Ali- in a speech the other day, Obama stated in one of his socialistic slanted speeches something to the effect "there comes a time when you've probably earned enuff ".

If you are a great public speaker and someone wants to hire you to give a lecture or speech, that's one thing, but when you sell tax-deductible cruise ship seminars to Somalia then you become a guru-pirate!

Would I ever give up my right to bear arms, right after I give up my right to vote and free speech.

Remember Bush's "Free Speech Zones"???

I enjoyed reading his speech from 2002.

"calls" so you could shoot for a goal of 25 new conversations per week, give your card to everyone, have your elevator speech, and when you approach someone to give them a card, say like in the grocery store or something, you could say "Excuse me would you be affended if I gave you my business card", ... that is going to allow them to let down their defenses, and more than likely open up communication.

His accomplishment in attaining the Presidency of the United States by a winning the poular election and becoming the first black president cannot be minimized, yet with the exception of his speech to the NAACP, where he proclaimed that "Having a Black President means there are no more excuses," he has repeatedly downplayed and not addressed issues of race with the exeption of totally screwing up the Professor Gates debacle.IMO, he has the greatest opportunity ever, without a single tax and spend dollar, to realize MLK's ""I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

I listened to him talk and immediately drew on the energy that he emitted in his speech.

Tod,Funny :DBut on a more serious note, we have had a few pols come visit my day job and give a brief speech followed by Q&A session; they don't like the Q's I ask (and I am one of the few in the crowd of several hundred who will actually ask something challenging to put them on the spot) :wink:So the pols don't want me around them.

Originally posted by Eric Michaels:Anyone is free to give up their citizenship and go somewhere else if you think you can no longer be successful in the US because your marginal rate goes up 3%.Yeap…and we are also allowed to exercise free speech, press, etc. and call out people that want the government to take from the productive sector of society and give what they take away to others.