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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:47 PM Original message |
Is it just me, or is this a horrible time for President Obama to be |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. In what way would anything change if he didn't go? |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. I agree, it's a tough time to be festive |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Took the words right off my keyboard.... |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Correction, it didn't take you two tries to spell "birthday." n/t |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. The two are not comparable at all |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:03 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Let's hope the low information voters can get that. I think the |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Well of course he'll be laughing -- his dastardly plan to put the kibosh on off-shore |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 09:29 AM Response to Reply #2 |
31. Considering that every President in modern history has done the Correspondents' Dinner |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. It just doesn't seem to me to be a good time to be joking aroung |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:56 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. "Sort of like * and McCain's birthday cake and the guitar and such during Katrina." What? |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. I bet Roger Ailes has people working on it right now. n/t |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Who cares? n/t |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. Exactly...they don't rule the President or |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. I bet Roger Ailes and/or people from Faux will be there tomorrow night. n/t |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 12:53 AM Response to Reply #11 |
25. Won't Ailes be at the dinner too? |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 10:20 AM Response to Reply #3 |
35. I'm sure this will not be the first time that a sad event has happened |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
5. Just because parts of the world are |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:58 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. That doesn't mean it is a good idea to give the whores a |
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salguine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
8. I don't think the White House Correspondents' Dinner is a good thing to have in the first place, and |
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jillan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. Agreed - he is just asking for smears smear and more smears. |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Yes, sometimes I forget he is a lot smarter than I am. I think it |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
17. This President often says he can not keep his word because |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:21 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Lame attempt to smear Obama. n/t |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 09:30 AM Response to Reply #17 |
32. Wow, this isn't a lame attempt to smear the President at all. |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
18. No matter how bad things are or may get, it's importana w keep |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
20. Would not surprise me one bit if he skipped it.... |
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jillan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 01:31 AM Response to Reply #20 |
27. It would be a good move if he went to the Gulf coast first before the dinner. |
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Phx_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
21. This spill is not going to be cleaned up any time real soon so does |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. I am taking a fucking break myself, literally I hope. n/t |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 12:56 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Since there is always a tragedy occuring somewhere..... |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 12:42 AM Response to Reply #26 |
46. He also needs to be seen as weep incessantly as |
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Politicalboi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 02:33 AM Response to Original message |
28. Aren't lives in Iraq being lost? |
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impik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 02:41 AM Response to Original message |
29. Seriously? |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
30. Sounds like he is going to the gulf in the next 48 hours so how does |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 05:54 PM Response to Reply #30 |
38. It's pretty easy when you have your own 747 |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
33. He's making plans for a visit to New Orleans |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
34. Seems like he could show up for the dinner and the next morning land |
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Whisp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
36. no, it's not just you |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
37. No, I'm quite certain |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
39. Who cares? He's going to the Gulf tomorrow. What's the big fucking deal? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
40. (shrug) According to DUers it's pretty much never a good time to do anything he does. |
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harkadog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
41. World War II didn't stop FDR from having fun at the dinner |
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fadedrose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
42. So many people spent fortunes.. |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
43. It's not just you. Damn Elites of every stripe are "fiddling like Nero" while the Gulf Coast ... |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
44. If he went at any other time, it would be silly |
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The Damned (284 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
45. It's Just You |
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DebJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
47. It's just you. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 02:28 AM Response to Original message |
48. Sackcloth and ashes, sackcloth and ashes. He should eat beans off a plastic plate... |
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Tarheel_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 02:55 AM Response to Original message |
49. I swear, sometimes this place so resembles FR. I think a lot of DU'ers |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 06:47 AM Response to Original message |
50. If we all sit around and cry 24/7, the only thing that will change is the suicide rate. |
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CBR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 06:50 AM Response to Original message |
51. I hope you never enjoy life because there is always suffering. nt |
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stevietheman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
52. This is an annual ritual - we shouldn't stop the these things for anything... |
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mariawr (171 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
53. It's just you. nt |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
54. Would it have been a bad time for him to go to bed? |
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geek tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
55. There is only one correct time to attend an annual event. nt |
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