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		<title>By: Askmom</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/blog/true-romance-obama-the-heartthrob/#comment-601343</link>
		<dc:creator>Askmom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s  interesting that Now &amp; Then&#039;s screed against conservatives and Tea Partiers is mostly about things like our supposed fixation on Prejean.  His focus says much about him and little about us. Here&#039;s a news flash for you, N&amp;T: we don&#039;t really care about the Beauty Queen/Porn Star or the color of anyone&#039;s skin.  We care about the toxic national debt, creeping socialism, big state busybodies and extortionist public sector unions. Our prime concern is not gay marriage but closing the borders, defeating the jihadists and rebuilding our communities.

But of course if you accepted that, you&#039;d have to argue policies on the merits instead of making ad hominem attacks. Tough to do, as all over the world socialism, fascism and communism are failing and people are clamoring for limited government and free markets. Better to ignore the actual evidence from the two hundred million on the right and in the center, and get your illusions about what we think from the New York Times and the ravings of Nancy Pelosi. 

About Batman&#039;s idea that women will vote for &quot;Bambi&quot; against their own interests and in sympathy for him as a possible victim of abuse by Michelle:  True, some women have done and will do that, but in no greater numbers than men who throw away resources chasing cynically marketed pulchritude. Falling victim to sexual con artistry is an equal opportunity stupidity.

Michelle Obama IS an angry, mean and unhappy person, anyone can see that.  However, I doubt she is a textbook spouse abuser - more likely she is reacting defensively to years of playing second fiddle and holding up the illusion of marriage to her bi or gay husband.  Michelle is clearly quite intelligent, and I believe she sees the curtain starting to come down on the &quot;Barack the Redeemer&quot; show.  Her life is about to change dramatically and not for the better, she knows it, and yet she must stick to the script. I&#039;d be frowning too! It&#039;s surprising how few comparisons have been done of Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.  Both chose to sidekick a deeply flawed but compellingly charming man, and both have largely squandered their own high potential because of it.  Yet the radical feminists and Democrats cannot allow themselves to see it because it doesn&#039;t fit the myth that conservatism is what hurts women.  

We are in for a wild ride in the next decade or so.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s  interesting that Now &amp; Then&#8217;s screed against conservatives and Tea Partiers is mostly about things like our supposed fixation on Prejean.  His focus says much about him and little about us. Here&#8217;s a news flash for you, N&amp;T: we don&#8217;t really care about the Beauty Queen/Porn Star or the color of anyone&#8217;s skin.  We care about the toxic national debt, creeping socialism, big state busybodies and extortionist public sector unions. Our prime concern is not gay marriage but closing the borders, defeating the jihadists and rebuilding our communities.</p>
<p>But of course if you accepted that, you&#8217;d have to argue policies on the merits instead of making ad hominem attacks. Tough to do, as all over the world socialism, fascism and communism are failing and people are clamoring for limited government and free markets. Better to ignore the actual evidence from the two hundred million on the right and in the center, and get your illusions about what we think from the New York Times and the ravings of Nancy Pelosi. </p>
<p>About Batman&#8217;s idea that women will vote for &#8220;Bambi&#8221; against their own interests and in sympathy for him as a possible victim of abuse by Michelle:  True, some women have done and will do that, but in no greater numbers than men who throw away resources chasing cynically marketed pulchritude. Falling victim to sexual con artistry is an equal opportunity stupidity.</p>
<p>Michelle Obama IS an angry, mean and unhappy person, anyone can see that.  However, I doubt she is a textbook spouse abuser &#8211; more likely she is reacting defensively to years of playing second fiddle and holding up the illusion of marriage to her bi or gay husband.  Michelle is clearly quite intelligent, and I believe she sees the curtain starting to come down on the &#8220;Barack the Redeemer&#8221; show.  Her life is about to change dramatically and not for the better, she knows it, and yet she must stick to the script. I&#8217;d be frowning too! It&#8217;s surprising how few comparisons have been done of Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.  Both chose to sidekick a deeply flawed but compellingly charming man, and both have largely squandered their own high potential because of it.  Yet the radical feminists and Democrats cannot allow themselves to see it because it doesn&#8217;t fit the myth that conservatism is what hurts women.  </p>
<p>We are in for a wild ride in the next decade or so.</p>
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		<title>By: joseph</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/blog/true-romance-obama-the-heartthrob/#comment-495068</link>
		<dc:creator>joseph</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unlike most commentators on this board I have no problem identifying and calling Obama a liar or a con artist. In fact from Day 1 , I referred to him as a snake oil salesman.

My positioning is different because I am not an American. I am from the Caribbean and have been involved in politics for over 20 years. Obama was easily identifiable to me. I have seen these &quot;dime a dozen&quot; Third World socialists over and over again and in a number of blogs when Obama was elected I expressed my concerns in no uncertain terms.

You have elected a liar and con artist with all the guile and charm of a snake oil salesman.

Remember the Old West stories of these salesmen being run out of town and the beautiful girls still follow him to the border for one last kiss. So it is with Obama andthe liberals particularly the media.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unlike most commentators on this board I have no problem identifying and calling Obama a liar or a con artist. In fact from Day 1 , I referred to him as a snake oil salesman.</p>
<p>My positioning is different because I am not an American. I am from the Caribbean and have been involved in politics for over 20 years. Obama was easily identifiable to me. I have seen these &#8220;dime a dozen&#8221; Third World socialists over and over again and in a number of blogs when Obama was elected I expressed my concerns in no uncertain terms.</p>
<p>You have elected a liar and con artist with all the guile and charm of a snake oil salesman.</p>
<p>Remember the Old West stories of these salesmen being run out of town and the beautiful girls still follow him to the border for one last kiss. So it is with Obama andthe liberals particularly the media.</p>
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		<title>By: ConceptJunkie</title>
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		<dc:creator>ConceptJunkie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Neo-neocon: 

I&#039;ve been reading your blog for months and have found you to be an insightful and literate commentator.  This article fits right in with that.

I never saw the appeal of Obama.  I did recognize the quality of his oration early on, but found his speeches to be fairly vapid and content-free.  More importantly, I immediately recognized his early popularity being due to his being a complete cypher.  He didn&#039;t have any political baggage (so far as the vast majority of people knew) and therefore people were free to let their wildest fantasies run unchecked about who he was.

He capitalized on this by running an almost completely content-free campaign wherein he said only two things about himself:

1.  I&#039;m not Bush.

2.  I am who you want me to be.

He constantly described what he would do, but never detailed how he would do it, the true mark of a con-man and amateur.  

My biggest concern is that whether or not we, as a country, can turn back from his path of destruction and tyranny, it won&#039;t change the fact that the electorate is so gullible they wouldn&#039;t laugh this guy back to Chicago.  We are doomed again and again, it seems, to engage in a suicidal flirtation with radical leftist presidents every generation or so, with national amnesia setting in as another generation of illiterate and indoctrinated people go to the polling booths and vote their feelings, their fantasies, their illusions, anything other than reality.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Neo-neocon: </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been reading your blog for months and have found you to be an insightful and literate commentator.  This article fits right in with that.</p>
<p>I never saw the appeal of Obama.  I did recognize the quality of his oration early on, but found his speeches to be fairly vapid and content-free.  More importantly, I immediately recognized his early popularity being due to his being a complete cypher.  He didn&#8217;t have any political baggage (so far as the vast majority of people knew) and therefore people were free to let their wildest fantasies run unchecked about who he was.</p>
<p>He capitalized on this by running an almost completely content-free campaign wherein he said only two things about himself:</p>
<p>1.  I&#8217;m not Bush.</p>
<p>2.  I am who you want me to be.</p>
<p>He constantly described what he would do, but never detailed how he would do it, the true mark of a con-man and amateur.  </p>
<p>My biggest concern is that whether or not we, as a country, can turn back from his path of destruction and tyranny, it won&#8217;t change the fact that the electorate is so gullible they wouldn&#8217;t laugh this guy back to Chicago.  We are doomed again and again, it seems, to engage in a suicidal flirtation with radical leftist presidents every generation or so, with national amnesia setting in as another generation of illiterate and indoctrinated people go to the polling booths and vote their feelings, their fantasies, their illusions, anything other than reality.</p>
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		<title>By: abdul7591</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/blog/true-romance-obama-the-heartthrob/#comment-445674</link>
		<dc:creator>abdul7591</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What disgusts me about the fawning of liberal media types and entertainers - people like Joy Behar David Letterman and Bill Maher - is their confident assertion that Obama is some sort of brilliant guy who represents a dramatic intellectual improvement over George Bush.  Bush would make comical grammatical gaffs, but Obama&#039;s mistakes are those of a true ignoramus.  We got a sense of this when he bragged during the election about having campaigned in &quot;57&quot; states.  When he was in Europe this spring I cringed with embarrassment at the ignorance he displayed on a number of occasions.  The most notorious was that dumbbell display in Vienna when he told his audience that he wanted to explain the concept of &quot;wheeling and dealing&quot; to them, but didn&#039;t know the Austrian word for &quot;wheeling and dealing.&quot;  So the man the Left touts as brilliant is so lacking in knowledge he can&#039;t even be bothered to read up on the fact that the Austrian people speak German.  LOL!  That&#039;s the kind of mistake one expects from some zit-faced high school kid who never bothers to read anything because he&#039;s too busy playing video games and - please excuse my Austrian - jerking off.  But that&#039;s your &quot;sophisticated&quot; Barack Obama for you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What disgusts me about the fawning of liberal media types and entertainers &#8211; people like Joy Behar David Letterman and Bill Maher &#8211; is their confident assertion that Obama is some sort of brilliant guy who represents a dramatic intellectual improvement over George Bush.  Bush would make comical grammatical gaffs, but Obama&#8217;s mistakes are those of a true ignoramus.  We got a sense of this when he bragged during the election about having campaigned in &#8220;57&#8243; states.  When he was in Europe this spring I cringed with embarrassment at the ignorance he displayed on a number of occasions.  The most notorious was that dumbbell display in Vienna when he told his audience that he wanted to explain the concept of &#8220;wheeling and dealing&#8221; to them, but didn&#8217;t know the Austrian word for &#8220;wheeling and dealing.&#8221;  So the man the Left touts as brilliant is so lacking in knowledge he can&#8217;t even be bothered to read up on the fact that the Austrian people speak German.  LOL!  That&#8217;s the kind of mistake one expects from some zit-faced high school kid who never bothers to read anything because he&#8217;s too busy playing video games and &#8211; please excuse my Austrian &#8211; jerking off.  But that&#8217;s your &#8220;sophisticated&#8221; Barack Obama for you.</p>
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		<title>By: Butter</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/blog/true-romance-obama-the-heartthrob/#comment-444463</link>
		<dc:creator>Butter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Given that the O hasn&#039;t produced any real results and that he&#039;s not likely to since he gets what he wants without doing so, I&#039;m hoping that the O phenomenon will be seen for what it is - a gigantic hole in the spiritual life of a tremendous number of Americans.  None of the producers I know were taken in by the O.  They are not carrying around this big vacuum within themselves that they hoped O would change.  That vacuum isn&#039;t going to be fixed by an outsider - no O, no lover, no parent, no one.  If America&#039;s get that lesson, then O will have done some good.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Given that the O hasn&#8217;t produced any real results and that he&#8217;s not likely to since he gets what he wants without doing so, I&#8217;m hoping that the O phenomenon will be seen for what it is &#8211; a gigantic hole in the spiritual life of a tremendous number of Americans.  None of the producers I know were taken in by the O.  They are not carrying around this big vacuum within themselves that they hoped O would change.  That vacuum isn&#8217;t going to be fixed by an outsider &#8211; no O, no lover, no parent, no one.  If America&#8217;s get that lesson, then O will have done some good.</p>
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		<title>By: Mr Lucky</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/blog/true-romance-obama-the-heartthrob/#comment-444397</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr Lucky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>81. Donna V.

&quot;N &amp; T come up with another doozy:

You mock me because you fear me.

Nah. We mock you because you’re a horse’s ass.&quot;

Now and Then. Would you accept being a pregnant turkey Then. Now?

Did Anvil consort with turkeys? Is that how it happened, you handsome mixed European Turkey with a touch of Black?

Oh! Prejjjjjeannnnnn? Oh my Johnson! Naked...!!!??? And....!!!

Who cares.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>81. Donna V.</p>
<p>&#8220;N &amp; T come up with another doozy:</p>
<p>You mock me because you fear me.</p>
<p>Nah. We mock you because you’re a horse’s ass.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now and Then. Would you accept being a pregnant turkey Then. Now?</p>
<p>Did Anvil consort with turkeys? Is that how it happened, you handsome mixed European Turkey with a touch of Black?</p>
<p>Oh! Prejjjjjeannnnnn? Oh my Johnson! Naked&#8230;!!!??? And&#8230;.!!!</p>
<p>Who cares.</p>
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		<title>By: mike</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/blog/true-romance-obama-the-heartthrob/#comment-444389</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One theory I guess. 
I don’t buy it all but it is interesting. It explains some of the phenomenon of this guy but doesn’t address his inability to get by without a teleprompter. A confidence man is smooth and a good talker, looks ahead and is quick on his feet. This guy stumbles over plumbers and tax cheats. The romance of having a black man for POTUS is,I think an elixer for many. It soothes the guilt they feel, not for anything they did but for the guilt they&#039;ve been taught is theirs.  
The polls that claim his popularity is holding are being answered by those people who are afraid of the racism tag or partaking of the elixer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One theory I guess.<br />
I don’t buy it all but it is interesting. It explains some of the phenomenon of this guy but doesn’t address his inability to get by without a teleprompter. A confidence man is smooth and a good talker, looks ahead and is quick on his feet. This guy stumbles over plumbers and tax cheats. The romance of having a black man for POTUS is,I think an elixer for many. It soothes the guilt they feel, not for anything they did but for the guilt they&#8217;ve been taught is theirs.<br />
The polls that claim his popularity is holding are being answered by those people who are afraid of the racism tag or partaking of the elixer.</p>
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		<title>By: goy</title>
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		<dc:creator>goy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;@82. Now and The[n]:&lt;/b&gt; - This despite her claim a year ago that there was only one photo. &lt;/i&gt;

&quot;I didn’t say that saying that.&quot; - what, can&#039;t type through the tears in your eyes, fake vet?

I can just hear the crack in your voice.

So she completely broke your heart. Get over it. There are plenty of other opportunist bimbos out there for you to obsess over. BHO is still an option. You&#039;ll just have to get in line behind Chris Matthews.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><b>@82. Now and The[n]:</b> &#8211; This despite her claim a year ago that there was only one photo. </i></p>
<p>&#8220;I didn’t say that saying that.&#8221; &#8211; what, can&#8217;t type through the tears in your eyes, fake vet?</p>
<p>I can just hear the crack in your voice.</p>
<p>So she completely broke your heart. Get over it. There are plenty of other opportunist bimbos out there for you to obsess over. BHO is still an option. You&#8217;ll just have to get in line behind Chris Matthews.</p>
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		<title>By: Now and The</title>
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		<dc:creator>Now and The</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>80. misanthropicus:
&quot;The fact that Prejean once screwed up doesn’t mean that she cannot have her opinions on the gay-marriage thing&quot;

I didn&#039;t say that saying that.  Nobody is saying that, certainly nobody on the half dozen national shows she&#039;s been on in the last 72 hours, you know, the evil media that is behind the campaign to silence her. She can say anything she wants and has been since she foisted her sanctimonious self on the world.  All I said was that she&#039;s a lying hypocritical phony baloney opportunist. I&#039;m also saying that conservatives aren&#039;t willing to admit that because they made her a hero and now they&#039;ll look like fools having been duped by this bimbo. As for &quot;screwed up once&quot; . . . the count now is dozens of nude photos and eight sex tapes, made not when she was a teenager but when she was 20.  This despite her claim a year ago that there was only one photo.  


81. Donna V.:

&quot;Nah. We mock you because you’re a horse’s ass.&quot;

Remember that the next time I mock Palin. 

&quot;The whole Prejean thing aside&quot; Now why would you want to set that aside? (see above)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>80. misanthropicus:<br />
&#8220;The fact that Prejean once screwed up doesn’t mean that she cannot have her opinions on the gay-marriage thing&#8221;</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t say that saying that.  Nobody is saying that, certainly nobody on the half dozen national shows she&#8217;s been on in the last 72 hours, you know, the evil media that is behind the campaign to silence her. She can say anything she wants and has been since she foisted her sanctimonious self on the world.  All I said was that she&#8217;s a lying hypocritical phony baloney opportunist. I&#8217;m also saying that conservatives aren&#8217;t willing to admit that because they made her a hero and now they&#8217;ll look like fools having been duped by this bimbo. As for &#8220;screwed up once&#8221; . . . the count now is dozens of nude photos and eight sex tapes, made not when she was a teenager but when she was 20.  This despite her claim a year ago that there was only one photo.  </p>
<p>81. Donna V.:</p>
<p>&#8220;Nah. We mock you because you’re a horse’s ass.&#8221;</p>
<p>Remember that the next time I mock Palin. </p>
<p>&#8220;The whole Prejean thing aside&#8221; Now why would you want to set that aside? (see above)</p>
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		<title>By: Donna V.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Donna V.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>N &amp; T come up with another doozy:

&lt;i&gt;You mock me because you fear me&lt;/i&gt;

Nah. We mock you because you&#039;re a horse&#039;s ass.

The whole Prejean thing aside, how can any one think at this point that gay marriage is a losing issue for conservatives?  I personally don&#039;t feel terribly strongly about it, but good God, if deep blue California and Maine won&#039;t go for it, if it&#039;s been voted down in 31 of 31 states that have put it to a vote, no, sorry, being against it is not going to hurt any politician.  Being for it will - which is something even Obama has realized.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>N &amp; T come up with another doozy:</p>
<p><i>You mock me because you fear me</i></p>
<p>Nah. We mock you because you&#8217;re a horse&#8217;s ass.</p>
<p>The whole Prejean thing aside, how can any one think at this point that gay marriage is a losing issue for conservatives?  I personally don&#8217;t feel terribly strongly about it, but good God, if deep blue California and Maine won&#8217;t go for it, if it&#8217;s been voted down in 31 of 31 states that have put it to a vote, no, sorry, being against it is not going to hurt any politician.  Being for it will &#8211; which is something even Obama has realized.</p>
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