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I voted you up for your comment on the First Lady, sorry to see you have joined the birther ranks though, after all they are the bigoted racists here.

I sure hope that they didn't say she looks like a anorexic gorilla that walks like a 60 year old cowboy dressed in Hanna Montana clothes...they better not have said that...that would make me mad.

Who cares what she was called by the republican. The demoncrats and the loony media continually debase conservatives every day and threaten them. So get off your high horse and start going after the demoncrats.

She' pretty hot,and those toned arms ,Oh MANDINGO.I hear they installed a brass pole in THE ONES bedroom and the first time MRS. ONE danced around it,a sworm of bi-planes started flying around.

She is fair game, just as the left says Sarah Palin and her daughter are fair game. Anyone can say anything they want about her and that is just fine because until there is an outcry of bashing republican women then there is no sympathy for Michelle.

She does wear some of the most atrocious outfits doesn't she? hehehehe

Barrack must be scared, stupid or both because he doesn't tell her how damn ugly she dresses. Goodwill would ask her to change before letting her shop in their stores.

$500 sneakers to watch the homeless get fed.That's sooooo classy.She's acts like a saint but looks like taint.

ya but she is soooo UGLY and bitter looking.

If I was Barrack, I would kick Michelle to the dog house(appropriately named for her)then shave the dog and sleep with it...I would bet it smells better.

Every time I see her picture I feel the need to spray some air freshener and then want to poke my eyes with a burning stick...ugh.

I hear Michelle is going to have a sex change operation.It will be a short procedure as it only involves removing her earrings.

LOL...I needed that one this morning...the joke that is. LOL

I consider Michell along the same lines as Sarah Jessica Parker someone in the media proclaimed her hot and then perpetuated the rumor until people started agreeing. the problem is Sarah Jessica Parker is not pretty she is not attractive at all and nether is Obamas wife.

http://www.lovemyprices.com/FR/michelle_fugly.jpg

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/obama/michelle-obama-fist-salute.jpg

http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/83/400x400bd/83420_michelle-obama-in-a-jason-wu-gown-on-at-the-neighborhood-inauguration-ball.jpg

http://patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/michelle_obama.jpg

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/wp-content/gallery/random/michelle-obama-teenager1.jpg

http://www.thewe.cc/thewei/_/images11/us_rich_scandal/barack_michelle_obama.jpe

http://smartsexyrichcrazy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/radarmichelleobama.jpg

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/wp-content/gallery/random/mo_ugly.jpg

Democracy:

A government of the masses.

Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.

Results in mobocracy.

Attitude toward property is comunistic-negating property rights.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate. whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.

Results in demagogism license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success.

A certain Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries ago, had this to say about Democracy: " A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship."

A democracy is majority rule and is destructive of liberty because there is no law to prevent the majority from trampling on individual rights. Whatever the majority says goes! A lynch mob is an example of pure democracy in action. There is only one dissenting vote, and that is cast by the person at the end of the rope.

Republic:

Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.

Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.

Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.

A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.

Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.

Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.

A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of:

an executive and

a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create

a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize

certain inherent individual rights.

Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy.

Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic."

A republic is a government of law under a Constitution. The Constitution holds the government in check and prevents the majority (acting through their government) from violating the rights of the individual. Under this system of government a lynch mob is illegal. The suspected criminal cannot be denied his right to a fair trial even if a majority of the citizenry demands otherwise.

Difference between Democracy and Republic, in brief:

Democracy:

a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority.

b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences

Republic

a: a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government.

b: a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law.

Democracy and Republic are often taken as one of the same thing, but there is a fundamental difference. Whilst in both cases the government is elected by the people, in Democracy the majority rules according to their whims, whilst in the Republic the Government rule according to law. This law is framed in the Constitution to limit the power of Government and ensuring some rights and protection to Minorities and individuals.

The difference between Republic and Righteous Republic is that in the Republic the Government rules according to the law set up by men, in the Righteous Republic the law is the Law of God. Only in the Righteous Republic it can truly be said "One nation under God" for it is governed under commandments of the only One True God and there is no pluralism of religions.

Autocracy declares the divine right of kings; its authority can not be questioned; its powers are arbitrarily or unjustly administered.

Mobocracy: 1. Political control by a mob. 2. The mass of common people as the source of political control.