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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:50 PM
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Poll question: What is the stupidest line used in a political debate?
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TheZug Donating Member (886 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:51 PM
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1. Caveat: line would have been AWESOME back in 1984!
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:59 PM
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12. Yeah...and the comment about "the youtube" was classic too... Ted Stevens-esque
Everyone under 35 years old in this country simultaneously said.

"WTF?"


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CalGator Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:14 AM
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23. everyone knows it's really a series of YouTubes nt
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:51 PM
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2. correct answer is choice 3:
everything George Bush has ever said in a debate.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:52 PM
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3. "I own a lumber company? That's news to me. You want some wood?"
THAT is the dumbest line in a debate.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:53 PM
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4. wasn't that the debate where Junior had spittle on the outside of his mouth the whole time?
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TheZug Donating Member (886 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:54 PM
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8. Yeah, you're right.
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Cabcere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:54 PM
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6. That's exactly what I was going to say.
:toast: Great minds, Fenris. :hi:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:58 PM
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10. ding ding ding
Jeebus. What an ass.
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Splinter Cell Donating Member (498 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:00 AM
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13. A classic
That is the dumbest thing I can recall in a major debate.
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:54 PM
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5. the stupidest meme is the one that goes 'it takes more than words'
and then grovel at the feet of someone's words at the end of a debate.
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:54 PM
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7. Hillary just has some really bad advisors
LOL
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:57 PM
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9. TMZ is calling Obama "the Black Vanilla Ice" for his copying
Edited on Thu Feb-21-08 11:59 PM by billbuckhead
Obama's copying has now entered the culture and will be part of his legacy.

<http://www.tmz.com/tmz_main_video?titleid=1427295040>
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:01 AM
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15. That's President Black Vanilla Ice to you. nt
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:04 AM
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17. Notice how much better the originals are?
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:06 AM
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18. Okay, I'd take President Deval Patrick.
:shrug:
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:08 AM
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19. Ironically Hillary beat Deval, Teddy and Kerry in Massachusetts
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:11 AM
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21. Ironically, Obama has beaten Clinton in the last 10 states. nt
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:17 AM
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26. The media beat Hillary, Deval Patrick's doppelganger just got the votes
Besides, Hillary won all the bigger states.
<http://www.tmz.com/tmz_main_video?titleid=1427295040>
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:23 AM
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31. Oh I know, those states don't count.
Lots of states aren't counting these days.
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jackson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:20 AM
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30. The people of Masschusetts had heard Axlerod's lines before so it didn't work there
Even though Obama had Kennedy, Kerry powerhouses behind him along with the governor.
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Moochy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:10 AM
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20. Said the HRC supporter gleefully
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 11:58 PM
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11. Remember when ** said something about wood?
That was the stupidest line. Or that time when he was talking to his ear piece. That was pretty stupid too.
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CalGator Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:13 AM
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22. "Need some wood?" is classic. lol
* was chock full of bits like that. Too bad enough Americans liked his moronic aw shucks demeanor to elect his ass.
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democrattotheend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:00 AM
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14. I totally forgot about that Poland line
Kind of depressing...Kerry kicked Bush's ass in those debates and it didn't matter.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:03 AM
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16. I don't see what the deal is; you can xerox change
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:18 AM
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27. I saw a video of it on the YouTube.
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BlackVelvet04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:16 AM
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24. Neither....
"That's just silly".... is the stupidest line to use when you've obviously been nailed and are trying to squirm out of it. It sounded like a 5 year old.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:19 AM
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28. To which the audience cheered, after they booed Hillary's Xerox line.
And don't claim it was a partisan Obama crowd; they gave Hillary a standing O for her Edwards-plagiarizing finish.
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BlackVelvet04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:53 AM
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32. So? Sometimes people are really, really
stupid. People cheered bush, too.
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 01:23 AM
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35. I think you should suggest that line to the Hillary campaign....
"Sometimes people are really, really stupid"


That will really reel in the votes.
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JimGinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:17 AM
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25. Dan Quayle, Comparing His Experience To JFK
And Lloyd Bentsen had the best debate line ever!


:rofl:
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ElkHunter Donating Member (300 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:55 AM
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33. That was a classic...
One of Lloyd Benstsen's finest moments.
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gravity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 12:19 AM
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29. The Poland line hands down
:rofl:
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FlyingSquirrel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-22-08 01:20 AM
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34. Where's the beef?
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