Whatever Senator Barack Obama's dazzling abilities as an orator and campaigner are, he has demonstrated no understanding of the elemental importance of free enterprise or of the fundamental role of risk-taking in bringing about economic progress.

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He's no longer hearing voices, and he has no difficulty in understanding, Pietz said.

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The government was, he said, "a metropolitan elite which has no understanding of the rural way of life and cares even less about the people who live there".

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The country "deserves better from a government which says 'we are all in it together' but time and time again shows it has no understanding of the concept", he added.

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But we welcome all progress in the effort to bring an understanding of the fact that Assad has to go, that he has no place in Syria's history -- I mean, in Syria's future.

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