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bluevoter4life Donating Member (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-30-08 04:54 PM
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Why we won't get attacked with an Obama presidency
Joe Lieberman recently remarked on Face the Nation that "Our enemies will test the new president early".

Mr. Lieberman, I must respectfully disagree. You see, it is due to the catastrophic failure's of your buddies at the Bush Administration, we are forced to throw away a bottle of water at the airport, yet we constantly hear of knives and "bombs" getting past these same "security" screeners, despite scientific proof that it is a near impossibility to make a bomb out of ordinary liquids.

Mr. Lieberman, thanks to the White House, we are now having our phones tapped, our e-mails read, our privacy blatantly violated, all in the name of national security. Mr. Lieberman, the government has successfully rallied an entire nation against an entire race of people, and are now afraid to even go out to get the mail. And now they have the audacity to smear a man who has come from nothing to become the Democratic nominee.

Mr. Lieberman, we are now forced to carry our liquids in a ZipLoc bag before we get on an aircraft, yet airport employees can carry their lunch with them past the screening point.

Mr. Lieberman, we are afraid of everyone and everything these days. If you ask me, the terrorists have already attacked, and have won. The effects of this will be felt in the next Administration. And the next. And the next. The effects will be felt for generations to come. We will not be attacked again Mr. Lieberman, for we have lost the battle of ideals, and that is EXACTLY what they wanted.

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Hydra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-30-08 05:06 PM
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1. The terrorists HAVE won
Because there they smugly sit in the WH.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-30-08 05:27 PM
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2. Unindicted, Unimpeached, and Getting Paid
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Hydra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-30-08 05:51 PM
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3. Don't forget the call boys!
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-02-08 05:11 AM
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4. I don't get.....
your assumption that "we won't get attacked with an Obama Presidency", but I agree with your points about the bushit LIEberman and his neo-con pals have subjected us to.

As for there being no attacks during an Obama Presidency.....I don't see how anyone can make that assumption. We're the most hated and feared nation on the planet. I fully expect those who hate us to take pot-shots at us whenever possible. It's going to be a way of life from now on, however unfortunate that may be. I don't expect these issues to magically disappear overnight because Obama sits in the White House. :shrug:
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Cobalt-60 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-02-08 05:55 AM
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5. We'll have to earn our way out
of the slime with which the Bushniks have coated us.
A real good start would be an unprecedented electoral beat down of the Republican Party.

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hokies4ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-02-08 09:18 AM
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6. The sad thing is we all know how to game the airport security if we wanted too.
I took a flight last year unaware of all of the regulations. They made me part with my aftershave but let me keep my contact lens solution bottle. All someone has to do is change the liquid out of it to something else and you stand a fair chance of getting on board. Bring something that you know will get confiscated and just look really disappointed that they took away your after shave since it costs you money to buy new stuff during an economic downturn. I knew right then and there that these inconveniences weren't making me any safer.
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