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Date: Oct 14, 2013

governing by blackmail

greenshield · Senior Member

Sir, Have you ever considered that politics and all the players are just like watching TV professional wrestling? Some people thing the wrestlers are really fighting and do not realize that it is a show just for your "entertainment". All that shouting and crazy wrestling moves to create the illusion of doing battle.

In this corner we have "The Rock" and in that corner we have "Stone Cold Steve Austin" or some other player like "The Undertaker".

These are actors in front of the TV cameras with you as the audience. Sometimes they bleed. Sometimes people get hurt. But its still a show for your benefit. As long as you keep watching and listening the show will go on.

Date: Oct 16, 2013

WRONG, WRONG, WRONG........First of all not only is your article this past Sunday 10/13 outrageous and one sided but what makes u believe the republicans are at fault here when your so called president will not even sit down and negotiate he refuses, never has there ever been a president during a shut down REFUSE to negotiate some kind of deal (the majority of Americans will not only disagree with you with you but no one can even name one president that has gone through a shutdown and not worked it out) the president will not bend....it is either his way or no way that is your typical dictator ways.

When the average citizen has to pay these higher medical bills who will help out the citizens then (not obama) when I do not have the money to pay my bills can I run to my boss and ask for more money to pay my bills (raise the debt ceiling) thanks to Mr. dictator he will spend all our money and make us dependent on the Europeans or even worse the arabs, but since he is a muslim we see where he is going.

I believe you should re track your ridiculous one sided statement before you will feel more like an idiot when the government comes back.

Ex-huyton · Senior Member

Obama is your elected representative, not a dictator. He was voted in, so his decisions and his policies have to be respected; otherwise, why have a president? In any case this decision of his isn't so outrageous for he is trying to set in place a fair system of medical care so that not only the rich are looked after. He had to stick to his guns to show up his Republican enemies' feet of clay and so punish them for their crazy obstinacy.

greenshield · Senior Member

Hello my friend,

You obviously do not know American law. The law of the land in America is the Constitution. In that document the rights of the people are guranteed. Obama, and that is not his real name, has consistently violated the Constitution.

In America the people are supposed to have a balance of power between the three branches of government: The Executive (the President), the Legislature (the Congress) and the Supreme Court. Almost on every occasion the President has chosen to act as if he were the ruler and not on an equal footing to the other branches.

America is a republic. Not a democracy. A republic is a form of government where the government is subserviant to the will of the people. Not the other way around. The people are sovereign.

This form of government was decided on after revolting against the outrageous rules of the King of England. The founders wanted to be sure that the American people would never be ruled again by a head of state.

The president has no right to tell anyone what to do although he may act like it.