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2010-02-26 Great White North

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 The key here is selecting the 'right' furner. As far as I am concerned Hazel can start anytime this afternoon.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-26 05:54|| 2010-02-26 05:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Not this furner. Hazel McCallion gives a pass to Iranian genocide threats.

http://www.ghostofaflea.com/archives/013743.html

Posted by Excalibur 2010-02-26 07:22|| 2010-02-26 07:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Why we should let furners be President

About for the same reason you should have let a Japanese command the US fleet at Midway. Because you have a death wish.

Posted by JFM 2010-02-26 08:01|| 2010-02-26 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 We either already have a furner as President or we have a demonstration that even a Murkin can act like a dangerous furner President.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-02-26 08:43|| 2010-02-26 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Glenmore, first of all Obama is not furner. It could be that he doesn't fill the constitutional requisite of being born American but he is not a furner. Second: the problem of furners is probability of them not having America's interests at heart. Just as you could have had an ethnic Japanese turning more capable and patriotic than Spruance or a white officer turning out to working for the enemy.

But probability of being a traitor was higher for an ethnic Japanese not to mention that even a loyal one was more likely to have a few beers with not so loyal Japanese and end talking too much in front of them, so they were an unacceptable risk, specially at the time America was losing and its forces depended on secrecy to survive.

Same for a furner becoming POTUS.

Posted by JFM 2010-02-26 09:28|| 2010-02-26 09:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Vlad Putin for POTUS!
America needs leadership, and none of available candidates can provide it. Politicians prevailed during the past generation by flattering American complacency. Precisely the opposite is needed. Putin has the requisite tough-mindedness, with only one important deficiency: he is a nasty piece of work. Putin restored Russia's economy and global stature on the strength of one insight: the Russian people were the problem. After centuries of Tsarist brutality and three generations of communist terror, the Russian people had become a passive rabble incapable of defending their interests. The Americans, meanwhile, have met the enemy, and it is them. America has coasted on a quarter-century wave of power and prosperity. Americans no longer had to save; the rest of the world saved for them and lent them money at the lowest interest rates in half a century. Americans no longer had to study; engineers from India to Argentina programmed their computers. And Americans no longer had to face a strategic challenge after the death of the Soviet Union.
Putin understands how to exercise power. Unlike Iraq, the restive Muslim province of Chechnya now nestles comfortably in Putin's palm, albeit with about half the people it had a decade ago.
That is the sort of strategic thinking America needs. So my endorsement for the next president of the United States goes to Vladimir Putin.

One final note - Putin doesn't speak much English. But that shouldn't disqualify him. Neither did George W Bush.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-02-26 11:18|| 2010-02-26 11:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Napoleon, born Corsican.
Hitler, born Austrian.
nuff said.
Don't give us a Great Man. Give us a great people.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-26 12:10|| 2010-02-26 12:10|| Front Page Top

#8 "Obama is not furner..."

Yes, he is.

I am not talking about birth certificates. I'm referring to something much more important. He grew up in Indonesia bowing to Mecca. He never was a Boy Scout, never played baseball, never went to a Veterans Day Parade, etc, etc, etc. The thing is that we are foreign to him. He doesn't understand America or its culture, and by all appearances doesn't want to.

Posted by Iblis 2010-02-26 12:54|| 2010-02-26 12:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Posted by Iblis 2010-02-26 12:54

Amen!

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2010-02-26 13:10|| 2010-02-26 13:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Napoleon, born Corsican.
Hitler, born Austrian.
nuff said.

How about Stalin, born in Georgia? You're right though. The record isn't good.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-02-26 13:45|| 2010-02-26 13:45|| Front Page Top

#11 One final note - Putin doesn't speak much English. But that shouldn't disqualify him. Neither did George W Bush.

Speaking English should disqualify anyone for POTUS. The President should speak American. That is color and not colour, truck and not lorry. BTW, Bush read much more books (serious ones) than those people who looked at him upside down, from seventy to one hundred a year.

Posted by JFM 2010-02-26 15:22|| 2010-02-26 15:22|| Front Page Top

#12 and NO whinging

Posted by Frank G 2010-02-26 16:02|| 2010-02-26 16:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Procopius2k, add Alexander the Great to the list. He was Macedonian and although he expanded the Greek empire he did it at the cost of Greek soldiers who found themselves in fight after endless fight for their new leaders glory.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-02-26 17:20|| 2010-02-26 17:20|| Front Page Top

#14 Don't forget:

William the Conqueror
Henry VII
James I
William of Orange
George I

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-26 17:33|| 2010-02-26 17:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Unfortunately, Her Worship is a bit of an anti-semite. See again comment # 2 above.

Glad I don't live there any more.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2010-02-26 20:45|| 2010-02-26 20:45|| Front Page Top

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