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Mandela: a brilliant attorney who could have made his fortune like many who recently worked for Obama foresaking public service to make vast money from Wall Street firms, bailed out banks, and high priced speeches to hedge fund conventions.
Brent Budowsky: Mandela Lives! Brent Budowsky 2011
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Barack Obama, why are you foresaking those who really believed in you?
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Mandela: a brilliant attorney who could have made his fortune like many who recently worked for Obama foresaking public service to make vast money from Wall Street firms, bailed out banks, and high priced speeches to hedge fund conventions.
Brent Budowsky: Mandela Lives! Brent Budowsky 2011
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He has abandoned his life-long beliefs to hew to the neo-con and Republican ideology foresaking the conservative principles of Buckley and Goldwater.
Nineteen Is the Loneliest Number - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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This is basically how the dems won VA and how they keep PA (by getting Philly and Pittsburgh and foresaking the rest of the state).
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Under this current president, we are foresaking our role in this world and allowing tyranny to overtake the tiny tottering steps of a true popular revolution in Iran.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I will not be bullied into foresaking my spelling heritage.
A big crowd in Cedarburg, Wisconsin for McCain and Palin today. Ann Althouse 2008
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The difference is the lie inherent in the first item, lacking in the others; a foresaking of what is human.
"Is Pornography Adultery?" Ann Althouse 2008
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There are jobs there - and I will possibly be foresaking NY to relocate there and will as it is my home-state, but for those related to the auto industry and the small shops that supported parts to the auto industry, it is a depression.
If the economy is going to be the central issue, who is the best candidate? Ann Althouse 2008
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The core of the movie is libertine Ryno who is planning to marry a noble young lady, thus foresaking his pleasure-seeking ways.
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