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Wed Dec-27-06 10:05 PM
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| 175. Isn't it sad to see many DUers acting like Freepers? (nt) |
| -All of this Ford-bashing is really disheartening... |
Hoosier Dem |
Dec-27-06 09:15 AM |
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Might As Well Add This |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 09:19 AM |
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I'd never read that piece before...Amazing! |
Hoosier Dem |
Dec-27-06 09:27 AM |
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He Also Wrote An NYT Op-Ed Piece With Bob Dole Opposing Impeachment |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 09:29 AM |
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Of Nixon or Clinton? nt |
MookieWilson |
Dec-27-06 01:04 PM |
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Low Post Count + Bashing a Death = ??????? |
Rockholm |
Dec-27-06 10:00 AM |
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Could well be true, however --- |
Zensea |
Dec-27-06 10:03 AM |
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How true, it is disheartening. I was just out of highschool when |
madmunchie |
Dec-27-06 11:57 AM |
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sorry, but defending ford disqualifies you as a "leftist". nt |
tomp |
Dec-28-06 08:54 AM |
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I didn't defend Ford, I said I held no animosity towards him |
Zensea |
Dec-28-06 11:10 AM |
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Exactly. n/t |
guruoo |
Dec-27-06 12:45 PM |
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I agree. The dude just died and people are rippin on him. His family |
xultar |
Dec-27-06 09:20 AM |
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I think it is a combo of "hindsight = 20/20 vision" and anger with |
salin |
Dec-27-06 09:40 AM |
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not just rambling , but rambling stupidly. |
tomp |
Dec-28-06 08:58 AM |
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Because they're reading here? |
WinkyDink |
Dec-27-06 10:32 AM |
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Thanks, Hoosier Dem, you said it very well |
Richardo |
Dec-27-06 09:20 AM |
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Ford |
jensmygov |
Dec-27-06 09:20 AM |
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Yep, give Ford a break. nt |
MookieWilson |
Dec-27-06 09:21 AM |
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I Remember When He Had Muhammad Ali And George Harrison At The White House. |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 09:25 AM |
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Might As Well Add This And This |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 09:22 AM |
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Ford is still paying a price for healing |
illinoisprogressive |
Dec-27-06 09:23 AM |
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He didn't heal anything. He let criminals go free. |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-27-06 09:51 AM |
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How many criminals go free |
michaz |
Dec-27-06 11:02 AM |
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Two wrongs? |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-27-06 11:30 AM |
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Should we have impeached Clinton for pardoning |
barb162 |
Dec-28-06 02:20 AM |
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Clinton didn't pardon a chief executive for subverting the Constitution. |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-28-06 06:22 AM |
#190 |
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Nixon wasn't charged with "subverting the constitution" |
jberryhill |
Dec-28-06 11:29 AM |
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Wrong. Nixon wasn't charged at all. |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-28-06 02:50 PM |
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There were three charges |
jberryhill |
Dec-28-06 04:42 PM |
#219 |
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It's a Good Thing We Keep Religion and Politics Separate |
jberryhill |
Dec-28-06 11:31 AM |
#213 |
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Like the Vietnam Draft Resisters? |
jberryhill |
Dec-27-06 06:52 PM |
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And so we "moved on" and no president since has tried to manipulate |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-28-06 06:44 AM |
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that is exactly the point. nt |
tomp |
Dec-28-06 09:01 AM |
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What election did Nixon manipulate? |
jberryhill |
Dec-28-06 11:16 AM |
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That Nixon's attempt to manipulate an election was unsuccessful |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-28-06 02:46 PM |
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We are going to need bigger prisons |
jberryhill |
Dec-28-06 04:55 PM |
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your comparison is ludicrous. |
tomp |
Dec-28-06 09:04 AM |
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That's Precisely The Problem With Nixon |
jberryhill |
Dec-28-06 11:13 AM |
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he was hand-picked by Nixon, and pardoned because he was told to. |
progressivebydesign |
Dec-27-06 10:30 AM |
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Thanks Hoosier |
cwydro |
Dec-27-06 09:24 AM |
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I completely agree.... |
Bubba Zanetti |
Dec-27-06 09:25 AM |
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So now that you are feeling superior to all of DU |
Moochy |
Dec-27-06 03:16 PM |
#133 |
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Yawn! |
ProfessorGAC |
Dec-27-06 09:30 AM |
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As A Professor You Should Know Supposition And Conjecture Are Not Proof |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 09:36 AM |
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And Your Opinion Is Based Upon What? |
ProfessorGAC |
Dec-27-06 09:42 AM |
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Your Logic Is Flawed |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 09:51 AM |
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Nonsense |
ProfessorGAC |
Dec-27-06 10:01 AM |
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My Logic Is Intact... |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 10:11 AM |
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Are You Being Obtuse, Or Just Dense? |
ProfessorGAC |
Dec-27-06 10:30 AM |
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So, Professor, you are using the same logic as the Bush administration |
Mortos |
Dec-27-06 11:37 AM |
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I tend to agree with your hypothesis.. |
Tellurian |
Dec-27-06 04:26 PM |
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Watch the interview with the former editor of the Nation magazine |
higher class |
Dec-27-06 11:48 AM |
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Res Ipsa Loquitur |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 10:00 AM |
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Yawn, Again! |
ProfessorGAC |
Dec-27-06 10:03 AM |
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WRONG!!! (Again) |
Hoosier Dem |
Dec-27-06 10:19 AM |
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I Can't Accept It? |
ProfessorGAC |
Dec-27-06 10:25 AM |
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True, I could have shown your grace and maturity. |
Hoosier Dem |
Dec-27-06 10:37 AM |
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When Does The Lecture End? |
ProfessorGAC |
Dec-27-06 10:42 AM |
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I'm Trying To Understand Your Logic |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 10:20 AM |
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OK. You've Answered My Prior Question |
ProfessorGAC |
Dec-27-06 10:37 AM |
#67 |
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Let's Review Your Arguments |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 10:49 AM |
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41 and Clinton ARE good friends. |
deaniac21 |
Dec-27-06 10:52 AM |
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You are condescending and rude |
Kajsa |
Dec-27-06 09:56 PM |
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Context is everything |
lumberjack_jeff |
Dec-27-06 11:40 AM |
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Another Warren Commission member bites the dust. |
EVDebs |
Dec-27-06 07:01 PM |
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Probably not a real professor. |
AZBlue |
Dec-27-06 10:20 PM |
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Finally! A post in this thread that I can agree with! |
Dhalgren |
Dec-27-06 09:38 AM |
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Amen he pardoned Tricky Dicky and that alone is cause to dislike the man................ |
4bucksagallon |
Dec-27-06 09:42 AM |
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LOL |
Hamlette |
Dec-27-06 09:48 AM |
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No kidding, Professor. Since when do we celebrate collaborators. |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-27-06 10:06 AM |
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That's about my take on it, too |
SheWhoMustBeObeyed |
Dec-27-06 10:58 AM |
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ProfessorGAC, et, al, there is a time and place,... |
guruoo |
Dec-27-06 12:50 PM |
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The backroom deal had to be made with BOTH parties, Professor |
Nikki Stone1 |
Dec-27-06 12:50 PM |
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Yep. We have arrived at a place in time where, if someone lives a LONG life |
SoCalDem |
Dec-27-06 05:56 PM |
#145 |
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Rereading your post again |
cwydro |
Dec-27-06 09:31 AM |
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I was there as well and our opinions are 180 degrees apart! |
8643 |
Dec-27-06 09:32 AM |
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Didn't mean to imply that everyone here are "kids" |
Hoosier Dem |
Dec-27-06 09:41 AM |
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You are joking, yes |
jberryhill |
Dec-28-06 11:36 AM |
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Sorry, but the man was an enabler, |
MadHound |
Dec-27-06 09:32 AM |
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I agree with you. The one thing Ford did was work with everyone |
still_one |
Dec-27-06 09:33 AM |
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But The Difference Between The Two Is Ford Was A Basically Decent Human Being |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 09:34 AM |
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Your basic decent human being protected the Pinochet government. |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-27-06 10:53 AM |
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and Johnson escallated the Viet Nam war based on LIES |
still_one |
Dec-27-06 12:36 PM |
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The two wrongs argument doen't work. |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-27-06 03:27 PM |
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First of all I agree nixon is an AH, and there is no justification with the overthrow of Allende |
still_one |
Dec-27-06 09:29 PM |
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He had Vietnam on his plate at the time. That filled it. nt |
MookieWilson |
Dec-27-06 01:07 PM |
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Yeah, so f%ck all those little brown people that were tortured and killed. |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-27-06 03:24 PM |
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No, I didn't say that. nt |
MookieWilson |
Dec-27-06 09:35 PM |
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Absolutely, and my feelings differ about impeachment with this administration than Nixon |
still_one |
Dec-27-06 12:26 PM |
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the one thing he did was work with everyone? how many vetoes... |
Gabi Hayes |
Dec-27-06 03:14 PM |
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Sorry, but this needs answered... |
hootinholler |
Dec-27-06 09:33 AM |
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Perfectly put. You separated the man that Betty loved, from the politics. |
progressivebydesign |
Dec-27-06 10:32 AM |
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I always resented the jokes and laughing at his stumbling and yes |
higher class |
Dec-27-06 09:37 AM |
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he was a drunk, drunks fall down |
pitohui |
Dec-27-06 11:34 AM |
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Where is your proof of this? Ford a drunk? |
faygokid |
Dec-27-06 02:10 PM |
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I Don't Know Any Unrehabilitated Alchoholics Who Could Live To Ninety Three. |
DemocratSinceBirth |
Dec-27-06 03:04 PM |
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Thank you. |
cwydro |
Dec-27-06 06:02 PM |
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you weren't around in the ford era, were you? he was a well known drunk |
pitohui |
Dec-27-06 06:30 PM |
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I've NEVER heard he was a drunk. Ever. nt |
MookieWilson |
Dec-27-06 09:37 PM |
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i guess you never heard of the queen mother of england |
pitohui |
Dec-27-06 06:32 PM |
#153 |
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Bombay, Beefeater, Gordon's, she didn't care so long as it was cold. |
MookieWilson |
Dec-27-06 09:38 PM |
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Now you are gonna piss me off if you're going after Mum |
cwydro |
Dec-28-06 08:42 AM |
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You're gonna have to prove this one! |
AZBlue |
Dec-27-06 10:22 PM |
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he was one of the bland, ineffectual repukes |
leftofthedial |
Dec-27-06 09:40 AM |
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Yikes |
cwydro |
Dec-27-06 09:55 AM |
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a sense of justice does not require hatred |
leftofthedial |
Dec-27-06 09:57 AM |
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If you can't say anything good, sometimes it's best to say.... |
kentuck |
Dec-27-06 09:42 AM |
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Free speech is to be cherished, even when someone dies. |
WinkyDink |
Dec-27-06 10:35 AM |
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Oh, the irony of you saying that on DU |
Goblinmonger |
Dec-27-06 10:38 AM |
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If you can't say anything good, sometimes it's best |
donheld |
Dec-28-06 01:55 AM |
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I agree. Thanks for the post. |
Pirate Smile |
Dec-27-06 09:43 AM |
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Very nice post |
karynnj |
Dec-27-06 09:52 AM |
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And Nixon never really was "rehabilitated"... |
Hoosier Dem |
Dec-27-06 10:26 AM |
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He was even rejected by a NYC co-op board |
karynnj |
Dec-27-06 11:37 AM |
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"Invited" is a relative term... |
Hoosier Dem |
Dec-27-06 11:43 AM |
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Yep - that was NYC and it was years after he was out of office |
karynnj |
Dec-27-06 02:55 PM |
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It's not "decent' to let criminals evade justice. |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-27-06 09:54 AM |
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So You Were Opposed To the Amnesty Program |
jberryhill |
Dec-28-06 12:01 AM |
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Unfortunately |
rtassi |
Dec-27-06 09:55 AM |
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the bashing is good |
Zensea |
Dec-27-06 09:58 AM |
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I love the bashing |
dad |
Dec-27-06 10:36 PM |
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yeah, those folk also |
Zensea |
Dec-28-06 11:06 AM |
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That's how I remember him too |
Hamlette |
Dec-27-06 10:00 AM |
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Great post, thank you. |
Fighting Irish |
Dec-27-06 10:01 AM |
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People are saying that Ford was not very bright. |
tblue37 |
Dec-27-06 10:05 AM |
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people are saying? lyndon johnson was saying, actually |
pitohui |
Dec-27-06 11:38 AM |
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This is absolutely sick and nasty! Stupid athletes do NOT |
saracat |
Dec-28-06 01:42 AM |
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Honesty doesn't equal bashing |
sandnsea |
Dec-27-06 10:08 AM |
#48 |
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Very good point. |
cwydro |
Dec-27-06 06:08 PM |
#147 |
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Excellent post, thank you for sharing it. |
liberalhistorian |
Dec-27-06 10:15 AM |
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I agree. I am uncomfortable with Ford bashing, as he was a decent man. |
Frustratedlady |
Dec-27-06 10:25 AM |
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Yes, |
cwydro |
Dec-27-06 10:28 AM |
#56 |
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Do you understand what grave dancing means? |
8643 |
Dec-27-06 10:43 AM |
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You would be wrong to believe I have no memory of the period. |
cwydro |
Dec-27-06 11:53 AM |
#96 |
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