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dabo 26088 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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04-14-14, 07:04 PM (EST)
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5. "about a man named Jeb..." |
http://immigration.about.com/b/2014/04/14/jeb-bush-defends-his-comments-about-unauthorized-immigrants.htmIt seems there was one adult in the room and he said, "The way I look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn't come legally ... and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work, to be able to provide for their family, yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony. It's an act of love, it's an act of commitment to your family." An actual statement of reality. From a Bush no less. Of course, then all the snarling dogs leapt on him and dug in trying to rip him to pieces.
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04-15-14, 01:44 PM (EST)
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12. "RE: about a man named Jeb..." |
LAST EDITED ON 04-15-14 AT 01:55 PM (EST)Well, if the talking heads have it right that Sec. Clinton is the annointed one for the Democratic Party, and she runs virtually unapposed in the primaries, that would leave room for centrists and some leftists to take the Republican ballots and support the adult in the room, whoever that happens to be. That still might not be enough to get himorher the nomination, but if heorshe can run strong and stay in it long enough to get some of hisorher thoughts across, that is a valid reason to go for it. Historical note: In 1948 incumbent Truman was way down in popularity, it was virtually guaranteed he would lose the election to Dewey. What happened? Truman didn't run a campaign against Dewey, he ran a campaign against the whole Republican Party, specifically the do-nothing Congress in control of the Republicans at the time. Biggest upset in political history. It took Ike coming along four years later to breathe new life into the GOP.
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04-15-14, 03:23 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: about a man named Jeb..." |
It didn't hurt that the country was recovering from WWII, a costly victory led by FDR, a Democrat. I’m not sure what the national reaction was to Truman dropping the bomb, but I would assume that he received a lot of credit from a war weary nation for doing that. I'm surprised that the Republicans could have even been close in the 1948 election. And, as I remember it, the fact that a Bush said that really shouldn't be surprising. GW advocated liberal immigration reform during his presidency, a move that was defeated by Democrats. And the elder Bush actually has three Mexican American Grandkids, Jeb’s kids. Jeb’s wife is from Mexico. The Bush’s immigration policies are probably at odds with a large part of the Republican party. I would like to see him run. I wish his last name wasn’t Bush. And what's this I hear about political discussions turning out badly here? I can imagine what you could be thinking of.
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04-15-14, 04:10 PM (EST)
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15. "RE: about a man named Jeb..." |
LAST EDITED ON 04-16-14 AT 00:26 AM (EST)Actually, in postwar America FDR got all the credit, Truman got all the blame. Wartime severity measures expired and inflation spiked, the USSR took hold of every landgrab it could and Truman could only watch it happen, and things fell apart in Asia as the old colonial powers of Britain and France looked to the US to restore the old world order. Truman was so unpopular at the start of 1948 that a faction of Democrats approached Eisenhower (then whose political affiliations were undeclared) in the hope that he would campaign against Truman and win the nomination. Ike at the time was extremely popular, also got a lot of credit and none of the blame, could easily have defeated Truman and become President four years earlier, but for whatever reason decided to sit it out in 1948. Truman had his work cut out for him to stay in the White House, and he set out on the famous whistle-stop campaign, giving brief speeches in every town at which the train stopped. "Whistle stop" was originally hurled at Truman as a criticism by the Republicans, that he would go to every unimportant place in the country to try to impress the yokels. Truman seized on that insult to tell the yokels: "Gosh, this is what they think of y'all." It was the "Give 'Em Hell" campaign, win or lose he was going to cause as many casualties as he could. Brilliant! And four years later Ike showed up as a Republican, the party so defeated that he might actually be able to change it for the better. Salute! http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/give-em-hell-harry-and-the-greatest-campaign.html
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dabo 26088 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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04-14-14, 09:11 PM (EST)
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7. "RE: GOP Thanks US Airways" |
I saw the headlineUS Airways Tweets Pornographic Plane-in-Vagina Pic at Angry Customer and said, "Thanks, that's all I need to know." Like the other day I saw a headline You Won't Believe This Conspiracy Theory About ... and thought, "Good, I won't believe it, whatever it may have been."
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04-14-14, 09:18 PM (EST)
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8. "Although I do wish I could have been a fly on the wall" |
When the @Midnight writers sat down to pitch "this happened on the internet today" for the opening bit of the show.
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