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Default OT RIP Ted Kennedy

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:06:49 -0500, Gregory Morrow wrote:

> George wrote:
>
>> blake murphy wrote:
>>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:43:14 -0400, George wrote:
>>>
>>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>>> "Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> In article >,
>>>>>> "Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Like the guy or not, he has an impressive record.
>>>>>> I'm a Coolidge Republican, but I never wished him dead. He's the
>>>>>> loss of a great counterpoint that appears to have the upper hand
>>>>>> for the time being. He had to smile about that before he passed.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I doubt it. So much pervasive harm has been done by the past two
>>>>> Republican administrations that he knew, as everyone with any
>>>>> sense knows, that generations of Americans will be paying for it
>>>>> while jackasses blame the Democrats for not fixing it faster.
>>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> the invasion of iraq certainly began under bush. or is that o.k.
>>> because kennedy started vietnam?
>>>
>>> blake

>> Who said it was? You are just totally focused on the idea that
>> liberal = extra super good and conservative = absolute no good. My
>> belief is there is no fundamental difference because the politicians
>> work for the special interests with the Vietnam war offered as an
>> example.

>
> I wonder if blake thinks that Afghanistan will be Obama's *Vietnam*...???
>
> Obama has not only continued the Bush strategies in Iraq and Afghanistan,
> but has ratcheted up our involvement in the latter...


he should get the **** out of there, too.

blake