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04-22-2012, 08:53 AM
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Maybe so merrylander...maybe so. My decision to vote will most probably hinge on the VP running mate.
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04-22-2012, 09:07 AM
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Maybe so merrylander...maybe so. My decision to vote will most probably hinge on the VP running mate.
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Interesting. The office of VP is commonly referred to as the most useless job in the world.
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04-22-2012, 11:14 AM
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Interesting. The office of VP is commonly referred to as the most useless job in the world.
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It certainly was this time around. And as I have said on a few occasions...I voted their donkeys in.
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04-22-2012, 11:30 AM
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It certainly was this time around. And as I have said on a few occasions...I voted their donkeys in.
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John Adams -
"The Vice Presidency is the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
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04-22-2012, 12:40 PM
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John Adams -
"The Vice Presidency is the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
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IMO its going to take two men two terms to get this country back to what it should be. The following men went from that so called menial office to presidency.
"I am vice president. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything." — John Adams, elected vice president 1788 and 1792.
"The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery." — Thomas Jefferson in 1797, when he was vice president.
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04-22-2012, 09:28 AM
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Wasn't it Alben Barkley, FDR's Veep, that said the office was not worth a bucket of warm spit.
Oops, he was Truman's Veep.
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04-22-2012, 04:56 PM
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The twenties and thirties were racked with economic volatility, organized crime activity and labor unrest. The fourties ravaged by war and Fascism. The 60's full of social upheaval, anti-war protests and the steady stream of flag draped coffins returning from Vietnam. In the '70s we battled the devastating effects of Disco, crappy cars and terrible interior decorating. In the eighties Saint Ronnie inspired a generation of Gordon Gekko-esque corporate vampires to spend the next thirty years bleeding the country dry of any domestic industry and strong paying jobs in the name of "satisfying" their greed. (As if such a thing is even possible.)
And here we are, Pat. Actually arguing with people as to whether or not a little positive news about an increase in exports and the market being over 13k is a good thing..............................
Did you ever in your life think you would have to engage in such an insane argument?
Dave
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04-22-2012, 06:01 PM
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Did you ever in your life think you would have to engage in such an insane argument?
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Amazingly, the best decade for America in our lifetimes (and probably several decades more) was probably under the tutelage of Slick Willie. No war, relatively low unemployment, a balanced budget, and the stock market was booming. So what did the loyal opposition do? Go the to the brink over a friggin' BJ (while themselves getting their own BJ's from the Callista's of the world). Go figure.
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04-22-2012, 08:40 PM
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Amazingly, the best decade for America in our lifetimes (and probably several decades more) was probably under the tutelage of Slick Willie. No war, relatively low unemployment, a balanced budget, and the stock market was booming. So what did the loyal opposition do? Go the to the brink over a friggin' BJ (while themselves getting their own BJ's from the Callista's of the world). Go figure.
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Indeed!
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04-24-2012, 04:50 PM
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Amazingly, the best decade for America in our lifetimes (and probably several decades more) was probably under the tutelage of Slick Willie. No war, relatively low unemployment, a balanced budget, and the stock market was booming. So what did the loyal opposition do? Go the to the brink over a friggin' BJ (while themselves getting their own BJ's from the Callista's of the world). Go figure.
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Slick got in at the right time, and he got out at the right time. Rather be lucky as good any day.
BTW, Slick was never charged for a receiving a blow job, and he didn't lose his law license because of that charge.
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