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		<title>By: Anais</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/05/begging-for-scraps/#comment-1017766</link>
		<dc:creator>Anais</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 07:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1016504&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bustednuckles @ 83&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1016482&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blub @ 68&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;oh.. OT, but I’ll repost this here from the previous thread where it was EPU’d&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Secretary of Whatever Rice is introducing nanny cams on Blackwater convoys.. nanny cams!??!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071005/pl_nm/iraq_usa_contractors_dc_4;_ylt=AlbWK4v7hIPtFgnp.7AcS5wE1vAI&quot;&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200.....AcS5wE1vAI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1016500&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LibertyLee @ 79&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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I will tell you: we see a decent American who believes in the Security of this country who wants to restore the ideals of Ronald Reagan to the National discourse along with the strength to achieve it. We see a true tax cutter, but a man who believes that Americans are the Good Guys, the guys who liberated Europe and Asia and will continue the fight against Islamo-Fascism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!&lt;br /&gt;
I needed a good belly laugh.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Reagan was a leading man, unlike Thompson, though in B movies. If he wasn’t a great actor, at least Reagan was good at one thing: eliminating American manufacturing jobs. Just how much of your steel, shoes, clothing and furniture is made in the good old USA these days? By gosh, didn’t all those jobs start heading to Asia during the Reagan administration? I’d like to see what a real A-lister would do with the presidency, like George Clooney, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1016504"><em>Bustednuckles @ 83</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-1016482"><em>Blub @ 68</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>oh.. OT, but I’ll repost this here from the previous thread where it was EPU’d</p>
<p>Secretary of Whatever Rice is introducing nanny cams on Blackwater convoys.. nanny cams!??!!!</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071005/pl_nm/iraq_usa_contractors_dc_4;_ylt=AlbWK4v7hIPtFgnp.7AcS5wE1vAI">http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200&#8230;..AcS5wE1vAI</a></p>
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<p><a href="#comment-1016500"><em>LibertyLee @ 79</em></a></p>
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I will tell you: we see a decent American who believes in the Security of this country who wants to restore the ideals of Ronald Reagan to the National discourse along with the strength to achieve it. We see a true tax cutter, but a man who believes that Americans are the Good Guys, the guys who liberated Europe and Asia and will continue the fight against Islamo-Fascism.</p>
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<p>Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!<br />
I needed a good belly laugh.</p>
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<p>Reagan was a leading man, unlike Thompson, though in B movies. If he wasn’t a great actor, at least Reagan was good at one thing: eliminating American manufacturing jobs. Just how much of your steel, shoes, clothing and furniture is made in the good old USA these days? By gosh, didn’t all those jobs start heading to Asia during the Reagan administration? I’d like to see what a real A-lister would do with the presidency, like George Clooney, for instance.</p>
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		<title>By: MarkH</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/05/begging-for-scraps/#comment-1017348</link>
		<dc:creator>MarkH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1016217&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tanbark @ 25&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thompson is a joke.  The very fact that he got ANY traction for a run is a perfect yardstick of how demented the republicans are.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, there IS one candidate that can keep the white house in their hands.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Her name is Hillary Clinton.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Republican or Democrat doesn’t matter if the new leader sends us right over a cliff.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, raising the issue of whether Thompson is just a bought and paid for shill meant to heighten the interest of Evangelical Conservatives, so they’ll eventually vote for their party nominee even if it is Giuliani, makes me wonder which on the Dem side are receiving money from sources we wouldn’t like.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1016217"><em>Tanbark @ 25</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Thompson is a joke.  The very fact that he got ANY traction for a run is a perfect yardstick of how demented the republicans are.</p>
<p>However, there IS one candidate that can keep the white house in their hands.</p>
<p>Her name is Hillary Clinton.
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<p>Republican or Democrat doesn’t matter if the new leader sends us right over a cliff.</p>
<p>However, raising the issue of whether Thompson is just a bought and paid for shill meant to heighten the interest of Evangelical Conservatives, so they’ll eventually vote for their party nominee even if it is Giuliani, makes me wonder which on the Dem side are receiving money from sources we wouldn’t like.</p>
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		<title>By: sporkovat</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/05/begging-for-scraps/#comment-1016750</link>
		<dc:creator>sporkovat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;As Financial Times commentator Gideon Rachman–in an article titled “Many contenders but just one voice”–wrote:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt; “On a whole range of issues that remain very controversial even among close American allies in Europe and Asia, there is a broad American consensus [spanning] Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards on the Democratic side to Rudolph Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John McCain and Fred Thompson among the Republicans.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“All of the main candidates want to build up the American military rather than shrink it (Senator Clinton wants to add 80,000 troops to the Army). They all agree that the U.S. has the right to take pre-emptive military action in the ‘war on terror.’…They are all strong supporters of Israel. And they are all talking tough on Iran.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Even on Iraq–despite the bitter rhetoric–&lt;b&gt;the mainstream Democratic and Republican positions are closer than either side would care to acknowledge.&lt;/b&gt; President George W. Bush announced last week that troops will start withdrawing later this year. The ’surge’ is over. &lt;b&gt;But none of the main Democratic candidates endorses the antiwar left’s call for an immediate and complete pullout.&lt;/b&gt; So the debate comes down to an argument about the scale and pace of troop withdrawals.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;but much of the so-called anti-war left is just a sock-puppet of the (D) party, using opposition to the failed war against the (R) team as a wedge issue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;watch as they go into a frenzy of shrill advocacy in 08 to support the pro-war candidate of the (D)’s. It won’t be pretty.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As Financial Times commentator Gideon Rachman–in an article titled “Many contenders but just one voice”–wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p> “On a whole range of issues that remain very controversial even among close American allies in Europe and Asia, there is a broad American consensus [spanning] Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards on the Democratic side to Rudolph Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John McCain and Fred Thompson among the Republicans.</p>
<p>“All of the main candidates want to build up the American military rather than shrink it (Senator Clinton wants to add 80,000 troops to the Army). They all agree that the U.S. has the right to take pre-emptive military action in the ‘war on terror.’…They are all strong supporters of Israel. And they are all talking tough on Iran.</p>
<p>“Even on Iraq–despite the bitter rhetoric–<b>the mainstream Democratic and Republican positions are closer than either side would care to acknowledge.</b> President George W. Bush announced last week that troops will start withdrawing later this year. The ’surge’ is over. <b>But none of the main Democratic candidates endorses the antiwar left’s call for an immediate and complete pullout.</b> So the debate comes down to an argument about the scale and pace of troop withdrawals.”</p>
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<p>but much of the so-called anti-war left is just a sock-puppet of the (D) party, using opposition to the failed war against the (R) team as a wedge issue.</p>
<p>watch as they go into a frenzy of shrill advocacy in 08 to support the pro-war candidate of the (D)’s. It won’t be pretty.</p>
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		<title>By: albert fall</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/05/begging-for-scraps/#comment-1016601</link>
		<dc:creator>albert fall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Old Gold at 87&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Jonestown Republican” is redundent.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Old Gold at 87</p>
<p>“Jonestown Republican” is redundent.</p>
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		<title>By: itwasntme</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/05/begging-for-scraps/#comment-1016526</link>
		<dc:creator>itwasntme</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;LibertyLee: welcome to the Lake, but I need to remind you it’s 2007. I encourage you to stick around and read here all you want.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LibertyLee: welcome to the Lake, but I need to remind you it’s 2007. I encourage you to stick around and read here all you want.</p>
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		<title>By: katherine Graham Cracker</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/05/begging-for-scraps/#comment-1016521</link>
		<dc:creator>katherine Graham Cracker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Franken has a primary opponent tht’s why his expenditures are more than the illegal occupier of the Wellstone seat.&lt;br /&gt;
Another media generated fake story -the Wellstone Funeral.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The only people showing disrespect were the Shrubians using the funeral to pretend they respected Paul Wellstone when they show disregard for every single thing he stood for.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Franken has a primary opponent tht’s why his expenditures are more than the illegal occupier of the Wellstone seat.<br />
Another media generated fake story -the Wellstone Funeral.</p>
<p>The only people showing disrespect were the Shrubians using the funeral to pretend they respected Paul Wellstone when they show disregard for every single thing he stood for.</p>
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		<title>By: Hugh</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/05/begging-for-scraps/#comment-1016519</link>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1016500&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LibertyLee @ 81&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1016190&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;ReneND @ 7&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just can’t figure out what the Fredheads see in this guy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will tell you: we see a decent American who believes in the Security of this country who wants to restore the ideals of Ronald Reagan to the National discourse along with the strength to achieve it.  We see a true tax cutter, but a man who believes that Americans are the Good Guys, the guys who liberated Europe and Asia and will continue the fight against Islamo-Fascism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That’s the funniest piece of unintentional snark I have seen here in quite a while.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1016500"><em>LibertyLee @ 81</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-1016190"><em>ReneND @ 7</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>I just can’t figure out what the Fredheads see in this guy.</p>
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<p>I will tell you: we see a decent American who believes in the Security of this country who wants to restore the ideals of Ronald Reagan to the National discourse along with the strength to achieve it.  We see a true tax cutter, but a man who believes that Americans are the Good Guys, the guys who liberated Europe and Asia and will continue the fight against Islamo-Fascism.</p>
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<p>That’s the funniest piece of unintentional snark I have seen here in quite a while.</p>
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		<title>By: BigMitch</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/05/begging-for-scraps/#comment-1016512</link>
		<dc:creator>BigMitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The election of 2008 is not yet won. Watch out for Mike Huckabee. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I really don’t know who I would rather run against: Giuliani or F. Thompson. Thompson does have a Dimaggio-like streak of hits going: a fuck-up a day since he declared his candidacy. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guiliani brings to the table a threat of a third party candidate. It was a nice turn when the Cardinal said “no communion for you, Rudy” yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But honestly folks, never underestimate the power of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The election of 2008 is not yet won. Watch out for Mike Huckabee. </p>
<p>I really don’t know who I would rather run against: Giuliani or F. Thompson. Thompson does have a Dimaggio-like streak of hits going: a fuck-up a day since he declared his candidacy. </p>
<p>Guiliani brings to the table a threat of a third party candidate. It was a nice turn when the Cardinal said “no communion for you, Rudy” yesterday.</p>
<p>But honestly folks, never underestimate the power of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.</p>
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		<title>By: Biodun</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/05/begging-for-scraps/#comment-1016511</link>
		<dc:creator>Biodun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1016507&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;ccmask @ 85&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I read somewhere yesterday that Al Franken was outdoing Coleman in contributions, but spending more.  I would love to get rid of Coleman.  Everytime I hear his name I picture George Galloway doing him in.  Best video &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj0m0dSUPR8&quot;&gt;ever&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here in MN, we love to get rid of the weasel too. And yes, that Galloway UN smackdown of Coleman was priceless.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1016507"><em>ccmask @ 85</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>I read somewhere yesterday that Al Franken was outdoing Coleman in contributions, but spending more.  I would love to get rid of Coleman.  Everytime I hear his name I picture George Galloway doing him in.  Best video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj0m0dSUPR8">ever</a>.</p>
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<p>Here in MN, we love to get rid of the weasel too. And yes, that Galloway UN smackdown of Coleman was priceless.</p>
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		<title>By: old gold</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/05/begging-for-scraps/#comment-1016510</link>
		<dc:creator>old gold</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1016500&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LibertyLee @ 81&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1016190&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;ReneND @ 7&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just can’t figure out what the Fredheads see in this guy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will tell you: we see a decent American who believes in the Security of this country who wants to restore the ideals of Ronald Reagan to the National discourse along with the strength to achieve it.  We see a true tax cutter, but a man who believes that Americans are the Good Guys, the guys who liberated Europe and Asia and will continue the fight against Islamo-Fascism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Jonestown Republican!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1016500"><em>LibertyLee @ 81</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-1016190"><em>ReneND @ 7</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>I just can’t figure out what the Fredheads see in this guy.</p>
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<p>I will tell you: we see a decent American who believes in the Security of this country who wants to restore the ideals of Ronald Reagan to the National discourse along with the strength to achieve it.  We see a true tax cutter, but a man who believes that Americans are the Good Guys, the guys who liberated Europe and Asia and will continue the fight against Islamo-Fascism.</p>
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<p>A Jonestown Republican!</p>
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