huffingtonpost.com — Okay, let's get you up to speed on the incredibly true story about how a bunch of right-wingers got taken in by some satiric blog post on Barack Obama's college thesis, written ages ago, and frantically presented it as real. Months ago, some blogger crafted a fake news story about how Time Magazine's Joe Klein had obtained ten pages of
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Closed AccountOct 25, 2009
i can't decide whether the mad doctor is channeling jason bourne or the guys i smoke cigrs with."And yes, I do know who you are! Helps having an FBI agent as a neighbor!" and people wonder why sane folks don't trust the administration ? apparently even the lib diggers have people in the government willing to violate citizens rights.it's all out in the open now anyway so what's the beef over petty details. the libs wet dream made it into the white house and he's doing exactly what every sixties retread fantasized about back in the days, "changing" ameriKa. come 2010, 2012, the people will get another chance to speak.
knowmad1982Oct 26, 2009
Fact check: FAIL
Closed AccountOct 26, 2009
Boy it seems like everybody I come across just can't stop talking about this HOT "thesis" story!
Closed AccountOct 26, 2009
FORCE HIM TO RESIGN THEN YOU ****.
jsutherOct 26, 2009
Actually you'd be wrong about those border guards. US citizen are still required pay taxes if living abroad. If one was to renounce their citizenship to avoid that, they would also have to pay an expatriation tax. So no, you are not free to leave the country if you wanted to.While Somalia is largely lawless, it is not a libertarian paradise currently. Maybe in 10-20 year when they get some stability. They got there through violence which has never been a good recipe no matter what system of government a country has changed to.
fofe510Oct 26, 2009
So if I think that the Constitution isn't perfect, you think I'm a Stalinist/Fidelisto/Maoist?That's a pretty irrational conclusion.
tenorphunkNov 7, 2009
No, I don't think there is anything wrong with being a socialist. In Europe, the word 'socialist' doesn't have the negative connotation that it does here in America. In fact, the Party of European Socialists is one of the largest of the political parties recognized by the European Union. In America, it seems that the word 'socialism' is equated to being the same as nazism and fascism which is not necessarily true. I would say that that answers your 2nd and 3rd questions; the Obama administration, the Democratic Party, and especially the Republican Party recognize that if you say the word 'socialism,' the general public tends to freak out. I'd say that's why Obama doesn't declare his policies to be 'socialist policies.' It's all part of the marketing that is politics. The word 'socialism' has such a negative connotation here that I think the Democratic Party would take a tremendous blow in the view of the public if they openly admitted that much of their political ideology is socialist ideology.