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Gatsby
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| Note that W. Bush and D. Cheney will miss the Republican Convention to monitor this situation. That is because, unlike the Democrats and their obsession with S. Palin's personal life, Republicans place their public image first. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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Spin, spin, spin.
They are doing their job. Had they not done this, you would have lambasted them for ignoring the peril in favor of the partisan convention. You people, I believe, would have damned them for whatever they did.
In the meantime, let us see how things unfold in the gulf as this storm hits... |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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Gatsby,
It becomes a game of who woulda done what. I think Obama would have done the same. And rightly so.
But c'mon, politics, public image? Are you people shocked by this?
*Edited to add the word 'people'. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Leslie Cheswyck wrote: |
| Are you shocked by this? |
Shocking, indeed. The only thing that shocks me these days are leftists, you know, "those people," and their innocence lost (again and again and again, as each new scandal or whatever appears).
How many times can "those people" lose their virginity? |
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Leslie Cheswyck
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know. Let's make an offering to the patron saint of the Perpetually Popped Cherry and find out. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| How many times can "those people" lose their virginity? |
That depends entirely on how many times the Republicans decide to screw the country. 
People are right, though. Nothing Bush and Co. do will be 'correct'. Once you ignore a major disaster to attend a birthday party, the second time around any reaction will be either 'more of the same' or an over-reaction. Once burned, twice shy. Of course the guilty party will point out how unfair it is for everyone else to point out their misbehavior. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| all you had to do was to point your Impala north for a few days. No sense of self-sufficiency. The result and curse of a socialist state. |
Yes, I tend to forget how often Republicans push 'self-reliance for the poor' and 'welfare for the rich'. |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| all you had to do was to point your Impala north for a few days. No sense of self-sufficiency. The result and curse of a socialist state. |
Yes, I tend to forget how often Republicans push 'self-reliance for the poor' and 'welfare for the rich'. |
Ummm... The rich pay the lion's share of the taxes which fund the welfare which is used by the poor. And yes, they need to be more self-reliant. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, I agree the rich should be more self-reliant and stop asking government for handouts for police to patrol their neighborhoods more than poor areas where the crime is, stop asking for government bail-outs when their corporations go bankrupt from poor management decisions. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: Gustav |
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Will it be a double feature act by GWB, when Hurricane Ike hits the Gulf Coast, around September 10?
http://openline.medialine.com/showthread.php?p=438865
'Ike' is projected to hit the same stretch of Gulf coast, by long range weather forecasters, in around 9 days time. |
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deadman
Joined: 27 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject: Re: Hurricane Gustav... |
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| MIAMI, Florida -- Hurricane Gustav barreled toward the Gulf Coast on Sunday, prompting Hurricane Katrina survivors to flee their homes again and dashing the plans of Republicans working to organize the GOP Convention in Minnesota... |
Note that W. Bush and D. Cheney will miss the Republican Convention to monitor this situation. That is because, unlike the Democrats and their obsession with S. Palin's personal life, Republicans place country first.
CNN Reports |
Are you being ironic, or making some sort of in-joke?
Satirizing your opponents position, perhaps? |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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More tastelessness on the Democratic side...
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Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler apologized Sunday for recently joking Hurricane Gustav's expected landfall on the same day as the opening of the Republican National Convention suggested God was on the Democrats' side.
A YouTube video of the comments posted by the conservative blog RedState.org and showed Fowler joking with South Carolina Rep. John Spratt about the timing of the hurricane while on a flight from the Democratic National Convention back to South Carolina. The person who filmed the conversation is not identified.
"The hurricane is going to hit New Orleans about the time they start. The timing is, at least it appears now, it will be there Monday. That just demonstrates God is on our side," Fowler said, while laughing. Fowler also told Spratt that "everything�s cool..." |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Authorities have attempted to better manage the police this time...
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- More than a week ago, at the first hint Gustav could be a threat to New Orleans, police Superintendent Warren Riley issued an unusual order -- he gave all the city's 1,485 officers paid time off to get their families to safety.
It was a lesson learned from the bitter experience of Hurricane Katrina, when dozens of officers were roundly criticized for abandoning their posts as their colleagues and the citizens they were sworn to protect were left swamped, scared and at the mercy of lawlessness.
Some were called cowards. Several dozen ended up being fired.
Many of the officers who left said the storm forced them to make an agonizing choice: Take care of strangers or take care of your family.
This time around, the department was doing all it could to make sure that officers had enough of a chance to do both, well ahead of Gustav's landfall... |
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