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Good riddance to them. Those who would vote against the best interests of themselves and their country out of pettiness and sour grapes fully deserve what that will bring them. Unfortunately, the rest of us will also have to suffer the consequences of their idiocy.
With such extraordinary pettiness and stupidity, one has to wonder why the PUMA's weren't Republicans all along. Perhaps they've finally "found themselves". Rejoice, Republicans. Your wayward brethren have joined the fold, even if they're not ready to accept the family name just yet. They may be just what you need to again snatch America's defeat from the gaping jaws of victory.
You're so excitable and it seems very sensitive.
Again the Hillary to McCain switchers are painted as petty and stupid by the likes of you. Your arrogant and downright nasty "we know best" attitude is not how you win over people.
Could it be that some of them actually look at the issues? Maybe they looked at things, such as this NY times editorial endorsing McCain, and liked what they saw:
Still, there is a choice to be made, and it is an easy one. Senator John McCain of Arizona is the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe. With a record of working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation, he would offer a choice to a broader range of Americans than the rest of the Republican field.We have shuddered at Mr. McCain’s occasional, tactical pander to the right because he has demonstrated that he has the character to stand on principle. He was an early advocate for battling global warming and risked his presidential bid to uphold fundamental American values in the immigration debate. A genuine war hero among Republicans who proclaim their zeal to be commander in chief, Mr. McCain argues passionately that a country’s treatment of prisoners in the worst of times says a great deal about its character.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/opinion/...agewanted=print
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He could be dirt poor or filthy rich; that doesn't change the fact that he IS out of touch. His tax plan alone is proof positive of that.
Do you really, really know Obama's tax plan? Or have you been infected by Obama's campaign sound bites?
If you did, you would know that Obama's plan relies on the Bush type of fiscal policy. Smoke and mirrors. Does that make Bush's fiscal policy a fine policy?
Obama Tax Plan Would Balloon Deficit, Analysis FindsDemocrat's Promise to Cut Taxes Without Adding to Debt Relies on Bush Fiscal Policy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8080901860.html
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Bern, I know a little something about law school. What do you know?
Just what do you think a "real professor" does in a law school, as opposed to what a "Lecturer" does? Do you really think that just because someone decides not to make an entire career inside a law school, that he's less qualified to teach the class? Do you really think that just because someone has real world experience, in addition to having been the first black president of the Harvard Law Review(!), he's less qualified to know and teach the law? To suggest that such a person "has never done the academic work" to qualify him to teach in a law school, and be every bit as good as any full-time professor there, is just ludicrous. Quite simply, as someone who attended and was graduated from a top law school, I don't think you know what you're talking about.
Do you have some factual information on which to base your critique? Do you even understand what a law professor does, or what qualities are most important? Was there something amiss about or lacking in Obama's teaching? I doubt it.
For goodness sake, man (or woman), get a grip on yourself. You'd be much more persuasive as a critic of Obama, if that's what you want to be, if your biases weren't so utterly transparent.
I admit I'm not an expert on Law Schools. My degrees are in education and pharmaceutical sciences.
Last week, I saw an acquaintance who is the president of a college. I brought up my feeling that the "Professor" title is overused and denigrated. I told her that in Obama's case the usage is to give him undeserved gravitas. She felt the same, being mildly disturbed that Professor titles are thrown about in a cavalier fashion. But then what does she know? She's only president of a medium size college which does not have a law school.
My friends and acquaintances at Columbia feel the same. But then again, the ones I deal with are from the Medical and Health schools, not the law school.
Have all these individuals have lost their grip on reality?
Having said that, most of them support Obama. They realize in politics aggrandizement is part of the game. Also, they don't directly blame Obama for the "overuse" of that title. I think they blame his supporters more, the ones who are not in education and don't realize the protocols and certifications needed for these titles. Academics take their titles very seriously. Are lawyers and judges different?
I guess this may be similar to some large banks where most exempt employees have the title of VP. They get the title on their business cards and wave them around, telling all their acquaintances they are VP's. But they have no one to supervise and are busy figuring out how to live well on their low salaries. The real VP's are the Managing Directors, Senior VP's and Executive VP's. Banks do that because "titles" keep salaries down. I once told a VP he's an ass (he screwed something up really bad, for no good reason) and the VP responded I'm in trouble for saying that to him, an employee and a VP. Unfortunately, for the VP, the MD walking by heard his response, whereupon the MD commented something like "Don't you know we piss on our VP's." Courageous, in this day and age of litigation and Human Resources.
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or maybe...students will be able to focus on school instead of unimportant issues like clothing styles....
Are you saying is that the students are spending so much time focusing on their clothes that they don't focus on their school work? That doesn't make any sense, at all.
There are many issues, but school clothing is not an issue that drives down academic excellence. Clothing issues sometimes lead to disciplinary problems, but an intelligent administration can handle that without resorting to uniforms.
Usually, in public schools, uniforms are brought up by administrations as a diversion from their educational failings. A nice side issue to keep the public happy.
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Bern, you're hyperventilating, your posts have become rude and arrogant, and your contempt for one of the most talented politicians and brilliant minds of our time is hard to understand.
In the first place, the very fact that you admit that your invocation of Hitler and Stalin in reference to Obama was a comparison tells me you're either completely off the deep end with some sort of irrational rage, or you're just not thinking things through. If you wanted to make the argument that intelligence alone does not make for a good president, that's easily made without reference to two of history's most brutal dictators. A person who was thinking clearly would recognize that a comment like that will be seen as a comparison, and the comparison will be to the feature that most characterizes Hitler and Stalin in people's minds. It's not intelligence, but their unchecked viciousness on a mass scale.
The comparison is valid because we don't know what we will get. I know its exciting to many that a black man is running for president. And as stated by many of his supporters, he does seem intelligent and is articulate. I agree he's intelligent. We'll see how articulate he is during the free wheeling debates (which Obama has limited to three).
The fact that Obama is looked upon by many so highly with such passion tells me we may have issues. Previously, I've detailed some of his inconsistencies, a warning to us that all is not as it seems.
Will he be given a pass simply because he's charismatic, seems articulate and is intelligent? For example, Obama stated in his Iraq trip that we must win Afghanistan and if need be we will have to ramp up there. So, he's changing the war theater from Iraq to Afghanistan, which could be a much worse hell hole. If we ramp up so much that we will get a draft, will the articulate man of the people Obama, get a pass? Or more likely, we will end up being heavily bogged down in Afghanistan, but because its under Obama's presidency, its all right?
You never know what you get until the individual is in power. Hitler and Stalin who were articulate "peace loving" orators who fooled the people. There were warning signs which were ignored.
When I hear about change and movement, I get nervous. It is a promise that has been given before
. . . we want this people to be peace-loving but also brave and you must be peace-loving!But the Movement is alive and standsfirmly as a rock as long as one of us can
still breathe life into it, just as in
the many years past. Then drum will join
drum, banner will join banner, group will
join group, district will join district,
and then, at last, the once divided
people will then follow the gigantic
column of a united . . .
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Idiot,
As people like you never tired of reminding us, the president has access to information that members of Congress do not, and therefore is entitled to deference from Congress in military matters. The executive branch controls the intelligence agencies and in this case selected and de-selected intelligence information depending on whether it suited the neocons' preconceieved agenda, formed before Bush ever took office, of declaring war against Iraq. 9/11 was just a convenient excuse, and the war against Iraq was perpetrated by lies and deceptions.
It is because the president stands in such a high position of trust that a betrayal of that trust is the most serious of offenses against our country.
The congress owes the president little deference. The deference should be from the president to the congress, which constitutionally is given the job to declare war and fund the whole government (which includes the military). If the executive branch refuses to give congress needed info, then subpoena it. You cannot enact good laws and set intelligent national policy when the congress is denied information. If the executive refuses the subpoena then impeach and remove the president.
If the congress asserted its powers, you will find the executive branch will come to heel very quickly.
Do you really believe our constitutional founders believed in the unitary executive or felt the executive can be trusted? No way. They had enough of kings and distrusted a powerful executive.
That is why they gave the congress, a large group of men, a power not given to other branches of the government. The power to remove members from their and the other two branches.
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I'm sorry Bern, let me rephrase that.
"f**k you!"
Thank you for validating my statement.
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"He thinks in levels of complexity that are beyond most people". You're privy to his thoughts ?? A classic example of Kool-Aid ramblings.
Obama Messiah infatuation.
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You completely missed the point, which could have been made by just mentioning what school he graduated from. For someone to imply that a graduate of Harvard Law School honestly doesn't know how many U.S. states there are is beyond ridiculous.
Yes, I know that.
My point is why do Obamites always have to put in he's a "Professor of Law."
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Ok, then. Replace "Professor" with "Senior Lecturer", and add that it was only three courses (actually three courses per year for 8 years, but feel free to leave that part out since it doesn't suit your purposes). But tell me, does that make the claim that this Harvard Law JD, 8 year Senior Lecturer, 8-year Illinois Senator, 2-year U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate doesn't know how many states there are any less moronic? To believe that was anything more than a run-of-the-mill brain fart is idiocy.
Some professors do research and publish. Some do not. But it is not now, nor has it ever been, a necessary part of the definition of "professor". Nor is there a "more than three courses" rule. You apply for the job, you meet the qualifications, you get hired, you're a professor. There's nothing dishonest or insulting about then saying that you're a professor. That's simply what it means.
This Obama-as-professor vs. Obama-as-Senior-Lecturer hubbub is not the great distinction and deception that you pretend it to be. Here's The University of Chicago Law School's official statement on the matter:
Emphasis mine.
Source: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media/index.html
Rally, Bern. You accuse others of being disingenuous even as you try to float this "Obama wasn't a real professor" turd?
Cut the crap. He's not a real professor. Goebbels disagrees but repeating a lie does not make it true.
You know and I know that the Professor title is constantly used by the Obamites to prop up Obama as a learned constitutional scholar, a Professor of Law. Which is why the likes of you don't use his real title, Senior Lecturer.
So, whenever Obama makes a statement that is questioned, the statement can always be followed up with the "fact" that he is a "Professor of Law" and therefore must know what he is doing. Propaganda for the simple.
His title is a joke. Maybe where you come from or hang out, his title is taken seriously. I and the faculty members I know, know it is a joke and frankly they are insulted that the title is denigrated.
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Barack committed political suicide yesterday when he named Joe "Gaff" Biden. Biden didn't waste any time, referring to Barack as "Barack America". Barack returned the favor, introducing Biden as the next president of the U.S. The only way Barack could win was to name Hillary as VP and he blew it.
Many Hillary supporters are angry over their darling being snubbed and will vote for McCain. With the polls already in a dead heat, Hillary supporters will put McCain over the top.
Many politicians make gaffes. Its not a big deal. Ask Bush.
What is interesting is Biden's apparent endorsement of McCain of Obama dugring one ot the debats
ABC’S GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You were asked, “Is he ready?” You said, “I think he can be ready but right now, I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.”JOE BIDEN: I think that I stand by the statement.
ANNCR: And what does he say about John McCain?
BIDEN: I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off.
Many Democrats are now making a big deal about Biden - the experience he brings to the ticket and his gravitas. I'll quote someone else on that:
Doesn't all the hoopla about what Biden brings to the ticket just highlight what Obama lacks (namely the experience to do the job, and the ability to connect with the other half of America)? Just the fact that Biden did his job well as chair on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, while Obama barely showed up, and only showed up for fluff like Ambassadorial appointments, makes me think we're merely tolerating Obama as our "leader" while more enthusiastically entrusting our nation's future to his VP. Looks like Bush/Cheney all over again. - noo2wood -
It's not how much money/properties you have. But if you are incapable of even keeping track of your OWN finances, how can you be expected to do a good job handling those of a COUNTRY?
The post I was responding to talked about McCain being rich and therefore out of touch. Which is what I addressed in my response.
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Wrong again. All his words are read off a script that someone else wrote. Keep trying, dummy.
They all do that.
In Obama's case it is or was Jon Favreau.
Favreau who led the team that wrote Obama's victory speech in Des Moines last week—a moment that prompted the TV pundits to drop months of skepticism about Obama's candidacy to make breathless comparisons with the Kennedy era.Obama can also write his own speeches. He has claimed to have written the speech he gave at the 2004 DNC convention.
The problem is Obama may not be good at the give and take of real political debate, where he cannot use the staff prepared canned soundbite scripts. Which explains why he refused to do townhalls with Clinton and refuses to do them now with McCain and has limited the number of national political debates to three (McCain wanted more).
Obama and his campaign claim to be very open, with the "new Way" of doing things. However, it seems the only access Obama wants the common public to have is when Obama has prepared speeches and through his adverts.
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But to believe that Barack Obama, graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, former president of the Harvard Law Review, former professor at the University of Chicago Law School, Illinois state Senator for 8 years and U.S. Senator for two, actually doesn't know how many states there are? That, my friend, is no mere brain fart, but genuine and profound stupidity. However, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you were just talking out of your ass and don't actually believe that.
Spare me the professor of Constitutional Law title. Its an insult to real professors, a joke, somewhat disingenuous. I wish the Obamites would stop bringing that up.
A very nice title even though he is really a Senior Lecturer, who has taught three courses. A bit aggrandizement that the University is party to. I guess its done for the politically connected and the powerful.
Obama has never done the academic work, research and gone through the credential process to earn the actual title of Professor.
As a Professor, Obama Enthralled Students and Puzzled Faculty By JODI KANTORCHICAGO — The young law professor stood apart in too many ways to count. At a school where economic analysis was all the rage, he taught rights, race and gender. Other junior faculty dreamed of tenured positions; he turned them down. While most colleagues published by the pound, he never completed a single work of legal scholarship.
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The law school had almost no black faculty, a special embarrassment given its location on the South Side of Chicago. Its sleek, Eero Saarinen-designed halls bordered a neighborhood crumbling with poverty and neglect. In his 2000 congressional race, Rep. Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther running for re-election, used Mr. Obama’s ties to the school to label him an egghead and an elitist.
At the law school, Mr. Obama taught three courses, ascending from lecturer to senior lecturer . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/polit...amp;oref=slogin
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Why am I not surprised that it's the McCain supporter who can't even SPELL "speech"? Likes attract, I guess.
Why so many bring up insipid posts on typos?
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Very well said !
If you have the IQ of a potato.
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Intelligence is an important attribute in a president. You can't just pass it off as though it's not important - not if you want to think about the matter intelligently.
It's offensive to draw a comparison between Obama and either Hitler or Stalin, let alone both of them. And it's not well-taken. There is not the slightest indication that he would try to exercise dictatorial power or that he would oversee the murder of innocent people or that he would try to stifle dissent. Before you make a comment like that, don't you think you should have some basis for suggesting a comparison - regardless how you intended it.
You could probably call every American politician running on the national level slick and disingenuous. But again, I see nothing in Obama to suggest that he's any worse than any of the others, and plenty of reasons to think he's better. Having the guts not to wear a flag pin on his lapel, for example, demonstrated a real desire to bring politics around to what's real instead of keeping it focused on symbols that can as easily be appropriated by hypocrites, and regularly are. The evolution of politics by television has dumbed down our politics considerably. We're struggling just to have the real issues discussed, much less focused on. From what I've seen, Obama gets that, and that's very important IMO.
You're not looking at my comparison correctly. I guess the point I was trying to make escaped you. So be offended.
Lately, I'm noticing that a lot in the US of A are "offended". We've become such a sensitive people and with so many special needs. It seems half of the population would be very happy if they were placed into the "nanny state nursing home."
The flag issue? Obama folded the minute the Republicans brought it up. Hopefully he'll do better in the world stage with Russia, China, Iran, EU.
What real issues are you struggling with? Please enlighten me.
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Today I read in NJ Monthly that Kearny is near the bottom of the NJ public high school ranking. Kearny is ranked 235 out of 316. The low SAT scores reflect this.
Great job geniuses - focusing on uniforms instead of uplifting the general education of the school.
Well maybe, Kearny will get a high ranking in the school uniform category.
Your school motto could be "We aint got no education, but we got uniforms".
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John McCain said in an interview with Politico on Wednesday "that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own."
"I think -- I'll have my staff get to you," McCain said. "It's condominiums where -- I'll have them get to you."
The answer, according to the group Progressive Accountability, is an even 10 homes, ranches, condos, and lofts, together worth a combined estimated $13,823,269.
Ahh, just another man of the people. Trying to pass himself off as "Everyman" and downplaying the economic mess most Americans are experiencing. And to call Obama "elitist"? Are you kidding me? I know it worked for Karl Rove when he labeled Kerry with that in 2004. Are you telling me that most Americans are STUPID enough to fall for it again? When are people going to educate themselves so they can make an INTELLIGENT decision based on facts and not just let themselves be herded around like sheep without minds of their own? It's pitiful.
I know McCain is not "everyman" and he should stop playing the "elitist" game.
However, are you saying its bad to have a lot of money? If you're rich, you should be prevented from serving in office?
Like the Kennedy's. John Kennedy was rich because his family is. Does that mean we should not have elected our late Pres Kennedy because he may have been out of touch? Not a man of the people?
While we're at it, let us also get rid of Bloomberg and Corzine.
This whole debate on who has the most money or is most out of touch is infantile.
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The difference is that Obama speaks and acts intelligently. When you talk about "how they are," you're talking about polar opposites. An intellectually brilliant man (Obama) as opposed to a bumbling fool who ruined every business his daddy set him up in (Bush) - so we put him in charge of the country. Smooth move, geniuses.
I think Obama is intelligent. Also slick and disingenuous, as documented in one of my previous posts.
To speak well and act intelligent does not guarantee "quality." Hitler and Stalin had both attributes.
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So you had your head up your butt and didn't hear all the times your incompetent little cowboy admitted to alcohol abuse and waffled and hemmed and hawed about what is all but certain drug abuse? Not to mention DWI! The ONLY thing McCain was clearly ahead in was ADULTERY, that great Resmuglican family value.
And you lying POS Obama said he was PRO-CHOICE, please cite EXACTLY when and where he is on record as being in favor of late term abortion.
PatRat-------------SEMPER LIES!
Actually, Obama is pro-choice. But I don't think he's in favor of late term abortions.
As far as drinking and drug use - what goes around, comes around. I've heard many denigrate Bush because of his drinking and supposed drug use. Comments such as Bush is the way he is because his abuse burned out his brain. Then don't be surprised when the same argument is used against Obama.
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John Edwards, who ran for the defeatocratic nomination on a moralistic platform, has been caught with his pants down. The hero of many Loony Lefties has been shown to be a sleezy hypocrit. Of course, he's just following the example of two other sleelzy defeatocrats, Bubba Clinton and Kennedy. Too bad he didn't get the nomination, I would have loved to see the DNC have a collective heart attack when he exposed.
Don't be too happy. Your party has its share ---
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced prison after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr. was found guilty of fondling underage girls.
Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for having sex with a 14-year old boy.
Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and 13.
Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days in jail for molesting two boys -- ages ten and 12 -- during a six-year period.
Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days later.
Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.
Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet.
Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting sex from an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.
Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.
Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to fondling a 14-year-old girl.
Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
Republican Committeeman John R. Curtin was convicted of molesting an underage teenage boy and sentenced to serve six to 18 months in prison.
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.
Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.
Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested again five years later on the same charge.
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer.
Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.
Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.
Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.
Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.
Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.
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So long as you don't have a kid who knows how to fight it.
This is more than one thread and many posts but I have yet to see anyone willing to say they will fight it. Maybe after it starts. Very few are as courageous as Matthew LaClair or have supportive parents.
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Sometimes you should say aloud what you write down. This way you can actually hear what a buttmunch you really are Bern.
Obama behind in polls
in Kearny
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Actually, you show your ignorance of how Stalin and Hitler worked their way into positions of power.
Hitler appealed to the masses and industrialists (the Krups and so forth). Stalin was very personable, working less with the masses. Instead, Stalin (hard working but jolly Joe) worked his way up by gaining the trust of his peers, becoming the first citizen or comrade. But the dynamics of Hitler's and Stalin's rise were very similar. The new replacing the old, promising change, men of the people, causing the masses and their peers to become infatuated with them. There too were warnings, and they were disregarded.
Obama's rise and the infatuation held for Obama is eerily similar to Hitler's and Stalin's rise. This infatuation, this trust and the charisma Obama exudes did not extend to previous presidential candidates.
I'm not saying that Obama will be a Hitler or a Stalin. No one is perfect and one should beware and always be prepared. The danger is that Obama will constantly be given a pass when making poor decisions because he's a charismatic politician of change, who so many are infatuated with.
Its a fact that societies or mankind do not learn from history.