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Jewish World Review Nov. 28, 2013/ 25 Kislev, 5774 Obama finds a way to ruin Thanksgiving By Cal Thomas
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For some, The president wants us to discuss politics, immigration reform and Obamacare at our holiday tables. Imagine the scene. One of your kids is home from college, having been indoctrinated by liberal-leaning professors with politics mired in the '60s, and he or she begins lecturing Grandpa Joe or Aunt Marie about the necessity of visiting the Obamacare website (if they can get on) and buying health insurance. Let the bickering begin! The only thing worse than discussing politics at the dinner table is discussing religion there. In a speech during a fundraising swing through
Hasn't President Obama violated the Affordable Care Act by unilaterally offering delays and other incentives to labor unions and favored groups? As for deportations, according to the Wouldn't that make for a great debate between Uncle George, who hates the idea of lawbreakers entering the country and then demanding citizenship, and Suzie, the college junior, who thinks we shouldn't have borders anyway and her uncle should catch up with the times? That's what President Obama said in his To this president, everything is political, even
Organizing for Action (OFA), a nonprofit social welfare organization and community organizing project whose agenda closely aligns with that of Obama and the As But then, in 2008, and for far too long afterward, wasn't Obama treated by much of the media and his youthful followers as a messianic figure with powers unlike any other president or human being, a political superhero able to leap all obstacles in a single bound? Take my advice: To improve the prospects for a happier holiday season in your house, don't bring up immigration, Obamacare, or even Obama. Talk about the pilgrims; talk about the Founders. Talk about why you're thankful for an America that is strong enough to survive its presidents, especially those who turn out to be turkeys.
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JWR contributor Cal Thomas is co-author with Bob Beckel, a liberal Democratic Party strategist, of "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America". Comment by clicking here.
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