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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 02:26 PM
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"None of your business" - I wish that more candidates have used this phrase
How may would have voted for FDR had they knew that he was wheel-chair bound? That he had his own affair? How many for JFK?

When did we start thinking that it is our right to know where very single pimple is located on a candidate's butt?

When a president wants to keep a secret, and when there is a danger of blackmail by foreign agencies, perhaps this matters. When it is a former prosecutor who made his name by busting exactly the same stories, yes, but only to his constituents. But if something like that is a common knowledge, why is it our business?

Why can't we be more like the French?
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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 02:31 PM
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1. Because we're puritanical hypocrites.
Every politician must be pure and believe in god.

Every child is 'special'.

No one must be 'offended'.


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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:55 PM
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3. In short, living in Lake Wobegon
where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."
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Beregond2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 03:57 PM
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2. Business
Exactly what I thought when Chelsea said that.
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