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Date: 30 Nov 2006 16:31:52
From: multi
Subject: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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In a press conference yesterday, President George Bush said that Iraqi
Prime Minister Maliki would be gone within six months.
The exact quote was, "He's the right guy for Iraq." This is code for,
"He's toast," as shown in Bush's many strong endorsements of Donald
Rumsfeld in the last six months.
In other news, Republicans howled at the waste when it was announced
that the Clinton library would cost $165 million. But now the price
for Bush's library has come in at $500 million. That may sound
pretentious for a man who has never read a book, but to be fair, it
will be a modest, two-room building with ten books. The reason for
the cost is not the size; it's just that he gave the contract to
Halliburton.
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Date: 30 Nov 2006 18:24:03
From: annika1980
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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multi wrote:
> In other news, Republicans howled at the waste when it was announced
> that the Clinton library would cost $165 million. But now the price
> for Bush's library has come in at $500 million. That may sound
> pretentious for a man who has never read a book, but to be fair, it
> will be a modest, two-room building with ten books. The reason for
> the cost is not the size; it's just that he gave the contract to
> Halliburton.
The scandal gets even worse. It turns out that 8 of the 10 books in the
Bush library have already been colored in.
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Date: 30 Nov 2006 20:19:57
From: The World Wide Wade
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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In article
<1164939843.412802.178710@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com >,
"annika1980" <annika1980@aol.com > wrote:
> multi wrote:
> > In other news, Republicans howled at the waste when it was announced
> > that the Clinton library would cost $165 million. But now the price
> > for Bush's library has come in at $500 million. That may sound
> > pretentious for a man who has never read a book, but to be fair, it
> > will be a modest, two-room building with ten books. The reason for
> > the cost is not the size; it's just that he gave the contract to
> > Halliburton.
>
> The scandal gets even worse. It turns out that 8 of the 10 books in the
> Bush library have already been colored in.
You may have misunderestimated that figure.
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 08:46:54
From: John B.
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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sfb wrote:
> Please name ten books you read while in grade school. If you can't, you the
> President an apology.
The Wind in the Willows
Charlotte's Web
Stuart Little
Watership Down
Biographies of Lincoln, FDR, Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig
Anthology of American Humor
Detectives in Togas
That's 11, right off the top of my head.
>
> "John B." <johnb505@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1164986231.712710.167530@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a campaign
> > event at an elementary school and the kids were talking about the books
> > they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books he'd read as a
> > child. He said, "I don't recall."
> >
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 12:57:53
From: Head Shot
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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John B. wrote:
> The Wind in the Willows
> Charlotte's Web
> Stuart Little
> Watership Down
> Biographies of Lincoln, FDR, Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig
> Anthology of American Humor
> Detectives in Togas
>
> That's 11, right off the top of my head.
How about: All Things Great and Small, War and Peace, Old Man and the
Sea, Farewell to Arms, Red Badge of Courage, The Great Wave (Pearl S
Buck), Hills Like White Elephants.
After we read Hills Like White Elephants; our teacher told us it was about
getting an abortion. Man; talk about being welcomed to the realities of
adulthood.
>
>
>>
>> "John B." <johnb505@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1164986231.712710.167530@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>> I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a
>>> campaign event at an elementary school and the kids were talking
>>> about the books they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books
>>> he'd read as a child. He said, "I don't recall."
--
___________________________________________________________
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises,
I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it
gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. -- Thomas
Jefferson
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 07:17:11
From: John B.
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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annika1980 wrote:
> multi wrote:
> > In other news, Republicans howled at the waste when it was announced
> > that the Clinton library would cost $165 million. But now the price
> > for Bush's library has come in at $500 million. That may sound
> > pretentious for a man who has never read a book, but to be fair, it
> > will be a modest, two-room building with ten books. The reason for
> > the cost is not the size; it's just that he gave the contract to
> > Halliburton.
>
> The scandal gets even worse. It turns out that 8 of the 10 books in the
> Bush library have already been colored in.
I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a campaign
event at an elementary school and the kids were talking about the books
they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books he'd read as a
child. He said, "I don't recall."
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 11:31:52
From: sfb
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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Please name ten books you read while in grade school. If you can't, you the
President an apology.
"John B." <johnb505@gmail.com > wrote in message
news:1164986231.712710.167530@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
>
> I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a campaign
> event at an elementary school and the kids were talking about the books
> they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books he'd read as a
> child. He said, "I don't recall."
>
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 15:34:37
From: multi
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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On 1 Dec 2006 07:17:11 -0800, "John B." <johnb505@gmail.com > wrote:
>
>annika1980 wrote:
>> multi wrote:
>> > In other news, Republicans howled at the waste when it was announced
>> > that the Clinton library would cost $165 million. But now the price
>> > for Bush's library has come in at $500 million. That may sound
>> > pretentious for a man who has never read a book, but to be fair, it
>> > will be a modest, two-room building with ten books. The reason for
>> > the cost is not the size; it's just that he gave the contract to
>> > Halliburton.
>>
>> The scandal gets even worse. It turns out that 8 of the 10 books in the
>> Bush library have already been colored in.
>
>
>I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a campaign
>event at an elementary school and the kids were talking about the books
>they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books he'd read as a
>child. He said, "I don't recall."
That actually happened in August of 1999. It embarrassed him, so he
had an answer ready the next time he was asked, a few months later.
He said that his favorite childhood book was _The Very Hungry
Caterpillar_. A fine choice, but it was published in 1969, when he
was a senior at Yale.
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 17:52:52
From: Bobby Knight
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:34:37 -0800, multi <multi@asm.org > wrote:
>>annika1980 wrote:
>>I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a campaign
>>event at an elementary school and the kids were talking about the books
>>they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books he'd read as a
>>child. He said, "I don't recall."
>
>That actually happened in August of 1999. It embarrassed him, so he
>had an answer ready the next time he was asked, a few months later.
>He said that his favorite childhood book was _The Very Hungry
>Caterpillar_. A fine choice, but it was published in 1969, when he
>was a senior at Yale.
Still in childhood.
___,
\o
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 14:18:46
From: the Moderator
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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"John B." <johnb505@gmail.com > wrote in message
news:1164986231.712710.167530@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
>
>
> I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a campaign
> event at an elementary school and the kids were talking about the books
> they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books he'd read as a
> child. He said, "I don't recall."
He is not much of a speaker either. Not as polished as John Kerry.
/sarcasm font
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 21:32:27
From: George Orwell
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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In article <ON-dnSdPFM-6E-3YnZ2dnUVZ_v2dnZ2d@centurytel.net >
"the Moderator" <sparky@no_spam_engineer.com > wrote:
>
>
> "John B." <johnb505@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1164986231.712710.167530@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
> >
> >
> > I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a campaign
> > event at an elementary school and the kids were talking about the books
> > they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books he'd read as a
> > child. He said, "I don't recall."
>
> He is not much of a speaker either. Not as polished as John Kerry.
>
> /sarcasm font
Reality tag-
</bush >
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 09:52:41
From: William A. T. Clark
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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In article <k4tum2hv7ceiophogdh1ne8dibq3nes06q@4ax.com >,
multi <multi@asm.org > wrote:
> In a press conference yesterday, President George Bush said that Iraqi
> Prime Minister Maliki would be gone within six months.
>
> The exact quote was, "He's the right guy for Iraq." This is code for,
> "He's toast," as shown in Bush's many strong endorsements of Donald
> Rumsfeld in the last six months.
>
> In other news, Republicans howled at the waste when it was announced
> that the Clinton library would cost $165 million. But now the price
> for Bush's library has come in at $500 million. That may sound
> pretentious for a man who has never read a book, but to be fair, it
> will be a modest, two-room building with ten books. The reason for
> the cost is not the size; it's just that he gave the contract to
> Halliburton.
Yup, kind of reminds me of "You're doing a hell of a job, Brownie".
The kiss of death.
William Clark
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 08:44:14
From: the Moderator
Subject: Re: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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"multi" <multi@asm.org > wrote in message
news:k4tum2hv7ceiophogdh1ne8dibq3nes06q@4ax.com...
> In a press conference yesterday, President George Bush said that Iraqi
> Prime Minister Maliki would be gone within six months.
>
> In other news, Republicans howled at the waste when it was announced
> that the Clinton library would cost $165 million. But now the price
> for Bush's library has come in at $500 million. That may sound
> pretentious for a man who has never read a book, but to be fair, it
> will be a modest, two-room building with ten books. The reason for
> the cost is not the size; it's just that he gave the contract to
> Halliburton.
Clinton would have spent more for his library, but he could not sell enough
pardons.
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 18:14:18
From: John B.
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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multi wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2006 07:17:11 -0800, "John B." <johnb505@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >annika1980 wrote:
> >> multi wrote:
> >> > In other news, Republicans howled at the waste when it was announced
> >> > that the Clinton library would cost $165 million. But now the price
> >> > for Bush's library has come in at $500 million. That may sound
> >> > pretentious for a man who has never read a book, but to be fair, it
> >> > will be a modest, two-room building with ten books. The reason for
> >> > the cost is not the size; it's just that he gave the contract to
> >> > Halliburton.
> >>
> >> The scandal gets even worse. It turns out that 8 of the 10 books in the
> >> Bush library have already been colored in.
> >
> >
> >I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a campaign
> >event at an elementary school and the kids were talking about the books
> >they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books he'd read as a
> >child. He said, "I don't recall."
>
> That actually happened in August of 1999. It embarrassed him, so he
> had an answer ready the next time he was asked, a few months later.
> He said that his favorite childhood book was _The Very Hungry
> Caterpillar_. A fine choice, but it was published in 1969, when he
> was a senior at Yale.
I think he was reading at about that level then.
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 14:43:46
From: John B.
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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Head Shot wrote:
> John B. wrote:
> > Head Shot wrote:
> >> John B. wrote:
> >>> The Wind in the Willows
> >>> Charlotte's Web
> >>> Stuart Little
> >>> Watership Down
> >>> Biographies of Lincoln, FDR, Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Lou
> >>> Gehrig Anthology of American Humor
> >>> Detectives in Togas
> >>>
> >>> That's 11, right off the top of my head.
> >>
> >>
> >> How about: All Things Great and Small, War and Peace, Old Man and
> >> the Sea, Farewell to Arms, Red Badge of Courage, The Great Wave
> >> (Pearl S Buck), Hills Like White Elephants.
> >>
> >> After we read Hills Like White Elephants; our teacher told us it
> >> was about getting an abortion. Man; talk about being welcomed to
> >> the realities of adulthood.
> >>
> >
> > You read those in grade school?
>
> All Things and Old Man were probably about 9th or 10th grade. Great Wave
> might have been Junior High. Farewell to Arms and Red Badge were also about
> late Jr High or early High School. White Elephants and War and Peace were
> senior year. White Elephants was a really mature subject (although it was
> quick reading); but War & Peace was brutal reading. Even though my family
> came from Russia in the 1880's; that book did not hold my attention at all.
> Nobody reads Tolstoy without having a gun to their head.
Yes, I tried my luck with Anna Karenina a few years ago. It was torture.
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 21:56:17
From: Jack Hollis
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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On 1 Dec 2006 14:43:46 -0800, "John B." <johnb505@gmail.com > wrote:
>Yes, I tried my luck with Anna Karenina a few years ago. It was torture.
Unfortunate that the book was never put out as a Classic Comic. When I
was in High School I never turned down the chance to read a Classic
Comic in favor of a book.
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 17:51:03
From: Head Shot
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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John B. wrote:
>> Nobody reads
>> Tolstoy without having a gun to their head.
>
>
> Yes, I tried my luck with Anna Karenina a few years ago. It was
> torture.
And it's not just because War & Peace has a gazillion pages; because when I
read Foundation Trilogy it was easily just as much of a tome but I chewed
right through that. W&P exists as something to sit on when your chair
breaks.
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 10:18:37
From: John B.
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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Head Shot wrote:
> John B. wrote:
> > The Wind in the Willows
> > Charlotte's Web
> > Stuart Little
> > Watership Down
> > Biographies of Lincoln, FDR, Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig
> > Anthology of American Humor
> > Detectives in Togas
> >
> > That's 11, right off the top of my head.
>
>
> How about: All Things Great and Small, War and Peace, Old Man and the
> Sea, Farewell to Arms, Red Badge of Courage, The Great Wave (Pearl S
> Buck), Hills Like White Elephants.
>
> After we read Hills Like White Elephants; our teacher told us it was about
> getting an abortion. Man; talk about being welcomed to the realities of
> adulthood.
>
You read those in grade school?
>
>
> >
> >
> >>
> >> "John B." <johnb505@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1164986231.712710.167530@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
> >>>
> >>> I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a
> >>> campaign event at an elementary school and the kids were talking
> >>> about the books they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books
> >>> he'd read as a child. He said, "I don't recall."
>
> --
> ___________________________________________________________
> A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises,
> I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it
> gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. -- Thomas
> Jefferson
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 17:14:46
From: Head Shot
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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John B. wrote:
> Head Shot wrote:
>> John B. wrote:
>>> The Wind in the Willows
>>> Charlotte's Web
>>> Stuart Little
>>> Watership Down
>>> Biographies of Lincoln, FDR, Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Lou
>>> Gehrig Anthology of American Humor
>>> Detectives in Togas
>>>
>>> That's 11, right off the top of my head.
>>
>>
>> How about: All Things Great and Small, War and Peace, Old Man and
>> the Sea, Farewell to Arms, Red Badge of Courage, The Great Wave
>> (Pearl S Buck), Hills Like White Elephants.
>>
>> After we read Hills Like White Elephants; our teacher told us it
>> was about getting an abortion. Man; talk about being welcomed to
>> the realities of adulthood.
>>
>
> You read those in grade school?
All Things and Old Man were probably about 9th or 10th grade. Great Wave
might have been Junior High. Farewell to Arms and Red Badge were also about
late Jr High or early High School. White Elephants and War and Peace were
senior year. White Elephants was a really mature subject (although it was
quick reading); but War & Peace was brutal reading. Even though my family
came from Russia in the 1880's; that book did not hold my attention at all.
Nobody reads Tolstoy without having a gun to their head.
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 22:26:57
From: Joe
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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Head Shot wrote:
> John B. wrote:
>
>>Head Shot wrote:
>>
>>>John B. wrote:
>>>
>>>>The Wind in the Willows
>>>>Charlotte's Web
>>>>Stuart Little
>>>>Watership Down
>>>>Biographies of Lincoln, FDR, Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Lou
>>>>Gehrig Anthology of American Humor
>>>>Detectives in Togas
>>>>
>>>>That's 11, right off the top of my head.
>>>
>>>
>>>How about: All Things Great and Small, War and Peace, Old Man and
>>>the Sea, Farewell to Arms, Red Badge of Courage, The Great Wave
>>>(Pearl S Buck), Hills Like White Elephants.
>>>
>>>After we read Hills Like White Elephants; our teacher told us it
>>>was about getting an abortion. Man; talk about being welcomed to
>>>the realities of adulthood.
>>>
>>
>>You read those in grade school?
>
>
> All Things and Old Man were probably about 9th or 10th grade. Great Wave
> might have been Junior High. Farewell to Arms and Red Badge were also about
> late Jr High or early High School. White Elephants and War and Peace were
> senior year. White Elephants was a really mature subject (although it was
> quick reading); but War & Peace was brutal reading. Even though my family
> came from Russia in the 1880's; that book did not hold my attention at all.
> Nobody reads Tolstoy without having a gun to their head.
The original question was about GRADE SCHOOL. You seem to have a
reading comprehension problem Troll.
Joe
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 09:45:16
From: annika1980
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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John B. wrote:
> >
> I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a campaign
> event at an elementary school and the kids were talking about the books
> they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books he'd read as a
> child. He said, "I don't recall."
The last book Bush attempted to read was "My Pet Goat."
And he was making damn fine progress on it until some Secret Service
guys kept buggin the crap out of him about something.
Would Bush have finished that book? History may never know.
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Date: 01 Dec 2006 23:36:08
From: The World Wide Wade
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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In article
<1164995116.709779.164710@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com >,
"annika1980" <annika1980@aol.com > wrote:
> John B. wrote:
> > >
> > I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a campaign
> > event at an elementary school and the kids were talking about the books
> > they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books he'd read as a
> > child. He said, "I don't recall."
>
> The last book Bush attempted to read was "My Pet Goat."
That was "The Pet Goat".
> And he was making damn fine progress on it until some Secret Service
> guys
No, it was Andrew Card, Bush's chief of staff. Card informed our
maximal leader that "American is under attack." The documentary
record makes clear what Baby Bush did in the next 4 to 7 minutes:
nothing.
>kept buggin the crap out of him about something.
> Would Bush have finished that book? History may never know.
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Date: 02 Dec 2006 21:12:33
From: George Orwell
Subject: Re: OT: Bush gives Maliki the Kiss of Death
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In article <waderameyxiii-C6F3E9.23360801122006@comcast.dca.giganews.com >
The World Wide Wade <waderameyxiii@comcast.remove13.net > wrote:
>
> In article
> <1164995116.709779.164710@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com>,
> "annika1980" <annika1980@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > John B. wrote:
> > > >
> > > I'll never forget the time in 2000 when candidate Bush did a campaign
> > > event at an elementary school and the kids were talking about the books
> > > they were reading. A reporter asked Bush what books he'd read as a
> > > child. He said, "I don't recall."
> >
> > The last book Bush attempted to read was "My Pet Goat."
>
> That was "The Pet Goat".
>
> > And he was making damn fine progress on it until some Secret Service
> > guys
>
> No, it was Andrew Card, Bush's chief of staff. Card informed our
> maximal leader that "American is under attack." The documentary
> record makes clear what Baby Bush did in the next 4 to 7 minutes:
> nothing.
>
It's where bush the bystander first became aware of the term "cut and
run."
No wonder Rudy got all the press....he wasn't "bunkered."
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