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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 07:48 AM Original message |
White House: We're Not Going to Waste This Opportunity by Throwing Bones to the Pundits |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
1. There has to be a truning point for the world to get away from oil |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 09:43 AM Response to Reply #1 |
27. Within ten years we will live in a different world |
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livetohike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
2. My husband is not a political junkie, but he said something after |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Some of us wanted a leader |
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livetohike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:08 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Leader or dictator? What constitutes a leader in your definition? |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:19 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. You see it as a denigration |
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livetohike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:26 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. I see your point and he did set the vision. He's been talking |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:29 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Maybe |
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volvoblue (149 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
67. ;that is part of the problem |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:00 AM Response to Reply #9 |
31. Obama was a community organizer between earning his bachelors degree and law school |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:48 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. I agree |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:02 AM Response to Reply #36 |
43. I agree that the word appease has negative connotations |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:12 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. You really do display an astounding lack of comprehension. Leadership IS COORDINATING. |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:28 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Actually there are 3 kinds of leaders |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. I think I know what you are talking about |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:31 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Depends upon what you consider "the problem" to be |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:50 AM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Well the leak itself is the immediate problem |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:18 AM Response to Reply #23 |
47. Obama has had 2 months of crisis |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:28 AM Response to Reply #47 |
53. I did notice that. |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:08 PM Response to Reply #47 |
64. Where have you been living over the last number of years? |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 06:09 PM Response to Reply #64 |
77. So why did he not mention these things? |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 09:35 PM Response to Reply #77 |
78. He has done for a number of years but he probably assumes people know |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:34 AM Response to Reply #5 |
18. And this is wrong, how? |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:37 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Just follow? |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:57 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. It would be so easy if a POTUS had all that power |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:41 AM Response to Reply #5 |
20. Straight out of the Republican Play Book |
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breadandwine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
21. Exactly, Zipplewrath #5. John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy and other great Democrats |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:45 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Fucking ludicrous |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 09:06 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Deleted message |
Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 09:46 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Honest question: |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:47 AM Response to Reply #28 |
35. Honest question |
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Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #35 |
44. Jesus fucking christ. What a load of garbage. (nt) |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:18 AM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Excuse me? |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:29 AM Response to Reply #35 |
54. I don't think you are playing fair |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:41 AM Response to Reply #54 |
58. Only the hole in the gulf |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:09 PM Response to Reply #58 |
65. I don't think he is favor of oil but |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 09:55 AM Response to Reply #21 |
29. LOL. |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:52 AM Response to Reply #21 |
39. Indulging in hyperbole? |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 01:25 PM Response to Reply #21 |
68. Resign?!?! wow. your bitterness has made you pathetic. simply pathetic. |
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Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 09:41 AM Response to Reply #5 |
26. Help me out, because I'm having difficulty keeping track. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 09:59 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Apparently they are. |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:50 AM Response to Reply #30 |
37. How were their presidencies? |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:46 AM Response to Reply #37 |
60. The ability to bring together different types of people to agree on something IS what is needed now. |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:48 AM Response to Reply #60 |
61. Very few |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:12 PM Response to Reply #61 |
66. The more the better. |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 02:17 PM Response to Reply #66 |
71. When it is enough? |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:22 AM Response to Reply #30 |
50. MLK didn't announce a blue ribbon commission |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:44 AM Response to Reply #26 |
33. Not for communities |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:11 AM Response to Reply #26 |
45. Thank you Skinner ~ nt |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:21 AM Response to Reply #26 |
49. i hate to tell you this, but saul alinsky's legacy here in chi |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:08 AM Response to Reply #5 |
32. bunk. |
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Aramchek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:47 AM Response to Reply #5 |
34. you must have loved George W, huh? You want a bullhorn and a cocky strut. |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:51 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. False dichotomy |
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Aramchek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:55 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. you're not going to get anybody else. so what is the point in your belly-aching? |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:58 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Help |
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Aramchek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:00 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. your attacks on Community Organizing smell more like Repuke than construction |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:20 AM Response to Reply #42 |
48. Eye of the beholder |
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Aramchek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:24 AM Response to Reply #48 |
52. the only people I have ever seen criticizing Obama for Community Organizing are Palin and the like |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:40 AM Response to Reply #52 |
57. And you didn't see me either |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 01:29 PM Response to Reply #57 |
70. keep digging |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 02:20 PM Response to Reply #70 |
73. Keep avoiding. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 02:24 PM Response to Reply #73 |
74. if you want to keep embarrassing yourself, by all means, be my guest. |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 02:45 PM Response to Reply #74 |
75. I'll keep discussing the issues |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 01:28 PM Response to Reply #41 |
69. constructive criticism!111!! man, that worn out shit ain't gonna save you. horse crap and you know |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 02:20 PM Response to Reply #69 |
72. Save me? |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:23 AM Response to Reply #5 |
51. being a president is not a CEO |
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BklnDem75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:45 AM Response to Reply #5 |
59. WTF? |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #59 |
62. Didn't get your allusion |
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BklnDem75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:54 AM Response to Reply #62 |
63. You should really see it |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. that was EXACTLY what Big Ed was asking for.... |
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livetohike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:21 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I saw that too. The pundits got carried away last night. It |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #10 |
56. it's just an orchestrated attempt by the media |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
3. I wish he'd thrown some bones to Gulf wildlife and those concerned about this massive kill off. nt |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:24 AM Response to Reply #3 |
12. That ship already sailed |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
4. It is in our own best interest to get out of the oil business |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
55. yes yes yes |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
17. the pundits have to create drama so they have something to flap their gums about |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 02:49 PM Response to Reply #17 |
76. Strangely silence would have been most powerful |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 09:37 PM Response to Reply #76 |
79. Cast your mind back to Bush Sr in the Valdez spill |
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