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comment by b_b

Holy hell, the far more telling part of this story are the comments. I don't typically wade into reading user comments on any forum but our humble one here, but I tried my hand at it on this story. I urge some of you to do the same. If you didn't live in the world and you only were trying to figure out how we live based on the opinions stated there, you would think that we live in a hadean dystopia where you have to get government permission to make eye contact with your neighbor. WTF? How does this kind of thing happen to people? In the W years there were a lot of people who screamed treason, conspiracy, etc, but was it like this? Maybe I'm an affected partisan, and I can't see the forest for the trees, but I don't think that's the case. I think that there are some seriously delusional folks out there. I leave you with this:

    He's a puppet. A Slave. Like the rest of us. Yes, he is a narcisistic, (sp?) but he is NOT leadership material. He is one of those democrats that think the world owes him a living, and when one thinks that, they rarely have real leadership qualities, since they cannot even lead themselves out of a pothole. Which begs the question: Who is the puppetmaster(s)?...[His] degrees were purchased by the Saudi King, "who contributed to Obama's educational financing." Sure he knows what he knows, but that is NOT a knowledge of America not her true sense of freedom.




user-inactivated  ·  4214 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't read the comments, although I would sort of expect Politico's comments to be a bit higher-class. They don't surprise me. For some reason, pointless comment boards on semi-marginal websites are where the worst of the mainstream internet is. I wouldn't guess that, but it's true.

Most of these people have mental illnesses, I assume.