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		<title>By: arun nair</title>
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		<dc:creator>arun nair</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hi.

     am    arun  from  india  i  need  finacial  support    4 my  next film  ( means  co  partners)    please  sent  a mail to  me

                                                                     arun</description>
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<p>     am    arun  from  india  i  need  finacial  support    4 my  next film  ( means  co  partners)    please  sent  a mail to  me</p>
<p>                                                                     arun<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3863879', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Whitney</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/01/big-money-players-up-from-texas-visit-bush/comment-page-2/#comment-3836988</link>
		<dc:creator>Whitney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lord Bush must be shown the door, preferably before the illegal immigration bill cecomes a reality; Bush will ruin the country one way or the other; he&#039;s bent on ruining this country; what&#039;s got into him?  

I think GW Bush has re-registered to beomce a democrat!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lord Bush must be shown the door, preferably before the illegal immigration bill cecomes a reality; Bush will ruin the country one way or the other; he&#8217;s bent on ruining this country; what&#8217;s got into him?  </p>
<p>I think GW Bush has re-registered to beomce a democrat!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3836988', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Freticat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Freticat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If only he&#039;d do us all a favor and do as Hitler did when he gave in to his &quot;bunker mentality&quot;.  It&#039;s about time that the &quot;zero-year election curse&quot; made a comeback.  It took a holiday with Reagan.  This late in the game, I think Cheney&#039;s pissed off too many people to do much ,ore harm between now and 20 January 2009 than he already has.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If only he&#8217;d do us all a favor and do as Hitler did when he gave in to his &#8220;bunker mentality&#8221;.  It&#8217;s about time that the &#8220;zero-year election curse&#8221; made a comeback.  It took a holiday with Reagan.  This late in the game, I think Cheney&#8217;s pissed off too many people to do much ,ore harm between now and 20 January 2009 than he already has.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3836345', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bob Pomeroy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob Pomeroy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mine are not showing either.
He&#039;s going to declare martial law to protect his real interests and those of his cronies.  This will happen after a major terrorist event somewhere in the world.  I will be pleasantly surprised if we make it through the summer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mine are not showing either.<br />
He&#8217;s going to declare martial law to protect his real interests and those of his cronies.  This will happen after a major terrorist event somewhere in the world.  I will be pleasantly surprised if we make it through the summer.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3835010', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Rowland</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rowland</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Triumph of the W&quot; {above) What a great name! 
Because W has triumphed.  The media goes along and the Dems go along. Nobody likes him but he gets what he wants. Again and again. That is triumph.

The name also refers, of course, to &lt;em&gt;Triumph of the Will&lt;/em&gt;--Hitler&#039;s big promo film circa 1936.  He over played his hand, too.  Pre-emptive war. Russia, 1940. Didn&#039;t work out so well for Adolph, either.

Despite Bush&#039;s grandfather&#039;s help!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Triumph of the W&#8221; {above) What a great name!<br />
Because W has triumphed.  The media goes along and the Dems go along. Nobody likes him but he gets what he wants. Again and again. That is triumph.</p>
<p>The name also refers, of course, to <em>Triumph of the Will</em>&#8211;Hitler&#8217;s big promo film circa 1936.  He over played his hand, too.  Pre-emptive war. Russia, 1940. Didn&#8217;t work out so well for Adolph, either.</p>
<p>Despite Bush&#8217;s grandfather&#8217;s help!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3835007', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bob Pomeroy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob Pomeroy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If we get through the summer without W or Cheney asserting dictatorial powers and ending constitutional rule I will be pleasantly surprised.  All it will take is a major terrorist event at home or abroad, but the real purpose will be to facilitate Halliburton owning the world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If we get through the summer without W or Cheney asserting dictatorial powers and ending constitutional rule I will be pleasantly surprised.  All it will take is a major terrorist event at home or abroad, but the real purpose will be to facilitate Halliburton owning the world.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3834990', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mim</title>
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		<dc:creator>mim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>â€œPutting up with me requires a lot of patience.â€
President Bush, April 19, 2007.

For once, he was right!

A year ago, a cartoon appeared in the Daytona Beach Union-Tribune, in which the ghost of Richard Nixon appears to GWB and says, &quot;It&#039;s good to be out of the cellar!  Thank you for being a worse president than I was.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>â€œPutting up with me requires a lot of patience.â€<br />
President Bush, April 19, 2007.</p>
<p>For once, he was right!</p>
<p>A year ago, a cartoon appeared in the Daytona Beach Union-Tribune, in which the ghost of Richard Nixon appears to GWB and says, &#8220;It&#8217;s good to be out of the cellar!  Thank you for being a worse president than I was.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3833408', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dio.genes</title>
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		<dc:creator>dio.genes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 20:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Time to impeach Cheney. We wouldn&#039;t want him to be next-in-line when the petulant chimpy finally loses it. This is what happens when everything that chimpy ever achieved came from being daddy&#039;s son, and chimpy never had to accept responsibility for any of his failures before because daddy took care of it. Well, chimpy can&#039;t bury his head in the sandbox anymore because the devastation left behind this time is too great for daddy (or daddy&#039;s wise old men) to take care off. Just about everybody now sees how totally incompetent he is, and even daddy is shedding tears over how the idiot-son has screwed the dynasty for generations to come. In the meantime, 5 young men in the prime of their lives were killed today, 10 yesterday, and the tragic beat goes on even as chimpy rails and whines.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Time to impeach Cheney. We wouldn&#8217;t want him to be next-in-line when the petulant chimpy finally loses it. This is what happens when everything that chimpy ever achieved came from being daddy&#8217;s son, and chimpy never had to accept responsibility for any of his failures before because daddy took care of it. Well, chimpy can&#8217;t bury his head in the sandbox anymore because the devastation left behind this time is too great for daddy (or daddy&#8217;s wise old men) to take care off. Just about everybody now sees how totally incompetent he is, and even daddy is shedding tears over how the idiot-son has screwed the dynasty for generations to come. In the meantime, 5 young men in the prime of their lives were killed today, 10 yesterday, and the tragic beat goes on even as chimpy rails and whines.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3832445', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Whistler</title>
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		<dc:creator>Whistler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 10:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s the easiest way possible to prove Bush and Company&#039;s insanity:

Read this (wikipedia) article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder

and play close attention to these diagnostic criteria:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder#Diagnostic_criteria

Connecting the dots should be appallingly simple.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s the easiest way possible to prove Bush and Company&#8217;s insanity:</p>
<p>Read this (wikipedia) article:</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder</a></p>
<p>and play close attention to these diagnostic criteria:</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder#Diagnostic_criteria" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder#Diagnostic_criteria</a></p>
<p>Connecting the dots should be appallingly simple.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3783846', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bukko in Australia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bukko in Australia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 01:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whoops! I stand corrected. I should learn never to post anything without Googling first. There ARE references to Nelson out there, which say it&#039;s a credible source. Even those execrable excuses for humanity at the Volokh Conspiracy (one of the links on the first Google page that came up, not that I would go there by choice) vouch for its existence, although they don&#039;t like it. So James, why are you looking foolish, and making me look that way too?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whoops! I stand corrected. I should learn never to post anything without Googling first. There ARE references to Nelson out there, which say it&#8217;s a credible source. Even those execrable excuses for humanity at the Volokh Conspiracy (one of the links on the first Google page that came up, not that I would go there by choice) vouch for its existence, although they don&#8217;t like it. So James, why are you looking foolish, and making me look that way too?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3783406', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bukko in Australia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bukko in Australia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 01:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just read through all 76 comments, and was prepared to post a rant about the insanity of Bush, when I got to James. Good scepticism, mate! Is this another Internet hoax? It does smell fishy. Unnamed Texans, a subscription-only news service that can&#039;t be found (and thus verified)? As much as I&#039;d like to believe that Chiimpy McFlightsuit is losing it (although that would be scary indeed) I&#039;d have to see more about this to trust it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just read through all 76 comments, and was prepared to post a rant about the insanity of Bush, when I got to James. Good scepticism, mate! Is this another Internet hoax? It does smell fishy. Unnamed Texans, a subscription-only news service that can&#8217;t be found (and thus verified)? As much as I&#8217;d like to believe that Chiimpy McFlightsuit is losing it (although that would be scary indeed) I&#8217;d have to see more about this to trust it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3783378', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: James</title>
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		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 22:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I couldn&#039;t help but notice that the Think Progress article that led me to the Carpetbagger Report&#039;s article also included a link back to the same article on Think Progress... And there were NO links to the original article on &quot;The Nelson Report&quot;. And I can&#039;t even get the &quot;The Nelson Report&quot; to load in my browser, I get a &quot;Internet Explorer cannot display the Webpage&quot; error.

Echo chamber much?

Who are these anonymous &quot;big money Texans&quot;?

Sorry, but I have a hard time getting worked up over what unnamed sources have to say anymore.

Call me strange, but I would think that the experience of the past seven years concerning circular sourcing would give us pause when reading gossip, no matter how reputable the gossip artist may be...

What else was said in the meeting?

Why would big money texans want to expose Bush now? Are you trying to tell me that they are just NOW starting to get scared of the mentality of the man in the Oval Office?

WTF?!?!

............</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that the Think Progress article that led me to the Carpetbagger Report&#8217;s article also included a link back to the same article on Think Progress&#8230; And there were NO links to the original article on &#8220;The Nelson Report&#8221;. And I can&#8217;t even get the &#8220;The Nelson Report&#8221; to load in my browser, I get a &#8220;Internet Explorer cannot display the Webpage&#8221; error.</p>
<p>Echo chamber much?</p>
<p>Who are these anonymous &#8220;big money Texans&#8221;?</p>
<p>Sorry, but I have a hard time getting worked up over what unnamed sources have to say anymore.</p>
<p>Call me strange, but I would think that the experience of the past seven years concerning circular sourcing would give us pause when reading gossip, no matter how reputable the gossip artist may be&#8230;</p>
<p>What else was said in the meeting?</p>
<p>Why would big money texans want to expose Bush now? Are you trying to tell me that they are just NOW starting to get scared of the mentality of the man in the Oval Office?</p>
<p>WTF?!?!</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3783097', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Trittydi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Trittydi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 18:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;George YOU WANTED the job. In fact you wanted it so much you corrupted the entire voting process two times.

Be careful what you wish for, ever hear that one George?

Comment by Shane â€” May 1, 2007 @ 10:51 am&quot;
++++++++++

He never wanted the Job - he wanted the Office.  He farmed the &quot;job&quot; out to Darth Cheney.  He wanted the world&#039;s attention, the feeling of power and omnipotence he got from filling the &quot;office&quot; - but he never wanted the job.  And this is the first sign he&#039;s ever cared about ANYONE&#039;S respect. 

&gt;sigh!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;George YOU WANTED the job. In fact you wanted it so much you corrupted the entire voting process two times.</p>
<p>Be careful what you wish for, ever hear that one George?</p>
<p>Comment by Shane â€” May 1, 2007 @ 10:51 am&#8221;<br />
++++++++++</p>
<p>He never wanted the Job &#8211; he wanted the Office.  He farmed the &#8220;job&#8221; out to Darth Cheney.  He wanted the world&#8217;s attention, the feeling of power and omnipotence he got from filling the &#8220;office&#8221; &#8211; but he never wanted the job.  And this is the first sign he&#8217;s ever cared about ANYONE&#8217;S respect. </p>
<p>&gt;sigh!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3782329', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dabodius</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dabodius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 15:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;...if Bush starts wondering what he can do to prove everyone wrong about his greatness...&quot;

  That&#039;s why we invaded and occupied Iraq, isn&#039;t it: so that a middling man who had failed in most of his life&#039;s undertakings could vindicate his narcissism.
He was going to be Alexander or Saladin, The Man WHo Remade The Middle East. To give up his dream or admit he was wrong to believe in it, he&#039;d have to come to terms with his true self, the sad little clown who time and again got himself into something he couldn&#039;t handle. This time he got hundreds of millions of us into it with him, and this time family friends can&#039;t get him out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230;if Bush starts wondering what he can do to prove everyone wrong about his greatness&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>  That&#8217;s why we invaded and occupied Iraq, isn&#8217;t it: so that a middling man who had failed in most of his life&#8217;s undertakings could vindicate his narcissism.<br />
He was going to be Alexander or Saladin, The Man WHo Remade The Middle East. To give up his dream or admit he was wrong to believe in it, he&#8217;d have to come to terms with his true self, the sad little clown who time and again got himself into something he couldn&#8217;t handle. This time he got hundreds of millions of us into it with him, and this time family friends can&#8217;t get him out.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3781840', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mel Strom</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/01/big-money-players-up-from-texas-visit-bush/comment-page-2/#comment-3781420</link>
		<dc:creator>Mel Strom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 07:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wed 02 May 2007
00.55 Los Angeles

I&#039;ve drawn the parallel often, for several years now, that what we see is Captain Queeg. What these Texas pals describe underscores the parallel.
 That doesn&#039;t solve any problems -- it only points to a personality type and adds color to already frightening prospects. My mind stops operating when I try to game it out in my head.</description>
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00.55 Los Angeles</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve drawn the parallel often, for several years now, that what we see is Captain Queeg. What these Texas pals describe underscores the parallel.<br />
 That doesn&#8217;t solve any problems &#8212; it only points to a personality type and adds color to already frightening prospects. My mind stops operating when I try to game it out in my head.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3781420', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: kasinca</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/01/big-money-players-up-from-texas-visit-bush/comment-page-2/#comment-3781100</link>
		<dc:creator>kasinca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 03:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So it appears that Dubya is drinking and doing drugs again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So it appears that Dubya is drinking and doing drugs again.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3781100', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: El Tonno</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/01/big-money-players-up-from-texas-visit-bush/comment-page-2/#comment-3780367</link>
		<dc:creator>El Tonno</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 22:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We have all come from so far away.

The Economist, 27th July 2000, &quot;Preparing America for Compassionate Conservatism&quot;

&lt;i&gt;LOLLING back in the Straight Talk Express as it zipped along the country roads of New Hampshire last winter, John McCainâ€”now a supporter of the man the Republican Party will nominate for president next week, then a rival for the jobâ€”put his finger on the doubt that has nagged at Republicans from the moment George W. Bush announced he was running for president last year in Iowa: â€œYou have to wonder,â€ said the senator, â€œwhat would happen in the far reaches of the night, when itâ€™s just him alone in the Oval Office, and weâ€™re facing a nuclear threat. What kind of decision would he make?â€

....

For the moment, that judgment can stand for Mr Bush, too. By reputation and rhetoric, he is a pragmatic and amiable, if lightweight, centrist. Pragmatic and amiable, perhaps. And a centrist in some senses. But a lightweight? His enthusiasm for increasing the role of churches in welfare policy (to say nothing of privatising parts of Social Security and shaking up Americaâ€™s nuclear defences) are as radical as anything America has seen for a while. This is hardly the low-calorie, fat-free candidacy of someone whose main conception of the presidency is to smile and do no harm.

This is not to say that he would necessarily prove a good president, or a better one than Al Gore. But it does provide an answer to the question of whether Mr Bush is presidential material. By the measures of intelligence, temperament and policy, he is preparedâ€”or as prepared as anyone ever isâ€”for this desperately hard job.&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have all come from so far away.</p>
<p>The Economist, 27th July 2000, &#8220;Preparing America for Compassionate Conservatism&#8221;</p>
<p><i>LOLLING back in the Straight Talk Express as it zipped along the country roads of New Hampshire last winter, John McCainâ€”now a supporter of the man the Republican Party will nominate for president next week, then a rival for the jobâ€”put his finger on the doubt that has nagged at Republicans from the moment George W. Bush announced he was running for president last year in Iowa: â€œYou have to wonder,â€ said the senator, â€œwhat would happen in the far reaches of the night, when itâ€™s just him alone in the Oval Office, and weâ€™re facing a nuclear threat. What kind of decision would he make?â€</p>
<p>&#8230;.</p>
<p>For the moment, that judgment can stand for Mr Bush, too. By reputation and rhetoric, he is a pragmatic and amiable, if lightweight, centrist. Pragmatic and amiable, perhaps. And a centrist in some senses. But a lightweight? His enthusiasm for increasing the role of churches in welfare policy (to say nothing of privatising parts of Social Security and shaking up Americaâ€™s nuclear defences) are as radical as anything America has seen for a while. This is hardly the low-calorie, fat-free candidacy of someone whose main conception of the presidency is to smile and do no harm.</p>
<p>This is not to say that he would necessarily prove a good president, or a better one than Al Gore. But it does provide an answer to the question of whether Mr Bush is presidential material. By the measures of intelligence, temperament and policy, he is preparedâ€”or as prepared as anyone ever isâ€”for this desperately hard job.</i><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3780367', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: demdandy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/01/big-money-players-up-from-texas-visit-bush/comment-page-2/#comment-3780331</link>
		<dc:creator>demdandy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 22:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;...if Bush starts wondering what he can do to prove everyone wrong about his greatness, this kind of thinking could get scary.â€   

Scary is not the word. Horrifying maybe. I just wonder if anyone close to Bush, maybe some military man, would stop him if Bush decides he&#039;s going to start Armageddon?

We need to remove Bush-Cheney ASAP. The website to use is www.cspan.org. All the names of all congressmen are there, with the phone numbers. Today I called John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230;if Bush starts wondering what he can do to prove everyone wrong about his greatness, this kind of thinking could get scary.â€   </p>
<p>Scary is not the word. Horrifying maybe. I just wonder if anyone close to Bush, maybe some military man, would stop him if Bush decides he&#8217;s going to start Armageddon?</p>
<p>We need to remove Bush-Cheney ASAP. The website to use is <a href="http://www.cspan.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.cspan.org</a>. All the names of all congressmen are there, with the phone numbers. Today I called John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3780331', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dumbo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/01/big-money-players-up-from-texas-visit-bush/comment-page-2/#comment-3780280</link>
		<dc:creator>Dumbo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 21:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sorry, but please tell me, what&#039;s new about this?  Because I find it hard to recall a time when George W. Bush WASN&#039;T whining about how people don&#039;t see how great everything is that he&#039;s doing and how they just don&#039;t understand.  This has been his whole mantra for years.  Virtually everything out of his mouth is on this subject.  Publicly.  So what if he sounds the same privately.  Did they really expect anything different?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but please tell me, what&#8217;s new about this?  Because I find it hard to recall a time when George W. Bush WASN&#8217;T whining about how people don&#8217;t see how great everything is that he&#8217;s doing and how they just don&#8217;t understand.  This has been his whole mantra for years.  Virtually everything out of his mouth is on this subject.  Publicly.  So what if he sounds the same privately.  Did they really expect anything different?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3780280', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: lolly</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/01/big-money-players-up-from-texas-visit-bush/comment-page-2/#comment-3780185</link>
		<dc:creator>lolly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 21:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Folks, this can only be good for Republicans.  Democrats are obviously overplaying their hand.  Bush is clearly poised to make a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; comeback in the next few days.

And I&#039;m &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; waiting for that damn tooth fairy.  Where the hell is she?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Folks, this can only be good for Republicans.  Democrats are obviously overplaying their hand.  Bush is clearly poised to make a <i>huge</i> comeback in the next few days.</p>
<p>And I&#8217;m <i>still</i> waiting for that damn tooth fairy.  Where the hell is she?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3780185', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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