is a look at some of the others -

    http://www.freemarketcure.com/uninsuredinamerica.php

    Posted in: Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegates

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    rjd jr : "Funny how people seem to throw labels such as left wing, right wing, liberal, conservative, etc. etc. automatically. Just because one is against this isanity doesn't make one a liberal or a conservative, enlightened people of all ages feel the same way. A common tactic for the ultra pro war supporters is to label those against the war as being disappointed when ostensibly positive news or developments is reported in the media. "

    ("Ultra pro-war supporter" - there's a nice neutral designation for anyone who disagrees with you...)

    Look, it's pretty simple here: Sadr is backed by Iran. He runs there whenever in trouble. He is not an elected leader but he leads an army of thugs and criminals preying on ordinary Iraqis.

    I'm with Maliki, as imperfect as he and his cabinet may be.

    Posted in: Cease-fire starts in Sadr City

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    nucular

    Is this oft-repeated, silly attempt at mockery which goes 'McCain is not the one Repubs really want' supposed to be proof that we are looking at a scenario which says victory in the presidential election is automatically guaranteed to the eventual Democrat nominee?

    What people like sushisake3 don't seem to realize is that this meme also obviously includes the recognition that John McCain is not George Bush, a perception I think most Republicans are relieved will be widespread by November.

    It's the independents who will most likely decide things in this election.

    Posted in: Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegates

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    It's becoming clear that Barry's wife is the one who wears the pants -

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/michellevetoeshillary.html

    This will only add to his appeal among Left-leaning males.

    Posted in: Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegates

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    Everton : "Wake up and join reality, they are nearly 50 million Americans in a situation where if they are unlucky enough to get sick it is unlikely that they will be cared for."

    50 million? Why not go with a nice round 100 million?

    Clearly, accuracy doesn't matter in your caricature of America where we all hold down 3 jobs paying $5/hr.

    "I know what I a talking about the American system is incredibly expensive beyond the reach of the average person."

    I have worked in American hospitals and have relatives who still do.

    You'd be surprised at the number of Canadians who seek medical care in America or, as is now standard practice, are sent by their government to US hospitals because Canadian ones lack adequate facilities to handle certain procedures, particularly in neonatal care.

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?userURL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FRTGAM.20070724.pregnant24%2FBNStory%2FspecialScienceandHealth%2Fhome&ord=133024664&brand=theglobeandmail&forcelogin=true

    You don't know what you're talking about.

    Posted in: Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegates

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    nucular

    "Every Western democracy has managed to develop an affordable and fairer system than America that covers all their citizens. "

    And many of them are failing systems. Britain's National Health is one example.

    "What America has now is just a fast with people working three jobs and still can't afford coverage."

    Three jobs?

    Most of these people you imagine have cars, i-pods, flat screen TV's...

    Many of the uninsured in the States are that way by choice, particularly while in their 20's and 30's.

    I was.

    Posted in: Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegates

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    sushisake3 : "It's funny how while the U.S. economy stews into recession..."

    I'd be interested to know where you get your information from.

    Is that the picture of our economy reporters are ordered to give readers up in Canada?

    The US economy grew last quarter. Granted, it was an anemic 0.6 percent but there is no evidence of back to back quarters showing negative growth, the classical definition of a recession.

    Posted in: Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegates

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