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Never Let The Facts Get In The Way

Posted by Ben_C 9 years, 10 months ago to Politics
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Dumb and Dumber
You may recall that a few weeks ago, President Obama spoke of three former Presidents making prisoner swaps at the end of wars that took
place on their watch, "much like this swap" he said convincingly.

CNN carried this quote, "This is what happens at the end of wars."
President Barack Obama boasted Tuesday when he was asked about swapping American Army Sgt. Deserter for five vicious Taliban terrorists. "That was true for George Washington...That was true for Abraham Lincoln and that was true for FDR. That’s been true of every combat situation, that
at some point, you make sure that you try to get your folks back...
And that’s the right thing to do.

Really?
That statement blatantly demonstrates that the most powerful man in the World and two term President of the United States lacks even a grade school level of knowledge of American History; specifically, history as it relates to three of our most famous presidents and it demonstrates again that we have essentially elected a foreigner who has no understanding of the very country that he reigns supreme over.

Then again, he was educated at an Ivy League school so you can't expect too much.
What's wrong with his statements?
Let's keep it simple-- EVERYTHING is wrong!

1. George Washington did not become president until six years after the Revolutionary War ended in 1783. By 1789 there were no longer any prisoners for him to exchange.

2. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in mid-April of 1865. The Civil War ended the following month. He was still dead at that time. No deals were made to exchange prisoners after the war. All prisoners were simply freed.

3. FDR died of a stroke before the end of WWII. Like Lincoln, he stayed dead after the war so he couldn't do what this jerk says he did. You'll recall that Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop two nuclear bombs on Japan, ending World War II. He made no deals for prisoners. We went in and released them when necessary.

4. None of the Presidents that Obama noted were in office at the ends of those wars, making it impossible for them to make any sort of prisoner swaps, let alone the 5 for 1, plus unspecified cash, for a deserter and traitor by our "57 States" president.

5. It should be pointed out that countless deserters and traitors were shot or hung during all three of the aforementioned wars.

What amazes one even more than the ignorance of the President is that he has managed to surround himself with a staff that is just as clueless?
... or willing, as the media are, to cover for his dumb, lying rhetoric and behavior!

P.S. Obama mentioned while being interviewed on Super Bowl Sunday while in the Whitehouse kitchen, that George Washington drank beer in the White House when he was president .

George Washington never lived in the White House; it wasn't built yet


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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There was simply no difference between McCain and Obama to the voters. Both were pushing nearly identical policies of tax and spend.

    Romney failed to differentiate between the state-based healthcare plan of Massachusetts and the Obama ideal of a Federal healthcare plan. Oh, and the rampant voting fraud.

    I really hope Walker, Cruz, or Paul make it through - they are my first, second, and third choices for Presidential candidates because I think they CAN differentiate themselves.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Clarification: a zero is very different from a NULL or NIL. A zero is a quantifiable and discreet numeric value. A NULL is an unknown. A blank is also different than either, being a text value actually represented by a character (I HATE THEM). Try querying a database for any of the three and you'll find them to be quite different.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    yes! . I just edited a book which outlines -- in fiction --
    the process of a secession-inspired revolutionary
    change to the u.s. ... the fly-over States secede, and
    form the New U.S....... and without their support,
    the coasts falter, change, and join the new u.s....

    check it out, if you'd like: http://www.amazon.com/Unsustainable-Tuck...

    -- j
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  • Posted by Maritimus 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hello J,

    The principle I quoted, I believe, rests on to things. First, governments stay in power supported by the choice of the majority of the voters. Second, governments also stay in power with the majority refusing to rebel. If one does not rebel, one in fact accepts. An individual, if unwilling to accept the status quo, has two choices: to join the rebellion if one is in the making or to leave for better pastures. In my mind, the originality of shrugging is that it is a combination of a rebellion of people hopeless of the possibility of inducing a majority to join the rebellion and the emigration of a special kind.

    Just my opinions.

    All the best.
    Maritimus
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  • Posted by Steven-Wells 9 years, 10 months ago
    Point number 4 refers incorrectly to our "57 States" president. I've transcribed the text from the actual video clip. "I've now been in fifty-seven states—I think one left to go—one left to go, Alaska and Hawaii I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.”
    So that's 58 states, not counting Alaska and Hawaii, or a total of 60. The nonsense should be attributed to our "60 States" president.
    Actually, the video to watch is the President grinning ear-to-ear while Sgt Deserter’s scruffy father intones Muslim religious doctrine in the White House Rose Garden.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    it's like the whole class being punished for the
    transgressions of a few -- but the few manage
    to outvote the rest. . sux. -- j
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  • Posted by Flootus5 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    History is written by the victors. Which is how and why our history is being rewritten. We are losing our country.
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  • Posted by H2ungar123 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    McCain & Romney had their brains in neutral, or better yet, in "off" - But because of low-
    informed, low-intelligent voters, we got saddled
    with a Puke-Producer-in-Chief. GOD save
    America!
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  • Posted by com-mom 9 years, 10 months ago
    I'm betting that the majority of Americans don't have a working knowledge of American history.
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  • Posted by blackswan 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Why retch? The most important thing to get from this anomaly is WHY he won TWICE (enough to make your head explode). What were McCain and Romney missing that allowed that to happen?
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    True but it's relative. Those whose definition reads 'anything done or said to support the party is the truth and may change at anytime' moral has a very different meaning. First said I believe by V. I. Lenin and most recently By 'BO' which may be the short definition of their standards come to think of it. BO??? BHO? Well...hmmm if the H stands for Homeboy and BO stands for.....?? now that fits. This is too addicting I'm going back to fishing.
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  • Posted by blackswan 9 years, 10 months ago
    It sounds like he's making these stupid comments just to see how much he can get away with, while poking the American populace about their historical ignorance. He probably uses that ignorance to determine how far to go with his pen and phone. Right now, the sky's the limit.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Zero is a very difficult concept for the vast vast majority of the world to comprehend. Zero sum gain is the way people like BO were taught which skews thinking from the proverbial get go.

    However I give you the millenium celebrated one year early as the not so shiny but accurate example of duuuuhhhh. The entire planet.
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  • Posted by Lucky 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Quite so Mr Zero!

    Zero, nil, void, null, .. similar but not identical.
    May I suggest 'Blank' in this context?
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  • Posted by Zero 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Heeyyyy.
    I'll have you know Zero is an advanced mathematical concept - unknown to the Greeks and Romans and - unlike Barak - absolutley essential to the modern world.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    yes, dammit;;; they refuse to align themselves
    with political dogma automatically!!! -- j
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  • Posted by Maritimus 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I disagree with you, wiggys.

    The homeboy and his advisers are not dummies. They cynically take advantage of the fact that more than 50% of the voters do not know the facts of those situation (government educated!) and believe that since he did what three other famous presidents did, he is doing exactly the right thing and thus they would vote for him again.

    People get the governments they deserve.
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