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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 01:15 PM
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Bush Disrespects Veterans
Bush Disrespects Veterans
http://blog.clark04.com/
At Clark Headquarters we were watching the Veteran's Day festivities at Arlington National Cemetery on television. The camera gets a shot of George W. Bush. He's got his hand over his heart and is chatting with the guy next to him through the whole thing. It was same kind of whisper you use in church. It was unbelievable. This while the Old Guard that guards the tomb of the unknown soldier is being deployed for the first time since Vietnam. We need a leader who respects the service of men and women in uniform. We need Wes Clark.
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SlavesandBulldozers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 01:19 PM
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1. yeah we do
as Dean's Veep. One thing's for absolutely sure, we need a new President - anybody will do.
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glarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 01:30 PM
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3. You mean you don't want that prancing moron with the mad glint in his eye?
Edited on Tue Nov-11-03 01:32 PM by glarius
He's on CNN right now sprewing his inanities!...Please do the rest of us in the world a favour and VOTE HIM OUT in 2004....Any of your candidates are a HUGE improvement!....(I kinda like Clark, but it's not my business)....Good luck!!!....:)

P.S....I wonder why he didn't wear his cute little flight suit today?
P.S. Again....No disrespect meant to flight suits
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laruemtt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 01:30 PM
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2. he disrespects them
by his very existence. he should be ashamed, but he's too stupid to feel shame. how can he go through today and face himself.
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silverlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 01:31 PM
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4. it's a pattern
I know a guy who attended the same Methodist Church as the pres in Midland, TX. He used to doze off and Laura would nudge him. This of course was prior to him being "born again." I don't think he goes to church any longer. Strange? He's the strangest predident ever to hold office, and now that I think about it, hes also "estranged."
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nn2004 Donating Member (172 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 01:37 PM
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5. Blogs are now breaking news sources?
Or another way to get a candidate message into LBN?
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DUreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 02:25 PM
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6. good question, I can see where a Blog could Break a story
this may even be one of them.

But you are right about the potential for misuse
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 02:42 PM
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7. Disrespect?
Maybe next year he can invite Rush Limbag to make a nice, stirring patriotic rant.
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 02:42 PM
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8. "chatting with the guy next to him"
Saturday night I went to a Marine Corps birthday celebration with several family members, where my son is stationed. There were three or four hundred Marines, Navy and family. We saw video of the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps giving his speech, etc., watched the ceremonial drills, heard the visiting general speak, the chaplin, the recorded march music, etc.

Every second there was speaking or ceremony, there was silence where you could hear a pencil drop across the ballroom. The troops were so good at it, we citizens caught it, too. One guy coughed one time, but he muffled it so well, you could probably still hear the pencil drop.

And these Marines were pent-up with partying, all decked out like their wives and girlfriends, with many probably impatient for an end to the obligatory speeches and on to the zodiac boat filled with ice and free beer. I am ex-plain-old-Army myself, but I readily admit that the Marines are the best branch.

We all know our president is no where near the man a Marine is, but the least he could do during the ceremony is keep his damn mouth shut for a few minutes.

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loudnclear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 02:52 PM
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9. Left the ceremoney to raise money too...to stay in power to carry on
this insane war. He couldn't disrepected them anymore than he did on that aircraft carrier staged with lies and deceptions. Our troops deseve better than that.
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It was not a pretzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 02:57 PM
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10. Just seen him on TV
How the hell he gets away with it is beyond me. He chatted with the guy next to him, figited like a 3 year old and poorly stifled a yawn.

He is a shit stain on the face of humanity :mad:
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-03 11:03 PM
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11. Not the least bit surprising.
Remember during the 1992 debate pig Sr. kept looking at his watch?

Quite obvious these stupid BULLshyters rather be somwhere else. Moving shrubs comes to mind.
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