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2011-02-23 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2011-02-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Obama is doing what he does best: vote present.

Posted by OldSpook 2011-02-23 00:13|| 2011-02-23 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not sure he is voting present. Maybe he has a surrogate voting present. He is not engaged in much but minutia that really should not concern him. He is a micromanager and not a very good one at that--apolitical gadfly. Weak President and getting weaker all the time.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-23 08:24|| 2011-02-23 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 a political gadfly

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-23 08:25|| 2011-02-23 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Obama's not "voting 'present'"--he's focused on the really important issues, like preventing childhood obesity and telling the state of Wisconsin how to run its affairs.

Posted by Mike 2011-02-23 08:47|| 2011-02-23 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 What is happening in Libya today, with the state-sponsored violence, is madness in the very sense of the word.

Which gives credence to the view that 'history' is only the period of one's lifetime. As the real record shows, this is pretty much standard operating procedure for governments up till 60 years ago whether its on the steps of Odessa or the draft riots of New York. Or for that matter Madison.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-23 08:56|| 2011-02-23 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 The video of Daffy in his pickup truck, hat with ear flaps, and umbrella was bizarre, surrealistic and insane. Time to put the mad dog down when he starts gunning down his people with abandon.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-23 09:49|| 2011-02-23 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 I just hope the US Government and the moron in the White House keep thier yaps SHUT, and stay the hell out of all of this turmoil. These people have a history of whacking each other every few decades or so. Let them have at it!

Posted by Besoeker 2011-02-23 10:00|| 2011-02-23 10:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Would I get any debate if I postulated that without Western interference, most of the Middle East would devolve back to tribes living in tents and engaging in interfraticidinal blood disputes over goats and watering holes?

Islam has institutionalized a nomadic, anticivilization mind set among the clerics and in countries with strong clerical influence over the government, they are one good civil insurrection away from the 8th century.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-02-23 15:12|| 2011-02-23 15:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Would I get any debate if I postulated that without Western interference, most of the Middle East would devolve back to tribes living in tents and engaging in interfraticidinal blood disputes over goats and watering holes?

And piracy, which has a long tradition in the coastal cities of the Maghreb and Somalia and all. Slave running of black Africans has never really stopped, as so many stories from northern Sudan attest.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-23 15:54|| 2011-02-23 15:54|| Front Page Top

#10 I love the last line of the article alluding to the shooting of unarmed 'citizens'. Sorry, but unarmed 'citizens' aren't 'citizens', they're subjects. Thank you "Founding Father's" for the 2nd Amendment.

Posted by Total War 2011-02-23 16:02|| 2011-02-23 16:02|| Front Page Top

#11 I love the last line of the article alluding to the shooting of unarmed 'citizens'.

With so many police stations and Libyan army bases raided, some of those citizens aren't anything like unarmed any more...

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-23 16:21|| 2011-02-23 16:21|| Front Page Top

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