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Old 10-31-2006, 08:49 PM   #1
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A bit of spin...but put it in context. The bungled Bush foreign policy has so strapped our armed forces they're having to lower entrance standards to meet recruiting targets. It does harken to the Vietnam era stigma of the lower class bearing the brunt of the burden.

Is Kerry exploiting this stigma? Sure...but if it wasn't coming from his mouth I doubt many people would pay much attention. I don't think for a second Kerry doesn't respect the troops nor does he not realize our military is better educated than it has ever been.

But of more importance, it's our policy that has the troops in a bind...not their intelligence or their skill.

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Old 10-31-2006, 09:08 PM   #2
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John Kerry - man of the people

What John Kerry wanted to imply is that the President has created a mess that "you" don't want to be involved in.

What John Kerry actually implied was that the military is composed of people who were too dumb to do anything else.

Put it in any context you want, and try to rationalize what you think he was trying to say. The fact of the matter is that John Kerry actually managed to do more damage to the Democrat party, which makes me giddy.

It's funny how that works - when you feel a certain way and aren't careful, you might accidentally say what you feel. Now,
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Old 10-31-2006, 09:12 PM   #3
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It's funny how that works - when you feel a certain way and aren't careful, you might accidentally say what you feel. Now,
Like when the GOP alludes to the notion that voting for a Dem is a vote for terrorisim?

People in glass houses...

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Old 10-31-2006, 10:12 PM   #4
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I like Hiliary for President

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Old 10-31-2006, 10:14 PM   #5
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I like Hiliary for President
Did you see her in the last debate?

She was looking pretty HOT

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Old 10-31-2006, 10:26 PM   #6
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The whole thing is that the poor fight the wars for the rich and as soon as someone points that out to them they cry wolf, the facts are that they got themselves into a war they can't find a way out of and by trashing the comments of Kerry and turning the tables they think it will take the blame off of them.

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Old 10-31-2006, 10:27 PM   #7
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People should really listen to this quote in context. Kerry is in no way dissing the troops...it's a bunch of GOP manipulation.

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Old 10-31-2006, 10:30 PM   #8
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spence and skitterpop ....thanks for the halloween scare...

and if you were both being serious ........ than go to hell...

because both of those statements make me wanna barf

Hillary would make a terrible president....and not because she's a woman either........

all she wants to do is rub noses with the british snobby queen.

if she were to be elected...i would no longer want to be an American.
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Yeah. She's pretty hot.


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