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MrButcher
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:19pm
that was funny.

boobs
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BRAVEHEART
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:16pm
Obama is the Hawaian God Messiah of Mystic Keynesian pseudo prosperity! The Master Magician transforming free enterprise into totalitarian comminism in the blink of an eye! The New age Messiah is just beginning to totally transform your triditional American world into your worst nightmare ever. Are there actually words enough to describe this Majestic Super Elite communist.

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- rgilfillan
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:49pm
  I can come up with some suggestions…Satan, Anti-Christ…no no that won’t fit. Got it…how about just plain @$$hole? Let’s hope the country wakes up tomorrow and shuts this liberal machine down fast.
  
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reconmarine
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:16pm
Well I’m glad they cleared that up. What a bunch of jerks.

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wing_n_it
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:08pm
Ignorance is expensive. Unfortunately, we are all paying the “stupid tax” due to the ignorance of so many.

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HouseNegro
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:06pm
Those guys could have been cabinet members.

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- vennoye
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:34pm
  Or Czars!!!
  
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- MHZathras
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:56pm
  Isn’t that “*****” looking Nazis already a Czar?
  
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claymoremacm
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:06pm
baa baa baaa sheep (democrats) grrr grrrrr grrrrr wolfs Republican, so the question is do you consider yourself a Herd animal or a Noble Animal? Country of origin not reguired LOL

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Fear The Voices
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:02pm
If these people have been voting, it’s no wonder we got such a poor excuse for a president. Perhaps, if they could read, they might have asked to have borrowed the teleprompter. Though, I doubt they’d have sounded anything close to intelligent.

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- Nvrforget
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:12pm
  Meh, there’s a bazillion videos of Tea partiers, Liberals, Republicans and Democrats uttering uneducated stuff like that (or worse). The reason is simple: It’s just more entertaining to see the people that can’t find Florida on a map or think the moon is bigger than the sun than showing the people who answer most/all questions correctly and intelligently.
  
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emmanuel Goldstein
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:01pm
I swear there should be a test to be able to vote at all. Amendment number 28: No person shall be allowed to vote until they pass the Naturalized Citizenship test.

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- where is JG
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:29pm
  amen to that
  
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- FedUP
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 4:36pm
  And the test MUST be in English.
  
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american1st
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:01pm
laugh out loud funny, sure says a lot about the education level of the average voter..

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MHZathras
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:58pm
People hear what they want to hear… Sad… but very funny

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BlueCollared
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:58pm
Only college kids could say something that dumb.

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inthebegining111
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:57pm
unbelievable Wake up America.. yell and screen all you want but facts are facts…. ba wa haha Excellent also

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diesel71dan
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:55pm
lol….. please tell me this was just a handful of stupid people out of millions that were asked. Are humans really devolving this quickly?

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GnomeChomsky
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:53pm
You mean there are Americans who don’t know who John Maynard Keynes is? Color me shocked. Next you’ll be telling tme they haven’t heard of Milton Friedman, Emile Durkheim, or Arnold Toynbee(either of them).

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- Fear The Voices
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:03pm
  Appearrantly they’re not able to read or listen either.
  
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- GnomeChomsky
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:22pm
  Its not that they don’t know how to read or listen. It’s actually basic brain function, when we read or listen we usually know the word (or assume we do) before we actually finish reading it or it is finished being spoken. As another commenter has said “people hear what they want to hear” and the same could be said for reading as evidenced by the lady in the video who said ” I thought you said Kenyan”. Ultimately what you saw was not ignorance but instead ego stroking gone horribly wrong, these people saw and heard something they could easily dispute and in doing so belittle the messenger thus inflating their sense of self worth. Although, there is not much that can be said in defense of the young group of kids other than a combination of ignorance and pharmaceutical interference.
  
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- vennoye
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:26pm
  I can understand them not knowing Keynes….I didn’t either until 2 1/2 years ago during the election process. But, reading is another matter!! Are these the Liberal Elitists the shirt was describing?
  
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- N37BU6
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:35pm
  Well, perhaps they should learn. Keynesian economics, especially in this state of debt, is a death sentence. Obama hired a “Green Keynesian” for the Green Jobs Czar position. The left didn’t catch that, or the fact that he’s a laundered communist.
  
  If the left is so smart, why don’t they know the difference between “Kenyan” and “Keynesian”? Their signs sure imply they are intellectual superiors… so what’s the deal? It couldn’t be that they are in fact delusional, conceited children who have been patted on the head for everything they’ve done their entire lives, could it?
  
  We need a forum for live DEBATE between liberals and conservatives… why not start with Stewart and Beck? We need to pit these two audiences against each other, to get this over with. Sign the (hopeless, admittedly) petition:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HKTqJkTPow
  
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- Vie_En_Ras
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 2:42am
  I wish to give thumbs up (+1s or kudos… or whatever ‘like’ you prefer) to GnomeChomsky.
  
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Domandred
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:51pm
That was hilarious!

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Psychosis
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:51pm
and they think they are the smart ones lol

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redhot1977
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:50pm
Wow! That is all I have to say.

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Soros_is_the_Devil
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:50pm
No one said you had to have an IQ in the positive digits to attend the Stewart/Colbert Rally.

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- Rogue
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:39pm
  Now I understand why they bussed the people in. Who knows where they would have ended up. “Bro. This map says Washington is 2,000 miles that way, dude.”
  
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Helen-of-Joy
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:50pm
Now THAT is comedy!

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IntheKnowOG
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:49pm
ROLFcopter nitro…….I loved the Prop 19 cutoff…

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seeker9
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:48pm
Oh my god!

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- MrObvious
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:29pm
  This reminds me a thing on TV a watched about an environmental rally where Pen and Teller (I think it was them) floated a petition to ban di-hydrogen-monoxide (H2O) – and most of the folks, at the rally, they showed it to, signed it. I think I also remember another time when they circulated a petition to ban womans’ suffrage, and girls were signing it, enthusiastically. It never fails to amaze how many …s are out there.
  
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DesertRose1960
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:47pm
Yes, Obama is a Keynesian. No, Obama is not a Kenyan, he was born in Hawaii and is a citizen by Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinous. And had this videographer asked the same question at Beckfest, he would have gotten as many or more ignorant answers from Teapottiers, because Americans can be pretty ignorant of politics and economics.

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- OK3Wire
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:04pm
  To some degree you’re right, of course. Most folks attending Beck’s rallies are not economists. Most can’t even balance their checkbooks. However, unlike the crowd at the Stewart/Colbert rally, I’d bet a large number WOULD have known what the question was. People who watch Glenn regularly have at least been exposed to the term and know that it’s an economic philosophy, even if they can’t describe its tenets.
  
  It’s a sneaky play on words, granted. Even those familiar with the term probably can’t spell it.
  
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- MAULEMALL
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:07pm
  Michelle has stated on a couple of occasions that his homeland was kenya so if you have a problem take it up with her..
  But make sure she’s done eating that Cheeburger….
  
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- TexasMuse
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:08pm
  Two years ago, I wouldn’t have known who Keynes was either. I avoided college economics/business classes like the plague! But the sleeping giant has awakened from hibernation.
  
  I no longer read Good Housekeeping and Glamour. I read non-fiction and try to educate myself on political issues. I’m no expert in economics, but I now understand and can identify the major players and their philosophy.
  
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- GnomeChomsky
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:09pm
  Exactly! This is a problem that knows no ideological boundaries. Unfortunately, when you’re talking about average Americans, ignorance is abundant no matter which side they are on.
  
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- charliego
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:16pm
  @ok3Bwire
  Bingo! you nailed it with pretty good analysis!!!!
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:20pm
  @Maulemall, both sexist and racist in one sentence. Congratulations! President Kennedy had a great affinity for Ireland, but NO ONE ever doubted he was an American. President Obama has blood ties to Luo Tribe and has relatives in Kenya. It doesn’t make him any less an American Glenn Beck.
- ltb
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:47pm
  That’s some funny stuff. You can rest assured that if Comedy Central had sent a reporter to a Tea Party rally and asked the most illiterate looking people in the crowd if Obama is a Keynesian, they would be playing non-stop loops of those stupid Tea Baggers who insist that Obama is a Keynesian and not an America. At any rate, I studied Keynes in undergrad school and didn’t have a clue as to what he was talking about, so I just regurgitated the crap that was put in front of me in order to get good grades in macroeconomics. Now that I’ve been a tax payer in the business world for a while, I understand exactly what Keynes was talking about – I wish I hadn’t been so ignorant at the time, because I would have told my professor that he and Keynes were full of crap.
  
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- payitforward
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:27pm
  There’s not much chance that they will vote.
  
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- WTH
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:10am
  @Desertrose1960…..You said that Maulemall is both sexist and racist with this comment: MAULEMALL
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:07pm
  Michelle has stated on a couple of occasions that his homeland was kenya so if you have a problem take it up with her..
  But make sure she’s done eating that Cheeburger….
  
  I guess you are using the 2010 definition of a racist/bigot which is: “anyone winning an argument against a liberal/ progressive”
  
  I think your hyper-sensitivity to a harmless comment (actually based in fact) is an example of how things get blown way out of proportion by shallow thinkers. Please call Gloria Allred (spelling?) if you feel you have been so wrong and offended by his comments.
  
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- Melvin Spittle
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:42am
  @DesertRose1960
  Do you think mocking the Tea party by calling them “Teapottiers” will help to reinforce your position? You are quick to point out the sexist comments while putting in your own jab, but this is a public comment area and may not be the place for intelligent and logical discourse.
  
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- jginmt
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 3:01am
  Well said. What do you think their answer would be to what is the Laffer Curve? It cracks me up that some people here posting don’t get what the joke is.
  
  Hopefully Tuesday will mark the death of people following John Maynard Keynes theories. Maybe this video will help those who don’t know about Keynes to learn about him on how his theories have been killing us for 90 years.
  
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roberja
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:46pm
Really…by their fruits you shall know them.

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- IowaWoman
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:40am
  I am embarrased that quite a few posting do not get it. sigh
  
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swmntman
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:45pm
Haha… oh, wait. Do these people vote?

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- what4
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:56pm
  Just need to hand out enough Free “medical” samples tuesday…….ZONK ..they will either pass out or forget!! LMAO @ Dope heads
  
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- cheezwhiz
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:13pm
  They vote
  and
  they breed too
  :O
  
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- rgilfillan
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:39pm
  Yes they vote!! Especially the “Prop 19″ guy because someone told him there would be nachos.
  
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- clhathaway
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:07am
  Cheezwhiz, I wonder how much they bother to get out and vote. And I’m pretty sure they don’t do as much breeding as our side does.
  
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- ClassicalLiberal
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:01pm
  Observing and admiring the Nazi economic program, Keynes wrote in the foreword to the German edition to the General Theory (1936):
  
  “[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of production and distribution of a given output produced under the conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire.” – John Maynard Keynes
  
  http://traditionalliberalism.blogspot.com/2010/09/fascism-keynesianism-socialism.html
  
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marklross
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:42pm
Ba wa ha ha ha!! Excellent!!
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- Breaker 19
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:48pm
  What a bunch of Fruitcakes. This crowd is what you get when you let the clowns lead a parade!
- HKS
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:49pm
  A I am an Indian chief. A dependent of the Exchequer, a princes uncle and so on and so on and so on.
  
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- Robert W
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:05pm
  Who left the asylum door open again?
  
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- KenInIL
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:44pm
  Sounds like we need to make macro & micro economics required courses in college instead of anthropology, female studies, and the like. What does someone who majors in female/black studies do for a job, sell insurance?
- wildjoker5
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:06pm
  It doesn’t matter if he is a natural born citizen? Idiots!!!
  
  I think he is a natural born citizen, he just was taught all about being a socialist when he spent time in Kenya. But we didn’t know that because he hid his past from us.
- pajamash
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:11pm
  Is it sad that only one person shown got it?
  
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- cruisemates
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:30pm
  And this was the rally to restore “sanity.” That is so hilarious, “most people are not stupid and do not buy this, he was born in the United States!” So they say. Whoever at the Blaze though this one up was a genius, it is TOO funny.
  
  Obviously these people have no idea that Keynes was a popular proponent of the distribution of wealth economic theory put forth by John Maynard Keynes. Basically a socialist, and Keynesian is a real word, often used in iniversities and other circles where they discuss federal economies.
  
  What a bunch a MAROONS- is all I can say.
- lillymckim
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:43pm
  and then they ….. “VOTE”
- paleoconservatarian
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:59pm
  The best part was the irate blond lady with “vote sanity” on her sleeve. You absolutely know she is the type to tell every one of her friends and everyone on the internet how incredibly stupid they are for not knowing what she knows.
- ishka4me
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:55pm
  i remember the man show with a booth to end woman suffrage, same people signed that petition also. Norm had a clipboard and was gathering signatures to end woman suffrage. Dozens of dopes signed it.
- DimmuBorgir
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:10pm
  Everyone who thinks this is about where he was born…It’s KEYNESIAN as in economics.
  
  Educate yourselves on issues so you don’t look like a liberal moron.
  
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- Anarcho Capitalist
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:23pm
  Best video on the web today. It should not surprise anyone that most don’t know a damn thing about economics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics
  
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- eddvoss
  Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:08pm
  What is funny is the number of people here who didn’t get it either.
  
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- ron the veteran
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:15am
  ive never seen any proof obamas an american. hes spent an aweful lot of money to keep any proof secret. and his actions show hes about as unamerican as you can get.
- Samurai
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 2:40am
  And we wonder why we have $14 trillion in national debt and $110 trillion in unfunded liabilities….
  
  Too many liberals are hilariously sad– not oxymoronic; simply moronic.
  
  Keynesian economics never has worked, it isn’t working now and never WILL will work. Any economics recoveries in the past were made in SPITE of this destructive theory, not because of it.
  
  I’ve thought of a great way to stop Keynesian economics from ever being taken seriously again.
  
  Economics professors and politicians will be allowed to talk about Keynesian economics, however, when they do, they must be dressed as in full clown gear: full face paint, wearing big floppy shoes, accompanied by a small pink poodle wearing a dunce hat with a bell on top.
  
  In the background, the Barnum & Bailey circus song must be playing at all times and people in the audience with a clear and sound understanding of real economics get to honk big bulb horns when the professor or politician says something really dumb about Keynesian economics…. about every other sentence..
  
  For example:
  Econ Prof: Today, I’d like to talk about the efficacy (Toot, WANKA, AAUUGA!!) of Pump Priming (toot, WANKA, WANKA) measures and their positive stimulus effects (AUUGA, WANKA, WANKA. TOOT, TOOT) on the money supply and the velocity of money (Toot, Toot, AAUUGA, WANKA)….
  
  Anyway, this terrible economic theory has got to go. It’s destroying lives and economies around the globe. This idea would be a good start.,,,
  
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- rebel
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:00am
  love this type of stuff. just shows ya that everycrowd has a little dumb in it. And honestly, i thought the headline said kenyan. so it got me too.
  
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- James83940
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:24am
  The lady in the Cardinals jacket is hilarious and I bet she’s running to hide as soon as she sees this video and understands what a goofball she made herself to be.
- JD Carp
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:35am
  Economics 101 might be a bit too advanced for these folks, I suggest Economics for Dummies.
  
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- bimmermatt
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:06am
  I’m not an economics major and I didn’t know what keynesian was until now, but the moment I saw the sign I went “that’s not Kenyan, this is a setup”. LOL
  
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- hogjoy7
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:23am
  I didn’t know what a Keynesian was before this story. I looked it up and Yes, he is a Keynesian or has at least used Keynesian economic principles to try to stimulate the economy. What arrogance that none of these folks could admit they didn’t know something and weren’t interested in learning. That is true ignorance!
  
  BTW – really funny stuff!!
  
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- Compete or Lose
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 2:10pm
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  WOW………..WOW……….These are the inteligent left elite?
  
  WOW……WOW……….Good RAlly Mr. Stewart.
  
  WOW
  
  RGS
  
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- DirectlyUnPCman
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 2:57pm
  It would be real simple to prove Obama’s citizenship. Just show a birth certificate. Instead, spend millions making sure its sealed from us. Hmmm why does someone do that if there is nothing to hide? Yea, you wouldnt. Point, set, match – Kenya
- Infidels R Us
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 4:31pm
  This reminds me when Penn & Teller went to a global warming rally and had people sign a petition to outlaw “Dihydrogen Monoxide” – aka, water.
  
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- paperpushermj
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:10pm
  Keynesian economics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Keynesian economics (pronounced /ˈkeɪnziən/, also called Keynesianism and Keynesian theory) is a macroeconomic theory based on the ideas of 20th century …
  
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- thepatriotdave
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:22pm
  WARNING…
  
  Before you post, please Google the word “Keynesian”. We don’t want to look like the morons in this video. Include the word “economics” too (“Keynesian economics”).
  
  PatriotShops.com
  
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- Robert W
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:24pm
  I cant believe these people put down their bongs long enough to go to a rally.
  
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- GBECKFAN
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:55pm
  WOW,what a bunch of douche bags…and we(the conservatives) are the “stupid” ones??? LOL…..LMAO
  
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- wildjoker5
  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 7:02pm
  Yeah, I am an idiot too. I didn’t get what they were talking about to begin with. dedede.
  
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- democratgirl
  Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:51am
  Obama is a SOCIALIST MARXIST. There’s NOTHING American about that.
  
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- shashidave
  Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:40pm
  The answers are a reason why “WE” elected Obama in the first place. Complete idiots voted and don’t even know that there is nothing like a Keyenisian ????? Not God Bless America, (Rev Wright !!)
  God HELP America
  
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- bmanjamz
  Posted on March 7, 2011 at 12:47pm
  lol, what a bunch of dumb asses.
  
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