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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 09:54 PM
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"I find the President and those who surround him to be pretty much like everybody else,
possessed of the same mix of virtues and vices, insecurities and long-buried injuries, as the rest of us."

Barack Obama
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 09:55 PM
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1. Please provide the source
Edited on Sat Jan-05-08 09:57 PM by LiberalFighter
Preferably in your original post if possible
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 09:58 PM
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3. And context. nt
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eileen_d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 09:59 PM
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5. While you're at it
reason why I should care? :shrug:
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:02 PM
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7. If you don't care, why are you here and responding?
:shrug:
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eileen_d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:04 PM
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8. I'm just curious
Is the point of ths quote for me to to think Obama is a BAD MAN because he considers Bush et. al. to be human beings?
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:10 PM
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11. Actually, yes. That's the whole point. But you'd get his drift if the OP
dared to quote what was said. Obama was being gracious.
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eileen_d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:15 PM
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14. I'm sorry
I care about the context. My comment was directed to the OP.
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CyberPieHole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:10 PM
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9. That quote is from Obama's book, The Paucity of Hope
google it.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 09:56 PM
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2. A vote of "present" on jr.
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 09:59 PM
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4. I hope Obama did not say that because it is so refutable and so
unbelievably naive. Bush is a monster and so are his cabal.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:02 PM
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6. Don't be a tool.
Use your brain, and assume we can use ours too. Thanks.
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:10 PM
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10. Out of context quotes? So unlike you.
It is to say that after all the trappings of office - the titles, the staff, the security details - are stripped away, I find the President and those who surround him to be pretty much like everybody else, possessed of the same mix of virtues and vices, insecurities and long-buried injuries, as the rest of us. No matter how wrongheaded I might consider their policies to be - and no matter how much I might insist that they be held accountable for the results of such policies - I still find it possible, in talking to these men and women, to understand their motives, and to recognize in them values I share.

Perhaps you should actually read the book, because you are robbing your brain looking like a total ass by reading one sentence and then pretending to know squat about Obama. It's knowledge you cannot obtain from a single sentence.
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eileen_d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:11 PM
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12. Thanks for providing the context. nt
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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:11 PM
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13. "recognize in them values I share"
thats Obama.
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:15 PM
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15. As I told you before, and you ran out of the room, we do share values with Republicans
There is more that unites Americans than divides us.

Oh, I forgot, in your lonely world, you do not associate with those you do not agree with 100%.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:19 PM
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16. Yes! I predict Dems in a hellacious landslide!
It's time for us all to come together and get this nasty, poisonous admin and mindset out of our country.
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:23 PM
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17. "At least Reagan had some core beliefs.” - Hillary Clinton

See, I can cherry pick quotes, too.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:30 PM
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18. Kick, because the OP's tactic is puerile nonsense.
Thanks for demonstrating that so clearly.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:41 PM
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19. I raise your kick!
:D
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-05-08 10:48 PM
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20. Oh yeah?
Well take this!

:kick:

:)
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