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Posted on Thu, Nov. 19, 2009

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Opinion Line Extra (Nov. 19)

Now the neocons on The Eagle's editorial board are whining about President Obama's courtesy to international leaders. It's OK for George Bush to kiss and hold hands with the Saudis? OK for Eisenhower and Nixon to bow, but not Obama?

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Obama's actions on the world stage are sickening. This ACORN lawyer is so clueless that if he had been president during World War II, we'd all be speaking Japanese now. Bowing to the Japanese, Germans, Russians, Muslims, British, Chinese or anyone else when you are the president of the United States of America? I don't think so.

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Obama wasn't bowing to the Japanese emperor. He was checking out the shine on the emperor's shoes.

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Since the Nobel Peace Prize is named after the fellow who invented dynamite, I think our president can keep his prize, Afghanistan or no Afghanistan. We don't want to cause a big blowup.

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In his first 10 months in office, President Obama has set a record for international travel and diplomacy. In his first 10 months in office, President Bush set a record for most vacation days.

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Why is the American press blocking out news coverage of the Ukrainian flu? It is much worse than the H1N1 flu.

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Why do school districts feel they are the only ones entitled to what the state owes them? Cities are entitled to payments that the state is withholding, so should they sue the state as well?

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I'll start watching the Chiefs again when they start looking like the Chiefs. I'm tired of all this "throwback" stuff. Get rid of the Texas logo on the helmet and become the Kansas City Chiefs again.

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When you are paying by check in the express lane and balancing your account right there, have you ever noticed folks behind you, shooting blood through their eyes and ears?

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College is just too overwhelming for a person working a full-time job. Do you have any suggestions?

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Let's call our towns and cities "villages." We might actually get a sense of community.