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Quote: Originally posted by midwinter To which I would add that his two inaugurals are brilliant, just plain brilliant, and will be ignored until the fire-breathing clinton-hating folks get their panties out of a bunch. Yeah, it was all a pl…
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Quote: Originally posted by jimmac " I will focus on the economy like a laser beam. " " It's the economy stupid. " Here's a place you can go for them : http://www.quoteworld.org/author.php...ferson+Clinton Is that where you went for …
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Quote: Originally posted by midwinter Aside: Once, I had a student who, at the end of some major point, exclaimed in the essay "And WALLAH!" Ugh. With that said, I agree with groverat. I missed the interview last night, but I've been watc…
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Quote: Fred I. Greenstein, a political scientist at Princeton widely admired for his writings on the presidency... proposes six measures for appraising the "leadership style" of presidents: public communication, organizational capacity, political s…
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Quote: Originally posted by jimmac Funny but the guy in the first article and the many people looking for work would disagree with you. And who am I going to believe you or some guy on CNN? Again, the CNN article didn't talk about unemployme…
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Quote: Originally posted by jimmac It's not about who was in office when it started it's about the guy who handled it during... And on that score Bush does very well. His tax cuts couldn't have been better timed if he'd had a crystal ball. The…
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Quote: Originally posted by jimmac Except that you have to consider the date of the artcle... Yep. By the time of that article the unemployment situation was starting to flatten.Quote: ... That was from Jan. 2003. The problems with the econo…
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Quote: Originally posted by jimmac Mild yet it was long and had the worst unemployment since WWII. Unemployment has always lagged but not like this. This is not speculation on my part. Economists have said this. Here's a sample from the past i…
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Quote: Originally posted by jimmac No as a matter of fact this recession wasn't like any other. It went on abnormaly long and unemployement is still in recovery. The problem with Bush was he was saying it was in recovery a long time before it rea…
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Quote: Originally posted by BRussell This suggests that we didn't know the recession was over until Dec. 22nd, 1992 - after the election. Not that I'd put it past Clinton to lie or anything, but I don't think that is one of them... We DID kn…
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Quote: Originally posted by Northgate Right now there are probably several wingers on this board, reading this thread and ... giggling their evil laugh while wringing their twisted hands. You are such an idiot.
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Quote: Originally posted by BRussell I'm not interested in the "boom," which could also be disparagingly called a bubble if you wish. He had the longest expansion in modern American history... Which had already begun sometime in 1991. This d…
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I read "The da Vinci Code" a few months ago. Thought it was way overrated. As for stories about Jesus saying he wasn't crucified, that would be the Gospel of Barnabas and the Qu'ran.
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Quote: Originally posted by bunge Hell yes... I didn't ask you.Quote: ... This guy doesn't mean any more than any American, Iraqi or Afghanistani that has died in the past two years... And I'm sure he would have been the first to agree wit…
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Quote: Originally posted by ShawnJ Superb point. Can we argue that he died generally because of the war in Iraq - the unfortunate consequence of stretching our military resources too thin? You can but should you?
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I really like where I live (about a mile west of Nook Farm) because this is where my Mac is.
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Bill's team got behind him and helped him win. Kwami had Troy who'd walk through fire for him but Omarosa was so incredibly self-involved. There's no way she'd have been an asset to anyone. A project like that will invariably have some glitches. It'…
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Need to spend more time here. Didn't finally click on this thread until today. Well, it's too late to give you advice, groverat, but maybe this'll help somebody else. The Lexus is certainly nice and I know you'll like it but it's basically a Camry -…
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Quote: Originally posted by bunge If he really said this I think it should be enough to get him impeached. My freedom has nothing to do with his 'all mighty' ... "... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, …
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Chris, Carol, I'm so very sorry for both of you. You'll be in my prayers. When our mother died, my sister remembered a conversation she had with a friend of hers from her church. The woman's husband had died. She said for the longest time she was…