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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 09:27 AM
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I don't think David Petraeus would accept the veep nom
on grounds that he would not wish to work with yet another idiot as his boss.
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 09:29 AM
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1. Correctamundo
He's probably looking forward to getting the hell out of Iraq under Obama's administration.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 09:32 AM
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2. Petraeus would be another Vice Admiral James Stockdale
"Who am I? Why am I here?"
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 10:50 AM
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13. LOL! Stockdale was a gas, wasn't he!?
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Franks Wild Years Donating Member (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 09:33 AM
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3. McCain / Petraeus would be easy meat...
"Where the economic focus?"

"Are you better off than you were 4 / 8 years ago?"

etc, etc, etc....
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 09:35 AM
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4. He won't, and neither will Colin Powell, another name they have floated
It will be an anti-choice person whoever it is


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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 11:02 AM
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16. Agree.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 09:54 AM
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5. We don't need another one trick pony.
Or phony, as the case may be.
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Metta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 10:10 AM
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6. That would throw them literally as well as morally into the toilet.
Which is where they're going any way.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 10:52 AM
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15. Agree.
There are spring cleanings.

And there are November flushings.


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chitty Donating Member (918 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 10:13 AM
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7. You mean the Greatest military mind in
the history of The United States?
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 10:17 AM
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8. ROFL
I can't believe they ever said that :rofl:

After 65 years ago we had men like Patten, Eisenhower, and Bradley.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 10:42 AM
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12. McCain said that at the Cone of Silence debate
It blew my mind.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 10:51 AM
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14. I love your captioning of the Saddleback event as "the Cone of Silence debate."
That s perfect.
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 10:18 AM
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9. It would be nice if he did. A ticket with no economic answers
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 10:33 AM
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10. except how to destroy it completely.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 10:39 AM
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11. LOL!
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 12:09 PM
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17. He has a history of choosing defeat. Sounds like a job made for him. n/t
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