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rmp yellow Donating Member (136 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 11:13 PM
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Maureen Dowd rips Bill Clinton today for his affair with Monica Lewinsky
Maureen Dowd today on the news of David Letterman's affair with staffers:

The main thing Letterman and Clinton had in common was that the danger of a secret affair exploding is enhanced when the staffer is immature enough to scrawl confessions in her diary, as Birkitt did, or go prattling to a prat like Linda Tripp.

Unlike Clinton, Letterman trusted the public — and his bond with them — enough to tell the truth.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/opinion/07dowd.html?_r=1&hp

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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 11:16 PM
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1. Much as I dislike Dowd I can't believe she constructed this entire column
to be a thinly disguised slam of Clinton.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 11:22 PM
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3. That is probably true
but in retrospect I think she is correct. If Clinton had just been straight with everyone when it came out it would have save us and the country a whole lot of nonsense. I was a big defender of Clinton and thought the whole Impeachement thing was nonsense but he should have just played it straight and not tried to parse words and play with symantics.
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:03 AM
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25. Aren't they all? At least when she can find the most miniscule of threads to tie it to Clinton?
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JamesA1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:28 AM
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29. Reading Dowd's column is like
reading a spoiled teenagers slam book. If they ever do a film of Dowd's life, Lindsey Lohan should play her. They are both vapid redheads.
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mth44sc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 11:20 PM
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2. She seems to be so pissed
that Clinton never paid attention to her. She's been mad about it for years. Enough already.

Has she ever heard of Senator Payoff?
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rmp yellow Donating Member (136 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 11:25 PM
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5. On November, 28, Media Matters asked, "Why can't MoDo quit the Clintons?"
The answer is clearly "never."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200811160002
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 12:42 AM
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10. She is obsessed!
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 11:26 PM
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6. Yeah, in all fairness she should have brought
the Payoff Senator Ensign of Nevada in on this.
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 07:20 AM
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18. I think it is just her
Edited on Wed Oct-07-09 07:21 AM by karynnj
I would doubt that it is because he never paid attention to her - she was just as bad with (if not worse - as there was less substance to her constant attacks) Gore, Kerry and Obama - not to mention Hillary. I think it is her idea of being clever.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 11:24 PM
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4. did she mention the serial adulterer John McCain of Arizona? nt
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 11:27 PM
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7. Oh for god sake. When are they going to ever get over
Monica? Get a life Maureen!
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 11:27 PM
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8. Hey, Maureen. There are philandering Senators aplenty in the news now.
To hold up as an example. Why go back to Clinton?

You want him, don't you.

Twisted little minx.
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Raine1967 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 11:51 PM
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9. Hmmm -- you think Dowd ever heard of Senator Ensign?
maybe even David Vitter?

I get her point -- but keerist -- she should try to use relevant topics.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 01:34 AM
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13. Because extramarital sex did not exist before Bill Clinton
Just like evil didn't exist before Eve at that apple.
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Zoeisright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 01:31 AM
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11. Jealous, Maureen?
That woman is a hack. Listen, you idiotic woman, President Clinton did NOT lecture others about infidelity and try to remove them from office while he was having an affair, like, oh, let's see:

Gingrich
Ensign
Sanford
Barr
Chenoweth
Livingston
Hyde
Vitter
Limpballs

But old MoDo is too blinded by - something - to see the hypocrisy.
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mikekohr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:55 AM
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31. GOP gross old perverts

In the last 40 months 18 "family values" Republicans have been -exposed-: Mark Sanford® SC, John Ensign ® NV, Jeffery Ray Nielsen ® CA, Donald Fleischman ® WI, Ted Klaudt ® SD, Richard Curtis ®WA, Larry Craig ®ID, Bob Allen ®FL, Mark Foley ®FL, Michael A. Flory ®MI, Glen Murphy ®IN, John D.R. Atchison ®FL, Dennis Gallagher ®NY, Randall Tobias ® DC, David Vitter ® LA, Judge Alex Kosinski ® CA, Vito Fossella ® NY, Robert Scomma ® MA.

This rogue's gallery accounts for at least 13 cases of infidelity, 7 cases of prostitution/solicitation, 1 case of bestiality, 3 cases of rape/sexual assault, 7 cases of pedophilia, 1 case of supplying alcohol and marijuana to a minor, 3 cases of drunk driving, and 18 cases of hypocrisy.

mike kohr
10/7/2008
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mikekohr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 10:01 AM
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32. Details on above post:
Edited on Wed Oct-07-09 10:03 AM by mikekohr
Donald Fleischman ® WI The chairman of Wisconsin’s Brown County Republican Party resigned after it was revealed he provided beer and marijuana to a 16 year old boy and then masturbated on the boy’s feet. Unable to find a capable replacement for Mr. Fleischman, the Brown County Republican Party has disbanded.

Judge Alex Kozinski, It has been revealed that the Honorable Alex Kozinski, who is presiding over an obscenity case against a pornography distributor, has posted pictures on his personal website of women on all fours, painted as cows and men in the company of farm animals. The former Reagan White House Counsel was appointed by Reagan to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1985 at age 35, making him the youngest appeals court judge in the nation. Kozinski was rumored to have been on the short list of George W. Bush for appointment to the Supreme Court. Kozinski has a reputation of being "colorful." It now appears that no one remotely understood just how colorful the Republican jurist actually is.

Representative Vito Fossella ® NY, The conservative, family values congressman was arrested for drunken driving in May of 2008. Representative Fossella explained to the officer that he was traveling to visit with his mistress and his illegitimate daughter. After a firestorm of press over the details of Fossella’s arrest the Congressman withdrew his name for re-election on November’s ballot.

Randall Tobias, a 69 year old, married grandfather and head of the Bush administration's foreign aid programs, who was en-charged with anti-prostitution efforts, has abruptly resigned after his name surfaced in an investigation into the “Washington DC Madam Scandal.”

Senator David Vitter ®-LA the “family values conservative” admitted, after he was exposed, that he had frequented the “Pamela Martin Escort Service,” in the infamous “Washington DC Madam Scandal.” Days later, according to the Madam at the equally infamous New Orleans “Canal Street Brothel,” Vitter was identified as a steady customer. She stated that Vitter "wasn't a freak or anything and didn't do drugs."
It is good to know that the Senator has some redeeming qualities.

Robert Somma ® MA The Bush appointed Federal Judge crashed his Mercedes Benz into the rear of a pickup truck on a Massachusetts road. The married, 63 year old, had difficulty removing his driver’s license from his purse according to the arresting police officer. Judge Somma was wearing fishnet stockings, high heels and a woman’s cocktail dress at the time of his arrest. On 2/15/2008 Judge Somma pled no contest to the DUI charge. He resigned his judgeship effective 4/1/2008. Mr Somma’s wife told reporters that her husband was not interested in talking with the press about the incident.


Jeffery Ray Nielsen ® CA, A prominent conservative activist of California’s Orange County Republican Party, has pled guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison for engaging in lewd sexual conduct with two boys, aged 12 and 14 years of age. Nielsen, a church youth counselor, met his first victim while in Washington DC working as an aide to Dana Rohrabacher ® CA. Nielsen had, until his guilty plea, blamed his legal woes on a “witch-hunt,” by liberal media.

Ted Klaudt ® SD State Representative Klaudt was found guilty on two counts of rape of his foster children. Klaudt “performed” breast and vaginal exams on the two young victims with a promise to harvest viable eggs to sell on the open market.
Klaudt awaits trial for three additional rape charges on other victims.
This case stands out as the textbook model for Republican sexual scandals, combining violation of trust and authority, deception, perversion, AND greed.

Richard Curtis ® of La Center WA, has resigned after admitting to having sex with a man he met in an erotic video store. Curtis, married, with children, has repeatedly voted against gay rights bills that have come before the Washington State legislature. Curtis attempted to cover-up the details by reporting the account to the Washington State Police, hoping they would keep details out of the press In Curtis' account he said he met a man named "Stallion," in an erotic video store. Curtis claimed he spent the night with "Stallion," woke up in a motel bedroom dressed as a woman, and found his wallet missing.
"Stallion's" account differed. He stated that Curtis offered him $1000.00 for a night of sexual bliss but only came up with $200.00 bucks the next morning. "Stallion" said he took Curtis' wallet and a photo of Curtis in a compromising position to settle the debt. Curtis chose not to press charges and expressed the desire to keep the report confidential.

John D.R. Atchison ® FL, an assistant Federal Prosecutor and local children’s sports leader from northern Florida, was arrested as he arrived in Michigan to have sex with a five year old. Mr. Atchison wrote over the internet to an undercover officer posing as the young girl’s mother that he had experience and had done this sort of thing many times before. Atchison expressed interest in oral, vaginal and anal sex with the fictitious 5 year old child. He promised to be, "loving and gentle."
When arrested, Mr. Atchison was carrying a Dora the Explorer doll and a jar of petroleum jelly. Atchison faces 40 years in prison.

Dennis Gallagher ® NY A City councilman was arraigned Friday on charges that he raped and assaulted a woman in his office just hours after they met in a bar. Gallagher, married, father of two, turned himself in after a grand jury
came back with the 10-count indictment on rape and assault charges. Gallagher is one of 3 Republicans on the 51 person council.

Bob Allen ®-FL The “family values Republican” state Representative was arrested on July 10th, 2007 officer in Veterans Memorial Park in Titusville, FL. Allen offered $20 to an undercover male police in exchange for the officer allowing Allen to perform oral sex on the officer. Allen, married, and father to a young daughter has authored numerous bills relating to sexual crimes and misconduct.

Glen Murphy Jr. For the second time in 9 years charges of forced/unwanted sexual acts were filed against Glen Murphy Jr., president of Young Republican National Federation and Chairman of Indiana's Clark County Republican Party.
A 22 year old man claimed that on July 31, 2007, Murphy attempted to perform a sex act on him while he was asleep. A similar charge was filed against Murphy by a 21 year old man in 1998.

Michael A. Flory The former chairman of a Michigan Young Republican Federation has pled guilty and faces 1 to 5 years in prison or probation and will be registered as a sex predator for sexual battery against a young woman committed while Flory was attending a Young Republican Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

Rep. Mark Foley ®-FL Congressman McCreepy, resigned in disgrace after it was revealed that he had engaged in predatory practices against young male Congressional aides. The scandal and lack of oversight by the then Republican leadership played a leading role in the Democratic tidal wave in November of 2006.

Senator Larry Craig ®-ID became the second Republican legislator in as many months to soil our nation’s public restrooms. Craig pled guilty in June, 2007 to charges related to solicitation of sex from an undercover police officer in a public restroom.


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Zoeisright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 02:38 PM
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37. Thanks! I have a list like that saved somewhere.
The ones I listed were off the top of my head. And yes, Grody, Greasy, Grimy Old Perverts is the perfect name for them.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 01:32 AM
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12. Oh brother...let's start that shit up again, eh, MoDo?
What an ass.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 01:38 AM
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14. She's always a slice of heaven.
:crazy:
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 01:45 AM
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15. Wait, what year is this? MoDo, get over it. He wasn't that into you.
~~~ I don't know why I said that -- it just came to me that maybe MoDo needed some snark dealt to her. Weird.

Hekate

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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 10:25 AM
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33. Don't you know? Everything old is new.
We might as well be back in 1998. Actually that wouldn't be so bad, other than the national obsession over Bill's penis, the country was in mighty fine shape.

:7
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 04:30 AM
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16. Dowd's got her finger on the pulse of America, once again.
Count on her to waste your time.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 06:41 AM
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17. I guess Bill never hit on Maureen, and she's been angry ever since.
She's like a spurned teenager when it come to Bill Clinton.
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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 07:22 AM
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19. Haven't seen Dowd posted for ages
My life is better when it doesn't include her inane columns.
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Mass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 07:29 AM
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20. Dowd is a rorschach test. Depending of whom she attacks, people here love her or hate her.

Today, she attacked somebody you like. You are unhappy.

Tomorrow, she will attack somebody you hate and you will love her (does not matter if she attacks a D or an R, I noticed).

But she is the same all the time, as nasty and superficial whether she is on the right side of the issue or not. I dislike her deeply, whether she attacks Cheney or Obama. But she survives poor columnist skills by appeasing alternatively the Right or the Left.
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 07:42 AM
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21. FU, MoD'oh.
Way to give the GOP 'family values' hypocrites a pass, MoD'oh, by lumping them together in the "other philandering pols" category. She couldn't even bring herself to type "Clarence Thomas" when she discussed pubic hair and Long Dong Silver.

Hey MoD'oh, what's keeping you from naming GOP names? Are they blackmailing you?


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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 08:37 AM
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22. She gave Clarence Thomas a severe beating right here:
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 08:56 AM
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23. Hey Maureen - 1998 is calling. They want you back.
Okay, I realize that old "hey (blank), (blank) is calling" is extremely stale, but it seems to be as topical as MoDo still nattering on about Bill and Monica. Get over it, for chrissake. :eyes:
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:08 AM
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28. Oh bunny, how humble of you...
to criticize yourself for being stale.

Your comment is fine and right in line with MoDo, if in fact, it was stale.....because her writing is just recycled snark and stale to the nth degree.

"Get over it" is right. You'd think she'd be embarrassed at this point to write about this yet again....kind of reeks of "protesting too much," don't you think?
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Jakes Progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 08:58 AM
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24. Mo has five assistants whose only job
is to find some news tie-in that will let her rip into Bill again. All her hate for Hillary was just reflected animus toward the big guy who wouldn't give her a call. You know the old Hell and fury stuff.
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:05 AM
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26. Ah, sweet bird of relative youth
Those were the so-so good old days, weren't they, Maureen?
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:07 AM
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27. Uh Oh! Keeping a Journal is now immature.
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 09:33 AM
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30. Hey Maureen, get over it!!!
Bill Clinton will never, ever, sleep with you. Never forgave him for not looking at you twice, huh? Come on, it's been the rumor in the NYC grapevine for years. You could never land Bill, Michael Douglas left you for a much nicer person and you are still a miserable woman. Your pathological hatred of both Clintons is beyond boring by now. You are one pathetic chick........

:eyes:
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 10:34 AM
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34. Yeah that Maureen Dowd sucks. Its not as if Clinton's affair had any consequences for us...oh wait.
That's right it did, didn't it.

It sure gave that IDIOT George W Bush something to pummel Al Gore on.

Bill Clinton fucked up big time and he deserves to be held up and ridiculed for it. Just think of where we would be if only he controlled himself and accorded the dignity his office deserved. Pah.
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 10:37 AM
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35. Don't blame Bill for Gore's problems.
Bill left office with high approval ratings and Gore chose not to use him. They even had a big fight over it after the election.




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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 11:23 AM
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36. Actually I do.
Just like John McCain isn't to blame for losing the last election. He might have had a chance if only his predecessor wasn't such a failure and didn't screw up the country so bad.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 07:21 PM
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39. The RWers also accused him of murder. They would have beat on him for anything.
Even after the Lewinsky nonsense, Bill still had good approval ratings.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 10:29 PM
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42. You will recall that Clinton tried not to reveal this? The sordid details were told by Ken Starr.
Edited on Wed Oct-07-09 10:29 PM by WinkyDink
Who was the real pervert?
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rmp yellow Donating Member (136 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 10:39 PM
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43. did you know that Maureen Dowd contributed to Gore's loss by lying about him?
Edited on Wed Oct-07-09 10:40 PM by rmp yellow
Inventing stuff about him and mocking him as a phony effeminate stuck-up robot?

Let's not pretend that Dowd wanted Gore to win.
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Autumn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 03:18 PM
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38. She needs to get over it,
you would almost think she is a jealous harpy.
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marshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 07:22 PM
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40. Clinton will be forever tied to affairs with interns
Whenever somebody in the public eye is caught with an intern, Clinton will come to mind, spoken or unspoken.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 10:26 PM
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41. I don't think Bill had anyone's employment future involved.
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 11:12 PM
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44. SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU OLD HAG!
Edited on Wed Oct-07-09 11:15 PM by TankLV
Your fifteen minutes was WAY used up LONG ago...

You're just an EMBARASSMENT now...

never heard of JOHN ENSIGN or NEWT GINGRICH or HARRY HYDE or - JOHN EDWARDS?!!!

GET A FUCKING CLUE YOU FUCKING IGNORANT BWORD...
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