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	<title>Comments on: Chertoff Ignored EPA’s Warnings In Order To Build Bush’s Border Fence</title>
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		<title>By: Zoe</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/04/chertoff-ignored-epa%e2%80%99s-warnings-in-order-to-build-bush%e2%80%99s-border-fence/comment-page-1/#comment-5070594</link>
		<dc:creator>Zoe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We have to ask if the fence is to keep Mexicans out or us in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have to ask if the fence is to keep Mexicans out or us in.<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=5070594', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: barfly</title>
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		<dc:creator>barfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And the stockholders would be &quot;more equal&quot; than everyone else.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And the stockholders would be &#8220;more equal&#8221; than everyone else.<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=5070368', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: barfly</title>
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		<dc:creator>barfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tanqueray Says: 

&lt;em&gt;Once again you missed the point. You’re not playing along here.
No private property means no private ownership meaning no stockholders to get ecstatic.

Imagine no possesions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
In a brotherhood of man&lt;/em&gt;

No, one world corporation, &lt;em&gt;deciding&lt;/em&gt; who gets what, based on intra-company connections.  Y&#039;know, sort of like the old USSR...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tanqueray Says: </p>
<p><em>Once again you missed the point. You’re not playing along here.<br />
No private property means no private ownership meaning no stockholders to get ecstatic.</p>
<p>Imagine no possesions<br />
I wonder if you can<br />
No need for greed or hunger<br />
In a brotherhood of man</em></p>
<p>No, one world corporation, <em>deciding</em> who gets what, based on intra-company connections.  Y&#8217;know, sort of like the old USSR&#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=5070362', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Jim Wolf359</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim Wolf359</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This dimbulb is in Aspen right now for the Aspen Ideas Festival. Why he was invited here by Walter Issacson is beyond me. From what I heard, the reaction to his presence in the Benedict Performance Tent was, shall we say, Chilly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This dimbulb is in Aspen right now for the Aspen Ideas Festival. Why he was invited here by Walter Issacson is beyond me. From what I heard, the reaction to his presence in the Benedict Performance Tent was, shall we say, Chilly.<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=5070296', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: republicanSScareme</title>
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		<dc:creator>republicanSScareme</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michael Chertoff is another psychotic Zionist who&#039;s brain has been fried by watching too many holocaust films.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael Chertoff is another psychotic Zionist who&#8217;s brain has been fried by watching too many holocaust films.<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=5070196', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Doc Rock</title>
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		<dc:creator>Doc Rock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Coinress funded it!  Where&#039;s our representation?  Throw all the bums out!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Coinress funded it!  Where&#8217;s our representation?  Throw all the bums 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=5069892', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: barfly</title>
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		<dc:creator>barfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Imagine all the people living life in peace&lt;/em&gt;.

And all working for One World, Inc.

The stockholders would be ecstatic...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Imagine all the people living life in peace</em>.</p>
<p>And all working for One World, Inc.</p>
<p>The stockholders would be ecstatic&#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=5069822', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Evil Spaniard</title>
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		<dc:creator>Evil Spaniard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I want Skeletor (tm) hugged... by The Hulk (tm)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I want Skeletor &#8482; hugged&#8230; by The Hulk &#8482;<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=5069796', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: barfly</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/04/chertoff-ignored-epa%e2%80%99s-warnings-in-order-to-build-bush%e2%80%99s-border-fence/comment-page-1/#comment-5069766</link>
		<dc:creator>barfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And multi-national corporations would love nothing more than an open-borders policy.  Think of the prospective profits!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And multi-national corporations would love nothing more than an open-borders policy.  Think of the prospective profits!<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=5069766', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Immigration2008DotCom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Immigration2008DotCom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1. Chertoff/Bush don&#039;t want to build the fence. TP and the Bush admin are on the same side.
2. TP identifies as quotes words that the linked SC page doesn&#039;t identify as quotes. Let me suggest reading the actual source documents to be sure you&#039;re reading quotes from the EPA and not something someone else has &quot;paraphrased&quot;. Note, for instance, that the EPA supposedly uses &quot;wall&quot; when referring to a fence; they probably wouldn&#039;t make that &quot;mistake&quot;.
3. The lead atty representing property owners (link above) has a series of links to the MexicanGovernment.
4. Even the LAT has reported on why the SierraClub just might support the things they support:
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007780.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. Chertoff/Bush don&#8217;t want to build the fence. TP and the Bush admin are on the same side.<br />
2. TP identifies as quotes words that the linked SC page doesn&#8217;t identify as quotes. Let me suggest reading the actual source documents to be sure you&#8217;re reading quotes from the EPA and not something someone else has &#8220;paraphrased&#8221;. Note, for instance, that the EPA supposedly uses &#8220;wall&#8221; when referring to a fence; they probably wouldn&#8217;t make that &#8220;mistake&#8221;.<br />
3. The lead atty representing property owners (link above) has a series of links to the MexicanGovernment.<br />
4. Even the LAT has reported on why the SierraClub just might support the things they support:<br />
<a href="http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007780.html" rel="nofollow">http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007780.html</a><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=5069714', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well on a positive note there will be two sides to tag.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well on a positive note there will be two sides to tag.<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=5069660', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: onoclea</title>
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		<dc:creator>onoclea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;“undesirables” out. Or, is it to keep us in? I forget.&lt;/em&gt;

Both</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>“undesirables” out. Or, is it to keep us in? I forget.</em></p>
<p>Both<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=5069652', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: And the beat goes on</title>
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		<dc:creator>And the beat goes on</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get really pissed off whenever I think about or read about this.  How is this supposed to enhance my security.  A fence on the border?  

This has got to be one of the stupidist ideas I have heard of.  If this is the best our Congress and Administration can come up with, we are in deep $hit.  I don&#039;t even think homeowners believe a fence around their yard is a successful deterrent to keep &quot;undesirables&quot; out.  Or, is it to keep us in?  I forget.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get really pissed off whenever I think about or read about this.  How is this supposed to enhance my security.  A fence on the border?  </p>
<p>This has got to be one of the stupidist ideas I have heard of.  If this is the best our Congress and Administration can come up with, we are in deep $hit.  I don&#8217;t even think homeowners believe a fence around their yard is a successful deterrent to keep &#8220;undesirables&#8221; out.  Or, is it to keep us in?  I forget.<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=5069644', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: CitiDC</title>
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		<dc:creator>CitiDC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Looks like Chertoff is really French, drinking his &quot;Au Bon Pain&quot; coffee.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks like Chertoff is really French, drinking his &#8220;Au Bon Pain&#8221; coffee.<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=5069634', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: onoclea</title>
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		<dc:creator>onoclea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If our economy crashes and burns like it looks like it will we won&#039;t need a fence to keep out illegals.  I think they are already returning home.  

To me there is something very offensive about walls around our country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If our economy crashes and burns like it looks like it will we won&#8217;t need a fence to keep out illegals.  I think they are already returning home.  </p>
<p>To me there is something very offensive about walls around our country.<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=5069622', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Chocolate Jesus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chocolate Jesus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt; They all need a lot of hugs,
&gt; but I’m not volunteering.

Hugs, coupled with a healthy dose of electroshock therapy. 

My vision of cheneys energy has always been sort of an inverse micheal jackson..whereas micheal jackson, would, for example, advocate a &quot;hugs around the world&quot; plan, dick cheney would find a way to make money by running over all the hugging people over with bulldozers..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt; They all need a lot of hugs,<br />
&gt; but I’m not volunteering.</p>
<p>Hugs, coupled with a healthy dose of electroshock therapy. </p>
<p>My vision of cheneys energy has always been sort of an inverse micheal jackson..whereas micheal jackson, would, for example, advocate a &#8220;hugs around the world&#8221; plan, dick cheney would find a way to make money by running over all the hugging people over with bulldozers..<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=5069616', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does he have a cup inside of another cup? We really need to get serious about reducing wasteful consumption.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does he have a cup inside of another cup? We really need to get serious about reducing wasteful consumption.<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=5069598', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Briseadh na Faire</title>
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		<dc:creator>Briseadh na Faire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Illusion.

That&#039;s all it is.

An Illusion of &quot;security.&quot;

Look! See! We built a fence! That will keep those terrorist illegal immigrants out!

[not one farmworker was charged with the 9/11 attacks]

(if you can, read the next part as if Carol Channing is saying it)

See the fence! It&#039;s a long fence. When it is finished, it will be 670 miles long. That&#039;s about the distance from Redding, California, all the way down to San Diego! That&#039;s a long, long fence!

But it will keep us safe from terrorists. Terrorists will be stopped by our fence. Terrorists won&#039;t cross into our country over the 1,200 mile border between US and Mexico that won&#039;t have a fence. So we don&#039;t need to put a fence along that part of the border. We just need to put a fence along the part of the border we can see.

And terrorists won&#039;t come into our country across the 5,500 mile long border between US and Canada. So we don&#039;t need a fence there.

But our fence along the Mexican border will have an added bonus: it will keep out illegal immigrants! Just think of the job opportunities that will open up! Now, all of our highly educated workers, thanks to No Child Left Behind, will have loads and loads of job opportunities in the agricultural industry and in the hotel industry, and in the restaurant industry and in the dry cleaining and laundry industry! Why just all kinds of well-paying jobs will be waiting for them when they graduate High School.

So, this fence will keep us safe from terrorists; it will keep out illegal immigrants and create job opportunities for our children. It&#039;s a WIN, WIN, WIN solution!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Illusion.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all it is.</p>
<p>An Illusion of &#8220;security.&#8221;</p>
<p>Look! See! We built a fence! That will keep those terrorist illegal immigrants out!</p>
<p>[not one farmworker was charged with the 9/11 attacks]</p>
<p>(if you can, read the next part as if Carol Channing is saying it)</p>
<p>See the fence! It&#8217;s a long fence. When it is finished, it will be 670 miles long. That&#8217;s about the distance from Redding, California, all the way down to San Diego! That&#8217;s a long, long fence!</p>
<p>But it will keep us safe from terrorists. Terrorists will be stopped by our fence. Terrorists won&#8217;t cross into our country over the 1,200 mile border between US and Mexico that won&#8217;t have a fence. So we don&#8217;t need to put a fence along that part of the border. We just need to put a fence along the part of the border we can see.</p>
<p>And terrorists won&#8217;t come into our country across the 5,500 mile long border between US and Canada. So we don&#8217;t need a fence there.</p>
<p>But our fence along the Mexican border will have an added bonus: it will keep out illegal immigrants! Just think of the job opportunities that will open up! Now, all of our highly educated workers, thanks to No Child Left Behind, will have loads and loads of job opportunities in the agricultural industry and in the hotel industry, and in the restaurant industry and in the dry cleaining and laundry industry! Why just all kinds of well-paying jobs will be waiting for them when they graduate High School.</p>
<p>So, this fence will keep us safe from terrorists; it will keep out illegal immigrants and create job opportunities for our children. It&#8217;s a WIN, WIN, WIN solution!<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=5069596', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Exit Stage Left</title>
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		<dc:creator>Exit Stage Left</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Florida Gov. Crist says he&#039;s getting married &lt;/strong&gt;

ST. PETERSBURG — Florida&#039;s most powerful bachelor is getting hitched. 
Gov. Charlie Crist, single for nearly three decades, on Thursday morning became engaged to his girlfriend of nine months, Carole Rome...............

And his engagement is likely to reverberate well beyond Florida because the popular governor is widely viewed as a contender to be likely Republican presidential candidate John McCain&#039;s running mate. Not since Franklin Pierce picked William King to be his running mate in 1852 has America had a bachelor vice president. 

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article659439.ece

Call me a cynic, but the timing of this 9-month, whirlwind romance is a little hard to believe. Here is a guy who, during his campaign to become the governor here in Florida, would not answer questions about his sexual orientation. There was plenty of speculation that he might be gay. Now that he&#039;s on the short list of potential VP drones for McRibs, he finds Ms. Right and gets engaged in 9 months (and she&#039;s loaded with money), just in time to not be &quot;single&quot; should he get the nod as McDopey&#039;s VP. Sounds like he was told he&#039;d climb a few notches on the list if he married a rich Christian (I assume) woman. Maybe this eliminates the only &quot;deal breaker&quot; on his down-side list. 

SO, a constitutional lawyer and first-term senator is being slammed for not having enough experience, but a dude who has been governor for a year and a half and is a heartbeat away from the presidency (with McCorpse it could be way closer than that) is being touted as experienced enough to be president after the RNC has McDimwit whacked? 

We are so fcuked if McNimrod wins in November.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Florida Gov. Crist says he&#8217;s getting married </strong></p>
<p>ST. PETERSBURG — Florida&#8217;s most powerful bachelor is getting hitched.<br />
Gov. Charlie Crist, single for nearly three decades, on Thursday morning became engaged to his girlfriend of nine months, Carole Rome&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>And his engagement is likely to reverberate well beyond Florida because the popular governor is widely viewed as a contender to be likely Republican presidential candidate John McCain&#8217;s running mate. Not since Franklin Pierce picked William King to be his running mate in 1852 has America had a bachelor vice president. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article659439.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article659439.ece</a></p>
<p>Call me a cynic, but the timing of this 9-month, whirlwind romance is a little hard to believe. Here is a guy who, during his campaign to become the governor here in Florida, would not answer questions about his sexual orientation. There was plenty of speculation that he might be gay. Now that he&#8217;s on the short list of potential VP drones for McRibs, he finds Ms. Right and gets engaged in 9 months (and she&#8217;s loaded with money), just in time to not be &#8220;single&#8221; should he get the nod as McDopey&#8217;s VP. Sounds like he was told he&#8217;d climb a few notches on the list if he married a rich Christian (I assume) woman. Maybe this eliminates the only &#8220;deal breaker&#8221; on his down-side list. </p>
<p>SO, a constitutional lawyer and first-term senator is being slammed for not having enough experience, but a dude who has been governor for a year and a half and is a heartbeat away from the presidency (with McCorpse it could be way closer than that) is being touted as experienced enough to be president after the RNC has McDimwit whacked? </p>
<p>We are so fcuked if McNimrod wins in November.<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=5069572', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: barfly</title>
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		<dc:creator>barfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;So remind me again how this fence will help, especially when it stops at the edge of the mega-rich, Bush supporting property holders?&lt;/em&gt;

It will serve to funnel the immigrants past their houses, giving the affluent the option of picking the cream of the crop, such as it were.  It will also be a potent tool for keeping their current employees in line, and cheaply paid.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>So remind me again how this fence will help, especially when it stops at the edge of the mega-rich, Bush supporting property holders?</em></p>
<p>It will serve to funnel the immigrants past their houses, giving the affluent the option of picking the cream of the crop, such as it were.  It will also be a potent tool for keeping their current employees in line, and cheaply paid.<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=5069570', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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