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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 09:21 PM
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Republicans Using Phone Banks [Swedes for Bush???]
The Republican Party is using what's called phone banks to connect with voters, and they have three very unique volunteers.

"I'm from Sweden, the capitol of Sweden, Stockholm, and we're here to campaign for Bush-Cheney," Rickard Nyman, Sweden resident campaigning for Bush, said.

In all, 15 Swedes came to America to help the Rrepublican Party re-elect Bush. The reason- "I think that the world is going to be a more safer place if the president is re-elected," Nyman said. ???

"Bush stands for a secure world. I think the whole world will be more free world and a global free world and a freer society here in U.S. and in Europe," Nils Hedberg, Sweden resident campaigning for Bush, said.

Something they say Kerry can't provide.

"No, you don't know what that guy stands for, and that's a problem. You know, we are living in a time that we can't put our trust into a man that you don't know what he's going to think the next day," Nyman said.
http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=2508133

Sounds fishy to me (swedish fish?)
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Joy Anne Donating Member (830 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 09:23 PM
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1. Norway
I know of some people from Norway who are campaigning for Kerry in Pennsylvania (on their own dime).
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 09:23 PM
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2. Didn't Bush say the Swedes didn't have a military?
He INSISTED that Sweden didn't have an Army, even after someone pointed out he was probably thinking of Switzerland, which actually has a strong National Guard.

I thought Swedes were smart...
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dogtag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 09:34 PM
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8. Swedes are smart, but every country has its lumpkins.
Most, however, don't elect them president!
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Born Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 04:32 AM
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14. Is it Swedes that make the great adult films?
I seem to remember a line in the movie Splash where John Candy said all the great adult films were from Sweden. Considering the screwing the bush coward is doing to America it would make sense to have a few professionals to work for him.
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Celebrandil Donating Member (254 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 05:08 AM
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16. Unfortunately...
Unfortunately, they misuse the word Swedish. When I was in SF you could get pornos on your hotel room. Two out of eight had the word in the title, but obviously had nothing to do with Sweden. I think it comes from the fact that some of the first studies on sexuality was made in Sweden. Do you remember Taxi Driver, the movie? The guy takes his date to a porno flick. But it's not a porno flick... it's an educational movie in Swedish. Well that was in the 70s. When it comes to sex today, I think Swedes are much less openminded than what people think.
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 09:24 PM
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3. Hard to believe. We had student nurses from Norway. They said
they hold no grudges against the Americans, but they hate Bush. I am sure Sweden is no different.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 09:24 PM
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4. What a crock of Bull shit
Edited on Mon Nov-01-04 09:28 PM by saigon68
94% of Swedes do not approve of the CHIMP

To them he is what was left after the real mother left the hospital with the baby---- and Mrs Chimpanzee brought home the after-birth (the placenta) for herself.

As in doctor to new chimp mom, "Why madam, thats a real fine complexion on that placenta you have there !!!!
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burrowowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 11:10 PM
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11. My sister who lives in Sweden
and has had 4 Tex-Mex Swedes. Called my other sister and said after the debates everybody in Sweden is joyous Kerry will win. My sister said: Get your absentee ballot in ASAP!
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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 09:29 PM
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5. What Propaganda Crap is This? (nt)
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dogtag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 09:33 PM
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6. Leave it to Shrub to find the dumbest 15 Swedes and
fly them to Texas! If Sweden could vote in this election it would go 99.999999999% for Kerry.

I'm from Sweden and can attest to the fact that we have a very small lunatic evangelical fringe as do most countries. That's probably the group these jokers represent...if they aren't a figment of someone's imagination.
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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 09:34 PM
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7. I'm sure they're real
You can find whackos everywhere.
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Cats Against Frist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 09:44 PM
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9. LOL Holy crap, I just about wet my pants
Swedes for Bush.

They have a few conservatives/fascists over there, though. Some of the youth are just as wasteful and consumerist as people here. It's only a matter of time if they keep watching our crappy television.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-04 10:59 PM
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10. I Didn't Know they got FauxNews in Sweden
Where are they getting all the talking points from?
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lakeguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 12:42 AM
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12. unfortunately the conservative movement seems to be
picking up a little steam over there. i'm not sayin that the swedes are all bush lovin neocons, but one of my friends over there supports the war. he's one out of a hundred though.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 04:03 AM
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13. The assholes who support the war
Are mostly people with no relatives fighting it in the trenches. And they sure as hell like the "CHENEY MF" wouldn't fight it themselves as they are cowards.

Behind the lines these people are all Cowardly War Mongers.
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da_chimperor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 04:37 AM
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15. Wha!? Every swede I've met despises the chimp.
:shrug:
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Celebrandil Donating Member (254 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 05:15 AM
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17. This guy is 23 and a member of...
MUF, the youth organisation of Moderaterna, the largest conservative party in Sweden. In fact, I used to be a member of the same group and I can promise you that even among the conservatives very few likes Bush. Now I've grown up and consider myself very much in the center of the political spectrum, that is to the left in America. However, there are still some young vocal conservative clowns, who believe the world would be better off without any taxes whatsoever.
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