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Amy6627 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:19 PM
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Today's Bushism: "There is only one person who hugs the mothers
and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like." GWB, Washington, D.C; December 11, 2002

Well I'm glad he cleared that up!
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:19 PM
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1. So no hug for Cindy??
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:20 PM
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2. Odd. I've attended several services and I've never once seen Bush
there to hug anyone.
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katsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:21 PM
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3. There's millions of people hugging Cindy right now...
is this blithering idiot saying we have to elect ONE representative to kiss her?

WTF?@#$%^&*()(*&^%$#
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:23 PM
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5. The LAST thing I would tolerate is a hug that that jerk
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Dora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:22 PM
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4. Hugging is hard work.
I've been fishing for a promotion at the office, but they say I'm just not responsible enough to handle the hugging demands.

:cry:
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:25 PM
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10. I would think his extra long chimp arms ...
...would make hugging easier.
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Dora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 08:22 PM
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31. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Didja have to go there?

Ewww.
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The Night Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:23 PM
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6. I'd like to comment on what Bush said, but I don't have the slightest idea
I'd like to comment on what Bush said, but I don't have the slightest idea WTF he just said.

Straight shooter, my ass.
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Amy6627 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:24 PM
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8. That's because it's unknowable! Love, Rummy
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The Night Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:57 PM
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22. But is it a known unknowable or an unknown unknowable?
Edited on Tue Aug-16-05 03:57 PM by The Night Owl
:crazy:
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:23 PM
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7. I see . . . .
It all makes sense now.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:24 PM
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9. What a fucking asshole.
And he was supposed to bring HONOR back to the office of the president?

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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:33 PM
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16. You forgot dignity!
He was bringing both to DC when he was elected.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 05:41 PM
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25. Ohhhh!!!! I thought it was "diggity" - you know like "hot diggity dog
diggity, mmm what you do to me, Oscar Meyer is hot dog diggity!"

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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:25 PM
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11. "Others hug" What is chimp's first language anyway?
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:28 PM
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12. Sure he does...
... peremptorily, without emotion or genuine sympathy. That quote is meant to convince people he has human feeling, when, in fact, he's completely devoid of it. That's why it comes off sounding as false as it does--because the focus of the remark is on him and what he does.

But it works with a media and a public which see the superficial as substance. Thanks, television, for making a monster appear human.
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:29 PM
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13. Oh see now I didn't know about the hugging...
Edited on Tue Aug-16-05 03:30 PM by youthere
that makes everything better. Don't worry about your sons or daughters, mothers...If they get killed in action there's a presidential HUG waiting for you. No worries then.:sarcasm:
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:47 PM
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18. you only get hugged if you promise to vote for him, or make a big donation
Otherwise, here's what happens to bereaved family members.

""My daughter said to him directly `I wish I could bring my loved one back' and he said something like `so do we.' Later she told me that after he made his remark he gave her one of the filthiest looks she had ever had gotten in her life."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/5/194826/1471
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renate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:51 PM
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19. It's his responsibility
"I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like."

1. "Responsibility to hug" WTF?
2. "and that's me" Well, that part is just plain silly.
3. "I know what it's like." He knows what it's like to have a responsibility to hug? What a burden that must be. Wait, not a burden... what's the word... yeah, delusion, that's it. Getting us out of this mess is your responsibility, W, not administering hugs.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:29 PM
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14. I think that where ever you got that from, it must have some typos...
I am sure it was supposed to be "thug" not "hug"
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darkism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:30 PM
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15. "having committed the troops, I've..."
Whoa, is he actually taking responsibility for murdering the 1800+ on a lie?
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:40 PM
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17. Time to create a new cabinet position to handle hugging the bereaved
Any nominations for Secretary of Hugs?

Should it be someone sexy with a firm grip, like Jenna Jameson, or maybe we're looking more for the grandmother type?
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Gidney N Cloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:53 PM
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20. A liberal is a conservative who just got hugged...
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:55 PM
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21. He has to give extra special hugs, that HIM, the Hugger in Chief
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:58 PM
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23. The Very Thought Is Nauseating
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 04:01 PM
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24. What a fuckhead.
He lost a child in an illegal war based on LIES? When? Where? Which war? Have I told you how much I hate that SOB? :grr:
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 05:42 PM
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26. glad I'm not the only one to drop the f-bomb here.
Sometimes I just can't contain myself.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 05:54 PM
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29. Well,
it is my favorite word when speaking of the idiot. He requires that word be used.:evilgrin:
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 06:03 PM
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30. I try to reserve it for special occasions, and usually
something he does fits the bill!
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 05:44 PM
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27. That man is seriously fucked up. I mean seriously sick.
When he "speaks his heart" it only shows he doesn't have one.

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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 05:46 PM
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28. "That's me and I know what it's like?"
That comment is so wrong on so many levels I don't know where to begin...
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