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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:34 AM
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At this moment Barack is in a D.C. Dunkin' Donuts ! Where's the Hill Hidin' ???

"Hey, Hill,Baby...grab some bench,kiddo!"
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Saturday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:36 AM
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1. This is a flamebaiting thread. n/t
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:36 AM
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2. His campaign spends a lot of money at Dunkin Donuts!
That is one of their major expenditures, Dunkin Donuts! Boxes o' Joe for the volunteers, no doubt!
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:41 AM
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7. You go,Steph...LMAO!

For HER,we ride!!!
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:48 AM
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10. Obama Volunteers Love Donuts!
http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_8201350?source=commented-

Barack Obama

A 30-second Super Bowl ad: $250,000

Telephone expenses, paid to Verizon on Nov. 29: $70,308.48

Printing costs for the last three months of 2007: $709,579.47

Postage expenses for the last three months of 2007: about $1 million

Website hosting expenses, paid to Blue State Digital LCC on Oct. 3: $71,527.56

Payments to Dunkin' Donuts during the last three months of 2007: $352.69

Travel and lodging in the last three months of 2007: about $5.7 million

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Ads that began airing Jan. 23 in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah: more than $1.6 million

Telephone expenses, paid to Verizon on Nov. 27: $14,279.55

Printing costs for the last three months of 2007: about $1.3 million

Postage expenses for the last three months of 2007: $332,001.22

Office equipment expense, paid to US21 Computers Inc. on Dec. 19: $50,236.12

Event expense at Morton's steakhouse in Chicago, paid on Oct. 3: $18,551.80

Travel in the last three months of 2007: about $4.1 million

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russian33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:08 AM
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15. how did he get such a cheap rate for superbowl?
don't these things go for millions of dollars?
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:50 AM
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11. lol, I wish we had more of them in NYC!
:hi:

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The_Commonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:07 AM
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13. Dunkin' Donuts is owned by the Carlyle Group...
...the company that brought us George W Bush, 9/11 and the Iraq War.

I certainly hope he enjoys his coffee.
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:08 AM
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19. Oh dear....
gulp gulp...my dear friend owns 7 D&D's in Northeast Florida...so I don't give a rats patootie who owns it. Good research,though.:applause:
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:31 AM
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21. Expendable principles, eh?
You don't give a rat's patooie that the Carlyle Group owns Dunkin Donuts.

Guess what? Neither does your candidate.

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/06/23_briody.html

What Did Eisenhower Mean When He Warned of a Military Industrial Complex? Take a Look at the Carlyle Group.

A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW With Dan Briody, Author of "The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group"

They are at the epicenter of the military-industrial-complex-Bush-Cheney-crony-capitalism administration. The Carlyle Group is the model example of the nearly seamless connection between the Bush administration, self-enrichment and companies who receive big government defense contracts.

The roster of Carlyle “consultants” reads like a who’s who guide to government officials of the 1980s, starting with former president George Bush, former secretary of state James Baker, and former defense secretary Frank Carlucci.

The most chilling aspect of Briody’s book is that the political connections and lobbying activities he unmasks are not illegal.

It is a testament to the brain dead mainstream media that the relationship between the Carlyle group and the Bush-Cheney cartel is not a national scandal.


Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sln-W8N0b0

Maybe it's a testament to the braindead aspect of Obama's supporters that they shrug this off because Dunkin Donuts is such a "benign" American institution.
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:37 AM
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3. Classy!
Some Obama supporters are so classy.

:sarcasm:

Hmm... Hillary or Obama? Hillary or Obama?
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:40 AM
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5. Interesting.


Grab a Cheesesteak and relax.
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:44 AM
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9. Why the "English Only" cheesesteak place?
Interesting.

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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:06 AM
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18. Don't read too deeply...I'm a Jim's Steaks guy, only pic I had!
:popcorn: :yourock: :headbang:
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:39 AM
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4. what the hell is wrong
with some people?

Dickishness abounds.
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Mags Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:41 AM
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6. How tacky! But nothing new for the BO people
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:43 AM
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8. Like trying to Censor the National News?
Edited on Tue Feb-12-08 09:43 AM by GalleryGod

Mika liked your post...so did I.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:51 AM
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12. Where is Hillary?
I "donut" know.

Maybe she's "sprinkling" the Potomac states with her
stellar speeches.

Then again, maybe she's still in her "long johns" and sleeping in.
Campaigning is exhausting. The last time I saw her, her eyes
were looking pretty "glazed". You know what happens when a candidate
is tired. The "bear claws" really come out.

No reason to get your emotions in a "twist". Hillary will be
out campaigning soon.

Lots of "powder" out there on those DC streets, so it should be
an interesting election day.

(Hey man. Don't scoff! You post flamebait, I hit you back
with revolting, barf-inducing puns!)

:)



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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:08 AM
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14. baiting?
what a waste
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:11 AM
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16. Another Master Baiter
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HooptieWagon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:16 AM
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17. "Some people" say
she's making an appearence at Penn's NYC book-signing event. I guess he called in a favor for the 41.5M she still owes him... LOL! Lie with dogs and you get fleas... does this country really want another flea-bitten old war-monger for Pres?
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:18 AM
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20. At this moment, Barack Obama is shilling for a company owned by THE CARLYLE GROUP



The Carlyle White House

By William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Columnist, Tuesday 14 November 2006

It was bad enough when the Carlyle Group bought Dunkin' Donuts last year, forcing millions of conscientious caffeine addicts to look elsewhere for their daily fix. Now, it appears Carlyle has added 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to its formidable portfolio of acquisitions.

The Carlyle Group achieved national attention in the early days of the Iraq occupation, especially after Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" exposed the firm's umbilical ties to the Bush family and the House of Saud. For the uninitiated, Carlyle is a privately-owned equity firm organized and run by former members of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations.

Currently, Carlyle manages more than $44 billion in 42 different investment funds, which is an interesting fact in and of itself: Carlyle could lay claim to only a meager $12 billion in funds in December of 2001. Thanks to their ownership of United Defense Industries, a major military contractor that sells a whole galaxy of weapons systems to the Pentagon, Carlyle's profits skyrocketed after the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Some notable present and former employees of Carlyle include former president George H.W. Bush, who resigned in 2003; James Baker III, Bush Sr.'s secretary of state and king fixer; and George W. Bush, who served on Carlyle's board of directors until his run for the Texas governorship. One notable former client of Carlyle was the Saudi BinLaden Group, which sold its investment back to the firm a month after the September 11 attacks. Until the October 2001 sellout, Osama bin Laden himself had a financial interest in the same firm that employed the two presidents Bush.

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/66/23859
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