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| Helen Thomas - PWN3D!!!1; ...at Bush's press conference | |
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| JBryan | Mar 21 2006, 12:13 PM Post #26 |
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Again, read 1441. That is not what Saddam was required to do. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| The 89th Key | Mar 21 2006, 12:32 PM Post #27 |
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Bush definitely isn't the best speaker...but he has his moments. I'd rather have someone like Bush who speaks to the point, sticks to his word, and gets the job done. As compared to Clinton who will smooth his way through any speech, but you can't trust his word at all. "Clinton is so good at lying, he could stand in front of us and say, 'I'm not here right now.', and we'd believe him!" :lol: |
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| Luke's Dad | Mar 21 2006, 12:35 PM Post #28 |
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That ahl depends on what your definition of not is. |
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| The 89th Key | Mar 21 2006, 12:35 PM Post #29 |
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| John D'Oh | Mar 21 2006, 12:40 PM Post #30 |
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Like Bob the Builder, you mean? [to the tune of a certain children's TV programme, that I never ever watch] Dick, Don and Condy, Karl Rove too, Here comes Georgy, to join the crew Shooting and bombing, buckets of blood, They all stick together, like good friends should. I think I missed my vocation as some kind of whiney liberal-artsy fartsy protest singer. I'm having a slow day.
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| Aqua Letifer | Mar 21 2006, 12:42 PM Post #31 |
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That's ridiculously transparent and generalized, wouldn't you say? |
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| The 89th Key | Mar 21 2006, 12:45 PM Post #32 |
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Generally, I'd rather have a prez who gives ok speeches and sticks to his word; than someone who smooth talks you and you can't really trust. Personally, I see Bush more in the former category and Clinton more in the latter. EDIT: And that's not based on partisan bias. I think Nader is also very trustworthy and straightforward...even if I don't always agree with him. |
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| Phlebas | Mar 21 2006, 01:45 PM Post #33 |
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Gee. The leader of the free world just about held his own against an over-the-hill hack like Helen "Hamas" Thomas. I'm underwhelmed. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Mar 21 2006, 01:46 PM Post #34 |
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:lol: Now now, he spoke off the cuff and without a teleprompter or speechwriter. That's an achievement that shouldn't go unnoticed. |
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| JBryan | Mar 21 2006, 01:47 PM Post #35 |
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We need something like questions for the Prime Minister. I'm afraid Bush would come off badly in that sort of exchange. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| John D'Oh | Mar 21 2006, 01:48 PM Post #36 |
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Dick Cheney was holding his own against her while she was talking to Bush? I'm surprised she managed to stay at least partially lucid! Good for her! |
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| QuirtEvans | Mar 21 2006, 01:50 PM Post #37 |
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89th, that last sentence is a total non sequitur compared to the first paragraph. There's no link. There's no evidence of what the threat was. It was incredibly poor, from the point of view of debate skills. In a college debate, he would have been disqualified. On that particular point, he didn't own his own toenail. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| JBryan | Mar 21 2006, 01:55 PM Post #38 |
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I have to agree. I know what he was trying to say but he did a poor job of saying it. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| John D'Oh | Mar 21 2006, 01:55 PM Post #39 |
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The British parliamentary system does mean that the PM tends to be much better at adversarial debating than the typical American President. Whether this leads to better leaders is open to question, of course. |
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| The 89th Key | Mar 21 2006, 02:08 PM Post #40 |
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In the conference today, he didn't claim there was a link. She asked "what about Iraq" and he said that he saw a threat in Iraq. I know that's not exactly a detailed explanation, but his reason is that for a while Al-Qaeda trained, prepared, and plotted in Afgahnistan and we didn't do anything. He sees a similar threat in Iraq and that's why he wants to start acting proactively. |
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| QuirtEvans | Mar 21 2006, 02:16 PM Post #41 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Much more articulate than what he said. I repeat, he didn't own her, not even a little bit. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| The 89th Key | Mar 21 2006, 02:18 PM Post #42 |
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She came in there with an agenda. She hasn't been called on for 3 years. He finally calls on her, she tries to throw a curveball and then gets into a HIGHLY unusual back and forth unscripted debate with her and clearly spells out what he's been doing. At least from the content in the transcript, he very much pwn3d her. |
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| QuirtEvans | Mar 21 2006, 02:22 PM Post #43 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Don't believe me, listen to JB. He's on your side, and he doesn't think W owned her. Or continue to be stubborn and look foolish. Your choice. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| The 89th Key | Mar 21 2006, 02:24 PM Post #44 |
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It's a matter of perspective and opinion, obviously. There are some here who think she was owned by Bush's response and some here who don't. |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 21 2006, 02:25 PM Post #45 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I don't think we will see it repeated in the next three years either. She may as well not show up. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| QuirtEvans | Mar 21 2006, 02:26 PM Post #46 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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You're looking through a prism, and seeing what you expected to see. 'Nuff said. As I said, I thought he did quite well with the warantless wiretap issue. I thought he did well, overall. So I think I'm fairly objective. He didn't own Helen, not even a little bit. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| The 89th Key | Mar 21 2006, 02:28 PM Post #47 |
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She started out with the premise that every reason he's given for what was wrong (which isn't true) and that since he became president he wanted to go to war (which isn't true). Bush called her on it, told her how she was wrong, and also kept her from trying to interupt him several times. She was pwn3d from the beginning. |
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| JBryan | Mar 21 2006, 02:41 PM Post #48 |
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He should have handed that moonbat her head. He didn't. Seriously, I am in sync with a lot of his policies but listening to him speak makes me cringe. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| The 89th Key | Mar 21 2006, 03:11 PM Post #49 |
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He definitely could have gone further, sometimes I wish he would show even more emotion than he does. I would love for any president to get really heated up there, to at least show he's still human like the rest of us. |
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| John D'Oh | Mar 21 2006, 05:37 PM Post #50 |
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He's human like the rest of us. Just much, much, much richer, and his Dad was President. In other words, not like the rest of us at all. |
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