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and your complaining here does? A call for banning them has already been posted. Email the moderators directly, the address is on the moderation policy page.

Disruptors, plain and simple, doing their best to sabotage the Open Government Initiative. No website keeps posters who are out to harm the site. I understand the admin doesn't want to ban anyone. But there are even maniacs advocating violence against the President here. Let's hope the FBI and Secret Service are monitoring.

evreport, and luvwith, I am NOT one of those advocating violence, and I have seen some of those ideas posted. Actually, I'm less afraid of them than those that want to shut them up. Let's HEAR what they are saying. Open dialog is one of the most important liberties the American people ever had. Shutting dialog up is one of the most evil forces known to man. Even our founding fathers said that liberties had to be refreshed by the blood. I can't quote that, but THEY can, and by golly, we had better listen, because a lot of what they are saying is absolutely right.

Lemme just ask you; the 1st Amendment says the People have the right to redress their government for grievances, right? WHERE and HOW do the people do that today? The ballot box is one way, but once in office, do you suppose the people are to have no say? THIS is the closest point to that there is! Ban their negative speech and you'll be inciting them to take up arms and do what Jefferson spoke about. For God's sake, Man, use your head and at least debate them. SOME of them make sense. You can tell who the idiots are by what they say. For God's sake do not ban them for in that you ban liberty.

By the way, Walt Disney had a great idea in making his cartoons. He's the inventor of the "Story Board" idea. A cork board went around the room and everyone could put up any idea they wanted. Rule number one: DO NOT TRASH ANYONE'S IDEA. Leave it up there. After a while some of the best ideas came out of what at first appeared to be stupid.

If you believe in the Constitution as the "Supreme Law of the Land" then obey it. Don't just start breaking the law. Change it but don't break it. Many of us feel the Constitution is in jeopardy, that Obama has broken it, and that the Republic is already lost.

I have also notice the tendency to just berate and rant. Well, it's just people who have been shut up so long, without any place to vent their agonies that they may get off on that wrong foot having been freed to say what's on their minds. Let them. As I said, THIS is the closest thing we have to fulfill the 1st Amendment, unless you would be so kind to tell us how to do it otherwise, and I would expect that you know because you've been successful at it and are not just blowing hot air.

Thanks, Don Wood

Maybe the FBI should investigate! It is about time.

To be eligible for the office of president, both parents MUST be citizens of the US and have no allegiance to any other country.

BHO states his father was from Kenya, which at the time of his birth makes his father a British subject. This alone disqualifies him from being or running for President of the United States as outlined in the Constitution. At this time, we have no president because he never was qualified to serve as president!

Well said Don.

ban people for having a dissenting vote? Sounds like Obama to me.

had this site been up during Bush's administration you would be whining and crying over ignorant stuff instead of something related to a Constitutional Crisis.

Unless you enjoy living in a Socialist State under Sharia law...

When I was a child, and I acted like a spoiled 5 year old and I whined and stamped my feet and DEMANDED attention because I didn’t get my way…my parents sent me to my room. And I’d holler and wail and stamp my feet until I realized that I would not be invited back to participate with the adults and have my voice heard until I changed my behavior and quit acting like an ass.

I could stamp my feet all I wanted, and nobody cared…because I was acting like a rotten little creep and no one wanted me around. When I got tired of being excluded from adult conversation I told my parents I was sorry and that I was ready to be a part of the discussion again.

We would talk and I would express my needs and they would listen. Sometimes I would get the things I’d ask for and sometimes they would explain to me why I wasn’t going to get things the way I wanted them, but they would be respectful and consider my wants.

It’s time for “birther” conservatives to be sent to their room and ignored. To be left out of the conversation by the adults until they are willing to quit making demands and screaming and stomping their feet…to be sent to their rooms until they are willing to work WITH their family members to make a pleasant, peaceful and respectful home for all of us…instead of dominating the environment with selfish, childish pettiness.

Doucebag!

luvwith, I'm rocking with laughter, now with tears as it's so sad. And you think you're not whining, stomping your feet, and pitching a fit against the ADULTS who want to restore the Constitution which claims to be "the Supreme Law of the Land?" It's people like you as law breakers who are destroying the fabric of what made America great. If you want to change the Constitution, then change it, but don't just start breaking the Supreme Law of the Land. Go take "My Little American Test." Or jump in a lake.

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dgqtv9ff_354jqfbh6fc&hl=en

Nobody in the history of this country was more successful at passing what conservatives will tell you are their key issues. He was not a failure by any stretch of the imagination if you are judging by how much of his party's agenda was achieved.

What did he do to deserve this title?

Biggest tax cuts in history

Biggest cuts in "social" programs

Biggest rollbacks of environmental protections

Most defense spending ever

Biggest rollbacks in business and development regulations

Biggest giveaways of public land for mountaintop mining and timber

Biggest crackdown on civil liberties

Biggest cuts in higher education budgets

Privatization of Military, law enforcement and prison infrastructure

Biggest cuts in Veteran's benefits

Two new ultra right Supreme Court picks

And on and on...

There is nothing this man did that was a failure...if you are judging by whether one advances his party's interests. He was able to accomplish things that conservatives have been whimpering that the dirty "Libtard" congresses of Nixon, Bush I, and Reagan blocked them from doing for 40 years.

Well, the stars lined up for them. They got everything they said would "free capitalism" from the bonds of "big government" to work it's magic.

What did we get?

Worst job creation record since Hoover

Actually LOST jobs over his entire first term

300,000 jobs for his second term

(Jimmy Carter created 10 million jobs in "worst economy in history”)

Millions more people without health insurance

Millions more collecting unemployment from the government

Millions of people’s retirement saving WIPED OUT

Homes worth half what people paid for them

Major decline of respect for US in the world

Continued terrorist attacks on US soil (Anthrax? Snipers?)

Stagnant wages in the midst of inflation in the prices of fuel, food, education and health care resulting in a NET LOSS in the standard of living of the vast majority in this country

Largest gap between rich and poor in this country since the beginning of the Great Depression

It is not George W. Bush's fault and it is not his failure. The fault for the state of this country rests firmly on the POLICIES not the PERSONALITY of GEORGE W BUSH! It is conservative, trickle down, “let business regulate itself” policies that got us where we are.

If we don't acknowledge that then we will repeat this experiment again in the next election. It is important for people to know what they are going to get when they vote for conservatives.

If you make 250,000 a year or more and you want to shut the door to prosperity behind you so you don't need to share your loot then you should vote republican.

But if you are trying to get there, and want policies that help that happen, like a good education and healthcare alternatives so you don't get trapped in a job you hate…even though you have a great idea for a business...then you need to vote for New Deal Liberalism.

New Deal Liberalism is social spending to help you succeed and government regulation to keep powerful corporate interests from rolling right over you and crushing your hopes to line their own pockets the way they did to millions of others in the last 8 years.