‘Forward for Communism!’: Is Obama’s New ‘Forward’ Slogan Really a Coincidence?
By now, most have heard of the Obama campaign’s new slogan, “Forward,” and the dubious scrubbing of all references to the Marxist origins of the motto on its Wikipedia entry. During his Thursday evening broadcast, Glenn Beck reviewed the roots of President Obama’s leftwing ideology and those who have served as his inspiration — from far-left radical Frank Marshall Davis to Bill Ayers and his father, Tom. Beck’s clip is featured below. And the information that follows on the president’s new slogan is, we daresay, outrageous.
(Related: One More Reason Obama Might Want to Rethink That ‘Forward’ Slogan)
Watch below as Beck discusses Obama’s mentors as they move “forward” in achieving their goals. He notes how little is truly known about the president and how little vetting was done by the mainstream media when he first came on the scene.
But what then is so significant about the slogan, “Forward” and why would the left, in one instance, purposely choose a word that is code-speak among Marxists and then go out of its way to hide all reference to that fact later? That question remains unanswered, but circulating the Internet are a myriad Soviet and Maoist propaganda posters that provide hard-hitting insight into just how meaningful the “forward” saying truly is. Take a walk down Communist lane as Stalin, Lenin and Mao blast “forward” for victory. The pertinent text has been translated to English and is featured in the captions below each image.
As previously noted by The Blaze, the Russian word for “forward” transliterates to “vpered” — which also, not coincidentally, served as the name of Joseph Stalin’s newspaper, “Forward for Stalin.”
Between Stalin and Mao at least 70 million or more were killed. Is this the kind of “forward” thinking and moving the president truly seeks to resurrect in his slogan?
With historical proof as obvious as this available for anyone in the world to see via a rudimentary Google search, it is difficult to believe President Obama and his campaign did not know the origins and, moreover, the significance of the word “forward” when choosing their new slogan. In fact, all indications seem to point to it being a rather brazen and deliberate move.
There is a saying ironically coined by Maya Angelou: “The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
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philipzhao
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:54pmObama ought to pay a visit to China to learn “Great Leap Forward”.
1. People’s Communes
2. Collective Farms
3. Great Leap Forward
4. Cultural Revolution/Red Guards
Communize the US of A !!
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Mike Benton
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:52pmI want Romney to issue a one word slogan: ENOUGH!
And yes, put Obama’s rainbow in the “O”, but turn it down like water going down a drain.
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cfreedom
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:25pmI agree but do you suppose Romney will even mention it? or the GOP adds for that matter?
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CatB
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 9:53pmThankfully we have other pacs we can support … any with a PAIR I will give to .. the RNC called the other day for a donation .. I told them that like the last election (when McLame would not stand up to Obama) — unless they show they are willing to FIGHT my money will go elsewhere.
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martyinhagerstown
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 11:13pmGOP are not conservatives. Conservatives involved in a party are likely to be at the GOP but the party is NOT conservative.
They don’t fear government and the think they can better manage big government.
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Wolf
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:56amMittens doesn’t have the balls to even think of offending the Oturd let alone allow anyone in his staff to actually try winning this election.
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Clive
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 2:17pmagreed, in fact, this is probably the first time i’ve seen an presidential election, where a democrat has more balls than the republican. mittens lacks balls, he’s just too soft… even when he tries to act tough, it comes off as flimsy, and disingenuous. like he himself doesn’t even believe what he’s saying.
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Saving_the_Republic.com
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:52pmAs for Obama-Ayers connection it was also supported by a postman who claims the Ayers were supporting Obama while he was in school!
*** Invaluable video of Beck and Scott Baker going over Obama’s radical connections*** http://wp.me/p1VRSn-18t
Beck going over “Tree of Revolution” http://tinyurl.com/728rw6k
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mils
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:16pmUNLESS!!!.. these things are publicised…and the general public sees, reads, hears it.
.IT DOESN’T MATTER TO THE AVERAGE VOTER..
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starman70
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 9:29pmSomebody HAD to support him in school. As far as anyone knows, he has never held a productive job anywhere. You talk about a MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE! I saw the movie years ago but I never thought it would happen but it has.
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Lloyd Drako
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:59amHow is community organizing not productive? As for Obama’s school years, he recently reminded us that he finally paid off his student loans only 8 years ago, around the time he entered the US Senate.
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RepubliCorp
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:08am“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” (A. Lincoln)
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stage9
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:46pmCraaaaaap…I’m going to be forced to vote for that GOP liberal from New England aren’t I?
A GOP liberal or a friggin Marxist….what the…
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WendyM
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:30pmhear ya – but at least . . . Romney is not a commie :)
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TexasIndependant
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:31pmI was thinking the Same thing!
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rambosharley
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:32amWe’re in sad shape that’s for sure. I don’t have to tell my democrat friends anything….because I don’t know any democrats. Everyone I know or that is close to me is very conservative!
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Bill Rowland
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:26amRomney wasn’t my choice but like the man said “ANYBODY BUT OBAMA”
Sweet Old Barack and Holdup want to repeal the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendments to get us used to the idea that we have no more freedoms. They want the OWS, the NBPP, the Nation of Islam and the unions to riot at the conventions so that they will have an excuse for martial law.
ALL HAIL CALIPH BARACK THE FIRST.
OMG 2012
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HumbleMan
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:37pmHe never ate dogs.
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Turtleman
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:46pmThis won’t matter to the 40 percent who will vote for this guy because they can’t bring themselves to pull the lever for a Republican. I tell all of my friends who think they are democrats that the democrat party has been taken over by the socialist-communist progressives, but it is like talking to a wall.
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shirleyandpearl
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:59pmSame finding with stubborn Seattle democrats… when i try to tell democrats here how their party is now socialist and corrupt, they just immerse their heads further in their buckets of sand in fear of losing their “open minded/ intellectual” image if they were to vote for a R. “Once a democrat, always a democrat!” Washington State is a lost cause, no thanks to the Seattle metropolitan area. The numbers of Obama 2012 bumper stickers are increasing; have yet to spot a Romney one.
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NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 9:13pmShirley, I couldn’t agree with you more. It is often said that all one has to do is go to the top of the Space Needle and take the 360 degree view and see who controls this state.
I, on the other hand live on the sane side of the mountains. If control of the state was decided by acreage of land, it would be so red it would look black.
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lukerw
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:43pmIf it walks like a Duck… quacks like a Duck… and looks like a Duck… I would shoot it for being a Duck!
Why does Obama have to say that he is a COMMUNIST?
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bigben357mag
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:53pmIs there really anyone doubting it anymore? I mean, what with the Mao loving, Marx loving, and Chavez loving, staff. How can anyone NOT see it? It’s like he’s waving a RED flag! Pun intended. Our country used to fight and kill commies, now we have one running the country!!
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:01pmInstead of Forward for Obama, to get the jewish vote, he is running a new campaign….”Fore Skin for Obama”.
But then again, he says he is honest……so why can’t we believe his lies, or his misspeaks. But he isn’t lying…honest, only when he is lying about the last lie.
If you lie about a lie, does that make it the truth?
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YA-allthe-WEH
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:04pmIt floats on water like a duck, therefore it’s a WITCH!
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LOTO
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:31pmIs that you Ted?
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RebelPatriot
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 11:38pmThis is why Colonel West is calling out Congress for the socialist that lie within. If you want to win Florida you have to have the Cuban vote along with the conservative vote.
You get the message out to the Cubans that Obama is nothing more than a made over marxist, communist and the Cuban vote will go to Romney.
If we could just wake up the folks in Pennsylvania and Ohio to seeing that their jobs are never coming back under this global agenda that the Socialist Progressives are pushing with Obama as their front man then we might possibly be able to turn this around.
It will take 12 years to get us back to a free market country and another 8 to return us to the freedoms we have lost as a people.
We are the one nation that has everything we need to be self sufficient, we don’t need other countries to survive. When we were growing closer to that under Reagan the progressive in both parties stepped up and began attacking are Constitution and our free market.
We can produce enough oil at home to provide for our needs. We continue to see the decline in usage and the opportunity to drill in the US in order to stop importing.
Let the Middle Eastern countries drink oil and eat sand, enough is enough.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 9:05amYA-ALLTHE-WEH, LOL. That made for a great laugh after reading some of the crap above.
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P8riot
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:41pmI just watched “Meet the Robinsons” with my kids the other day – and they kept saying “keep moving forward” and at the end it shows it was a quote from Walt Disney… so the use of the word “forward” might not exactly be a nail in the communist coffin… unless Disney was a communist – which after riding the “Its a small world” ride and hearing that song over and over again – maybe? lol
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georgepatton
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:48pmDisney was a SOCIALIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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CatB
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 9:54pmYup .. he was.
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barber2
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 10:12pmGEORGE: So is most of Hollywood..fantasy land !
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P8riot
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:19amreally? is this conspiracy talk or was he admittedly socialist? If so, then I just gave Glenn Beck one more quote for his show! :)
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ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:39pmIt’s not a mistake, it’s a nudge. And it will go unanswered like all the rest because we refuse to open our eyes and ears. November 2012 is our last chance; let’s not blow it.
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Godfather.1
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:39pmYou’ve solved it Glenn!!! That is exactly the meaning of the word “Forward” that the Obama campaign intended for its use in his reelection campaign. Man, Obama and his people are such idiots!! How could they not know that you would uncover the meaning of a common, ordinary word for us. Seriously, what dumb.asses.
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ThaBigPerm
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:56pmRight on. I mean, it’s just a word, right? It’s not like Obama has his own personal icon, or kids singing Obama carols or anything like those dictators had.
Wait….
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usedCZARsalesman
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 10:47pmok, Godfather…EVERYTHING he has done in his first term has been of the socialist/communist persuasion. The campaign slogan he chooses is one of the (maybe top 3) most recognizable communist slogans of all time? Thats not kinda telling?
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Beckofile
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 4:57pmDon’t forget after a big dose of Hopeium he stole all your Change.
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momrules
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:38pmNothing that comes out of the Obama camp is a coincidence, everything they do is preplanned. Fortunately there are people like Glenn Beck and other conservative commentators that are now challenging them at every turn, doing the investigating that the MSM will not do.
Also there are us, the Americans that know and knew from the beginning that there was something wrong with Obama. Those that knew that their was too much mystery, too many unanswerd question and no real history about the man. Those like that, and I am one, of them were laughed at, ridiculed and made sport of by the MSM and even the conservative elite. Well, we are being proven right every day and now, too late, some people are starting to vet Obama.
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mrawfull
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:37pmBackward is more like it.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PjJcExt6I-w/SwyQhchNbAI/AAAAAAAAALI/BiSynwzpTG0/s1600/worker_peasant_statue.jpg
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Deo duce
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:35pm10′s of millions of people or more died under the people carrying the banner of “Forward” in the 20th century. How can people not see this man is EVIL!
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MCDAVE
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:07pmWe do see it….I saw it in the Clinton years and warned people..sad to say George W was not much better for America,but he did make his family and friends rich…America is ready for some good leaders again….Ron Paul..would be a welcome change,but both parties seem to hate him…he is not a progressive or communist……guess I’ll have to take my Barf bag to the polls when I vote in Nov….Unless Romney chooses a good VP like Rand Paul ,.and gives me a reason to vote
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Beckofile
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 4:55pmJust a little more Forward. Thats it your now bent over far enough to make this hurt.
80% of the American Jew voted for Obamao. Doomed to repeat history.
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Micmac
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:33pmhttp://www.freedomportal.net/forum/index.php?topic=23481.msg221223
This article explains the history of the word FORWARD in detail. This Blaze site is behind the curve. And they have editted some of my posts lately so I only post when it’s totally educational.
NoBama 2012
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Southerner01
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:33pmThis is immediatly what I thought he meant when I heard the new slogan. Obama used to have someone who was very expert at hiding these messages in his campaign speeches. Good examples include his use of Si Se Puede instead of Podemos sí as a translation of his “yes we can” slogan. The second means yes we can. The first is both a pro-socialism children’s book in spanish as well as an international socialist rallying cry and the slogan of Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers. Non socialist, non-hispanics thought it was just “yes we can” in spanish. The hispanic and socialist audiences got the true message.
Similarly, while running against Clinton, Obama was giving a speech to an all black crowd. He said something like “they’re trying to come in here and give you the okey doke. Ya’ll remember the okey doke. Almost everyone I have asked has no idea what that means. They seem to think its the same as okey dokey. However, ALL of the blacks, especially the older ones, know exactly what the okey doke is. It’s when the white politicians come in to pander to the black voter during primaries and then ignore them after the election.
Why is this relevant? Because it means that the current Forward slogan, is completely calculated and intentional. They figure it is safe to take the gloves off.
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GardenoftheGods
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:54pmExcellent post! I didn’t know the difference between Si se puede & Podemos si… Thanks! I learned something.
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Dutchracer
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:32pmI think Glenn should print a new T shirt with
FOREWARNED
on it.
Also included having a red line drawn across the “O”, Obama symbol.
I’d Buy one!
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P8riot
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:42pmI’ll buy it too! :)
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vox_populi
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:30pm“It is difficult to believe President Obama and his campaign did not know the origins and, moreover, the significance of the word “forward” when choosing their new slogan.”
This is officially the dumbest thing the Blaze has pretended is a story.
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Banter
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:41pmConsidering your obvious patriotism to ameriKa, the consternation in your post makes sense. Have a wonderful evening.
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seeker9
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:53pm@VOX
Is that you JZS? I know of your fondness for Latin. Really the “voice of the people”? Are you serious?
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barber2
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 10:03pmSEEKER: He is really ” Vox Obama ” …just more of their usual 99% baloney ( think he means “proletariat” ( as in comrade ) for the “populi !
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majasdad
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 10:12pmMan, these Beck loons are totally losing their marbles, aren’t they?
A nice debunction:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#47256402
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seeker9
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 11:13pm@majasdad
You actually believe Madcow or msnbc debuncts anything? They are CAMPAIGNERS for the demo-marxist party! They are not news or journalists or reporters. They are hacks. They know the socialist tag would be harmful in an election bid, so they will simply rename it. Who cares what is on Wisconsin’s flag? Sounds as though you could afford to pick up a few marbles for yourself.
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AxelPhantom
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:29pmDad was a Communist
Mom was a “Fellow Traveler”
Grandma and gramps were communists
His mentor was a communist
He gravitated to the communist professors and the Marxists
His best bud in college was a revolutionary communist
He was supported by the Chicago New Party and the Communist Party USA
Launched his campaign in the living room of a leader of the Weather Underground
Appointed to a position via the recommendation of a communist (Ayres’ father)
The Church he attended espoused Black Liberation Theology which by Cone’s own testimony is a combination of religion and Marxism
His first presidential slogan “Yes we can” is coincidently a title of a book published in 1981 by Sid Taylor the head of the Connecticut Communist party.
He gets into office and appoints Maoists and Communists to his cabinet
He allows an ornament of Mao to continue to hang on the Christmas tree in the White House
He espouses “spreading the wealth around”, demonizes the rich who “don’t pay their fair share”
Now once again he “coincidentally” picks a slogan which is common in both Socialist and Communist circles.
…Coincidence my left **** cheek.
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Spqr1
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:08pmYes we can is WAY too close to the phrase “Yes I Can.” Along your EXACT SAME LINES of logic, Obama must be a little train engine as well.
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barber2
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 10:00pmOh, another coincidence: the OWS was founded by Adbusters, an anti-capitalist group from Canada . Now isn’t that a coincidence ? And , of course, Obama feels the OWS ” frustration” while his friend and sponsor, Bill Ayers, starts each day hoping to ” destroy capitalism!” Oh, gosh, but there are so many of these COINCIDENCES in the Obama Administration !
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AxelPhantom
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 10:03pmDid the person who wrote The Little Engine That Could have parents, grandparents and a mentor who was communist? Did the author also surround himself with Marxist professors, tie himself to Marxist political parties and appoint as his advisors those who praise Mao, Chavez, Castro etc.?
Did the Little Engine stop half way up the hill and complain that the caboose wasn’t doing his fair share?
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Jackers
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:23pmIs this getting creepy or what?
We will remember in November…
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MEANS2RESIST
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:40pmOf course its deliberate. This SOB isn’t going to stop until we thow his slimey commie ass out. This is a huge powergrab now out in the open & they are banking on us just sitting idle and allowing them to get away with it. It’s not going to happen Barry or whatever you real name is.
Its obvious he wants our constiutional republic system to fall.
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bigben357mag
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:49pmIf we don’t remember. We will be in great perrill! Our country will NEVER be the same!
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DagneyT
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:22pmI’ve been trying to post this on your tips site for the past hour, and keep getting an error message. Have you been hacked? Would not surprise me! Check out this link: I”ve been trying to post this for the last hour! Have you been hacked? http://www.wthr.com/video?clipId=7054149&topVideoCatNo=103348&autoStart=true
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MCDAVE
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:17pmNo way does this happen by mistake…
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Pogue
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 11:34pmSomebody should be cleaning house at the IRS, like now!!!
Arrest the fruadsters and put them to work to pay off the fraud.
Makes me wonder.. Has the IRS outsourced processing to Mexico??
I appreciate someone bringing this to our attention.
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objectivetruth
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:07pmNote Don’t even think about not publishing this.They have had all tax season to investigate this.Your stealing my posts won’t stop one thing thats happening.You will not keep me quiet as you attempt to railroad me for being honest.
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objectivetruth
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 3:37pmWell well well What will it be for you this time as to why it can’t go through.Say something you don’t want to hear.Don’t give me the **** and bull story that you have the right to make my decision.You don’t.Your tired worn out lies and manipulations have worn very thin.The abuse of process where you claim to be my parent spouse representative or any thing else that will allow you control over me are long gone.Don’t give me the fact that its internal either.They have had 5 months in which to investigate this.I’m not the criminal in this.I was the one that reported it.Sorry it doesn’t fit with your F.upped version of me that I am a raving criminal.Thats just too bad for you now isn’t it.
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momprayn
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:20pmNO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
What a truism. Yes, I would think most Communists would know about this slogan. Duh !!!!!
Especially the Obama regime -
they’ve been active in this for decades. Also agree it is a very brazen move…should be even more frightening for us. It’s like – if you didn’t know before about us, you now know !!!!! Pretty confident?
Their intentions are being pushed right in front of our face – and yet we still have those who have been elected to protect us, don’t say or do anything meaningful. http://www.commieblaster.com
Moving on….. check out connections between Obama,
CA AG Kalama Harris and the banks. HUGE! ??
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http://cdn2.getoutofdebt.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Sort-Spire-Law-Group.pdf
She is also next pick for USSC and sister-in-law to Tony West, in line for the top job at DOJ.
http://www.spirelawgroupllp.com
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barber2
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:20pmThe Democrats are just showing solidarity with their International Workers of the World buddies ! They just celebrated May Day with their OWS anti – capitalist comrades ! Guess all of Obama’s Marxist mentors and Soros’ big bucks have bought the International Package Deal . The New Deal. The New Lefty in the White House Deal. The New Democrat Party. Guess all of that anti-rich, anti-Wall Street, anti-banks, anti CEOs Obama rhetoric is just the New Version of the old ” proletariat ” rhetoric of the Lenin/ Marx dudes. Who’d have imagined 20 years ago that a stealth Commie would fly under the radar and land in the White House ! ? Oh, just ” hope ” we can ” change” that in November !
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Wilma
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:17pmForward into the backward time machine. Dial are set to Stone Age.
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GOTAREVOLUTION
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:33pmForward! Over the cliff comrades. Follow me
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DagneyT
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:17pmThis is so typical of the left. “Oh, they’re not paying attention! We’ve been dumbing down education for so long, they’ll never notice.”
NOT!
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321481
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:16pmGreat find Glenn, exposing Obama is the best way to present facts to the American people, what voters do with the facts is now their responsiblity.
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Mark0331
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:07pm…his Comrades will say ‘It’s not THAT kind of Forward Philosophy’….sure.ok.whatever you say….
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:26pmI wonder if they will manage to get all of this real historical stuff expunged from the net? Frankly, I hope 0bama keeps this slogan. It’s as shallow and flaccid as ” Hope and Change” and will be even easier for us to create more jokes. Instead of that last slogan, we actually do know where this one is really anchored.
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barber2
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 7:39pmyeah. and they say it with that clenched fist in the air bit !
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