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2016 Postmortem

zbdent

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2. Not sure, but I remember the outcry when Nancy Pelosi had her picture taken with her grandkids

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Fri Mar 16, 2012, 12:30 PM

Mar 2012

after she was sworn in as the first female Speaker of the House. All the cries (oddly enough, from people who had no problem with a Republican doing the same thing when he was sworn in as Speaker) were about how it was "not right" for her to do such a political thing ...

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IOKIYAR Atman Mar 2012 #1

Not sure, but I remember the outcry when Nancy Pelosi had her picture taken with her grandkids zbdent Mar 2012 #2

Think of the outcry if Obama were to film an ad in the Oval Office. yellowcanine Mar 2012 #3