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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 08:47 AM
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"They shouldn't put their night on the town on the taxpayer's dime"
To whomever it was who wrote that line, may I say a heartfelt "Fuck You", complete with accompanying hand gesture.

I'd say it is a fair guess that the line was written by someone who sat still and silent as the idiot motherfucker who was in office before "Night On The Town" guy spent more than a year on vacation at a pig farm is remote Crawford, TX. How much did THAT cost us, you lying propagandist?

How do you suggest the president go to New York? Drive himself? Take AMTRAK? Ask Cheney to drive him? How about Greyhound? He could take the Metro from his house to the DC station.




The right wing is insane. They really are insane. This is a question that is completely without merit. The president does, in fact, live within a protective bubble.
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 08:51 AM
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1. i was waiting for a comment like that. oh, and bush was different... he was a republican.
anything he did was a-ok. even sitting in a classroom after being told about 911, risking the lives of the kids in that room muchless the entire school. but, hey... that was different i guess.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 08:51 AM
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2. If they'd taken Greyhound they would have disappeared in the
Edited on Mon Jun-01-09 09:11 AM by saltpoint
scheduling chaos and incompetence of that operation and likely would never have been heard from again. Thank god they flew in.

And dinner and theater tickets were on their own dime, you far-right kook reactionary cactus-humping morons.

I hope Barack and Michelle Obama had a hell of a good time and I wish them many, many more evenings just like this one.


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ThirdWorldJohn Donating Member (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 08:55 AM
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3. Remember when Bush went to NYC he always wore a bullet proof vest. n/t
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 08:57 AM
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4. How much abuse did Bush do with Air Force 1 during his administration
the worst was the campaigning trick. Technically you can't use AF1 just for campaigning for your team but if you happen to make an official presidential visit first then you can make a few campaign stops while you're there.

So Bush would schedule 'official presidential visits' and then go on with campaigning.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 09:00 AM
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7. NASCAR ...
and the media was dismayed that Bush was not given a standing blowjo ... er, ovation ... not a peep about the waste of taxpayer dollars it cost to fly him in ...

and did he pay for any tickets to the event?
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 08:58 AM
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5. HE could have done like Bush...
He could have met with the Mayor of NY and called it "official business", so that it would not be charged to his campaign and so the taxpayers could pick up the tab? How many times did Bush do that?
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 08:58 AM
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6. Did Bush pay for his ticket to the NASCAR event where he flew AF1 in
to appear at?
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 09:00 AM
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8. They know its bullshit
As they are saying it they know its bullshit.

They don't like President Obama being in the news doing normal things.
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 09:02 AM
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9. GWB flew all over the country in AF1 soliciting campaign contributions for the GOP on our dime.
They were using taxpayer money for political reasons. Where was their outrage about that? Oh, that's right. It's OK because it was to further their cause and the shrub could do no wrong.

Not to mention Bush's many many vacations at the pig ranch and Camp David.


President Bush steps off Air Force One as he arrives in Salt Lake City, for a private campaign fund raising event for Republican presidential candidate... - AP

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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 09:10 AM
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10. As I recall
Captain Asshole went to the Olympics so he could get fuckfaced drunk...


I guess that he skipped across the ocean since he and God chatted CONSTANTLY about doing the lords work.
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