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	<title>Comments on: Debate Day Draws Near: Raising The Stakes, Lowering Expectations (The Note)</title>
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		<title>By: A.Yeshuratnam</title>
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		<dc:creator>A.Yeshuratnam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>During the debate will Romney raise the issue of building mosques with taxpayWhile Christian churches are being destroyed on a near daily basis in Muslim countries throughout the world, the Obama administration is investing millions of dollars to rebuild overseas Islamic mosques and minarets.
According to the State Department, the mosque restoration program, first reported on back in 2010, is a “cultural preservation” project designed to “fight Islamic extremism by building relationships with Islamic leaders.”
To that end, the State Department, through the US Agency for International Development, is spending millions to preserve mosques and minarets in 27 different Islamic countries.In 2010, the State Department provided monetary support for saving three mosques on Zanzibar Island off the coast of Tanzania, mosques which included the 900-year-old Kizimkazi mosque, considered one of the oldest Islamic buildings on the coast of East Africa.
That generous American donation was repaid in July 2012 when Muslim mobs, shouting, “Away with the church — we do not want infidels to spoil our community, especially our children,” burned down three Christian churches on Zanzibar Island.
In 2011 the State Department provided funds to restore the 15th century Gobarau Minaret in Katsina State in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north, an area which has become a virtual killing field for Christians at the hands of Muslim militants, led by the al-Qaeda-linked terror group Boko Haram.
Since 2009 over 288 Christian churches in Nigeria have been burned, thousands of Christian-owned homes destroyed, and over 2,000 Christians killed, including in July 2012 when fifty members of a northern Nigerian church were burned to death in their pastor’s house.
Finally, the State Department provided taxpayer funds to restore the 18th century Golden Mosque in Lahore, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, an area which happened to be the scene of an assault on a Christian colony in July 2009 by thousands of Muslims who set fire to over 50 houses and two churches, burning to death eight people, including a seven-year-old child.

ers money?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During the debate will Romney raise the issue of building mosques with taxpayWhile Christian churches are being destroyed on a near daily basis in Muslim countries throughout the world, the Obama administration is investing millions of dollars to rebuild overseas Islamic mosques and minarets.<br />
According to the State Department, the mosque restoration program, first reported on back in 2010, is a “cultural preservation” project designed to “fight Islamic extremism by building relationships with Islamic leaders.”<br />
To that end, the State Department, through the US Agency for International Development, is spending millions to preserve mosques and minarets in 27 different Islamic countries.In 2010, the State Department provided monetary support for saving three mosques on Zanzibar Island off the coast of Tanzania, mosques which included the 900-year-old Kizimkazi mosque, considered one of the oldest Islamic buildings on the coast of East Africa.<br />
That generous American donation was repaid in July 2012 when Muslim mobs, shouting, “Away with the church — we do not want infidels to spoil our community, especially our children,” burned down three Christian churches on Zanzibar Island.<br />
In 2011 the State Department provided funds to restore the 15th century Gobarau Minaret in Katsina State in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north, an area which has become a virtual killing field for Christians at the hands of Muslim militants, led by the al-Qaeda-linked terror group Boko Haram.<br />
Since 2009 over 288 Christian churches in Nigeria have been burned, thousands of Christian-owned homes destroyed, and over 2,000 Christians killed, including in July 2012 when fifty members of a northern Nigerian church were burned to death in their pastor’s house.<br />
Finally, the State Department provided taxpayer funds to restore the 18th century Golden Mosque in Lahore, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, an area which happened to be the scene of an assault on a Christian colony in July 2009 by thousands of Muslims who set fire to over 50 houses and two churches, burning to death eight people, including a seven-year-old child.</p>
<p>ers money?</p>
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		<title>By: emerald_sparks</title>
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		<dc:creator>emerald_sparks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;This isn’t about Romney. This election is about whether or not Obama deserves a second term. Whether his policies either helped or hurt us. Are we better off today than we were four years ago. There is only one clear answer, and it is a NO. Obama has to go.&quot;
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ROFL!!! Things have improved, and this election do we want to forward or back to Bush extra strength with Romney, middle class is buying his dung.  Been there done that.  The last administration couldn&#039;t balance a budget with a bilateral republican house, and posters claim there was full employment, just get sadder and sadder with your side, Aiken and your ilk have no place in our emerging demographic society.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;This isn’t about Romney. This election is about whether or not Obama deserves a second term. Whether his policies either helped or hurt us. Are we better off today than we were four years ago. There is only one clear answer, and it is a NO. Obama has to go.&#8221;<br />
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<p>ROFL!!! Things have improved, and this election do we want to forward or back to Bush extra strength with Romney, middle class is buying his dung.  Been there done that.  The last administration couldn&#8217;t balance a budget with a bilateral republican house, and posters claim there was full employment, just get sadder and sadder with your side, Aiken and your ilk have no place in our emerging demographic society.</p>
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		<title>By: theloyalopposition</title>
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		<dc:creator>theloyalopposition</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama knew it was Al Qaeda attacking the Libyan Embassy within 24 hours... why did he continue to purposely LIE about the video for several more days??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama knew it was Al Qaeda attacking the Libyan Embassy within 24 hours&#8230; why did he continue to purposely LIE about the video for several more days??</p>
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		<title>By: Runforit</title>
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		<dc:creator>Runforit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;We have a sleeper cell in the WhiteHouse.&quot;
Not according to an ex-BBC reporter - It&#039;s not only Obama!  He can prove leaders all over the world are actually shape shifting lizard aliens.  It&#039;s true.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;We have a sleeper cell in the WhiteHouse.&#8221;<br />
Not according to an ex-BBC reporter &#8211; It&#8217;s not only Obama!  He can prove leaders all over the world are actually shape shifting lizard aliens.  It&#8217;s true.</p>
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		<title>By: redryder</title>
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		<dc:creator>redryder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you consider for a moment that Obama is a muslim, everything comes into focus.  His excusing the murder of the ambassador on a stupid film, his abondoning Israel and telling them to return to their indefensible 1967 borders, his refusal to meet with Netanyahu, his support of the muslim brotherhood in Egypt, his war on the Catholic church.  Wake up America.  We have a sleeper cell in the WhiteHouse.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you consider for a moment that Obama is a muslim, everything comes into focus.  His excusing the murder of the ambassador on a stupid film, his abondoning Israel and telling them to return to their indefensible 1967 borders, his refusal to meet with Netanyahu, his support of the muslim brotherhood in Egypt, his war on the Catholic church.  Wake up America.  We have a sleeper cell in the WhiteHouse.</p>
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		<title>By: FactCheck</title>
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		<dc:creator>FactCheck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Larry: They anticipated your war on business and acted accordingly. Those that didn’t are probably no longer in business.
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I beg of you, please finish Junior High School.  Maybe then, you will have enough intelligence to have a conversation with an adult.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Larry: They anticipated your war on business and acted accordingly. Those that didn’t are probably no longer in business.<br />
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<p>I beg of you, please finish Junior High School.  Maybe then, you will have enough intelligence to have a conversation with an adult.</p>
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		<title>By: Perplexed</title>
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		<dc:creator>Perplexed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Normally with the bad economic metrics that we have and the foreign policy problems in the middle east, the burden would be on obama to convince us that he should be re-elected.  However, obama is a special privilege guy that enjoys deferential treatment by the majority to prove that they are not racists so the standard rule does not apply.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Normally with the bad economic metrics that we have and the foreign policy problems in the middle east, the burden would be on obama to convince us that he should be re-elected.  However, obama is a special privilege guy that enjoys deferential treatment by the majority to prove that they are not racists so the standard rule does not apply.</p>
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		<title>By: electpatriots</title>
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		<dc:creator>electpatriots</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What would be very interesting and the ultimate test of Obama&#039;s supposed leadership skills, is if the Senate changes hands to Republican majority.  It will be one executive order after another.  All will be subject to scrutiny like never before.  You want to talk about gridlock.  Re-elect Obama and see what happens.  Better yet: Elect Gov. Romney to get a turnaround specialist and a tested political leader in the Oval Office.  Enough already with the community organize/law professor and his people, none of which apprarently ever did anything meaningful in the private sector.  Shrink government!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What would be very interesting and the ultimate test of Obama&#8217;s supposed leadership skills, is if the Senate changes hands to Republican majority.  It will be one executive order after another.  All will be subject to scrutiny like never before.  You want to talk about gridlock.  Re-elect Obama and see what happens.  Better yet: Elect Gov. Romney to get a turnaround specialist and a tested political leader in the Oval Office.  Enough already with the community organize/law professor and his people, none of which apprarently ever did anything meaningful in the private sector.  Shrink government!</p>
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		<title>By: badBO</title>
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		<dc:creator>badBO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>if obama has got this election in the bag...then what are all the left-siders doing spending time making comments on the news stories on ABC, CBS, NBC, USAtoday, Huffpost, etc etc etc???

just wondering...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if obama has got this election in the bag&#8230;then what are all the left-siders doing spending time making comments on the news stories on ABC, CBS, NBC, USAtoday, Huffpost, etc etc etc???</p>
<p>just wondering&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: theloyalopposition</title>
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		<dc:creator>theloyalopposition</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama on Letterman last week said the national debt was $10 Trillion!! -- How out-of-touch is THAT!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama on Letterman last week said the national debt was $10 Trillion!! &#8212; How out-of-touch is THAT!!!!</p>
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