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> Funny that it is the Dems who are fighting against that court decision that
> ruled in Hillary's favor [1 Update]
> Does this surprise you at all that AP would come up with this kind of excuse
> for Obama? [1 Update]
> Libertarian flash mob celebrating @ Jefferson Memorial arrested for under
> undisclosed law [1 Update]
> Another good article about david mamet - wonder if his old liberal friends
> will still be his friends [1 Update]
> Interesting article - David Mamet has discovered that he is really a
> conservative [1 Update]
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> Topic: Funny that it is the Dems who are fighting against that court
> decision that ruled in Hillary's favor
>
> dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> May 28 10:54PM -0400 ^
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> On 05/28/2011 09:09 AM, THE ANNOINTED ONE wrote:
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> Topic: Does this surprise you at all that AP would come up with this kind
> of excuse for Obama?
>
> dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> May 28 09:56PM -0400 ^
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> AP Reporters Fabricate Scurrilous 'Possible' Reason Why Walesa
> Wouldn't Meet With Obama
> <http://www.bizzyblog.com/2011/05/28/ap-reporters-fabricate-ridiculous-possible-reason-why-walesa-wouldnt-meet-with-obama/>
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> Filed under:National Security
> <http://www.bizzyblog.com/category/national-security/>,Taxes &
> Government <http://www.bizzyblog.com/category/taxes-government/>---
> TBlumer @ 9:49 am
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> APabsolutelyPathetic0109I've seen Associated Press reporters make absurd
> assertions before, but a statement written by Julie Pace and Vanessa
> Gera, who covered President Barack Obama's trip to Poland yesterday, has
> to be at or near the top of the list of all-time humdingers.
>
> Polish Solidarity hero and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa did not
> meet with Obama yesterday. Wait until you see the disgraceful
> speculation as to why there was no meeting in the bolded sentence in the
> fourth paragraph of the following excerpt from the AP pair'sFriday
> evening report
> <http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_POLAND_OBAMA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>:
>
> Hours before Obama arrived, Polish headlines were dominated by news
> that he was being snubbed by legendary Solidarity founder Lech
> Walesa, who said he was refusing to meet with Obama.
>
> Solidarity was a national freedom movement under Walesa's leadership
> in the 1980s that helped bring down communism. His courage in
> defying communist authorities at the time earned him a Nobel peace
> prize. Walesa said in televised remarks that President Bronislaw
> Komorowski and the U.S. ambassador to Poland had called him hoping
> to persuade him to meet Obama. Walesa insisted, however, that he had
> no interest in a meeting that would amount to little more than a
> photo-op.
>
> "This time a meeting does not suit me," the 67-year-old former
> president said in comments on news station TVN24. His office said he
> planned instead to attend a biblical festival in Italy.
>
> *Walesa refused to divulge more, but it seemed possible he was
> offended at not being offered a one-on-one meeting with Obama early
> on.*Walesa had been invited to meet with Obama along with other
> former leaders of the anti-communist movement and current party
> leaders."
>
> *"It seemed possible"?*Are you kidding me?
>
> *Translation:*We're totally making this up, but we thought we'd throw it
> out there anyway just to make the guy who more than anyone else on earth
> is responsible for the early stages of bringing about the fall of the
> Iron Curtain look like a petty, egomaniacal old man.
>
> There was absolutely no call for the AP pair's unsupported speculation.
>
> Ina Friday editorial
> <http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=573601&p=1>("Walesa
> Stands Up"), Investors Business Daily opined on Walesa's "seemingly more
> possible" motivations (it's an editorial, Julie and Vanessa, so they're
> allowed):
>
> Someone who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for actually doing
> something just snubbed someone who won it for nothing. But Lech
> Walesa's refusal to meet President Obama is also a cry to save Poland.
>
> Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and heroic leader of the
> Solidarity trade union that helped liberate the entire Eastern
> European Soviet bloc from communist rule, has his moral courage
> indelibly engraved in the history books.
>
> ... on Friday, Walesa once again answered the call to duty and
> announced he would not accept fellow Nobel Peace laureate President
> Obama's invitation to meet with him in Poland after the G-8 Summit
> in France.
>
> ... Close observers of this president for the two-plus years of his
> rule know he isn't interested in listening to the likes of Walesa,
> any more than he wants to hear the leaders of former Soviet
> satellite states explain how the low, flat tax rates they adopted in
> recent years led their nations to double-digit GDP growth.
>
> For the sake of preserving Poland's hard-fought freedom, Komorowski
> and Tusk should be joining Walesa in giving Obama the cold shoulder.
>
> The president hadn't even had a chance to redecorate the Oval Office
> before he felt the need, in fall of 2009, to appease Moscow by
> scrapping plans to build a missile defense shield protecting Poland
> and the Czech Republic from attack by Russia, Iran or any other
> aggressor.
>
> At the time, the Polish minister of defense said, "This is
> catastrophic for Poland."
>
> The message, once again, delivered loud and clear to America's
> friends, allies and enemies alike, is that the U.S. can't be relied on.
>
> ... The message Poland's leaders should deliver to our
> self-satisfied president is the one Walesa is delivering by his
> absence: Neither your Nobel nor bin Laden's head, Mr. President, is
> a substitute for U.S. help in keeping a liberated Eastern Europe
> liberated.
>
> IBD's explanation "seems more possible" to me, and anyone else with both
> a sense of history and an understanding of how Obama so quickly turned
> his back on Eastern Europe's security needs once he had a chance.
>
> /Cross-posted atNewsBusters.org
> <http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/05/28/ap-reporters-fabricate-scurrilous-possible-reason-why-walesa-wouldnt-mee>./
>
> _________________________________________________
>
> *BizzyBlog Update:*The AP pair writing that "Solidarity was a national
> freedom movement" is like saying that "George Washington and the
> Founders were a group which won freedom from its British colonial
> rulers." The use of "a" downplays the movement's significance, arguably
> deliberately.
>
> Properly stated, "Solidarity was THE national freedom movement", and
> "Washington and the Founders were THE group which won freedom." In each
> case, there were no others.
>
> *BizzyBlog Update 2:*The AP report cited here is as good an example as
> any of how the establishment press will smear anyone and everyone who
> dares to threaten Dear Leader's image.
>
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> Topic: Libertarian flash mob celebrating @ Jefferson Memorial arrested for
> under undisclosed law
>
> THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmkahle@gmail.com> May 28 05:31PM -0700 ^
>
> Land of the free ??????????? WTF!!! This is just absolutely
> barbarous !
>
> SMOG (sweet mother of God) I am happy I live in a free country and not
> one where the police can slam you to the ground and choke you for
> dancing in public !!!!!
>
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> Topic: Another good article about david mamet - wonder if his old liberal
> friends will still be his friends
>
> dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> May 28 07:48PM -0400 ^
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> http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/converting-mamet_561048.html?nopager=1
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> Topic: Interesting article - David Mamet has discovered that he is really a
> conservative
>
> dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> May 28 07:21PM -0400 ^
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> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304520804576347110395478634.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h
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