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Topic: 2013? Poll finds Americans
weary and wary |
2013? Poll finds Americans
weary and wary
USA Today, by Susan Page
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Posted By:StormCnter, 1/2/2013 4:28:20 AM
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| PITTSBURGH — Remember that wave of optimism and good feeling that typically greets a presidential inauguration, not to mention a new year? This time, it´s hard to find. Battered by an economy that is only slow recovering — and soured by the spectacle of Washington dysfunction in the "fiscal cliff" debate — views of the nation´s future and its fundamental promise have darkened in the four years since Barack Obama´s first inauguration. Then, even during an unfolding financial crisis, Americans believed by a double-digit margin that it was likely young people would have a better life
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher, 1/2/2013 7:04:23 AM (No. 9094193)
This is what happens when (Fill in the Blank). I´d fill it in for you but there are too many options, any one of which would get me expelled.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HerbVA, 1/2/2013 7:10:17 AM (No. 9094202)
Gotta laugh at the unabashed BS from the social worker about racial slurs at her kid´s school and how Obama would be treated better if he were White. Is she stupid enough to think Obama would have even been considered for the White House if he were not black?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TakeBackAmerica, 1/2/2013 7:14:01 AM (No. 9094207)
Americans need to express their loathing of this Marxist traitor and loudly demonstrating it during his sickening inauguration--where the LSM cannot ignore it--would be a good start.
Then find a leader who will bring that message home every day going forward.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GringoinQuito, 1/2/2013 7:41:43 AM (No. 9094252)
They can all go to h**l ! They wanted him, they got him!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 1/2/2013 8:20:39 AM (No. 9094316)
In the run-up to the inaugural, we´ll have to find alternatives to TV and cable news and specials with all the boot*-licking press will be doing to see how close they can get to Obama.
Netflix will become my new best friend. (*the other word would stick in the filter).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/2/2013 2:04:28 PM (No. 9095002)
Was immediately turned off by the illogic of the large "predictions" graphic at the top.
It is not balanced. The pros and cons are all mixed up.
I for one am NOT looking forward to the inauguration. Saw those govt workers sawing and hammering away on that temporary structure...for what?? What a waste of money, in a time like this. To say nothing of the excess of that Hawaiian "tradition" that sprung up after The Won got his hands on the US checkbook.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/2/2013 2:07:12 PM (No. 9095006)
Sorry, sprang.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rafter, 1/2/2013 2:55:27 PM (No. 9095073)
Next year we get the best revenge...
We vote in the midterm elections.
The sixth year of a presidency is traditionally bad news for the prez.
Expect his party to lose seats in Congress...
both in the House and Senate.
Bamster´s popularity has nowhere to go now but down.
Happens to every second-termer.
He will be hated.
The taxes and unemployment and health care mess will drive Americans nuts.
Buyer´s remorse is long overdue...
and will set in at some point.
Buh-Bye, Bamster!
Greet your upcoming Lame Duck Status with that snarky wink, whydoncha... ?
Spend more time underneath your family tree in Indonesia, Kenya, Hawaii...
The Coconut. You´re WON of ´em.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
tatterdemalion, 1/2/2013 3:02:10 PM (No. 9095081)
Wary?
Not nearly wary enough!
I know what hunts you!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
redwhite&blue2, 1/2/2013 7:10:05 PM (No. 9095512)
When Clint Eastwood said that if the dude aint doing the job, you gotta "LET HIM GO" I was convinced we as a nation would do the right thing. Man, was I wrong....now I dont know what makes half the nation tick...theyre all such filthy-mouthed left-wing dopes. I think they are about to have "buyers remorse" and the "Year of the Afro-American" is coming to a screeching halt. It´s time to put aside affirmative action, diversity, and warm embraces for thugs and get to work fixing everything the progressive idiots broke! America, are you listening? Start praying to God and reverting to traditional morals, values, and ethics before its too damn late. Enough!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ScrIbelus, 1/2/2013 8:36:25 PM (No. 9095597)
I am wary because I am prey. I cannot afford to be weary.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 1/2/2013 8:42:33 PM (No. 9095604)
In 2 to 3 years, weary and wary will be spelled with a capital "W".
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