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Project Grudge Donating Member (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 02:34 PM
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Bush out of sight until after election
Source: Breitbart

The president knows there are people in this country who want change and are looking for something new, Perino said.

"We're realistic about the political environment that we are in," she said. "What keeps him going is knowing that he's done the right thing."

With a 26 percent approval rating, Bush has only appeared in Democratic television ads that regularly tie him to Republican candidates. And that won't change until after Election Day.

Since Bush endorsed McCain in the Rose Garden on March 5, the two have appeared in public only three times for a total of 12 minutes. That's in stark contrast to the scores of fundraisers and rallies Bush did before congressional midterm elections in 2002 and 2006. Perino said the last time Bush and McCain communicated was before the president's Cabinet meeting October 15.

Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D947KRPG1&show_article=1&catnum=3



Lamer than lame-duck.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 02:35 PM
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1. Maybe Bush will end up on a bridge waving a flag around. n/t
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MiddleRiverRefugee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 10:13 PM
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30. I see Cheney's chopper taking off from the White House roof...
..and guess who's hanging on to the landing gear.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 02:35 PM
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2. He needs to move to Paraguay now..
While we're still under Chimp's power..

Then Obama will negotiate an agreement with Paraguay and evict Chimp to the Hague where he belongs.

Hawkeye-X
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Project Grudge Donating Member (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 02:37 PM
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3. Bush's Smirk
This sucks because soon I will have to see his face again and there can be no doubt he will do some shady things before he leaves, but at least he is going to be the biggest lame-duck ever.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 02:37 PM
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4. Son of a beautiful mind.
I really want to see more of him. In court.
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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 02:42 PM
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5. Psh!
Why couldn't he just have been out of sight for the last 8 years?
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 02:45 PM
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6. It's funny. bush** gets the blame but I have never thought of him
as being anything more than a front man. In fact, I think he and Cheney and Poopy worked this whole mess out nicely. Carlyle Group has done very very well under Chimpy's rule.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 02:47 PM
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7. Except in Obama ads
I like the one with * and McSame in the rear view mirror.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 02:58 PM
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8. He might as well be out of sight -- he's long been out of his mind.
;-)
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Patriought Donating Member (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 03:08 PM
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9. I don't get it...
Edited on Mon Nov-03-08 03:09 PM by Patriought
If he's so busy saving us from financial doom, how does he have time to relax at Camp David then have quiet dinners with the wife?

And as to the "Two Wars" going on...They sure as hell didn't stop him from campaigning before. And never forget, this guy went on vacation within a week after he started the Iraq war.

Finally "he's done the right thing"?!? He would'nt know right from wrong if it fell from the sky, landed on his face and started to wiggle.
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happygoluckytoyou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 03:09 PM
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10. McCain NOTE: cant be seen with Bush.avoid Cheney... dont mention Craig... Palin dragging us down...
Edited on Mon Nov-03-08 03:11 PM by happygoluckytoyou
oh yes.... IGNORE THAT FELON FROM ALASKA... and then avoid the following people:
Republican presidential campaign official Matthew Joseph Elliott was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child.
Republican Party Chairman Donald Fleischman was charged with two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child and a single charge of exposing himself to a child.
Republican prosecutor John David Roy Atchison was arrested for soliciting sex from a 5-year old girl, then killed himself three weeks later. At the time of his arrest, Atchison was an “assistant U.S. attorney” appointed by President Bush’s attorney general.
Republican city councilman John Bryan killed himself after police began investigating allegations that he had molested three girls, including two of his adopted daughters, ages 12 and 15.
Republican legislator Ted Klaudt was charged with raping girls under the age of 16.
Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr. was found guilty of fondling underage girls.
Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for having sex with a 14-year old boy.
Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and 13.
Republican prosecutor Larry Corrigan was arrested for soliciting sex from 13-year old girls.
Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days in jail for molesting two boys — ages ten and 12 — during a six-year period.
Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days later.
Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after “sexually explicit” emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.
Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet.
Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting sex from an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.
Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.
Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to fondling a 14-year-old girl.
Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.
Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over the internet.
Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
Republican Committeeman John R. Curtin was convicted of molesting an underage teenage boy and sentenced to serve six to 18 months in prison.
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.
Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.
Republican fundraiser Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested again five years later on the same charge.
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer.
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced prison after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.
Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.
Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.
Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.
Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.
Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency. See excerpt of one prisoner’s report here and his full report here.

GUESS I'LL JUST HAVE TO POSE FOR THE MUD-WRESTLING PHOTO-OP WITH CINDY AND SARAH....

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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 03:53 PM
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11. killing 100s of thousands of people, adding 5 trillion$ to the debt
destroying careers of good people, destroying American's institutions, destroying jobs is NOT doing the right thing.

these repugs are truly pieces of shit that should be flushed down the toilet.
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 04:01 PM
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12. He's busy trying to ram through more draconian Product Liability restrictions.
Gosh..don't want the injured consumer suing the poor, poor corporations.

I utterly despise Bush.
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Ghost Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 04:13 PM
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13. There's a rumor he's holed up at Camp David?
(from a weirdo site).
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 04:19 PM
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14. A missing person that nobody misses at all.
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 04:50 PM
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15. The political equivalent of Typhoid Mary.
Enjoy your legacy, asshole.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 04:52 PM
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16. Could be getting ready to bolt to Paraguay
...leaving Cheney in charge.
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Mark E. Smith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 04:55 PM
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17. Bush out of sight until after election
Source: AP

WASHINGTON - It's no coincidence President Bush has been out of
the public's eye in recent days - that's the way the Republican
Party wants it.

White House press secretary Dana Perino said Monday the
incumbent's invisibility is by design - because "the Republican
Party wanted to make this election about John McCain."

The president knows there are people in this country who want
change and are looking for something new, Perino said.

With a 26 percent approval rating, Bush has only appeared in
Democratic television ads that regularly tie him to Republican
candidates. And that won't change until after Election Day.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081103/ap_on_el_pr/bush_election



Quite a trip for old Georgie. From "war president" and "decider"
to the GOP's crazy uncle in the attic.
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cyberswede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 04:56 PM
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19. A fitting end for a sad little man.
Too bad he ruined a perfectly good country in the process.
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yojon Donating Member (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 04:56 PM
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18. Perhaps a nice trip to The Hague
maybe there are some people there who would like to review all his accomplishments with him..
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 05:07 PM
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20. Something new?
Well, that rules McBush out.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 05:08 PM
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21. Maybe he'll quietly leave town before the inauguration
and decline to participate in the festivities, depriving everyone of the satisfaction of seeing him slink away.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 05:17 PM
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22. someone finally told him he isn't the candidate.
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 05:50 PM
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23. Question: Why does the MSM constantly question whether Bill Clinton is supporting Obama "enough"
and yet they never mention that Bush has NEVER been out on the campaign trail with McCain, or supported him publicly other than the quick endorsement when he first got the nomination?
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 06:23 PM
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24. I wouldn't expect to see him until sometimes next week when he sobers up enough to get out of bed.
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durtee librul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 08:01 PM
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28. My thoughts exactly! He's drunk....or high....or both n/t
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Kalifornia.Kid Donating Member (603 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 06:30 PM
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25. Save some room under that rock for McCain/Palin
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 07:03 PM
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26. He he can't stay out of sight, alert INTERPOL
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 07:29 PM
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27. He's in an undisclosed bar
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newscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 08:02 PM
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29. I hope he's a no-show at the Innauguration too!
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Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 10:56 PM
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31. Motherfucker needs to stay out of sight until Jan. 20! nt
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