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2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

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ScoobyDoo said:
Aaah yes, another war denier. Need to look at some of the crap coming out of Texas. The war is very real.
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Hey, if I hadn't been laid since the Reagan administration who knows how I'd feel about women. Fortunately I don't have that issue unlike 99% of our conservative friends. ;)
 
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Rover said:
I don't mind the occasional good humored barb but have you ever noticed a big difference between how Dem First Ladies are held in contempt by righties vs Laura or Barbara Bush's treatment from the left? Both of those were uncontroversial people pretty much left alone by left wing commentators. It would be absurd to claim the same for Hillary & Michelle, and Obama's wife doesn't appear to have too many public policy opinions aside from people eating healthier - again an uncontroversial topic one would think.
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I tend to leave the wives alone, but I do think there's a big difference in how these women have all operated. Laura and Babs Bush, IIRC, took on tasks to specifically deal with charities during their husbands' time in office. Meanwhile, Hilary and Michelle have taken on roles that are directing policy from either Congress or the White House. People used to go after Nancy Reagan, but her Just Say No and DARE campaigns were going hand-in-hand with political agendas, just like Hilary and Michelle.
 
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St. Clown said:
I tend to leave the wives alone, but I do think there's a big difference in how these women have all operated. Laura and Babs Bush, IIRC, took on tasks to specifically deal with charities during their husbands' time in office. Meanwhile, Hilary and Michelle have taken on roles that are directing policy from either Congress or the White House. People used to go after Nancy Reagan, but her Just Say No and DARE campaigns were going hand-in-hand with political agendas, just like Hilary and Michelle.
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All I can tell Michelle Obama does regarding policy is the healthy eating initiative which is no more controversial than Laura Bush's focus on literacy or whatever it was that she was doing. If you have a specific example of policy direction out of her I'd love to see it.
 
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I'd say Hillary is different from the rest as she's obviously been a major political player and was during her First Lady years. No other First Lady sticks out to me as being very political/controversial.
 
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Rover said:
All I can tell Michelle Obama does regarding policy is the healthy eating initiative which is no more controversial than Laura Bush's focus on literacy or whatever it was that she was doing. If you have a specific example of policy direction out of her I'd love to see it.
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I dunno, maybe they bring it upon themselves? But what difference does it make? :rolleyes:

It's not the policy direction - it's the hypocrisy of her "you must eat healthy" dictum while she and Barry are dining out on calorie-rich food in the White House and at local greasy burger joints.

Of course, there's also the multiple family vacations to Aspen-Hawaii-Paris-China, etc. etc. that are coming out of our tax dollars. Carney can try to spin them as fact-finding missions or goodwill tours or whatever, but most of us who are either struggling to find a job or paying the bills (or both) are calling BS.
 
Bob Gray said:
I'd say Hillary is different from the rest as she's obviously been a major political player and was during her First Lady years. No other First Lady sticks out to me as being very political/controversial.
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A bit before our time but maybe the second Mrs. Wilson?
 
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Rover said:
All I can tell Michelle Obama does regarding policy is the healthy eating initiative which is no more controversial than Laura Bush's focus on literacy or whatever it was that she was doing. If you have a specific example of policy direction out of her I'd love to see it.
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Her healthy eating initiative alone isn't an issue, but it was only a very short time after she began it that there was immediate pressure for schools to change their meals, and then the attached funding for such things.

It might be said that the intent of No Child Left Behind was to increase literacy, and that it was in response to Laura Bush's literacy work, but I'm not so sure of that. NCLB was introduced and championed by Chappy Kennedy, and W later globbed onto it when we were getting some bad reports on the state of education in this country. Clearly it's not been the boon they were hoping.
 
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Rover said:
Hey, if I hadn't been laid since the Reagan administration who knows how I'd feel about women. Fortunately I don't have that issue unlike 99% of our conservative friends. ;)
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Using roofies doesn't count
 
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This week in Republicans.

U.S. Senator John McCain, a Republican foreign policy specialist, told the same BBC show that Putin’s actions in Ukraine were akin to those of Adolf Hitler in 1930s Germany.

“I think he (Putin) is calculating how much he can get away with, just as Adolf Hitler calculated how much he could get away with in the 1930s,” McCain said.
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Ok, Johnny. Godwin's Law invoked. Thanks, Buddy.
 
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Let's see. Can't pick on Obama. And can't pick on Hillary. I'm sensing a pattern.
 
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Is there a healthy eating diet that requires eating granola and grass at every sitting?

And the reason I referenced People magazine is you schmucks come across as teenage girls gossiping about Justin Bieber. The latest link discussing the trip to China provided zero substance and nothing of fact but you bobos slopped it up as if it mattered and was an important topic. Are you caught up with Dancing with the Stars this season?
 
Slap Shot said:
Is there a healthy eating diet that requires eating granola and grass at every sitting?

And the reason I referenced People magazine is you schmucks come across as teenage girls gossiping about Justin Bieber. The latest link discussing the trip to China provided zero substance and nothing of fact but you bobos slopped it up as if it mattered and was an important topic. Are you caught up with Dancing with the Stars this season?
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What the f are you ranting about.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Is there a healthy eating diet that requires eating granola and grass at every sitting?

And the reason I referenced People magazine is you schmucks come across as teenage girls gossiping about Justin Bieber. The latest link discussing the trip to China provided zero substance and nothing of fact but you bobos slopped it up as if it mattered and was an important topic. Are you caught up with Dancing with the Stars this season?
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walrus said:
What the f are you ranting about.
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Robert Morris has Slap feeling a little tense. :)
 
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