Pryderi
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Sat Jan-22-11 12:21 AM
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| When I voted for Barack Obama in 2008, in all ways, I knew I wasn't voting for JFK. |
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Edited on Sat Jan-22-11 12:22 AM by Pryderi
Rather than aborting the Bay of Pigs operation, JFK decided to botch it. Rather than getting out of Vietnam, JFK escalated the conflict.
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| demmiblue
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Sat Jan-22-11 12:23 AM
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| 1. Obama is much better than JFK. |
| Hannah Bell
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Sat Jan-22-11 12:24 AM
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| 2. yeah, obama's doing a much better job of escalating the winger wars. |
| TheWraith
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Sat Jan-22-11 12:30 AM
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| 4. Yep, escalating them by withdrawing from Iraq and setting a date for Afghanistan. |
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He's so sneaky, he's escalating them by appearing to withdraw!
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| Webster Green
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Sat Jan-22-11 12:57 AM
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Replacing troops with "private contractors" is not exactly withdrawing.
Setting a date for Afghanistan? Are you serious? We'll be there for the next 60 years. (If our fascist empire lasts that long, which is unlikely.)
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Sat Jan-22-11 01:00 AM
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| 7. "appearing" is beginning to be the operative word in this admin. |
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it's all about appearances.
kind of like a tv commercial for poison dogfood.
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| apocalypsehow
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Sat Jan-22-11 12:24 AM
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| 3. All true. And factually irrefutable. Rec. n/t. |
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Sat Jan-22-11 12:32 AM
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| 5. Kicked and recced, still zero. But well said. |
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People forget that the "heroes" of yesteryear were every bit as bound by politics and limited judgment as candidates are today. Hell: Roosevelt screwed up a bunch of times be overreaching, not to mention being responsible for approving fucking internment camps for Japanese-Americans.
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| Webster Green
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Sat Jan-22-11 10:43 AM
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Maybe we could have learned something from the past.
Can't believe people are giving Obama a pass on his fucked policies, merely because previous presidents have screwed up too.
Weak, weak argument.
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| Pryderi
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Sat Jan-22-11 09:08 PM
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| 9. -1 I can't believe people give Kennedy a pass on his |
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fucked policies just because he was assassinated.
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Sat Jan-22-11 09:19 PM
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| 10. What policies would those be? |
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President Kennedy kept us at peace when his advisers counseled war during the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
He even ordered America's withdrawal from Vietnam.
President Kennedy worked to bring justice to all Americans.
President Kennedy got us heading for the moon.
And he did all that and more in 1,036 days.
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