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Martin Bashir Mocks ‘Chicken-Hawk‘ Herman Cain Despite Cain’s Dept. of Navy Service

Never failing to miss an opportunity to disparage a conservative, MSNBC’s Martin Bashir boldly declared GOP presidential contender Herman Cain a “chicken hawk” — in the tradition of “Dick Cheney” — despite Cain having served as a ballistics analyst for the Department of the Navy.

Speaking to his guest on Wednesday, Bashir asked, “and on the issue of Iran, does Cain remind you at all of Dick Cheney and that long roster of chicken hawks who’ve rabidly pushed for U.S. military action there?”

If Cain is a “chicken hawk” then would it be fair to assert President Barack Obama is a flip-flopper? The president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient broke vows to close Guantanamo, prosecute terrorists in criminal rather than military court, and reign in operations in Afghanistan to name a few…

(h/t: NewsBusters)

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  • last frontier
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:20pm

    Fuggen Racist!

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:21pm

      and exactly what military service did Mr Turd Burger Martin Bashir seve in?

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:24pm

      My first thought also .. what has this guy ever done for America except run it down!???

      TEA!

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:24pm

      Does Martin Bashir make these same comments at Obama? When did Obama serve? I thought he was a communtiy organizer.

      Mr Bashir does not seem to have a problem with Obama sending a surge to Afghanistan, or having our troops shooting Somali pirates, killing OBL, taking part in the capture and execution of Khadafi, putting boots on ground in Africa…..

      This jackass speaks out both sides of his mouth.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:34pm

      Rangerp Martin served in the Turkish army,110th fudge packer brigade,that’s why Martin speaks with feces encrusted tongue.

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    • Red Meat
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:50pm

      It takes a loser to identify a loser.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:55pm

      Meathed So you’re Martins bottom bitch

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    • your sensei
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:33pm

      RangerWee . . . Obama served with Cheney and Limbaugh and Hannity and O’Reilly and Romney and Newt and Cantor and Karl Rove and Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle and Douglas Feith and Eliot Abrams and Ari Fleischer and Andrew Card and Ken Adelman and Wayne LaPierre and
      Michael Ledeen and Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. and John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani and George Pataki and Frank I. Luntz and Grover Norquist and Alito and Scalia (which means Clarence Thomas didn’t serve) and Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade and Chris Wallace and Brit Hume and Roger Ailes and Carl Cameron and Matt Drudge and Bill Kristol and Ralph Reed and Michael Medved and Charlie Daniels and Jerry Falwell and Alan Keyes and Ted Nugent AND, wait for ti, AND Glenn Beck.

      But they’re all wing to send my kid over, aren’t they? Yes, they sure are.

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    • c0mm0nsense
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:48pm

      Cain was never served in the military.

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    • c0mm0nsense
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:33pm

      The Blaze implied he served. I will say it again “ Cain Never Served”

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    • AmericanMiscellany
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:43pm

      @ your sensei: Please don’t forget Obama (yeah, he started wars too), Joe Biden, Steven Chu, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, Clinton, Gore, Reid, Schumer, Pelosi, Boxer, Durbin, Dean, Wolf Blitzer, Alan Colmes, Al Franken, Bill Maher, Michael Moore (you know, the rich guy), John Edwards, …

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    • Anamah
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:51pm

      Why is Comcast still paying all those offensive anti American Communists?

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    • ILUVJESUS
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:06am

      Chicken hawk? That term is used in LA as code for a pedophile. Is he speaking code to his audience? Is his saying this slander against Cain?
      The left fears Cain.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 2:56am

      YOU make this just too easy, Martin: from Cain’s BIO:
      ‘Inspired by the work ethic and character of his parents, Herman continued his education by earning his Master’s degree in computer science from Purdue University while working full-time developing fire control systems for ships and fighter planes for the Department of the Navy. Though Herman enjoyed using his talents as a civilian employee for the Navy, he gravitated towards the culture of business.’

      He was a ROCKET SCIENTIST for the NAVY, duffus. I guess they felt that was more needed from him than active duty. SIT ON IT.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:05am

      @yoursenselesssensei –
      No, they are NOT “willing to send [your] kid over there”
      Your “kid” is AN ADULT.
      Your “kid” VOLUNTEERED.
      We do NOT have a draft.
      ALL of our fine men and women SERVE VOLUNTARILY !

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:29am

      @your sensei

      we have a all volunteer army. the point of the article, is that Mr Bashir mocks Cain for him not serving. I am asking why he does not mock Obama for not serving. You then give a list of conservatives who did not serve in the military. Why did you not give a list with dems on it. It is not part of the arguments. We can list Clinton, Bidden, and a whole host of others.

      Once again, Bashir did not serve, he mocks Cain for not serving, does he apply the same standard to Obama, or is he a typical lib that speaks with a forked tongue?
      You are a typical lib, in that you have no ability to debate, thus you try to change direction of the topic and spin it. In a written format it does not work, as there is a written record of what you say, and you end up looking like a fool.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 8:32am

      @yoursenseless Your kid sent himself over when he volunteered.

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    • theaveng
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 11:15am

      HE DIDN’T SAY CAIN WAS A CHICKEN HAWK.
      He said Cheney, Bush, and others were chicken hawks. Huge difference.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 11:17am

      Easy for a man with zero militaryservice to say (Bashir).

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    • traditionalrebel
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 2:38pm

      I don’t get what this whole debate is about military contractors. They are what they are, and we don’t need to create a whole make-believe debate ranking one person‘s level of honor over another’s. If a private person can find a way to save the taxpayer money by getting paid more to do the same job a government soldier does, then why wouldn’t we fire soldiers and replace them with contractors? The fired soldiers can then go get the contractor jobs and make more money and save us money because it takes government waste and turns it into profit.

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    • SWING HARD
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 2:52pm

      Go back to whatever Socialist rat hole you came from you American-hating Racist!

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:50pm

      BLAZE, why is today filled with Communist, marxist and socialist remarks. I thought I couldn’t dislike Trumka any worse, then comes along the classic Idiot Bashir to top the worse of them all. knock it off.
      Tired of dealing with anti-American types who only want to destroy us and our way of life.

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  • IwentThere
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:19pm

    Bashir is a joke. I watch this guy every now and then just to get my daily dose of ridiculousness. I bet you he beats off to old Olberman episodes…yup, I went there.

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  • SheriS
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:19pm

    Since I’ve never heard of this Bashir guy, I really could care what he says—if I don’t know him, he has to be a total loser as I don’t watch MSM junk or read it! I know what I believe and stand for but I also know if I don’t know them, they are not worth my time or interest! So Bashir, you are a loser and a waste since you are part of the lying MSM!

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    • EchoHawk
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:40pm

      Echo chamber much?

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    • b.mclane
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 12:36pm

      Bashir was the same dude who outed Princess D and her marital woes and accused Michael Jackson of pedophilia in a corrupted interview that led to MJ’s unjust indictment on 2003. Which he was acquitted on all 14 counts cause the state had zip proof. He famously videoed MJ for months but MJ also videoed Bashir knowing he could not trust any reporter. The TV version was edited to make MJ look nuts. The MJ version is on youtube and in it Bashir has his head comfortably up MJ’s derriere. Glowing about MJ’s parenting skills and how fabbo he is. In other words Bashir is a well practiced liar and backstabber. BTW: Bashir has been rewarded for his corruption by being given an inoperable brain tumor and was moved from Nightline after they learned of the MJ tapes and tucked away in no viewer land at 3pm MSNBC. Its why he makes such outlandish remarks. NO ONE WATCHES. .

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  • Br@dley
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:18pm

    a DOD contractor is NOT a servicemember. and i thought the blaze was ssupposed to be honest…

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    • AB5r
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:40pm

      So would a contractor with Blackwater or any of the others be a chickenhawk if they were there doing security or some other duty?

      Or what about people in the armed forces who never see action? MOST people in the military never see action, they work behind the scenes, probably about 8 to 1.

      In the mind of the crazed liberal anyone who has not been literally shot at can NEVER come out in favor of any war. That is absurd.

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:38pm

      have you ever been in the military? i have, 9 years active duty. don‘t try to lecture me when you have an outsider’s frame of reference.

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    • MinorityRightsAdvocate
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:59pm

      Don’t pull the “only those that served can speak card” Especially since others, like myself have also served and will negate your comment.
      DoD Contractors still are VITAL to mission accomplishment. While they may not be on the front lines, neither are many who serve in uniform, and without the advanced technology or experience provided by many contractors, our military would be far less capable and effective.
      Just try to get a bunch of soldiers to design and build any of the high tech weapons they depend on, or airmen, sailors with planes and ships… They have a role, as does the supposedly evil military industrial complex, it is an interdependent relationship to provide this nations defense.
      Don’t throw stones, that is just foolish.

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:13pm

      they also GET PAID A LOT MORE, they also don’t have to give up nearly as much personal liberty or conform to an unnatural caste system. the contractors i worked with had tech manuals from the manufacturer not available to me. they essentially got twice my pay (a lot more overseas) to do my job because they were provided to information to do so.

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    • john koenig
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:07pm

      Cain was not a contractor, he was a full time Navy Department employee. He wanted to enlist and was refused; the Navy told him they needed him where he was as a ballistics analyst.
      You liberals need to stop lying.

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    • JustPeachy
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:26pm

      @John: I don’t think they can! :-/

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:38pm

      i’m not a liberal fella. that’s why i NEVER supported bush or mccain out of principle. i’ll bet you put party first huh?

      btw, Dept of the Navy employee=civilian contractor.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:19am

      @ Br@dley
      Actually, a “DOD employee” is different from a “civilian contractor.” A civilian contractor would include a Raytheon employee who works on a radar system — back when I was in the Navy, we called those guys “sand crabs” (and they even went to sea — on the USS Constellation in 1981, at least). They are called “contractors” because they work with the navy on a particular contract. They are NOT government employees. A Department of Defense employee, on the other hand, IS a government employee — he or she will have a GS level. The political appointee levels of DOD employees — Sec. Def. and Sec. Nav. — are even in the Chain of Command.

      Oh — almost forgot to mention: Get on the Cain Train — if you are not onboard, then you are laying tracks for a Romney nomination.

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    • Giggity Goo
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:52am

      @CHUCK STEIN

      You are correct and yes the contractors still go underway with us. We had a couple of them flown on to our ship in the Gulf. Yes they do get paid more but they also get taxed more and most of these guys are all ex-military. I’ve only met a few who have not actually served in the military though few and in between. They just took the skills the military taught them and got a job working for someone else not a bad plan if you think about it :)

      @ BR@DLY

      “don’t have to give up nearly as much personal liberty or conform to an unnatural caste system” by caste system I’m going to go out on a limb here but…I guess your talking about the chain of command? Correct me if I‘m wrong but hasn’t that always been a part of military service? How many times were you busted down you sound almost resentful. No they don’t give up as much “personal liberty” but hey just cause they are on your ship for a couple weeks does not mean they are not on the 10 or 20 other ships in port all the time too they are busy s.o.bs

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    • AB5r
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 10:10am

      What is brodley so upset about, they allow gays to come out now in the military.

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:30pm

      insinuating that i am gay. real mature fella.

      DOD employees are not servicemembers no matter how you try to spin it. BTW, raytheon contractors get underway as well. i fail to see any distinction execpt cain worked directly for the government instead of a corporation.

      i refuse to get on the “cain train”. since when is raising taxes on the majority of americans a conservative principle anyway? are you guys really THAT obtuse?

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:33pm

      i was never “busted down” either. i actually never had an NJP, have 2 good conduct medals and an honorable discharge. i really don‘t appreciate assumptions just because i don’t fit in your vapid definition of “conservative”.

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    • b.mclane
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 12:45pm

      THE BLAZE did not call Cain a DOD contractor or a Navy employee other commenters did. Its important to read what the Blaze said and not elaborate. THE BLAZE said “ Cain having served as a ballistics analyst for the Department of the Navy”.
      Br@dley , Thanks for serving our country but you seem pretty hostile to me.Chill out.

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  • circleDwagons
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:17pm

    compared him to Dick Cheney, thanks that would be great… this smoke for you

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:53am

      Excellent point, Circledwagons. Marty thinks that being compared with Cheney is bad, but it is a complement in my book.

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  • knower999
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:10pm

    Bashir has proven that he is unfit to exist in the same universe as Cain.

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  • matinva
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:10pm

    Martin who? If this guy thinks he’s important, here’s the real scoop. If he were sitting in his closet talking to his pants, he would have more impact on society in America.

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    • mils
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:27pm

      Chicken Hawk??? i looked up the definition
      ..A Gay term for an older man that constantly chases after younger men typically in their 20′s

      Chicken Hawk???

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  • knower999
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:09pm

    Neutralize Bashir

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  • knower999
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:08pm

    Bashir is a wort on humanity.
    We are getting tired of communist media.

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  • nohussein
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:06pm

    Mountain climber- Cain= VAT tax, Pro choice, PC BS, won’t happen.

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    • mtnclimberjim
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:35pm

      Oh please. Looks like ya gotter all figgered out.

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    • AmericanMiscellany
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:17pm

      nohussein:

      VAT evaluates value added at each step of manufacturing / production. Cain’s plan DOES NOT. It is not a VAT tax. Read the plan “Gross income less all purchases from other U.S. located businesses, all capital investment, and net exports.” Nothing to do with value added.

      Not pro choice, just anti federal government. He stated that the federal government has no role in the decision for or against abortion. I agree. Push the issue to the states and let the citizens of each of these united states decide. I like my chances in my state better than changing an activist SCOTUS.

      Cain is a leader. He is not as polished as a Romney, because typically those doing the work get a few rough edges while those on a perpetual campaign have time to practice the smile. Romney = Perry = Santorum = McCain = Dole = Defeat.

      Cain 2012.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:06pm

    The British born back stabber… never served in a Military or any Branch of Government, foreign or domestic… but is simply a “Yellow Journalist”!

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    • TELITLYKITIS
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:54pm

      I think he was born in India….

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    • adalie
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:16am

      If wikipedia is to be believed, Bashir was born in South London and his parents are Pakistani.

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  • theedman.
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:06pm

    thank god for the blaze and all you guys!

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  • BigFoot
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:01pm

    Hey Martin….

    Blow me.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:41pm

      isn‘t it annoying when anti capitalist anti american’s move here from other countries to make money via capitalism and spew their hateful rhetoric via our first ammendment. I wish we could ship him back

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  • theedman.
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:00pm

    if cain is a chicken hawk then barry is the chicken. whats he done for the protesters in iran?

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  • Joe Camel
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:52pm

    Who???

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  • nohussein
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:52pm

    Though I don’t like Cain, I won’t mock his service.

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    • mtnclimberjim
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:01pm

      Cain rocks. He is not a pol. I would vote for him in a second. Has flaws yes, but a very well rounded American.
      Martin is my enemy and a traitor to this country. Not because of his views but by his actions.
      There are many like him who are making themselves known. This has become a target rich environment.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:14pm

      wel i appreciate your liking romney, he is more like mccain, a liberal republican.it will only slow things a bit-not bring us back from the brink-…i and all my family will go for cain…..even the sister that lost her job at sallymae after she voted for oboma{ha} we still ask her how that worked out for her!!!

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    • c0mm0nsense
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:46pm

      Cain Never Served!

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    • AmericanMiscellany
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:25pm

      @common sense. Neither did John Moses Browning. Want to guess how many battles / wars were won because he stayed home- sans uniform? Cain developed fire control systems for the Navy. At the Navy’s request. He improved our ability to execute war more effectively so more soldier could come home – alive.

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    • c0mm0nsense
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:38pm

      Why does the artical imply he served?

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  • ourig
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:51pm

    one more moron ….

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  • Eliasim
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:49pm

    Oh who cares. Do Americans know from in the Bible what sitting on your lees means? You all do it, and I have watched you do it for over 40 years.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:52pm

      It means you sit on your wine, or that you sit on your rubbish, or that your sitting on the things you think you know, and you aren’t trying to know anymore. That’s what it means.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:57pm

      Oh people should be frightened because just as the story goes in the Bible, you build houses and do not live in them, and elsewhere there are entire cities which are not lived in. You should be scared, you should be really scared.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:59pm

      Glenn Becks afraid, because Beck knows what is coming. Pretty much everyone whom is of God and is spiritual knows what is coming.

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:23pm

      I was going to respond to your idiotic comments, but then I decided to look at your other posts and I realise that you are just a rambling blathering idiot. Doofus. Quit wasting bytes, moron.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:27pm

      And Hollywood has made a mockery out of spirits and dimensions while in fact they are real. There’s real space-ships, and there’s a real God that can open the fabric of the universe and look at you, and there are real entities that fly around the universe. Yes you have been desensitized to all these things, but they are real.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:30pm

      “OOKSPAY” I think that about sums up that you aren’t worth my time.

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:20pm

      Please stay away from the Brown Acid.

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  • theedman.
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:49pm

    if cain is a chicken hawk barrys the chicken.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:48pm

    Bashir reminds me of an insane rooster; maddening to listen to and making no end of noise and of no use whatsoever even as a dinner.

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  • majorsco
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:48pm

    What is Bashir’s legitimacy for his critical statements of Cain? Has Bashir served this country, or even his former country in any way? Or has he only been cowering behind people who did serve like Cain and others? This guy is just a cowardly loudmouth with no sense.

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  • Ookspay
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:45pm

    Herman is my man. At this point he is the last one standing. I really Like Ron Paul and was strongly considering giving him my support. But I just saw him on Fox news saying that he would not have gone in to Pakistan to kill Bin Laden ! ! ! He said he “would have worked with the authorities to get him”.
    So Herman it is….

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    • c0mm0nsense
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:09pm

      Ron Paul served as a Flight Surgeon and Cain served as what? OH! You did not know he did not serve. Maybe you read something that implied he did? The media does like to spin things.

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:43pm

    bashir reminds me of a pakistani bill maher…constantly attacking only conservatives and decent Americans while promoting the leftist agenda while lining his pockets with evil corporate money he constantly demonizes.
    In a normal world, bashir would be a street beggar.

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  • honor007
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:42pm

    Can we send this guy back to Britain?
    serious.

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    • whatthecrazy
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:46pm

      absofreakinlutly ill buy the ticket but only one way………………….

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  • Logic77
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 7:40pm

    And what has Martin Bashir done besides being a big mouth communist?

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