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I can't understand why Baroness Thatcher didn't kill Gaddafi when he was arming the IRA. Thankfully the great President Reagan bombed Tripoli in 1986.

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I'd be willing to bet a considerable amount of money that you're wrong on both counts.

If I didn't realize that the American voter is a stupid, easily swayed creature, I would agree with you. I just can't help but remember "read my lips, no new taxes!!" Bush got the crap beat out of him with that stick, but no one remembered that the Dems (who had control of congress) would not pass a budget with out new taxes.. the Government even shut down for a few weeks... so can Obama win based on, hey I got Bin Laden, sure he can... he'll just point out that everything that is wrong is not his fault, he inherited it... he just needs another term to prove it.. after all he got the troops out of Afghanistan and the civil unrest that occured after that was not his fault either, in fact he kept us out of another countries civil war... yeah he's the greatest!!

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Daffy Duck could beat Obama as long as he attacked Obama's record.

We deal in lead, friend.

Shame Daffy's not standing although a lot of his cousins are in Congress!!

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I can't see Obama failing to be reelected after he got bin Laden. If he gets Gaddafi as well he will be unbeatable.

Apparently, the Gaddafis have tickets for the Olympics in London July 2012 Row F14 - G24 which is more than most people so if we leave it to the French they could whack 90% of the politicians in the world in one go.

Alternatively, he will be at the tennis final at Wimbledon next Saturday Centre Court two or three rows behind Cliff Richard.

You dont actually expect him to be in Tripoli getting bombed in the explosive manner!!

Being in Congress has ruined many a good duck.

We deal in lead, friend.

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Almost invariably, presidents are elected and reelected based on the state of the economy. And we all know what that is right now. So unless economic improvements occur that are completely unforeseen right now, I'm almost positive Bambi will be a one-term president.

Also, if you read as much about politics as I do, you'll find that many of the people who voted for Bambi last time are deserting him. Mostly because of the state of the economy but also because of the growth of government control over almost every aspect of our lives.

The job of President in 2012 will be a thankless task for whoever gets it but unless there is a strong alternative Obama could end of getting elected by default.

Hey erthomp143, what is the origin of that quote about the turd in powdered sugar?

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Hey erthomp143, what is the origin of that quote about the turd in powdered sugar?

You know I don't really remember, I think it was a public official talking about one of the Government health plans... I will do a little searching and see if I can find it....

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The GOP is gonna have to come up with a tried-and-true conservative to have any chance of beating Bambi. Michele is a take-no-prisoners conservative, even more so than Sarah. I'd vote for Bachmann in a New York minute.

I like Michele too, but I may vote for Ron Paul in the primary, just to send a message!

Not sure if I am late with this, or if any one even cares. But here is an interesting article on Michele Bachmann and John Wayne.

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Wrong John Wayne: Mix-up is opening day headache for Bachmann

By Carrie Dann
What’s the difference between the actor who will forever embody the American ideal of craggy cowboy masculinity and the serial killer who forever made clowns way way creepier than they’d ever been before?
One answer turns out to be four letters and about 150 miles – not quite enough to keep Rep. Michele Bachmann from prompting a chorus of internet giggles for apparently mixing them up.
On the day of her presidential announcement, Bachmann, an Iowa native, told FOX News that she and John Wayne share a hometown. “John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa,” she said. “That's the kind of spirit that I have, too."
Bachmann repeated that idea to NBC News in an interview. "I'm not pining for nostalgia back in the 50s and 60s, that isn't it," she told NBC's Kelly O'Donnell. "But that sensibility about how we were grounded here is so important. For instance, another American that was born in Waterloo was John Wayne. We were a very patriotic 'yay rah rah America' city and nation and I think that's what America's looking for again."
The problem: While actor John Wayne – the gravelly-voiced Western film star known for his characteristic walk and his conservative values– was in fact from Iowa (and, Bachmann’s campaign later pointed out, his parents briefly lived in Waterloo), he was born in Winterset, about 150 miles away.
The famous similarly-named guy who did make his home in Waterloo: John Wayne Gacy -- the serial killer known for dressing as “Pogo the Clown” who buried over two dozen of his young male victims in the crawlspace of his Illinois home.
Gacy, who was born in Chicago, lived in Waterloo in the late 1960s before serving time for sodomy at Anamosa State Penitentiary. He would later go on to commit more than 30 murders.
The mix-up – which, considering the Iowa roots of both men, isn’t as baffling as some Bachmann critics may make it out to be-- isn’t independently the kind of gaffe that makes voters suddenly change their minds. But it’s certain to become late-night comedy fodder for a candidate who has already been ridiculed for a more serious historical mangling of details about the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

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And here is another article on the same subject, just because I can. and even another one, just because she seems to be all over my news feed I have set up on my homepage.

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Sure your name isn't Chris Matthews, LB?

Quite positive, although that last name is similar to my first. These articles caught my attention simply because of John Wayne's name being in the headlines.

Hard to believe that, because history in every nation is an important part of what this nation and their citizens are today. I feel it is necessary to know about history to become a responsible citizen!

In highschool in Austria we have learned a lot about Austrian history and the emperors of Austro-Hungaria and how our country became a republic for the first time after WWI and again after the dark times of Nazi-tyranny in WWII. And we have learned about the American War of Independence too! As I graduated from highschool for my last examination in history I had to choose two of three questions. The questions were:

Slavery in the Roman Empire
The Peace Conference of Jalta
The American War of Independence

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the least-qualified presidential candidate in 2008. And all Americans have suffered the consequences ever since.

I fully agree that and would add, that the whole world has suffered from this decision... But that is my personal opinion and it is one of the roots of democracy, that people have the right to think different. Here in Germany many of the young people love Obama.