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prodigal_green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 08:36 AM Original message |
How to explain the IWR vote to both Dems & Repigs |
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liveoaktx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. That is a terrific analogy! |
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Jacobin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
2. It's the best we can do with a sorry situation |
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liveoaktx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 09:05 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I think you're missing the point- this doesn't give him a pass |
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Jacobin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 09:18 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. That's why I said its the best we can do with a sorry situation |
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Cheswick2.0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 10:08 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. oh no, I think everyone knew he was going to go to war |
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liveoaktx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 11:03 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. I don't remember the world as being happy we were going to war |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 12:56 PM Response to Reply #2 |
25. Uh, I didn't know that. |
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liveoaktx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. Can I just add to that.... |
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Bleacher Creature (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
4. Good analogy, BUT |
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liveoaktx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 09:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Prodigal wasn't offering it as a campaign ad or debate... |
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Bleacher Creature (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 09:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Agree on the LOCAL part |
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Mick Knox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
8. I knew it was a vote for war |
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CTLawGuy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
10. a more complete analogy would be this |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 10:11 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. And in this case the "coolest" parent candidate would be guilty of |
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Cheswick2.0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 10:14 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. There ya go |
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mememe (35 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
11. good explanation, only one problem |
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Norquist Nemesis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
15. Just for fun...what if Kerry had voted against IWR? |
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CTLawGuy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 10:20 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. If Kerry had voted against IWR |
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displacedtexan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 10:46 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Could a future "President Kerry" ever ask for such authority... |
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DCCyclone (36 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
17. I'm afraid, prodigal_green, that argument is silly on its face...... |
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prodigal_green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 10:40 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I agree. I knew it was a vote for war but |
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CTLawGuy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 10:51 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. then Bush can turn around and say |
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liveoaktx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 10:55 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. I don't agree.. In Worse the Watergate, John Dean makes the case |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 12:28 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. The Biden-Lugar Amendment would have definitely made the case |
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no name no slogan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-07-04 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
24. Good, but WHO CARES how it started-- how will K/E end it? |
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