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Thu Mar-09-06 12:50 PM
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| 2. The prosperity didn't reach at least 80% of us |
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so excuse me if we're not ready to canonize the man.
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| -If you'll whine about President Clinton, you'll whine about ANYTHING |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 12:42 PM |
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Except for NAFTA... |
ThomCat |
Mar-09-06 12:45 PM |
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And the 1996 Telecommunications Act... |
Webster Green |
Mar-09-06 12:54 PM |
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You're complaining about "I didn't inhale"? You just proved my point |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 12:58 PM |
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I threw it on the end of the list for good measure... |
Webster Green |
Mar-09-06 01:08 PM |
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Attacking your attempt at humor was |
ThomCat |
Mar-09-06 01:14 PM |
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Oh, so now it was only "humour", but the other points weren't, right? |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 01:28 PM |
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Actually, I thought that was obvious. |
ThomCat |
Mar-09-06 03:22 PM |
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And the Welfare Reform Act... |
Totally Committed |
Mar-09-06 01:58 PM |
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The Welfare Reform Act.... |
NativeTexan |
Mar-09-06 06:27 PM |
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As someone who has lived under TEN presidents.... |
NativeTexan |
Mar-09-06 06:35 PM |
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Good point the trickle up theory |
lyonn |
Mar-09-06 09:18 PM |
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NAFTA should have never happened!!!! |
guidod |
Mar-10-06 12:29 AM |
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Absolutely not anti union, |
lyonn |
Mar-10-06 11:01 AM |
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Herre's a link that will show you |
guidod |
Mar-10-06 05:34 PM |
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Thanks and boy was I wrong |
lyonn |
Mar-10-06 11:29 PM |
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LOL...I love honesty. |
guidod |
Mar-11-06 12:09 AM |
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It was an idea that needed this to have succeeded: |
Totally Committed |
Mar-10-06 07:12 AM |
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Pure Trickle-Up can ONLY happen with bi-partisanship, and that never.... |
NativeTexan |
Mar-10-06 02:38 PM |
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Welfare reform helped some people... |
Andromeda |
Mar-09-06 10:37 PM |
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Welfare "Reform" was a complete and utter failure |
Hippo_Tron |
Mar-10-06 01:21 AM |
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Thank you for this! |
Totally Committed |
Mar-10-06 07:14 AM |
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
Jack_DeLeon |
Mar-09-06 02:37 PM |
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Thank you. Thought I was the only one who'd ever mention that abomination |
Commie Pinko Dirtbag |
Mar-10-06 01:22 PM |
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also the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act |
Jack_DeLeon |
Mar-09-06 02:39 PM |
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NAFTA and the Telecommunications Act........... |
springhill |
Mar-10-06 12:47 AM |
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The prosperity didn't reach at least 80% of us |
Warpy |
Mar-09-06 12:50 PM |
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80%? What are you talking about? What about the deficit, or lack of one? |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 12:55 PM |
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The deficit that concerns most of us |
Warpy |
Mar-09-06 01:00 PM |
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Remember the government that Clinton inherited |
lyonn |
Mar-09-06 04:36 PM |
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If he hadn't closed the books on IranContra and BCCI we'd have seen BFEE |
blm |
Mar-09-06 05:16 PM |
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True Clinton didn't pursue the Iran Contra connections |
lyonn |
Mar-09-06 09:04 PM |
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I want to believe that Clinton was naive in 93 and Bush1 played him on |
blm |
Mar-10-06 12:06 PM |
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Clinton was kept pretty busy .... |
Andromeda |
Mar-09-06 10:49 PM |
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But there'd be no GOP congress in 95 if Clinton opened the books in 93 |
blm |
Mar-10-06 12:04 PM |
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I agree. |
AtomicKitten |
Mar-09-06 12:54 PM |
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Anyone who supports Clinton 100% |
ThomCat |
Mar-09-06 12:59 PM |
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That's eactly what my post was NOT about |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 01:00 PM |
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If any complaint about Clinton is called "whining" |
ThomCat |
Mar-09-06 01:03 PM |
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Call it whatever you want |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 01:11 PM |
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Or how about the recent posts calling Clinton a War Criminal... |
SaveElmer |
Mar-09-06 01:18 PM |
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Why was Clinton accused of being a war criminal? |
Wilms |
Mar-09-06 01:27 PM |
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Of course... |
SaveElmer |
Mar-09-06 01:29 PM |
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I didn't know, and I'm glad Madeline Albright apologized for those comment |
Wilms |
Mar-09-06 01:38 PM |
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it's called comparative analysis |
AtomicKitten |
Mar-09-06 01:01 PM |
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I didn't worship Clinton---I just liked him a lot... |
Andromeda |
Mar-09-06 10:27 PM |
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Anyone who supports ANYONE 100% is worshipping an image. |
Commie Pinko Dirtbag |
Mar-10-06 01:23 PM |
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You got that right... |
SaveElmer |
Mar-09-06 01:06 PM |
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Good analogy, Elmer. |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 01:15 PM |
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I disagree. |
ThomCat |
Mar-09-06 03:26 PM |
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If most people trashing Clinton.... |
SaveElmer |
Mar-09-06 03:33 PM |
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DU is always infested with Freepers. |
ThomCat |
Mar-09-06 03:40 PM |
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Not just freepers |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 04:07 PM |
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You need to read this about the Telecommunications Act of 96 |
madfloridian |
Mar-09-06 01:11 PM |
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Clinton looks good only in contrast to Bush |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Mar-09-06 01:33 PM |
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If he was a "1960's Republican", it sure is funny how |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 01:42 PM |
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Then you don't know much about 1960s Republican |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Mar-09-06 01:47 PM |
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How can you tout college fnancial aid during Nixon's time |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 01:55 PM |
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Clinton's tax credits were just tax credits |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Mar-09-06 06:14 PM |
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Clinton saved people who were financially strapped THOUSANDS |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 06:33 PM |
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Getting a tax credit a year later is helpful only if you earn enough |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Mar-10-06 01:04 AM |
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Lets just hope the next Dem will enact such fine tax relief as Clinton did |
mtnsnake |
Mar-10-06 07:14 AM |
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I'm not saying Clinton's tax credits were BAD, but they were |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Mar-10-06 02:30 PM |
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College cost in the 1970's was cheap compared to now |
lyonn |
Mar-09-06 09:40 PM |
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Tax credits are useless for those who don't pay much in taxes anyway |
DrGonzoLives |
Mar-10-06 08:05 AM |
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ROFL, man Nixon doesnt look so bad these day does he... |
Jack_DeLeon |
Mar-09-06 02:42 PM |
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That was the Democratic Congress |
sandnsea |
Mar-09-06 11:35 PM |
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Nixon could have vetoed the Dem programs and didn't, because he knew |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Mar-10-06 12:23 AM |
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Not popular with Nixon |
sandnsea |
Mar-10-06 12:44 AM |
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NAFTA was popular only with owners, not with workers |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Mar-10-06 12:56 AM |
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That just isn't true |
sandnsea |
Mar-10-06 01:00 AM |
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But people outside the tech and alternative energy industries were |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Mar-10-06 01:08 AM |
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Not entirely |
sandnsea |
Mar-10-06 01:17 AM |
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..and to Reagan and to Nixon and to Poppy. Hell, even to LBJ. -nt |
Commie Pinko Dirtbag |
Mar-10-06 01:28 PM |
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while i do not think EVERYTHING cliinton did was great |
lionesspriyanka |
Mar-09-06 02:15 PM |
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Amen to that... |
MrBenchley |
Mar-09-06 02:28 PM |
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No kidding, and isn't it ironic, |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 03:56 PM |
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So you blindly support someone who presides over the |
coalition_unwilling |
Mar-09-06 02:34 PM |
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You have to execute de facto children, otherwise you look "soft on crime" |
DerekG |
Mar-09-06 04:00 PM |
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If posters aren't willing to call a scumbag a scumbag, regardless |
coalition_unwilling |
Mar-10-06 01:09 PM |
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I didn't like welfare reform. I guess I'm a Clinton basher! |
Sapere aude |
Mar-09-06 03:48 PM |
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Nope, that's not what I'm talking about |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 04:43 PM |
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Clinton makes Bush look like a choir boy - some people need...... |
Minnesota Libra |
Mar-09-06 03:55 PM |
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the best president this country has seen for decades... |
depakid |
Mar-09-06 04:18 PM |
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Why is he ANY kind of Republican? Just because Michael Moore says so? |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 04:23 PM |
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Try looking at his policies |
depakid |
Mar-09-06 04:55 PM |
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I thought bush appointed Micahael Powell? n/t |
lyonn |
Mar-09-06 09:51 PM |
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I believe he did. |
Andromeda |
Mar-09-06 11:01 PM |
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Clinton did not have a Democratic Congress for the full 8 years.... |
Bridget Burke |
Mar-09-06 04:26 PM |
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I agree with you |
ThomCat |
Mar-09-06 04:36 PM |
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IMO, the worst move Clinton made was in 1993 when he closed the books on |
blm |
Mar-09-06 05:14 PM |
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True, blm, but George HW Bush had just pardoned several Iran Contra |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 05:37 PM |
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the books still could have been opened, but Clinton CHOSE to not |
blm |
Mar-09-06 05:48 PM |
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The purpose of "bashing" Clinton is to remind people not to set their |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Mar-09-06 06:17 PM |
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Oh thanks for informing me. I didn't realize he gets called a war criminal |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 06:27 PM |
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I've never called him a war criminal |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Mar-09-06 06:30 PM |
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I never said you did |
mtnsnake |
Mar-09-06 06:38 PM |
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Republicans hated him because HE WON |
Hippo_Tron |
Mar-10-06 01:35 AM |
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Yup, and because he stood for the opposite of what they stood for |
mtnsnake |
Mar-10-06 06:56 AM |
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Yeah, I hate the bashing too. |
InvisibleTouch |
Mar-09-06 05:22 PM |
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I had a few problems with him.... |
Daylin Byak |
Mar-09-06 05:27 PM |
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The Clinton years were also pre-9/11 |
election_2004 |
Mar-09-06 06:04 PM |
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I miss Clinton (nt) |
Libby2 |
Mar-09-06 09:21 PM |
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A fact about Welfare Reform that nobody ever talks about |
AJH032 |
Mar-09-06 09:26 PM |
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He still didn't HAVE TO sign it |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Mar-09-06 10:39 PM |
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Exactly... the Republicans are bigots who hate single mothers |
Hippo_Tron |
Mar-10-06 01:36 AM |
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That would have required courage, a quality Clinton had in short supply, |
coalition_unwilling |
Mar-10-06 01:30 PM |
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erm... |
ulysses |
Mar-10-06 12:16 PM |
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I agree, mtnsnake!! Bill Clinton is the gold standard. |
Neil Lisst |
Mar-09-06 09:32 PM |
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What an incredibly uninformed post. |
radio4progressives |
Mar-09-06 09:35 PM |
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Here ya go |
mtnsnake |
Mar-10-06 07:09 PM |
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DUers will whine about everything |
IronLionZion |
Mar-09-06 09:49 PM |
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"it's ridiculous to hold out for that mythical super-politician who will |
mtnsnake |
Mar-10-06 07:48 AM |
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Best republican president since EISENHOWER |
bpilgrim |
Mar-09-06 09:51 PM |
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I would take another Clinton in a New York minute.........eom |
BigYawn |
Mar-09-06 10:26 PM |
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Okay, DLClinton WAS the the lesser of two evils... |
mitchum |
Mar-09-06 10:40 PM |
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They've all been republican! |
guidod |
Mar-10-06 01:11 AM |
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Read Paul Wellstone's book "The Conscience of a Liberal" |
Hippo_Tron |
Mar-10-06 01:49 AM |
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Especially since he is an ex-President |
Stockholm |
Mar-10-06 02:46 AM |
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Well, besides the obvious that you are always "President ____" |
ProudToBeBlueInRhody |
Mar-10-06 05:01 AM |
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Clinton ruled it.... |
ProudToBeBlueInRhody |
Mar-10-06 04:58 AM |
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Pearls before swine |
OzarkDem |
Mar-10-06 06:58 PM |
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okay, I'm a progressive |
newspeak |
Mar-10-06 07:34 PM |
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