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A complete round up with new video of an alleged sniper attack. Ugly scene in the streets - very ugly.

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[mark l.]

I'm going with the theory that a large and powerful govt may not be the the best means of providing for the people.

as a society becomes more dependent upon govt, there is invariably a point where the govt can no longer provide as it once did. classic diminishing returns...

I'm sure if one runs on a campaign of change, and does improve the govt services in the short term, sacrificing the long term viability of a country for instant gratification of his supporters, things would turn out well, ;).

Is this our future?
inevitably, yes.

a govt which takes on more responsibility is inherently going to be held more responsible, and, when it can no longer provide as promised, its citizens explode. Such a beautiful irony that the iranian govt is killing it's citizens with the guns and bullets they paid for, paying foreign contractors from their citizen's coffers, and then charging them bullet fees of 3000 dollars for the bodies of the dead.

Increase the size of our own govt? even if we had the 'pleasure' of eight years of obama, he would leave behind a govt controlling a far greater sector of our economy. This isn't even a question of whether one trusts obama. It is a question of whether one trusts every govt after the messiah.

[mark l.]

the press and the politcal class has pulled out the microscopes...
every examination is fixated and focused upon the minutest of issues, the individuals involved, and their indivudal perspectives.

in a couple of years, when they write the post mortems, I really do hope that they examine the nature of this revolution, and find the cuases to be about ideology, and not the individuals who simply played the roles.

this is a failed socialist state. they came to power under the guise of wealth redistribution, anti-elitism(royalty). after a period on nationalization for the 'sake of the people' their exports dwindled, their govt became corrupt, they got hit with unemployment and inflation, and they fell over like a house of cards.

[Reaganite Republican]

It doesn't matter what Obama says to the Mullahs now... they lost all respect for him when he started sending them fan mail. They know this smiley plastic mannequin isn't going to do anything.

Obviously Ronald Reagan’s support of Poland’s Solidarity in the dark days of the Soviet-ordered crackdown is the model here- not the preposterous straw-man argument of “what are you going to do, invade?” disingenuously presented by the do-nothing, Obamapologist left.

And isn’t this what George W Bush told you was going to happen in the Middle East in the wake of Iraq’s liberation?

Maybe that’s why Barack Obama has so little apparent interest in finishing the job in Iran… no matter how much it benefits the US and free world.

That, and the fact that he’s already piled all his chips on legitimizing this vile regime- a democratic revolution at this point would be downright embarrassing for him.

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

[Rob Crawford]

Obama shares Jimmy Carter's attitude towards dictatorships and representative governments:

"When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people."