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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:35 AM Original message |
What Mike Bloomberg stands for |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yes. Bloomberg is a progressive by any standard. nt |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. Links would help...n/t |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:44 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Read the NY papers on line |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 11:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
59. Links to what? |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 12:13 PM Response to Reply #59 |
65. The OP said for us to get our facts straight... |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
3. Who are the lurkers? |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:40 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. lurkers = anybody who disagrees with the op nt |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:45 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. nope, anyone against woman's rights, gay marriage, gun control, energy independence |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 10:56 AM Response to Reply #7 |
48. I'm against gun control... |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 02:59 PM Response to Reply #48 |
74. First, I didn't ask for a lecture on gun control OR gay marriage, I also ONLY |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 03:59 PM Response to Reply #74 |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 07:18 PM Response to Reply #80 |
87. Again, lecture Mike Bloomberg, I'm not interested in your rationalization |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 04:03 PM Response to Reply #74 |
81. You stated that "lurkers" were... |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 07:17 PM Response to Reply #81 |
85. What ever, I don't care, lecture someone else about gun love, LIKE I SAID BEFORE |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 10:26 PM Response to Reply #85 |
91. Thanks for the note. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 12:42 AM Response to Reply #4 |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 10:51 AM Response to Reply #4 |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:54 AM Response to Reply #3 |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
6. He felt the need to be a R until two days ago and suddenly he is a progressive? |
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soleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:47 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. He's to the left of a lot of Democrats |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 02:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
103. I could easily vote for him |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:47 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. He always was, look it up, read the NYT or NY Daily news on line |
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Exiled in America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:50 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Wow, you don't know much do you? |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:52 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Is it "more democratic than most democrats" to campaign for Bush? |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:54 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I don't know that it's less Democratic than voting for Bush's war. |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:57 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. The only Democrat campaigning for Bush in 2004 was Zell Miller. |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:59 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. And my point is that I don't know that campaigning for Bush is all that less democratic than voting |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 12:01 PM Response to Reply #28 |
61. Or cheerleading for it like Edwards |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 12:11 PM Response to Reply #28 |
64. I'd have to hear an explanation as to why he campaigned |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 12:05 PM Response to Reply #25 |
63. Don't forget Randy Kelly campaigned for Shrub |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 12:00 PM Response to Reply #21 |
60. Right |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:45 AM Response to Original message |
8. Also for turning over Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn to the ultra-super-rich |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:49 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Really, proof, links? Support for you allegations |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:01 AM Response to Reply #14 |
29. Rudy, loathsome as he was, was an amateur |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 11:23 AM Response to Reply #29 |
100. So at best, we're looking at another libertarian? |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 02:01 PM Response to Reply #100 |
102. More like a looter -- Bushism with a smile and with class |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 10:33 AM Response to Reply #14 |
47. Read the NY papers online... |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 03:03 PM Response to Reply #47 |
75. We're done here |
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LBJDemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 03:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
79. Yeah |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 04:19 PM Response to Reply #8 |
82. That's why "liberal" Republicans are Rs and not Ds. nt |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 04:32 PM Response to Reply #8 |
84. For someone who is so interested in waging class warfare for the rich |
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durrrty libby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
9. The only thing I know about him is that he is stinkin rich |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:50 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. So you hate him for that? |
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durrrty libby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:51 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I didn't say I hate him. I'm asking a couple of questions |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:55 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. You asked nothing, you stated he was "Stinkin rich", what was the point? |
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durrrty libby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:57 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. "You asked nothing, " |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Google=search=link below |
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durrrty libby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:02 AM Response to Reply #27 |
30. What..You can't put a few simple sentences together about |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:04 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. My last post for the day till I get home |
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durrrty libby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:48 AM Response to Reply #31 |
39. profiles don''t let you "see" anything but what the person |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:09 AM Response to Reply #9 |
33. Answers: |
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durrrty libby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:54 AM Response to Reply #33 |
44. Well thank you |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 07:28 AM Response to Reply #9 |
96. delete. already answered, sorry |
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Matsubara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
10. I don't hate him, but why do I have to support him? |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:52 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. You and everyone else don't have to support no one |
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Matsubara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:05 AM Response to Reply #18 |
32. None of the things you mentioned puts him in the Robert & Bobby Kennedy leagues... |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
11. and an unapologetic (former) pot user |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
20. Off to work, can't defend my posts til ltonight |
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Norquist Nemesis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
23. Okay...then couldn't he just as easily have changed back to Democrat |
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Inuca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Not if indeed he wants to run as an independent n/t |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 12:14 PM Response to Reply #23 |
66. Or run as an Independent for mayor, rather than Repuke?...n/t |
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Norquist Nemesis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 12:33 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. I just have a problem with a candidate switching parties to get a |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 12:44 PM Response to Reply #67 |
68. Agreed totally... |
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bunkerbuster1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
34. You left out "Fucking up our excellent chances to win" |
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blueworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
35. Oh Puhleeze - all he stands for is more rich, self-centered, corporate bs |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
36. I don't know . . . I'm always leery of someone who can pretty much finance his own campaign . . . |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:46 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Financing your own campaign at least means you're not beholden to your biggest |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 11:00 AM Response to Reply #38 |
49. Do you know his stand on corporations and the wealthy? |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 11:02 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Not relevant to my statement. I didn't say he was a good candidate or |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 12:56 AM Response to Reply #49 |
93. Do you know if he's running for President? |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 07:27 PM Response to Reply #38 |
88. more power to him, no one owns him, a little acknowledged fact here. |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:52 AM Response to Reply #36 |
42. I'd much rather politicians |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 03:05 PM Response to Reply #42 |
76. Exactly, NC. And besides, with the way things are right now, you |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
37. Joe Lieberman was a lifelong Democrat too. How's that working out? |
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helderheid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
40. I know very little about him so this is music to my ears. Thanks! |
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MiniMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
41. Money n/t |
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alkaline9 (586 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
45. What I find remarkable is to denounce someone for switching parties... |
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JoDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
46. As a registered independent |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
51. You left off CORPORATE POWER in your litany. DUers must see |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 03:06 PM Response to Reply #51 |
77. WTF? |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
52. Sounds like he'd make as good (or as bad) a monarch as any Democrat. |
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madmunchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
53. Gore and Bloomberg - one more step towards them running |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 11:41 AM Response to Reply #53 |
54. I'd love to see that ticket |
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madmunchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 11:57 AM Response to Reply #54 |
58. We'll see, but why would Gore even consider going in as VP |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 12:04 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. Bloomberg was never really a Republican |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 12:47 PM Response to Reply #62 |
69. I'm not so sure about that... |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 01:45 PM Response to Reply #69 |
72. Those contributions |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 02:01 PM Response to Reply #72 |
73. They gave him a big f.u. anyway.. |
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otohara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
55. And What About Iraq & His BFF Paul Wolfowitz? |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 11:53 AM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Supporting *'s re-election? I didn't need convincing NOT to consider him, |
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roody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 07:40 PM Response to Reply #55 |
89. Thanks for the quotes. |
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Strawman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
57. Who would help Mike Bloomberg get anything through Congress |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 12:49 PM Response to Reply #57 |
70. An independent President would be weak by any measure... |
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Strawman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 01:35 PM Response to Reply #70 |
71. What we need is a Democratic president and the second coming of LBJ in the Senate |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
78. msnbc: Bloomberg says he's no White House candidate |
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RiverStone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
83. Then would he really want Hagel as VP? |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 03:48 AM Response to Reply #83 |
94. Hagel would make up for where Bloomberg is weak: foreign policy and military affairs. |
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Norquist Nemesis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 08:09 AM Response to Reply #83 |
97. Or why would Hagel want to be his VP??? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
86. That's not settled until he gets in the race, and has a chance to flipflop... |
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natrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-20-07 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
90. i'd take him over obama or thompson or clinton any day |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 03:50 AM Response to Reply #90 |
95. Bloomberg over Obama? I don't get that. I don't see any advantage |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
99. Bloomberg may be a perfectly fine mayor, be he Republican or independent. But... |
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BoneDaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-21-07 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
101. One of the few republicans |
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