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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 03:39 PM
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The Evangelical President has Been Sending Messages to Hillary / Leave "Wiggle Room" on Iraq
Published on Friday, October 5, 2007 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Democrats Who Enable Bush
by Helen Thomas

President Bush has no better friends than the spineless Democratic congressional leadership and the party’s leading presidential candidates when it comes to his failing Iraq policy.

Those Democrats seem to have forgotten that the American people want U.S. troops out of Iraq, especially since Bush still cannot give a credible reason for attacking Iraq after nearly five years of war.

-snip-

To have major Democratic backing to stay the course in Iraq added up to good news for Bush.

Now comes a surprising Clinton fan.

President Bush told Bill Sammon — Washington Examiner correspondent and author of a new book titled “The Evangelical President” — that Clinton will beat Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination because she is a “formidable candidate” and better known.

Sammon says Bush revealed that he has been sending messages to Clinton to urge her to “maintain some political wiggle room in your campaign rhetoric about Iraq.”

The author said Bush contends that whoever inherits the White House will be faced with a potential vacuum in Iraq and “will begin to understand the need to continue to support the young democracy.”

Bush ought to know about campaign rhetoric. Remember how he ridiculed “nation building” in the 2000 presidential campaign? Now he claims he is trying to spread democracy throughout the Middle East.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/05/4352/

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is another Democratic leader who has empowered Bush’s war.

Pelosi removed a provision from the most recent war-funding bill that would have required Bush to seek the permission of Congress before launching any attack on Iran. Her spokesman gave the lame excuse that she didn’t like the wording of the provision. More likely, she bowed to political pressure.

Is it any wonder the Democrats are faring lower than the president in a Washington Post ABC approval poll? Bush came in at 33 percent and Congress at 29 percent.

more at......
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/05/4352/

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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 03:41 PM
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1. Bush has been texting Hillary?
Does Big Dawg know about this?
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 03:43 PM
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2. Bush knows how to text? "IDK, my BFF Karl."
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 04:47 PM
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13. He doesn't have to use that....he has "other ways" as we've all seen. n/t
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poverlay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 03:44 PM
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4. They had better hope that Pickles doesn't miss her megadose of "mood stabilizers" and notice... nt
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 03:43 PM
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spineless Democratic congressional leadership
I guess it's alright when Helen says it :shrug:
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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 03:43 PM
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3. And I Guess That Hillary Has Been Picking Up On This Gift She's Been Given.....
by the all powerful *.

GHWB 4yrs + WJC 8yrs + GWB 8yrs + HRC 4 or 8yrs = 24 to 28years dominance by two families that telegraph messages to each other.

I feel safer already.
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monktonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 03:45 PM
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5. I'm no Hill inc. fan but....
could you imagine Hill inc. taking calls from this dumb shit?
Not likely.
Bill Sammon...in your dreams.
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partylessinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 03:48 PM
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6. Do you have to be hit over the head with a 2x4 before it sinks in?
These two women are all over Bush - it is sickening. He is the last man on Earth that anyone should want to be with.

They are so drunk on power that they would lay with the devil.

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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 04:43 PM
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9. Excuse Me...what are you talking about? n/t
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rinsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 03:51 PM
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7. Helen Thomas is quoting Bill Sammon?
Damn its a sad day.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 04:45 PM
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10. You are challenging Helen Thomas's Reporting....That's what she got from
Bill Sammon's book...so you are saying that Helen's at fault for what Bill Sammon is saying?
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 04:30 PM
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8. Bullshit...saying and sending and receiving are all three different things
Does anybody but the delusional Hillary haters think, for one minute that bush would send Hillary Clinton emails. Does anybody but the delusional Hillary haters for one minute believe she would ever consider them. Hell you could hear that laugh from New York to LA>
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 04:46 PM
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12. So evangelical Bill Sammon and 80 Something Veteran DC Reporter Thomas are Both Wrong?
:shrug: What's in it for them to report this? Money from GE/AOL/TIME WARNER/MURDOCH?
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 04:46 PM
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11. Gee... Bush addresses the whole fucking country on TV all the time.
Edited on Fri Oct-05-07 04:46 PM by Kurt_and_Hunter
Bush has been "advising" me to support his poisitions for seven years now.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-05-07 05:45 PM
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14. Crickets Chirp from Hillary Supporters....Diss Helen Thomas or Samson
trying to wiggle out of ideology...of the CHOSEN.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-06-07 11:48 AM
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16. It's Sammon
At least get YOUR right wing sources RIGHT



:rofl:
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-06-07 11:47 AM
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15. I Feel Dumber For Having Read This
DSB
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