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Wed Sep-14-05 11:21 PM
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| Heard the best name for the Katrina scandal... |
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WaterGate
Think I heard it on Air America.
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| libertypirate
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Wed Sep-14-05 11:27 PM
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| 1. Full circle, wouldn't that be ironic /nt |
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Wed Sep-14-05 11:28 PM
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| 3. The irony is delicious. nt |
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Wed Sep-14-05 11:27 PM
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| 2. I've seen 'Standing Watergate' and 'High Watergate' ... there |
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doesn't seem to be a name appropriate for the scale of death, destruction and devsatation.
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Wed Sep-14-05 11:31 PM
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| 4. I like just plain WaterGate. |
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Raises it to the level of the scandal that brought down Nixon.
Simple. Un-elegant.
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| whistle
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Wed Sep-14-05 11:37 PM
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| 5. Also heard "Floodgate" |
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Wed Sep-14-05 11:37 PM
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| Bernardo de La Paz
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Wed Sep-14-05 11:40 PM
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| 7. DU's own Tari coined "Floodgate". Better than Watergate, just as potent. |
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Wed Sep-14-05 11:45 PM
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| 8. Watergate seems more potent to me. |
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Since Nixon's Watergate, there have been so many xxxgates.
I agree with libertypirate that renaming this scandal Watergate brings it full circle. Powerful. Makes people stop and think.
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| Bernardo de La Paz
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Thu Sep-15-05 02:12 AM
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| 11. Watergate is not bad, but would only lead to confusion with 1972-74. |
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Thu Sep-15-05 02:13 AM
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Watergate was bad juju scandal, of course. Led to the rampant distrust of government throughout American society today.
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Wed Sep-14-05 11:47 PM
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| 9. I thought the same thing yesterday in an epiphany .... |
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Wed Sep-14-05 11:50 PM
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Great minds and all that.
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