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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 10/19/2009 11:31:19 PM
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 10/20/2009 11:46:57 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlGNhAnwp_Y
What do you think? Is a comment like what she said about using the media scary to anyone?
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 10/20/2009 12:41:46 PM
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Your first comment about a highly conservative person befriending a person who fought against everything the conservative person had worked for was insinuating that politicians get terribly emotional about the issues debated in Congress. They're POLITICIANS! Most of them fight inside and laugh and joke together when they are outside. They disagree politically but they don't dislike each other most of the time. It is frustrating for me because I am sensitive about the issues. But then I'm not a politician.
As to your second comment, most people know they have a choice, but whether you choose to follow the crowd or do things your way depends on one's strength of character. I think there are many, many people she could have chosen to speak of who didn't have to murder millions of people in order to do things their own way. Just my opinion.
Um, could you present proof that we "learned our lesson" from Mao Tse Tung? I wouldn't call it "counterinsurgency" or "winning the hearts and minds". I don't know a lot about Mao but if he were keen on winning hearts and minds why did he kill millions of people?
I don't understand your last comment. Are you saying that Mother Theresa would have loved Mao in spite of his evil? Or are you saying she was contrasting the two to say that they can both have good ideas regardless of their moral values being totally opposite?
Exactly! I think there's something that we can learn from the politicians (GASP!), particularly those that do this particularly well as does Orrin.
Of course we learned our lesson from Mao. If you want to fight a foreign battle, if you haven't got the support of the local folk, you can win every major battle and still lose the war. That's the point that Dunn was making - you don't have to fight the battle your opponent expects. That's why we've shifted our strategies in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
And yes, while Mao initially followed his advice and gained immense popular support in the early years, he and his people would have fared infinitely better had he remembered those lessons in his later years.
On the last point - yes: "she was contrasting the two to say that they can both have good ideas regardless of their moral values being totally opposite?
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 10/21/2009 11:21:40 AM
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OH WOW! OBA MAO in WASHINGTON
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 10/21/2009 12:37:12 PM
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Seems very American to me - just one more person trying to make a quick buck from a political fad.
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 10/21/2009 7:14:59 PM
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I don't have a problem with the business owner at all cashing in. It's the people who buy the stuff that has me scratching my head. 
If we tried to understand & scratched our head over every particular kind of crazy that we see from day to day, we would all have bald and scratchy heads.
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 10/22/2009 10:00:27 AM
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I wouldn't call it unprecedented. Kennedy gathered a very similar degree of somewhat unwarranted optimism.
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My Favorite" - 10/23/2009 9:17:14 PM
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I wouldn't call it unprecedented. Kennedy gathered a very similar degree of somewhat unwarranted optimism.
I don't remember any communist-style portraits or Kennedy condoms. Nobody would have confused him in any way with Mao or any other communist. This goes well beyond "unwarranted optimism".
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 10/23/2009 10:51:31 PM
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People of reasonable intellect know for a absolute fact that this is nothing more than a Fox hatchet job that will amount to nothing.
This Fox hatchet job has amounted to nothing, as it should.
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 10/24/2009 12:42:26 AM
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As I said on page 1:
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People of reasonable intellect know for a absolute fact that this is nothing more than a Fox hatchet job that will amount to nothing.
This Fox hatchet job has amounted to nothing, as it should.
I guess we'll see in 2010 and 2012, won't we?
The Democrat brand is nearly to the point of being damaged beyond repair. Fund raising and other leading indicators seem to be predicting that the Dems are going to be soundly thumped in 2010.
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 10/24/2009 1:50:14 PM
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As I said on page 1:
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People of reasonable intellect know for a absolute fact that this is nothing more than a Fox hatchet job that will amount to nothing.
This Fox hatchet job has amounted to nothing, as it should.
Again, nothing to say on the substance of the story, so you attack the source. People of reasonable intelligence should be above that kind of thing.
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My Favorite" - 10/25/2009 10:17:30 PM
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I wouldn't call it unprecedented. Kennedy gathered a very similar degree of somewhat unwarranted optimism.
I don't remember any communist-style portraits or Kennedy condoms. Nobody would have confused him in any way with Mao or any other communist. This goes well beyond "unwarranted optimism".
No with Kennedy the comparisons were King Arthur and Camelot.
That and imitating the first couples clothing choices.
The dysfunction is the same, only the outward style is different.
You don't remember the weeping and gnashing of teeth when he was killed?
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My Favorite" - 10/26/2009 8:29:24 AM
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I wouldn't call it unprecedented. Kennedy gathered a very similar degree of somewhat unwarranted optimism.
I don't remember any communist-style portraits or Kennedy condoms. Nobody would have confused him in any way with Mao or any other communist. This goes well beyond "unwarranted optimism".
No with Kennedy the comparisons were King Arthur and Camelot.
That and imitating the first couples clothing choices.
The dysfunction is the same, only the outward style is different.
You don't remember the weeping and gnashing of teeth when he was killed?
No, I was 3 yrs. old. But I'm aware of what the reaction was. There was a fascination with his family, but I don't think it rose to cult-like status. Then again, society was very different back then. The level of Camelot-mania very well could have been as dysfunctional relative to the culture. I don't think it's as dangerous because he wasn't as activist a political leader.
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My Favorite" - 10/26/2009 11:48:21 PM
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Actually I think both had very ambitious and activist agendas. Not least on Kennedy's part was a remake of society based on civil rights - started by Eisenhower but pushed through in part by Kennedy and signed by Johnson, who got blamed for it, resulting in the loss of the south for democrats.
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 10/27/2009 7:44:58 AM
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As I said on page 1:
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People of reasonable intellect know for a absolute fact that this is nothing more than a Fox hatchet job that will amount to nothing.
This Fox hatchet job has amounted to nothing, as it should.
I guess we'll see in 2010 and 2012, won't we?
The Democrat brand is nearly to the point of being damaged beyond repair. Fund raising and other leading indicators seem to be predicting that the Dems are going to be soundly thumped in 2010.
Last polls I looked at had the Democrats in Congress with an approval rating of around 37% and Republicans around 27%. Here is a list of several polls and how they fair. Right now, the Dems are ahead in all of them including the outdated April Fox News poll:
Democrats
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While it is early remember that the GOP was unable to unseat the Dems over 40 years of mediocre leadership until the GOP leadership got together and came up with a plan. 2010 is still a year off but as it is now I don't see where the GOP has anything to offer except "we're not Dems". We'll see if it is enough.
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 11/4/2009 2:27:34 PM
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As far as this woman's pathetic dissertation is concerned, I wish I had my next generation GLM™{Gag Limit Meter} ready for the commencement. Many of the high school students would have felt awkward by getting up and walking out on this sickening event. They were concerned about what their friends might think. I wonder how their collective stomachs must have turned while watching and listening to this woman's spiel. They were afraid of embarrassing their parents who might not have walked out with them in a gesture of good riddance. Perhaps some of the students couldn't get a ride home. It was an awkward moment and there was no organized way to handle it. This was a disgusting liberal sucker punch. If only they could have been warned. It would have been a thing of beauty to watch those students walk out of there while Dunn was running her mouth. The students could have walked out in single file without any fear of repercussions. This was the most cowardly and sickening organized speaking engagement anyone has ever seen in this country..
Maybe the next time we at Rő©k Enterprises Ltd. will have the hand held GLM™ device ready. It has a flashing amber LED and red/orange limit LED that flashes "That's Enough!" It has the same accuracy as our original Progressive Liberal Magottometer™. I sincerely wish those students would have had one. Instead, they ended up going home and having to take a bath to wash off the smell of the worst commencement exercise in history.
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RE: B.O. Comm Dir. "Mao is My inspiration" - 11/10/2009 12:13:35 PM
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Did you even note in the article -
"The passing of the baton from Dunn to Pfeiffer had long been expected within White House circles as she had made clear when she took the job that the "interim" in her title was meant to be taken literally."
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