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Gregory Morrow[_315_] Gregory Morrow[_315_] is offline
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Default OT RIP Ted Kennedy

George wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:47:18 -0400, George wrote:
>>
>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> TammyM wrote:
>>>>>> How long will you be singing the "Bush did it song"? Since the
>>>>>> Kennedy name is in play you do know for example that it was
>>>>>> Kennedy's brother who got us into the Vietnam War with a planned
>>>>>> no win position where the only outcome was lots of military
>>>>>> suppliers made lots of money? Nothing new began or ended with
>>>>>> Bush.
>>>>> Wasn't it the Eisenhower administration that initially sent
>>>>> "advisers" to Vietnam? Maybe I'm misremembering that, it's early
>>>>> and I haven't yet had my coffee.
>>>> Wasn't it also the Eisenhower administration that helped to end the
>>>> civil war in Vietnam by dividing the country in two with the
>>>> promise of a plebiscite on reunification, and then backed the
>>>> South's crooked regime when they refused to hold the promised
>>>> election because they knew that the north would win?
>>> Its before my time. According to what I know Eisenhower noodled
>>> around and Kennedy got the ball rolling.
>>>
>>> My point being that the "Bush did it" song is really tiring because
>>> we have a history of politicians who operate as directed by their
>>> special interest owners.

>>
>> except bush began the problems *we are having now*. maybe that's
>> why you hear the 'bush did it' song.
>>
>> blake

>
> Really? So when Clinton appointed Obamas right hand man Emanual to
> Freddie Mac around the time when they started cooking the books there
> it was Bushes fault? If your souffle fell would it be Bushes fault?



Yup...heehee...

blake and his political ilk are just ****ed because even with the Obamessiah
elected and a Dem Congress *everything* they've so far attempted has
*failed*...

blake reminds me of some antediluvian Republican types I knew as a kid who
even in their old age and up to their deaths - in the 1970's - were still
bitching about "that damn Roosevelt*"...

[*Franklin, not Teddy...]


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Greg