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It came in the form of the tea-baggers and the damage they did,and it`s all our bad luck(normal Americans). When I was learning and teaching lifesaving and water safety,we had very grim lessons about the struggling victim from our instructors.My teacher had 25 years of teaching lifesaving under his belt when I was teaching at the YMCA pool. After every other means of rescue is exhausted, going into the water yourself to save a drowning victim is the last resort. It`s very very dangerous. A person gasping for air is a very desperate person and will have super strength and the will to do anything to survive. They aren`t rational and aren`t thinking.It`s all instinct. It`s not uncommon for both the rescuer and the victim to go under together. The basic lesson was that when you approach a victim,you extend a shirt or stick or life-ring.You tell them to grab it and you`ll pull them in.If the start climbing up the stick toward you,you let go and try again. You never let a struggling victim touch you or grab on to you,ever. Instinctively,they grab you around the neck and will use you to get their heads out of the water and end up dunking you doing it.That`s how double tragedies happen. The lesson was to stay clear of them, even if it means they might die. This is similar, only the victim (our economy) isn`t fighting President Obama,dragging him under water. It`s republicans bystanders who are grabbing the president around his neck,trying to fight him as he swims to rescue our economy.
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"As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals" President Obama
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