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Is our bricks in the wall learning?

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So we should be thankful that the Bush family gave us Shrub to succeed Poppy and not Neil?

/FFS

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my <strike>headline</strike> proofreading was better

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So no "Bush would've totally won if it wasn't for that meddling Ross Perot!" historic rewrite? Well, at least they hit the "everyone was mad at Bush for raising taxes" trope for a reason for loss instead of the (more accurate) everyone was mostly okay with his foreign policy but nobody thought he could handle domestic policy.

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It was during that period that the large multinational assets management firm Potter Investments Group, LLC, parent company of Bain Capital, acquired a number of companies via hostile takeovers, including a small family-run S&L located in the same upstate NY town as the firm's original headquarters that for undisclosed reasons it had been striving to add to its portfolio for decades.

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I've done shows with both him and Powell (Powell, several times now) and had a chance to talk back stage. They are both stand up guys.

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Just don't hire Jackson to do it or it'll be a a 3-D trilogy

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GHWB worst club drug ever!!1!1!

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McCain was up to his eyeballs in the Keating Five- Charlie financed that carpetbagger's early campaigns (along with Cindy's beer money) and John took good care of Keating in return. He really has always been a rat bastard, it's just that he's been phenomenally successful at crafting an image in the media that is completely different than reality. <a href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes...." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-08-07/news/po...">http://www.phoenixnewtimes.... john-mccain-some-arizonans-know-and-loathe/%20/2

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if only we'd stayed the course and had a surge

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Hey Dok, was this intentional?

“Read my lips: now new taxes”

If so, that's kinda funny...

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or delete my post and say it was on purpose, lol

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no kidding

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One less bastard anyway: <b>Charles Humphrey Keating, Jr.</b> (December 4, 1923 – March 31, 2014) was an American athlete, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, and financier, best known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s.

Keating was a champion swimmer for the University of Cincinnati in the 1940s. From the late 1950s through the 1970s, he was a noted anti-pornography activist, founding the organization Citizens for Decent Literature and serving as a member on the 1969 President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.

----from Wikipedia

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Well, going any deeper into apartheid would have forced the authors to admit Reagan and the "moral" Republicans had no qualms about propping up the Afrikaners in power to suit their own ends.

As for President Bush 41, he wasn't a loon or a greedhead Hell, I'd take him before any of the GOP clown car gunning for 2016.

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"The liberal media helped…create a climate of economic crisis.” Nothing worse than, you know, reporting the facts, when a Republican is in office.

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