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bertman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-26-09 08:49 PM
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54. Yes, the gulf is WIDE and DEEP. Only experience and empathy can change that. Unfortunately
experience can be slow coming and empathy might be equally hard to come by.

That's a great example of how far apart we are, Maddie. I wish I knew how to help the righties see the error of their ways.

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  -Did President Obama just prevent another 9/11?? kentuck  Sep-26-09 10:14 AM   #0 
  - Sounds like they stopped several Oklahoma City events  csziggy   Sep-26-09 10:20 AM   #1 
  - And whatever happened to those Somalia "pirates"??  kentuck   Sep-26-09 10:24 AM   #4 
  - the right wing nuts probably think Obama was tipped off by his Muslin buddies  csziggy   Sep-26-09 12:07 PM   #31 
  - They probably realized that fucking with US shipping no longer paid off.  TheWraith   Sep-26-09 01:25 PM   #37 
  - Either that or the corporate media moved on to some other news--such as our Nazi,  bertman   Sep-26-09 07:31 PM   #44 
     - I just had that conversation with a friend I walk my dogs with  MadMaddie   Sep-26-09 07:50 PM   #53 
        - Yes, the gulf is WIDE and DEEP. Only experience and empathy can change that. Unfortunately  bertman   Sep-26-09 08:49 PM   #54 
           - Bertman I think the only way they will understand is to  MadMaddie   Sep-26-09 09:30 PM   #58 
  - Read the news, they've been quite active...eom  Lagomorph   Sep-26-09 10:01 PM   #61 
  - If you read international news media the attacks have continued.  harkadog   Sep-27-09 01:54 AM   #69 
  - Here is my question ~ I am so proud of the FBI  goclark   Sep-26-09 07:34 PM   #46 
     - FBI head probably had no sense about what he was expected/allowed to do.  elleng   Sep-26-09 10:52 PM   #62 
     - Probably because Cheney wanted his buddies at the CIA to get the glory  csziggy   Sep-27-09 06:33 PM   #75 
  - If this is the best that Al Qaeda has...  Barack_America   Sep-26-09 10:22 AM   #2 
  - Not sure what you're thinking  Schema Thing   Sep-26-09 10:41 AM   #11 
  - In theory he did.  Barack_America   Sep-26-09 10:49 AM   #17 
  - ...he couldn't make it work....he'd get an F in terrorism school  spanone   Sep-26-09 10:58 AM   #19 
  - He's been around trying to buy h2o2 for a year?  madeline_con   Sep-26-09 11:43 AM   #22 
     - He was the weak link.  kentuck   Sep-26-09 11:45 AM   #24 
        - Hi dad and an imam were charged with lying.  madeline_con   Sep-26-09 11:51 AM   #25 
  - He seemed unable to concentrate hydrogen peroxide by fractional distillation  FarCenter   Sep-26-09 10:43 AM   #12 
  - It's more the pleas for help over the internet...  Barack_America   Sep-26-09 10:47 AM   #14 
  - He's a fall guy.  madeline_con   Sep-26-09 11:45 AM   #23 
     - Ask Obama. If everone is right and he prevented this, he also set the guy up, right?That was the key  timeforpeace   Sep-26-09 12:05 PM   #29 
        - If he was part of a group, he could have been used as a diversion  madeline_con   Sep-26-09 12:07 PM   #30 
  - Perhaps he should have went for a diet Coke and Mentos bomb...  niceypoo   Sep-27-09 10:40 AM   #73 
  - Well remember, Richard Reid was unable to figure out how to light a fuse.  TheWraith   Sep-26-09 01:26 PM   #38 
  - had this been bushy everyone would be all over the media  greenbriar   Sep-26-09 10:23 AM   #3 
  - Bingo !  kentuck   Sep-26-09 10:25 AM   #5 
  - +1000  iceman66   Sep-26-09 10:34 AM   #8 
  - The Bush WH would have been pushing this on the media.  Barack_America   Sep-26-09 10:28 AM   #6 
  - Very true.  kentuck   Sep-26-09 10:36 AM   #9 
  - Not to mention the fact that Obama is starting to forge a lasting peace in the world.  wroberts189   Sep-26-09 10:43 AM   #13 
  - Wrong! Bush would have let them hit their targets. Like he did with 9/11.  Wizard777   Sep-26-09 10:48 AM   #16 
     - +++ 1,000,000 +++ n/t  Subdivisions   Sep-26-09 10:57 AM   #18 
     - And he'd be on TV telling us to go shopping!  leftstreet   Sep-26-09 11:40 AM   #21 
  - No matter, trumpet it like he did. The freepers would certainly do it under Bush. n/t  elocs   Sep-26-09 10:32 AM   #7 
  - Obama:The president that did stop another 9/11  Uben   Sep-26-09 10:36 AM   #10 
  - I don't believe it yet....  mike_c   Sep-26-09 10:48 AM   #15 
  - I'd like to know when these investigations began...  cherokeeprogressive   Sep-26-09 12:12 PM   #32 
  - Exactly. Then let the media know so you look like a big bad terrorist fighter.  alarimer   Sep-26-09 07:34 PM   #45 
  - Obviously this President is paying  Loki   Sep-26-09 11:37 AM   #20 
  - No, but it sounds like some federal agency probably did. nt  LWolf   Sep-26-09 11:58 AM   #26 
  - No, it was Obama. He was able to fit it in between late night TV appearances.  timeforpeace   Sep-26-09 12:03 PM   #28 
     - Hi really IS Jesus!  LWolf   Sep-26-09 12:16 PM   #33 
  - Had he been President in 2001 there would have been no 9/11  B3Nut   Sep-26-09 11:59 AM   #27 
  - Somewhere, in an undisclosed location, Dick Cheney is weeping.  jgraz   Sep-26-09 12:27 PM   #34 
  - Because on some level they want a terror attack  Juche   Sep-26-09 12:39 PM   #35 
  - I don't know. The whole story is weird to me.  Baikonour   Sep-26-09 12:43 PM   #36 
  - I think "another 9/11" is a bit of an overstatement...  TheWraith   Sep-26-09 01:34 PM   #39 
  - The intelligence and LE agencies have been doing a great job since 2001.  Fire_Medic_Dave   Sep-26-09 01:38 PM   #40 
  - I'm not sure exactly what you're saying Obama did here? I didn't see him slap on any handcuffs. n/t  newtothegame   Sep-26-09 02:43 PM   #41 
  - He ordered handcuffs instead of torture.  kentuck   Sep-26-09 02:54 PM   #42 
  - Obama has kept us safe longer than the past 2 Presidents  thelordofhell   Sep-26-09 03:00 PM   #43 
  - Safer than the "last two Presidents?" You mean Bush's stolen election #1 and 2.?  KoKo   Sep-26-09 07:43 PM   #51 
  - When did Clinton not keep us safe? Foreign terrorists never attacked us under his watch  ShadowLiberal   Sep-27-09 11:17 AM   #74 
  - Cheney would probablly claim credit for it  Trekologer   Sep-26-09 07:36 PM   #47 
  - Probably.  bigwillq   Sep-26-09 07:36 PM   #48 
  - Nah, he didn't. But it appears that our security guys did manage to ferret out some wannabee  bertman   Sep-26-09 07:39 PM   #49 
  - NO! They have not done proper investigation of "9/11" so how would Iran figure into  KoKo   Sep-26-09 07:41 PM   #50 
  - Keeping Us Safe Since January, 2009!  gauguin57   Sep-26-09 07:44 PM   #52 
  - Rush Fartbag is on record wanting this country to rot.  Deja Q   Sep-26-09 08:56 PM   #55 
  - Yes he did. This should quiet national-security types that said Obama couldn't protect America  Kievan Rus   Sep-26-09 09:00 PM   #56 
  - You should calm down and read this.  uberblonde   Sep-26-09 09:28 PM   #57 
  - Thanks for posting that. Good points, all. n/t  Poll_Blind   Sep-26-09 09:38 PM   #59 
  - I'm not sold yet that this is all it's being cracked up to be. n/t  Poll_Blind   Sep-26-09 09:40 PM   #60 
  - They WONT give the President any credit, but give Bush credit for catching Saddam.  FarLeftFist   Sep-26-09 11:08 PM   #63 
  - I think that the credit should go to the FBI.  Beacool   Sep-27-09 12:55 AM   #64 
  - hahahahaaa!!!!  BlooInBloo   Sep-27-09 12:57 AM   #65 
  - Didn't "someone" say that Obama would be "tested" and get  johnaries   Sep-27-09 01:14 AM   #66 
  - Who said the test was over??  kentuck   Sep-27-09 01:17 AM   #67 
  - It's good to have a president who can actually  impik   Sep-27-09 01:47 AM   #68 
  - C'mon now-get real. 911 was nothing but a LIHOP or MIHOP event via * & Cheney.  earth mom   Sep-27-09 02:33 AM   #70 
  - Goddamn Bush would let it happen to push his fascist agenda  santamargarita   Sep-27-09 08:33 AM   #71 
  - Yes - just like Clinton and other DEMOCRATIC Presidents have done.  TankLV   Sep-27-09 10:08 AM   #72 
 

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