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‘Where Have You Been?’: ABC’s Jake Tapper Calls Out Obama in Testy Exchange

Dec. 19, 2012 1:23pm Madeleine Morgenstern

ABCs Jake Tapper to Obama on Gun Laws after Newtown Connecticut Shooting: Where Have You Been?

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ABC News’ Jake Tapper confronted President Barack Obama about not doing more earlier in his administration to combat gun violence following last week’s horrific elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

“This is not the first issue, the first incident of horrific gun violence of your four years,” Tapper said Wednesday after Obama announced a new task force to bring him “real reforms” to reduce gun violence. “Where have you been?”

“Here’s where I’ve been Jake,” Obama said. “I’ve been president of the United States dealing with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, an auto industry on the verge of collapse, two wars, I don’t think I’ve been on vacation. I think all of us have to do some reflection on how we prioritize what we do here in Washington.”

Obama repeated his statement from Sunday that “if we are not getting right the need to keep our children safe then nothing else matters,” but said there are many ways to do that.

“A lot of things are involved in that, Jake — making sure they’ve got decent health care, making sure they’ve got good education, making sure that their parents have jobs, those are all relevant as well,” Obama said. “Those aren’t just sort of side issues.”

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:05pm
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Jake I’ve been standing behind you with both hands on your shoulders working you like a ventriloquist dummy…..Don’t you remember?…………
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- Mike Austin
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:23pm
  Jake Tapper is probably the only reporter asking real questions. Idiots like you are serving obama well by being an unimformed troll.
  
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- jungle J
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:49pm
  Mike Austin..he was told to ask those questions by his leader to make it look like they are not in his pocket…..child.
  
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- ron2win
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:53pm
  Don’t you understand O’s the hardest working man in the bizzz.Listen how he recites the same talking points for the last for years. He obviously believes the the lie ,how the rest of you ?
  
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- Ming The Merciless
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:54pm
  Not Jake Tapper – Ben Swann has been the reporter digging/presenting and reporting the truth. Jake Tapper is late to the party but it’s nice he showed up though….
  
  Youtube – ‘Ben Swann’.
  
  You’re welcome.
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:55pm
  Don’t forget Obama’s also been working feverishly to hide any kind of real evidence and he’s been keeping Hillary Clinton from testifying about Benghazi Libya. Now that must be taking up a lot of him time:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE52OOG5MkI
  
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- ONLY4UANDME
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:02pm
  I would have loved to hear someone say “STOP TRYING TO HELP”!
  
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- Truthbeliever2
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:03pm
  And all this time I thought the media was controlled by the government, but after watching this I see now that I was way off base. I’m putting all my trust back in the news media. You are a hero Jake Tapper.
  
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- escape_from_socialism
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:07pm
  Yoobama, you put all this “responsibilities” on your self. Most of them are not president’s job at all. This is what happen in centralized system.
  
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- Too_Far_Gone
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:12pm
  He looks hungover ..
  
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- frust@ted
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:27pm
  That was a horse crap question. God I hate the media, Where have you been media. It’s your responsibility to ask the tough questions. Instead you sit on the sideline and then play captian hindsight all day and whip the public up into a frenzy. The medai is supposed to be our eyes and ears they fail everyday and then just go around and point fingers.
  
  If you were really concerned about why weren’t you asking the question 4 years ago Jake?
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:29pm
  So people are criticizing the President for not doing enough on gun control before now? Seriously?
  
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- jorskippy
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:37pm
  Isn’t it odd that now the election is behind us, ths “Journalist starts asking questions…Did these problems not have any credence until now????
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:40pm
  Why any male would exchange testes with any other male is beyond me.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:41pm
  @JZS aka Meteors
  
  Um, one of your lib buds is doing it, it’s not folks on the correct side of the debate asking the question.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:26pm
  Bobo the wonder Marxist was too busy arming Mexican Cartels to pay much attention the US. That plan backfired, but he got an early Christmas present in the form of dead children he can stand on to push his Fascist agenda.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:34pm
  That was a surprisingly brave Q, considering that Dictator Barack takes any allusions to his incompetence personally. Consider yourself blacklisted, Tapper.
  
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- donkeykong
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:36pm
  Tapper is a planted shill. If not, he’d already be dead.
  After all, we’re dealing with the reincarnation of
  the Marxist movement here.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:56pm
  Clashed, decoded means was asked a serious question.
  Not ….rate the beat..could you dance to it??
  
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- heyjim55
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:08pm
  And another thing Jake if you want to be invited to any cocktail parties you better start asking questions about my basketball workout or what I had for breakfast, or if I am getting enough sleep get it?
  
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- RedHarley
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:22pm
  Mike Austin,
  
  If Jake Tapper was a REAL reporter he would have followed up by asking about all of the GOLF GAMES.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:24pm
  Let’s see you have been on to many vacations and golfing way to much and since you have been President you have been running for your second term . So you have not been much of a President even worse than Carter. So last place. Proverbs chap 24 verses 24-25.
  
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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:27pm
  Where has Obama been working as hard as he can to destroy the vestiges of the Judeo/Christian culture this country was founded on. Tapper is part of Gramscian shock troops to transform the culture from within – and he probably does not even know it. But the left proudly bragged they had psychological techniques to teach children an unshakeable belief that snow was black…
  
  The cadre of intellectuals that have trained teachers and media hacks to take this which was a Judeo/Chrsitan culture down from within…Fabians, Frankfurt School, Antonio Gramsci, Mattechine Society, Committee’s of Correspondence, this is all out war against the America of our Founders who knew that only a moral people could handle freedom – freedom without morality destroys…
  
  Gun control is just one of their weapons. All I need to know about gun control: The Founders were FOR RIGHT TO BARE and Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Obama ARE AGAINST!
  
  This is the most comprehensive, best movie I have seen pulling all this together. Watch it. Share it.
  It should be mandatory viewing for anyone who is educated/indoctrinated in government funded schools
  https://vimeo.com/52009124
  if that is not working try this: https://vimeo.com/16647512
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:29pm
  F this Marxist PIG
  
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- monitor
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:30pm
  Funny as hell Spanky … yet very true.
  
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- soundtracktowar
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:32pm
  When Obama voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection act, I ceased believing that he actually cares about children.
  
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- ambrosia
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 6:26pm
  Jake Tapper takes on the Tap Dancing, Tax Prancing Dummy !
  
  Where has Oblameo been the first 4 years ?
  Everyone KNOWS that answer except the lanky, skanky Dummy !
  He’s been CAMPAIGNING…THAT is all he’s good for, THAT is ALL he’s done !
  
  Here’s the other question-
  where was Ma Michelle ?
  Why didn’t she attend the Sandy Hook service with her dumb, nutty buddy ?
  Did I miss something or did Ma Michelle already take off on their
  costly 20-day vacay to Hawa-ha-hee-hee ?
  
  If this was a school filled with black children,
  she would have parked her big, Buick **** on the front lines
  and scolded the world.
  
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- dmprisk
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 6:40pm
  LOL! That’s Great!
  
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- Brian_G
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 6:54pm
  What an arrogant, narcissistic, SOB!
  
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- Force2bewreckin
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 7:11pm
  This question was staged. 1st clue? ABC news asked the question. 2nd clue? He answered it directly. Obama has been under fire from the lef/gun grabbers to do something and this is just theater. When has ABC news ever questioned DC and their motives with out DC wanting them to?
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:30pm
  GhostOfJefferson/Sleazy Offspring – good catch on the irony of this thread! I had the same thought.
  
  Like you, I place a high value on protecting myself and my loved ones during normal times as well the coming social apocalypse, which is just around the corner. As you build your skills and arsenal I’d definitely recommend to you the AR-15. I keep up, and have read about four recent evaluations of this weapon. Beyond a doubt, this is the weapon of choice when faced with a large number of people who are all out to get you at once, people with no other desire that to deprive you of your freedoms, if not your very life!
  
  I’ve also done my research into the the only viable currency – gold – once President Obama become an absolute dictator. Shop around if you like, and I’m sure you will because you are obviously that sharp. But I can tell you right up front the source of gold you’ll end up with: Godline. Their limited edition George Washington coins – which are now on sale – is your best value, given how these rare coins will soar in value when Obama uses his position as Commander in Chief to attempt to establish absolute, despotic rule. Remember: Godline.
  
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- badge02812
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:31pm
  Testy ??? Did you say Testy or Testicle ???
  If you wanna see Testy, get me in there. I’ll show you how to ask questions.
  I’ll show you both of em !!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:18pm
  No, seriously JZS, lame. I know you think you’re being witty, but it’s kind of stale. Sorry bro.
  
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- spirited
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:14pm
  MING, You are correct.
  
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- pdw
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:16pm
  I believe we need to stand behind him when the take away our guns and use him as a shield.
  
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- Wiley41
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:24pm
  Obama “Jake I have people skills, I am good at talking to people….what the H$&@ is wrong with you people!”
  
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- girlnurse
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:39pm
  MikeAustin: Get out…you’re stuck in the matrix….I want you to watch this video and tell me this guy is a real Jeffersonian manly man!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7pylNgYA1X4
  Ha ha…this wimp is in Obummers back pocket like all of the rest of them!
  
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- mauijonny
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:34pm
  “Blah, blah, blah…the worst economy since the great depression…blah, blah, blah…” We’ve been hearing this same tome since 2006. I believe HillBilly was the first one to say it. ‘Nuff already – take some responsibility.
  
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- dugbru
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:12am
  Obama’s correct short succint answer was .. “vegas baby vegas”!!!!
  
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- tonypro
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:21am
  SUCH an OBVIOUS planted question.
  
  More useless crap out of the @$$ in the White House
  
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- jmmjr49er
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:43am
  “Come one Jake? Cut me some slack. I got Michelle and kids crying when are we going to Hawai’i? You won didn’t?”
  
  Obama Claus has a tough job.
  
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- Merry52277
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:45am
  Obama actually said in a snotty remark “I haven’t been on vacation”, wtf this family vacations more than a travel book.
  
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- Lamarr01
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:45am
  Presidential Press Conferences are scripted events. The “reporters” must submit their questions the day before the press conference. The President’s Public Relations team selects the questions and calls the “reporter” the night before and grants permission to ask the question. This gives Obama time to rehearse the answers.
  
  Obama has a list of the “reporters” and the order to call on them. The major networks (except Fox) get to have their “reporter” appear in the news conference. Sometimes the “reporter” asks an unscripted question and they are placed on double secret probation.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:46am
  RedHarley
  Bingo-he should of followed up with the actual number, the most rounds of golf by any sitting prez. Golf clubs are lethal, should limit the number of clubs carried, and cannot conceal them either.
  
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- trkelly10
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:06am
  First of all you don’t call out the President unless your a disrespectfull moron which we see a lot of in the media now days. You ask intelligent questions which does not appear to be Jake’s question constructs. The question I have is Jake where have you been? We had an assault weapon ban amoung other things in place that took a lot of work to get in place and think about how many lives that would of saved but where did it go. Yes Jake see if you have a shread of investigative journalism in you and can figure this out.
  
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- Spirit 72
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:08am
  Playing golf more than any two presidents combined, Hawaii vacation every year or so, campaigning for the last 4 years is exhausting.
  So Jake, where have YOU been? You have not done anything on Benghazi-gate, vote tampering, silence on the Marine in Mexico, Fast and Furious, etc. etc.
  
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- Bloody Sam
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:23am
  “I don’t think I’ve been on vacation. ”
  
  Umm….guess again butthead.
  
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- horseman43
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:04pm
  “ABC News’ Jake Tapper confronted President Barack Obama about not doing more earlier in his administration to combat gun violence following last week’s horrific elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.”
  
  Another media geek too imbecilic to understand that the shootings involve the influence of movies, video games and a total lack of morality nowadays.
  
  If enough of us get together, join the NRA and write the demagogues in Congress to vote “no” on ANY KIND of firearms restrictions….since these laws are useless….we can push Hussein’s agenda to the back burner.
  
  The greatest threat to citizens is not guns, but leftist demagogues who want to secularize society and create an all-powerful government that resembles something out of a George Orwell society.
  
  We need an event to occur that is so monumental it will get these crooks away from guns and cause them to be in disarray until the furor dies down.
  
  But that isn’t likely to occur, so the next best thing is to push against the rush to impose useless restrictions.
  
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- bdsconserv
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:05pm
  i love the line ‘i haven’t been on vacation.” what? he’s done nothing but vacation.oh,golfing too.
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:31pm
  Barry and His band of 40 Thieves – Masters of Smoke and Mirrors –
  
  Where was Barry? Barry was playing golf. On two occasions prior to 9/11 – Bin Laden was in the crosshairs but Bill Clinton was to busy on the Golf Course. Do we see a pattern here.
  
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- wrightbobo
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:34pm
  Both Tapper and Obama are off message. Neither promote workable preventions. Government may as well try to boil the oceans as try to keep weapons out of the hands of nut cases!
  
  If God were in the home and school officials were trained to carry weapons – as they are first aid, and evacuations – these tragedies would not happen. Since government won’t advocate family virtues and the can’t undo the 2′nd amendment they must secure the schools.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:51pm
  Jake Tapper=”chosen person” in the Marxist Media.
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 1:30pm
  frust@ted
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:27pm
  ” God I hate the media, Where have you been media. It’s your responsibility to ask the tough questions.”
  
  What are you saying just exactly? That you favor gun control?
  
  You express yourself so poorly it’s hard to decipher what you mean.
  
  And when you say you “hate” the media is that because you’re a hater?
  
  You’re a disgusting hypocrite.
  
  And when you
  
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- jorge_washington
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 1:37pm
  “Jake Tapper is probably the only reporter asking real questions. Idiots like you are serving obama well by being an unimformed troll.”
  
  Jake asked that question because he believes that George W Bush was never President of the US. Therefore, Obama didn’t inherit an economic mess of trillion dollar deficit caused by tax cuts which led to doubling the US debt, 2 out 3 US auto companies going into liquidation, unpaid wars, using national guard men to fight in wars because they’re cheaper, a wrecked US housing market, stocked market down to 6500 from14000 and an unemployment rate of 8.0% and rising up from 5.00%.
  
  Jake, Tea Party member.
  
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- bonesiii
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 1:45pm
  He was not having as much flexibility before the election, that’s where.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 2:30pm
  sendinthemeteors
  
  No they are slamming him for his opportunistic quailities!
  You know…Never let a murder go to “political waste”.
  
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- propel7
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 4:19pm
  Being President? HAHAHAHAHA. You are a TWIT Barach. Your International Banker Handlers must be real proud of that fact.
  
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- Atlanticgrl
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 5:33pm
  So, he admits the economy is bad? And…”I don’t think I’ve been on vacation.” Uuuummmmm.Was he too stoned to remember his vacations? Oh and I guess 138,679,723,567 rounds of golf doesn’t count either.
  
  He should have just told the reporter the truth…”It’s taken this long to perfect the Manchurian shooter. Mind control under hypnosis takes time, Jake.”
  
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- Dougsopinion
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 5:54pm
  Well, as long as media is going to to start asking questions, maybe they should start with: How can you talk about stricter gun control laws for Americans, while at the same time buy up 1.5 billion rounds of hollowpoint ammunition?
  
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- frust@ted
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:25pm
  Awww
  Independent are you still hurt because i showed everyone that you get your racial statistics from a white supremicist website, and you are stupid enough to actually link it in your posts.
  
  Yes I do hate the media, the media is not a person it is a thing. You see you hate black people, as shown by the fact that you view websites like this one http://library.flawlesslogic.com/1b.htm, which you used as a link in a previous post.
  
  I do not favor gun control.
  
  What I was trying to get at is I hate how the media only asks question after the fact, and then try to take the high road. Jake Tapper had 4 years to ask that question but he didn’t and the media constantly does this.
  
  enjoy those racial texts.
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 5:32am
  to quote obama, ” making sure they have good healthe care”, etc. it is not obama’s place to make sure anyone has anything, the exception being his own family. the u.s.a. became the most prosperous and free nation on earth in spite of and without people like obama. when he is gone maybe the country will recover, maybe not. until the proper proceduce is followed and is successful then anyon in the u.s. can own a gun with no restrictions by any level of government.
  
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- Quester55
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:33pm
  In this case, I have to agree with MIKE, We need More reporters that are not so timid, to ask the hard Questions, That Obama Hates to answer!
  Now think about Obama’s Answer, Notice how he Injects a LIE about where he’s been. He states that he wasn’t on Vacation?, Truth is in the last 4 years, Obama has had nearly 19 Vacations, Some were Mixed with a little Business, Along the way.
  
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:00pm
I think he has been on vacation.. he does not lead, he does not work with anyone but the left.. Worst President this country has ever seen!

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- mames
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:07pm
  1.4 billion spent on his vacas last year alone! I see the great Tappert did not forcefully follow up – he is such a great “journalist”.
  
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- mames
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:09pm
  1.4 billion spent on his vacas last year alone. He is an evil man. Also the great “journalist” did not forcefully ask one follow up question, he let the bastard get away with the “poor me” answer.
  
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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:12pm
  He was in the Oval Office calculating how many votes it would take to win his second term. Thats all he was doing since the economy has not really recovered its just coasting along like the Golden Parachute he has now gotten by being President.
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:34pm
  Where have the Secret Service been in Obozo’s 4 years? They have been in a few prostitutes and drunken binges, for sure. They don’t call old Obozo a drunken sailor for nothing… Obozo has spent the country into a drunken sailor binge… But he helped navigate the country through the worst blah blah blah since the great depression and helped the Car Company’s give the shaft to the US govt. What a pathetic loser. Obozo has been in Blamer land that’s where he has been.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:43pm
  Why don’t these guys ever follow up with a correction to the lies they respond with?
  
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- savagenatn
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:44am
  hasn’t been on vacation??? Are you f ing kidding me obozo? You take more vacations than your puppet hollyweird celeb jacka$$es. He!! you barely return from a vacation before we’re already hearing about the next place you’re going on taxpayer’s dime. What a pathetic pos
  
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- countryfirst
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:20pm
  That’s right Barry you have been the POTUS, that’s the F&*#ing problem.
  
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DZ-015
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:58pm
Our President tried to manufacture a crisis to get gun control, but Fast & Furious did not go as planned. This time he had to wait until a suitably outrageous real incident came up.

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- Perspective
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:05pm
  Who says it was real? Doesn’t it all seem so convenient?
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:06pm
  Only the corrupted IRS, DHS, HHS, and FEMA need hollow point ammunition’s, not citizens. This is like the movie Red Dawn but the Federal Gov’t are the RED’s and they are the evil bunch. Remember, it takes a village to get and idiot and Obozo is an idiot. Remember if you have a Ron Paul bumper sticker, served honorably in the military, or Home School your kids (sheltering your kids from the Obozo non-edumacating centers) and own a home (that you intend to protect against predators), then in Napolitano and Obozo’s world view… you might be a terrorist. But if you are a terrorist, then you might be one of the peaceful Muslims…..
  
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- Old Ogre
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:08pm
  @Perspective I would say all those poor kids and adults dying was real enough for me, but the conspiracy theory just does not float on this one. Now the never let a tragedy go to waste thing… yea that fits like a glove!
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:23pm
  I will be called crazy but these shootings are coming at the same time obama and the rest of the feds and the UN want America disarmed. Are some of thes shooters (all had mental issues) pushed over the edge by some contact with agents of our wonderful government? Don’t think obama and the NWO types would not get 5 year olds killed to further their plans to disarm and destroy us. They would gladly.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 6:06pm
  What happened to, and who was the man in the woods that witnesses say was dressed in a black shirt and camo pants? He was taken away by police, where did he go, who was he? Did HE convince Adam to do all this? I guess we will never know, because we have a complicit media who do not care about the truth, they are like the trolls on this site and only cheer when “their side” wins an election or a cause. Otherwise, they are pre-occupied with sneering and jeering at conservatives and constantly trying to find them at fault.
  
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- teapartyguardian
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 7:27pm
  There is talk that both shooter’s (Colorado and Connecticut) fathers were supposed to testify about LIBOR. Coincidence……maybe.
  
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VRW Conspirator
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:56pm
” I don’t think I’ve been on vacation.”

WHAT!!!!
He has been on more vacations and golf trips than most other Presidents have done in 8 years. And if you add up the cost of his golf trips and vacations, we could have paid for private armed security and technology upgrades in every K-12 school and college in this country several times over…

this IDIOT has spent nearly $1 Billion in the last four years running around on our dime when he should have been working…Reagan did more on his average daily schedule by lunch then Obama does all day. He has missed 49% of all his security briefings, where was he? He takes vacations during financial crisis, during political upheaval in foreign countries, during nation tragedies like Hurricane Sandy, and has spent more time fundraising and campaigning than being President but when Jack Tapper asks “where have you been?”, he lays out this crap like Jack is a moron and should know better.

Sorry Mr. Obama…WHERE THE F HAVE YOU BEEN?
It isn’t Bush’s fault, you own this you POS POTUS. You own the economy, the wasted pork spending, the stimulus failure, the foreign strife and blood on your hands in Libya, Syria, Egypt. Killing Bin Laden does not even the score you JACKASS!!

Please God, 5 minutes in a ring with this idiot and no Secret Service interference, Please!!!

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- Restored One
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:01pm
  I choked when I heard the vacation comment. He really thinks that we are idiots. And he got Time’s Person of Year??? I think the people of the year are the idiots that voted for this dunghead.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:12pm
  @VRW
  
  I’m sensing an undertone to your post. Some inkling that you may not be properly enamoured of our Der Leader. It’s hard to say though, because you are mincing words and not saying exactly what you feel.
  
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- BlueEyedInfidel
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:07pm
  He is on one looooong vacation! He and that bitch wife of his spend more time and money on their relaxation and pleasure than on any government dealings. The only things he spends more money on is fixing Muslim mosques and supplying the Muslim brotherhood with funds, weapons and computer equptment and internet access! Obama is a traitor and should be shot or hung!
  
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- savagenatn
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 5:40am
  we shouldn’t be surprised about that comment. The kenyan bastard lies every time he opens his mouth
  
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UNALIEN
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:52pm
6 million unborn murdered in the US since Obama became President.. mostly minorities

Moral relativism, true, 20 innocent children murdered by a crazy nut is a tragedy though 1,2 million innocent unborn murdered per year by State sanctioning is just a statistic…

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- Red Meat
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:57pm
  See? Tapper’s a good reporter!
  
  Tapper is playing Obama’s shill. This is a flim flam to keep the narrative on Gun Control.
  
  Tapper will deceive you.
  
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- AmericaMustBeFree
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:58pm
  And 70% of those killed in Afghanistan has been under Obama’s watch!
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:09pm
  yes, it is applied Marist critical theory, elevate the minority to represent the norm with the purpose of distorting critical thought by subverting context to push an agenda.. aka brainwashing
  
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- subic
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:11pm
  REDMEAT, Bah Zing!!! Thats exactly what he’s doing. These treasonous slime want us disarmed is the bottom line here. We are in the fight of our lives.
  
  Free Americans are responsible for their own security.
  
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Longing for Change
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:51pm
Um, mr Taper,

In case you, um , haven’t noticed, um, I, um, have been um, dealing with the um, worst um, economy since the depression. Um, I was also um, in my um, first term and um, could do nothing, um in regards, um to um, gun, control, since I was in my um, first, um, term.

Now that I am um, no longer, um, restricted, with um, the hassles of um, reelection, I can um, proceed to remove guns, from those who um, should um, not have weapons.

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3Tesla
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:51pm
Jake — The question should have been “Where are you going?”
The demented -maniac– could easily have done the same demonic deed with the Glock he was carrying. “Assault” weapons are semi-auto as is the Glock — this is a very slippery road the public is being led down and believe me the DEMS know it.

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SREGN
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:48pm
Keep the kids safe. Except for the ones that survive abortions, those you want to leave to die on a shelf. You hypocritical POS.

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- happ77
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:19pm
  Good point.
  
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KalanVA
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:44pm
Obama: “I don’t think I’ve been on vacation.”

1) 104 rounds of golf from January 2009 to June 2012

2) First lady Michelle Obama’s weekend jaunt to Aspen, Colorado for a President’s Day ski holiday with her daughters Sasha and Malia makes the 16th time members of the first family have gone on extended vacations during their three years in office. (2/20/2012)

3) Too numerous to count are the television shows that you have been on while in office. Ellen, Oprah, Letterman, the View, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon are just a few shows. He’s also filmed segments for programs ranging from The Colbert Report to American Idol and Betty White’s 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America’s Golden Girl.

I need to stop now. Please feel free to add more…..

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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:53pm
  KALANVA, Obviously obama is delusional, or a liar, or a little of both.
  
  Ban Gun Free Zones NOW!
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:57pm
  The Obozo’s spent 1.4 billion of our borrowed tax money last year jetting around campaigning in China and Europe. Where as the entire British Royals only spent 58 million doing same.
  
  The Obozo’s have vacationed away 1.4 billion (1400 million borrower dollars) and what to we have to show for it. a) Prostitute Scandal in Columbia b) haven’t cut a red cent or base line budgeting c) quadrupled the size of Americorps d) destroyed the middle class e) 500 murdered chicago school kids f) Ozero edumacating in the Obozo indoctrination centers.
  
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- BmanIII
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:06pm
  @ KalanVA
  3) Too numerous to count are the television shows that you have been on while in office. Ellen, Oprah, Letterman, the View, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon are just a few shows. He’s also filmed segments for programs ranging from The Colbert Report to American Idol and Betty White’s 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America’s Golden Girl.
  
  I need to stop now. Please feel free to add more…..
  
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  Wasn’t he n a show that was called Qu33r Eye for Straight guy or something like that. maybe the “star” of the show? I don’t remember right now but seems appropriate.
  
  Remember Benghazi
  Remember Fast & Furious
  
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RaydocX
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:43pm
Uhm, Jake, he’s been trying to ‘do something quietly’ as he alluded to the Brady group in his first term, mainly by sending American arms into Mexico in the hope that we would be outraged when American tourists or border dwelling citizens began dying…

nice, that willingness to sacrifice a few citizens, ain’t it?

and instead it backfired, but only because it was a federal agent killed by those guns, and the trail was discovered leading back to his AG…

not that anything has come of it.

so now, he’ll be full bore with this tragedy as his rallying cry… never mind the events (that’s right… plural) in the subsequent days where legal guns prevented or limited crime… and never mind the subsequent tragedies where families and police officers have been killed by firearms… they don’t have the cachet of dead children… never let a crisis go to waste, after all…

damn the facts, ignore logic and reality, just like every other Left agenda item… get the media to spin reality to suit your purposes… EXCEPT that it doesn’t really change reality, just gets more people killed… a la Chicago, right Rahm?

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- strats
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:02pm
  Logic? I learned there was non after I graduated high school and entered the Adult world.
  What an eye opener.
  
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:41pm
” I don’t think I’ve been on vacation. ”

Oh no, he did not just say that with a straight face!

“making sure they’ve got decent health care,” – Unconstitutional

“making sure they’ve got good education,” – Unconstitutional

“making sure that their parents have jobs,” – No delegated power. Unconstitutional

“Those aren’t just sort of side issues.”” – No, they’re non-issues that the Federal government has no Constitutional authority to even look at to begin with.

Gads, how I hate socialists.

If Tapper doesn’t want “gun violence”, maybe he should go on the record supporting the repeal of “No Gun Zone” foolishness. Of course, he won’t, because it’s not about gun violence to these dunderheads, it’s about guns and “undesirables aka civilians” owning them.

http://www.patriotsdonotcomply.com/index.php/articles/myth-mass-murderer/

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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:58pm
  Ghost, we’ll all see how the main stream media picks him apart for this ridiculous statement, NOT! Its a shame that obama can get away with saying the most ignorant things, and any conservative or republican would be torn apart for much less.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:49pm
  “making sure their parents have jobs (part time ones that is..and those that can get them)”. I’ve made sure they can get these part-time jobs by presiding over the highest underemployment rate since WWII and by still not making up the deficit of jobs lost since 2009. I’d like to say I blame Bush but I’m the only president in US history who hasn’t made up the deficit of jobs lost in a recession. In fact…just this past November I helped 350,000 people leave the work force. Happy Kwanzaa…ummm..Ramadan…sorry..Christmas.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:37pm
You want to keep our kids SAFE…ARM TEACHERS and Get RID of Lawyers!!!!

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- CanadaRocks
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:41pm
  Funny how the readers of this site have been harping about cutting spending and programs. I guess if they involve guns its all good. How mich money will it cost to train all the teachers in america? How does a gun in a classroom full of children make them safer?
  
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- squashbrain
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:46pm
  One million children killed and thrown away as trash in abortion clinics every year. No concern from the President about those children. 20 children killed in a school shooting and the tears flow and promise not let it happen again. Why is it only after a child has a name do we care?
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:53pm
  CanadaRocks, spending should be Constitutional.
  
  “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
  
  Note the words promote and provide. They have different meanings. Promoting is not providing. Start with this intellectual exercise first, then your Canadian trained mind might only begin to understand American principles.
  
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- freestaterev
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:55pm
  @CanadaRocks says “How does a gun in a classroom full of children make them safer?”
  
  Ask the parents of the children killed if they wished the principal/front office, and teachers had access to a firearm to take out the sicko with a gun, and they would probably say- arm them up!
  
  Think of it this way: The only government institution that does not get armed security detail is our public schools. Armed security is good enough for Bloomberg, Obama, Congress, even government research facilities such as NIH. But our children? Not good enough.
  
  Our society expects to be protected by armed security at ball games, museums, airports- but schools? They’re thinking is that of an insane person.
  
  An armed adult in a classroom/school or a defenseless teacher using her body as a shield…hmmmm…I’l take a teacher with a 1911 at her side and an M4 under her desk any day.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:58pm
  @Canada
  
  There you go, thinking that guns are unattached to sentient beings.
  
  The correct question is “how would a dedicated, trained and good individual with a sidearm make children safer”. If you can’t answer that question affirmatively after seeing what the absence of such a person meant to Connecticut, you’re lost to dogma I’m afraid.
  
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- Ar-shooter
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:59pm
  @canadasucks
  An armed teacher obviously could have shot this schmuck first before he killed these children And as far as paying for it, it would not be up to the government because they’re broke it obviously would be up to the states or local communities to handle that, Unlike your socialist utopia we don’t need the government to pay for everything, that’s the problem, they’re trying to do that now and it has made us broke!
  
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- normbal
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:00pm
  RE: “CANADAROCKS” (only when the earth or glaciers move).
  
  Look into the history of the terrorist (aka Palestinian) shootings in Israel. They stopped once the teachers started carrying.
  
  Just because YOU don’t want to man up and defend yourself, your family, schools, community, don’t give us a hard time because we VALUE those things and want to do everything we can to make sure we aren’t left DEFENSELESS.
  
  That worked out SO well in Germany, Rhodesia, Rwanda, China, N. Korea, Cuba and everywhere else total “gun control” (aka Civilian Victim Disarmament) was ever enacted.
  
  Go trolling somewhere else. These are adults having a serious discussion here about how to REDUCE violent crimes, not make the playing fields safe for more and bigger criminals, private or government sanctioned.
  
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- nesmond
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:00pm
  Apparently, Canada does NOT rock. Nor does it have foresight. How does a gun in a classroom full of children make them safer? You gotta be kiddin’ me!
  
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- 19RANDY59
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:04pm
  the only reason we need lawyers, is because we have lawyers
  
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- 48Straights
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:32pm
  I guess they didnt teach deductive reasoning to CanadaRocks middle school.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:40pm
  yeah umm..CANARYROTS? 2002, two students at Appalachian Law School heard gun shots, went to their cars, got their guns and helped restrain the shooter with police.
  
  You really need to scrap that woefully inadequate magical app of yours that you rub in us “rubes” faces. It’s really letting you down champ.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:05pm
  ABC News’ Jake Tapper confronted President Barack Obama about not doing more earlier
  in his administration to combat gun violence….
  
  Bama: Well Jake, Ya’ Know !! I’ve been really too busy, I had to go pick up my Noble Prize
  the first week of my presidency.. and then I busted my **** trying to get the Olympic committee
  to give me the Olympics for Chicago.. then I had to go to Cairo, Egypt to kiss some ass with my
  mizzie friends, and to tell them how bad Americans are.. I had to go to Ireland to drink some
  beer with Family..and then I had to take MO to England to meet with the Queen..Party Down !!!!
  I finally get home and everyone wants to play Golf with me, can’t let them down ya’ know…
  Then MO wants me to take the Dog and the kids to Martha’s Vineyard for the summer’s and
  don’t forget all those damn trips to Hawaii for the Holidays, there’s just no end to it………….
  I fly back to the mainland to get some work done, and those pesky people in Hollywood want
  me to fly from DC to CA. every couple of weeks (18 times) to give me money so I can continue
  to be their Rock Star.. all that flying can take a toll on a guy…oh don’t forget I had to Kill Osama,
  had to sit in that room with all my Bud’s and watch the show, wheeeeh, that was tuff !!!
  Then there were all those $40,000 campaign parties I had to attend…
  I’ll Have to blame Bush and those Republicans..you know, it’s that “Worse Recession since the
  Great Depression” thing…. c
  
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- smv803
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 11:52am
  @the_jerk. In regards to canadarocks, it will never happen….it’s just not possible!
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:37pm
Real reforms to reduce gun violence? Guns are illegally regulated with thousands of unconstitutional laws on the books all across this country and the idiotic Tapper wants more laws? The best thing that could happen would be to repeal every ‘gun law’ since the second amendment but with the Marxist mulatto POS at the helm of the titanic we won’t have to worry about that happening,he’ll try to repeal the second amendment and finish us off once and for all.

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48Straights
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:36pm
More libera agenda posting from the liberal Blaze.

Ever wonder why so many stories sympathetic to the liberal side appear here? Could it be that TheBlaze’s president was hired from the Huffington Post to spoon out liberal thought to TheBlaze’s wide open mouthed conservative children?

But it is one of the twice a day somewhat real news stories that appear here, so it is better than posting links to youtube on videos that may or not be real.

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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:36pm
So many rights to take away, so little time…

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GardenoftheGods
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:35pm
Obama has the balls to say he hadn’t been on vacation…C’mon! We’ve spent over a billion dollars last year sending he and his family on high dollar vacations all over the world!!! As for working with the economy…he should’ve said, “I’ve been busy DESTROYING the US economy, & I’m doing a damn fine job!!!” Oh, “And Congress is helping me as well!” Enough BS from BHO!

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Exidor
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:35pm
I’ll tell you where he’s been.
Perpetually campaigning..
Not in Intelligence briefings.
The golf course
Hawaii
And sleeping in most days

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- WidowSon27
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:27pm
  He’s been blaming Bush thats where he has been. Good to hear from a Brother!
  
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DougHuffman
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:35pm
Keep Our Own Kids Safe is soo Rush Limbaugh

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- Zipit
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:46pm
  Explain yourself there, DUFF!
  
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BobW
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:33pm
It has become very obvious that when the POTUS answers questions from the “friendly press” his dissertation is intentionally prolonged so he can avoid the possibility of having to answer a real question.

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- chips1
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:20pm
  Even Obama’s mother knew he was worthless and got rid of him. Why can’t the liberals see thru the BS and impeach him?
  
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- 4BlueStars
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 3:21pm
  @ CHIPS1,
  
  Because they WROTE the BS.
  
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:32pm
Tapper’s acting more like a “sapper” these days… I like it.

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Stelex
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:31pm
Obama is a modern day Vulsa Doom…….nothing but a cult of personality.

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Jarhead 88
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:30pm
F U Obama, you’ve been on perpetual vacation, you tyrannical SOB.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:42pm
  And remember the Chicago radicals’ favorite ploy : Never waste a good crisis. ” Fast and Furious ” will they deal with this one. The time is ripe. ( The Zimmerman Media Witch Hunt didn’t do the trick….but it did stir up some of that much used Race Card business )
  
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:29pm
Jake Tapper shows his pink-O side again. What kind of stupid question is that? Of course Obama’s answer of “I’ve been busy destroying capitalism” is also hilarious.

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SUNTZU
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:29pm
I thought he said
Vacation.
All part of the plan
Look out America
Yes I can.

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Serenabit
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:28pm
Sounds like a set up to initiate a “mandate” for a government gun grab to me.

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- blue_rain
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:22pm
  I agree. That is the way I took it. I saw it coming when I saw the wiping of the President eyes during his big speech. This guy is good, he lets nothing go to waste if he can use it to crush our constitution. I said, look out they are coming for our guns. Yes, It certainly sounds like a set up to me. Remember what he told Brady’s wife years back???? Look it up.
  
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