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State Dept Backpedals on Turkey’s Anti-Israel Comments After Pressure From AP Reporter

Nov. 20, 2012 3:59pm
State Dept Backpedals on Turkeys Anti Israel Comments After Pressure From AP Reporter

(Source: AP)

After Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan called Israel a “terrorist state” engaged in “ethnic cleansing,” the White House remained deafeningly silent until it finally succumbed to pressure placed on the State Department’s spokeswoman by the Associated Press’ Matt Lee.

“How do you — this whole thing of saying nothing, I’m not sure I understand why you think that that’s helpful to the situation. You say that it would not be helpful for you to discuss any of your conversations, that quiet diplomacy is the way to de-escalate that. Well, you’ve been doing your quiet diplomacy now for almost a week. How’s it going so far?” Lee pressed during an exchange with State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland during a Monday press briefing.

“We are working hard with the parties. We’re working hard with –” she began to reply.

“Hasn’t it occurred to anybody that maybe being less quiet might get more results, though? Squeaky wheel gets grease, that kind of thing?”

Now, the administration is backpedaling and on Tuesday condemned Turkey for its comments. Lee’s update is featured below.

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WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) The Obama administration is criticizing its NATO ally Turkey for “extremely harsh” rhetoric in accusing Israel of terrorism in its current military operations in Gaza.

The State Department said Tuesday that such language is “not helpful” to efforts to end the conflict there. Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that message had been delivered to Turkish officials within the past 24 hours.

Turkey’s prime minister has accused Israel’s leaders of trying to eliminate the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip through ethnic cleansing and terrorism. Israel says its actions are aimed at halting rocket attacks into Israeli territory from Gaza by Hamas militants and other groups.

Nuland spoke as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was heading to the Mideast while violence raged even as cease-fire talks were under way in Egypt.

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  • asybot12
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:49pm

    Please every one. People like Pork and the jerk are on this site just to annoy you, do not answer them for a while they will go away.

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  • mschritz
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:31pm

    In the last ten years, Hamas in the Gaza strip has launched over 4,800 rockets into southern Israel, an ongoing act of terrorism that is costing innocent lives and damaging property. In desperation to put an end to these rocket attacks and protect their people (including their well-treated Muslim citizens), Israel is doing air-strikes.

    So now that they’re defending themselves, suddenly the media is all over Israel and how they’re attacking? Sick of the liberal media.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:48pm

      http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/noam-chomsky-jew-my-visit-to-gaza-the-worlds-largest-open-air-prison/

      Read the above and you might have a greater understanding of why, and a better understanding of real history. It’s written and delivered by a Jew.

      The_Jerk  
    • asybot12
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:52pm

      Actually it is closer to 9000. But according to the media who is counting? They don’t any damage right?

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    • asybot12
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:54pm

      Noam Chomsky a jew in name only just like Obama is a democrat in name only.

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    • longknifed
      Posted on November 21, 2012 at 4:11am

      SORRY, but Jews never stop caring about their homeland. It is all just deception. Hitler was right all along when he pointed out that Jews are the leaders of every faction for a reason. They are all assigned to different roles in society with the ultimate aim of conserving this stranglehold they have on the gentile world. It’s as if Jews commandeered two runaway trains full of Gentiles, only to propel them straight into each other before jumping out themselves.

      This is the game they played on the Republicans with neoconservatism. I think its fair to say they did a devilishly wicked job on securing braindead cannon fodder.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0JY-Knd7jc

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  • Steel
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:28pm

    The obama administration is clearly anti-Semitic. If you don’t know that, you don’t know that obama is black. There is no love lost between obama and any Jewish person. It seems to me that blacks simply hate Jews because they believe blacks are the root of all their social and financial problems. Ask any truly honest black and you’ll find that what I say is true. If you don’t like it, then be courageous and really research the matter by talking to your black friends and acquaintances. Again, if they’re truly honest, they’ll admit their anti-Semitic stance.

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    • I Stand With Israel
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:13pm

      I have been curious for a while now about why the majority of blacks are so anti-semitic, and I think it is because the blacks feel threatened that they may lose their title of the biggest ‘Victim”. I mean, if you make your living by constantly reminding people that your far off ancestors were wronged and oppressed, wouldn’t you want to make a group of people who were starved, enslaved and then killed by the MILLIONS in gas chambers look like they are really just bad people who don’t need our help or sympathy? Yep, I think that might be the answer to their hate.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:30pm

      The definition of antisemitism is, “anyone that disagrees with Zionism, Israel, Jews, or any of their supporters.” It’s the Jewish equivalent of blacks using racism to stifle debate, homosexuals using homophobia to stifle debate… on and on, weak minds that have lost the argument based on facts.

      The_Jerk  
    • Gregb
      Posted on November 21, 2012 at 12:05am

      a very big YES – the obama administration is very racist – and I believe that is from obama down. racism to the extreme

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  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:01pm

    Victoria Nuland is as dumb as a dry tu*d. She never has an answer for anything. She continually remarks that she is “not going to comment on that”. Might as well have just the podium up there with a glass of water on it. Just as informative.

    Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

    The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
    The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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  • Advection
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:06pm

    If the free press had done its job, these cowards would have backed down, but its too late now.

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  • PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:13pm

    Turkey committed Genocide on all the Armenians. And were nailed with it by the UN. Islam is killing everyone that is not Islam…what is that called but murder. Israel needs to blockade to keep war material out of Gaza. They have no choice. Gaza digs tunnels and still gets in war materials. Gaza fires at Israel…what would you do. Self-defense is all they have left and now they are surrounded by evil thanks to our evil President and his muslim brothers. Yesterday, An American Soldier from MN, 22 years old, died in Afghanistan and Today an Israeli soldier, 18 years old, died in Israel sent to DEFEND HIS OWN COUNTRY. When will the madness end? Will we all end up dhimmis? Radical Islam is EVIL too many young men have died. I will NEVER bow to Islam, EVER. I hope we kill them ALL.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:19pm

      Zionist call their state “the Jewish state.” They, like the good Nazis, seek an ethnically pure state. What more need be said about avoiding that poisonous state.

      The_Jerk  
    • Centurian
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:38pm

      @THe_Jerk;

      Please do some research.

      If you did, you would find there are a lot of Arabs who peacefully live in Israel. But the media doesn’t portray Israel like that. It wouldn’t be in their “self-interest”.

      According to the CIA World Factbook, 1 out of every 4 people in Israel are Arabic (not Jewish!).

      Their legal system consists of English common law, British Mandate regulations, and Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious laws.

      Of the 7.5 million people who live in Israel, the religious breakdown is as follows:
      Jewish 75.6%
      Muslim 16.9%
      Christian 2%
      Druze 1.7%
      other 3.8% (2008)

      Care to rethink your comment?

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:53pm

      In its Basic Laws Israel defines itself as a Jewish and Democratic State and it is the world’s only Jewish-majority state.

      The_Jerk  
    • tzion
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:20pm

      @Jerk
      Germany is a German state. Britain is a British state. France is a French state. How is Israel calling itself a Jewish state a problem. As long as everyone is treated equally under the law the fact that the state is officially Jewish is meaningless. Many here in the US call us a Christian nation and I have no issue with that.

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    • tzion
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:30pm

      @Jerk
      Israel has never been an ethnically pure state and has never taken measures to become one. The PA and the Palestinians, however, demands that Jews vacate the areas they want for their state, attack Israeli civilians, and have even made it a capital crime to sell land to Jews.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:36pm

      TZion: “Germany is a German state. Britain is a British state. France is a French state.”

      TZion, I know that this is meaningless to a Zionist zealot, but none of these other states have walled off ghettos of forceably displaced peoples. And, when they did, Jews were the first to complain… even made an industry based around their complaint, not per me, but per the Jewish Norman G. Finkelstein

      The_Jerk  
    • The_Jerk
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:38pm

      tzion: “Israel has never been an ethnically pure state and has never taken measures to become one.”

      The Jewish historian Ilan Pappé disagrees with you, and he wrote a book to prove it.

      The_Jerk  
    • The_Jerk
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:46pm

      TZion, just read this from a fellow Jew:

      http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/noam-chomsky-jew-my-visit-to-gaza-the-worlds-largest-open-air-prison/

      The_Jerk  
    • tzion
      Posted on November 21, 2012 at 1:40am

      @Jerk
      You turn to Liberals to support your arguments? Find me one conservative minded, historically knowledgeable person who backs your view. You have not provided facts but rather two individuals opinions. I could cite over a dozen contrary opinions.

      Pappe believes the primary motivation that caused the Arabs to flee was Israel forced them but that is already a point many disagree on. There are plenty of others who think the Arabs fled because they anticipated from the Jews what they themselves intended to do if they had won, namely the massacring of the other group. Arab violence didn’t start in 1948 and it’s quite possible many Arabs were driven out when they weren’t willing to accept living in Israel. Regardless, many Arabs remained and became citizens will full rights, including some Bedouins who allied with the Jews. That fact alone disproves racial or ethnic motivation. (On a side note, your link indicates that Pappe seemingly overestimated the number of refugees by over 200,000, which might make his account questionable).

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    • tzion
      Posted on November 21, 2012 at 1:47am

      @Jerk
      Regardless of the reason Palestinian Arabs fled, the fact remains it wouldn’t have occurred if the Arabs hadn’t attacked Israel. The war drove those people out by creating an air of uncertainty and desperation on both sides. In contrast, following the war, 700,000 Jews were sent into exile by their Arab host countries. And here’s the clincher: there are more Israeli Arabs today than in 1949, there are more Palestinians in the territories than in 1949, but there are far fewer Jews in Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, and even Iran than there were in 1949. The Arab population of Israel has gone up over the past 60 years.

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    • tzion
      Posted on November 21, 2012 at 2:33am

      @Jerk
      Citing Finkelstein is not really an argument. I could just as easily cite a Jew who opposes him on any issue. Moreover, citing the opinions of other Jews doesn’t make my opinion wrong. You keep acting as though Jews are part of some massive conspiracy in which the opinion of one is the opinion of everyone else. And as for none of those countries locking people up, the British and the Irish have had plenty of bad blood, the British have a history of oppressing people in South Africa, India, and even Jews trying to emigrate to Palestine after 1939. Only Jewish immigration was effectively banned in 1939 and those caught trying to enter illegally were placed in a military prison camp on Cyprus.

      In contrast, Israel treats Gaza like a hostile foreign neighbor. Israeli law is not enforced in Gaza, Israeli soldiers and police have no daily presence there, Israel doesn’t dictate were Gaza residents must be at certain times, and doesn’t stop them from running their own economy. The fact is that if Gaza were declared an independent country right now the only thing that would change in terms of how its relationship with Israel was concerned is that the current conflict would legally be considered a war between two nations (of course in that scenario Hamas would also be cited for using schools, mosques, and hospitals for military purposes, forcing military engagements in heavily populated areas, and targeting civilians over military).

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    • longknifed
      Posted on November 21, 2012 at 4:15am

      Why does America have to subsidize the Israeli war machine? Why do we have to be in the crosshairs of synthetic terrorists just to please your eschatological fantasy?
      You see, you bastards got in our way this election. We don’t take kindly to that. Either you leave or you will be forced out. you’ve had your cold war and war on terror long enough. Im sick of paying for your fantasy. you’re worse than welfare queens.

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    • longknifed
      Posted on November 21, 2012 at 4:15am

      Why does America have to subsidize the Israeli war machine? Why do we have to be in the crosshairs of synthetic terrorists just to please your eschatological fantasy?
      You see, you bastards got in our way this election. We don’t take kindly to that. Either you leave or you will be forced out. you’ve had your cold war and war on terror long enough. Im sick of paying for your fantasy. you’re worse than welfare queens.

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  • longknifed
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:10pm

    Why doesn’t this government recognize the Armenian Genocide? Oh that’s right. We have an air base in Turkey. Or maybe because the ADL and Israel are against it. The self-appointed “chosen people” are chosen for a reason.

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    • tzion
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:31pm

      The ADL and Israel are against Turkey recognizing the Armenian genocide? Do you have proof of that or are you just making stuff up?

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    • DABIGRAGU
      Posted on November 21, 2012 at 10:38am

      LongTroll, You stated you were leaving The Blaze over 3hrs ago. Something about the website deleting your trolling comments, yet you’re still here hours and many comments later.
      IGNORE

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  • media-bias-steals-elections
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:24pm

    If we are all from Adam and Eve, then the only way you are going to know what race you are, is if you fill out a government form, that asks the question, did your Mother sleep with an Eskimo, Black Man, White Man, Hispanic man, and on a scale of 1 to 10, did she enjoy it?

    In other words it is none of our business who our mothers slept with, why, where, or when, and as long as we keep insulting our mothers with this kind of disrespectful thinking, we will be cursed with vain imaginations of killing each other?

    That would make us all infidels to Moses?

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    • Centurian
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:49pm

      @The_Jerk,

      Nice how you carefully excerpted out portions of the text…

      15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

      If you didn’t know, the Moabites brought the plague to the people of Israel, which resulted in over 24,000 deaths, which was spread mostly through sexual contact.

      And you wonder why Moses is angry? You’re kidding, right?

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    • Centurian
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:04pm

      @The_Jerk;

      I meant Midianites. Moabites were descendents of Lot, Abraham’s brother. But it is worth noting that the Midianites were able to have ties with the Jewish people, via through connections with the Moabites.

      You stated: “Sounds like the Nazi, Malmedy massacre of Americans, described as a war crime.”

      I state that if you had a bad past history with them, you might have done the same thing. To be upfront here, I fail to see where this is going, anyways. Also, I fail to see how WWII even relates to wars from antiquity. There was no Geneva Convention. There was no Red Cross. There were no governing bodies, such as the League of Nations.

      Nor do I recall Nazi Germany allowing full citizenship to Jews during the late 1930′s and 1940′s, while the wars were going on.

      Again, I fail to see the connection.

      You are posting things from a nation’s past that is several thousand years ago; unless you believe it is relevant now. And if you do, then you must also believe that Israel, and much of the surrounding land, was Israel’s for generations and generations, which means that the land they are on now is theirs by inheritance.

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  • christianUSA
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:34pm

    Opinion MT 12:34 “You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. 35 The good man out of his good treasure brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth what is evil. Turkish PM said it because that what he thought and that’s bad dangerous. There a wide giant difference between defense and aggressive terrorism, between war and terrorism; the gross confusion and false labeling by T-PM shouts his bias, even more so open verbal siding against US long time ally is very problematic.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:39pm

      “… called Israel a “terrorist state” engaged in “ethnic cleansing… .”

      This is a true statement.

      The_Jerk  
    • Larry E
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:24pm

      The Jerk is not only a jerk, but terminally stupid as well. Which group is calling for wiping the other group off the face of the earth you moron! The Israelis in particular and Jews in general are not calling for wiping Arabs or Malms off the face of the earth. You need to change brands before your brain, such as it is, is totally destroyed.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:02pm

      Larry E, my man. One is calling for it. The other is doing it. They’re both mad. Stay out.

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    • Centurian
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:52pm

      @The_Jerk,

      I cannot understand how you perceive Israel with such hate. The jewish people have been living in the region for thousands of years, except when the Arabs ran them out for a short time during the Ottoman Empire.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:24pm

      Centurian: “@The_Jerk, I cannot understand how you perceive Israel with such hate.”

      It’s called a conclusion drawn from the facts of history.

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  • spfoam1
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:00pm

    Let’s write it like it is: Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan, in support of Hamas, called Israel a “terrorist state” engaged in “ethnic cleansing”. The State Department said Tuesday that such language is “not helpful” while they are selling Turkey more weapons.

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  • DZ-015
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:57pm

    Hillary Clinton, you need to talk to Erdogan privately. Tell him that if he doesn’t tone down the rhetoric, the U.S. may recognize Kurdish and Armenian claims to Turkish territory. See how he likes that.

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  • Falindraun
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:40pm

    I think we would have more push from the states on issues such as this if it werent for the 17th amendment. Help me repeal the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution and give the states their rightful voice in the senate. I just started a petition on the White House Petitions site, We the People. Will you sign it? http://wh.gov/9s6Z

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    • maverick4harlot
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:18pm

      I have read a little on it but am unconvinced. Convince me and I’ll sign.

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    • Falindraun
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:25pm

      Currently state governments themselves have no voice in the federal legislative process (it should be the senate), the citizens (that’s us) have our voice in the house of representatives. my feeling on the intent of the senators be voted on by local state governments was to protect the rights afforded them by the 10th amendment, and now as we know the federal government walks all over your (and mine) local state governmental wishes that they would like to see the country go in.

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    • maverick4harlot
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:41pm

      Ok so the citizens vote in their reps in in their local government. We just had an election and the majority voted incorrectly wouldnt you say? Or was their massive voter fraud? Either or we have the wrong people in the State government now and they pick the guy that they know is going to follow what their lobbiests and special interests want. The problem STILL EXISTS just at the state level. If you believe that the problem doesnt exist today in the House but only in the Senate I think you are missing something.

      If you scroll down some you will see my comentary on what needs to be done in government. Special interests are illegal, lobbiests are illegal, no more lifetime pay and benefits OR since we know for a fact that they will never vote to take away all of their goddies from themselves we do what our forefathers did.

      Anyone have a truly better idea?

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    • PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:04pm

      There is a way..Right NOW to change this election results. If 1/3 of the states do not cast their votes in the Electoral College then the House of Rep. get to elect the president. The ony power Repubs have is their majority in the House. See the Details at http://www.fellowshipofminds/wordpress.com/2012/11/19/the-new-plan-of-attack/

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    • tzion
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:27pm

      I want the 17th repealed but petitioning the WH isn’t going to get it done. For one, the President has no active role in the Amendment process and second, the Federal government isn’t likely to pass an amendment that weakens its own power. The way to get it done is to petition the states to call for the repeal of the 17th. If 2/3 of the states pass resolutions calling for the repeal, the federal government must, by law, form a convention to draft the amendment which is then submitted to the states for ratification. Since the states are the ones with the most to gain, they are more likely to act.

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  • elosogrande
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:38pm

    Did it ever occur to The Press that Obama is not the only amature in our government. It’s astonishing, how many people in the administration, The Department of State, The Congress, and The Senate seem to be fumbling with every critical situation.

    Romney is right! The U.S. electorate votes for the guy who they think will give them the most stuff for nothing other than their vote. Consequently, we end up with oafs like Clapper, Biden, Schumer, Frank, Dodd, ect., who keep setting this country back, instead of forward. Pay attention, and you’ll see that these buffoons seldom, if ever, know what to do. It is frightening!

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    • maverick4harlot
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:29pm

      I’d very much like to hear a few ideas on how to change things. Sure the dolts vote in the idiots but if we test everyone for IQ b efore letting people vote do we actually believe that this will somehow stop voter fraud? Or maybe a person will “accidentally fail their test” as a result of their past voting practices? Maybe you should have to have a job to be able to vote, but then is it possible that millions of low wage jobs will come back to the country and the jobs requiring intelligence above “normal” will go overseas?

      The bottom line in my opinion is that everything is about money. Nothing else just money. Remove the BILLIONS of dollars from politicians lives, remove the LIFELONG salary and benefits, remove the lobbiests and special interests and….. HEY all of a sudden politics just became just a little more honest. Maybe not a ton better but most assuredly better. I will tell you what though. TRY to get politicians to vote to take away all the money from themselves!!!!!!

      So anyone have an answer to the existing problem short of what our forefathers chose?

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    • maverick4harlot
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:13pm

      all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

      I think our forefathers said it best. Are we not being reduced under absolute Despotism? Despotism was a term used to describe the unlimited power and authority of the Pharaohs of Egypt. Are we not well on our way to that now?

      When a long train of abuses and usurpations……The term usurpation is used in reference to the unlawful assumption or seizure of sovereign power. Are we not watching that happen everyday with all of these unlawfull executive orders? The act of totally ignoring the law that the President must sign a budget every year? Drone planes flying over our homes? Illegal searches and seizures by the TSA?

      This government that we live under today has become like that of smoking. Slow steady changes that we are willing to live with a little at a time until we finally realize that we can no longer breath.

      We are all scared $hitle$$ about what would happen if we did do what our forefathers did.
      So were they.

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  • Falindraun
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:35pm

    I think we could have had more push from the states on issues like this if it werent for the 17th amendment. I just started a petition on the White House Petitions site, We the People. http://wh.gov/9s6Z Help me repeal the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution and give the states their rightful voice in the senate.

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  • jessieH
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:33pm

    Hey, Turkey is just trying to do the same thing Osama Obama & his minions are doing. Speak a lie long enough & somebody will, eventually believe it.

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  • gyro
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:28pm

    its not backpedling its damage control

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:58pm

      I think that AP reporter might be in trouble. How dare he question the administration of the ONE.

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  • ilovestock
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:22pm

    Simply amazing….the Turks have been indiscrimantly slaughteringthe Kurds for decades and are solely responsible for the nazi-style holocaust of a million Armenians at the turn of the 20th century. Israel is the terrorist state? The Turks need to take responsibility for being the cold blooded terrorist murderers thay are.

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  • Balrog28
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:19pm

    We all know that 20 seconds ago is considered to be “within the past 24 hours”. That is essentially correct, but very sad that a guy from AP had to push them to do this…

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  • landman1
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:18pm

    This administration is so over its head that we cannot help but laugh. To have to be chided by an AP reporter into action to take the Turkish PM to task for his over the top remarks against Israel is a blatant example of their complete incompetence . This is serious stuff and we have Pee Wee Herman at the helm. 4 years of this and worse to look forward to. I do not think it will go quick enough.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:15pm

    Once again we have another ‘cover the tail’ moment.

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  • skippy6
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:15pm

    Of course they use Barrys talking points… They are like robots only programmed to say 2+2=5 over and over and you trolls suck it in like a backwards history book…..62,000,000 idiots and counting… All they need is Amnesty and the number jumps to 82,000,000 idiots……

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  • Pork_Anvil
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:08pm

    But, but…but….but I thought the AP was a “moutpiece” of “the regime?”

    Get your stories straight, tea bags!

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:07pm

    After Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan called Israel a “terrorist state” engaged in “ethnic cleansing,” the White House remained deafeningly silent.

    The silence was deafening with regards to the Marxist’s regimes stance on the Turkish PM’s remark.
    Their initial non response is much more telling.

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  • Pork_Anvil
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:07pm

    Did someone say turkey? I can’t wait!

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:37pm

      Better hurry up EtchySkecthy….

      Tick tock, tick tock….

      Your 5 pm deadline is approaching….

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  • drphil69
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:04pm

    ROTFL… the lib nazi’s are now ‘condemning’ the islamo-nazi’s. What a joke.

    Face it – you are now slaves to the state.

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