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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:28 AM
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Poll question: If Bush showed up at your workplace
If Bush showed up at your workplace to read a speech...

would you
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:30 AM
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1. I'm greedy, triple time please.
:evilgrin:
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:36 AM
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2. it reminds me of that...
Edited on Sat Mar-13-04 06:51 AM by sweetheart
rhetoical philosophical question of whether you would have, had
you the opportunity to terminate Hitler in 1938, would you have
pulled the trigger.

Of course i'm talking about water pistols here, or spit balls...
certainly nothing that could ever cause Hitler harm. I hear all
heads of state are immortal and that bullets just bounce off
them like popcorn.

;-)
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:44 AM
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6. Yoiks!
You really might want to consider deleting that while you have the time and save yourself a possible world of trouble. The intent can be construed to be clear, even though you're being oblique about it.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 11:29 AM
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25. There i fixed it
now i leave the whole thing in "..." and let the reader wonder who
"Hitler" is. Yet i don't think many folks actually seen much
about hitler, besides war propaganda. He was a very successful
civilian politician with a militarist bent, who took a democracy
over the edge in to war-for-empire.

This would make a modern war for empire that kills 10,000 civilians
in a needless bombing, this would make such a war criminal, and
no matter what rationalization.... criminal.

To form prison camps against international law, and militarize the
entire command chain of foreing relations, to subvert any independent
agencies that could distrub the naked power grab strategy of
preemptively defeating every single military on earth before they
realize that we're already atacking them. The US military is a
false GOD. The bible has instructions on such things. How
fundamentalist christians have become themselves duped in to
worshipping false gods makes me wonder.
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HEFFA Donating Member (414 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:38 AM
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3. I'd Invite Him to Stick Around and Learn Something
As a teacher in a public high school, I'd issue a public invitation (no, a public challenge) to him to stick around for the day and to learn something about the public institution that he is trying to kill. His "reform" program is strangling public education, and it would be nice to help him to see that. Of course, given his own record of academic "success," I can't be sure that he would even understand what I was trying to teach him.
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:39 AM
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4. stand with my back turned to bush
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Speed8098 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:43 AM
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5. I'd love to fire comments
At the chimp. I'd shout questions like, "Why did you keep reading about goats when we were clearly under attack?", or, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself for killing over 500 soldiers to get the man who tried to kill your daddy?"

Maybe I'd yell, "Where's the weapons?"

Secret Service would be on me like bees on honey.

No, I don't think chimpy would want to come face to face with someone from DU. He'd be toast in 30 seconds, idiot that he is.
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meti57b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:48 AM
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7. I wouldn't shake hands with bush.
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:48 AM
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8. I'd Tell Him His Ass Was FIRED and To get the HELL out of the white house!
yeah, i'd be pretty damned vocal..
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WestVAprog Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:50 AM
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9. They'd declare my office a 'free speech' zone
and make me stay in it during the event. They'd probably disable the 'all announce' feature on the phones so I couldn't actually say something the * might hear.

We might get a visit by either candidate being in a swing state and a place of good photo oppportunity. I hope Kerry stops by, if Bush comes I'll take sick leave.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 07:47 AM
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10. My workplace, which is a small business...
...has ten employees including the owner and all but one of us are democrats or independents. So, I would say that we would all be respectful, we would watch the one republican in our ranks kiss up to GW and listen to the chimps chatter. Besides GW would have no reason to show up at our workplace. We have had republican contribution collectors show though.:eyes: :crazy: :puke:
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 07:48 AM
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11. I'd see if he wanted to do a couple of lines
You know, for old time sake.

:pals:
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DODI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 07:55 AM
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12. I am sure the Secret Service would not allow me to be there.
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 08:08 AM
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13. You know the tradition Europeans have of egging pols
Edited on Sat Mar-13-04 08:08 AM by camero
That would be a good time to start an American tradition of egging pols. Literally.
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 09:01 AM
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14. Working in a hospital
I'd ask him how he dared show up there when so many Americans can't afford decent medical care, while he sold out to the drug companies and insurance companies, hasn't done anything about the nursing shortage and lies like a rug about all of it!
Jackass!
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DarkPhenyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 09:03 AM
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15. As my political views are well known at work...
...they'd just lock me in one of the lab so we woudln't have to worry about it.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 09:14 AM
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16. I'd be locked in a small room with 2 SS Officers
Or I'd be entertaining 2 Schutzstaffel at home, wouldn't be allowed to go to work.
That'd be OK, I'd serve 'em coffee and make 'em pay me for it.
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neebob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 09:14 AM
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17. It'd never happen because
Edited on Sat Mar-13-04 09:15 AM by neebob
the majority of people at my work are proper Bush haters, to a degree that "How are we going to get rid of that little banty rooster (and worse, but that's the most recent example)?" is frequently heard in casual conversation. But if he did show up at my work and attempt to read a speech, it would be awesome.
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welshTerrier2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 09:44 AM
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18. loudly challenge him to debate
i would make it clear to all my co-workers that he's hiding behind a bunch of scriptwriters ...

of course, forget the secret service, my employer would never let me in the same room as him ...
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OhioStateProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 09:46 AM
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19. I would eat alot of beans and fart REALLY loud, many times(nt)
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 09:49 AM
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20. I might do several:
make audible comments about Bush-Lies, wear a Kerry shirt, and ask for triple-OT
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JohnLocke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 09:56 AM
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21. That's what I would do.
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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 10:04 AM
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22. Provide my own interpretation of the "speech"
loudly.
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MAlibdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 10:05 AM
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23. Other...several of the options
since my workplace is my school i think i could organize a mass mooning and/or throw the crappy cafeteria food at him
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 10:07 AM
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24. I'd give him a speech
I'd tell him he'd better shut up and listen to me read a document with which he is obviously unfamiliar. It is called the Constitution. (I could get away with this because I am the only person in the office-if he wanted to speak to the rest of the company, he'd have to crawl under a house and hope they wouldn't spray him with termacide!)
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 11:34 AM
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26. Call off work and lock the doors
Everyone where I work, including the big boss, is vehemently anti-* We would close up shop and not let the CHIMP in and inform the SS that if they value his safety they'd better get him the hell out of our neighborhood fast.
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 11:37 AM
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27. Choice 2 for me, but if I was forced to attend, I'd make sure an obscene
gesture of mine gets in the picture. For instance, if * wanted to shake hands with me, I'd use both my hands, but with one showing the middle finger (making sure it's in view of the camera)


:evilgrin:
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knight_of_the_star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 11:40 AM
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28. If I still worked at my old grocery store
I would be asking him questions like, "Why do you hate unions so much?" and, "If you could outsource our jobs, would you?"
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 11:46 AM
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29. I WOULD CALL IN SICK
BECAUSE I *WOULD* BE SICK
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HamstersFromHell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:55 PM
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30. Take lots of pictures....
...and Photoshop up some nice high-rez banner sized stuff once he left.
(maniacial laughter)
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DAWUSS Donating Member (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 06:57 PM
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31. I would prolly get bored and pay attention
to someone else... Then again it would prolly be completely voluntary to attend since I'm still in high school
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 07:00 PM
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32. Throw up
on Bush's $1,000 Vito Artioli shoes.
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freeforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 07:03 PM
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33. LOL! He'd have to get across the border first!
But, we're a peace-loving country and don't let terra-ists in here.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 07:05 PM
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34. my 'workplace' is my apartment
so, if he refused to clean my bathroom, I wouldn't let him in!
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 07:22 PM
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35. I'd wear a Kerry t-shirt, watch Bush speak, then go shake his hand
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 07:55 PM
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36. TYBOB
I'd stand there with my back to him. Hopefully with a Kerry '04 logo on the back of my shirt or something.
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