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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>bravo !Upchuckabee is a disgusting bigot, with half an IQ, who should back to torturing dogs with his son, Jabba the Hut.</description>
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		<title>By: Declan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Declan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bravo.</description>
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		<title>By: Declan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Declan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bravo.</description>
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		<title>By: scottyp</title>
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		<dc:creator>scottyp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I give thanks for the strength of my ancestors, for their love of country, for their love of God as their fathers, and their fathers father taught them, I give thanks of the legacy they left, of standing up for what one believes in, by NOT bowing to wrong doers, or those who mis use God..&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What part of this don&#039;t you understand?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I take it Romney has a savior complex. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My ancestors left the legacy of NOT bowing to wrong doers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I take it Romney has a Savior Complex.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I give thanks for the strength of my ancestors, for their love of country, for their love of God as their fathers, and their fathers father taught them, I give thanks of the legacy they left, of standing up for what one believes in, by NOT bowing to wrong doers, or those who mis use God..</p>
<p>What part of this don&#39;t you understand?</p>
<p>I take it Romney has a savior complex. </p>
<p>My ancestors left the legacy of NOT bowing to wrong doers.</p>
<p>I take it Romney has a Savior Complex.</p>
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		<title>By: Declan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Declan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, scotty.  If you get your way, enjoy Obama&#039;s second term.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, scotty.  If you get your way, enjoy Obama&#39;s second term.</p>
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		<title>By: scottyp</title>
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		<dc:creator>scottyp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Didn&#039;t you ever LISTEN when you were at church?...... didn&#039;t you ever THINK? and ANALYZE? Nope, you just cackled away like so many of them do &quot;I am great!&quot;. uhmmmmm....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Didn&#39;t you ever LISTEN when you were at church?&#8230;&#8230; didn&#39;t you ever THINK? and ANALYZE? Nope, you just cackled away like so many of them do &#8220;I am great!&#8221;. uhmmmmm&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: scottyp</title>
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		<dc:creator>scottyp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Bigotry, in any form, is always a loser. Do try to have a happy Thanksgiving and pray for an open mind, especially about those who are your allies in political philosophy.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Romney is not my ally, I pray this Thanksgiving our nation will be saved from a Romney presidency.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Romney and I are very different kinds of people. Never could do to people what the Romney s are capable of.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I give thanks for the strength of my ancestors, for their love of country, for their love of God as their fathers, and their fathers father taught them, I give thanks of the legacy they left, of standing up for what one believes in, my bowing to wrong doers, or those who mis use God..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Bigotry, in any form, is always a loser. Do try to have a happy Thanksgiving and pray for an open mind, especially about those who are your allies in political philosophy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Romney is not my ally, I pray this Thanksgiving our nation will be saved from a Romney presidency.</p>
<p>Romney and I are very different kinds of people. Never could do to people what the Romney s are capable of.</p>
<p>I give thanks for the strength of my ancestors, for their love of country, for their love of God as their fathers, and their fathers father taught them, I give thanks of the legacy they left, of standing up for what one believes in, my bowing to wrong doers, or those who mis use God..</p>
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		<title>By: scottyp</title>
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		<dc:creator>scottyp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>“Like every other Republican who has ran since 1988, always states they are Republican in the tradition of Reagan”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If this is the case, then Romney is most unoriginal, and other reason other candidates should be considered.  I don’t think I have heard other candidates say they were like Reagan any or as much a Romney.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;“Finally, I&#039;m thankful you uttered your final paragraph above because it exposes you as someone of a particular religious bias”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How silly your statement is above, there is a difference between bias and knowledge. Didn&#039;t you every LISTEN when you were at church?...... didn&#039;t you ever THINK? and ANALYZE?  Nope, you just cackled away like so many of them do. &quot;We&#039;re great!  &quot;God wants US to be the world leaders!&quot;. &quot;My gggrandfather had fifteen wives, and people who come from pioneer stock who were polygamist, are the most blessed of all, we were the most valiant spirits in the spirit world&quot;, &quot;We&#039;re the best, God does&#039; nt like you because your gggrandfather didn&#039;t have five or more wives.&quot;, &quot;I am more blessed than you, my patriarchal  blessing is better than yours, mine says I am going be called to work in the stakes of Zion, yours doesn&#039;t. &quot;  &quot;Oh, they don&#039;t belong to the church, ugh, don&#039;t go around them.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;“Reagan was populist insofar as using political stunts like inviting some victim of sorts to a state of the union to single out and tell a story about.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A victim telling their story to a state of the union, what a great idea!!!!!!! I know a few, where can I put their name in at?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Like every other Republican who has ran since 1988, always states they are Republican in the tradition of Reagan”</p>
<p>If this is the case, then Romney is most unoriginal, and other reason other candidates should be considered.  I don’t think I have heard other candidates say they were like Reagan any or as much a Romney.</p>
<p>“Finally, I&#39;m thankful you uttered your final paragraph above because it exposes you as someone of a particular religious bias”</p>
<p>How silly your statement is above, there is a difference between bias and knowledge. Didn&#39;t you every LISTEN when you were at church?&#8230;&#8230; didn&#39;t you ever THINK? and ANALYZE?  Nope, you just cackled away like so many of them do. &#8220;We&#39;re great!  &#8220;God wants US to be the world leaders!&#8221;. &#8220;My gggrandfather had fifteen wives, and people who come from pioneer stock who were polygamist, are the most blessed of all, we were the most valiant spirits in the spirit world&#8221;, &#8220;We&#39;re the best, God does&#39; nt like you because your gggrandfather didn&#39;t have five or more wives.&#8221;, &#8220;I am more blessed than you, my patriarchal  blessing is better than yours, mine says I am going be called to work in the stakes of Zion, yours doesn&#39;t. &#8221;  &#8220;Oh, they don&#39;t belong to the church, ugh, don&#39;t go around them.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Reagan was populist insofar as using political stunts like inviting some victim of sorts to a state of the union to single out and tell a story about.”</p>
<p>A victim telling their story to a state of the union, what a great idea!!!!!!! I know a few, where can I put their name in at?</p>
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		<title>By: Declan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Declan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Romney, scott, like every other Republican who has ran since 1988, always states they are Republican in the tradition of Reagan:  strong national defense, economic liberty, and traditional values.  Huck, Rudy, Romney, Fred...and dear Sarah...they all say it because, well, that&#039;s the party platform.  All Reagan was doing was popularizing what Barry Goldwater established before him.  Period.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Reagan was populist insofar as using political stunts like inviting some victim of sorts to a state of the union to single out and tell a story about.  It worked so well, every President since does the same staged trick.  Sincere or showmanship?  Reagan also outspent even George W Bush in percentage of GDP.  Small government?  And Reagan did raise some taxes, indeed.  Plus, Reagan was a pro-life convert and when it was politically beneficial to make the switch.  Does this fit your doctrinalism?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don&#039;t consider Reagan a god, nor do I consider him some phony conservative or Republican.  Looking at Romney&#039;s record, you cannot conclude he is and Reagan was not.  Romney may have been pro-choice or of no particular, functional opinion prior to being in office as Governor of MA; it doesn&#039;t matter because when push came to shove, where the rubber met the road and legislation landed on his desk during the stem cell debate, Mitt Romney had to act and he came down on the side of life.  He wrote so in an op-ed, even, in the Boston Globe in 2005, long before any 2008 campaign began.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You bring up his mention of consulting attorneys with regard to bombing Iran as evidence he&#039;s not an effective debater.  How&#039;s that the case?  A President should not know the legality of all his actions?  Romney was merely describing the process of making a decision.  The phrase made for a sound byte, which some people apparently value more than an actual explanation.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Finally, I&#039;m thankful you uttered your final paragraph above because it exposes you as someone of a particular religious bias, which of course negates the entirity of the argument you were failing to make anyway.  Last time I checked, freedom of religion was pretty much cornerstone to the establishment of the United States.  I&#039;m Episcolpalian.  Part of our tradition includes burning frankincense, often from a gold ball.  Does this offend you as well?  I don&#039;t view any adherent of any religion in any negative light so long as part of their adherence does not include strapping on a bomb-belt and murdering innocents.    &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bigotry, in any form, is always a loser.  Do try to have a happy Thanksgiving and pray for an open mind, especially about those who are your allies in political philosophy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Romney, scott, like every other Republican who has ran since 1988, always states they are Republican in the tradition of Reagan:  strong national defense, economic liberty, and traditional values.  Huck, Rudy, Romney, Fred&#8230;and dear Sarah&#8230;they all say it because, well, that&#39;s the party platform.  All Reagan was doing was popularizing what Barry Goldwater established before him.  Period.</p>
<p>Reagan was populist insofar as using political stunts like inviting some victim of sorts to a state of the union to single out and tell a story about.  It worked so well, every President since does the same staged trick.  Sincere or showmanship?  Reagan also outspent even George W Bush in percentage of GDP.  Small government?  And Reagan did raise some taxes, indeed.  Plus, Reagan was a pro-life convert and when it was politically beneficial to make the switch.  Does this fit your doctrinalism?</p>
<p>I don&#39;t consider Reagan a god, nor do I consider him some phony conservative or Republican.  Looking at Romney&#39;s record, you cannot conclude he is and Reagan was not.  Romney may have been pro-choice or of no particular, functional opinion prior to being in office as Governor of MA; it doesn&#39;t matter because when push came to shove, where the rubber met the road and legislation landed on his desk during the stem cell debate, Mitt Romney had to act and he came down on the side of life.  He wrote so in an op-ed, even, in the Boston Globe in 2005, long before any 2008 campaign began.  </p>
<p>You bring up his mention of consulting attorneys with regard to bombing Iran as evidence he&#39;s not an effective debater.  How&#39;s that the case?  A President should not know the legality of all his actions?  Romney was merely describing the process of making a decision.  The phrase made for a sound byte, which some people apparently value more than an actual explanation.  </p>
<p>Finally, I&#39;m thankful you uttered your final paragraph above because it exposes you as someone of a particular religious bias, which of course negates the entirity of the argument you were failing to make anyway.  Last time I checked, freedom of religion was pretty much cornerstone to the establishment of the United States.  I&#39;m Episcolpalian.  Part of our tradition includes burning frankincense, often from a gold ball.  Does this offend you as well?  I don&#39;t view any adherent of any religion in any negative light so long as part of their adherence does not include strapping on a bomb-belt and murdering innocents.    </p>
<p>Bigotry, in any form, is always a loser.  Do try to have a happy Thanksgiving and pray for an open mind, especially about those who are your allies in political philosophy.</p>
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		<title>By: scottyp</title>
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		<dc:creator>scottyp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;My point, scott, has never been that Romney is another Reagan; nostalgia is a big problem for us.&quot;  end of quote.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Reagan was brought into the picture when Romney tried to say he was like Reagan, in an attempt to appeal to a segment of Republicans, there was NO nostalgia involved in his calculated move.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Romney is NOT a fierce debater, saying during a debate &#039;he would ask his attorneys&#039; is not a method of fierce debate. Romney needs a reality check and an honest assessment of who he actually is, not all the people he wants to be like, or all the stands he wishes to take which he feels appeals to an body of votes he is wanting to seize their votes, Romney comes across as insincere,  at times snotty, (he should leave the LDS abrasive, arrogant, condescending comments, which are typical of conversions heard in church foyers, on the side lines of the Gold and Green Balls, and echoed in the conversation of many a missionary and priesthood holder -- he is no doubt too close to LDS culture to realize the arrogance of many of the cultural attitudes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;My point, scott, has never been that Romney is another Reagan; nostalgia is a big problem for us.&#8221;  end of quote.</p>
<p> Reagan was brought into the picture when Romney tried to say he was like Reagan, in an attempt to appeal to a segment of Republicans, there was NO nostalgia involved in his calculated move.</p>
<p>Romney is NOT a fierce debater, saying during a debate &#39;he would ask his attorneys&#39; is not a method of fierce debate. Romney needs a reality check and an honest assessment of who he actually is, not all the people he wants to be like, or all the stands he wishes to take which he feels appeals to an body of votes he is wanting to seize their votes, Romney comes across as insincere,  at times snotty, (he should leave the LDS abrasive, arrogant, condescending comments, which are typical of conversions heard in church foyers, on the side lines of the Gold and Green Balls, and echoed in the conversation of many a missionary and priesthood holder &#8212; he is no doubt too close to LDS culture to realize the arrogance of many of the cultural attitudes.</p>
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