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linazelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 01:50 AM
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MTP Rerun on now: Russert said Jack-off gave 3M to Cons, 1.5M to dems
He asks Obama that in the context of "reform" and Obama doesn't call him on it.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 02:01 AM
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1. Russert is full of crap. That $1.5 million was donated LEGALLY by the....
...tribes to Democratic Party candidates.

Abramoff give a lot more than $3.5 million DIRECTLY to the GOP in return for political favors.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 02:04 AM
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2. I think one of the big points of the OP is that it doesn't bode well for
one of the Democratic Party's supposed big guns, leading lights, hope for the future, to let something like this slide.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 02:09 AM
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3. I think they HAVE answered it....they haven't let it slide at all.
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okieinpain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 02:10 AM
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4. I thought he did bring up the fact that the 1.5 was from the tribes
directly. I know I heard someone say it, but it might not have been obama.
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tatertop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 02:47 AM
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5. Howard Dean has really hit back on this
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