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New York‘s 8th District May Elect a Man Who Thinks Israel Runs ’Concentration Death Camps’

If you’ve ever tried to argue with someone on the Left over toxic influences in the Democratic party, they’ve probably smugly reminded you that they at least keep their crazies in check. “Come on,” the usual line runs, “at least we don’t let the Farrakhan types hold Federal office!”

Well, if this story from the Weekly Standard is any guide, that excuse is now completely broken. Meet Charles Barron, New York City Councilman, former Black Panther, anti-Israel demagogue and probable Democratic nominee to be the next Congressman from New York’s 8th district:

Charles Barron, Anti Semitic Former Black Panther, Is Poised to Become the Democratic Nominee in New Yorks 8th DistrictHow bad is Mr. Barron’s anti-Israel zealotry? Consider these lovely quotes from the Standard article:

In 2010, he told a reporter that in New York’s Crown Heights neighborhood, Jews “only make up 20 percent of the population, but they’ve always walked these streets as if they owned them, and acted as if they are the only ones in the community that matter.”[...]

Barron has also called into question the legitimate existence of Israel. “Where should we start [the discussion]?” he said at a Brooklyn church in 2010. “Should we start with the 1906 Zionist Convention, or in 1914, with the Balfour Declaration? With Menachem Begin, the terrorists, all the wars, you want to discuss Israel becoming a state in 1948 when it should not have? Who are the terrorists? You want to talk about the definition of terrorism? How do you define acts of piracy?”

Not bad enough? Well, how about this – Barron has compared Israel’s handling of the Palestinians in Gaza to concentration camps. Yes, literally:

Israel is out of control. They’re off the hook, they’re out of line; and Barack Obama has to stand strong and so do does Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, to say that this kind of aggressive, terroristic behavior and act of piracy will not be tolerated and the blockade should be lifted immediately, immediately. There’s too many children and women and innocent men of Gaza dying because you’re isolating them and not allowing anything in. It’s like having a concentration death camp. It’s horrible, and the whole world is and should be outraged.

Barron’s hatred of Israel is such that now even the Anti-Defamation League treats him as a collaborator with actual anti-semites. From their profile on him (emphasis added):

During media interviews and frequent speaking engagements around New York City, Barron levels a range of accusations against the Jews and the Jewish state, most notably that it should never have been created. In June 2010, for example, he asserted that Blacks, not Jews, are the “real” Semites—a position frequently advanced by anti-Semites in an effort to delegitimize Jews. In addition to Barron’s public pronouncements, he has engaged with the broader anti-Israel movement and participated in campaigns such as the pro-Hamas Viva Palestina US convoy to Gaza.

Perhaps more troubling are Barron’s close ties to radical groups like the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), the largest organized black militant hate group in the United States. Barron has forged strong ties with some of the most anti-Semitic and racist members of the NBPP’s leadership, finding common ground over what they perceive as legal and social injustices affecting African Americans.[...]

During his remarks at the event, Barron urged African-Americans to vote in an upcoming election—in which he was running for mayor—so that more “elected revolutionaries” like himself could join city government. He also promised that if elected, he would turn Gracie Mansion into a homeless shelter and paint the columns of City Hall the colors of African unity: red, green and black.

Disdain for Barron’s platform stretches across party lines. The relatively liberal New York Daily News newspaper has already endorsed one of his opponents, and had this to say about Barron:

Three hundred thousand registered Democrats have a critical mission on Primary Day this month. They must rush to the polls to choose Hakeem Jeffries for Congress.

They must do so because Jeffries is a superbly qualified candidate, and they must do so to spare New York the profound embarrassment of sending to Washington a racial bomb thrower who counts Moammar Khadafy as a hero.[...]

A relic of a bitter bygone era, Barron is a former Black Panther who plays a one-note trumpet of racial grievance.

He has called for training teachers in Ebonics. He has labeled housing development “a new wave of Jim Crowism.”

At a 2002 rally in support of reparations for slavery, he said: “I want to go up to the closest white person and say, ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.”[...]

One man in this contest is a class act. The other is a malignant clown.

It is difficult to end on a stronger note than that. Terrifyingly enough, Barron has still managed to net the endorsement of the retiring Congressman, Edolphus Towns, and is in a very strong position to win. Hopefully all these revelations will enter the campaign in time to stop him. In the meantime, perhaps the best way to conclude would be with this interview in which Barron defends his stridently anti-Zionist perspective. If he can’t defend himself in his own words, then no one can:

Comments (103)

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  • Windsong
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:53pm

    Thanks to Mr. Barron – and the Mayor, of course, New York has now been crossed off the ‘vacation’ list. It is now business only – the quicker the meetings the better.
    New York used to have so much to offer. Now, it’s simply Hollywood East. Why bother spending one‘s money in a place that has ’banned’ salt, large drinks, flags, mention of God in schools, etc. Going to New York now is like going to Yemen. They hate America, it’s flag, it’s Constitution, the military, God, feeding the homeless, having common sense or maintaining personal dignity.
    I have no desire to vacation in a place that has nothing to offer me as an American.
    Sorry New Yorkers, but your silence only confirms that you believe the same way as your Mayor. New Years won’t be the same without New York, but I guarantee it will be more patriotic!

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:45pm

    Even if Israel were to be in the wrong , I would still support them. As did some of more intelligent kings of Egypt in Abraham’s day.

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  • aBritishTenther
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:30pm

    Seems like Mr Barron has something in common with Barry O, they both have ‘inherited’ something, Barry has the ‘its Bush’s fault’ economy , Barron was left Kim Jong-il’s suit……..

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    • HumbleMan
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:34pm

      It though was Mao’s.

      … So the fascists begin to unmask themselves.

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  • Individualism
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:26pm

    sounds like another non loyal American politician, we need people that don’t put a foreign country before the people of this country. is that to much to ask for?

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  • eramthgin
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:22pm

    Perfect progressive liberal democrat. Only thing is he speaks his mind.

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    • Chris G
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:34pm

      Let’s say that he DOES get elected to Congress this November: I wonder if there will be any fireworks between him & the honorable Rep. Allen West whenever they cross paths?

      Aren’t Members of Congress required to obey a dress code within the Well of the House, & if so, would Barron be allowed to wear that Nehru suit he is constantly seen wearing? What about his opposition to saying the Pledge of Allegiance if he is elected to Congress?

      Time to get the popcorn ready, this will be fun to watch!

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  • Sharon Rose
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:20pm

    Another BHO nutcase.

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  • nappy
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:06pm

    Hey waddya expect? He’s the smartest guy in that district.

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:05pm

    Oh pleeeeeeze! People in Gaza are not starving. They have nice new shiny malls and groceries as well as traditional suqs.

    They have open borders w/Egypt, too.

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  • Aiser
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:59pm

    OMFG Are you kidding? I live in NYC ad have seen this guy on the news several times. This guy is extremely radical, anti white( and I’m Hispanic btw) and a socialist in it’s pure essence. This is one of those black guys that believe that whites should pay reparations to blacks over slavery. Al-Sharpton and Jesse Jackson embrace this man as well, which tells us a lot. N.Y.S minority member Democrats are packed with lunatics like Barron.

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  • Listen_then_think
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:55pm

    Another insane democrat liberal black. He is probably a welfare canibal too.

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:10pm

      “LISTEN_THEN_THINK”…kinda an ironic user name for you, isn’t it?

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:59pm

      Look at Joe. Go Joe. You go Joe, really, just go, Joe.

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  • scudster
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:54pm

    The last time a shady character showed up to an election we made him president.

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:59pm

      Indeed. Obama is the worst president since Bush.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:34pm

      Hahahahaha. Joe made funny. Hahahahaha. Joe.

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:50pm

      Looks like I have a stalker.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:31pm

      Still here Joe? Why? I read a lot of crap and usually am mum. No offense again. But after reading most of your crap, well, you think your particular Joe brand of crap is special. Deserves special interests and attention right? Still waiting. Droll. Insipid. Shallow and acusitory, pretty base stuff overall and right in line with talking points it’s so bad-lame, lame, lame. Lets go. Have some time to kill. Lets see some more insight from the Joe Bohnam guy so we can remember the mental left-as if you weren’t on display enough, it is entertaining to get the mind-set from the burros mouth per se. Go-

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  • scootervanneuter
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:50pm

    If this Godless, illiterate pinhead‘s politics weren’t bad enough, he dresses like Kim Jung Il -

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  • thibx
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:45pm

    he is doing the devils work. lead around by satan himself. he needs to be locked up. he his unable to care for himself mentally.

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:52pm

      Lock up people you don’t like… typical christian.

       
    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:23pm

      Joe
      It is almost like you would rather silence his opinion. Typical liberal.

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  • chickster
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:31pm

    It’s not complicated. You quit throwing rocks at me and I’ll let you eat.

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  • momrules
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:28pm

    Let’s see.he wears a nifty little uniform, loves the Panthers and hates Israel and white people………..yep, there are a lot of haters who will vote for this nasty man.

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  • TyAndrew
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:20pm

    The Dimocrat party consisted of old Klan members, old Black Panthers, new Socialist, new Communist, new Fascist, anti-Capitalist, bigots, racist, CAIR approved muslims… with the major thing being the common link, they are all liberal radicals who want to control you, what you can and can’t do, what you can and can’t eat, what you can and can’t say, what you can and can’t think… all in the name of fairness. If you have a D next your name, you imo, are the enemy and the true cause of terror in this great nation! God willing, we will crush all of you politically!

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    • jocko
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:30pm

      You missed the biggest threat of all… progressives masquerading as Americans.

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  • lketchum
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:18pm

    How is it, that in the face of easily discoverable facts, anyone can hold such a position of belief?

    It isn’t logical, or even rational. One would have to suspend more than disbelief, and intentionally choose to defend the indefensible. What twists would one’s mind and soul have to bend to in order to view any of what this man says with anything other than abject contempt?

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:11pm

    Only in New York is reading from obama’s teleprompter a winning strategy.

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  • Joe Bonham
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:05pm

    Why are Israeli interests more important than American interests?

    I’m genuinely curious. And please, no nonsense about the end times, the rapture, or the book of Revelations. Real world reasons why American politicians should put the welfare of another nation-state over our own.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:11pm

      Mostly because of the adverse effect that they have on hajis and wankers. That essence should be saved come what may.

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    • DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:17pm

      MLK said it best: “Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality.”

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:18pm

      I take it you’ve never heard of “blowback”.

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    • jocko
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:32pm

      Let‘em try it and maybe we’ll have a real president by then and we can show them SHOCK AND AWE.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:11pm

      As an American, American interests DO come first. Israel is the lone democracy and Western-style country in the Middle East. It’s in our interests to keep Israel alive while working toward the same in Jordan, Lebanon (which was once a Western democracy but lost itself to the PLO), Syria, Egypt, and the rest.

      The people of Israel have a right to exist in their ancestral homeland. The destruction of a whole ethnic group is NOT in America’s interest. You remember how we got our chops busted over Rwanda? We stepped up in the Balkans and led the charge to preserve the muslims there?

      Protecting Israel fm being overrun by savages is in our interest – politically and morally.

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:18pm

      Again… who cares if Israel sinks or not? Its their fault they p__sed everyone off with their expansionist policies. It doesn’t affect us at all if they fail. Why spend trillions of dollars to subsidize a foreign country?

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:30pm

      Joe
      Were you on the gaza flotilla and fun for all? Spanked again. Get some of your mensa buds to talk to you about the defeat after defeat after defeat your muslim pals have suffered every time. Does that maybe start a little pre kiniption twitch?

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:39pm

      Not sure how that was related to my post. I know christians aren’t very bright, so I’ll ask again, real slowly this time…

      why does it… make sense… to spend TRILLIONS… to support a foreign country?

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:03pm

      As long as you stay mental and the hajis stay haji, most here will support Israel in any way shape or form. Clear? Cry on over to a lefty blog and get some support. Have you seen much of your distorted view being seconded here outside a couple of true whack job lefties? No offense of course.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:52pm

      @Joe, if it were up to me, I’d do away w/90 percent of foreign aid and let them hate us for free (as they say). I prefer the US Constitution that limits the central gov’t. But that pesky central gov’t is like a camel w/its nose in the tent….it just takes over. It’s like cudzu!

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  • F_This
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:59pm

    Nice Star Wars outfit.

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  • johnkostik
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:52pm

    And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”—Genesis 12:3

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  • OhSnappage
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:51pm

    Charlie Barron is a piece of racist garbage that has never been tossed away. Wonder what that funky smell in NYC is? It’s this turd.

    The same people that voted for Al Sharpton to be president of our country are the same voters keeping this guy around. NY 8th district are about as intelligent as those that repeatedly vote for Maxine Waters, Barbara Boxer, Sheila Jackson Lee, Debbie Wassername? Schultz. I’d have those ballots checked out cause of fraud, but black people are too moronic to carry ID, according to Eric Holder.

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    • jocko
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:47pm

      Yet, somehow they can ‘buy’ their Colt 45 and their smokes.

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  • Joe Bonham
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:48pm

    First off, why is this even a big deal. For god’s sake Arizona elects BIRTHERS to public office.

    Secondly, Nazi Germany did not hold a monopoly on Concentration Camps. The British, Dutch, Portuguese, and most of the other colonial powers routinely ran concentration camps. The current Palestinian situation meets all the criteria of a concentration camp – rounding up people based on race and/or creed and denying them access to basic medical supplies, food, clean water. Meanwhile the Jewish colonists occupy the strategic high ground in the Gaza strip, with green grass, nice suburbs with sprinklers. They should not be surprised the Palestinians hate them. They brought it upon themselves.

    And finally… why do AMERICAN officials need to be pro-ISRAEL??? Israel is a foreign power. They don’t matter. How about we elect leaders who are concerned with OUR interests????

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:57pm

      It’s just that he is a pos, no offense, don’t take that out of context as a phrase directed at one such as yourself. But I imagine you know of what I speak. Birds of a feather and all that malarkey; again, no offense. They are hiring foot washers at several Black Lib Theology churches in Chi-town if the recession gets you down.

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:02pm

      I really have no idea what you are trying to communicate with me. Get a grip on the English language before you talk to me. Thank you.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:07pm

      Oh, that. Yeh, was sort of impying if he is a stellar pos, you may understand exactly that.

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:17pm

      Well brilliant. How is that relevant to my post? At all?

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    • georgepatton
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:41pm

      Did your parents have any children that survived??????????????

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:50pm

      @George Patton

      Conservative logic confuses me… was that an attempt to make an abortion quip?

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:19pm

      Joe — Israel does NOT deny Gaza or Arabs in Judea/Samaria medical or food supplies. What they deny them are armaments. In case you’d not noticed, Israel is shelled daily w/rocket fire fm Arab held areas. It would be as if Windsor, Ontario, regularly shelled and rocketed Detroit and the US did not attack back en masse. Hezbollah to the north in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza attack Israeli civilians on a daily basis.

      Do a bit more reading, please, before you take up the Arab-muslim cause in the Middle East. They are not sweet little darlings. The fighters hide behind their own women and children. They turn mosques into arms depots.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:33pm

      Our interests Joe. You said it, our interests, then you went all gay. Again. Why Joe, why? Don’t repress it. If you want to in America, you can be as gay as you want and wear the latest is Paris hijabs. Go for the gold Joe.

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:49pm

      @FUBARED

      There you go making the gay references again. What’s up with you and homosexuality? Not to mention it seems every thread I post in, you follow me and make a homosexual remark. That sounds a lot like cyber stalking.

      Sorry… you’re not my type. Now run along and go annoy someone else.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:59pm

      Where to next Joe? That can’t be all. Come on Joe, muster a little bit, you can do it Joe. Go Joe.

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  • johnkostik
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:47pm

    And I will bless those who bless you,
    And the one who curses you I will curse.
    And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.—Genesis 12:3

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:36pm

    New Yorkers can’t be this stupid?

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    • Grapeknutz
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:43pm

      Wana bet?

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    • altops
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:47pm

      wanna ,,,oh never mind…as he waers his Moeist outfit wata foo

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:49pm

      Lots of constitutionalists in Brooklyn and Queens. Sure. They have to love his star trek suits and nbpp past.

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:02pm

      New Yorkers are this stupid.

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:05pm

      I suppose if they elected a birther you would think they were smart.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:23pm

      Not only smart Joe, but having intestinal fortitude to challenge the main stream and question what appeared to be bad photo shop at best. How do you type while you hold your ankles?

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:26pm

      Why are Conservatives obsessed with references to gay sex?? Is there something you want to share with us?

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    • Fubared
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:22pm

      You could own a donkey or a burro for all we know Joe. Why do you need to make it about gay sex, again? Do you feel strongly about that need? Is it obsessive or can you control it more?

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:25pm

      @Joe — what’s this got to do w/homosexual sex anyhow? Most of us conservatives are quite tired of being pushed around by a very vocal less than 3 percent of the country. But mostly we find it reprehensible that this less than 3 percent wants to say their sexual habits are “normal” when the parts simply do not fit.

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    • Joe Bonham
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:28pm

      So why the references to “grabbing ankles” and donkeys, etc?

      Republicans and Christians are mostly secretly homosexuals and pedophiles themselves.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:55pm

      @Joe – you really are too funny for words! The homosexual population is less than 3 percent of the general population. Republicans and Christians make up far more than that. ROTFL at your uninformed opinion.

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