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	<title>Comments on: Thoughts on the Nashville Tea Party Convention and Sarah Palin</title>
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		<title>By: WVPatriot</title>
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		<dc:creator>WVPatriot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I will just forgive you for that remark...

Because you had no idea that the person, you made that remark to had just recently lost his mother after an almost four year long battle with a very aggressive brain tumor in 2009.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will just forgive you for that remark&#8230;</p>
<p>Because you had no idea that the person, you made that remark to had just recently lost his mother after an almost four year long battle with a very aggressive brain tumor in 2009.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike gamecock DeVine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike gamecock DeVine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Mike gamecock DeVine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike gamecock DeVine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: aesthete</title>
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		<dc:creator>aesthete</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>your words will be interpreted as being about Obama, as will any actions taken by a Republican Congress in the short-term (present-2012, at least). It&#039;s a waste of our time, political capital, and media exposure, relative to other issues that Republicans can push, and we would lose independents who don&#039;t know (and don&#039;t care) about &quot;natural born citizenship&quot;. Remember how unpopular the attempted impeachment of Clinton was? That is the level of support that you can expect from pushing this &lt;b&gt;short term&lt;/b&gt;.

If you want to pass a bill that covers the verification of &quot;natural born&quot; citizenship, fine. But don&#039;t pretend that it&#039;s not a damaging and unimportant issue short-term, and that the term &quot;natural born&quot; is far from unambiguous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>your words will be interpreted as being about Obama, as will any actions taken by a Republican Congress in the short-term (present-2012, at least). It&#8217;s a waste of our time, political capital, and media exposure, relative to other issues that Republicans can push, and we would lose independents who don&#8217;t know (and don&#8217;t care) about &#8220;natural born citizenship&#8221;. Remember how unpopular the attempted impeachment of Clinton was? That is the level of support that you can expect from pushing this <b>short term</b>.</p>
<p>If you want to pass a bill that covers the verification of &#8220;natural born&#8221; citizenship, fine. But don&#8217;t pretend that it&#8217;s not a damaging and unimportant issue short-term, and that the term &#8220;natural born&#8221; is far from unambiguous.</p>
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		<title>By: Achance</title>
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		<dc:creator>Achance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>have noticed.  She&#039;s very obviously getting some coaching in public speaking, particularly in extemporaneous and less structured-sounding speaking, so maybe that&#039;s where the notes on the hand comes from.  She&#039;s always been able to read a speech pretty well and to memorize one pretty well.  I always thought she was awful with any kind of extemporaneous speech; constitutionally unable to use complete sentences and with that sing-song speaking style that so many West Coast women have, the one where the notes go up at the end of the sentence so it always sounds like they&#039;re asking a question.

I didn&#039;t think it was any big deal, though I don&#039;t know why a note card wouldn&#039;t have done.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>have noticed.  She&#8217;s very obviously getting some coaching in public speaking, particularly in extemporaneous and less structured-sounding speaking, so maybe that&#8217;s where the notes on the hand comes from.  She&#8217;s always been able to read a speech pretty well and to memorize one pretty well.  I always thought she was awful with any kind of extemporaneous speech; constitutionally unable to use complete sentences and with that sing-song speaking style that so many West Coast women have, the one where the notes go up at the end of the sentence so it always sounds like they&#8217;re asking a question.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t think it was any big deal, though I don&#8217;t know why a note card wouldn&#8217;t have done.</p>
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		<title>By: Chief1942</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chief1942</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>... like those on the other side, when you can&#039;t make a legitimate argument, you simply fall back on name calling. And these guys think that approach is going to regain those that fled the GOP in the millions. Good luck with that approach.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; like those on the other side, when you can&#8217;t make a legitimate argument, you simply fall back on name calling. And these guys think that approach is going to regain those that fled the GOP in the millions. Good luck with that approach.</p>
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		<title>By: Neil Stevens</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neil Stevens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Neil Stevens</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neil Stevens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Then you&#039;re awfully thick headed.</description>
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		<title>By: joebgardener</title>
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		<dc:creator>joebgardener</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s just embarrassing.</description>
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		<title>By: AStoner</title>
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		<dc:creator>AStoner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can think the poor communications skill of people like Red State, and Reihl world and Clouthier (spelling?) for the bad publicity of what its intended purpose was. The actual Tea Party Nation has never said that it was intended for tea party protesters, but always intended for Teap Party Planners and Organizers in order to educate them  with skills to make the events work as the organizers and planner intend.

These blogs have fed into the main stream media their bad feelings towards the organizer for some reason the propaganda that the main stream media wanted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can think the poor communications skill of people like Red State, and Reihl world and Clouthier (spelling?) for the bad publicity of what its intended purpose was. The actual Tea Party Nation has never said that it was intended for tea party protesters, but always intended for Teap Party Planners and Organizers in order to educate them  with skills to make the events work as the organizers and planner intend.</p>
<p>These blogs have fed into the main stream media their bad feelings towards the organizer for some reason the propaganda that the main stream media wanted.</p>
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		<title>By: AStoner</title>
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		<dc:creator>AStoner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is very much how the progressives work. The call you names, ask you to prove negatives and want people to side with them because they have made the other person something to be detested. I am certain that these people on this site find that you are a great benifit to them. Your arguments hold no truths to them, but have nothing that can be attacked with evidence. 

Then you have the nerv to call me a troll.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is very much how the progressives work. The call you names, ask you to prove negatives and want people to side with them because they have made the other person something to be detested. I am certain that these people on this site find that you are a great benifit to them. Your arguments hold no truths to them, but have nothing that can be attacked with evidence. </p>
<p>Then you have the nerv to call me a troll.</p>
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		<title>By: AStoner</title>
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		<dc:creator>AStoner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The unconstitutional direction of our government?</description>
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		<title>By: AStoner</title>
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		<dc:creator>AStoner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He has already proven himself incapable of accomplishment. He can be president for this term and the next if he gets re-elected for all I care. But any new people placed on the ballot in the future should be required to present evidence of eligibility in a transparent verifiable manner that allows the citizens their rights under the constitution to have a president that fits the eligibility requirements. 

Our government has proven that it is not longer capable of being simply trusted, it must from now on be verified, per Reagan&#039;s instructions. Trust, but verify.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He has already proven himself incapable of accomplishment. He can be president for this term and the next if he gets re-elected for all I care. But any new people placed on the ballot in the future should be required to present evidence of eligibility in a transparent verifiable manner that allows the citizens their rights under the constitution to have a president that fits the eligibility requirements. </p>
<p>Our government has proven that it is not longer capable of being simply trusted, it must from now on be verified, per Reagan&#8217;s instructions. Trust, but verify.</p>
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		<title>By: AStoner</title>
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		<dc:creator>AStoner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is not about Obama, it is about transparency and constitutional protection. Obama just happens to be the person who showed us the leak in the dam. We just want the leak filled, not the water that is already under the bridge.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is not about Obama, it is about transparency and constitutional protection. Obama just happens to be the person who showed us the leak in the dam. We just want the leak filled, not the water that is already under the bridge.</p>
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		<title>By: AStoner</title>
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		<dc:creator>AStoner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The question is one of transparency. It is not our ignorance of how it works, it is request to see the evidence that they used to make the determination.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The question is one of transparency. It is not our ignorance of how it works, it is request to see the evidence that they used to make the determination.</p>
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		<title>By: AStoner</title>
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		<dc:creator>AStoner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is certainly how our country will survive.</description>
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		<title>By: AStoner</title>
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		<dc:creator>AStoner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>simple. It gets rid of anything to do with Obama, but engenders all things constitutional and morally correct.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>simple. It gets rid of anything to do with Obama, but engenders all things constitutional and morally correct.</p>
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		<title>By: AStoner</title>
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		<dc:creator>AStoner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I look at all the evidence available to me and I find what fits reality best. For the birtherism issue, I think Erick Erickson is pretty much correct, except on the fact that we can just throw people out of the movement just because they are willing to bring it up. It is not going to win an election, but allowing our government to function on a purely trust me basis is not the Reagan way. Trust, but verify.

As for encyclopedias go, I have been buying the oldest encyclopedias and history books I can find. You would be amazed how hard facts of an unchanging variety seem to either no longer exist or have been completely changed over the last 150 years. 

As an example, we all blame the southern states for the large influx of slaves, but a surprising fact is that almost all slaves in fact were originally purchased in the northern states by northern interests and then moved to the south to keep the northern state&#039;s interests in the southern states producing the products for the northern state&#039;s needs. Go find that in a 1960 or newer book on history. Slavery was actually pushed onto the southern states by the industrial states. I do not condone the southern states continued use of slaves, but the north&#039;s action is what made the economy of the southern states dependent on the situation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I look at all the evidence available to me and I find what fits reality best. For the birtherism issue, I think Erick Erickson is pretty much correct, except on the fact that we can just throw people out of the movement just because they are willing to bring it up. It is not going to win an election, but allowing our government to function on a purely trust me basis is not the Reagan way. Trust, but verify.</p>
<p>As for encyclopedias go, I have been buying the oldest encyclopedias and history books I can find. You would be amazed how hard facts of an unchanging variety seem to either no longer exist or have been completely changed over the last 150 years. </p>
<p>As an example, we all blame the southern states for the large influx of slaves, but a surprising fact is that almost all slaves in fact were originally purchased in the northern states by northern interests and then moved to the south to keep the northern state&#8217;s interests in the southern states producing the products for the northern state&#8217;s needs. Go find that in a 1960 or newer book on history. Slavery was actually pushed onto the southern states by the industrial states. I do not condone the southern states continued use of slaves, but the north&#8217;s action is what made the economy of the southern states dependent on the situation.</p>
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		<title>By: Achance</title>
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		<dc:creator>Achance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s all it will ever be about.  Her career is built on the dead bodies of people who believed in her.  Hey, but she&#039;s making some pretty fancy money these days, isn&#039;t she?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s all it will ever be about.  Her career is built on the dead bodies of people who believed in her.  Hey, but she&#8217;s making some pretty fancy money these days, isn&#8217;t she?</p>
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		<title>By: Achance</title>
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		<dc:creator>Achance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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