Genuinely pleased to see you back.

Its an irony that government is a process where an elite group make decisions that mainly impact on lower and middle-income groups. Those are the groups that usually have the least "fat" to be able to deal with changes caused by government.

>good too see you back
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>Hi...thanks...I think? :)
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>close "to home". is that because your President (in your view) is not an American.
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>You might be interested to know the # of times Obama previously told people (or led people to believe) he was not born in the United States. It was often to seek different academic or political benefits.
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>When I say "hits close to home" I am not speaking from a sense of geography but a sense of ideology.
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>For the record, I say I do not care where he was born. I think our laws have to change regarding who is eligible.
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>So it is not a matter of whether I think he is "an American". It is more a matter of whether he understands the history of the United States and whether he has the first clue what lower and middle-income Americans go through. He makes as many gaffes on our history as Sarah Palin, and yet the general media somehow portrays him as "brilliant" when he is not.
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>And I think if your going to attack Ho Chi Minh for slaughtering Vietnamese farmers you might want to take a look at the USAF as well.
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>I know about our involvement in Vietnam. It is certainly not a good part of our history (nor our bad record on Civil Rights) and I won't defend it. The "numbers game" can often seem cold, but the numbers on total deaths by Minh/VC/Communist forces (both before and right after 1975) are far, far higher.