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All Democrats We Talked With at The DNC Are Better Off Now Than They Were Four Years Ago: ‘Oh Hell Yes!’

Sep. 10, 2012 10:28am Benny Johnson

TheBlaze’s Tiffany Gabbay contributed to this report:

Since the economy happens to be a critical issue this election, TheBlaze hit the DNC convention floor to ask the simple question: Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Despite chronic unemployment, stagnant hiring and crippling debt the DNC delegates remained positive. In over two dozen diverse interviews, not one person admitted to being worse off.

We followed up by asking the delegate why he or she thinks they were better off. Their answers almost unquestionably landed on one of three niche issues of the president’s: Obamacare, marriage equality and the stimulus.

So while the unemployment rate has risen since Bush left office, the labor force participation rate has sunk to 64.3% — the lowest since Carter – and the US economy has seen it’s first credit downgrade in its 236 year history, it is good to know that some people have a positive outlook on situation.

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rosegrower
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:57am
Of course these people are better off. What they should have been asked prior to this was, “what were you doing / what was your life like BEFORE Obama’s election in 2008?” The respondents all look like 1) stoners, 2) college students who have always lived in their parents’ basement, or 3) union teachers who took “sick days” to attend.

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- CatB
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:12am
  Exactly … the takers .. .those who care nothing about the country …OR GOD OR ISRAEL!
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:15am
  I’m a Democrat that fell for Hope & Change – Don’t like the Change and have given up on Hope. All my 3 sons and their. wives have been affected or know someone that has. Someone that has time to go to the Dem. convention has no job or is liveing of the Gov’s dole. This guy is the picture with all thos badges must have dreams of having sex with Obama every knight! I’m sure that if you interview idiots like this you know what they are going to say in advance.
  
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- Man-On-A-Mission
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:35am
  Yep….if we don’t look like you or act like you….we’re outcast…..
  
  Why would any Dem…want to be anything like the stiffs at the RNC.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:42am
  These people are just being blindly led to slaughter. Or….they are just a bunch of union members with talking points. Or….BOTH. I vote for both.
  
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- drattastic
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:44am
  Batsh@t crazy ,every last one of them.
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:58am
  Turkey13, you probably thought that your admission of being hoodwinked would garner insults and shame from those of us who were already on this side of the issue. But I am here to tell you that your willingness to admit your mistake and make steps to correct it is as refreshing as an ocean breeze on an August day.
  
  We love you and accept that none of us are above making an occasional mistake. The truly wicked are not those who make mistakes, but those who would double-down on their error by foolishly letting their pride be their guide.
  
  We welcome you with open arms, and we share your outrage that so many good-hearted Americans were fooled by the deceivers in the leftist media and the empty suits/chairs who would seek to abuse the trust of such people.
  
  Thank you for your candor and humility, it is a blessing to us all.
  
  God bless you and yours, and may He, in His infinite wisdom, choose to once again bestow His blessings of Truth, Justice, and Liberty on our great, but undeserving nation.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:03pm
  What a bunch of indoctrinted Bovine. Pathetic beyond comprehension.
  
  The Founding Fathers Hated Democracy and thought it was the worst form of government there was.
  
  That’s why we are a Constitutional Republic.
  
  Democracy means majority rules.
  
  That means 51% of the population can vote away the rights of the 49%.
  
  Yes Gays, Lesbians, Minorities, and people that like to dye their **** purple –
  The Constituton Protects the 1% from the will of the 99%.
  
  In a Democracy, the Majority could vote being gay is illegal and punishable by death.
  In a Democracy, the Majority could vote Blacks back into slavery and vote that Mexicans could only work in gardens and commercial kitchens washing dishes.
  
  You and I have Inalienable Rights that NO ONE can vote on, to take away.
  Not a President, a Supreme Court Judge or a King !!!!
  
  These “politicians” have Violated my Constitutional Rights and should be held accountable for treason !!!!!
  
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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:13pm
  Especially if your on foodstamps…………….
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:20pm
  These are the same people that still have a Love Affair with Bill Clinton! After the news came out about Jennier Flowers, this Democrat voted Republican. It was a smart move because we had Jennifer Gate, Vince Gate, Travel Gate, White Water Gate, Monica Gate and M_aster Bate Gate. Some how these lawyers always get off the hook. Just beacause My great Grandfather, my Grandfather, my Dad always voted a straight Democratic ticket doesn’t mean I have to be a dumb Democrat and do the same.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:27pm
  I guess these people all filled their automobile up with rainbow power on the way to the big party.
  
  Hope is not a method, and change is not always for the better.
  
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- MCDAVE
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:34pm
  @Problemsolver You got it…but I see no solution in our immediate future ,,does not matter who we vote for..
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:42pm
  RANGERSKIPPY, You’ve got an excellent point. It sounded like a lot of those people were on that rainbow power inside the convention.
  I’ve used this video before, but this bunch is the best fit yet!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wneCa_yIuzg
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:47pm
  ProbIemSoIver, Although I sometimes disagree with you, I have to say that I am 100% on board with you with that post.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 1:01pm
  @McDave
  
  You are correct. It makes no difference.
  
  When the Blatant Violation of my Constitutional rights were voted on by 93 of 100 senators the first time around (NDAA) on the senate floor, That was an indication of the level of corruption in D.C.
  Only 3 Democrats, 3 Republicans and and 1 Independent represented the People and upheld their oath to the Constitution.
  
  These “Politicians” are Global Elite Bankster factotums and minions.
  
  The Banksters seized our Country in 1933 due to breach of Contract (Federal Reserve Act of 1913) and transfered the lien to the IMF and World Bank which created the UN the following year.
  
  They have been the creditors of the Bankrupt U.S. and began foreclosure in 1992 (the same year Agenda21 emerged) under Bush’s E.O. 12803 – Infrastructure Privatization.
  http://rense.com/general86/nomis.htm
  
  Big Changes are coming soon. The Investors are tired of hiding the fact that they own the U.S. and are nearly ready to make an official declaration.
  This explains NATO troops training on our soil and Re-education Camps
  
  You will learn how the U.S. Constitution is now irrelevent and you will learn the about the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights. You will learn about the cashless society, the One world Court, The One world Government and the New Map of America (Agenda21).
  You can apply to live in a certain hub and work a job that you would like, But ultimately they will decide after your evaluation.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 1:21pm
  Here is My favorite video explaiing how we lost our Country in 1933 and how Our “government”
  Unlawfully Pledged AMERICANS as COLLATERAL to a PRIVATE BANK !!!!
  
  Only 3 minutes long. This is a look behind the “Politician’s” and the “Government’s” curtain:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCs7u1ihws
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 1:31pm
  *Lien Transfer – Quit Claim @ 1944 Bretton Woods Treaty:
  
  The U.N., IMF, & World Bank
  So we jump from 1913 and the setting of the Federal Reserve Bank as the financier of Corp. U.S. to 1944 and W.W.II. The war was continuing and the United States was not fairing too well until the formation of The Bretton Woods Agreements and their new players—”The International Monetary Fund” (a.k.a. the “Fund”, hereinafter “IMF”), and “The World Bank for Reconstruction and Development” (a.k.a. the “Bank”, hereinafter “World Bank”). Make sure you’re sitting down for this one.
  The United States Code (USC) Title 22 § 286 reads:
  “§ 286. Acceptance of membership by the United States in International Monetary Fund.
  “The President is hereby authorized to accept membership for the United States in the International Monetary Fund (hereinafter referred to as the “Fund”), and in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (hereinafter referred to as the “Bank”), provided for by the Articles of Agreement of the Fund and the Articles of Agreement of the Bank as set forth in the Final Act of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference dated July 22, 1944, and deposited in the archives of the Department of State. (July 31, 1945, ch. 339, § 2, 59 Stat. 512.) Short titles: . May be cited as the ‘Bretton Woods Agreements Act’.
  
  http://teamlaw.net/history.htm
  
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- MCDAVE
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 1:55pm
  @PROBLEMSOLVER…What scare me the most, is that what you say is right,,have you seen Gerald Celente’s predictions on the time line. http://www.trendsresearch.com/SubscriberArea/gerald-celente-alex-jones-show-august-17-2012 time is running out.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 2:06pm
  They are mentally ill racists and think they are better off now because a black guy is now the president. Simple as that.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 2:41pm
  @McDave
  
  Awesome Link
  
  I am halfway through the 37 minutes. Thx.
  
  Gerald and Alex are Awesome Patriots.
  
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- Drewed1
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 2:54pm
  This administration has such a record of retribution against its critics, the Dems are scared silly to say they are not in worse shape now than 4 years ago! The President, Obama, is now known to beleive he is not bound by the Constitution, so we must elect a replacement that gets us started on our way back to the Representative Republic we were founded to be and away from the Socialist Commune, Obama is turning us into!
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:09pm
  do the words terminally stupid mean anything to you?
  
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- MCDAVE
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:24pm
  @problemsolver The wake up call is on its way…
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:39pm
  Wow……..If I had a circus it would look like…………
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:17pm
  4 years ago we were bleeding 750,000 jobs a month. 4 years ago the stock market had cratered and many had lost more than half of their retirement accounts. 4 years ago our President stated, enthusiastically, that we weren’t spending much time searching for Bin Ladin (I was deployed in Afghanistan when he made that insulting video ‘looking under his desk’ for Osama Bin Ladin). Are we doing great? No. But many conveniently forget how dire the economic, diplomatic and employment situations actually were. 2007-2008 were not the good old days, they were a disasterous time for America brought on by corporate greed, unbridled deregulation, and the diplomatic insanity known as neo-conservatism. Most Americans know that, and most know our country is far better off than 4 years ago.
  
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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:19pm
  It will be interesting to see what they say when the Dollar collapses and Obama’s gravy train stops. Will they be happy then?
  
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- GaryAA
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:54am
  How do you define “better?”
  
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- Paydert33
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:13pm
  So, let me get this straight…….the dems are better off then they were four years ago. So, that means not one dem lost their job….not one dem lost their home….. not one dem is in foreclosure…..not one dem is paying more then double in their gasoline prices….not one dem is paying 18% higher food prices. What world are they living in? Oh, yea…..lying-through-their teeth-world. Bunch of sickening communist a-holes. Anybody that even has the nerve to think about it let alone act on it………taking God and saying the capitol of Israel is not Jerusalem…..is the worst of the worst….pure evil.
  
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this1can
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:56am
This drives me crazy, its like these nuts are liveing in some other place in time. No wonder this country is breaking apart. To bad we don’t have some state like NY we could just send all the likes of these people with obummer and he could be their god and he can control that state and then lets see how better off they’ll be in less than four years. Pray even harder we need it. Only God is going to be able to help these people and that’s going to be a big job even for him. Love/pray

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- 19RANDY59
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:13am
  There is a state like that, It’s called California!!! Please quit sending all the nuts here!!!
  
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- michael48
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 2:55pm
  randy…moved to America from Kalifornica last year…63 years there…we’re not sending these idiots anywhere…they are escaping the PIG PEN these DEM-WITS created…BTW..these “bone thru the nose” idiots look just like the Calif. state legisalture AT WORK in suckramental…Calif. was the greatest place on Earth to be a kid..in the 50s-60s…mainly because everybody was from SOMEWHERE ELSE…just a suburb of Moscow/Mexico Cities…shameful at best…
  
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- GaryAA
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:58am
  Why have my “better” comments been removed?
  
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mike551
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:55am
We’re doomed.

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- GaryAA
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:56am
  You may be right.
  
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JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:54am
These people are complete looney tunes………………..

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:54pm
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jTHNBKjMBU
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tClSJgMDF8&feature=related
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:58pm
  Can you say, “FREAK SHOW”?
  
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JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:53am
These people are complete looney tunes……………………

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jrcess
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:52am
Wow and these village idiots VOTE?

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karencole
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:52am
“They’re fans” Love it! So true!

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Nevermind
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:51am
Why is it that if people say they are doing better you cant just accept it and move on instead of complain? I closed up shop on my business at the start of 2008 and got a job . The job had a pay freeze due to economy and after a year or so they started to hire more as well as giving raises and bonuses. I get an annual rasie of at least 3-5% as well as very large quarterly bonuses , so i can safely say i am doing better than i was 4 years ago. 4 years ago no raise or bonus, today rasie, bonus as well as promotion.

If the truth hurts say ouch but people are doing better. Its generally the ones who are out there trying hard not sitting in their trailer parks blaming all that is wrong in life on Obama

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- 2AFirearmsDealerDotCom
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:46am
  @Nevermind,
  
  Out of curiosity, is that a public or private sector job? In either case, what company? I’d like to see if they are hiring around me…. I know MANY people that are in need of work. And looking HARD.
  
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- My Two Cents
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:36pm
  How could we not be better off with all of the records (debt, deficit, foreclosures, food stamps, months of unemployment above 8%, etc, etc, etc) that our Food Stamp President is setting?
  
  Mmmm…Mmmm…Mmmm
  
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- this1can
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:36pm
  You might be getting raises but when gas and food and everything else is going up are the raises doing any good. And for the poor ones that aren’t working that not getting ahead but falling behind and there’s more of them out there then there is of the ones getting ahead. If you was to go out on the street and asked 12 people that same ? That these people was asked you won’t get that same answer they are not being truthful its a obummer thing called lies Love/pray
  
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- YeOldeConservative
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 2:00pm
  I’m glad for you being employed, assuming a) That’s true, b) You are not a liberal operative.
  
  However, you are clearly out of touch about who are the whiners. The food-stamp collectors are not whining at all, why would they? They get free stuff.
  
  Look instead at the statistics about the participation rate, lowest in modern times. That simply means more people WHO WERE WORKING AND NOT WHINING have just given up wasting shoe-leather pounding the pavement for jobs simply not available. In some states, there are effectively labor scams. They sort-of “hire” you for a few days, then say you’re not for them AND DO NOT GET PAID FOR WORKING!
  
  23,000,000 million not sufficiently paid as they were a few years ago is not a whining group.
  
  Someone mentioned you might be a government parasite with an overpaid job. It doesn’t matter the answer personally for you; the government unemployment rate is at a record low of 5.1 percent while the private sector is over 8%. The recent creative accounting doesn’t take into account how so many merely gave up in the largest monthly drop in the participation rate in years. Stop miring yourself in tired Dummycrap talking points regardless of somehow you are an exception case.
  
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- sabrinacle
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:41pm
  are you a CNA?
  
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- Reason4334
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:25pm
  So I work in the private sector and I get 3% pay raise and profit sharing every year. I’m not better off than I was 4 years ago. I’m in the 28% income tax rate, and I pay another 30% in value added taxes when I purchase a product. That isn’t bad enough, the cost of fuel has inflated to $4.00 per gallon that is a 100% increase in 4 years. The price of coffee has gone up over 100% from $7.00 to $16.00 for a 2lbs. can. The price of a Hearshy bar has gone up 100% from 49 cents to $1.00. No I’m not better off than I was 4 years ago. These people in the video don’t think about the actual cost of living. Finally, if they thought about the liberty they’ve lost in the last 4 years they’d just deficate on an cop car.
  
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- GaryAA
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:53am
  The only serious question is to define “better.” is our nation doing “better?” are your friends doing “better?” are you really doing “better?”
  
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barber2
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:51am
Anyone who still supports Obama has to be either deluded or a robot Democrat – which is probably synonymous.

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- justangry
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:57am
  Yeah, you only support his policies.
  
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usmc1063
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:50am
They just don’t get it do they? Of course it’s better when you are living outta my pocket.

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- brotherjohn
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:42am
  That’s just it. You and I sign the check on the front, then they sign it on the back. Of course THEY are better off. They don’t realize that they soon will run out of other people’s money. When that happens, and it will, God help us all.
  
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TWO BITS
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:49am
The unemployment rate is irrelevant. Realistically, work is a four-letter word for the majority in this country, and Obama is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Exidor
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:48am
Of all the media coverage of the DNC, I have yet to see one of them that wasn’t COMPLETELY LOONEY TUNES!

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- JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:55am
  Lol – My thoughts exactley
  
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watersRpeople
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:47am
Someone needs to talk to them about their flair, because it doesn’t look like they have enough flair.

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thibx
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:45am
sure they are they getting that oboma check every month.

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Edohiguma
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:43am
They’re not supporters. They’re fans.

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Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:42am
I see no future for this country when people like this are allowed to pick their leader.

We’re (Sandra) Fluked

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TheePolitinator
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:42am
This is 100% true!! They are better off!! they can now use their EBT cards to buy booze and smokes!! They get free “obama” money, and a check each month to spend on drugs!! Oh don’t forget they can also sell their food stamp cards for real cash money!! yay!! more free drugs!!

Isn’t marxism awesome!!!

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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:42am
Hell Barry and his bumbling bastard brigade is better off than they were four years ago,Barrys a multi millionaire. He spews communist BS all day long and is currently dismantling capitalism and we’re paying him to do it,for a few more months anyway.

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rebelguns
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:42am
Ringling Bros called. They want their clowns back!

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HKS
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:41am
With all the money they stole from the American people in the last four years , bet your boots they are better off.

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No Name Yet
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:40am
Seems like they all watched Office Space! They all seem to have so many pieces of flair!

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Nevermind
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:40am
kickagrandma
These are the “people” who booed GOD. Remember that.

************

Kind of like when the soldier was booed at the GOP debates over DADT? Real classy to boo a soldier serving this country. I could care less about booing god, santa or the easter bunney. A soldier is real and got booed by your party. I guess that whole “support the troops” thing looks good on a bumper sticker but not in real life . You guys are just sad

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- IAMMADDOG
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:11am
  @ Nevermind ….uh….. hmmm…never mind you wouldn’t understand anyhow.
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:54pm
  I know of another convention that voted to keep gods out of their platform; the Second Continental Congress. They kept gods out of the Declaration of Independence. The Constitutional Convention voted to keep gods out of The Constitution some years later.
  
  but I am certain IAMMADDOG wouldn’t understand that.
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:36am
They are programmed to say that, and to wear stupid-looking hats.

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kickagrandma
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:32am
These are the “people” who booed GOD. Remember that.

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Rickfromillinois
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:31am
Either they are idiots or they are living off of the government teats.

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- MrButcher
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:36am
  …or they are both.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:38am
  I’ll go with both.
  
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