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So burning down Atlanta would help?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/687106944490991616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bad sign <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SOTU<\/a> &#8211; Obama evokes &quot;our commitment to the Rule of Law&quot; and nobody laughs<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/687095947210403840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s fun to watch members of Congress grovel before &amp; when Obama arrives for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SOTU<\/a>. Natural born bootlickers desperate for 3 seconds TV time<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/687093203535826944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SOTU<\/a> boasts of helping African nations &quot;feed their people&quot; &#8211; but U.S. Food for Peace food dumping bankrupts foreign farmeres<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/687105234372571136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SOTU<\/a> Obama scoffs at &quot;calls to carpet bomb civilians.&quot; It is far wiser to blow up wedding parties instead.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/687103966451204096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SOTU<\/a> wants to &quot;spread best practices across America&quot; &#8212; tell that to OPM, the VA, the Postal Service&#8230; Congress claps at any hokum<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/687099878753865728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama &quot;Optimistic that unarmed truth &amp; unconditional love will have final word&quot; -except for federal coverups &amp; whistleblower prosecutions?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/687109485345771520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SOTU<\/a> Obama says &quot;there are outdated regulations that need to be changed&quot; &#8211; Dude, you been prez for 7 years. &quot;Outdated&quot; is your bogus gripe<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/687099178728730625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama boasts: &quot;We spend more on our military than the next 8 nations combined&quot; &#8211; This is a good thing?!? Bankrupting ourselves is virtue?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/687101830627725312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Did Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SOTU<\/a> forget he reserved an empty seat &quot;for victims of gun violence&quot;? 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