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Shanty Oilish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 04:18 AM
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Great moments in primaries past
"I'LL WHIP HIS ASS!"

Who said it?
A. Jimmy Carter
B. Al Gore
C. Ann Richards
D. Clara Peller

About whom?

A. Walter Mondale
B. Jesse Jackson
C. Ted Kennedy
D. Gary Hart
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 08:07 AM
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1. I give up
Who was it about who?
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Shanty Oilish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 05:21 PM
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2. kick
:kick:
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 05:46 PM
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3. A about C?
No love lost, Carter-Kennedy, 1980 - that's for sure.
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Shanty Oilish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 06:06 PM
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4. Jimmy Carter
From americanpresident.org:

Three days after the embassy takeover in Iran, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Incumbents rarely face a challenge from within their own party, but Kennedy was encouraged by Carter's weak poll ratings. When told of the Kennedy challenge, Carter snapped to reporters: "I'll whip his ass."

Kennedy came close to defeating Carter as the party split into two wings. The day after the president lost the New York primary, a tabloid headline brayed, "Big Apple to Carter: Get Smarter!" The president limped into that summer's convention weakened by the troubles at home and abroad, but he did have more delegates than Kennedy, and if they stuck to their pledges to vote for him, he would win the nomination. Kennedy desperately tried to get the convention to repeal the system of pledged delegates, arguing that if delegates could vote freely, they would dump Carter. But the convention refused to change its rules and Carter won renomination. To get Kennedy's endorsement Carter was forced to make many policy concessions to the liberal senator. Much of the Democratic platform reflected Kennedy's views, and some of it was an outright repudiation of the Carter record.

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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 06:12 PM
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5. Hah! Good to be old. Where's my prize?
I prefer to take the lump sum payout rather than amortize it over 20 years, thank you very much!
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Shanty Oilish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 07:58 PM
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6. Beers for faygokid
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 08:24 PM
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7. Much appreciated.
Coulda used the cash, but those look like Black & Tans, so I am good to go. Cheers!
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