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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 11:38 PM
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Can you say AUTO-PEN?
Edited on Sun Jan-14-07 11:50 PM by blogslut
From the 60 Minutes video, and I quote:

PELLEY VOICEOVER: "The President told us he reads a casualty report every morning and personally signs every letter to the families of Americans killed in action."

Anybody wanna bet that is a damned dirty lie?
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 11:40 PM
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1. Maybe that's his busy work project
to keep him occupied between naptime and potty and X-box time.

He sickens me.


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Hosnon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 11:41 PM
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2. Actually I don't. It would take him less than an hour every day. nt.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 11:45 PM
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5. Make that
Two a day and 63 a month
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Hosnon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:11 AM
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11. Right...not very many to sign everyday. It is more than plausible to me. nt.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:26 AM
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12. sigh
Two a day. Sixty-Three a month.

I guess he's lucky he doesn't have to sign letters for those merely wounded. That would be more like 33 per day and 1000 a month. What luck, huh?
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Hosnon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:27 AM
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13. Hey I wish he didn't have any to sign. I'm merely pointing out that it wouldn't
take up much of his daily schedule to sign each and every one.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:29 AM
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15. Logistically, yes
I still don't believe him when he says he signs them personally. I just don't
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Hosnon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:32 AM
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17. I do...if for no other reason than it is a good PR point to say that he does.
On second thought, I'll update and say that I think it is highly likely that the letters are not rubberstamp signed. Now, whether or not it is Bush doing the actual signing is less clear.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:47 AM
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19. Then why didn't he it say it on camera?
Edited on Mon Jan-15-07 01:48 AM by blogslut
Seems if it was such good PR, little boots would be thrilled to brag. He sure smirked his way through that I-meet-personally-with-grieving-families photo-op.
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Hosnon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:50 AM
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21. Who knows...perhaps he does, perhaps he doesn't. I think that he does.
And it wouldn't require much time each morning, though more time than it ever should.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 11:41 PM
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3. And how stupid for Pelley to actually believe that.
I'm not impressed with Mr. Pelley.
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 11:44 PM
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4. Most likely, that means...
Edited on Sun Jan-14-07 11:44 PM by Contrary1
He has signed his name to hundreds of blank pieces of presidential stationery to be used as needed.
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ariellyn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 11:46 PM
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6. Who cares if he signs or not? The tragedy is that he has to sign at all. nt
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 11:52 PM
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7. I care
He said he did. If he's lying that would be one more insult to the soldiers and their families. How many insults do they have to suffer before enough is enough?
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:44 AM
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18. I care. He lied.
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 11:57 PM
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8. Don't you need opposable thumbs to write?
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 12:04 AM
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9. I think even monkeys can scrawl an "X"...
...if they hold the crayon between both hands.
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:02 AM
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10. Of course, but Bush has four of them. n/m
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:28 AM
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14. From the 60 Minutes comment board:
Edited on Mon Jan-15-07 01:29 AM by proud2Blib
He "personally signs every letter to the families of Americans killed in action". That's ***. My chin hit the floor when I heard him say this. Our son, SGT Justin D. Norton, was killed in Iraq this past June. We received many "signed" letters from strangers, state leaders, and people from congress. When we received a letter from the president it was evident it was just a "stamp" with Bushes name. Shame on you Bush. R.I.P. Justin www.justinnorton.net
Posted by fourenzsix at 11:52 PM : Jan 14, 2007



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/13/60minutes/mai...
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:30 AM
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16. I went to that site mentioned
I can't get past the main page. My heart is breaking just looking. No agenda. Just a tribute to a lost child.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 01:49 AM
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20. screencap
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