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The Four Most Interesting Quotes From Michelle Obama’s Interview With ‘Extra’

Oct. 16, 2012 10:19am Jonathon M. Seidl

Yesterday, the entertainment news outlet “Extra” published a sit-down with Michelle Obama. There were some interesting nuggets from the interview. We’ve decided to break it down into the top four.

1. On the president’s poor debate performance two weeks ago:

“You know, I think my husband has done a phenomenal job, not just in the debate, but in the last three and a half years as president. I’m always so proud of what he’s done. … And we’re also seeing the gains because of that leadership. We’re seeing an economy that’s recovering from the brink of collapse, we’ve got wars coming to a close, our young people — more of them — can afford to go to college, we have health care reform for so many millions of people who’ve gone without health care.”

2. “He’s not just a candidate, he’s still leader of the free world, and knowing what is coming on and off of his plate in the course of a day would astound you.”

3. Regarding Tuesday’s debate: “I know he’s going to do well.”

4. On young people getting to the polls: “Voting is the most powerful, non-violent tool for change that we have in this country.”

You can watch the full sit-down in the video above.

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Jack76
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:56am
Pardon me if I don’t watch the video, the woman makes me sick.
I’m hoping she gets her pink slip next month.

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- GETLIFE
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:09pm
  Thought the same thing, then read it anyway.
  Loved the “full plate” imagery she used.
  Of all people! Of all the metaphors one might choose!
  
  I get this great image of the concerned diet-obsessed wife looking on as her husband stuffs his face with all of the cover-ups he must now deal with on a daily basis–Libya, Healthcare, skyrocketing university tuition, Fast and Furious, fake jobs numbers, GM, Solyndra 1,2,3,4…, cheating on campaign finance….
  
  Oh yes, he is a very busy man.
  
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- jujubeebee
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:15pm
  me too…there is no way I am watching that video. How sad that the only voters they can go after are college kids who have not had any real life experience yet.
  Their efforts to get out the vote this time may be a bit more difficult. He has 4 years of lies, higher prices in gas, groceries, goods, less opportunity for jobs, more government spending with over a trillion dollars borrowed from China every year and a debt of 16 trillion. Obama has no plan and no specifics. That line about taxing millionaires doesn’t exactly pay the bills and printing money hurts all of us. His hope is a myth. His change is not for the better. His forward goes where? How does middle out work? Another bullsh*t slogan unless squeezing every dime out of our paychecks because of gas prices, prices of groceries and goods somehow does something to push the middle class into the lower class. He accused Romney of no specifics when he has no specifics. Romney has truth on his side. He better bring it tonight!
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:32pm
  check this out: from WEEKLY STANDARD http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/former-aide-obama-stunning-he-s-politics-because-he-really-doesn-t-people_654636.html
  
  (WE ELECTED A PSYCHOPATH last time FOLKS!!! READ THIS:)
  
  The Blog
  Former Aide on Obama: ‘Stunning that He’s in Politics, Because He Really Doesn’t Like People’
  10:25 AM, Oct 16, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER
  
  Neera Tanden, a former aide to both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, had this to say about the relationship of the two presidents:
  
  Clinton, being Clinton, had plenty of advice in mind and was desperate to impart it. But for the first two years of Obama’s term, the phone calls Clinton kept expecting rarely came. “People say the reason Obama wouldn’t call Clinton is because he doesn’t like him,” observes Tanden. “The truth is, Obama doesn’t call anyone, and he’s not close to almost anyone. It’s stunning that he’s in politics, because he really doesn’t like people. My analogy is that it’s like becoming Bill Gates without liking computers.”
  
  (There’s more to this article – read at link above) GOOD GRIEF!!!
  
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- darkknight91
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 3:28pm
  1. He DID do a phenomomal job. For me to poop on.
  2. Kobe beef? I guess the Libya security request didn’t make it that far.
  3. He WILL do well. For me to poop on.
  4. Until you can change that, eh, comrade?
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 4:30pm
  It sounds like she is ticked off at Obama. She probably knows he will dump her after he leaves office. In supporting same sex marriage he has basically came out of the closet. i never thought I would see a president supporting Q_ueers and L_izzies geeting married. After the election Myself, wife , 3 sons and 2 of my daughter in-laws are changing from Democrat to Republican. My 3 rd daughter in-law would like to but her father is a local Dem. party leader and he would vote for a nut out of a nut house. He only sees the party, not the person.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 4:40pm
  Her **** covers 3 States !
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 5:46pm
  Hey obama, you’re fired!!!!! Take your crooked husband with you….
  
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- n8isgrate
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 7:01pm
  I almost guarentee she wears pants in relationship and she is actually running the show not Obama.
  
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Tigress1
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:42am
Michele, we already know what your true wish is: “To walk out the front door of the White House and just keep walking.”
Your wish will come true, and feel free to pack your bags and leave the day after the election.

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- Rent A Yenta
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:08pm
  …and take the cabbage head with you, and your garden vegetables, too.
  
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- Longgonegator
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:41pm
  But dont take the dishes and draperies
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 4:42pm
  Oh I’m sure they pack up the old Prius with as many souvenirs as they possibly can !
  
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Cabo King
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:41am
Mooochells most famous quote “For the first time in my LIFE I’am proud to be an American….when Bozo got elected……one S.F.N.

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- KissMyAmericanFlag
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:11pm
  Last year or so, CBS’ 60 Minutes showed a segment about the zero and his first grimace in our White House. She was quoted by the zero as asking him, “What are you doing here?” No doubt he didn’t get the main thrust of her question, ie “You are wrong for this great country; get your sorry arse out before you do more damage.”
  
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TruthPolice60
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:31am
‘Ol Barry did just about as well in the last debate as he has done being president.

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Zurich
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:31am
I think Michelle is the only one in the Obama’s campaign who is running on her husband’s disastrous record. Poor Michelle she was in the White House Prison for so long and couldn’t see what is going on outside her veggie-garden…….

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huey6367
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:19am
Lies, lies and more lies. I don’t think either one knows how to tell the truth.

- College is not affordable (tuition up 25%)
- We are not in a recovery. We are still in a recession (unemployment is 14.7% [U6]). GDP spending is way up. Growth is 1.25%
- The economy just needs one small quiver and it collapses again and I believe it will be worse than that in 2007/2008
- Health care reform is nothing short of a joke. Originally estimated at 900 billion not estimated to be 2.7 Trillion.
- He’s not a leader. A leader leads. A leader supports the people and does not divide them on race, religion, age and social class. A leader is a uniter.

Romney/Ryan 2012

Also, not related to this story, I think Obama willcome out aggressively in the debate tonight but I think he come out so aggressively he will hurt himself.

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- nonofmybiznez
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:32am
  Like, like, like!
  
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- jujubeebee
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:19pm
  I think Obama will by lying his arse off tonight in hopes that his adoring public will believe the lies. That is how he has behaved thus far and I doubt he will be any different tonight. He will be lying and I do hope Romney can politely counter those lies with the truth in a nice way.
  
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- Bobj_1960
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 12:58pm
  Huey….you already said what I was going to but did a much better job.
  Thanks!
  
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gigalynx
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:12am
If voting is the most powerful non-violent tool for change, I wonder what the most powerful Violent tool for change is?

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- right-wing-waco
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:18am
  Ask Castro!
  
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- huey6367
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:19am
  Ask Obama’s supports who want to kill Romney if he is elected.
  
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- OniKaze
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:58am
  If Obama wins, maybe after his policies destroy America, we will find out…
  
  I hope it doesn’t come to violence, but I have never seen a better time for the American people to send a message to Crapital Septic Hill…..
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 5:35pm
  @ gigalynx
  
  If voting is the most powerful non-violent tool for change, I wonder what the most powerful Violent tool for change is?
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Abortion, in any form.
  
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rockymtngal
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:10am
“He’s not just a candidate, he’s still leader of the free world”, really? I’m sorry Mooshell, you’re just as delusional as your husband.

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- right-wing-waco
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:17am
  “He’s still leader of the free world.” That is only because he has not yet DECLARED himself as official dictator of the communist states of un-amerika. He IS a communist folks… really. He must be defeated or the next war will be right here.
  
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- Silversmith
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:54am
  That quote made me laugh! He has been anything but the “leader” of the free world. He strikes me more as a broker SELLING the free world into slavery.
  
  Even liberals can’t be ignoring this now.
  
  Silversmith
  
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Chromo200
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:10am
Yeah more affordable education learning what, english, history, art and community organizing. And after they graduate there are no jobs so off they go using their folk’s or tax payer’s money to tour the world.

Michelle has not forgotten her poor Chicago neighborhood where she learned to grab what she can even it it was not hers. She has turned a golden rule to “Do unto others before they do it you”.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:08am
Our Dollar is going to Collapse. WHAT Else is of any importance? I’m sick of all the LIES. I’m sick of sitting back and listening to these Criminals. God WILL step in and save us from these EVIL people.

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moreteaplease
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:07am
“And we’re also seeing the gains because of that leadership. ”
————————————–
Well, she is but not the rest of us.

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toiletclogga
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:06am
Only in the world of the Liberal can $100k for college be deemed “affordable!” The cost of these liberal institutions is putting a yoke around the necks of these kids, and the US economy. If they are paying off college loans, they are not buying cars, homes, etc.!

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- DSTSS2010
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 5:49pm
  Whatis sad is that for $100K they are getting an indoctrination, not an education.
  They live in a “Flat World” there is only one side and it is Socialist dogma.
  
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Gary_K
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:59am
Moochelle and barry do share something in common.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/former-aide-obama-stunning-he-s-politics-because-he-really-doesn-t-people_654636.html

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ElChupaCabraDeUSA
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:51am
You would think she would have started being proud of America when she was appointed to a $6 figure hospital board position for which she had zero qualifications and for which she was required to do zero useful work other than to find a way to ship low income patients off to other hospitals. In the immortal words of your husband…Michele, ” You didn’t build this”. As a matter of fact, You didn’t build anything of value to this country.

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biohazard23
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:47am
Would she care to explain how her husband is able to pick such phenomenal losers as recipients of our tax dollars? Or is that above her pay grade and comprehension level?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-16/electric-car-battery-maker-a123-systems-files-bankruptcy.html?cmpid=yhoo

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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:49am
  It’s easy Bio. It’s all based on campaign contributions.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:54am
  Of course it is, but you’ll never hear that coming from Mooch Antoinette’s gaping gob.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:24am
  Hi BIOHAZARD23, I have to agree with GONZO, but I am not beginning to think that these Green companies only set up to get the government money. They return a percentage in a kick back also called a campaign donation. Then they take the money and run.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz0NKWpRO6g
  
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diverdan
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:42am
Regarding number 4-it implies that violence is an acceptable option; otherwise it would not be included.

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- Wango
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:49am
  Lock n Load!
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:50am
  I caught that too.
  
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- Oneirishman
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:50am
  Yea, I read it the same way.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:07pm
  Wangdang
  You really should get that PTSD ( and the warts) looked at. OWS and the Natty’s of Islam need you at peak levels. Always putting WangDang first. Well, you are in the right party for that.
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:16pm
  I read it the same way also. It was kind of a cloaked warning. Well…I will be forewarned and fore-armed.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 4:20pm
  If I were you Wang, I’d duck-n-run!!!
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 7:54pm
  Palins writing a diet book, y’all.
  Guess being able to see Russia from your cooch and that Afriker (Bush pronunciation)
  ruled out a foreign policy volume.
  
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biohazard23
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:41am
Awww, bless your little heart, dear Etch. Did your wittle feewings get hurt? Need a hug? You poor little useful idiot….

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Detroit paperboy
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:41am
After the election she will have more flexibility ,,,,,,,,,,,,regarding her vacations…………….

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T-2
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:40am
shhhh….Michelle, you lost me at “you know”

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- madasblazes
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 1:03pm
  I went to Hillbuzz.org and they have a link to watch “Obama’s 2016″ by Denish Desouza (sp) and saw it for $3.99, right on my laptop. It’s an hour and a half. Very good; I hope a lot of folks see it before the election.
  
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Rent A Yenta
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:33am
She lost me at “For the first time in my adult life I’m proud of my country.” Everything after that has been blah, blah, blah.

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- johnjamison
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:42am
  Same here, as reguard to the 2008 election for the first time in my life I was ashamed of my country….That would be a lie I’m ashamed of who sit in the office,I’m ashamed of the what is in Washington,I’m ashamed of an election being brought on entitlements,BUT THAT’S NOT AMERICA OR EVEN AN AMERICAN IDEAL. THAT IS WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME.
  ANTI-AMERICAN
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:49am
  Mit lost me at “47% of Americans . . . will never take responsibility for their lives.”
  
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mrp15
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:32am
What do you expect from this lazy lady who was never proud of her country until her husband ran for president and whose marriage to him was arranged by Jesse Jackson and whose strings are pulled by Valerie Jarrett?

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yougottabekidding
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:31am
As for number 4 too bad it can not be done by Americans that can
Prove they are not dead or legal citizens and can prove it with ID.
The amazing part of this is the stupid public that is happy with their
Vote becoming mute

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Think_4_yourself
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:29am
I wonder if instead of thowing softball questions they could ask about the Benghazi coverup, or how about the 1,000′s of tweets that call for rioting if Obama is not re-elected.

I sure am lovin me this robust recovery we are in. I’m glad she pointed out that we are in the midst of a huge recovery, we might have missed it if she didn’t point it out.

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- Wango
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:51am
  Let’s see those thousands of tweets. As opposed to a bullet through the window of an Obama campaign office.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:02am
  Or a bullet through the window of the Republican House Majority leader?
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:19am
  Those idiot liberals need to learn how to aim. Actually if they knew how
  to read, maybe they would realize they shot at the wrong place, or was it planned that way
  After all they can always plead ignorance!
  
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- Think_4_yourself
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:27am
  @Wango, typical of liberal response, instead of standing up and shouting from the mountain top that you do not advocate this type of talk and violence, go on the attack. His lollipop is bigger than mine, that’s not fair. That’s what is very wrong with our society right now, no one has to be responsible for their actions. How’s the weed havest this year?
  
  I will let my voice be known that I disagree and do not condone any violence based on opinion, whether it be from republicans or democrats. The exeption is protecting our freedom and country.
  
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:28am
HA, she had to throw in Non-Violent.

Like Rioting even came to the minds of non blacks.

What’s a tool to change the course of your country? Voting.

Michelle’s answer: Well are we talking violent or non-violent??

Blacks sure do love free stuff. Rioting is less about Change and more about looting.

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Gonzo
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:24am
Give him four more years and she’ll still be citing the same “accompishments”. We’ll still be recovering, not recovered.

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- EtchASketch
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:30am
  Says the clown on the internet.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:46am
  Said the guy with the big red nose and floppy shoes.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:52am
  GONZO . . .You got fooled again
  
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- coachsmac
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:53am
  Gonzo, you are right, but we may not even be here in 4 years if Nobama is reelected. Stock up on food stuffs, seeds, guns and ammo, it will be needed if there is no change in November!
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:59am
  Wango, get on your Magic Bus and go. (It’s the short one.)
  
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- EtchASketch
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:03am
  @Gonzo, “Said the guy with the big red nose and floppy shoes”
  
  Smiles travel miles!
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:34am
  ETCHASKETCH, Morning George, looks to me as though you have shot yourself in the clown shoes again.
  WANG, just for you. Best version too, Live At Leeds.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Y64dpZGnE
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:37am
  FORWARD = 180 degree turn then go with determination
  
  Look at the other hand Mrs I did not have sex, (in her case I would believe it), Is about to sell us down the river at the un. Internet tax (the un will be in charge of the internet, 1st ammendment bye-bye) and then 2nd amendment.
  But all you liberals don’t have to worry you won’t have to pay only those of us that actually work, you know the 53% will get to pay (you wont be able to use it anyway). By the way that number keeps getting smaller. Then who is going to pay for you idiots?
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 5:28pm
  RJJ I want it, I want it!
  
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