KoKo
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:27 PM
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President of the USA Number 1 Spoke followed by President Number 2! |
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Since WHEN does a US President give a speech followed by a FULL SPEECH by the Speaker of the HOUSE?
TWO PARTIES ARE ONE! This is UNPRECEDENTED... I'm an Old Democrat...never seen anything like this in my life...
So. We know now (some of us) that it's ONE GOVERNMENT...with TWEAKS.
It makes me very disheartened as an American voter since my first cast vote for JFK.
THIS IS A NEW AMERICA..... ONE PARTY.
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:28 PM
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1. Grover Norquist slithered out to hisssss at us? |
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:28 PM
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:29 PM
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3. One party state, masquerading as a two party state. |
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:34 PM
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4. Yes...and custom has always been that THE PRESIDENT has the PULPIT...not the SPEAKER for an |
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Address to the Nation of this importance! It was Bizarre!
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:36 PM
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5. Tweety said the same thing! Boner had a podium of his own! What a bastard. n/t |
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:36 PM
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6. And neither said anything new. |
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:38 PM
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7. Wouldn't the Fairness Doctrine require it to be this way? |
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After all, the President asked for this air time. I thought the opposing party always got air time in a situation like this.
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:39 PM
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8. 1. There is no fairness doctrine |
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2. This wasn't about the Presidential campaign, it was about Obama addressing the nation on deficit
This thing of the opposing party getting automatic time when the president says something is new.
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:43 PM
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9. I was around when the "Fairness Doctrine" was in force. President never had anyone else follow him |
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for important address to the Nation. This is very unusual. I've never seen it before.
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:49 PM
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11. Okay then I stand corrected. n/t |
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:44 PM
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This sure seems to mark a new point in our national political discourse
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Mon Jul-25-11 08:58 PM
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12. I was thinking Boner must have been elected president |
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Of the red states of America and we just didn't know it.
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