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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-14-09 09:30 PM
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12. Would you like us to go through the list?
"1. Offended the Queen of England . "

Lie. Probably based on the non-issue about giving Gordon Brown a collection of classic DVDs.


"2. Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia . "

Lie. He bent over while shaking hands because he's much taller than the King of Saudi Arabia. You'll notice the freeper doesn't address Bush making out with various Saudi dignitaries.

"3. Praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega. "

McCarthyism. Daniel Ortega's the president of Nicaragua, and I'm sure Obama's been diplomatically curious.


"4. Kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek. "

Lie. He shook his hand at a summit.

"5. Endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia. "

Obama denied trying to kill Evo Morales, I don't think that's an endorsement.


"6. Sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel Castro against

Honduras . "

A lie and character assassination. Obam's against the military coup. So is everybody else who isn't subhuman scum.



"7. Announced we would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions

while they're building their nuclear weapons. "

The meeting part is correct. The nuclear weapons part is imaginary.


"8. Gave away billions to AIG also without pre-conditions."

Lie. It was a collateralized loan, with interest.

"9. Expanded the bailouts. "

Technically true. And we'd have 20% unemployment if he didn't.


"10. Insulted everyone who has ever loved a Special Olympian. "

A lie at the expensive of Special Olympians. Obama joked about his "poor" bowling skills.


"11. Doubled our national debt. "

A lie. Ane he's lowering the deficit. Freepers complaining about Obama's fiscal responsibility is an absurdity.


"12. Announced the termination of our new missile defense system

the day after North Korea launched an ICBM. "

Lies on top of lies. Missle defense was in Poland. Allegedly to defend against Iran, which was a Bush lie. The announcment wasn't the day after Korean missile tests. And the Korean missile tests were short range, not ICBMs.


"13. Released information on U.S. intelligence gathering despite

urgings of his own CIA director and the prior four CIA

directors. "

Technically true. The CIA works for the president. Not the other wa around.



"14. Accepted without comment that five of his cabinet members

cheated on their taxes and two other nominees withdrew after

they couldn't take the heat. "

Lies. No Obama appointees are tax cheats. Some have made common errors, which have been corrected.


"15. Appointed a Homeland Security Chief who identified military

veterans and abortion opponents as "dangers to the nation." "

Which have been proven true in subsequent domestic terror acts.


16. Ordered that the word "terrorism" no longer be used and

instead refers to such acts as "man made disasters."

Lies. Obama ordered nothing, uses the term "terrorism" himself. Refers to an out of context quote from Napolitano about how the Department of Homeland Security is about preventing more than just terrorism.

"17. Circled the globe to publicly apologize for America 's world

leadership. "

Lie. Author is bitter because Obama is fixing America's image.

"18. Told the Mexican president that the violence in their country

was because of us. "

Lie. Obama discussed drug violence with Calderon, the issue of gun smuggling was discussed.



"19. Politicized the census by moving it into the White House from

the Department of Commerce. "

Lie. The Departmne of Commerce has always belonged to the executive branch. Obama has done nothing to politicize the census.



"20. Appointed as Attorney General the man who orchestrated the

forced removal and expulsion to Cuba of a 9-year-old whose

mother died trying to bring him to freedom in the United States . "

Holder was a deputy under Reno when Janet Reno had Elian Gonzalez returned to his father, under court order. This despite the protests of a bunch of crazy people and wannabe cop-killers.

"21. Salutes as heroes three Navy SEALS who took down three

terrorists who threatened one American life and the next day

announces members of the Bush administration may stand trial

for "torturing" three 9/11 terrorists by pouring water up

their noses. "

This is true, but I'm not sure what the complaint is. Do the freepers love war criminals? Or do they hate Navy SEALS? Or is it both?


"22. Low altitude photo shoot of Air Force One over New York City

that frightened thousands of New Yorkers. "

Obama wasn't responsible. Canned the person that was. Non-issue.


"23. Sent his National Defense Advisor to Europe to assure them

that the US will no longer treat Israel in a special manner and

they might be on their own with the Muslims. "

Lies. Obama has always claimed a special relationship between the U.S. and Israel. Not the Islamophobia.



"24. Praised Jimmy Carter's trip to Gaza where he sided with

terrorist Hamas against Israel .. "

You mean the peace trip that Carter just took? There's a reason why the Nobel committee gave him a Nobel prize. I don't know what Obama had to say about it. There's a reason why they gave him a prize too.



"25. Nationalized General Motors and Chrysler while turning

shareholder control over to the unions and freezing out retired

investors who owned their bonds. Committed unlimited taxpayer

billions in the process. "

Lies. The taxpayer bailout of the auto-industry is limited. If Obama hadn't bailed them out, the shareholders would be shit out of luck anyway.



"26. Passed a huge energy tax in the House that will make American

industry even less competitive while costing homeowners

thousands per year. "

Lies. The energy policy will save huge amounts of money long term by encouraging renewable energy and offseting global warming.


"27. Announced nationalized health care "reform" that will strip

seniors of their Medicare, cut pay of physicians, increase taxes

yet another $1 trillion, and put everyone on rationed care with

government bureaucrats deciding who gets care and who doesn't. "

Lies. His healthcare reform will increase coverage not strip it, it will save money not increase taxes, and doctors will decide what care everybody gets, not bureaucrats. Neither government nor insurance industry.


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