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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:46 PM
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Poll question: Grade Webb's Democratic Response
A+ all the way IMO from me.
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grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:47 PM
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1. I had to give him an F because he didn't call for impeachment.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:49 PM
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3. Remember, he only had 8 minutes
But yes, I am hoping for impeachment soon.
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grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:54 PM
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12. Actually I gave him an A+.
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Umbram Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:48 PM
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2. B+
Grade inflation is a bad thing.

He said the right things, but it wasn't terribly rousing.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:50 PM
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4. I only use a bit of grade inflation for CDs
LOL
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:51 PM
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7. You're Only Partially Right
It wasn't 'rousing' but it sure was sobering. I think that is what it was ment to be, a sobering reminder that there are indeed grownups in the world, and George is not one of them.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:53 PM
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9. Yes, I would use inspiring
Especially after the crazy drivel that it followed.
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Umbram Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:02 PM
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20. Yea, it was a sobering message
but I would have enjoyed some minor manifestations of conviction.

I was busy trying to determine whether there was one or two teleprompters.

Don't get me wrong - B+ is "very good." An 'A' should be reserved for something
that makes me cheer/cry/react in some way other than make me nod.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:04 PM
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22. I understand - not trying to affect how you felt
But I gave him an A+ because I thought it was what a Response should be and it gave me confidence that he really feels what I feel and isn't the typical politician. This was the kind of speech that could even convince Republicans.
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caligirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:50 PM
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5. get some generals to speak about the rebuttal, they will line up
behind WEBB. Yes!
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:51 PM
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6. A not A+ just because of delivery. I wanted to see him be a little less stiff.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:59 PM
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16. He started out a bit nervous I guess
Edited on Tue Jan-23-07 11:00 PM by mvd
Thought he recovered nicely, though. There was only one thing I would have done differently: he shouldn't have changed "against the war" to "against the handling of the war."
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:09 PM
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26. He DID say though that he had been against it from the first
mention, so I took that being against the handling of the war as a representation of the Public's attitude toward it.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:10 PM
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27. I liked the fact he emphasized that, too
I'm giving him an A+, so I don't think the change was a big deal. It's just something I noticed.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:51 PM
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8. Only an "A" from me. Need to leave some room for when...
...he gives a speech that TOPS this one. And I have a feeling he will.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:53 PM
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10. The foreign policy aspects were brilliant.
The economic stuff was important, too, but not that creative.
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dailykoff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:54 PM
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11. A+
Hell of a speech, near-perfect delivery. Impressive!
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:55 PM
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13. Heh, one D...
...must be the East German judge.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-24-07 12:18 AM
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37. D for Dickhead, Dickless, Dildo, , Dilweed, Dummy, Dumkoff, Dipshit, etc.
:)
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:55 PM
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14. A-
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unkachuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:57 PM
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15. A+....n/t
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:59 PM
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17. PERFECT
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=183&topic_id=4918&mesg_id=4918
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:00 PM
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18. Robber Barons. I am glad he used that term.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:01 PM
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19. And he had a knockout of an ending
:hi:
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:06 PM
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23. I posted the transcript here in GD, I loved the
delivery too.
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ms liberty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:18 PM
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31. I've been just giddy since he said it!
It's been my personal term for the greedy CEO's and corporatocracy for some time now. It is a term that the average american understands completely...almost instinctively.

And his explanation of our economic situation was simple, straightforward, and full of common-sense.
Anyone in middle america who heard him, got it.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-24-07 12:12 AM
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35. It was so well done. It was real, it came from his heart.
He wrote the response himself.
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:03 PM
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21. He was articulate, succulent and he gave a warning to the Bushes that
was no longer surrounded by lock stepped sycophants. Bravo! :applause:
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:06 PM
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24. Succulent?
Well, I wouldn't go THAT far... ;)
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:17 PM
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30. LOL! Stoopid spall chek.
Edited on Tue Jan-23-07 11:18 PM by myrna minx
:rofl:

I meant succinct. The wine is a-flowing at the minx house. :hi:
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:07 PM
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25. I couldn't argue with a single word of it. n/t
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ms liberty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:13 PM
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28. I think I'm in love! He called greedy CEO's 'robber barons'!!!!
I had to give him an A+ - I thought he was awesome!
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:21 PM
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32. The republican response to the minimum wage increase. It will hurt small business.
The rational was that the people at the bottom get a two dollar an hour raise. Then everyone wants a two dollar an hour raise. Ooooookay so if the CEO gets a 400 Million Dollar Bonus. The next day everyone in the company wants their 400 Million Dollar Bonus too. Right?
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:15 PM
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29. I especially like how he guaged military sacrafice.
All I've heard from average Republican is thats what they do stupid.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:22 PM
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33. Fuckin' A
:headbang:
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:35 PM
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34. Sen Webb absolutely knocked it out of the park!
Bush is a giggling idiot.
Webb was stern and dead serious without the usual kowtow crapola about bipartisan hokey.

These are stern and serious times with a desperate need for a stern, serious outlook and a compulsion for telling the bottom line, no bullshit truth.
I was in blood pressure city until a couple minutes into Webb's speech and he calmed it down. THIS is what I expect to see when I view a U S senator, not the lying, transparently sub average mumblings that so often pass for senatorial thinking.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-24-07 12:15 AM
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36. A+ for mentioning New Orleans
:cry:
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-24-07 12:20 AM
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38. HE WAS GRIPPING
And worthy of VP or PRES


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