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True Patriots

NewJAl Wrote: Oct 09, 2012 8:32 AM
Spend, spend, spend, it matters not how. Michelle has 22 assistants and takes an entourage. Bill Ayres, way back when he was planting bombs, wrote his little book, explaining how to break the bank, here. Impoverish us in small and big ways until Marxism or Socialism seems better than the crippled Capitalist system. We can be like Greece or Venezuela. And Ayres was secure, financially, because of his family Capitalist endeavors. Gotta love it. I wish they would point out, on 'TheView' that Obama got his political start in Ayers living room, and when asked about him, the man whose surrogates are calling Romney a liar said Ayres was just some guy in the neighborhood. Read Sowell, today, for a whopper from Obama that is pure evil.
The third definition of "patriot" in the Oxford English Dictionary is "A person actively opposing enemy forces occupying his or her country; a member of a resistance movement, a freedom fighter. Originally used of those who opposed and fought the British in the American War of Independence."

The term first was used in the U.S. by Benjamin Franklin in a 1773 letter. It referred to people who stood in opposition of those pledged to the British Crown -- the Tories aka loyalists.

On Oct. 7, 1780, American patriots prevailed against loyalists in the Carolinas and won their first Southern battle. The Battle of...

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