Tag: us politics
member name: Bill's Spirit
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April 17, 2007 03:19 PM EDT --
I was sitting at Thanksgiving dinner when an eleven year-old blurted out:
"The President is scum."
At this table, only one guest gasped.
Most of the other children smiled and nodded, the . . .
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September 01, 2006 12:22 PM EDT --
Janet B.'s article; "Would You Vote For Condolezza Rice in '08" was revealing; and made me chuckle at coincidence.
I spewed the idea of Condi running in '08 to someone just . . .
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September 14, 2006 01:20 PM EDT --
I hear some winds of change whistling among the trees of the Republican Party. How refreshing.
Agitatingly dissatisfied with the divisive, intrusive, and expensive actions and attitudes of conservative . . .
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March 05, 2008 06:00 PM EST --
They say that proof of dedication to an ideology can be shown by pointing to sacrifices made in the name of that belief.
On March 4, 2008, I again paid the price necessary to maintain my status . . .
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October 11, 2007 11:42 AM EDT --
Gather member Don B. posted a list of 22 ways to be a good Democrat.
I was quite inspired.
In a similar spirit to his writing...
Here are 22 ways to be a good Republican:
1. You have to believe . . .
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January 07, 2008 03:42 PM EST --
Good - Monday - Everyone!!
Tomorrow the New Hampshire Primaries will take place; and many eyes are turned toward the Granite State in wonderment over what might unfold.
Whereas Hillary Clinton . . .
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October 31, 2007 04:02 PM EDT --
Did you watch the Democratic debate?
I did.
I thought it started off kind of interestingly, in that there were no formal introductions of the candidates at the opening.
After the MSNBC graphics . . .
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November 26, 2007 06:13 PM EST --
The aliens abducted me again last night. I'd taken my tin-hat off for my nightly shower; and zap, they beam-rayed me up.
As I lay strapped in the chair for study, I distracted my mind by thinking . . .
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January 07, 2008 05:50 PM EST --
There's a video airing on my cable channels.
Hillary Clinton getting emotional at a luncheon.
Apparently it's personal, not just political to her.
Maybe this will win her points . . .
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January 10, 2008 05:05 PM EST --
There's buzz around that Hillary should not be voted for because she is actually a big friend of big business.
I find this hard to believe.
This accusation seems to be based on the fact that . . .
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March 14, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
Hillary isn't playing the race card. She (or should I say, some of her people) are just pointing to the obvious fact that Barack Obama's ethnicity is part of his sweeping appeal.
She should . . .
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April 23, 2006 09:52 AM EDT --
A constitution We once wrote
Privacy, Freedom, Liberty bespoke
The government's powers were limited by creed
To protecting the people from evil's dark deeds
From bloodshed and invasion both . . .
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September 28, 2006 03:16 PM EDT --
Government's mode, to keep us safe isn't just keeping foxes from poultry via house and shotgun, nor wolves from sheep by dog and sling.
Aims can miss, fences fail, allies fall.
To keep rats . . .
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October 16, 2006 09:34 AM EDT --
In a recent press conference President Bush said that setting a deadline for pulling troops out of Iraq equals cutting and running.
What a great line. I wish I had thought of that when I had bosses breathing . . .
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April 16, 2008 11:17 AM EDT --
His Holiness The Pope is visiting America.
Apparently, this is only the third time that a pope has visited our blessed land.
Father Thomas Williams, CBS News Faith and Religion Analyst, stated . . .
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February 13, 2007 07:24 AM EST --
Ever since the wee years of my youth, I have wrestled with the concepts of appropriate lying. Christianity and corporal punishment having instructed me lastingly that lying is wrong, evil and a sin.
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December 07, 2006 11:14 AM EST --
Here is a bug for the ear of Secretary of Defense Nominee, Robert Gates.
Everyone keeps referring to "The War" in Iraq.
But we are not at war with Iraq, are we?
The initial mission was to . . .
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January 29, 2007 12:56 PM EST --
I'd appreciate it if a lot of the talking heads in my TV box would stop saying that the changes the voters made in officeholders in the 2006 election is an unequivocal call for an immediate and complete . . .
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March 21, 2007 01:57 PM EDT --
Dear Democrats;
As things stand on this date (March 21, 2007), the best hope you have of getting this tax paying, veteran's vote is Al Gore for President and Hillary Clinton for V.P.
Obama doesn't . . .
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January 21, 2008 05:23 PM EST --
January 2008; the year I learned in more elaborate detail how other states hold their primaries.
Some are called caucuses, some are known as straw votes and others have what I have always known as . . .
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