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Tuesday June 11, 2013 · 1:30 AM PDT

2013/06/11 · 01:30

Once upon a time there was a candidate named Barack Obama who ran for president on a platform of hope and change...he was many things to many people and of course he was elected president of this United States.

There was great joy and much hope among his followers that here at last we had someone who understood our concerns and hopes for our country and was willing to fight in our behalf.

LOBALUNA

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Sunday April 14, 2013 · 6:42 PM PDT

2013/04/14 · 18:42

I just watched David Ignatius on the CHRIS MATTHEWS SHOW say that Obama was right to offer concessions on Social Security benefits because he has to keep his promise to younger voters not to give away our nation's treasure to seniors.

It must be nice to be financially secure, inside the DC bubble and have your opinion however ridiculous matter...it must be nice to be David Ignatius.

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Wednesday December 29, 2010 · 10:06 PM PST

2010/12/29 · 22:06

The year is ending...more with a whimper than a bang. The Republicans control the House and the Supreme Court. There are many things to be said about the year 2010..for example how easy it was for the Democrats to get a slew of bills passed in three weeks. It just shows the lack of interest in the welfare of the people by its representatives that they failed to do so much more for the last 2 years. They are led by a cerebral president who is out of his depth in the wild waters of Washington, DC.

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Saturday August 09, 2008 · 1:15 AM PDT

2008/08/09 · 01:15

I was disappointed to learn that John Edwards had an affair. I saw him and his wonderful wife Elizabeth as role models of what an enduring and loving marriage is all about.

This is a very private and hurtful matter that concerns only their family. Yes, he made a mistake but the whole idea that somehow he is not trustworthy as a public figure because he strayed in his personal life is a bunch of baloney. Please see the wonderful faithful couple we have in the White House and look at the mess this country is in.

I always wonder why the media is so delighted in these personal scandals but cannot be bothered to discuss the important scandals. Let me point a few out for you:

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Monday August 06, 2007 · 3:58 AM PDT

2007/08/06 · 03:58

I have watched mesmerized as we pondered the ultimate fate of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Anna Nicole's baby, etc, etc. We have the despicable Nancy Grace exploting every imaginable human tragedy, and we have the ridiculous Glen Beck haranguing us with his nonsense night after night. We have Larry King asking his non questions and if it wasn't for Keith Olbermann I would just give up totally on the news on television.

The newspapers are not any better. We were misinformed from the beginning of this war and it is only now that so many have died and Iraq is totally destroyed that we are finally getting glimpses of the truth.

LOBALUNA

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Thursday March 02, 2006 · 10:29 PM PST

2006/03/02 · 22:29

I came to the United States as a 10 year old Cuban refugee. My father had been a political prisoner, one of the very few who made it through a trial and was released. Most of his friends died in Cuban prisons.They were tortured and starved in those horrible places. I always considered us the lucky ones.

I remember the G2 (secret police) waiting for my father before he was arrested and how my mother risked her life to sneak out of the back door of our house to alert my father at work not to come home carrying any incriminating papers.

I remember as a child the "committees for the defense of the revolution" being in every corner and how you had to watch everything you did and said because if anyone accused you of being against the revolution, you could go to jail for 30 years. Read More

WHY?

LOBALUNA

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Monday February 27, 2006 · 11:11 PM PST

2006/02/27 · 23:11

Why are our children still dying in Iraq while the mass media ignore the peace movement?

Why is a grieving mother arrested for wearing the truth on her shirt?

Why are we allowing this government to spy on us?

Why are we allowing torture to take place and remain mostly silent?

Why are we selling our ports to the UAE when they have links to terrorism? Read More

HOW COME FLORIDA GETS IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE BUT NEW ORLEANS HAS TO WAIT?

LOBALUNA

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Friday September 02, 2005 · 12:30 AM PDT

2005/09/02 · 00:30

As I watched and cried for the people trapped and dying. As I sat and saw dehydrated infants, desperate mothers, dazed seniors and most heartbreaking of all, a dead woman in her wheelchair covered with a blanket and pushed agist the side of the Superdome, it is at hat moment that I realized the complete failure and lack of care that epitomizes this Administration and the powermongers we have put in Congress.

I wondered why these people were being left to die....and suddenly I realized that: Read More

I FINALLY FOUND MY GREATEST AMERICAN HERO

LOBALUNA

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Saturday August 27, 2005 · 2:25 AM PDT

2005/08/27 · 02:25

This past 4th of July I was listless and hopeless and despairing about my country. How can so great a nation be misled so completely? How long before the blindfold falls and the truth is seen? How many more have to die?

It took one great human being, one grieving despairing mother to be the lightning rod of a great movement. She just wanted to ask the president one question..WHAT NOBLE CAUSE DID MY SON DIE FOR?
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ANOTHER FOURTH AND I AM SAD

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Tuesday July 05, 2005 · 11:33 PM PDT

2005/07/05 · 23:33

It was a sad 4th for me. I put out my decorations and lights and think about the ones who have died and the ones who will be dying. I pray that my son will make it home (he should be back on the 2nd of August) and does not get sent back before his time is up next year.

All I can see is endless war and the chaos of this administration and this congress. I blame the republicans but I also blame the democrats. Read More

OUR CHRISTIAN president AND HIS UNCHRISTIAN WAYS

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Wednesday May 25, 2005 · 9:52 PM PDT

2005/05/25 · 21:52

I have a fundamental disagreement with the president about our mutual faith. I am a follower of the man Jesus and I have read his words many times. I don't see anything remotely Christian in the behavior of this president or anyone in his administration.

I want the president to remind me where in His teachings does Jesus advocate violence? A man of peace who was willing to die in agony without striking back at those who harmed him. A man whose last words were "FATHER, FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING". Is this the Savior who would send young men and women to their deaths using a lie? Is this the man who would bomb and massacre civilians in a quest for oil and power? Read More

OK.. BOYS AND GIRLS ..WELCOME TO THE FILIBUSTER TRUCE..AND OTHER FALLACIES

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Tuesday May 24, 2005 · 11:16 PM PDT

2005/05/24 · 23:16

Let me see..ohhh yeah..we avoided the so called nuclear option..goodie, hurrayyyyy..however we still confirm NO PITY FOR PREGNANT TEENS Owen and THE NEW DEAL IS SOCIALISM Janice. A real win win for us.

In other news..NEWSWEEK retracts a perfectly good scoop only to be proven right by the president of Afghanistan. The press secretary to his HIS DICTATORSHIP Bush makes a stink but says little about the photograph of Saddam.

We have a one party system folks and they are starting to pack the courts with their kind..POLICE STATE THEOCRACY coming to a neighborhood near you.

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I FINALLY FOUND MY GREATEST AMERICAN HERO

ANOTHER FOURTH AND I AM SAD

OUR CHRISTIAN president AND HIS UNCHRISTIAN WAYS

OK.. BOYS AND GIRLS ..WELCOME TO THE FILIBUSTER TRUCE..AND OTHER FALLACIES