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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

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