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Jack_Dawson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:14 PM
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O'Reilly: "Spain's Election Another Example of Europe's Weakness"
Edited on Mon Mar-15-04 01:15 PM by Jack_Dawson
Can someone slap this fool? I haven't the energy.

Sigh.

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wildmanj Donating Member (611 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:20 PM
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1. o'reilly
why would you want to slap a pig because of ignorance---slapping o'reilly would give one about the same satisfaction
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:20 PM
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2. And I thought it was democracy...do I feel dumb
And to think he spent years honing his journalism skills on Inside Edition doing Elvis sighting stories. No wonder he is brain dead and doesn't know it.
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:21 PM
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3. that seems to be the talking point--the Spanish are fools and dumb
for backing down. I saw it said several times today - the convential wisdom of people like Gorden Libby say that backing down encourages the terrorists.

They all have the tallking point--Spanish people bad for voting in a democracy the wrong way.
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Brotherjohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:26 PM
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5. And pretty soon, the British people will all be "dumb", followed by...
... the American people.

Here's hoping we vote "the wrong way" in our next election!
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sadiesworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:25 PM
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4. When the Spaniards said they wouldn't trust Aznar if no wmds
were found, THEY MEANT IT!
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NegSpin Donating Member (49 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:34 PM
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6. Ever notice
There's never anything wrong with us or with our leadership. The problem is always someone else.

The fact that we have a lying, crooked warmonger for president, led around by the nose by his VP and advisors, shows our great moral authority and strength.
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:39 PM
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7. Sometimes it's like the chimp said, but not like the chimp meant:
"they hate us for our freedom."

The nerve of Spain to be so free.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:41 PM
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8. And why won't this happen here
Watch.

When Kerry wins, the exact same shit will happen. The media will declare it a victory for the terrorists, as they have now done with the Spanish elections.

All it will take is a terror attack between election day and inaguration to overturn the election results.
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LeahMira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:59 PM
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12. Does no one remember...
When Kerry wins, the exact same shit will happen. The media will declare it a victory for the terrorists, as they have now done with the Spanish elections.

... back when communism was threatening us all (but we knew we were safe under our desks in school), that if Khrushchev so much as smiled at the mention of an American presidential candidate's name we were all told that voting for that person would be playing into the hands of the "commies."

Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but terrorists don't get a vote in November.

Meanwhile, though, since terrorists are fond of terrorizing, wouldn't voting for Bush just play right into their plans? It certainly would give them an adversary to continue terrorizing about. Democrats need to throw the 'pukes nonsense right back at 'em.
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ithacan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 02:52 PM
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14. the terrorists NEED a Bush victory in November!
you are absolutely right on that.

And the Republicans NEED the terrorists. They have nothing else to run on without them.

It's like an evil symbiosis, a codependent relationship.

Why isn't CNN and Fox covering that, how the terrorists win if right wingers are elected...
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Cat Atomic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:44 PM
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9. We are at war with East Asia.
We have always been at war with East Asia.

I can already see all the good citizens of Oceania replacing the posters for Hate Week. Spain bad. Spain bad.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:46 PM
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10. No it is another sign that conservatism is on it's way out
Countries that support PNAC will find their leaders gone and new ones in place via national elections.

I doubt the terrorist bombings in Spain changed the election that much.
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MsUnderstood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:55 PM
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11. hmmm
I'm still a little foggy on this:

1) The previous Spanish leader support the Iraq war based on WMD.

2) The country voted him out because there were not WMD.

3) A terrorist act occurs and the guilty are the same group that attacked us 2 1/2 years ago (that we coulda shoulda woulda caught if we weren't in a winless war in Iraq)

4) Americans then say "Serves Spain right"?!?

That is really sick. When we were attacked, we got support from the world. When spain is attacked, we tell them "Serves you right cause you aren't democratic!"?

When we vote out the Bush, are we gonna be told serves you right by freepers if we are attacked again? This sets a bad precedence.
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 02:37 PM
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13. I can't stand
Bill O'Reilly. He thinks he's the only one in the universe that is right. He's a bigot and loud-mouthed smuck.
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