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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:43 AM
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Possibly the dumbest freerepublic post ever
Edited on Sun Aug-14-05 10:43 AM by Mizmoon
It's so foolish it's breathtaking ...

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To: HushTX
It's sad when politics intrudes on the President's "getaway" time. How would Ms. Cindy like it if several hundred Bush supporters followed her around on her next "vacation"? Oh right, except that conservatives are much more decent, caring folk even though Ms. Cindy seems to have changed her mind about that too!



18 posted on 08/14/2005 8:31:11 AM PDT by princess leah (\)
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:44 AM
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1. "We don't care!"
Tell them that - I don't have the stomach to go over there this morning.
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:44 AM
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2. Conservatives decent and caring?
I guess they forgot the "We Don't Care" chant.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:45 AM
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3. Stupidest?
But there is SO MUCH other competition.

But you might be correct.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:48 AM
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4. "Getaway" time?
This guy is suppose to be leading the free world (notice the use of the words "suppose to") I feel very secure in saying if I were president during a war that I started (justified or not), I wouldn't be taking any R&R while Americans were dying.

Just like a rethug. Deny the working American vacation days, but defend a thug who takes 5 weeks off to play cowboy on his "ranch." :eyes:

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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:55 AM
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11. How about the 1/4 of Americans who have no paid vacation time?
Geez. These are the same people who are against unions. They think it's ok for the average person to work round the clock.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:58 AM
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15. Really
Edited on Sun Aug-14-05 10:59 AM by FreedomAngel82
Bush gets a whole month off while my dad is lucky to get four weeks off a total year (two for summer and two for Christmas and he's a civil engineer at TVA if you're wondering).
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:59 AM
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17. And I'll be he's been working there a lot longer than 5 years.
What company or organization can one work for that offers 5 weeks vacation right off the bat?
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:58 AM
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13. Did Nixon or Johnson ever do "getaway time"?
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:45 AM
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27. a PERFECT expression, i wanna know who drove the 'GET-AWAY' car, is all
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:48 AM
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5. How long has it been since the troops had a REAL vacation?
How many people in America had to forget about their vacation, because Bush's pals are gouging us to death at the gas pumps?
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:48 AM
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6. But it's always a "working vacation".
Y'know..."Western White House".

This person needs to watch more Faux to learn about Der Leader.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:49 AM
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7. I think Repubs don't understand words. They just take the phrases
we use and try to assume those words can apply to them, too.

In Crawford yesterday there was a truck driving around with the words "Cindy lied. Support Bush" on the windows. Lied about what? Her son dying? Wanting to ask Bush a question? They make no sense, they have no idea what's going on, they just breath the air around them and spit out the words they've heard, usually with nearly illiterate grammar, and they think they've done or meant something.

Bush is the perfect president for them.
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:51 AM
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8. Hard to believe it's not a joke.
Even if the president is a good one, his is a 24/7 job. This one makes one bad decision after another and then hides from them.

To call this poster an idiot is an insult to idiots.

--IMM
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Bison William Donating Member (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:51 AM
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9. I was in a foul mood but after reading that
I can't stop laughing..Go find more posts like that one.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:07 AM
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19. What, in particular, do you find so funny?
Just curious.

Welcome to DU!
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Buddyblazon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:53 AM
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10. I'd pass-gas in their little meeting room...
but I'm afraid it would double their IQ's.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:57 AM
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12. Decent folks?
Oh so intruding on people's bedrooms and schools and hospitals and church's and religious beliefs is being conceterate? :eyes:
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:58 AM
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14. Isn't he the president of the USA and she is a private citizen?
Just checking.
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AnnInLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:58 AM
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16. No this is the stupidest post EVER, anywhere
via Digby, who picked it up from a poster on Andrew's site:

The Latest

I know this isn’t going to popular on this website, but may I just point something out?

A soldier’s #1 job is to stay alive. If you die, you can’t accomplish the mission, and you weaken your team and put your buddies in danger.

Obviously Sheehan’s son, I forget his name at the moment, didn’t die on purpose, and he may well have have had no control over the circumstances that let to his death.

BUT.

In war, there are no excuses. You find a way to stay alive, whatever it takes — if you’re a good soldier. Sheehan’s son didn’t do that. He paid the price. but he als failed the mission and let down his buddies.

As a soldier, he was a failure. He was brave (maybe), but he was also incompetent.

So, really, how much exactly are we supposed to grieve over this guy? Isn’t a certain amount of disapproval in order for the guy — and by extension his mom, for making such a fuss over a person who was, in the last analysis, by definition a loser?

So shouldn’t Mrs. Sheenhan be showing a little more shame about the situation and maybe not wanting to get her son and his shortcoming splashed all over the media?

Something to consider, anyway.



http://www.digbysblog.blogspot.com
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:08 AM
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20. That's a winner...for total Loser status, that is.
Surely, that IS the dumbest post ever.

Soldiers who die are now to be considered "failures"?

:wtf: doesn't even BEGIN to cover it.

This moron should have his keyboard revoked.

Better yet...I want my oxygen back.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:18 AM
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22. And yet, this blog isn't all over the media, being protrayed as
anti-troops.

No wonder the rest of the world hates us.
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AnnInLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:43 AM
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25. Damn good point...I'm going to give it a thread of its own
thanks!
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:39 AM
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23. yes, lie poppa bush's comrades who died when he bailed out
of the plane he was piloting, leaving them to plunge to their deaths. He's a hero! Those two dead guys--failures.

Gotta' love freeper logic!
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antigone382 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:53 AM
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28. Ho...LEE...Shit.
That pisses me off royally. I do not advocate violence, but that poster needs a serious ass-kicking from a soldier who lost buddies in Iraq--I think I'll call my brother.

DU doesn't have a smiley powerful enough to convey my rage at that post.

That is the most disgraceful thing I have ever read...EVER. What a fucking moron.
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:06 AM
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18. I have yet to see anything decent and caring about conservatives.
I don't say that flippantly. If you simply look at the music that defines the left and the music that defines the right, you'll see the difference. That sounds trite, but the lyrics are telling. We are the party that cares, it's who we are. Republicans care about one thing: money. If they can veil it with religion or values, all the better. If you really get those "decent" republican folks talking at great length, their most salient point is ALWAYS about their money not being spent to help other people. I don't care if they whine or scream that it's about patriotism, or morals, or the children... it's all about the money.


It blows me away that princess leah there at freeperland hasn't asked herself if they feel good knowing that their idol has had a gazillion more days of vacation than they have. Boo fucking hoo that Bush is being followed around on vacation. Perhaps the better question from the freeper would have been: HOW WOULD IT FEEL TO LOSE YOUR SON IN A WAR THAT WAS FOUND TO BE BASED UP LIES THAT CHANGED DAILY? Hey.. how would THAT feel? Perhaps that was the better question.
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unrepuke Donating Member (763 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:13 AM
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21. To quote Groucho Marx ---
"That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard." :7
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:43 AM
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24. Bush had a month-long paid vacation after spending less than 7 months
on the job.

Wonder what conservatives would give their employees that kind of benefit - even if they did check their e-mail while "off".

Bush's job is interfering with his permanent vacation.
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:45 AM
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26. So Cindy Sheehan's the president now?!
This asshole makes no sense.

Cindy Sheehan is not responsible for the deaths of 1000+ men and women, nor is she responsible for the countless irredeemably stupid pieces of legislation that this president has rammed through in the last five years, making life a lot harder for most Americans...so therefore, several hundred people would have no fucking reason to follow her around and dog her during her "getaway" (HA!) time.

My god in heaven...Just how much can they spin?! "Party of Personal Responsibility" my crotch.
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TexasLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:55 AM
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29. This IS her vacation time, moran!!!(to freeper)
and she IS being followed around by bushit supporters!!!!

Sheesh!
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