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Wed Sep-03-08 08:40 PM
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WTF was that desk story about? It didn't even make sense. |
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What do desks have to do with "freedom?"
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:41 PM
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1. His jokes seems to always fall flat |
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:41 PM
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I didn't understand it at all...glad I'm not the only one!
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:42 PM
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3. True story, unfortunately....Snopes: |
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:53 PM
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13. may be true, but it's still lame. |
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:42 PM
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4. I think it was meant to highlight that McCain is so old that... |
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that when Huckabee was a kid - mccain bought a desk for him? :shrug:
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:42 PM
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5. I didn't get it either. |
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From the response it sounds like it fell flat with the delegates too.
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:43 PM
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6. Ok, glad I wasn't the only one who didn't get it. |
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That was a really stupid analogy.
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:43 PM
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Edited on Wed Sep-03-08 08:44 PM by Sonicmedusa
Those kid's hard working, tax-paying mommies and daddies paid for those damn desks....And they should have stormed that school and demanded that teacher be fired.
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:51 PM
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10. Fuck that, I paid for those desks. |
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:46 PM
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8. It's a variant of an old adage. |
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Edited on Wed Sep-03-08 08:47 PM by sailor65
Over the years I've heard it in many forms, but the basic premise is gratitude to the Veterans who bought for you much of what you have. Which is a very valid parable.
But this sounds like a spin on "My sister's best friend's cousin....." Although I could be wrong.
And the truth of the story certainly has nothing to do with the GOP. But you aren't surprised by that, right? :-)
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:50 PM
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9. If it wasn't for veterans there'd be no school? |
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:wtf:
I'm a vet and that made no effing sense at all.
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:52 PM
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12. Well, I hope it doesn't hurt when you take a shower anyway. |
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Those were my two takeaways from his speech.
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:51 PM
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11. I thought it was a good story. |
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You don't have to earn your desks, because these old soldiers already earned them for you. Just like you don't have to earn your freedom.
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:57 PM
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16. Earned them how? Earn my freedom how? |
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You see, I don't get that. George Washington and the founding fathers earned my freedom for me and the rest of America.
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:55 PM
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14. Without the military you would have nothing. You would BE nothing. |
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The military is the will of the state, the state the will of the military and the people the backbone of the will, or maybe the other way around...
Standard RW stuff the world around. Hardcore nazi BS in a country that no one has pondered actually invading (to take deasks for instance) since about 1840.
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:57 PM
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15. I'm not ragging on the military, just the weirdness of his story. |
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Edited on Wed Sep-03-08 09:00 PM by valerief
Outside, on the other hand, the police are rounding up and arresting reporters and protesters.
Bit of a disconnect there.
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:59 PM
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19. Actually, only state invaded (and occupied) since 1840 is Alaska (WW2) |
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Wed Sep-03-08 09:01 PM
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22. Alaska and Hawaii were both not states at the time. (Both were attacked in different ways) |
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:58 PM
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17. Desk Story = Kids don't get desks without Public Schools buying them . . . nt |
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:59 PM
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18. That is he GOP's education plan |
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To buy more desks. I guess.
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Wed Sep-03-08 09:02 PM
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24. Now I get it!!!! Thanks. |
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Wed Sep-03-08 08:59 PM
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20. She was on the PTA you know! POW/PTA 08! |
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Wed Sep-03-08 09:00 PM
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21. the Vietnamese army was going to force kids to stand |
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After they successfully invaded. It was in their plans that we found.
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Wed Sep-03-08 09:01 PM
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23. To show how McCain "won" Huckabee's desk as a child by his military service. |
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I guess it is a time travelling thing.
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Wed Sep-03-08 09:02 PM
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25. I turned to my partner and said the same thing... |
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I was all, "huh?"
Oh yeah, and POW.
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Wed Sep-03-08 09:05 PM
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26. Those kids could have had much nicer desks if the defense industry didn't suck so much... |
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ from the public treasury
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