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Offline Ripsnort

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« on: February 21, 2002, 08:22:08 AM »
LOL!  

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Offline Eagler

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« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2002, 08:52:41 AM »
need to plain to some Rip

Clinton has the lenses cap on his binocs, didn't take them off as he feared to look stupid during the photo op ... he succeeded didn't he :)
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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2002, 08:55:07 AM »
At first, I thought GW had his backwards...but then one of my Ft.Lewis buddy's on my mailing list corrected me and said that GW was using them correctly (note the eye pieces, too far apart if you turned it around)
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« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2002, 09:23:45 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2002, 10:32:03 AM »
Me thinks that is a touched up pic of Clinton. The story I heard was that GWB was looking through binoc's at North Korea with the lens cap on.

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Bush stopped at Camp Ouelette, which sits on a hilltop among a tangle of razorwire. Flags from the United States, United Nations and South Korea fluttered in the breeze.

The president strode up to his sandbag bunker and took in the scene, his hands jammed into his pockets. Then he took up the binoculars to try to spot a village on the North Korean side and immediately realized he needed to take the lens cap off.


Clinton haters will go to any length won't they?
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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2002, 10:36:51 AM »
Hehe, its not touched up Midknight, I remember the picture on the evening news when it happened. :)
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« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2002, 10:37:02 AM »
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what's that ?


It's a scholarship he was award with which he spent one year at Oxford, dropped out and protested the Vietnam war and visited the USSR ...

mt, we don't have to go far as his actions makes it very easy :)
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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2002, 10:41:09 AM »
At some point, anyone that's used binoculars tried with the lens cap on.  Its just that most decided it would be more prudent to remove the lens cap than to sit there pretending they were off.

Its classic Clinton... more concerned with how he looked doing something than what he was actually doing.

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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2002, 10:46:31 AM »
Yeah, boy ole Dubya is doing a great job with our economy.  Sure 9/11 hurt, but you gotta love Dubya's policies.  I mean afterall, he lied to everyone about the "tax relief" he provided.  That return everyone got last year, that "bonus" ... well, dont worry, it was an advance on this year's return, you'll be paying it back.

Thanks Dubya!

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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2002, 11:11:23 AM »
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Yeah, boy ole Dubya is doing a great job with our economy.  Sure 9/11 hurt, but you gotta love Dubya's policies.  I mean afterall, he lied to everyone about the "tax relief" he provided.  That return everyone got last year, that "bonus" ... well, dont worry, it was an advance on this year's return, you'll be paying it back.

Thanks Dubya!

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we'll only be paying more if the dumocrats get their way...

did you think $300 or $600 a tax paying household was gonna bring us totally out of the recession? Sorry, it was my money - I'm happy to have it back.

Bush was stuck with the downcycle of the economic sine wave his dad and before that Reagan started & Clinton rode it's wave up (while not trying at all to control). Timing is all, as the bubble was allowed to grow without restraints, whoever would have won in 2000 would have been hit with the burst. Jr was just the lucky one ... better him than Gore. He'd try to have us all blame it on Global warming and the automobile :)
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2002, 11:19:23 AM »
Yeah your right.  All the successes this country enjoyed during Clinton's eight year administration was just a result of roadkill Reagonomics.  Yeah, thats it.

:D

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« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2002, 11:31:31 AM »
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Yeah your right.  All the successes this country enjoyed during Clinton's eight year administration was just a result of roadkill Reagonomics.  Yeah, thats it.

:D

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Actually a result of over-inflated tech stocks, looks like the market is adjusting for that now. :D

I see the BAR association has gotten ahold of you politically as well ;)

Incidently, the Dems in the house think that $25,000/yr is rich...so if your hitting 6 digits a year, thats why your getting raped on taxes.
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« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2002, 11:36:51 AM »
Nim... the recession started during Clinton's administration.  You gotta know that means something.

Unchecked economic growth is relevant.  Reagan allowed it and so did Clinton.  Both left a recession in their wake.

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« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2002, 11:40:05 AM »
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Nim... the recession started during Clinton's administration.  You gotta know that means something.

Unchecked economic growth is relevant.  Reagan allowed it and so did Clinton.  Both left a recession in their wake.

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March 2000 to be exact.
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« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2002, 11:52:51 AM »
Yeah, good point DJ.  However, I cant stand when Republicans try to shove the successes of the Clinton Administration onto Reagan/Bush's back.  Unemployment was at an all time low, the economy was great (for 7.5 years).  I'll take 7 years for 1 bad any day of the week.

And Rip, I aint makin' toejam right now.  Certainly not the 6 figures I deserve.  And all my political viewpoints were developed before law school :)  I am actually against all politics.  I think Republicans and Democrats are a bunch of worthless weenies who give a toejam about the country and prefer to just go to work and argue with each other all day about who is right.  Its just a game to them.  Of course that doesnt apply to all politicians, but a good part of 'em.  My viewpoints do, however, generally fall on the left side of things.  Although I suspect, fiscally in any event, I will be moving more and more to the right as I earn more and more $ :)  

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