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 The BIG bailout! The first thing Americans should do is decided if we are going to stay a capitalist country or change to a socialist country. If you listen to Barney Fife I mean Franks then you pretty much feel America should head down the social road to doom.

 Barney (Fife) Franks thinks the government should guarantee workers and unions their high salaries they have been demanding for the last 40 years. Maybe Franks met the big three automakers CEO’s on their private jets when they landed in DC.

 On the other hand people like Mitt Romney believes these automakers should face what others have to face in this county in a free market. Not a bailout by the government, but a restructuring. A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs. That means new labor agreements, and retiree benefits must be reduced.

 With a bailout, the automakers will stay the course -- the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check. The best way to save jobs in the Detroit auto industry and to grow jobs ultimately is to get these companies to the proper scale so they will be able to be competitive in the long term, creating more jobs and build a highly competitive U.S. auto industry.

 Will it be painful for some? It sure will it always is. But like everyone else in business sometimes you have to make sacrifices. Sometimes you have to take a step backwards before taking two steps forward.

 The worst thing we Americans can do as a nation is let our government bailout these companies every time they miss-manages their companies. I personally am ashamed of the American voters in this country. We had a congress and a senate that only had an 8% approval rate and voters voted them back into office. WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THAT?

 I will be glad when people in this country wake up and realize that these millionaires we are putting in office are all heavily invested in the auto industry and banking. These millionaires in office are always going to find a way to give these companies money so they can save their investments.

 It’s up to us the American people to put our foots down and stop these corrupt people in office who keep throwing money at broken and miss-managed companies to save their investment. And since people don’t want a new revaluation the only way to do it is vote out these crooks like Barney (Fife) Franks and people like him.

 Not NO but HELL NO to all Bailouts!

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OK now that all the hoopla and the tingling up and down some reporters legs has fade away what has Obama done? Well first thing he has done is re-hire 31 of the 42 old Clinton staff. After all this makes since because he know no one in Washington so all he has to fall back on are old Clinton appointees. Some new change right?

 Those of us who have a brain tried to tell people this man didn’t have a clue on how to be president. With the people he is putting in key positions you might as well slap a dress and a blonde wig on Obama and call him Mrs. Clinton.

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 I know some of you are downhearted today after the elections. I too find it a hard pill to swallow. I find it hard to believe that Americans would vote for a socialist and a racist. With that being said we have to look at who was voting and why.

 This election year new voters and people who had not voted in many years turned out at the polls. Black Americans who normally have a small turn out in elections turn out in groves this time to vote for a man just because of his skin color. There were also a record number of voters between the ages of 18 to 23 who turned out at the polls. Once again people voting for Obama without a clear reason. Most young people are clueless when it comes to politics, but it was a cool thing to vote for Obama so they did.

 For Republicans this election could be the best thing that ever happen to their party. This will give republicans a chance to get back to their base, conservatism and get off of their Republictism. We don’t need and have never needed the John McCain’s in our party. The republicans lost this election as soon as McCain was made the republican nominee.

 This country has always wanted and voted for a strong conservative with a clear direction. McCain has always been a middle of the road republican at best.

 With Obama in office for the next four years and a house and senate clearly in control, people will be begging for new leadership four years from now. It’s up to the few republicans in the house and senate to step up and show the country how these democrats (socialist) are the one’s who will bring this country down to a level American has never been before.

 Sometime you have to take a step back before going forward. In Obama’s case it will be one giant leap back before republicans can gain control and bring America back up again. And after four long years under Obama and the house and senate lead democrats Americans will be more than eager to replace the 6% approval rate of the democrat held house and senate. Look for the republicans to take back control for 8 years after Obam's short term.

 

PS,  Stock Market fell 400 today after Obama wins election. It’s already started.

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What can we expect from an Obama presidency? Well the first thing we can expect and get is wide spread socialism. Now to many Americans socialism is just a word, especially with people under the age of 35. They have no ideal what socialism is or how it works and what it means to live in a socialist union. They have no ideal that when you start down that road it leads to the government taking over your jobs, you’re homes and your lives.

 Many young people see socialism as a good thing. They don’t realizes that a socialist government at some point will tell you how to live, such as where you will live and with whom you will live with. This being the free homes some people in this country thinks they are entitled to just because they are Americans. We are right on the doorstep with this happening now with the government bailing out Fannie and Freddie may. With Obama and a democrat controlled house and senate it’s just a matter of time.

 The next straw on the camels back is the job market. With Obama’s heavy taxes on small and large businesses it’s just a matter of time until the job market will bottom out. The spread the wealth program Obama’s speaks of is nothing more than taking money out of your pockets and giving it to people who don’t want to work. We have people like that now here on this website. I don’t have to remind you who they are; you can tell them by the way they speak about Obama and how great he is. Of course anyone who will give them more free handouts is great to them.

 When the government (Obama) starts taxing small and large business it leads to less jobs, smaller paychecks and more cost to consumers. This will one day lead to more government jobs with the government in control of your paycheck and what little money you will have to spend on you and your family.

 By now you have the government controlling your housing and your work place. It wont be long before we will be Russia 1930s thru 1960s when the government will tell you where to live and where to work. Let’s don’t forget Obama wants every child to be able to go to college. What he is not telling you is that the government will plan your college for you and your job along with it. Remember the word SOCLIST.

 Now with Obama wanting to give free healthcare to all Americans, send every child to college, cut back on how much energy you can use and how much gas you can use, more public transportation ect ect and all the other programs he has waiting for us, guess what is going to happen to your money? Remember that word money, it’s something you might not have not to far from now.

 If the government is paying for your homes, your healthcare, your college, and you work for the government, why should they pay you? Remember the word SOCLIST? Remember the term SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND?

 You say wait a minute; we have laws this could never happen. Well yes indeed it could with the right Supreme Court. Remember we almost just lost our right to bear arms by one vote. Well just think what could happen if there were two more socialist left judges on the Supreme Court.

 Now you ask when would people who are rich or Hollywood movie stars want something like this? Well even in Russia they had the elite. The rich and the Hollywood bunch already think they are above us. Look at Al Gore; he tries to tell you how to live, what cars to drive ECT. And all the time he is spending 20 times more than the avenge person spends or uses. Movie stars are the same way. They get on TV and say stop using so much gas, or stop using so much energy, but do they lead by example? NO! Then they try to tell you who to vote for, like they know more about who to vote for than you. These people will not be affected by Obama’s socialism, only us little people. That’s why in Hollywood 90% of all movies stars had a family member in the business before they became movies stars. Check it out.

 Now some of you will say this could never happen because Obama will only be president for 4 years. Well I beg to differ. If Obama stays president 8 years with a socialist run house and senate and two or more socialist appointed judges on the Supreme Court along with many more appointed federal judges, it can happen. Maybe not 100% but we will be well on our way 60% or more.

 This post is not to change anyone’s minds about how to vote, it’s way to late for that. Obama’s supporters have been blinded by the truth way to long anyway. I have always told people to be careful for what you wish for. All to many time when you wish for something so hard and put so much hope into it, it turn out to be the worst thing that ever happen to you when you get it. I’m pretty sure with Obama we are all going to get it. And IT isn’t going to be pretty.

 American’s maybe on the verge of putting the first Black man into office as the president. Along with that, we will be putting in a socialist who may be a Terrorist and Muslin sympathizer. A man who has racist ties with a well know church and pastor. And most of all, a man who is no more qualified or capable of being president than a man on the moon. 

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Well it seem the Democrats know one thing for sure, they can’t win without cheating. ACORN whom Obama worked for and helped train, has gathered  thousands of false voters just biting at the bits to cast their votes for the democrats.

 Now Obama says this is really not a problem and ACORN is not at fault but their workers are. I see now, so if a teacher rapes a child in school the school should not be held accountable. If a policeman shoots or beats an innocent citizen the police department is not to be help accountable. So Obama would have you believe that companies who hire and train people and do a back ground check on their employee’s are not supposes to take ANY responsibility for their employee’s. WOW what a President!

 This idiot who has a cancer growth coming out of his noise has no ideal what he is talking about. And this guy is supposed to be an attorney?  This is just what the left in this country wants America to be like, in total disarray.

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 Who are these people who claim to be Americans and yet are willing to turn their backs on everything American stands for? Who are these people who claim to be your friends and neighbor’s and telling you they are doing what’s best for you and American?  Who are these people who in the face of unquestionable truth and facts can look you in the eye and tell you Obama is the best man for the job? They are not Americans, not any Americans I care to know for sure.

 These are the same people who will tell you it’s ok to murder thousands of babies a day in America, these are the same people that will tell you it’s ok for the same sex people to get married, these are the same people who will tell you it’s ok for illegals to be here. These are the same people who will tell you not to drill for oil, the same people who will tell you it’s ok to teach homosexuality in schools. These are the people who want you to pay for their healthcare; the same people who will tell you are soldiers are murders and the bad guys.

 These are the same people, who will tell you it’s ok for a man to change his Christian name to Muslim, to belong to a racist church that preached hate, hate for whites and America. The same people who will tell you it’s OK for a man who is running for president of America to be pals and friends with a known terrorist. The same people who will tell you it’s ok for a mans wife who is running for president of America to have no respect for it. That it’s ok for his two top advisors to be the ones who caused fanny may to fold. That it is ok for the man running for president to have ties to ACORN who are tainting voters across America.

 Yes these are the same people who will tell you all these things are lies about Obama with the truth looking them straight in the face. They will tell you he (Obama) can do no wrong and everyone is spreading lies about him.

 No these people are not Americans, these people are socialist. These are the people who real Americans have been fighting for years. If our forefathers who fought for freedom in 1776 could come back to life, they would spit in the face of these people who claim to be true Americans.

 If  a man like Obama would have tried to run for president back then he would have been tarred and feathered and run out of the country. He is the type of person  and ideals those men fought against.

 I fear we now live in a country that is full of gutless socialist who would stand by and let another country invade our soil much like the socialist French did when Germany took over France. These people who would vote for Obama have no pride or respect for America. These people hate America and would love to turn her into a socialist country.

 Obama will win this election because the socialist left in Hollywood and the news media along will groups like ACORN will do everything in their power to lie cheat and seal his way into office. For those of you in here that don’t believe in God you might want to check out a bible if McCain wins, for it will be the intervention of Gods hand if McCain pulls this off with all that is against him. You people who want Obama to win, be very very affair of what you wish for.

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 As we all get ready to vote in this next election we need to ask ourselves one simple question. Does my vote really count, will the person I vote for really represent me in DC? If you’re voting for Obama you might have some reservations now that he has backed off of some of his earlier promises. If your voting for McCain you have to ask yourself why is he talking about changing capital hill but supporting the 700 billion dollar bailout?

 Elections for the United States Senate will be held on November 4, 2008, with 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested. Thirty-three seats are regular elections; the winners will be eligible to serve six-year terms from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2015 as members of Senate Class II. There are also two special elections: one in Wyoming and another in Mississippi; the winners will serve the remainder of terms that expire on January 3, 2013, as members of Senate Class I. Elections for all House of Representatives will occur on November 4, 2008 also.

 The word representative is a joke on the American people. In this pass year alone the American people have overwhelming ask congress to do something about illegal immigration, to drill for oil off our shores and not to vote for the 700 billion dollar bailout. We as American have stood by and watched our congress sell American and her citizens down the river. We have set back and watched people who we have put in office lie to cover up their on mistakes, point fingers at others to take the blame away from themselves and in some cases just outright break the law.

 We have also seen first hand that our so-called congress will protect there on when they are caught with their fingers in the cookie jar. William Jefferson, Dobbs and Barney Franks should all be up before a house committee on charges. But this will never happen as long as the Democrats are in power. The same thing happen when the Republicans where in power also.

 These people we elect to office would have you believe they know your pain and suffering. They would have you believe they know what you want and what you need to live a happy life. THESE PEOPLE DON”T HAVE A CLUE! And what’s worst they could care less about the middle-class and below in this country.

  What more proof do you need than what they have done and how they have ignored the American peoples will this year. And yet these same people are asking you to vote them back into office.

 I personally want to see how stupid the American people are this election. I want to see how many of these congressman and senators the American people re-elect back into office. We the American people have a chance to wipe out all of the people in the House on November 4. It doesn’t matter if they are republicans or demarcates just vote them out! I want to see how many time you are willing to bent over and let you’re congressman or senator screw you in the butt.

 When 78% of Americans want illegal immigration reform, when 76% of the American people want offshore drilling and when 74% of the people want the 700 billion dollar bailout bill defected and lawmakers turn a deft ear to us, we are not being represented, in fact we are just being ignored.

 I hope, I plead, I pray, I beg all Americans to vote ALL INCUMBENTS OUT OF OFFICE.

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 Stop already with the blame game!!!!! Trust me there is enough blame to go around for everyone. Both sides of the house are at blame, people who bought a house and knew they couldn’t afford it are to blame, people who borrowed money on a high risk business are to blame, people who over spent on credit cards are to blame, crooks on Wall Street are to blame.

 The fact is the American people and congress was walking around with a visa gold card stuck to their foreheads and spending like there is no tomorrow. Builders were building houses as fast as they could put them up, banks spending and leaning money as fast as they could print it.

 It’s time all the madness comes to a stop. If you want a house buy one you can afford. If you need a car buy one you can afford. We Americans are just as much to blame as anyone in congress. We jump on the bandwagon just like everyone else. Now everyone is looking for someone to blame, well look no further than the mirror.

 How can you people blame congress with you keep electing the same people back into office. You blame them for wanting to give Wall Street and banks 700 billion dollars. Well let me let you in on a secret. Millionaires will always take care of millionaires, just as the police take care of their own same as doctors, lawyers etc.

 Then we as Americans take two idiots like Obama and McCain who we have only given an 8 % approval rate in the senate and let them run for office. SHAME ON US!!!!!!! There were many people running for the presidency that where not in the house and senate. How can we expect the people who cause the problem to fix the problem?

 I hope this election is a big wake up call for all Americans, because we all lose on this one no matter who wins.

 When two candidates refuse to do anything about the 25 million illegals in this country we all lose. When one candidate refuses to take our troops out of Iraq and the other one starts backtracking on his promise on when he will take them out we all lose. When both candidates support this 700 billion dollar bailout we all lose. DON’T YOU POPLE GET IT? We have the wrong people running for office and the wrong people in office!

 I know it’s easy to say; well my congressman or senator is good the others are bad. Wake up, they are all bad, that’s why they only have an 8% approval rate and the reason we are in this mess. It’s not one party over the other; it’s the people in the party. Let me remind you that 95 democrats voted along with the republicans to kill this bill. Those are the PEOPLE we should be voting for, people who will stand up no matter what party they are in and vote no when it’s not good for the American people.

 We as Americans are never going to be able to save this country unless we demand term limits. The two party systems are never going to work in this country and we are seeing that right now. Has anyone ever heard the term a house divided will never stand? HELLO!!!! It is a miracle we have made it this far. Just listen to what one side says about the other, and it doesn’t matter to them if it’s lies or not, they still say it.

 The American people need to wake up and demand more from the people we put in office. It’s we the American people who put them in office, it’s we who pay them and by god it is we who should set the rules for these people.  

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 The failure to bail out Wall Street could be a good deal for the American people. Wall Street has been getting away with bad deals and in some cases flat out stealing money from the American people. States and local governments have been taxing citizens and raising property taxes as if we all had gold in our back yards. The oil speculators have been ripping our heads off on oil prices. Something had to be done to stop all this madness and maybe this will do it.

 Watching TV tonight you would think the world is coming to and end if you listen to the big guys on Wall Street. Well maybe their world is, and I say that’s a good thing. But before they go they would have you believe that no money will be available to buy cars, homes or loan out to businesses. They will even have you to believe some people will not get a pay check because the 700 billion they were counting on didn’t come though.

 I’m not saying everything will be just peachy, but if you watch yourselves and what you spend money on and stop spending on credit, you will be OK. It’s a good thing when things slow down for a while. It’s a good thing when oil goes below 100 a barrel. 

When thing slow down it give things like our paychecks time to catch up with today’s prices, or prices to recline back to our paychecks. We have all seen prices go up at the supermarkets and the gas pumps while our paychecks stay pretty much the same. Most of this was caused by and out of control Wall Street market. Bad deals, bad loans etc have gotten them into the fix they are in today.

 The housing market is another big cause of the problem. DL Horton and other homebuilders who started they’re on finance companies sold bad loans to people who should have never been able to buy a house. Over building and passing bad paper have put banks and lenders in a heap of trouble. I say shame on all of them because they knew the risk.

 Things will be tight for the next few months but everything will workout and we won’t have to spend 700 billion dollars. Just watch your pennies and only buy what you need and you will be ok. Seat back and watch prices fall and everything start evening out.  

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What are the real effects on today’s vote (excuses me Obama’s present vote) not to pass the 700 billion dollar bail out bill? Not much really. There will still be car loans, house loans and business loans. But, only people with good credit and money will get them, and that’s the way it should be.

 The GOP who refuse to listen to voters all over America to vote no on this bill were stun when the bill failed. This bill had over 200 billion dollars of pork belly in it for the GOP. Look for some Dems to lose their seats come this election. Today McCain said, first we need to fix the problem instead of pointing fingers. Obama started pointing fingers right off the bat in his speech today.

 When the real truth is told it is both parties that are to blame for this mess. Both parties seen this coming for a long time and didn’t nothing about it. Now the big question is can Americans expect a congress with only an 8% approval rate trust them to fix it.

 Obama who doesn’t have a clue about running ANYTHING will never be able to do it. And McCain who has been in congress over 30 years should have warn people about this a long time ago. With only an 8% approval rate in the senate these two men should be a shame to even show their faces to the American people much less ask us to vote for them.

 I would like to know when the American people are going to wake up and realize we can’t fix a problem with people who are causing the problem. Obama and McCain are both part of the problem along with many old timers in the house and senate. I urge all Americans to vote out anyone who has been in the house or senate for over two terms. I urge all Americans to send emails and letters to the house and senate asking for term limits.

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 In a secret meeting on Obama one (his jet) Obama expressed interest in dumping Biden for a more favorable VP. Sources close to Obama said he was in shock over McCain’s pick for VP. He had no ideal such a good choice for VP could boost McCain’s polls as it has in the last week.

 

 Obama was heard saying he needed a more credible and likeable person as his VP. Obama is also worried about the up coming VP debate. Biden made several references about Obama’s inexperience when he was running against Obama. “This could backfire in our face when faced with someone as sharp as Palin,” Obama was over heard saying. 

 

 Obama was also concern with the huge drop in the polls with women voters. In some states where Obama had a lead he is now even or behind by 2 to 4%. This is a direct result of women who now support McCain and Palin.

 

 Obama was on a rolling until McCain picked Palin as his VP. Almost over night Obama’s lead started to dwindle as women and the undecided voters started leaning to McCain. Obama is very worried Sarah Palin could slam duck Biden in a debate, an Obama inside stated. She is smart and very witty and Biden has a way of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time the insider said. Obama is very worried that if Palin hits another home run in the VP debate over Biden it will be all over.

 

 In the last couple of weeks Obama has been going after Palin more than McCain. If we need to get a new VP to overcome Sarah Palin then that’s what we must do Obama was over heard saying.

 

 At this time no decision has been made about replacing Biden. But insiders close to Obama said don’t be surprised if Biden steps down in the next few weeks for personal reasons. If it’s going to happen it will happen before the end of September an insider said.

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 Who is Barack Obama? At his best he is just another Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Oh it’s true he gives a better speech but beyond that there is no difference. He stands for more spending, more government, more taxes and helping the so-called poor.

 

 Obama want to bring people down to his level and not let Americans rise to a higher level. I have never heard Obama say anything good about America. I know we have problems but every country in the world has problems and we always will. But it’s always what’s wrong with America that Obama talks about. This is nothing more than Jesse Jackson or Sharpton speaking.

 

 For years blacks have been under the thumbs of people like Obama, Jackson and Sharpton. Keeping them down and oppressed is their key to their success. Tell them what is wrong and how your going to save them for all the wrong that has been laid before them is their message. And with that you get people like Oprah crying her eyelids off. This is exactly why you never heard Obama speaking anything good about America.

 

 What is amazing to me is the fact that so many Americas can’t see the pure bad in Obama. Maybe whites are afraid of being labeled racist when they show the truth about Obama. But for anyone who wants to know the truth it’s right there under their noises.

 

 Is Obama Muslin? Yes and No. He father was Muslin and his mother was defiantly two cans short of a six-pack. He does have many ties to Muslins. But on the other hand he did belong to a Christian church. But we have to take in account what kind of church he belongs to. Once again it is a church that oppressed blacks and preached hate for whites and America. A church he belong to for 21 years and as he has stated the preacher was his mentor.

 Obama is not a dumb person by any means. He knew all along about what kind of church he belong to. Just as he knew the type of people he was associating with such as Bill Ayers and Tony Rezko. Just as he knew his wife hates America and what it stands for. And she had good reason to hate America after belonging to a church that preached hate. Then being told she was not good enough to pose with her husband by Bazaar on a magazine cover and in steps Tyra banks. This is a woman who if pressured a little will really tell America and whites what she thinks of them, that’s why Obama wants a hands off about his wife, she could go off at any time.

 

 Obama has had some real personal problems in his life. As he had stated in his book he had to take drugs to get through the day. Obama was white and black, he had a father and mother that didn’t really want him and was sent to live with his white grandparents. You know that typical old white woman as Obama describes her. I’m sure things were not the best on the old home front for him. But he choose his path to drugs and buying into the Jackson way of blacks in America. Instead of seeing what’s good about America, he choose to see only the bad in America.

 

 Obama has not made many good choices in his life. The way he thinks about America, the way Americans lives, the church he picked, his drug use, his associations with the wrong people and maybe even his wife. And we are to believe he will make a good president? I think not.

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 The big difference between Republican and Decorates, conservatives and liberals is their actions. As much as I disagree with the socialist (democrats) in this country, I would never crash their parties convention and make an BLEEP of myself and my party like the so-called liberals can’t help themselves from doing.

 

 I watch in amazement as so-called peace demonstrators fight and destroy private property. I find it hard to believe that people who think they are liberal want to destroy and hurt people and disrupt other peoples right to speak.

 

 These are the people (like the socialist we have in here) who think they are better than anyone else. They think they are smarter, they think they only know what’s right and wrong and that you should only believe in what they say because what they say in the gospel truth.

 

 But in truth these people are nothing more than lost souls who don’t have a clue or how real life works. These people are nothing more than socialist pigs that care about no one but themselves. These are the same people who don’t believe in God and criticize you for doing so, but yet they want to quote God and the bible when trying to prove you wrong. These are the people who are against war but will fight and harm police and private property to satisfy there on personal agenda.

 

 Don’t be fooled by these people when they tell you they are liberal, there is nothing liberal about them or their actions. These people are nothing more than socialist pigs.

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 In the last two weeks I have watched and listen to some very good speeches. I watched Obama give a very well written and delivered speech at the DNC. Tonight I watched McCain give a very well written and delivered speech.

 I have watched both men fight for the job of president. The big difference I seen with both speeches is I believe McCain was much more sincere and hands down much more experienced in being the next president.

 I felt Obama was talking at me when McCain was talking to me. I felt Obama was repeating what he was told to say and McCain was speaking from his heart.

 

 I give both men a B + for their speeches. But Sarah Palin speech was the best speech out of all the speeches on both sides.

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acoolone

I was born and lived in Dallas all my life. I spent 4 years in the army back in the 70s. I now own my own business here in Dallas Co. I'm proud to live in Texas and in Dallas. When I watch the news, you can bet that ninty percent comes from FoxNews. This is about up close and personal as I want to get.

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