George Soros Regrets Supporting Obama, Eagerly Awaits President Hillary

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Several weeks ago, we presented a list of CEOs and corporations who have had the highest number of direct visits to the White House and, by implication, president Obama. As we said, these are the corporations (and CEOs) who own the White House, and the US presidency .

 

One name oddly missing was that of George Soros: the billionaire liberal donor whose fundraising efforts have been critical for the Democratic party in recent years. Which is surprising considering the substantial backing, mostly financial, Soros provided in 2007 and 2008 to a then largely unknown Senator from Illinois.

Or perhaps it is not surprising: a 2012 New Yorker profile of the relationship between the US president and one of the left's most generous donors reveals stormy clouds:

"although he still supports Obama, Soros has been disappointed by him, both politically and personally. Small slights can loom large with wealthy donors. When Soros wanted to meet with Obama in Washington to discuss global economic problems, Obama’s staff failed to respond. Eventually, they arranged not a White House interview but, rather, a low-profile, private meeting in New York, when the President was in town for other business. Soros found this back-door treatment confounding. “He feels hurt,” a Democratic donor says."

Fast forward to December 31, when in the pre-New Year's lull, the State Department released its latest dump of Hillary Clinton emails, amounting to some 5,500 pages, a move Trump promptly slammed.

And while it will take the media a few days to parse through all the emails, one already stands out: one revealing not only the relationship between Soros and Obama, but more importantly, Soros and the person who will likely be America's next president.

As the following excerpt reveals, the abovementioned George Soros told a close Hillary Clinton ally in 2012 that he regretted supporting Barack Obama over her in the 2008 primaries and praised Clinton for giving him an open door to discuss policy, according to emails released Thursday by the State Department.

As first reported by Politico, in an email to Clinton, Neera Tanden, head of the Center for American Progress, recounted a conversation she had while seated next to Soros at a dinner sponsored by the liberal major donor club called Democracy Alliance.

After Tanden informed Soros that she had worked for Clinton during her bitter 2008 campaign for the Democratic nomination against Obama, Tanden wrote that Soros “said he's been impressed that he can always call/meet with you on an issue of policy and said he hasn't met with the President ever (though I thought he had). He then said he regretted his decision in the primary - he likes to admit mistakes when he makes them and that was one of them. He then extolled his work with you from your time as First Lady on."

The full email below:

 

Going back to the NY Mag 2012 article, it added that according to a source, although "Soros might have contributed far more money to Obama if the Administration had engaged with him more intently, he said, “Part of me respects Obama for not spending more time with him. This President doesn’t want to spend a lot of time with donors. You have to admire that.”"

Actually he does, as the chart up top shows it. However, for some odd reason Obama simply did not want to spend a lot of time with George Soros.

The time of snubbing Soros, however, is at an end, as Hillary is well-known for having no qualms about spending "a lot of time with donors", especially since virtually every entity on Wall Street is a donor either directly or to the Clinton Foundation.

 

 

Which means that as Obama's time in the White House runs out, and as Hillary prepares to take over the throne (barring some Republican miracle), Soros is about to rectify his mistake from 8 years ago and make sure that the special interest puppet in charge of the U.S., is precisely the one he wanted all along.

 

Then again, perhaps it is really just Obama's fault, and behind the charming facade is a pool of unlikability. According to another email released yeserday , this time citing Germany's foreign minister circa 2009, Germany's Angela Merkel despised the "Obama phenomenon:"

Sydney Blumenthal sent Clinton a memo on Sept. 30, 2009 with background information on John Kornblum, who was at the time taking over as Germany’s foreign minister. “Kornblum strongly suggests you try to develop your personal relationship with Merkel as you can,” Blumenthal writes.

 

“He says she dislikes the atmospherics surrounding the Obama phenomenon, that it’s contrary to her whole idea of politics and how to conduct oneself in general. She would welcome a more conversational relationship with you.

Eight years later, all of America is eager to move on from the "Obama phenomenon."  The problem is that the "Hillary phenomenon" is on deck.

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We conclude with a few lines from Ludwig von Mises who 80 years ago described and previewed this twisted, corrupted and politicized mutant that passes for modern "capitalism" in his essay "The Myth of the Failure Of Capitalism", which was published shortly before the coming of Adolf Hitler to power:

“In the interventionist state it is no longer of crucial importance for the success of an enterprise that the business should be managed in a way that it satisfies the demands of consumers in the best and least costly manner.

 

“It is far more important that one has ‘good relationships’ with the political authorities so that the interventions work to the advantage and not the disadvantage of the enterprise. A few marks’ more tariff protection for the products of the enterprise and a few marks’ less tariff for the raw materials used in the manufacturing process can be of far more benefit to the enterprise than the greatest care in managing the business.

 

“No matter how well an enterprise may be managed, it will fail if it does not know how to protect its interests in the drawing up of the custom rates, in the negotiations before the arbitration boards, and with the cartel authorities. To have ‘connections’ becomes more important that to produce well and cheaply.

 

So the leadership positions within the enterprises are no longer achieved by men who understand how to organize companies and to direct production in the way the market situation demands, but by men who are well thought of ‘above’ and ‘below,’ men who understand how to get along well with the press and all the political parties, especially with the radicals, so that they and their company give no offense. It is that class of general directors that negotiate far more often with state functionaries and party leaders than with those from whom they buy or to whom they sell.

 

“Since it is a question of obtaining political favors for these enterprises, their directors must repay the politicians with favors. In recent years, there have been relatively few large enterprises that have not had to spend very considerable sums for various undertakings in spite of it being clear from the start that they would yield no profit. But in spite of the expected loss it had to be done for political reasons. Let us not even mention contributions for purposes unrelated to business – for campaign funds, public welfare organizations, and the like.

 

“Forces are becoming more and more generally accepted that aim at making the direction of large banks, industrial concerns, and stock corporations independent of the shareholders . . . The directors of large enterprises nowadays no longer think they need to give consideration to the interests of the shareholders, since they feel themselves thoroughly supported by the state and that they have interventionist public opinion behind them.

 

“In those countries in which statism has most fully gained control . . . they manage the affairs of their corporations with about as little concern for the firm’s profitability as do the directors of public enterprises. The result is ruin.

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Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:34 | 6985309 Yes We Can. But...
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Supporting Cankles will be his next regret.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:41 | 6985339 philipat
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And why doesn't he make his next Billions by shorting USD to accelerate the collapse, so we can all get it over with?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:44 | 6985351 Looney
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<<<  Trump for President!

<<<  Trump for President!

Looney   ;-)

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:48 | 6985366 _ConanTheLibert...
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<<< LOL

<<< LOL

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:18 | 6985479 Wulfkind
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One question to ask yourselves before you vote.  Will he abolish the Fed ?  

The anwer is no.   So fuck him.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:30 | 6985682 Chupacabra-322
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The real question (s) everyone should be asking themselves is:

Why do humans continue to tolerate the open Psychopathic Criminality of these Scum Fucks?

And, why do we continue to let these Criminal Psychopaths Govern over us like War Loards?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:43 | 6985709 38BWD22
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Trump: the anti-Soros.  Soros hates Trump, likes Hillary.

That makes it easy!  Trump.

Trump/Cruz 2016.  Cruz will help him win certain states and bring in Hispanic voters.  LEGAL Hispanic voters!

*   *   *

Chupacabra-322

If you do not vote, you ACCEPT that inferiors will govern, in fact you encourage it (I do not have ancient Greek Plato's quotation handy).  Vote, every little bit helps.  

Else: Revolt for real.  

Pick one...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:59 | 6985776 Chupacabra-322
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Revolt!

There's a deep cleansing & purge of Pure Evil Criminal Psychopaths that needs to occur. If not, the Chaos, mayhem & bedlam will continue at the hands of these Lucerferians.

Arrest, Tri, convict & Execute. There's no other option. Another Pure Evil Crimjnal Psychopaths is waiting in the wings to be "Selected" by these same Pure Evil Criminal Psychopaths. The cycle must be broken & come to an end.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 15:31 | 6986059 weburke
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soros must think the elites rule the afterlife

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 14:19 | 6985836 Baby Bladeface
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...and if you do vote, you APPROVE that inferiors will govern.

Vote, every little bit helps politicians and their masters helps.

And by the way third is choice can pick: spectacle of system collapse take entertainment from and stay out of way when it falls, landing on you to prevent.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 14:22 | 6985847 monk27
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That picture of those two creeps holding hands is all the argument you'll ever need to keep Hitlery out of office for dear life...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 14:49 | 6985942 Tarshatha
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I regret soros and killary breathing good air.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 15:26 | 6986047 Wulfkind
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Voting doesn't mean shit.  I don't vote because I dissaprove of the whole system including the illusion you have a choice.

 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 15:28 | 6986050 monk27
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Well then, until the "revolution" starts again, you opinion doesn't matter much, does it now ?!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 15:57 | 6986128 logicalman
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If you vote, you are complicit in the crimes of government.

By the way, do you think your opinion matters?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 16:25 | 6986196 monk27
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More than yours anyway... I vote. Trump, that is...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 16:40 | 6986251 logicalman
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If we both have a single vote, how would yours be more valuable than mine?

 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 17:40 | 6986408 monk27
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Simple ! Since you choose not to vote, mine wins by default... :)

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 18:30 | 6986544 logicalman
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See Joe Stalin on voting.

See also Deibold.

I'm sure you won't get fooled again.

 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 18:34 | 6986559 monk27
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If you choose to do nothing, don't complain ! Oh, and it's Diebold actually...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 17:05 | 6986319 Wulfkind
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"Well then, until the "revolution" starts again, you opinion doesn't matter much, does it now ?!"

Exactly right.  My opnion doesn't matter much which is why I don't vote.  And neither will it matter after your fantasy revolution.  But your opinion doesn't matter either.  Which is why you post here on ZeroHedge like all the others.  It's the only place that will afford you some opportunity for an "upvote".  But in the world of bought and paid for politics, your opinion and my opinion matters not.

By the way how's your revolution coming fuckwit ?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 17:46 | 6986418 monk27
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Learn to be polite, or FOAD ! There is no "revolution" happening here anytime soon, so all we can do is vote, or not. You choose not to vote and that's fine, but then don't bitch when others make decisions for you...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:36 | 6987002 East Indian
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because humans have always been 'governed' by psychopath criminals. It is not accidental that all the great 'conquerors' and historical heroes made poor husbands and bad fathers. The mindset needed to 'rise' to the top of the scum pond is not the one full of milk of human kindness. Read the history of the Mughal emperors of India; they killed their brothers and half-brothers, blinded their potential rivals (uncles and nieces), never allowed their sisters to marry (to prevent more rival from being born), and all for what? For the 'right' to exploit the millions of poor peasants. After reading that, and the history of the Chinese First Emperor and his queen, you would never, ever, like a big leader.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 08:48 | 6987737 MasterControl
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Because subsidies.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:55 | 6985759 THE SOLUTION IS...
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Any politician that does not vow to remove the power of national currency creation from a private entity is a Zionist whore working for Rothschild debt tokens. It really is that simple.

What can any politician do to effect change for the better of his citizens if he does not have control of his currency? None. Hitler issued Mefo Bills and thus created his currency from nothing without a usury middle man...hence Germany recovered to near full employment within 5 years. It is so simple. Those who do not understand the 6% dividend Fed member banks receive from the seigniorage that the "Federal" "Reserve" skims every year from the American people are hopelessly enslaved. Your Zionist master's literally have infinite money.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 16:03 | 6986133 _ConanTheLibert...
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Hey, patience man patience. First things first.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 14:33 | 6985894 Yes We Can. But...
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Plus, Trump was recently blessed with the reverse-endorsement of L. Farrakhan.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 15:36 | 6986077 robertsgt40
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With good cause, Russia has banned Soros for life. But then the Russians play chess as the US  plays Chinese checkers. 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 20:17 | 6986832 Chuck Walla
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"If I had a dollar for every woman who found me unattractive, soon enough they would find me attractive."

Georgi Soros

FORWARD NWO GARGOYLES!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:56 | 6985495 Jeffersonian Liberal
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Here is why the left is braindead (you'll see this especially in the politics of US cities where this cycle is more acute and therefore more noticeable):

Politician X (mayor, governor, president) was elected to make the country or district an even bigger socialist/welfare state. The leftists/liberals/socialists supported him or her. He or she promised them lots of change to the left and that everything would be great.

*****

At the end of Politician X's tenure, and after having pushed through many leftist policies, even those libs and leftists that voted for Politician X can point to a list of issues that have gotten worse under Politician X's tenure and with his or her policies.

They are dumbstruck They don't know what happened. They are disappointed.

They blame Politician X.

But do they ever stop to think that maybe the harm done and their coming short of Utopian euphoria is due to the ideology they support? Never!

They can only ask, "OK. That didn't work. What OTHER leftist/liberal/socialist politician can we elect to get the change we want?"

So along comes Politician Y. He or she campaigns on making the country or district an even bigger socialist/welfare state. The leftists/liberals/socialists support him or her. He or she promises them lots of change to the left and that everything will be great.

*****

At the end of Politician Y's tenure, and after having pushed through many leftist policies, even those libs and leftists that voted for Politician Y can point to a list of issues that have gotten worse under Politician Y's tenure and with his or her policies.

They are dumbstruck They don't know what happened. They are disappointed.

They blame Politician Y.

But do they ever stop to think that maybe the harm done and their coming short of Utopian euphoria is due to the ideology they support? Never!

They can only ask, "OK. That didn't work. What OTHER leftist/liberal/socialist politician can we elect to get the change we want?"

*****

This cycle continues ad infinitum.

*****

When their opponents continually point to their failures and suggest adopting policies that have been proven to be successful (but that are not leftist by ideology), the leftists/liberals/socialists have no reasonable counter-argument, so they laugh at their opponents and call them the stupid ones, the ones stuck in the old way of thinking.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:08 | 6985619 Omen IV
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Nonsense!

 

there is no difference within the Clinton / Bush Establishment Party

there was only one guy in 60 years who tried to change the trajectory and he was Assassinated for his actions

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:18 | 6985638 Never One Roach
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Looks like both parties colluded to destroy the economy. Hussein/Reed/Peglosi on one side and uselss Boner on the other with the middle class squeezed into oblivion.  Stores are desperate and many are open 24/7 knowing they can hire very cheap labor and try to unload some of the China-freighter loads of junk:

 

Surprisingly, most major stores are going to be open during their normal hours on New Year’s Day. This includes Target, Best Buy, Macy’sBig Lots, KMart, Sears, and JC Penney. Even the kiddos can get excited to spend some Xmas money, because Toys R Us is open as well! Regular store hours also means that the 24-hour stores like Walgreens, Walmart, CVS, and Rite Aid will stick to their all day, all night schedule. Plus, New Year’s Day is a big day for sales, so after celebrating the new year, you may also be celebrating some major bargains!

 

http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/12/31/stores-open-new-years-day-2016-where...

 

In former times when there was a thriving USA economy, they couldn't pay people enough to work on New years Day. Now both Americans and stores are desperate as they both sink downward under the present Fed/Wall Street/DC regime.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 14:38 | 6985907 Jeffersonian Liberal
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Do you know what is nonsense?

Stating that the only way to analyze current events is through the prism of "there is no difference between the parties, thus nothing else matters."

I said nothing about Clinton/Bush, red blue.

I analyzed the thinking of most liberals (sheep) who can only see through the prism of their own brainwashing.

Show me a city in the US that has been under leftists/DNC control for a decade or two, that is turning into a sewer, and whose voting populace has tried voting into power someone with a non-socialist agenda.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:27 | 6985672 Normalcy Bias
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Exactly. This lying sack of shit knows how unpopular Obama is, so he's washing his hands and moving on to the next turd.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:41 | 6985718 38BWD22
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Nicely written.  Truth there.

Wish I could give 10 greens...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:43 | 6985724 Chris Dakota
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Oh yeah, NOW he regrets then moves to the next devil.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 18:46 | 6986593 RiverRoad
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It's time to give Soros something to really be "sore" about.  How about a new Tesla?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:35 | 6985316 LawsofPhysics
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Irrelevant.  The laws of physics and Nature are what they and, barring a real world war, all the major cities in North America will resemble all the major cities in South America soon enough. It is in fact inevitable.

Happy New Year, hedge accordingly!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:41 | 6985337 Berspankme
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Many already do, just the gated communities are a little bigger. You still can't get in

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:52 | 6985743 LawsofPhysics
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"You still can't get in"  --  LOL!  Right, because you know what real estate assets I own or productive capital I control...

Don't be such a douche, we have no "gates" anywhere near one of our beach houses in Newport.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 14:49 | 6985318 Colonel Klink
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Dear George,

Please give everyone on the planet a gift for 2016, DIE!

-everyone on the planet

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:37 | 6985320 silverer
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Oboy.  It just gets better and better.  Excuse me while I go heave...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:49 | 6985371 _ConanTheLibert...
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... a wank?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:37 | 6985321 Temporalist
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I regret drinking that poison...maybe shooting myself in the head will make things better?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:28 | 6985512 NotApplicable
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IMO, Soros supported Obummer because he didn't think Hitlery could beat kid Romney, while he saw the masses flocking to swoon over the magic negro. So... he shifted to the winning bandwagon.

He's doing the same thing today, but it's a no-brainer as to who will get the nomination.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 14:53 | 6985953 True Blue
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First off, let's go back to December 2007.

From the start of the 'race' The Zero had more campaign funds than any other two Dem. candidates put together -including Hitlery.

Opposing them was a terrible lineup -and Ron Paul. Ron Paul 'won' every debate among the Repubs, although the media was in a frenzy to downplay this fact, resorting to things like Chris "tingles" Matthew saying how effective Paul's supporters were at 'fixing' the poll results. 

Meanwhile, Super Tuesday 2008, as the Dem results came in, the economy began its headlong plunge.

Then, something odd happened. In the midst of campaigning, both Hitlery and the Zero suddenly took a full week off from the campaign trail. Both suddenly had an overwhelming desire to visit Canada. Specifically Toronto Canada; where Both attended the meeting of a very select group of oligarchs who named their petty little gathering after the first hotel it had been held in -back at the end of WWII- the Bilderbergs.

The day after the Bilderberg group meeting broke up; suddenly Hitlery decides to drop out of the campaign, accepting her newly annointed role as the Dauphin of the Zero.

In the end, the candidate selected to run against the Zero was the unelectable puppet Lettuce Head McTraitor McCain (the equally unelectable Romney was the 2012 selection.)

Hope that helps.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 20:19 | 6986833 KuriousKat
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Soros handpicked him before he was even Senator nurtured him all the way to the WH

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:37 | 6985325 nmewn
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Well, knock me over with a feather. Who could have foreseen this in Obama's last year in office?!

Fucking Forward! into the abyss.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 11:46 | 6985356 G.O.O.D
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Aroar Har!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:01 | 6985410 Cangaroo.TNT
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No kidding.  I should have never taken Susie to homecoming when I really wanted to take you, Debbie.  Now, would you mind giving me a blowjob in the orchestra pit before my mom picks me up?

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