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As America hurtles toward the next presidential race, the HBO film 'Recount' will relive the fervor of 2000's messy election. Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary take Al Gore's fight to the courts on May 25 - make your own case on the boards, where the most cogent arguments will be featured in a special poll on HBO.com. And don't worry - this time all the votes will be counted. The question: Do you believe the Supreme Court's handling of Gore v. Bush was partisan? http://boards.hbo.com/topic/Hbo-Official-Threads/Believe-Supreme-Courts/1900006032
The Republican Candidates:
Rudolph Giuliani
Mike Huckabee
John McCain
Ron Paul
Mitt Romney
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Apr 11, 2008 4:01 AM
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Ron Paul
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"Guns are as good or as bad as the man using it" from movie "Shane"
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself, Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man" George Bernard Shaw
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Apr 11, 2008 12:04 AM
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Funny, 1ff, and I love the quote. Ouch.
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Apr 10, 2008 10:19 PM
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1ff
Love the sarcasm! 
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Apr 10, 2008 1:03 AM
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jimearl, BRA-ffing-VO.
If all you Americans want to "feel safe" and "fight terrorism", just cut out the middleman (average joe solider) and personally drive yourselves out to your local GOP politician and just empty your wallet out on their driveway and watch the cash dollars blow away in the breeze (to several swiss bank accounts, drug and gun runners, and KBR)
FOR WORST WORDLWIDE ECONOMIC RESULTS, APPLY THIS STRATEGY TWICE EVERY 4 YEARS, and THEN VOTE McCAIN.
McCain seems determined to keep plodding along the same old Bush feces ridden road. I don't think anybody wants that.
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"... And I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq." --George W. Bush 3.3.2008 ... the LEGACY CONTINUES
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Edited by 1freedomfighter at 04/09/2008 10:05 PM PDT
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Mar 19, 2008 9:21 AM
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excerpt from Juan Cole's website:
As for John McCain's bizarre assertion on Tuesday
that Iran was actively training "al-Qaeda," the
senator was just parroting the Pentagon line of a
few years ago, which gradually was muted because
even the gullible US press wouldn't swallow it.
Bottom line, if you are so ignorant or confused that
you think Shiite ayatollahs in Tehran are training
and arming radical Salafi Sunnis to blow up Shiites
in Iraq, you really should not be president.
video at:
http://www.juancole.com/2008/03/5-years-5-lies-cole-in-salon.html
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She was for the war before she was against the war.
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Mar 18, 2008 10:01 PM
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No sir, I'm saying that the vast majority of government commissions are convened to protect the guilty and obfuscate the truth. The first order of business for government politicians is to protect their own.
Pardon my cynicism, but the way I see it, whatever conclusion any given commission comes to, the opposite is probably the case.
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Mar 18, 2008 5:23 PM
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> Yes, the Ethics Committee found minimal involvment,
> the Warren Commission found minimal involvment, and
> the Kean Commission found minimal involvment.
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> What's left to say? It's good enough for me.
So if it's good enough for you, does that mean you're taking back the unfounded attack on Senator McCain?
Or are you saying there's no such thing as a fair investigation? Even if the panel is bi-partisan? No such thing as justice? If this is the case, how would you go about investigating alleged wrongdoing? Or is justice served only when the outcome is the one that tracks your prejudgment based on a dislike of another's politics?
Three out of the Keating Five were hammered pretty hard. McCain was not. Did they miss something?
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Mar 7, 2008 1:20 PM
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RAPIDCREEK???
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Mar 5, 2008 4:56 PM
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Yes, the Ethics Committee found minimal involvment, the Warren Commission found minimal involvment, and the Kean Commission found minimal involvment.
What's left to say? It's good enough for me.
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Mar 5, 2008 12:15 AM
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It's official. John McCain will be the Republican nominee. Not a perfect candidate for sure, but the best and the brightest would never stoop to running for president.
I'm hazy on the Keating Five scandal. I know McCain was one of the senator accused of wrongdoing. But the ethics committee's investigation found him to be 'minimally involved' with interfering with the FHLBB's investigation of Keating's Lincoln Savings.
And I thought that the Lincoln Savings collapse cost taxpayers a ton of money, but didn't wipe out the life savings of thousands of people, as gzndhyt says. \
What made the S&L problem possible was that they were allowed to invest in high risk commercial loans rather than the relatively safer residential loans. They could chase higher return, riskier loans, with risk free money since the deposits of their savers were guaranteed by the federal government. In effect the government removed any real incentive for them to make properly underwritten loans. It worked great for them until their riskier loans went south. Am I remembering this incorrectly?
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Mar 4, 2008 5:00 PM
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> They weren't really aviators!
Senior was a pilot, not a gunner, when
his plane was shot down during combat.
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Edited by JimEarl at 03/04/2008 2:01 PM
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Mar 1, 2008 6:38 PM
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They weren't really aviators!
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Mar 1, 2008 11:17 AM
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Biscuitito,
The last 2 aviators that we've had as President sure didn't do a good job, the first did almost nothing & the second is the worst President ever! Of course they both feathered both their nests & those of their relatives & cronies.
Bush = Recession X 2!!!
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Mar 1, 2008 10:51 AM
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ChiefKahuna,
Indeed, Mitt Romney's father was a Mexican immigrant himself!
Mitt's king of the flip-floppers!
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Re: The Republican Presidential Primaries
Mar 1, 2008 10:37 AM
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Isn't an unbaptized Baptist like an uncircumcised Jew, not really committed?
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