The two poor actors Obama and Trump get the booby prize. What a staged event..!!! Given enough time, Obama and the stooges behind him will falsify all of his sealed records. This liar is not above forgery? Come on! Who in their right mind spends about 2 MILLION DOLLARS to stop all lawsuits from being heard demanding that his records be unsealed??? As if the Public don't have a right to know??? You will find that if his records are revealed, he was born in Kenya, he went to Pakistan with a male lover, perhaps his transgender wife, his daughters are adopted, had poor grades, was bribed into Columbia and Harvard and if it be known that he is a homosexual, the Muslims will behead him.....Laugh out loud. What will this crude generation think of next to support this dishonest man so that he can run again to destroy us further? Forgery, "Is this what our colleges and universities are producing?" Shame on them for taking your hard earned money to produce liars, frauds, forgerers, American haters, destroyers, racsists against white people,etc. Spare us Act 2. 1. Occidental College records -- Not released 2. Columbia College records -- Not released 3. Columbia Thesis paper -- "Not available" 4. Harvard College records -- Not released 5. Selective Service Registration -- Not released 6. Medical records -- Not released 7. Illinois State Senate schedule -- Not available 8. Your Illinois State Senate records -- Not available 9. Law practice client list -- Not released 10. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate -- Not released 11. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth -- Not released 12. Record of your baptism -- Not available 13. Why your wife, Michelle, can no longer practice law as an attorney? (Insurance Fraud?) 14. Why were you getting "foreign student aid" as a college student? 15. Which country's "passport" did you have when you visited Pakistan in 1981? Oh and one more thing Mr. President, I can't seem to find any articles you published as editor of the Harvard Law Review, or as a Professor at the University of Chicago. Can you explain that to me, Sir?

What about all the Tea Party Christians who love Ayn Rand. There's some fun irony!

(Also, who hears of Rand in their 60s? Isn't the whole point to appeal to teenage sociopaths? I mean I have zero beef with a 19 year old libertarian but at some point it's embarrassingly naive, like being a for real communist)

None of the characters expresses a hint of sympathetic human emotion — which is precisely the point. Rand’s novels are vehicles for a system of thought known as Objectivism. Rand developed this philosophy at the length of Tolstoy, with the intellectual pretensions of Hegel, but it can be summarized on a napkin. Reason is everything. Religion is a fraud. Selfishness is a virtue. Altruism is a crime against human excellence. Self-sacrifice is weakness. Weakness is contemptible. “The Objectivist ethics, in essence,” said Rand, “hold that man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he must not sacrifice himself to others, nor sacrifice others to himself.”

This is the best thing I've ever read. EVER.

It's becoming harder to even participate, or be exposed to, what accounts for politics in America.

I've found that my interest in local politics has grown more and more with each year. Not sure if that's me getting older or from watching public discourse just get worse and worse with each election cycle.

For me, to follow things on a macro level is a losing proposition and will drive you crazy. If you really want to exact change and have an impact, following things locally is the way to go. Even in a huge city like Atlanta, I've found even following things in the individual communities more interesting/rewarding. At the very least you can find organizations and initiatives that align with your point of view.

I guess I selfishly say fuck the rest of the country, I've got people shitting in my backyard.

Barry is too arrogant and elitist! I'm voting for Donald Trump!

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You know I've never actually read Ayn Rand, but I feel like I've got a pretty good handle on her "philosophy". Anyway, if you're a libertarian type and that's the line of thinking you subscribe to, then fine. I don't necessarily think it's dumb or immature. I just totally disagree with it.

The irony is any Christian championing Ayn Rand. Her ideology is almost diametrically opposite of core Christian teachings, and she has a lot more in common with, say, Anton LaVey (who cited her as a big influence) than anything in the New Testament. And she said herself that she thought religions were "evil", not because they're hypocritical, because violence is committed in their names, etc., but because they helped poor people.

This is my biggest problem as well... since when did helping poor people fall out of favor with a large group of Christianity? As many problems I have with the Catholic church, one saving grace I feel we have for the most part (I am a Catholic, converted from Lutheran) is that we still have some semblance of an idea of what the New Testament is really all about.

GOD HATES LUTHERAN-CONVERTED CATHOLICS.

Sincerely,
Westboro Baptist