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Topic: Is President Obama lazy? |
Is President Obama lazy?
Washington Times, by Eric Golub
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/7/2013 11:16:12 AM
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| LOS ANGELES — Conversations must begin honestly. It is perfectly legitimate to analyze leaders with critical lenses. People fight and die for this freedom. Times are serious, and Obama may not be. The question of whether OBama is lazy evokes everything from discomfort to rage. Yet asking and answering questions provokes "national conversations" that President Obama cherishes. Racism exists (thankfully, such views are marginalized) and in the past. Calling blacks "lazy" is one way for racists to spread their message. Denying the connotation denies history. So how can calling Obama lazy not be racist?
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Comments: He´s arrogant, lazy and incompetent. The only thing I would quibble with in the article is that he says 0bama is a "Hawaiian Christian" and not a Kenyan Muslim subversive. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/7/2013 11:21:42 AM (No. 9103136)
One has to wonder why the term "lazy" is considered racist.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 1/7/2013 11:26:48 AM (No. 9103141)
Is obama lazy? Does Howdy Doody have a wooden ....?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bobn.T, 1/7/2013 11:35:29 AM (No. 9103160)
The poster´s comment is spot on but I would also have added "America-hating."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
harleynyc, 1/7/2013 11:37:17 AM (No. 9103168)
Personally, he is. But his cabal of ultra left-wing lunatics are plotting 24/7.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
snapper451, 1/7/2013 11:42:43 AM (No. 9103186)
What part of yes do you not understand? The Y, the E, or the S?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Northern Redman, 1/7/2013 11:43:06 AM (No. 9103187)
To paraphrase Aristotle, the best way to develop concepts and knowledge is by empirical observation of many instances of the subject.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jdmii, 1/7/2013 11:44:39 AM (No. 9103192)
He just wants his "stuff" like a 747, trips to warm climes and a lot of gofers.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 1/7/2013 11:49:28 AM (No. 9103203)
Since he´s never held any job except ´Community Hustler´, or Government Official, the answer is yes...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BetseyRoss, 1/7/2013 11:52:08 AM (No. 9103208)
Is Obama lazy? Well, Duhhhhh! He´s also un-American, has a Communist agenda, doesn´t know much about economics except how to spend us into oblivion, wants to take our guns away, has control over our lives, and the topper is that he is most probably a Muslim.
Is ´Hawaian Christian´ a fancy word for Muslim? Oh, yeah, nothing is right in America anymore.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
southron, 1/7/2013 11:55:01 AM (No. 9103213)
As the symbolic first black president Obama had to succeed. If he failed or was only mediocre the public might begin to question the media´s decades of promoting the benefits of diversity.
So the media had to pretend Obama was successful even though he wasn´t. They did this by blaming other people or other factors for his lack of accomplishments. Also, he had to be re-elected or it would make America look intolerant. But now that he has been re-elected, and can´t run again, the media might begin to be a little more honest in its Obama coverage.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lancelink1, 1/7/2013 11:56:21 AM (No. 9103216)
Does the Pope wear a beanie?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ruhn, 1/7/2013 11:56:39 AM (No. 9103217)
Lazy in terms of work ethic and intellect? His past performance (or lack thereof) speak louder than words.
He has coasted all of his academic and political career. Period. Most do not challenge his mystique because of his bona fides, his skin color and his charisma.
Sooner or later, his artifice will crumble. It´s fragile enough as it is and it will not be pretty.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Burger, 1/7/2013 12:05:22 PM (No. 9103233)
President Obama has called himself lazy, does that make President Obama racist? According to the half wit that wrote this article, of course he is. Amazingly painful ignorance on display.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
retiree, 1/7/2013 12:21:26 PM (No. 9103263)
Apples and oranges. It isn´t his color that makes him lazy it is his sense of entitlement with the power provided to him. Much of it unchallenged. He uses "executive order" for others to do the job he was elected to do.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
IdahoGal, 1/7/2013 12:24:55 PM (No. 9103273)
The spelling and grammatical errors in this piece render it unreadable. Sad.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
killerbee, 1/7/2013 12:26:49 PM (No. 9103279)
Yes, he is lazy. He is also self-aggrandizing and petty. And he hates America and Americans. He doesn´t like black people, white people or any other race of people. He´s a misanthrope. He´s also greedy. And not too bright. He´s conceited and foolish.
Shall I go on? He´s one of the worst human beings ever to hold high office in the history of the world. And, no, I´m not exaggerating.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 1/7/2013 12:28:18 PM (No. 9103281)
"lazy" implies there is work Stinky is capable of doing but doesn´t. I can think of nothing in his known history that is the result of his labor. He´s been a mannequin his whole life, propped up by others.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
nordlander, 1/7/2013 12:32:53 PM (No. 9103283)
Obama calling himself lazy is only half racist.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
geoguy, 1/7/2013 12:37:36 PM (No. 9103292)
yes
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
woofwoofwoof, 1/7/2013 12:39:01 PM (No. 9103295)
Hard to distinguish between lazy and stupid.
Like, ask if some guy is strong or weak. What if he can´t manage to pick up a candy wrapper. You *think* he has the strength, but he can´t get it done. So, well, there it is.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/7/2013 12:46:13 PM (No. 9103305)
Duh, YES! Then he has the audacity to blame everyone else for his failings...what a man to be looked up to! /S on the last part.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Rolfnader, 1/7/2013 12:52:22 PM (No. 9103319)
Indeed he is. I will add ignorant, oafish, classless and thuggish. Next question?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/7/2013 12:53:12 PM (No. 9103321)
Whatever he is or isn´t, there´s no doubt the end result of his life and actions is destruction.
He brings destruction, and has never brought anything else.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MassJim, 1/7/2013 12:56:35 PM (No. 9103328)
Yes. Next question.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
shalimar, 1/7/2013 12:59:39 PM (No. 9103336)
Compared to the average Joe I knew in high school, Obama is not lazy. But I spent most of my adult life in DC, and by DC standards, yes, he is lazy.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Penney, 1/7/2013 1:51:35 PM (No. 9103419)
´Actions speak louder than words,´ and 0bama´s political actions are slicing & dicing Liberty in the U.S.A.! ...What more is needed to know about him & his lefty cohorts? mmm mmm mmm
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
strike3, 1/7/2013 2:00:47 PM (No. 9103439)
And so is his wookie partner. Twenty six handmaidens? Can´t the fat grifter comb her own hair?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Judith, 1/7/2013 2:16:32 PM (No. 9103465)
Gee whiz, folks. If anyone had bothered reading his books, written by him, in his own words, he says he is lazy. Gee whiz.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
GhostofChesterton, 1/7/2013 2:16:53 PM (No. 9103466)
To quote Norm Peterson, "Does a doll have cloth knobs"?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 1/7/2013 2:18:28 PM (No. 9103470)
He is pampered, haughty, and egotistical. The Perfect Liberal.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
rc1776, 1/7/2013 2:25:04 PM (No. 9103481)
We merely human working taxpayers and financially self sufficient know so little about this it (entity ) that a judgement of that sort is not possible. If it is human then it´s knowledge of it´s glorious superiority leaves it bored with it´s mentors assignment to destroy every last vestage of America, The Constitution and Bill of Rights, The Family, Christanity , Judaism, and Capitalism. The first debate highlighted this ho humm boredom it often displays. It seems to display to it´s subjects, boredom, contempt, and disdain.
Ala Akbar Yaw´all
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Calvinesq, 1/7/2013 2:26:38 PM (No. 9103486)
Lazy? Maybe. I think he´s just plain exhausted because of all the talking he does about himself.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
flatwater, 1/7/2013 2:42:50 PM (No. 9103510)
Lazy, stupid, dishonest, hateful, corrupt.
These words describe Wise King Barky.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 1/7/2013 2:52:31 PM (No. 9103523)
He´s not lazy, but he has a debilitating addiction to vacations.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
SmallDog, 1/7/2013 2:58:02 PM (No. 9103531)
Hawaiian Christian is one that believes God lives in Kilauea and prays accordingly.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
nerdowell, 1/7/2013 3:08:12 PM (No. 9103547)
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
nerdowell, 1/7/2013 3:11:00 PM (No. 9103552)
If he´s lazy, how is it he´s where he is, enjoying the power he wields over us.
Why are we unable to kick him out?
He´s not dumb and he´s not lazy; we´d better stay on our toes.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Rafter, 1/7/2013 3:14:45 PM (No. 9103561)
Apparently, "Hawaiian Christian" is in contrast to...
the Protestant Work Ethic... remember that concept from decades ago... ?
Hawaiian Time or Aloha Time... two hours later than actually scheduled... it be otay... no worry...
We are present to witness the fall of the Roman Empire... while we would rather see the fall of our... corrupt Roman Emperor... Our Wannabe Communist Muslimini Dicktater, "ILL-Puke-ay"
He´s a goner in 2014... the midterms results will wreck the final two years of his reign of terror against America.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
redwhite&blue2, 1/7/2013 3:48:18 PM (No. 9103610)
I´ve got a new name for dopey followers of this lazy foreign exchange student, the ones Rush calls "low-information voters", otherwise known as what Red used to say on THAT 70´s SHOW, "dumbasses"....Ready?
I now call them all...."Pavlov´s Dogs" !
Barry Soetoro rings a bell and watch all the corrupt enemedia, the academia, the welfare cheats, the lazy bums, the thugs, the video game players, the idiots on TV, the advertising community, the Google and Yahoo crowd....watch them all salivate and bow to the Messiah! Truly, Pavlovs Dogs!
Stupid, yet scary, isnt it?
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
chickenlips, 1/7/2013 3:58:51 PM (No. 9103623)
Following the lead of posters #2 and #30, does a hobby horse have a hickory ....?
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Wetlandz, 1/7/2013 4:07:46 PM (No. 9103639)
Bureaucrats are lazy by nature
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Susieq1, 1/7/2013 4:22:22 PM (No. 9103665)
Since everyone calls him black they must be racist against the white half.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 1/7/2013 4:33:45 PM (No. 9103682)
Further investigation: Is President Obama lazy? Is the pope a Catholic? Has a cat got a climbing gear? And finally, Who is buried in Grant´s tomb?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Smaj, 1/7/2013 4:55:15 PM (No. 9103715)
He was identified long ago by some very evil interests to be the smiling front man in the "fundamental transformation" of America. Of course he´s lazy (among other negative attributes); he just reads what is put in front of him by his control, one Valerie Jarrett.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
fire_mission, 1/7/2013 5:17:07 PM (No. 9103743)
´Did the Waltons take way too long to say goodnight?´
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
hamrman, 1/7/2013 6:33:52 PM (No. 9103833)
Most Assuredly!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
artlover, 1/7/2013 6:36:56 PM (No. 9103839)
Everyone knew all this and MORE before this man was elected the first time and most certainly the second time. There is no use complaining now. There in NOTHING we can do about it now. We will have to put up with it and I think it will go on for much longer that four years. His czars want him to be a dictator and they, I think, will accomplish that. This country is no longer a free country!!!!
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
volksford, 1/7/2013 6:44:53 PM (No. 9103850)
How many more articles will we see about this sob being lazy ? Fer cryin´ out loud..we know it.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Italiano, 1/7/2013 6:49:40 PM (No. 9103856)
I have exhausted my supply of pejoratives, postable and otherwise. I never thought that that could happen.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/7/2013 7:28:18 PM (No. 9103894)
Although I am puzzled by the puppetmaster´s role in this since he says he detests laziness. I remember reading that George Soros demands that his employees work hard. Did O. fool him too?
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 1/7/2013 8:20:48 PM (No. 9103940)
Lazy?? Look at it this way. Obie´s transformation of the USA would not be happening with the lightening speed if he was lazy. I´m sure his inner circle is working 24/7 to complete the transformation before anyone wakes up. But, at the end of the day, Obie is making the key decisions on this.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
Aria, 1/7/2013 8:33:28 PM (No. 9103961)
Many people some of us might call lazy are actually quite industrious:
1. The EBT crowd have to apply and go through all the work to get "free" money.
2. Criminals have to go to a lot of work and take risks to gain access to other people´s stuff.
3. Vote cheaters have to go to various polling places - usually all on one day.
4. zero had to run all over the country speechifying and lying like a rug to maintain his 1 billion $ a year little personal kingdom including the multi-million dollar vacations.
Oh the humanity!!!
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
ncgrammie4, 1/7/2013 8:49:49 PM (No. 9103975)
I would have to say about half of the country is lazy and Obama was certainly someone they all could relate to. Lazy is one of his better qualities.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
steelbreeze, 1/7/2013 9:11:09 PM (No. 9103999)
hussein is a skinny-armed commie loving little with a head about the size of a baseball who is about 6% black.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
yorkiemom, 1/7/2013 9:19:38 PM (No. 9104011)
O is lazy and a whole lot of other things that disgust me, but his followers will never ever think of him as anything other than perfect. Keep watching for them to push for a third term for this dolt.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
artiec, 1/7/2013 9:47:35 PM (No. 9104056)
I don´t know I´d go so far as to call him a Christian.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/7/2013 10:04:50 PM (No. 9104086)
Yes What a dufus.
It seems like vacation time is always regrouping time. Is ´Hawaii Christian´ the results of this think tank ?
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
doctorfixit, 1/7/2013 10:10:31 PM (No. 9104096)
I don´t know if he is lazy about things like doing housework, picking up after himself, etc. But indications are Obama is intellectually lazy, which I think is quite common among super-brains as well as dullards. Leftism is intellectually lazy. Leftists never challenge their own assumptions. Leftists rely on cliches, stereotypes and caricatures. The footage of Obama as a law instructor at the blackboard is shockingly sophomoric. His laziness means he hasn´t learned anything, he´s carrying on with the same old Community Rabble Rouser shtick.
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
Truth Czar, 1/7/2013 10:43:46 PM (No. 9104133)
Using lazy to describe Barack O. Davis... is lazy. Arrogant, narcissistic, and incompetent are better descriptors for a man lacking the intellect, experience or work ethic to run a lemonade stand... successfully.
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
busterman, 1/7/2013 11:12:41 PM (No. 9104165)
He´s a sock puppet! A mannequin! A ventriloquist´s dummy!
They stick him in a box until they need him. Then pull him out, dress him up, point him towards the teleprompter and Val-Jar tells whoever to get him ´animated´.
In the words of John Cleese in Monty Python´s Flying Circus: "This bird wouldn´t ´boo!´ if you put 50,000 volts through it!´
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
NYbob, 1/7/2013 11:23:27 PM (No. 9104176)
Pretty successful for a lazy guy. Lazy is the opposition who can´t pin the tail on this donkey. He does everything but drive the truck across the border with the guns in it and his ´enemies´ can´t put him anywhere near it. In fact they can´t hold anyone responsible for a direct order from DC to AZ to sell deadly weapons to obvious drug cartel criminals. How does a ´lazy´ man pull that off? Scooter Libby went to jail over NOTHING and these guys explain on camera how they are not going to enforce voter intimidation laws because you are white and they are black. Yet nothing happens. Lazy? No.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 1/7/2013 11:48:10 PM (No. 9104204)
#59 nails it very well.
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
Bla Bla, 1/8/2013 12:41:21 AM (No. 9104250)
If you´re a puppet -- a useful idiot tool -- for a Prgressice organization bent on bringing down America´s economy, being lazy is a must.
BJ Clinton had too much get up & go to be used like this poser. And he was far more intelligent. These handlers do all the dirty work for him, while he plays golf or swims in the Hawaiian surf.
Yes, he is lazy. It´s a job requirement for this group. Soros probably hand-picked him for that alone.
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
Adam, 1/8/2013 10:10:26 AM (No. 9104752)
"Mainstream critics do not see Obama as evil, but then being evil would require effort."
that is a knock out funny line.
Was it Doug Brinkley or Michael Beschloss (both of whom should know better) that said that Obama has the highest IQ of any president in history. How on earth would he know that and on what is it based? I am not saying Obama is dumb but I haven´t ever heard him say anything I regarded as particularly intelligent. Does anyone seriously believed Obama has a higher IQ than say, Thomas Jefferson?
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Reply 65 - Posted by:
Happy Trails, 1/8/2013 11:52:57 AM (No. 9105052)
He´s lazy to do right, but like a thief in the night he works out of sight to steal cheat and destroy.
Obama steals cheats and destroys. The Grinning Fool was placed in front of you to deceive you.
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Reply 66 - Posted by:
srhcb, 1/9/2013 6:21:50 AM (No. 9106422)
World´s Second Easiest Multiple Choice Question:
President Obama is:
A. Lazy
B. Stupid
C. Corrupt
D. All of the above
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WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
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Man questioned in Boston Marathon bombing shot, killed by FBI
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WCBV-TV [Boston], by Staff
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/22/2013 7:21:44 AM
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One of two men allegedly being questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida on Tuesday, (Snip)A friend of Ibragim Todashev said he and Todashev were being investigated as part of the Boston bombings. He said Todashev, 27, knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were MMA fighters. The man claims he and Todashev were interviewed by the FBI for nearly three hours on Tuesday. The friend said he left the interview, and when he came back to the apartment he found that there had been a shooting.
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Darrell Issa: Lois Lerner lost her rights
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Politico, by Rachel Bade
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/22/2013 3:34:05 PM
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said embattled IRS official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights and will be hauled back to appear before his panel again. The California Republican said Lerner’s Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination was voided when she gave an opening statement this morning denying any wrongdoing and professing pride in her government service. “When I asked her her questions from the very beginning, I did so so she could assert her rights prior to any statement,” Issa told POLITICO. “She chose not to do so — so she waived.”
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Howard Dean: ‘Benghazi is a Laughable Joke’
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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 11:59:15 AM
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Former Democratic National committee chairman Howard Dean considers the controversy over Benghazi a “joke” and “silly.” “Benghazi is a laughable joke,” Dean proclaimed twice in a discussion with Republican National Committee communications chairman Sean Spicer last week. “With all due respect, governor, when four Americans die serving this country, that’s not a joke, sir,” Spicer responded. “Oh, stop it,” said Dean. The former Democratic presidential candidate also said that there were “no serious questions being asked about Benghazi” and brushed it off as an effort by Republicans to score political points.
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