Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:49 PM

Logical (8,049 posts)

Wow, unbelievable GOP poker painting....

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In real life Lincoln would be kicking the shit out of all these uncaring idiots! Unbelievable how the GOP spins their history.

On Edit: By uncaring idiots, I mostly mean Reagan, Bush 1 and 2 and Nixon!

Lincoln would 100% be a Democrat today!

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66 replies	Author	Time	Post
Wow, unbelievable GOP poker painting.... (Original post)	Logical	Apr 2012	OP
So would TR... cough Sherman Anti Trust Act cough.	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#1
True!	Logical	Apr 2012	#4
Teddy and Ike would probably change parties today too	lunatica	Apr 2012	#2
Great point! n-t	Logical	Apr 2012	#3
Even Barry Goldwater might flee the Repukes over their homophobia	coalition_unwilling	Apr 2012	#5
Hell, even ronald reagan himself might not want to be seen in this company.	calimary	Apr 2012	#17
They don't get to claim Lincoln, either.	sadbear	Apr 2012	#12
Teddy DID leave the party.	GoCubsGo	Apr 2012	#27
There were attempts to get Ike to run as a Democrat in 1948	starroute	Apr 2012	#33
What do you mean today?	hootinholler	Apr 2012	#55
Thanks! I learned something today	lunatica	Apr 2012	#58
Ike had trouble deciding which party to run under	Harry Back	Apr 2012	#63
Knowing Nixon, he's holding 5 Aces with nothing wild	Ishoutandscream2	Apr 2012	#6
Reagan is the "center of interest..."	immoderate	Apr 2012	#7
Where is Warren Harding, Cal Coolidge, William Taft?	sarge43	Apr 2012	#8
The POTUSs in the picture...took all their collective brain power.	Rex	Apr 2012	#13
Oh barf. But actually they probably all would be Dems up to Poppy. Did I forget "barf"?!1 n/t	UTUSN	Apr 2012	#9
Reagan's betting jellybeans and noshing poker chips.	Scurrilous	Apr 2012	#10
Interesting, mixing in the dead with the still living.	Rex	Apr 2012	#11
A lot of nerve putting Teddy in that picture.	Orangepeel	Apr 2012	#14
They are laughing at Lincoln's gossip about James Buchanan and William Rufus King	alfredo	Apr 2012	#15
Notice how those old school republicans are leaning away....	alphafemale	Apr 2012	#16
we got one too	SwampG8r	Apr 2012	#18
is that supposed to be jackson or who in the lincoln position?	HiPointDem	Apr 2012	#43
Thomas Jefferson, (on edit: probably not)	Orangepeel	Apr 2012	#48
HaHA!!!! Awesome!!!!!!!!	fascisthunter	Apr 2012	#53
Who painted these,	janx	Apr 2012	#54
Get Woodrow Wilson out of there	Ter	Apr 2012	#64
Treason? How do you figure that?	liberalhistorian	Apr 2012	#66
This begs for captioning. It looks like someone just told a dirty joke. n/t	trackfan	Apr 2012	#19
I thought Kincaid died. nt	rrneck	Apr 2012	#20
Ike would be considered a 'liberal' by today's standards	Cirque du So-What	Apr 2012	#21
I'm actually sympathetic to the old school northeastern/midwest Republicans of yore	Recursion	Apr 2012	#26
Nixon is tape recording the whole thing.	blue neen	Apr 2012	#22
Teddy and Ike do not belong in that picture.	Dawson Leery	Apr 2012	#23
Reagan thought W was a buffoon.	Greybnk48	Apr 2012	#24
I doubt your recollection is correct here.	tritsofme	Apr 2012	#30
Someone posted an excerpt on DU within the past couple of weeks.	Greybnk48	Apr 2012	#34
I think it's nancy who thought w was/is a buffoon. When R. was in office, W was just getting	HiPointDem	Apr 2012	#42
Reagan's an ambiguous figure for me	Recursion	Apr 2012	#25
Yeah, I just loved how he sold his fellow union members down the river	Ikonoklast	Apr 2012	#29
his work as an informant, you mean. not "union work". stooge work from the beginning.	HiPointDem	Apr 2012	#44
Ike, Teddy, and Abe wouldn't even be in the same room	aint_no_life_nowhere	Apr 2012	#28
This has been around for a long time, and there is a Democratic version of this painting, too.	apocalypsehow	Apr 2012	#31
The two morons are together...	kentuck	Apr 2012	#32
But Lincoln, Eisenhower and Roosevelt are the only non-criminals in the picture	Motown_Johnny	Apr 2012	#35
Assholes playing poker.	Initech	Apr 2012	#36
I notice they forgot Hoobert Heever	BumRushDaShow	Apr 2012	#37
. . . and Harding and Coolidge . . .	HughBeaumont	Apr 2012	#40
Besides Lincoln the only good guys I see are TR, Ike and Ford. The rest all were into disaster	jwirr	Apr 2012	#38
Ford was kinda, sorta a straight shooter in my mind UNTIL he...	Brother Buzz	Apr 2012	#41
Ford was rewarded for his role on the Warren coverup^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Commission	hootinholler	Apr 2012	#56
President Lincoln was extremely racist.	ZombieHorde	Apr 2012	#39
Few people ever see past the worldview of their time	bhikkhu	Apr 2012	#50
Weird painting indeed!	Major Hogwash	Apr 2012	#45
I see there are no women allowed at that poker table.	Cleita	Apr 2012	#46
Ladies aren't allowed at poker games!	janx	Apr 2012	#51
Oh gross. I feel my lunch coming up ...	Arugula Latte	Apr 2012	#47
It looks like that was painted with mud and ashes. n/t	bhikkhu	Apr 2012	#49
This is so corny!	janx	Apr 2012	#52
Caption	maxrandb	Apr 2012	#57
Where's Hoover???	maxrandb	Apr 2012	#59
The stakes?	ThoughtCriminal	Apr 2012	#60
No, its cool	Taylor Smite	Apr 2012	#61
Roosevelt would be a Democrat or even a Socialist Party member today.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#62
Wow, unbelievable Democrat Presidents poker painting	KBlagburn	Apr 2012	#65

Response to Logical (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:53 PM

nadinbrzezinski (120,241 posts)

1. So would TR... cough Sherman Anti Trust Act cough.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:54 PM

Logical (8,049 posts)

4. True!

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:53 PM

lunatica (28,842 posts)

2. Teddy and Ike would probably change parties today too

Teddy broke industrial monopolies up and Ike warned against the Military industrial complex. Both would be shocked today.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:53 PM

Logical (8,049 posts)

3. Great point! n-t

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Response to lunatica (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:54 PM

coalition_unwilling (14,180 posts)

5. Even Barry Goldwater might flee the Repukes over their homophobia

and general all-around douchery.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:18 PM

calimary (30,561 posts)

17. Hell, even ronald reagan himself might not want to be seen in this company.

I look forward to the day when the "sainthood" thing is no longer automatically draped all over him.

Probably will take longer than my lifetime. But I've always hoped that eventually the wool would fall from America's eyes about just how damaging this man was to this country, its culture, and its future.

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Response to lunatica (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:00 PM

sadbear (4,218 posts)

12. They don't get to claim Lincoln, either.

I'm sure the heart of today's republican party HATES Lincoln.

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Response to lunatica (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:09 PM

GoCubsGo (13,000 posts)

27. Teddy DID leave the party.

He left the GOP and started the Bull Moose Party. I find it laughable that he's included in that painting in light of that.

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Response to lunatica (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:42 PM

starroute (10,387 posts)

33. There were attempts to get Ike to run as a Democrat in 1948

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Early in that year, Truman's prospects were looking really bad and there was some effort among Democrats to get Eisenhower to challenge him for the nomination. Then Truman's popularity improved and those efforts fizzled.

But the point is that Eisenhower was largely non-political at that point and definitely not a Republican. Even in 1952, he was recruited by the Republican leadership mainly because they were looking for a non-partisan figure who would not be identified with the extreme right and McCarthyism. (Though they did have to cater to the right to the extent of saddling Ike with Nixon as his running-mate.)

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Response to lunatica (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:04 PM

hootinholler (20,628 posts)

55. What do you mean today?

Teddy left and formed the Bull Moose Party taking what was left of progressives in the Republican party with him.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:52 PM

lunatica (28,842 posts)

58. Thanks! I learned something today

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Mon Apr 30, 2012, 12:29 AM

Harry Back (17 posts)

63. Ike had trouble deciding which party to run under

n/t

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Response to Logical (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:55 PM

Ishoutandscream2 (6,054 posts)

6. Knowing Nixon, he's holding 5 Aces with nothing wild

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:57 PM

immoderate (16,450 posts)

7. Reagan is the "center of interest..."

Eewww!

--imm

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:57 PM

sarge43 (17,459 posts)

8. Where is Warren Harding, Cal Coolidge, William Taft?

Surely those bright lights deserve a place at the table.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:03 PM

Rex (34,646 posts)

13. The POTUSs in the picture...took all their collective brain power.

I notice they left out Hoover too...

Just like the GOP to cherry pick history.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:58 PM

UTUSN (34,863 posts)

9. Oh barf. But actually they probably all would be Dems up to Poppy. Did I forget "barf"?!1 n/t

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:58 PM

Scurrilous (24,650 posts)

10. Reagan's betting jellybeans and noshing poker chips.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:00 PM

Rex (34,646 posts)

11. Interesting, mixing in the dead with the still living.

But I bet one thing is true...I bet Little Georgy Wuved Ronny. Teddy, Ike and Abe would all be working, while the other shitstains would be cheating like hell at poker.

I have no comment about Ford.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:08 PM

Orangepeel (12,701 posts)

14. A lot of nerve putting Teddy in that picture.

Fyi, somebody who forms a third party and runs for president against your party's nominee is no longer part of your party.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:11 PM

alfredo (46,554 posts)

15. They are laughing at Lincoln's gossip about James Buchanan and William Rufus King

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:13 PM

alphafemale (13,263 posts)

16. Notice how those old school republicans are leaning away....

Well except for Eisnhower. And he was chosen to stay behind for his prowlness.

He's going to shank them all in the throat.

It was Teddy's Idea.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:27 PM

SwampG8r (8,306 posts)

18. we got one too

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 05:12 PM

HiPointDem (16,879 posts)

43. is that supposed to be jackson or who in the lincoln position?

i think fdr should occupy the lincoln position. he's the archtypal dem as lincoln is the archetypal (though not representative) republican.

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Response to HiPointDem (Reply #43)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 06:02 PM

Orangepeel (12,701 posts)

48. Thomas Jefferson, (on edit: probably not)

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The Democratic party claims a direct lineage to Jefferson, I believe based on the argument that when the Democratic-Republican party split, the federalists generally went with the other side. That's why a some local clubs have "Jefferson-Jackson" dinners.

Whether that is a legitimate claim or not is another issue, but based on that and the hairstyle, I'm betting the image is Jefferson.

on edit: well, maybe not, looking at the chin again. Probably is Jackson.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 06:51 PM

fascisthunter (28,608 posts)

53. HaHA!!!! Awesome!!!!!!!!

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 06:52 PM

janx (21,732 posts)

54. Who painted these,

and when?

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Mon Apr 30, 2012, 12:41 AM

Ter (4,177 posts)

64. Get Woodrow Wilson out of there

We're still paying for his treason.

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Mon Apr 30, 2012, 02:25 AM

liberalhistorian (18,992 posts)

66. Treason? How do you figure that?

And if any of them should be booted from there, it's Jackson, the hateful, racist, Indian-murdering son of a bitch. He'll never get the Cherokee blood and tears off of his hands, the only president to openly and blatantly defy a specific Supreme Court ruling/order.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:28 PM

trackfan (3,232 posts)

19. This begs for captioning. It looks like someone just told a dirty joke. n/t

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:36 PM

rrneck (13,759 posts)

20. I thought Kincaid died. nt

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:47 PM

Cirque du So-What (8,883 posts)

21. Ike would be considered a 'liberal' by today's standards

He was to the left of many so-called 'democrats' in office today. TR wouldn't fit into today's gooper mold either, for that matter. Same with Nixon.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:08 PM

Recursion (25,495 posts)

26. I'm actually sympathetic to the old school northeastern/midwest Republicans of yore

I mean, they came out of the 19th century Whigs, and I'm definitely sympathetic to them.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:48 PM

blue neen (8,032 posts)

22. Nixon is tape recording the whole thing.

He, of course, will win the next poker game. Gerald Ford then will pardon him for cheating.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:54 PM

Dawson Leery (8,353 posts)

23. Teddy and Ike do not belong in that picture.

Nor does Ford.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:02 PM

Greybnk48 (5,158 posts)

24. Reagan thought W was a buffoon.

I read that here a couple of weeks ago when someone posted and excerpt of Reagan's journal. He said he actually voted for Al Gore. That he knew the Bush boy when his dad was VP and he never would vote for him.

Nixon and the Bush's would not be included in that game, and probably not Raygun. Not with these other men.

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Response to Greybnk48 (Reply #24)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:22 PM

tritsofme (10,079 posts)

30. I doubt your recollection is correct here.

Reagan was too taken by Alzheimer's in 2000 to have that sort of capability.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:52 PM

Greybnk48 (5,158 posts)

34. Someone posted an excerpt on DU within the past couple of weeks.

If it was possibly inaccurate, then i will stop repeating it. But I am accurate in relating what it said.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 05:08 PM

HiPointDem (16,879 posts)

42. I think it's nancy who thought w was/is a buffoon. When R. was in office, W was just getting

started in politics and he didn't get elected as governor until after R was out of office & into alzheimers.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:06 PM

Recursion (25,495 posts)

25. Reagan's an ambiguous figure for me

His presidency was a disaster, but his union work in the 30s and 40s was tremendous.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:15 PM

Ikonoklast (21,630 posts)

29. Yeah, I just loved how he sold his fellow union members down the river

during the McCarthy Era.

That was awesome.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 05:13 PM

HiPointDem (16,879 posts)

44. his work as an informant, you mean. not "union work". stooge work from the beginning.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:11 PM

aint_no_life_nowhere (18,936 posts)

28. Ike, Teddy, and Abe wouldn't even be in the same room

breathing the same air.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:31 PM

apocalypsehow (12,751 posts)

31. This has been around for a long time, and there is a Democratic version of this painting, too.

As for the "Lincoln would be a Democrat today" stuff, I have an uncle with political views to the right of Rick Santorum who insists JFK would be a Republican Tea-partier type today. Ditto Harry Truman, says he.

I call nonsense on all that sort of thing: people form political views within the context of their times, and the passions and challenges of the era in which they come to maturity. And adult Lincoln today, born, say, in 1965 or '70, would be a very different human being than the one born in 1809 Kentucky. And a Lincoln put in a time machine in 1865 and transported alive to 2012 would be...well, a time traveler with a lot to sort out and catch up on from the last 147 years.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:32 PM

kentuck (66,179 posts)

32. The two morons are together...

appropriately.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:52 PM

Motown_Johnny (15,457 posts)

35. But Lincoln, Eisenhower and Roosevelt are the only non-criminals in the picture

You need to assume the rest are cheating.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 04:03 PM

Initech (38,849 posts)

36. Assholes playing poker.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 04:05 PM

BumRushDaShow (11,955 posts)

37. I notice they forgot Hoobert Heever

What? Is he under the table handing them cheat cards?

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 04:43 PM

HughBeaumont (20,434 posts)

40. . . . and Harding and Coolidge . . .

. . . all of them REPUBS, all of them supporting a precursor to "Trickle Down" and all of them having a greasy hand in the worst financial disaster of the 20th Century. One where, strangely enough, many wealthy industrialists didn't lose THEIR fortunes.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 04:24 PM

jwirr (20,908 posts)

38. Besides Lincoln the only good guys I see are TR, Ike and Ford. The rest all were into disaster

capitalism and have done a great deal to destroy not only the USA but the world.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 05:03 PM

Brother Buzz (8,366 posts)

41. Ford was kinda, sorta a straight shooter in my mind UNTIL he...

Pardoned Nixon.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:12 PM

hootinholler (20,628 posts)

56. Ford was rewarded for his role on the Warren coverup^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Commission

By getting the VP slot when Agnew resigned. Nixon knew he would be useful.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 04:33 PM

ZombieHorde (23,847 posts)

39. President Lincoln was extremely racist.

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything."

http://www.absolutefacts.com/history/abraham-lincoln/lincoln-quotes-slavery.htm

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 06:20 PM

bhikkhu (7,639 posts)

50. Few people ever see past the worldview of their time

Or you could also say that very few ever grow past the worldview they acquired in childhood. At present, the pace of change really does render many people's viewpoint irrelevant and ineffective.

Lincoln did at least show a capacity to evolve.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 05:23 PM

Major Hogwash (12,365 posts)

45. Weird painting indeed!

When old man Bush dies, there are going to be a lot of books published that will blow the lid off of Reagan's mystique. In the process, they will expose Bush for what he really is.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 05:31 PM

Cleita (64,488 posts)

46. I see there are no women allowed at that poker table.

I know there were no women Presidents, but still, it seems that there should be some GOOPer First Ladies there serving sandwiches and coffee in their little ruffled aprons and pearls.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 06:25 PM

janx (21,732 posts)

51. Ladies aren't allowed at poker games!

This is a man's world of cards, whiskey, and cigars!

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 05:36 PM

Arugula Latte (40,108 posts)

47. Oh gross. I feel my lunch coming up ...

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 06:04 PM

bhikkhu (7,639 posts)

49. It looks like that was painted with mud and ashes. n/t

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 06:36 PM

janx (21,732 posts)

52. This is so corny!

Note GWB's shirt: a western shirt with snaps.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:51 PM

maxrandb (5,237 posts)

57. Caption

"Nice Bluff there Abe, but only old rich white dudes are destined to rule 'Murika, now meet our friend...Mr. Booth"

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:52 PM

maxrandb (5,237 posts)

59. Where's Hoover???

Oh yeah...he's running this year

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 10:37 PM

ThoughtCriminal (9,797 posts)

60. The stakes?

I think you can guess by the the smiles and laughter.

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 10:42 PM

Taylor Smite (86 posts)

61. No, its cool

that guy does paintings for all presidents and parties. He has some Democratic Party ones too. Also, a really cool one of Obama. It isnt a GOP thing.

http://www.eleganthorsepictures.com/thomas-true-blues1.html

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 10:51 PM

Zalatix (8,994 posts)

62. Roosevelt would be a Democrat or even a Socialist Party member today.

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Mon Apr 30, 2012, 02:07 AM

KBlagburn (496 posts)

65. Wow, unbelievable Democrat Presidents poker painting

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