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Canadian PM Blasts Obama on Keystone: The U.S. Is an Unreliable Energy Partner

President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline taught Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper one thing: it’s time Canada expand its list of oil buyers.

In an interview with the Canadian Wilson Centre think tank, the Prime Minister said the pipeline’s rejection — even if only temporary — was enough to underscore the need to find other buyers for oilsands crude.

Canadian PM: Keystone Reveals the U.S. as an Unreliable Energy Partner, Determined to Sell oil to Asian Markets“Look, the very fact that a ‘no’ could even be said underscores to our country that we must diversify our energy export markets,” Harper said. “We cannot be, as a country, in a situation where our one and, in many cases, only energy partner could say no to our energy products. We just cannot be in that position.”

The Prime Minister also mentioned that Canada has been selling oil to the United States at a discounted price. But now that the Great White North is expanding its oil export market, that discount will probably disappear.

Get that? The U.S. will not only have less access to Canadian oil but it will also have to pay more for it because the market for oilsands crude is expanding (and therefore more competitive).

“We have taken a significant price hit by virtue of the fact that we are a captive supplier and that just does not make sense in terms of the broader interests of the Canadian economy,” Harper said. “We’re still going to be a major supplier of the United States. It will be a long time, if ever, before the United States isn’t our number one export market, but for us the United States cannot be our only export market.”

“That is not in our interest, either commercially or in terms of pricing,” he added.

Now keep in mind President Obama said Republicans in Congress were to blame because they imposed “an arbitrary timeline on him to decide on the project, which he said did not allow enough time for sufficient reviews,” Sun News Network reports.

But his claim is at odds with the fact that the Keystone project had been under review for three years.

“Supporters of the project, which include big labour unions and the business community, estimate construction jobs alone to build the pipeline would be in the thousands at a time when the U.S. economy is struggling to recover from the recession,” Sun News report.

So where do we stand?

The U.S. has lost its Canadian discount, it will have less access to oilsands crude, and we have a president who blames Republicans in Congress for imposing an “arbitrary timeline” while simultaneously taking credit for “allowing” the pipeline to run from Oklahoma to the Gulf.

But don’t worry, Vice President Joe Biden assures us that “our energy policy is the best it has ever been” (via GOPICYMI):

Comments (247)

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  • HKS
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:32pm

    Now if Canada was a Muslim country Obummer would have all the excavators we have digging one huge ditch right down to Houston. Be done by election day.

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    • ReaganBaby
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:45pm

      Or any communist country.

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    • Komponist-ZAH
      Posted on April 5, 2012 at 2:51am

      Or any non-Anlgo-Saxon country (”Anglo-Saxon” refering to language and culture), e.g., Brazil.

      Remember the “Dreams” from his father are primarily ones of Anglophobic socialistic anti-colonialism.

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  • Maxim Crux
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:27pm

    Look at that smug look on Barry’s face. That is contempt if I have ever seen it. Even the guy in the background seems a bit unnerved. I wonder what was said just before that photo was taken.

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    • okredstate
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:45pm

      That’s Phillipe Calderon, the communist president from the invader country to our south. Anyway, Mr Prime Minister from Canada. Please have some patience. The educated people of this country are working to remedy the situation of the imposter in the white house. After the November election, we will get Stanley Steemer in there to clean the carpets and someone to fumigate the place, and we’ll have a new occupant in by January. The new guy won’t have anywhere near the carbon footprint of his predecessor, but we will get the pipeline approved and built. Can we run a spur off that pipeline to Chicago so that all the **** and waste material drain off there? That way all the oil that comes to Oklahoma will be pure gold.

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  • Richard Compton
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:26pm

    Obama has a knack for turning our allies into quite simply suspious partners, we as a country are no longer consistant or reliable thanks to Obama. There was a time not so long ago that our allies could count on us and rely on our leaders to make reasonable and prudent decisions, not so any more!

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:31pm

      Good analysis, while our enemies receive borrowed foreign aid and still hate us.

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  • Sirfoldallot
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:25pm

    Obama needs 2 be impeached 4 lieing 2 the ppl & destroying our country.

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  • Continental Patriot
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:22pm

    Dear Prime Minister Harper,

    Most sensible American citizens, with the exclusion of our internal enemies (liberals), would be very happy to see your resources exported to our country because it is a safe passage as opposed to the violent and manipulative Middle East. President Obama does not reflect the sentiment of the American people, and if you give us approximately 8 months, we will make sure he is voted out of office and the crucial diplomatic and energy relationship between our nations is repaired immediately and restored from the damage Obama has done.

    Sincerely,
    A Real, Underrepresented American

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  • CatB
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:20pm

    Obama is … most of the U.S. would LOVE to be a reliable partner!

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  • dmerwin
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:20pm

    No, we need a majority in the senate as well. Harry Reid can block just as effectively as BHO.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:18pm

    What a goofy dufus. Those dumbo ears have little between them. It is said that Calderone and Harper winked at each other thru Barry’s EARS, The whistling wind blew thru with no obstruction.

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  • HKS
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:16pm

    Well, maybe Just Obama and he’ll be gone soon.

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  • FloridaFarmGirl
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:09pm

    Just one more example of this administration trying to keep us all poor and living in socialism. I remain convinced that Obama does this on purpose to destroy our once great country. This is getting scary and we need to get anyone else into office this November before it is too late. We are racing toward destruction. Sad times for our country.

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    • Ruckus_Tom
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 3:56pm

      No kidding. He‘s attempting to usher in a modern day feudal system where he and his ilk are in control of every aspect of our lives and we’re the serfs.

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  • Mandors
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:05pm

    Obama’s foreign policy has been an abysmal failure on virtually every front.

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  • T-2
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:04pm

    time to dust off the old bicycle. is there a way to put up a wind sail on a bicycle?

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  • dgremark12
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:04pm

    I still can’t believe that over 50% of Americans are so stupid and believe in Obama!

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    • wdittgasn
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:25pm

      His reelection hinges on him being able to mobilize the ignorant, the shallow, the uninformed, the uneducated, the dumb, and the stupid.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:03pm

    Who needs oil anyway? We’ve got algae!

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:10pm

      Will Canada help us get rid of Obama? Is Canada prepared to send troops in to help us arrest Obama for High Treason. Can Canada help us uncover the truth about Obama’s birth certificate?

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:23pm

      teamarcheson
      Come on, be realistic. The birth certificate while entertaining is just too late. Foreign intervention would be opposed by everyone, including you I suspect. Make sure everyone is aware of his failures and vote. Support the most conservative congressman and senator in your district and state. I am fully aware of where your passion comes from and empathize.

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    • Leopold
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:24pm

      Unfortunately, Canada is already further down the road on socialism.

      However, the government under Stephen Harper is conservative. The party is PC Progressive Conservative. And it was for a long time under progressives leadership.

      Harper is a little less progressive.

      He will actually rescind the gun registry law. It should be through their Senate by now.

      But people are the same every where. It is always the left that is against progress.

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:30pm

      @leopold……The conservative party is the renamed reform party which destroyed the old progressive conservative party and then changed the reform party to the conservative party. The Canadian people then electeted the new (actually conservative) conservative party to a full majority able to do as they please for 5 years.One of the first things Harper did was cancel the national gun registration and order all the records destroyed. He is undermining progressivism wherever he can in a quiet effective way.

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    • JohnZiraldo
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 4:35pm

      Leopold,
      As Bullcrapbuster said, federally we now have a Conservative Majority Government, and our provincial governments are also moving further to the right.

      In Alberta, the home of the oil sands, the residents will soon be going to the polls and the ruling (for 40 years) Progressive Conservative party is currently trailing badly in the polls behind the further right Wildrose Party. The lefties are way back in the polls. Even British Columbia is showing signs of waking up and moving to the right. The Conservative Government in Saskatchewan is the only provincial government running a fiscal surplus.

      In Ontario, the Liberal government lost it`s majority last year, and their latest budget is so poor that the province is discussing going back to the election box after just 6 months. That won`t happen, but the growing debt and deficit in Ontario will likely lead to a Conservative Government in a year or two.

      French speaking Quebec you ask! Still hopeless.

      Canada is moving right, and getting stronger, but we will never give up our single payer health care.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 4:39pm

      Leopold, no the party is Conservative Party. Officially Conservative Party of Canada. There is no “progressive” in the name. That was a name of a party during the last quarter of the last century.

      Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance co-opted the former Progressive Conservative Party of Canada that was a centrist party. The ideological thrust was moving of the former PC to the right, rather than CRCA to the center.

      All indicators seem to suggest that Canucks will continue on the right path.

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  • Sue Dohnim
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:02pm

    Canada elected a CONSERVATIVE majority….

    Time for the US to do so…

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  • HorseCrazy
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:01pm

    I agree with canadian pm except obama has created a reliable government, you can rely on them to screw even the most common sense easy things up and crush the constitution, our economy and bring us into a dictatorship oh and let me not forgot make enemies out of our friends.

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:58pm

    Hang in there Canada…We’re working on removing the cancer that occupies our White House…

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:19pm

      Exactly .. PM Harper please WAIT until November .. when we change the regime we would LOVE your OIL AND GAS! January 2013 LIBERTY!

      OMGb 2012!

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:25pm

      CatB
      Exactly.

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    • canadianproud
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:33pm

      as a Canadian ,i understand who is to blame for all your troubles,mr. obamanation. what can we do to help?

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:41pm

      CanadianProud…Just tell your PM that the vast majority of Americans have seen this poser Prez for what he is and that the mistake will be corrected…Hang in there…

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  • martinez012577
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:58pm

    For all of those blaming Obama for the oil prices, remember GWB was in office with both the house and the Senate and did nothing for oil drilling really. This isnt a R and D issue. This is a liberal progressive vs conservative constitutional issue.

    Both sides suck, we need a third choice.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:23pm

      Gas was under 2.00/gallon for much of George’s term. It started rising along with the 2006 DEMOCRAT onslaught.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:27pm

      Mart where do you read this stuff? Could/should we have done more? Of course, but to blame bush is total nonsense. Remember the mantra “Bush=Chaney=Halliburton”

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:02pm

      The sentiment after 911 was quit using middle eastern oil. It was funding our enemies. The issue everyone said was it will take 10 years to get our oil industry going. Well its 10 years later and still no energy freedom.

      As far as the oil price goes, we have been at constant war in the middle east for twenty years now. The price of oil hasnt really risen the dollar has fallen because of our massive printing of money. Why did we have to print money? Endless unConstitutional wars. Trillions of dollars spent on these wars has caused us to go bankrupt while driving prices of everything of up do to the devaluation of the dollar.

      As far as the comments about the D taking over. This both sides fault.

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    • TerryDo
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:20pm

      Three and one half years ( 3 1/2 years ) into the Obama Regime and his supporters still want to blame Bush. President Pointing Fingers Obama, will never take the blame for anything that goes wrong, but when things go good, it is his baby, his idea, his success, unfortunately his successes are few and he has little to boast about.
      Good News: Only 216 days left to the end of Obama’s Presidency

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:30pm

      @Martinez
      I don’t remember Bush refusing to grant permits to drill for oil, especially after the BP spill, which, by the way, didn’t end the world like the progressives thought it would. Gas was $1.85/gal when Bush left office, what will it be in November? I didn‘t hear ANY of Bush’s Energy Secretaries saying that “somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.“ or ”that the cost of energy would necessarily skyrocket.”

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 6:45pm

      @ati

      Well you are right prices where lower but so was our debt. The price of oil rises when we inflate our currency. Furthermore, the point I was making was with Bush and the GOP in both the house and the senate did we drill everywhere? Did we open up AWAR? Did we open up the drilling off the California coast? No! That was my point.

      As far as the price of oil, remember we were at point in our economy. Demand was down, way down. As the stimulus has kept the stock market afloat oil stays high under the same idea.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 10:01pm

      MARTINEZ012577, Go back a little further and dig just a bit deeper instead of simply looking at the surface. During the Bush administration when ever attempts were made to drill for oil just about anywhere in the Lower 48 and Alaska the eco libs would go judge shopping to put a stop to it. They kept everything tied up in the courts. Not just a failure by the administration.

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  • SquidVetOhio
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:58pm

    Finally, something good besides hockey, Jim Carey and Mike Meyers out of Canada.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:57pm

    Well, if Canada can wait a few months, they’ll have a different partner who will be more than happy to help them.

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:01pm

      You are delusional if you think the GOP candidate can beat Obama. The nominee it seems is Romney. Romney has nothing on Obama. Obama has 1 billion dollars to spend on Romney to show how similar they are, and that voting for Romney over him is just racist. It will work and the establishment will have blown it again.

      Thanks

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:19pm

      martinez012577
      1. Fast and Furious.
      2. Obamacare goes to court.
      3. Three highest deficits in the nation’s history.
      4. Gas prices.
      5. Keystone.
      6. Stopping American deep drilling but giving Brazil money (borrowed) to do it.
      7. Green energy taxpayer fraud, then promising to borrow 4 bill from China to GIVE to Chinese companies to develop solar panels.
      8. Telling the Russians that he will do what they want after the election (lying to Americans).
      9. Arab spring, Iran nuclear winter.
      10. Feeding N. Korea so that they can develop weapons systems.
      Not exactly the Same Mart.
      Say what you want but with the exception of a very few Paul folks the conservatives will support ABO and they will use the above narrative every day to the point that even MSM will have to cover it.

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    • bigmel754
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:21pm

      @MARTINEZ012577
      I want to be perfectly sure that you just said, if I vote against Obivious, it is because I am a racist! Is that what you are saying? Explain how a vote against one of the worst, do nothing, hate inciting, only for the haves, non-American, godless, idol worshiping, liar that ever held the office of president would make me a racist?

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:14pm

      @dmerwin

      1. Romney supported gun restriction laws.
      2. Romneycare
      3. Supports bailouts, puts out a budget that cuts nothing from current spending levels.
      4. Doesnt cut spending levels debt rises dollar devalues oil rises.
      5. Romney has said he believes in man made global warming. So he will continue the same failed polices of both parties on this one.
      6. Without eliminating departments and agencies this will never happen. Romney hasnt said he is on board with getting rid of that mess.
      7. As stated before Romney is on record saying he believes in global warming.
      8. Romney has no foreign affairs experience just like Obama, so we have nothing to base Romney’s position on this issue with but I am sure like everything else in the Romney plan, he can be changed and molded to fit who ever he is speaking to.
      9. Romney wants to continue our overseas adventures meddling with these countries.
      10. Romney is pro foreign aid. Stop giving it to one dictator to give to another is still giving to a dictator.

      11. Supports the Patriot Act and NDAA just like Obama.
      12. Is pro choice.
      13. Took government money bailouts to make his “private business”.
      14. Romney is Goldman Sachs funded just like Obama.

      I will not support another McCain. Romney is just a better looking and sounding McCain.

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:25pm

      @bigmel

      Yes their polices are so close they could be running mates. The only difference is their skin color. See above post for similarities. I am not saying there isnt a few differences but the similarities are to much for me to see them differently.

      1. One of the worst? Yes but all of the progressive presidents are bad. Changing one progressive for another isnt really changing much.
      2. Do nothing? Well if you are a progressive then he is doing stuff.
      3. Hate inciting? I agree, the guy is playing the race card and stirring hate.
      4. Only for the haves? Romney two months said he wanted the raise minimum wage. Does he not understand economics?
      5. Non-American? Well not sure if Obama was born here or not. If I remember correctly, Mitt was born in Mexico. None of that really matters to me.
      6. Godless? Well I do believe Obama is a atheist(thinks of himself as a god), but I also feel Mormons are not much better. Believing you can become a god, and that God was once a man pretty much says you are following a religion of Satan. Both are bad.
      7. Liar? I agree Obama is a liar. Is Mitt much different with his constant changing of positions? A lie is saying one thing and doing another. Changing positions is saying one thing and deciding to do another.
      8. Are you a racist? Well I media and Obama will show it that way. Obama future quote “Why vote for a guy that thinks just like me but is white?”

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    • leftcoastslut
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:35pm

      no martinez, Romney is Mormon…. see there is a difference…Romney is a capitalist… see another difference… Romney is a businessman… and Obama is a law professor from Harvard… wow another one

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:56pm

      Romney will crush Obama. Obama (the clumsy fool) has turned off many of his previous supporters with his attacks on freedom. He is going to have a sweet old time trying to get them to the polls. Obama disappointed a whole heck of a lot of people with his hope and change b/s. Obama is toast this coming Nov. The polls are skewed by the disappointed Obama folks that hate to admit that they will be voting republican or not be voting period

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    • happ77
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 3:19pm

      Martinez thinks we’re all stupid. He voted for obama last time and he’ll
      vote for him again this time. He tries to build his creds by bad mouthing
      obama but he’s really here to discourage voting for Romney. He’d be
      doing the same thing if it was a different republican canadate.
      ABO the commie

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 3:47pm

      Romney is NOT a MARXIST!

      OMG 2012!

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 9:59pm

      @happ

      I dont think all Romney supporters are stupid. I think there are a lot that support him for religious reasons. Some support him because they believe he is going to turn us around. All I have done is point out the similarities between Obama and Romney.

      I didnt vote for Obama last time I voted for McCain because I was a duped sheep. I am Ron Paul supporter. I switched from Ron Paul to McCain last time for the good of the party. I will not do it again. I will not bend my principles for a fake ever again.

      Oh, and one last thing. I said I didnt think all Romney supporters are stupid. Your comments put you in the stupid column.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 10:13pm

      HAPP77, From one of his postings on another story here, it seems that MARTINEZ012577 is a Paultard.

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    • wdittgasn
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:53pm

      Martinez That crazy black congresswoman wants her hat back.

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  • spirited
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:56pm

    Stephen Harper sees the writing on the wall: Bamboozler’s days are drawing to a close.

    >Great picture ( by the way Blaze )….very telling.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:56pm

    Congradulations Kaiser Obama, your plan to destory the nation is well underway; when will they finally impeach him and try him for high treason?

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    • SmarterThanTheAverageBear
      Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:02pm

      The problem here is we have left the fox in charge of the hen house. All those that should be pursuing Odumbo on treason charges are equally as guilty as he is.

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  • MiCurmudgeon
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:56pm

    Oblamer flata$$ scares me.

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  • Mark0331
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:55pm

    The people who still support and defend this idiot clown of a President are delusional traitors.

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  • RougeFastFingers
    Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:54pm

    Idiot Barry burns another bridge and another ally looks elsewhere.

    Imbecile.

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