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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZUT9MW45QXY\/TnHjxxaCUlI\/AAAAAAAAAJc\/HgZGkFjznMA\/s1600\/obama-angry-21.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZUT9MW45QXY\/TnHjxxaCUlI\/AAAAAAAAAJc\/HgZGkFjznMA\/s320\/obama-angry-21.jpg\" width=\"267\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EHu Is Watching Yu\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EWhile many Americans are laughing at the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2011\/09\/goon-squad-tv-hilarious-attack-watch-commercial-goes-viral\/\"\u003EAttack Watch video\u003C\/a\u003E now going viral on the web or reading how Obama's ominous threats are \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/214099\/20110914\/attack-watch-attackwatch-com-president-barack-obama-gatekeeping-web-site.htm\"\u003E\"pointless\"\u003C\/a\u003E, there are some Americans who are not laughing.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EPerhaps someone should ask Gibson Guitar's CEO Henry Juszkiewicz just how funny opposing Barack Obama can be.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EIt's not like Americans were not warned or did not see this coming, before Obama's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.attackwatch.com\/\"\u003EAttack Watch\u003C\/a\u003E there was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.fightthesmears.com\/\"\u003EFight the Smears\u003C\/a\u003E where Barack Obama's campaign responded that the president would \"respond to any smears forcefully with all means at our disposal\". \u0026nbsp;Sadly there are some Americans who are finding out the hard way just what that means.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EI can't help but ask myself if Americans deserving of freedom or liberty when they seem to have lost all respect for it. \u0026nbsp;Our children are being groped in the nation's airports and now a sitting president is urging his political supporters to spy on and report their fellow citizens. \u0026nbsp;Where is the outrage?\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z4cUBgjYx1Q\/TnHi5P6YGjI\/AAAAAAAAAJY\/vc8EwUkZFLw\/s1600\/spy-vs-spy.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z4cUBgjYx1Q\/TnHi5P6YGjI\/AAAAAAAAAJY\/vc8EwUkZFLw\/s1600\/spy-vs-spy.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ESeriously this is the kind of surreal spy vs. spy crap is something we would expect from some Cold War era totalitarian regime where some poor sod forfeits a kidney for listening to the wrong radio station.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe idea of a government or it's president attempting to restrict freedom of speech and\/or inducing and encouraging it's citizens to spy on each other is not representative of a free demographic society respectful of human rights, rather it is the staple of an authoritative and at times totalitarian regime who is unwilling to embrace the principles of freedom or liberty.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ERegardless of where Barack Obama was born, he is not an American. \u0026nbsp;He is an enemy of the State and should be treated as such.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERelated Posts:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/barack-obama-vs-america.html\"\u003EBarack Obama Vs. America\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/time-magazine-reporting-for-duty.html\"\u003ETime Magazine Reporting For Duty\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5700665281372587669\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/obamas-attack-watch-comical-or.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/5700665281372587669"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/5700665281372587669"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/obamas-attack-watch-comical-or.html","title":"Obama's Attack Watch - Comical or Kafkaesque"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lao"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06746323559308496625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/pants.heddley.com\/photos\/thumb.php?uid=1040673021.343112\u0026big=1"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZUT9MW45QXY\/TnHjxxaCUlI\/AAAAAAAAAJc\/HgZGkFjznMA\/s72-c\/obama-angry-21.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524934.post-3203302867280948954"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-10T21:28:00.001+08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-10T21:39:28.241+08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diversity and Multiculturalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"England"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Submission and Subjugation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Treason"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"We Won't Get Fooled Again"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-4FgbEgEZptk\/TkJxXei0vNI\/AAAAAAAAAJQ\/3qz7vn7xQPY\/s1600\/ddb.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"208\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-4FgbEgEZptk\/TkJxXei0vNI\/AAAAAAAAAJQ\/3qz7vn7xQPY\/s320\/ddb.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"We'll be fighting in the streets with our children at our feet,  And the morals that they worship will be gone.   And the men who spurred us on sit in judgment of all wrong.   They decide and then the shotgun sings the song.   I'll tip my hat to the new constitution.\"\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E'Won't Get Fooled Again' by The Who\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe prescience in Pete Townshend's words ring true across Britain tonight as\u0026nbsp; violence rages in London, Birmingham, Liverpool and other cities throughout England.\u0026nbsp; Impotent to stop the spread of violence the authorities have threatened to use rubber bullets in a sophomoric attempt to establish law and order.\u0026nbsp; Someone might wish to inform Messiers David Cameron and crew that lead bullets are much more effective.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsk anyone the reason for the devastating riots and you will get a plethora of reasons ranging from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/44073673\"\u003Eeconomic uncertainty\u003C\/a\u003E to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/katharinebirbalsingh\/100099830\/these-riots-were-about-race-why-ignore-the-fact\/\"\u003Eracial strife\u003C\/a\u003E. In a supposed rare glimpse of sobriety a couple of inebriated ladettes share their learned thoughts with the BBC and mumble that they are just showing the rich that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-14458424\"\u003E\"we can do what we want\"\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell, score one for the ladettes.\u0026nbsp; You see this is not about economics or race, but rather relativism.\u0026nbsp; Reaping what it has sown, England is now discovering\u0026nbsp; that simple aphorism that cultural relativism inevitably drags moral relativism in it's wake.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGrowing up in an environment that eschews moral absolutism and embraces cultural relativism and the \"diversity of opinions\", these drunken ladettes find themselves cursed now with the inability to distinguish right from wrong, where the truth now becomes subjective depending merely on one's point of view.\u0026nbsp; This isn't the first time we have seen this, we saw it in the aftermath of Katrina when countless celebrities and liberal politicians defended the actions of the looters and we see it today with a growing tide of politicians such as David Cameron and Barack Obama who believe that a nation's fiscal ineptitude can be rectified simply by fleecing the rich.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was another politician, John Adams who in 1787 said\u0026nbsp; - \"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If \"Thou shalt not covet\" and \"Thou shalt not steal\" were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the name of tolerance, diversity and political correctness we have drifted away from God and embraced moral relativism. In our arrogance, we as a society have by \"secular edict\" decreed that sin no longer exists and moral precepts are unfounded. In complete defiance of the laws of nature and of God we have chosen to live our lives as we see fit and by \"choice\" - not by what is right and what is wrong.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"I'll tip my hat to the new constitution.  Take a bow for the new revolution.   Smile and grin at the change all around.   Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday.   Then I'll get on my knees and pray  We don't get fooled again.   Don't get fooled again, no no.\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3203302867280948954\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/we-wont-get-fooled-again.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/3203302867280948954"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/3203302867280948954"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/we-wont-get-fooled-again.html","title":"We Won't Get Fooled Again"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lao"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06746323559308496625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/pants.heddley.com\/photos\/thumb.php?uid=1040673021.343112\u0026big=1"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-4FgbEgEZptk\/TkJxXei0vNI\/AAAAAAAAAJQ\/3qz7vn7xQPY\/s72-c\/ddb.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524934.post-3668769831289875129"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-08T02:34:00.000+08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-08T02:34:43.572+08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Submission and Subjugation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Treason"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Useful Idiots"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Monday Bloody Monday"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EIn a few hours from now, the Asian Markets will open, all weekend the concerns have been growing as to how badly Standard and Poor's downgrade of the U.S.'s credit rating from AAA to AA+\u0026nbsp; will\u0026nbsp; affect the Asian financial markets.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EIn the city state of Singapore a few money changers over the weekend were either were refusing to accept the US dollar or grudgingly accepting it on parity with the US dollar.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EFaith in the greenback and faith in America's financial strength, stability and leadership are now gone.\u0026nbsp; The hardest thing to accept I suppose as an American here is the realization that this dethroning or change as Barack Obama likes to call it is irreversible.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The debt crisis was but one of\u0026nbsp; many factors contributing to our fall from grace.\u0026nbsp; It didn't help having a president who did not believe in the greatness of our nation.\u0026nbsp; Needless to say, when our president believes that American Exceptionalism is nothing more than a myth,  it becomes a self-fulfilling  prophecy. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EOur role as the sole remaining superpower in the world is now over.\u0026nbsp; Our role in Southeast Asia as a partner and defender of peace and freedom has now come to an end.\u0026nbsp; This isn't pessimism my friends this is the reality, a reality that many Americans will ultimately need to come to terms with.\u0026nbsp; You see, at the end of the day, it is all about confidence, and once the confidence is gone then there is not much left.\u0026nbsp; Confidence in our currency and our nation would require a president and government that is attuned to brand-building not to self-deprecation.\u0026nbsp; The world wants to see America as that bright city on the hill, a leader and not simply a nation who sees themselves as one of the guys. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EIf you are wondering if the confidence can ever be restored - sure it can.\u0026nbsp; Pay back the 14.7 trillion and then the confidence might slowly return.\u0026nbsp; Other than that, no amount of half-measures or talk is ever going to undo the damage done.\u0026nbsp; Paying back the trillions in debt would require cuts in spending that would be too painful for Americans to accept and as such Americans will need to get used to their new role in the world, a role that Obama envisioned for us.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe problems America has are not just financial though, American themselves are to blame.\u0026nbsp; You see it is not Obama that ails us,\u0026nbsp; but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.\u0026nbsp; It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America.  Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3668769831289875129\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/monday-bloody-monday.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/3668769831289875129"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/3668769831289875129"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/monday-bloody-monday.html","title":"Monday Bloody Monday"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lao"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06746323559308496625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/pants.heddley.com\/photos\/thumb.php?uid=1040673021.343112\u0026big=1"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524934.post-7293340580447697414"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-03T01:02:00.002+08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-03T04:32:54.180+08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Media Bias"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Singapore"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Useful Idiots"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Washington's Dog and Pony Show"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EAcross Southeast Asia there is an ubiquitous feeling of repugnance that has replaced the overall malaise here as millions watched America's politicians in Washington sip champagne and celebrate the \"victory\" of adding another 2.4 trillion to the nation's debt.\u0026nbsp; Many here are perplexed to say the least, asking the simple question - \"What is there to celebrate?\"\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EAmerica's talking heads in the media have all spoke about how the markets will rebound throughout the world on the good news, but that has not been the case nor the reality here on the ground.\u0026nbsp; Reflecting not only the mood here but the reality, the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sg.finance.yahoo.com\/intlindices?e=asia\"\u003Emarkets are down\u003C\/a\u003E and so is the dollar with the bottom sadly no where in sight.\u0026nbsp; Expect the decline to continue.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EDespite what some of our politicians might think, the debt crisis is not rocket science and Americans understand it clearly and so do our creditors overseas. It would be nice if Americans could just dictate to the bank what their credit limit would be but we can't.\u0026nbsp; Sure you might be able to run up a million dollar tab on a black American Express Centurion card, but you can be well rest assured that the good folks at American Express are going to be asking how you intend to pay your bill at the end of the month. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ESo how does one ever dig themselves out of a US14.29 trillion dollar hole?\u0026nbsp; That is the most pertinent question today that is on everyone's mind, the one that no one seems to be answering is perhaps one of the biggest reasons why the gloom in the markets and the dollar will remain until real change comes to America and to Washington.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe mindless hope and change mantra that has been droning on from Washington for the last few years has become about as welcome here in Southeast Asia as a dengue mosquito.\u0026nbsp; Look around and you see millions here clamoring for Iphones and Ipads not for the right to\u0026nbsp; eat the rich or bugger each other with a government imprimatur.\u0026nbsp; Where are the priorities?\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EFaith in our nation and our economy will return when meritocracy rules rather than militant egalitarianism and when our nation's president is seen as a true leader and not the ringmaster of some macabre dog and pony show as we saw with the\u0026nbsp; handling of the nation's debt crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommon sense dictates that when you are in a hole you stop digging and it is America's ingenuity unmolested by bureaucracy that will lift us from the abyss and not the government.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7293340580447697414\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/washingtons-dog-and-pony-show.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/7293340580447697414"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/7293340580447697414"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/washingtons-dog-and-pony-show.html","title":"Washington's Dog and Pony Show"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lao"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06746323559308496625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/pants.heddley.com\/photos\/thumb.php?uid=1040673021.343112\u0026big=1"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524934.post-1321466124595218086"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-30T07:29:00.002+08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-30T07:34:23.722+08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cold Civil War"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Useful Idiots"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Obama's Army Detweets"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EYesterday, Chairman Soetoro issued the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/44\/post\/thousands-unfollow-atbarackobama-on-twitter\/2011\/07\/29\/gIQALyhxhI_blog.html\"\u003Efollowing instructions\u003C\/a\u003E to his legions of fawning jackbooted  apparatchiks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"If you want to see a bipartisan compromise — a bill that can pass both  houses of Congress and that I can sign — let your members of Congress  know,” Obama said.“Make a phone call. Send an e-mail. Tweet. Keep the  pressure on Washington, and we can get past this.”\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EA short time later, Obama’s official 2012 campaign Twitter account  announced to its 9.4 million followers that it would begin publishing  the Twitter account names of House Republicans. Over the course of the  day, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/BarackObama\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E@BarackObama\u003C\/a\u003E sent out around 100 tweets. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EFed up with his divisive politics, incompetence and spam over 30,000 of Obama's lickspittle automatons detweeted from the battle field.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2012 can't come any faster. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1321466124595218086\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/obamas-army-detweets.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/1321466124595218086"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/1321466124595218086"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/obamas-army-detweets.html","title":"Obama's Army Detweets"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lao"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06746323559308496625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/pants.heddley.com\/photos\/thumb.php?uid=1040673021.343112\u0026big=1"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});