Comments on: Obama Breaks Little New Ground On Policy

Washington Post: Democrat Has Not Emphasized Any Signature Domestic Issue

[terrorislami]

JEFFERSON WROTE THE CONSTITUTION

and even he sent our military to kick fascist nazi terrorislams arses,,,, without congress declaring war,,,

I believe%u2014because of the encounter with the insufferable Abd Al-Rahman and because of his long engagement with Jones%u2014that Jefferson had long sought a pretext for war. His problem was his own party and the clause in the Constitution that gave Congress the power to declare war. With not atypical subtlety, Jefferson took a shortcut through this thicket in 1801 and sent the navy to North Africa on patrol, as it were, with instructions to enforce existing treaties and punish infractions of them. Our third president did not inform Congress of his authorization of this mission until the fleet was too far away to recall.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_urbanities-thomas_jefferson.html

[neonink]

Obama Breaks Little New Ground On Policy
Washington Post: Democrat Has Not Emphasized Any Signature Domestic Issue


DUH!

[terrorislami]

never pay fascist nazi terrorislam tribute,,, never,,,

Kipling poem %u201CDane-Geld%u201D

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbor and to say:%u2014
%u201CWe invaded you last night%u2014we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.%u201D

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you%u2019ve only to pay %u2019em the Dane-geld
And then you%u2019ll get rid of the Dane!

Kipling runs briskly through the stages of humiliation undergone by any power that falls for this appeasement, and concludes:

It is wrong to put temptation in the pathof any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:%u2014

%u201CWe never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!%u201D

It may be fortunate that the United States had to pass this test, and imbibe this lesson, so early in its life as a nation.

[rudy654-2009]

Posted by terrorislami at 04:36 PM

YAWWWWWN. Burp!

[rowdywicca]

She sponsored Kennedy''''''''s bill because she believed it should be enacted!

Posted by RowdyWicca at 04:15 PM : May 29, 2008"

ths shrill Pantsuit was not in congress and was tnerefore unable to sponsor the SCHIP Bill


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Posted by RobRoyh390 at 04:35 PM : May 29, 2

Who the hell said she was! I SAID that when Kennedy was having trouble getting it passed, he went to the White House for support, and he got it from Hillary Clinton who used her influence to get it passed, and in fact praised her for it!

Can you not even READ??? Or do you just blow hot air out of your ears like Obama?

[robroyh390]

I love the circus



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Posted by JERSupporter at 04:29 PM : May 29, 2008"

Evidently and your favourite animals in the circus are aparently retarded monkeys seeings as your voted for a retarded monkey not once but twice

[terrorislami]

america stands up to fascist nazi terrorislam,,,

But one cannot get around what Jefferson heard when he went with John Adams to wait upon Tripoli%u2019s
ambassador to London in March 1785. When they inquired by what right the Barbary states preyed upon American shipping, enslaving both crews and passengers, America%u2019s two foremost envoys were informed that %u201Cit was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.%u201D (It is worth noting that the United States played no part in the Crusades, or in the Catholic reconquista of Andalusia.)
Ambassador Abd Al-Rahman did not fail to mention the size of his own commission, if America chose to pay the protection money demanded as an alternative to piracy. So here was an early instance of the %u201Cheads I win, tails you lose%u201D dilemma, in which the United States is faced with corrupt regimes, on the one hand, and Islamic militants, on the other%u2014or indeed a collusion between them.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_urbanities-thomas_jefferson.html

[rudy654-2009]

Posted by libsluv2spit at 04:35 PM

I have a saying: The conservatives (so-called) want to keep everybody down and the liberals want to shut everybody down. Either way, its not much benefit.

[terrorislami]

the defeat of fascist nazi terrorislam,,,

%u201CIt is a settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. The United States, while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none.%u201D President James Madison

fascist nazi terrorislam

In a way, I am glad that I did not have the initial benefit of all this research. My quest sent me to some less obvious secondary sources, in particular to Linda Colley%u2019s excellent book Captives, which shows the reaction of the English and American publics to a slave trade of which they were victims rather than perpetrators. How many know that perhaps 1.5 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved in Islamic North Africa between 1530 and 1780? We dimly recall that Miguel de Cervantes was briefly in the galleys. But what of the people of the town of Baltimore in Ireland, all carried off by %u201Ccorsair%u201D raiders in a single night?
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_urbanities-thomas_jefferson.html

[robroyh390]

She sponsored Kennedy''''s bill because she believed it should be enacted!

Posted by RowdyWicca at 04:15 PM : May 29, 2008"

ths shrill Pantsuit was not in congress and was tnerefore unable to sponsor the SCHIP Bill