First Thoughts: High stakes

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Rockford, Mich., Monday, Feb. 27, 2012.

High stakes in tomorrow’s Michigan GOP primary… A rough last 72 hours for both Santorum and Romney: Santorum the culture warrior, and Romney steps in it -- again… Even Romney’s supporters are now making excuses for him… Brewer endorses Romney, while Santorum gets Secret Service protection… A tale of two VERY different national polls… And polling two Super Tuesday states.

*** High stakes: This is shaping up to be a significant week in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. If Mitt Romney wins tomorrow’s Michigan primary (even by a point), he will remain on track to becoming his party’s nominee. It still won’t be easy, he still will have a challenge in next week’s Super Tuesday contests, and he still continues to create problems for himself (see below). But a win in Michigan means he’ll probably be President Obama’s general-election opponent in November. (How formidable he’ll be against Obama is an entirely different question.) Yet a loss in Michigan would be DEVASTATING to his candidacy, given all of his advantages in the state and given all the mistakes Rick Santorum has made in the last several days. More importantly, a loss in Michigan would send the GOP establishment into a panic, would lay the groundwork for another candidacy, and would introduce chaos in the Republican race beyond anything we’ve seen yet. Bottom line: A lot is riding on tomorrow’s outcome in Michigan. And for what it’s worth, it does appear Romney is on the right track.

*** Santorum the culture warrior: As it turns out, both Romney and Santorum have had a rough last 72 hours heading into tomorrow’s primaries in Michigan and Arizona. We’ll start first with Santorum, who just can’t seem to stay on message and keeps finding himself entering the culture wars. The Washington Post: “In back-to-back speeches over the weekend, the candidate described President Obama as ‘a snob’ for focusing on the importance of a college education and disparaged the idea of a separation between church and state by attacking President John F. Kennedy, who made it a key point in his 1960 campaign.” We know these things won’t help him in a general-election contest. The only question is whether they hurt him with the GOP base he’s trying to court. These issues are catnip for the press corps, and Santorum loves to litigate them; in fact, while he claims to be the one wanting to focus on economic issues, nothing animates him more as a candidate than debating the culture wars. That passion comes through and may actually help him with SOME segments of the GOP electorate but it clearly turns off others.

Top Talkers: The Arizona and Michigan primaries are this Tuesday, and Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are making their final pushes in the states. But will Romney's comment about knowing NASCAR team owners hurt him? Or what about Rick Santorum's suggestion that President Obama is a "snob" for wanting Americans to attend college?

*** Romney steps in it – again: As for Romney, his campaign was ridiculed for giving a speech to 1,200 folks in a 65,000-seat football stadium on Friday. Then, in that speech, the candidate admitted -- unprompted -- that his wife owns two Cadillacs in addition to the cars he owns. And then yesterday, he was asked at the Daytona 500 if he follows the sport. His answer, per the AP: "Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans. But I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners." Ouch. (In fairness, the NASCAR flub is not nearly as bad as the Cadillac one, but it does feed a bad narrative for him.) On FOX yesterday, Romney responded to criticism that comments like his “Cadillacs” one makes him seem out of touch. “If people think there’s something wrong with being successful in America, then they better vote for the other guy,” he said. “Because I’ve been extraordinarily successful, and I want to use that success and that know-how to help the American people.” But the problems his gaffes present go beyond his wealth. They 1) make it seem like he can’t relate to average Americans, and 2) underscore that his economic policies benefit the wealthy more than the middle class. In 1992 during a down economy, Bill Clinton was able to beat George H.W. Bush in large part because he convinced voters he could feel their pain. But could the same be said of Romney?

*** With friends like these… : Already, people are beginning to make excuses for Romney. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) says that Romney has a “CEO” problem. "I think some people look at him as a CEO," McDonnell told reporters during the National Governors Association meeting in DC, per the L.A. Times. "People right now want to have somebody that truly just feels their pain and empathizes with what they're going through in this horrible, horrible economy." And on “Meet the Press” yesterday, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker put it another way: He’s a good doctor but with poor bedside manners. These two are either folks who have endorsed Romney or who are sympathetic to his candidacy, and this is the best they can come up with? We’ll make a final point about Romney: Every presidential candidate does what it takes to win, but the successful ones don’t LOOK like they’re doing it. But for Romney, there has been no subtlety to his ambition; he wants this in the worst way and he’s going about winning it in, well, “the worst way” he could be winning it (if he indeed ends up winning it).

*** Brewer endorses Romney, Santorum gets Secret Service protection: Over the weekend however, Romney did get this good news: He picked up an endorsement from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) during her appearance on “Meet the Press” yesterday. “I have decided that I am going to publicly endorse Mitt Romney. I think he's the man that can carry the day,” Brewer said, per MSNBC.com’s Mike O’Brien. “I think Mitt is by far the person who can go in and win.” Meanwhile, NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reported yesterday Santorum will get Secret Service protection starting today. 

*** A tale of two polls: There are two polls out today that tell VERY DIFFERENT stories. A Politico/GW/Battleground poll has Obama’s approval rating at 53%, and it shows him topping both Romney (53%-43%) and Santorum (53%-42%). But a new USA Today/Gallup survey has Obama and Romney tied at 47% each, and with Romney edging Obama in the swing states, 48%-46%. We’ll say this: Either Gallup is seeing something that no one else is seeing right now (NBC/WSJ, WaPo/ABC, NYT/CBS), or its methodology is understating Obama’s support and inflating the GOP’s. This isn’t the first time this cycle where Gallup has looked different from the other major national polls.

*** Polling the Super Tuesday states: Meanwhile, looking ahead to Super Tuesday, a new Vanderbilt/Princeton Survey poll shows Santorum leading Romney among registered GOP voters in Tennessee 33%-17%, with Paul at 13% and Gingrich just at 10%. That’s something to watch for next week: How does Santorum fare in the southern states (TN, OK, GA), and how does Gingrich fare? And in another Super Tuesday state -- Ohio -- a new Quinnipiac poll shows Santorum leading Romney among likely GOP voters, 36%-29%. Of course, all of these numbers could change depending on how the results of Michigan play tomorrow.

*** On the trail: Almost all of the action is Michigan: Romney holds rallies in Rockford, Albion, and (with special musical guest -- Kid Rock perhaps?) Royal Oak… Santorum hits Livonia, Lansing, and Kalamazoo… And Paul’s in Detroit, East Lansing, and Dearborn… And Gingrich campaigns in Tennessee, where he visits Nashville. 

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the war of cultures is not the President Obama he is focusing on the importance of a college education and the idea of ​​a separation between church and state and health care and taxes, finish of wars, with explicit facing of unemployment, his target is social justice , peace and freedom of capital and humans

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Reply#178 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:32 PM EST

Liberal utopianism is a fantasy of arrogant philosophers and philosopher kings who believe their vision is superior to those of other lowly mortals. Levin calls them the "masterminds" — the latest and most prominent being President Barack Obama and his cadre of utopian elitists.

They believe they are proponents of enlightenment thinking and rationalism who could construct the ideal society if deniers and other obstructionists would just get out of their way.

In reality, however, they couldn't be more irrational, as they reject human nature, history, and all empirical evidence that contradicts their vision. Indeed, writes Levin, "utopianism is regressive, irrational, and pre-Enlightenment."

History and the whole of human experience be damned; utopians can achieve the ideal society even if all similar utopians who preceded them failed. As Levin says, they always believe that "what went before them" was "piecemeal and therefore inadequate. The steps necessary to achieve true utopianism have yet to be tried."

As modern examples, consider the American left's refusal to accept that the welfare state has failed despite $5 trillion being thrown at it, that federal money and control are not a panacea for education (there will never be enough to satisfy leftists) and that our healthcare system has been severely damaged by federal intermeddlers and enemies of the market. The left doesn't even believe that the colossally wasteful trillion-dollar stimulus package was big enough.

As Plato argued in his "Republic," utopians believe the individual must subordinate his will to the state. They must destroy individuality and individual liberty because those stand in opposition to the conformity their utopian vision demands.

Standing in stark contrast are America's constitutional framers, who rejected the folly that certain superior representatives of the species could change the entire species' intrinsic nature. They believed in man's natural rights and cherished the individual liberty flowing from those rights.

As students of history, philosophy and human nature, they refused to follow the path of utopians who rejected the realities not only of human nature but also of the evidence of its outworkings in history, especially in man's endless experiments in statecraft.

With wide-eyed recognition of human nature, they crafted the American Constitution to maximize individual liberties, despite the natural tendency of man toward absolutism.

As the Constitution established that essential balance between governmental power and individual liberties by sufficiently empowering but also limiting governmental power, it is essential that its structure be maintained if our freedom is to be preserved.

Utopian leftists view the Constitution not as a structural safeguard for our liberties, but as an obstacle to their utopian goal of concentrating power in the central government to empower them to implement their grand vision. They only champion the Constitution as a matter of political expedience, when it serves their larger ends.

http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2012/01/17/mark_levins_ameritopia

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Reply#179 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:35 PM EST

What a load of bullsh!t.

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#179.1 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:49 PM EST
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Obama never misses an opportunity to demonstrate that his marxist handlers did a good job of teaching him marxist double-speak

"Under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years." The claim is true, but as always, a very crafty lie of omission. America is producing more oil than eight years ago, but not because of anything the president has done. In fact, production is up only because Americans are resourceful and have battled past the obstructions Mr. Obama has erected.

"Since taking office, he has declared 85 percent of our offshore areas off-limits, decreased oil and gas leases in the Rockies by 70 percent, rejected the Keystone XL pipeline and has 10 federal agencies planning more regulation of hydraulic fracturing, which is key to oil and natural-gas development," says Jack Gerard, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute.

The administration's own Energy Information Agency "estimates that oil production in the Gulf was down 22 percent in 2011 and projected to be down 30 percent in 2012" after Mr. Obama's Gulf moratorium policies were put in place, the API said.

So, how on Earth is America producing more oil? Because of action taken by President Bush, and even his predecessors. "That production is a direct result of leases issued before this administration and as result of development on private and state lands," Mr. Gerard said, according to Fox News. "On private lands, oil production is booming," wrote Fox reporter Jim Angle. "In North Dakota, the oil and gas are on private or state land and beyond the president's control. The state has gone from producing a small amount of oil to some 450,000 barrels a day. Unemployment is 3.3 percent, the lowest in the country. And the state has a budget surplus in the billions."

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Reply#180 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:38 PM EST

More bullsh!t.

    #180.1 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:50 PM EST
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    yes Therman, like your other leftist friends, facts are for you like Kryptonite to Superman.

      Reply#181 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:53 PM EST

      You wouldn't know a fact if it bit you in the ass.

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      #181.1 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:54 PM EST
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      more facts on what Obama's marxist totalitarian brings Americans to further enslave us.

      Obamacare alone contains more than 700 directives for Health and Human Services and other agencies to implement. This health care monstrosity, which nearly no one bothered to read before voting into existence, is the epitome of how the Administrative State swells beyond even the extent imagined by its advocates. The Americans for Limited Government Research Foundation counted the Obamacare regulations published up to May 2011:

      "We found that the number of pages in regulations are already 114 percent as long as the number of pages in the Obamacare statutes!" the group reported. The law itself contained 961 pages. But regulations written to implement the law, as of last May, totaled another 1,093 pages. Mind you, those regulations are published in small fonts, three columns to a page. The law totaled 425,116 words. The regulations amounted to 1,147,271 words. By comparison, there are only about 774,000 words in the entire Bible. And Obamacare is but one of the federal government's laws.

      "Congress routinely writes vague laws, delegating its authority to bureaucrats who make detailed regulations covering every aspect of our lives: from the light bulbs we use to the health care coverage we purchase," noted Julia Shaw at the Heritage Foundation. "In passing Obamacare, Congress transferred important aspects of its legislative authority to various administrative agencies. Obamacare created a multitude of new federal agencies and empowered unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats to write detailed rules controlling one-sixth of the economy. This terribly unpopular law led millions of citizens to ask of themselves and their neighbors: Are we citizens in a constitutional republic or subjects of the administrative state?"

        Reply#182 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:55 PM EST

        more Obama planned destruction of the US that liberals can be blamed for

        The EPA's high green priestess, Lisa Jackson, has proclaimed that the nation has a "moral obligation" to regulate, as justification for her agency launching a regulatory crackdown on power plants and refineries that will result in thousands of lost jobs and many closed facilities. Does anyone remember voting for any of that? Were those people consulted? Did anyone ask you whether you wanted to throw thousands of people out of work and eliminate the source of plentiful, affordable energy?

        EPA rules scheduled to become effective over the next three years could cost more than $1 trillion by some estimates, destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process.

          Reply#183 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:57 PM EST

          Political commentator, radio host, college drop-out, alleged
          closet homosexual, and, as recently revealed, synthetic heroin
          drug addict, Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is probably the best
          known neocon personality in American radio.

          Born in Cape Girardeau, MO, in 1951, Limbaugh spent many of
          his formative years pursuing a career in radio.

          After using his pilonidal cyst - a congenital birth defect - to
          avoid military service in the Vietnam War, Limbaugh briefly
          worked for radio stations in Pittsburgh, PA and Kansas City,
          MO. Fired from both jobs, he worked as a wiener salesman for
          the KC Royals baseball franchise, eventually slithering back into
          the radio business.

          In 1971 Limbaugh attended Southeastern Missouri University,
          where, according to reports, he had a brief but heated affair
          with Elliot Sanders. So gay is Limbaugh, guarantees Sanders,
          that, "none of his marriages was ever consummated."

          Many of Limbaugh's fans staunchly deny the man's alleged
          homosexuality, and Limbaugh himself says the rumors are
          politically motivated lies. However, one is forced to doubt
          Limbaugh, who has a history of denying and balking at rumors
          that are later revealed to be true. His pilonidal cyst, his
          pseudonymous career in Pittsburgh radio, and his addiction to
          Oxycontin are all facts which Limbaugh initially denied or
          concealed.

          After more failed stints with Missouri radio stations Limbaugh
          moved to Sacramento, CA, where he met and became "friends"
          with Norm Woodruff, a flamboyant, openly gay man with a
          great deal of influence in the local radio scene. Woodruff, who
          mentored Limbaugh in the ways of affluence and elitism (traits
          Rush mocks today), would later died of AIDS.

          Through his ties to Woodruff Limbaugh was given Morton
          Downey, Jr.'s spot on KFBK News Talk 1530 a.m. Within
          twelve months Limbaugh had become the most popular radio
          personality in Sacramento. In 1988 he signed on with EFM
          Media Management, working from New York City.

          For a short while Limbaugh plateaued, until the success and
          enormous popularity of a Democratic president provided him
          with a reason to whine.

          The popularity and charisma of President Clinton enabled
          Limbaugh's hate-filled show to appeal to millions of bitter
          American conservatives. Limbaugh's unique combination of
          prevarication and histrionics provided a sense of unity for
          otherwise incompatible demographics, such as Klansmen and
          Wall Street stock brokers.

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          Reply#184 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:57 PM EST

          More Obama totalitarianism that liberals embrace

          The total number of taxpayer-financed employees at agencies that enforce compliance with federal regulations reached 281,000 last fall, a 13-percent increase since Obama took office. The combined budgets of those regulatory offices soared to $54 billion, a 16-percent increase.

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          Reply#185 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:59 PM EST

          Larry,

          Enough of your blathering on about Marxism. Your probelem, and all GOP'ers problem right now, is you all know you haven't got an ice cube's chance in hell of nominating anyone who can defeat our current president. All you've got is way-to-liberal, flip-flopping, RomneyCare Mittens and St. Rick Santorum, who likes sleeping with and passing around his dead child with his family.

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          #185.1 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:20 PM EST

          Checkered Demon

          I'm not a Republican- I have only voted 3x for a Republican in the last 40 years (Reagan 2x and Bush in 2000) I am a libertarian and in general I find Republicans to merely be a socialist light version of the Democrats

            #185.2 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:50 PM EST

            Larry,

            My apologies. You're likely a Ron Paul fan, then. Good luck with that.

              #185.3 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:12 PM EST

              checkered,

              I don't support Ron Paul either. Paul comes from an anarchist branch of libertarianism.

                #185.4 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:17 PM EST
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                Mitt the pit. I wonder what mitt will do when the euro crashes. The euro is on it's last legs. Italy will default next then Spain noone can support a failing euro.

                  Reply#186 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:05 PM EST

                  Banks will line up to buy toxic Greek bonds because they are backed by fools. Fools that support a euro support the amero and Obamacare...

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                  Reply#187 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:23 PM EST

                  Mr. Romney will not be elected President. He's talked himself out of the job. The anybody but Romney faction has their best chance of shutting down the Romney campaign by voting against him in Michigan's primary.

                    Reply#188 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:25 PM EST

                    have a great evening ladies and gentlemen from the right and the left!!! One final statement about the GOP and their candidates, as a pragmatic democrat I think you should nominate Ron Paul but that's just my view. All I've said over and over listen to these people talk and you'll hear Romney say things like my wife Ann has TWo CADILLACS so I'm a supporter of American made, We have a a safety net for thee poor so I'm not concerned about the poor I'm worried about the middle class, and my favorite statement written in his own words "LET DETROIT GO BANKRUPT" are three reasons not to vote for him, Santorum has now become a religous zealot who doesn't know how to shut up when he has things going his way, is willing to keep the minimum wage at 7.25 an hour (at least in Wisconsin thats ours) even though price of goods and services are tough right now, and finally has now become a woman's worst nightmare by telling them contraception and birth-control are not what God wants them to do so why are you disobeying the Lord. Newt well let's not talk about him until after Super Tuesday to see if he's still viable. But Ron Paul brings us to the one thing Americans around the country can have a true candidate againist government versus a President who believes in the government providing services to help the people like Obama does. that's all i want to see debated this year but it won't happen because the Republicans in Congress are actually lying about reducing the role of government instead they want to increase it in other areas and cut it in others. So that's why the President is going to win easily.

                      Reply#189 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:49 PM EST

                      Do we need a president that believes this;

                      They also believe that Jesus took three wives while
                      on Earth: Mary, Martha, and Mary Magdalene. They also believe that Jesus
                      fathered many Children during his time on Earth, and that Joseph Smith their
                      founder was a direct descendant of Jesus. They believe that after a life of
                      Mormonism and a Mormon marriage has taken place, that when they die they will
                      become gods too. They also believe that they will have their own planet, and
                      many goddess wives, and their job for eternity will be to populate the
                      planets. I know how far fetched this all sounds, but these people actually
                      believe this mess.

                        Reply#190 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:26 PM EST

                        Have you read the Bible, especially the old testament? Lots of stories in there that make you say huh.......

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                        #190.1 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:59 PM EST
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                        when the hell will obama stop raising gas prices!

                          Reply#191 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:53 PM EST

                          teaxmann

                          Not sure if you are making fun of the complete and total ignorance of the right wing radicals.....

                          But you should be.....EVERY educated person in the universe knows that domestic oil production is at a 10 year high....

                          And The US is a NET exporter of oil while domestic consumption is at a 15 year low.......

                          So I'll assume you aren't a complete ignorant a=hole without a brain and say......

                          Nice job making fun of the ignorant right wing clueless that hate our country.

                          Good job...we don't need those people hating on America anymore.

                            #191.1 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:12 PM EST

                            Obama has nothing to do with the gas prices. It is the greed of those who bet the gas price will rise.

                            This is how capitalism works, folks.

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                            #191.2 - Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:27 AM EST
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                            Leave it to MSNBC to ignore Democrats and the sheep making a mockery out of the system.

                            Democratic mischief in Michigan

                            "Michigan Democratic strategist Joe DiSano has taken it upon himself to become a leading mischief maker.

                            DiSano says he targeted nearly 50,000 Democratic voters in Michigan through email and a robo call to their homes, asking them to go to the polls Tuesday to vote for Rick Santorum in attempt to hurt Romney.

                            "Democrats can get in there and cause havoc for Romney all the way to the Republican convention," DiSano told CNN.

                            "If we can help set that fire in Michigan, we have a responsibility to do so," he said."

                            http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/27/democratic-mischief-in-michigan/?hpt=hp_bn3

                            Really? You have a "responsibility" to vote for someone you don't want to vote for just because you don't like that other Americans are exercising their right to vote? Get a life.

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                            Reply#192 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:01 PM EST

                            "I can't beat Mitt Romney" Barack Obama "Please H-E-L-P, all you blind sheep".

                            “A vote for Rick Santorum is a vote for me” Barack Obama “Democrats, cross the line and vote for me, I know you don’t like me, but it helps Obama if I beat Romney” Rick Santorum. ANYTHING SEEM STRANGE HERE? Sanitorium Pregnancy? Michigan vote ROMNEY.

                            Romney Beats Obama, no one else comes close. Don’t be played for a sap.

                              Reply#193 - Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:56 PM EST

                              Can we trust a man, Mitt Romney, who put his dog in a box, put the box on his car, and drove to Canada?

                              What a foolish idea.

                              Obama/Biden 2012

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                              Reply#194 - Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:18 AM EST

                              OK Michigan Democrats get out there and vote early and often for Sanitarium. Oh... wait a minute... Sanitarium has 3 college degrees. So that means he has been indoctrinated to lose his faith. That must mean that he's lying. I guess it doesn't matter. Even the GOP is embarrassed with this crowd! GOP = The American Taliban. Just what this world needs. Another country led by a religious zealot!

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                              Reply#195 - Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:34 AM EST

                              [Hi, First Read. Check this out - ran into it on the surprising internet!]

                              EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OBAMA

                              The Old Testament has time-proven insights into professional vacationers like the Obamas:
                              Proverbs 19:10 (NIV): "It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury - how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!"
                              Also Proverbs 30:22 (NIV) which says that the earth cannot bear up under "a servant who becomes king."
                              And Ecclesiastes 5:2-3 (KJV) advises: "let thy words be few...a fool's voice is known by multitude of words."
                              Although Obama is not descended from slaves, he may feel that he's destined to become a black-slavery avenger.
                              Or maybe an enslaver of all free citizens!
                              For some stunning info on Pres. Obama and his fellow traitors, Google "Imam Bloomberg's Sharia Mosque," "Michelle Obama's Allah-day," "Obama Supports Public Depravity," "David Letterman's Hate Etc.," "Un-Americans Fight Franklin Graham" and also "Sandra Bernhard, Larry David, Kathy Griffin, Bill Maher, Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman." Also Google "Islam will purify Jews and Christians" and "Prof. F. N. Lee's ISLAM IN THE BIBLE [PDF]."
                              Since Christians are commanded to ask God to send severe judgment on persons who commit and support the worst forms of evil (see I Cor. 5 and note "taken away"), Christians everywhere should constantly pray that the Lord will soon "take away" or at least overthrow all US leaders (including subversive, America-hating, Jesus-bashing Hollywood shmucks) who continue to sear their conscience, who dangle every unspeakably filthy vice before young people, and who arrogantly trample the God-given rights of the majority including the rights of the unborn. Do we need a second American Revolution?
                              After the Obamas are kicked out of the White House, there will be no place on earth where they can escape from scowling folks who wish to belatedly express their gratitude, in tangible ways, to the Obamas who tried to destroy the greatest nation ever.
                              For the record I predict that one of these days Obama will try something so unthinkably insane that he will be physically restrained and locked up - and remember where you heard this first!

                                Reply#196 - Fri Mar 2, 2012 1:02 AM EST
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