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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 07:47 AM
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Could BlowJobs Be The Undoing Of Another President?....
Clinton has his Monica. * has his Katrina and Rita.
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boston bean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 07:48 AM
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1. Yeah, lol. Bush got two of them tho, that makes it double worse.
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shaniqua6392 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 07:49 AM
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2. Too funny!
And so early in the morning, too. LOL!
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 07:50 AM
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3. LOL. But with bush it was all planned.
Its always more fun when its spontaneous. No one enjoys this.

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Mend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 07:50 AM
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4. Rita will go perfectly and * will be redeemed...
and all the bad of Katrina will be laid at the feet of the residents of NO, the mayor, and the governor.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 07:51 AM
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5. Perfectly?
With what resources?
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nevergiveup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 08:09 AM
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8. Chimpy will never live down Katrina
If things go perfectly with Rita it will show "what could have been" with Katrina......Chimpy was on vacation and there is no spin out of this fact..
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 06:10 PM
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17. I don't think so.
First, he's already had at least a couple of weeks to rehabilitate himself. All those trips down to New Orleans. That carefully-staged and scripted speech. And it hasn't helped. So timing the arrival of the National Guard to his appearance in THIS "ground zero" did NOT elicit the kind of mental manipulations in the minds of the "dumb public" that the rovians have had in mind. It always worked before, and they probably assumed that the same old schtick would just keep on working again and again. But no. Katrina's realities and all those photos and all that video - all those scenes of wreckage and desolate people and floating bodies and crying moms with their babies and discouraged elderly people hunched over on curbs - that stuck. And it's held. And it will be VERY hard to forget - for ANYONE with even half a conscience. Those memories will be lasting. And they'll keep being refreshed every time there's a "think piece" or some such about the Katrina aftermath, and the "second-day leads" and reaction pieces as this stuff slogs through Congress and the year-end reviews and all the rest of it. This will NOT GO AWAY. And the very worst of it was during that horrible week when george was AWOL AGAIN. And those two concepts are irrevocably linked in people's minds. That's when he was sitting on his ass.

Second, with those same all-important FIRST IMPRESSIONS still painfully fresh in the national psyche, people will not be able to help themselves - they'll be making comparisons. And those comparisons will skew toward "well, he sure didn't neglect TEXAS, did he... (prominent fishy smell follows)" or "I wonder how many of THOSE hurricane survivors are poor and/or black (more fishy smell follows)" or "Man! Why couldn't he have done this for those poor Katrina victims (even more fishy smell follows)?"

He will NOT weather this storm. It looks very much as though a lot of people have been literally jolted awake. You don't forget this stuff. Just anyway. But the fact that it was so visible, and VISUAL, all over TV and cable news, all over the front pages, and the news magazines and even the special issues of "People" magazine. Since it seems as though most of America processes information visually, it's the VISUALS, the PICTURES, that pack the biggest punch. And that stuff is just UNFORGETTABLE. EVERYONE who's followed this coverage will undoubtedly have one or two very distinct memories - a photo, a live shot by some increasingly indignant reporter bridling at the disconnect between what the political hacks said and what they were seeing with their own eyes. (AHA! There's that visual aspect again.)

There are more people every day, evidently including Jack Cafferty according to what my husband saw on CNN today, who are now suspicious and smell a rat and regard all this as nothing more than bush's political posturing because he found HIMSELF in trouble, not because he saw his fellow Americans in trouble. Cafferty, according to my husband, voiced a suspicion about how it was important to "follow the money" with all the rebuilding and other rescue/recovery/resuscitation projects. Also, even better, Cafferty evidently noted that "the same crooks" are involved in the decision-making now as were in place when Katrina was still inbound. If he's saying it, other people are thinking it - and clearly are emailing him about it.

The fact that people like Cafferty are still on this side of it is because their programs, or their segments, or their schtick, is based on the input they're getting from their viewers/listeners/readers, and all that input is evidently STILL negative toward bush. Otherwise, believe me, guys like him would have said differently, or brought this up in some other way while on camera.

I think the response to Rita will only underscore how bad, negligent, and utterly sinful the response to Katrina was. Even those who are probably inclined to say "well, at least he finally got his act together here" will follow that remark with "too bad he didn't (or WHY didn't he) do this after Katrina."

I don't think bush is gonna get out of this one.
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 07:52 AM
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6. LOL
that's really funny, and how true.
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LiberalinNC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 07:57 AM
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7. If only there was a "red dress" !
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 08:26 AM
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9. Only when we impeach the idiot son

will there finally be a "reddress" of grievances against the people.

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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 08:42 AM
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10. LOL. Reminds me of that old joke...

what did the hurricane say to the palm tree?
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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 08:50 AM
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11. What's The Punchline?...... n/t
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 06:20 PM
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18. Hang on to your nuts...

... this is no ordinary blow job.
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personman Donating Member (959 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 09:01 AM
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12. There's a difference between blow jobs and blowing a job. nt
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 09:08 AM
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13. Consider the source
Masturbatory freeper flamebait
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windbreeze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 11:37 AM
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14. Let's face it.
If Bush manages to save Texas from Rita....isn't that going to make people take a second, real hard look at the response to Katrina/LA???? The FEMA trucks are already on the way to Texas...but LA was still waiting 4 days after the fact for help..IF they have the resources, and are responding to Texas/Rita...3 days early...then WHY and WHERE were they, when it came to Katrina/La.? He has two choices in my opinion...and neither of them are good...
1. he can get there ahead of time for Texas
2. he can do the same as he did with La.

and both actions lead to even more serious questions...

windbreeze

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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 02:17 PM
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15. No. Bush has Condi. We have sexual harassment on the front page here.
It began with an innocent little hug at a democratic fund raiser. By the time the republicans were done. It was the bj that almost destroyed the world. If that is what a hug leads to. God only knows what perversities "The Kiss" is causing Poor Condi to be subjected to. In Bush's first term Condoleeza Rice was known as the Live In National Security Advisor. Because of the extra ordinary amounts of time Bush and Condi spent together. They were Inseperable.
By Government Ethical Standards The Kiss pictured on the front page here is a big no no. Even if Condi was a willing recipient of The Kiss. Now we must ask. What other sexual advances and demands Condoleeza Rice has endured to get and keep her cabinet positions as NSA and SS? Where there is the appearance of corruption. Corruption must be assumed and investigations pursued.
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MurrayDelph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 05:42 PM
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16. I thought...
Bush had Gannon?
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