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Listen to the Sequester Joke Obama Cracked in Illinois

Mar. 15, 2013 7:30pm Jason Howerton

Obama Cracked a Joke About the Sequester Today

ARGONNE, IL – MARCH 15: President Barack Obama greets guests following a speech at Argonne National Laboratory on March 15, 2013 in Argonne, Illinois. Obama used the event to push for more federally funded research into clean energy technologies. Argonne is the current home of a $120 million federal project to develop smaller, cheaper and more powerful batteries for electric vehicles. Credit: Getty Images

President Barack Obama and his administration have been harshly criticized by Republicans and conservative commentators for allegedly using scare-tactics when warning about the harmful effects of the sequester.

Regardless of how dangerous the president actually thinks the sequester is, he was comfortable enough with the implications to crack a joke about it during a speech on energy policy in Illinois on Friday.

Speaking before a supportive crowd that had yet to sit down at the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., Obama inserted some sequester-themed humor.

“I wasn’t sure everybody had chairs there,” he said. “Please feel free to sit down. I’m sorry. Everybody was standing. I thought Argonne — you know, one of the effects of the sequester, you had to get rid of chairs.”

The crowd apparently thought the joke was hilarious.

(H/T: Washington Post)

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termyt
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:46pm
That was a pretty good joke. But then, that’s all he is. A joke. To bad we are all the punch line.

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- Miami
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:52pm
  When do they take his mic
  
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- geeman
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 10:01pm
  GEE,I’m funny,AND Ahhhh, and smart,and ahhhhh the world,ahhhhhhhh.ends today!!! But don’t fret
  b-rock,Will save the day.But only if those G.D.repubs will just get out my way! I need more money and that means we need to make those people who(work) pay their fair share!! Please american democrats WAKE UP NOW!
  
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- ambrosia
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 10:38pm
  Yeah, yeah…
  now, this creep thinks he’s Don Rickles !
  
  When is his freak show going to end ?
  
  All he can do is campaign & condemn.
  To save some taxpayer money, why doesn’t he stay in D.C.
  and mow the White House lawn.
  
  Reagan & Bush always went to their ranch to clear brush,
  tidy up & respect the land-
  “MANLY” things !
  Outdoor labor like that reenergizes & clears the head-
  Oblameo’s not one to sweat
  unless it’s on a basketball court or fairway.
  
  I bet this dork has never pushed a lawnmower-
  though history has proved he’s pushed OTHER things.
  
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- dbrockjohnson
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 11:33pm
  Damn, he needs to be smacked! I had a trip planned with my daughter to see the White House! I can’t wait till his ass is gone out of the PEOPLE’S HOUSE,!
  
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- ConservaTEA
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 11:41pm
  Miami: Unfortunately, he is a fairly young guy and will likely have a bully-mic to bash hard working Americans for decades to come. . . What a dousche-bag!!
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 1:24am
  We may not have chairs, but thanks to the Republican obstructionist, billionaires can still get a huge tax break when they buy a Lear jet. That’s the important thing. Without Lear jets those guys wouldn’t be able to create jobs. What I mean is, start creating jobs, the ones that the Bush tax cuts were going to give us eight years ago but never happened. Takes awhile I guess.
- PASSIONFORCHRIST
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 4:48am
  Yes, unfortunately we are!
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 7:55am
  He and his party engineered the sequester, vowed to stop any legislation to quash it or minimize it.
  So what is the joke?
  He owns it, as he owns the poor plight of the country!
  He goes on many vacations that would keep workers working if they wanted that. Then add the family vacations, well there goes those pesky illegal aliens that commited crimes. I JUST REALIZED THEY DON”T ASK IF YOU SUPPORT HUSSAIN THEY JUST COMMIT CRIMES AGAINST ANYONE.
  A lot of money going to the muslum brotherhood that has a war on women and eveveryone else, and alot of other places that should not be getting our money! You know the people that actually earn it and pay for it.
  Been to an ER lately? how about 8hr waiting times?
  Or how about finding a doctor in the last 4 years good luck!
  So where do you stupid people think this is funny?
  
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- geeman
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:38am
  Meatyoriface,A.K.A. The spoon,Why do you want more money going to washington? Will they spend it wisely? With all they take now they still ran up the credit card to 17 trill.And those loopholes,are depreceations, if you took those away you would kill private jobs,you know the kind that pay for govt.jobs.G.W. Did give us jobs, unemploment was 4.6 % for most of his term,went south after Nazi P.& Harry the fairy took congress! BRAINWASHED OBAMATRON ALERT!
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:00am
  They got rid of the chairs, now if we could just get rid of OweBlamer and the dimwit party.
  
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- Americanius
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:25am
  I’m sure that was funny to the Argonne employees who have been let go with the sequester cuts.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:29am
  @TheMeteors
  What’s it like to live in the past, day after day after day??
  A new day, AH SHI* !! it’s raining, Bushe’s Fault !!!!!!!!!
  HELOOOOOOOOOO!!! I know, if you can’t get anything
  done, BLAME someone else..It’s the Liberal mindset..
  I think it was Hillary that said, “What does it matter” !!!!!!!!
  It’s TIME for this BOZO to MAN-UP…Get the F*** over it..
  Did Bush close the White House to the PEOPLE ???
  
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- Iwillvetalways
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:39am
  Mildly funny, Did you notice how in this joke he distances himself from the sequester disaster BS that he’s been touting. He really beleives it was sombody else that caused and exaggerated the effects of the sequester. I beleive this to be true. Obama is just a spokesman for someone else. He can’t remember what he was saying these last weeks about how disasterous the sequester will be because the idea didn’t originate from his mind.He is a puppet, a Harvard graduate intellectual moran. And that goes double for the adoring audience that applauded this joke. . .
  
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- stablepar
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 1:04pm
  his chair is still empty
  
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- CobraBill
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 3:14pm
  If I remember right, unemployment was 5% under GW Bush and the economy was growing.
  Well until the Democrats took over the Senate in 2006. Then things went down hill quickly.
  The people that make, sell and maintain Lear jets need jobs too you know.
  Look at the great expense the 1st family puts on the back of the American people every time they go on vacation. It would be nice if Mr. and Mrs O could travel together.
  Plus the cost of every round of golf the anointed one plays.
  
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- hypnos
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 3:30pm
  Better keep your day job on the other hand just go golfing.
  
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- hypnos
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 3:42pm
  @meteros now your not really trying are u tired or just lazy maybe you win a round of golf with tiger and Obama. Troll retread.
  
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- YesLiberalsAreThatDumb
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 5:48pm
  @meteor… Enjoy your starvation! Somehow I doubt you can supply yourself with food, shelter and clothing in normal times, but after your messiah, obama, is done bankrupting the country, prices will skyrocket on everything, and every handout program will end, abruptly. I know you libs think you are so smart, how about you take a look at history. What happens when a country has too much debt, too large deficits, and prints money? What happened to the British Sterling in the early 70s? Greece today? Weimar Republic? Roman Empire? Greek Empire?
  
  Keep your head in the sand. Govt will take care of you! I’m sure Michele will bring fresh, healthy fruits and veggies right to your door! So when you are cold, hungry, in the dark… just remember, LOTS of people here that you mock, will be eating very well. I for one will not be shedding any tears for the libs that die in the aftermath. Best of all, you will be killing each other! No blood on my hands!
  
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- Obama_In_PeePee_By_Zee_Arteeest_Beck
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 2:29am
  “Listen to the Sequester Joke Obama Cracked in Illinois”
  
  LOL! I LOVE that Obama’s in-your-face- humor! A real knee-slapper! Props to the teleprompter!
  (There’s nothing like America going down the drain with a smile on it’s face!)
  
  Barack Hussein Obama, AKA Barry Obama, AKA Barry Soetoro, … a poor, half-breed, muslim bastard born in Kenya … sneaks into the U.S.A. … gets into a prestigious law school … runs for public offices … and becomes a White House “occupier” …
  with a Kenyan birth certificate:
  http://i3.ytimg.com/bg/jKZugo0aaREqEyqXIzGDVw/102.jpg
  and a Connecticut social security number:
  [RE: 042-68-4425 Connecticut issued SS number that was assigned to a person now deceased]
  and an army of lawyers keeping all his (incriminating) records sealed.
  
  AP declares Obama Kenyan-Born (And 2008 AP Story Repeats the Claim)
  http://thepostnemail.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/ap-declares-obama-kenyan-born/
  “This report [2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times] explains the context ['Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama'] of the oft cited debate, between Obama and Keyes in the following Fall, in which Keyes faulted Obama for not being a “natural born citizen”, and in which Obama, by his quick retort, “So what? I am running for Illinois Senator, not the presidency”, self-admitted that he was not eligible for the office.”
  
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- stillblamingothers
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 7:26am
  Hey “Meteors”…the “Lear Jet” tax was signed in by President Obama in the stimulus bill. Just sayin……
  
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USALOVER2011
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:34pm
This DWEEB is a JOKE period!!!!

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- ICSPADES
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 6:04am
  Of course they will laugh in Illinois at whatever the CRIME FATHER says. The White House now is no more than a glorified Mafia
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 12:06pm
  Argonne National Laboratory has the Obama Blessing….I give
  it Six Months before it goes down the TOILET !!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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ADNIL
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:16pm
Not funny. Not laughing. Is a joke, though. On us. 5 years and counting.

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BARRYS_BEARD
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:11pm
If only Chuck Graham had been in the room.

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:18pm
  “Stand up, Chuck, let ‘em see ya,” he said. “Oh, God love ya, what am I talking about?”
  
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- Miami
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:48pm
  They may just take his chair to prove….. the hardships of the sequester
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 12:32pm
  Secure money for advanced vehicles.. by diverting federal revenue from offshore oil and gas production. 2 BILLION $$$$$$$$ MORE, for this GREEN FIASCO..More payback to his
  Chicago cronies… Raise Gas Prices while we have NO JOBS, GOOD JOB BO !!!
  How about we BLAME Bush for those $1.80 Gas Prices…..?? of course the Gimmies and
  Takers (47%) don’t have to fill up their Cars to get to work, so it doesn’t matter to them if gas
  is $5.00 a Gal… The Working middle class Luv’s Ya’ Man, *#*^##%**#*++%#*^##**^*#@ !!!!
  
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HOOT_OWL
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:11pm
I thought it going to be .. ‘Do to cuts there is no more toilet paper ,so I wont be shaking any ones hand.’

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:16pm
  I thought it would be:
  
  A gay Kenyan marxist and two of his “buddies” walk into a gay bathhouse in Chicago….
  
  Then I realized its not really a joke when the two “buddies” end up missing and likely dead.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:43pm
  HOOT_OWL, Sounds like you were in the service during the Carter and Clinton Admins! I am not kidding, it got so bad under Carter while I was at Bragg, that we had to turn in an empty roll tube to supply to get a full fresh roll of toilet paper. Light bulbs were a whole other story.
  
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firman
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:09pm
I’ve got a shovel ready job for someone. Please take a shovel and remove the pile of crap in the oval office. Make that 2 piles of crap.

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- Agnes
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:37pm
  It takes a lot more than two shovels of crap to clean and sanitize the White House after they clowns leave!
  
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mbck1491
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:02pm
A room full of yes men. That Joke wasn’t even funny. I took away from this that the pres. was mocking financial responsibility.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:01pm
Once again Obama confirms his sheer idiotic and out of touch means with people.

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:06pm
  I thought that was Romney?
  
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asybot12
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:00pm
Everything he does is a reverse Reagan so I guess he’ll end up in Hollywood.

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- Holy_Crap
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 4:42pm
  I hope he ends up in the same place Jimmy Hoffa went…
  
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barber2
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:58pm
Where are the adoring tools who usually stand behind Mr. Transparent Magnetism ? Gosh. They have been replaced by a car ! Well, as Hillary once said, ” what difference does it make now ? ” They just missed their 15 minutes of fame, but Obama got his media photo op – that, and the agenda , are all that matter.

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DEFCON4
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:57pm
‘Sequester Chairs’
Sorry, not nearly as funny as “Shovel -Ready Jobs” .
“Well, ya know,..these jobs were not as shovel-ready..uh..as we thought”

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- Sayre
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 4:52am
  Be patient, once ObamaCARE is in full force, those shovel ready jobs are just around the corner and over to the grave yard.
  
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neverending
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:56pm
Sorry sob!

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Vickie Dhaene
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:55pm
I will find him humorous when I see him placed in Fort Leavenworth for High Treason.

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- neverending
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:53pm
  Something we can only dream of.
  
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Ben__Franklin
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:55pm
Just like Obama also understands the joke in his Nobel Peace Prize, he also knows the joke in his Chicken Little rants before the sequester started. You can just see him laughing red faced in the oval office while watching Rush Limbaugh’s video of the screaming goat and Obama stump speeches.

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barber2
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:53pm
Barack Obama the Perpetual Peripatetic President whose carbon footprint is even larger than his ego. Our tax dollars at work pushing his agenda 24 / 7. Personal appearances galore. Feed the MSM , the Beast which created him , enables him, and now covers for him .

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:05pm
  Would you say his propensity to engage in peripatetic behavior in a fuel guzzling jet while at the same time advancing “green” energy is ironic or hypocritical?
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:15pm
  FISH: For a guy who hides his college records while claiming to have the most ” Transparent Administration ” ever, his peripatetic AF I travel to promote Green energy is typically hypocritical !
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:32pm
  I agree. The level of hypocrisy within this peripatetic pole puffing POS is paramount, even to the extent that it potentially passes the level commonly associated with our petroleum hating pal, Al Gore. It really is pathetic.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:49pm
  FISH: A powerful polemic about that pathetic, posturing president perfectly planned to perpetuate, not a successful America, but the new programs of a permanent place of Marxist perdition. Phew.
  
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FISH_BONE
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:52pm
How much did we pay to fly the jackass to Illinois to tell this joke?

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- brownsfan3
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:07pm
  Better yet, how many days of White House tours did it cost to fly a 747, jet fuel, complete staff. helicopter, secret service, advance party, …………………
  
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- DEMSfightinwords
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 1:26pm
  181,000.00 Per hour. That’s more than a couple white house tours.
  
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MDECKER
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:44pm
The Kiss of Death. Does Argonne not read history? Name a company that became prosperous after the president visited it. And, have we not already dumped hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars into this “green” garbage?

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vic138
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:42pm
The people were really laughing at Obama. They know he’s been lying and don’t take him seriously.

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- Stelex
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:53pm
  Unfortunately no…….they thought it was great. And this mindless mob is much more dangerous than the president. Until the rational people under stand that. We are in mortal danger. The politicians are only a symbol of the people whom elect them. That alone should scare the hell out of you and anyone left with common sense.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:10pm
  Look at any one who’s been in office for years…..Biden, McCain, Fienstein, Boehner, Chucky S, Maxine W, Shelia Jackson Lee, Wrangle, Pelosi. Barney Frank, my god its mind numbing. The people put them there. Boggles the mind but also shows that the USA is now an occupied country. Every one of these elected officials is anti Constitution. And so are the folks that vote for them.
  
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FISH_BONE
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:41pm
Forget Beck’s Easy2Lose.com. Every time I see or hear the Kenyan Maggot I puke everything I have eaten in the last 24 hours. I’ve lost 150 pounds in the last 5 years.

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- Xanderson
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:58pm
  Lookin’ Good Billy Ray!!
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:08pm
  I would say I’m all skin and bones, but as you can see from my picture, its actually just bones.
  
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:39pm
Well shoot, as long as he is finding humor in my taking a 20% pay cut because of his plan. I am laughing my **** off. It’s almost as good as his “I guess shovel ready jobs aren’t so shovel ready”. That was a real hoot.

For an follow up, maybe he can drop by a rape crisis center and tell a few rape jokes.

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:44pm
  Your 20% pay cut means nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing to this jackass.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:58pm
  @FishBone:
  You are correct. In fact we have been briefed that the Pentagon has informed all Headquarters that we are to not try and make up for any time missed, and to show how painful the cuts are, including to personnel. So, even though we could have made cuts elsewhere, they chose to make it in the most public and painful areas, as directed.
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:14pm
  I am sincerely sorry for your situation and hope all improves for you quickly.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:46pm
  DARMOK, Just keep putting that info out where you can.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 12:38am
  Hey Fishbone:
  Thank you, I do appreciate that.
  
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- Dethklok91
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 4:42pm
  He could’ve made about Benghazi, and the people still would’ve laughed.
  
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BARRYS_BEARD
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:38pm
What a keen and delightful sense of humor. After this jackass destroys the country, he’ll likely have his own late night show on NBC. Mover over Leno.

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- spirited
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:45pm
  Ya, while his wife is some elected soething or other.
  
  >eeh gads!
  
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Southernsoul
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:38pm
You know, Barry. After you are charged with treason and impeached, comedy may not be one of the fields you consider going in to.

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- truthnstuff
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:03pm
  I wanted to see this POS in a state prison, but then I thought, he would get pleasure out of being someone’s beotch.
  
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CatB
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:36pm
Hey Obama … how about the KEYSTONE PIPELINE! … you don’t need to pay off more of your crony friends in Green Energy .. I just heard you need more time ( green energy???? you are going to throw another 2 BILLION down the rat hole) .. for God’s sake .. moron.

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FloridaFarmGirl
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:35pm
What a petty, small minded, small man this is. I remain disgusted. How do we tax payers have enough money to send this thing in Air Force One anywhere?

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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:57pm
  I know, did any of his staff say he traveled to this event with only half his usual SS men?
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:29pm
  BEN: I remember another politician back in history who shared many tactical characteristics with Obama. That guy also had SS men…..
  
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lowermytaxes
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:35pm
Dumbass.

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