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There's an old saying in China, which might help. "一鼓作气,再鼓衰,三鼓竭". The news about campaign has been around for months, still nobody is giving a solid statue. This isn't a way to show public the confidence. I'm also wondering that, for some candidates, they're not taking this round is because they don't see a chance to beat Obama, though not literally. But how can they be sure that this image wouldn't affect their campaign for the round 4 years later? Well, anyway, it's politics.

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But a constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost , is lost forever" John Adams Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin Franklin. Does The Patroit Act, Homeland Security and FEMA come to mind. give me a president who believes as the great men who founded this once great nation believed that the government worked for the people, not the people worked for the government. When America won her independence from England she was,'t a military power. it was her quest to be free from unjust rule that drove her to be a free nation. In fact in most of the battles of the Revolutionary War she was usually outnumbered.remember Patrick said give me liberty or give me death! it was an belief that all men were entiled to be free. martin Luther King Jr. knew this and like so many patroits gave his life toward that end. There is such a thing as being strong military to prevent your way of life from being under attack. It is another to use that power to bring other countries under your rule. Freedom is for all, not just the privilaged. after extensive study i have found almost all of the wars the US have been involved in were either started by the US or allowed to happen to get into a war. America needs to remember who benefits from a war. Certainly not the troops who fight the war. Not the families who lose loved ones. When i discover this i ws so enraged. Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. Henery Kissenger. The man who has had so much to do with our foreign policies under many presidents. America had better wake up and realize we are losing our freedoms with stroke of a pen. learn who the CIA really is and their goal and past deeds. The Trilateral Commision, The Council on Foreign Affairs,The Bilderberg Group and the former PNAC. become informed and realize their goals and which of these are members of our government. It goes much much deeper. The news media for the most part are members of the CFR. i just read where Fox News just became a member of the CFR. There are many CEOs' of many corportations who are members. Ignorance is no longer an excuse in America.We have the internet. We don't need the media that is controlled by the Whitehouse and CIA.

k.a.gardner

That was refreshing bit of GOP analysis from E.B. -- GOP primary voters are quite different from general election GOP and/or cross-over voters.

A suggestion for DiA: Give Jon Huntsman a bit more coverage (like the rest of the media) and pay less attention to Newt Gingrich's ABBA ring tone.

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