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Mr.Bill

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3. I just wanted to point out for accuracy

Reply to napkinz (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 07:16 PM

Jun 2014

that in 2002 Obama was a Senator in the state of Illinois. He was not elected to the US Senate until 2004. Washington seldom listens to what every state senator has to say. It's too bad he wasn't a US Senator, he would have been speaking with a much louder voice.

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eeeuuu.. I wondered how you could have Pres Obama and cheney in the same sentence like that? lol Cha Jun 2014 #1

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Creature from the Oily Lagoon. Cha Jun 2014 #5

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he made a bundle ... it "cost" thousands of lives napkinz Jun 2014 #9

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I just wanted to point out for accuracy Mr.Bill Jun 2014 #3

True. As far as Congress goes, I think Kucinich was the most outspoken. LuvNewcastle Jun 2014 #6

Yes, Obama was a state Senator then but he gave this prescient speech and it Cha Jun 2014 #8

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