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Windy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:00 PM
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don't think Larry Johnson is a racist? read his latest blog post on No Quarter

He’s Willing to be Putin’s Pigeon

So He Can Go Body Surfing

On the day after Russia invaded Georgia, Barack Obama urged even-handed “restraint” on both sides without mentioning Russia by name or rebuking its aggression. Thus Obama proposed his “Rodney King Doctrine,” after the African-American taxi driver, beaten by Los Angeles policemen in 1991, who plaintively asked, “Can we all get along?” The acquittal of the police in 1992 triggered the LA riots.

The Russians took the Obama Doctrine as another green light—not just for their attack but also for extending their power in the foreseeable future under a potential Obama administration.

Having dealt with the pesky issue of war, Obama turned to the more pressing matter of his Hawaiian vacation. His statement about his day in paradise was more focused than his statement on the Russian invasion.

Here’s what was on Obama’s mind as the Russian army plunged deep into the heart of the Georgian democracy and bombed civilians:

“I’m going to get a plate lunch. I might go to Zippy’s. I might go to Rainbow Drive-In. I haven’t decided yet. Get some Zip Min. I’m going to go get some shave ice. I’m going to go body surfing at an undisclosed location. I’m going to see my tutu — my grandma — and I’m going to watch my girls play on the beach, and once in a while I might go into the water. But mostly I’m going to watch them.”

Then, the New Decider made a decision. He announced he was going “to go body surfing at some undisclosed location.”

That inspirational, transformational, post-partisan, post-racial statement had an inspirational effect on the Russians. They were further inspired to ramp up their military offensive and encouraged that “citizen of the world” Obama was just the man for Putin to man-handle in years to come.

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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:03 PM
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1. I'll say it once again
the situation in Georgia is not on my radar screen. We need to worry about problems in Georgia, USA.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:05 PM
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2. Some time back...
Larry lost his mind and cannot find it. He went from a courageous speaker of the truth to a ranting, raving nutbag.

His cred is shot.
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Windy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:08 PM
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4. I think he is downright nuts. Its one thing not to support a candidate
its another to be so vile in what you say and post about a person with absolutely no thought given to that person's family, etc.

Frankly, his blog is a prime example of libel. He is certainly posting against Obama with malice.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:18 PM
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8. Yes he is.
But why? Why the visceral hate that is so palpable in all he writes? Was he kindasorta promised a position in any Clinton Admin that came along? Was he always a mole and provocateur? Or is he simply just a pig-shit common racist?

Or, finally, is he simply gone round the bend?
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w13rd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:32 PM
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11. I vote...
...pig-shit common racist.
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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:08 PM
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3. No amount of cute rhetoric
Edited on Tue Aug-12-08 08:17 PM by TomClash
- from a guy the CIA found disposable - makes Barack's statements on the Russian-Georgian any less correct. And everyone knows it.
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Windy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:09 PM
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6. Obama's statements regarding the situation were 100% correct.
His statement was well thought out, measured and appropriate.
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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:16 PM
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7. It's called leadership, maturity and knowledge
Larry Johnson's column reads like knownothingism.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:20 PM
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9. He actually sounded presidential.
How rare and wonderful. It caught me quite off-guard. Like hearing someone talk in that manner was something I had long forgotten.
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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:24 PM
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10. You mean like he had something called an education?
That's what he sounds like to me.
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gaiilonfong Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:08 PM
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5. We all KNOW Larry CRIMINAL CIA Operative Johnson is a reTHUGlican racist
no news.........he is trying to do what he did at the CIA..disrupt elections and use disinformation campaigns.....BOTH CRIMES he is a criminal TURD
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:54 PM
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12. i just hope obama watched shark week before he went to hawaii. eom
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