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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Politics / News Happy Buuurthday, Mister President

Posted by Mark Asch on Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:16 PM

49 years ago today, a group of Communist sleeper agents and radical academics planted the seeds of a vast conspiracy which would eventually lead to the election of a Kenyan-born Muslim to President of the United States, and the realization of the leftist dreams he had been long groomed to fulfill, namely a market-based overhaul of some of the American healthcare system's many inequalities.

Happy birthday, Barack Hussein Obama II!

Tags: Obama, Birthers, Posts We Maybe Should Have Done Last Year

        
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Politics / News Happy Buuurthday, Mister President

Posted by Mark Asch on Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:16 PM

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