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sabra

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Mon Dec-12-05 04:30 PM
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I don't live in a bubble, says Bush (from Brian Williams i-view)

Edited on Mon Dec-12-05 04:35 PM by sabra

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17551663%255E23109,00.html

I don't live in a bubble, says Bush

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"I feel like I'm getting some really good advice from very capable people and that people from all walks of life inform me and inform those who advise me," he said. "I feel very comfortable that I'm very aware of what's going on."

The President's comments came in an Oval Office interview with NBC television, which put part of the exchange on its nightly anchor's Web log, Daily Nightly.

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"I don't feel in a bubble. You feel in a bubble in the sense I can't go walking out the front gate and go shopping like I'd love to do for my wife - although I may, and I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to buy her," Mr Bush said.

"I just talked to the president-elect of Honduras. A lot of my job is foreign policy. And I spend an enormous amount of time with leaders from other countries, and they come right here in the Oval Office and tell me what's on their mind. And I tell them what's on my mind," he said.

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SCDem

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Mon Dec-12-05 04:32 PM
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1. Ironically the President of Honduras lives in a house

not a big White House but a house and in a neighborhood. Now it's probably super guarded and yadda yadda but he lives in a house.

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ananda

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Mon Dec-12-05 04:35 PM
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2. Hmmmmm

Does a person who lives in reality say that Iraq is taking the same path to "democracy" that the USA did?

Since when did someone invade the USA, occupy the country, and force a very oppressive, fascistic kind of "democKracy" on us?

Answers on a postage stamp, please.

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Uncle Joe

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Mon Dec-12-05 04:40 PM
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5. France did it to us, that's why we call them French Fries. n/t

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LiberalFighter

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:14 PM
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25. I wonder if he knows that Karen Hughes was born in Paris France?

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reprobate

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Mon Dec-12-05 09:10 PM
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37. France did WHAT to us? You are aware that without the French fleet's help

....There would likely BE no USA today? Withouth them putting some woop-ass on the British and blockading the british fleet in the Chesepeake so that Washington could finally beat Cornwallis we would not have won the revolutionary war, so to put any blame on the french is to thumb your nose at those who helped us win our nation.

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Uncle Joe

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Tue Dec-13-05 10:49 AM
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46. I was making a joke out of post #2, I love the French. n/t

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reprobate

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:56 PM
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55. Sorry to jump on you. Most people don't know that simple fact.

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savemefromdumbya

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Mon Dec-12-05 04:40 PM
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3. must be terrible if you can't go shopping

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yorkiemommie1

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:23 PM
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52. i think i recall clinton going shopping

and attracting lots of favorable attention...whereas * might be chased down the street!

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savemefromdumbya

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Tue Dec-13-05 01:05 PM
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57. yes Clinton used to be seen in the supermarket

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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf

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Mon Dec-12-05 04:40 PM
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4. That last paragraph...

Reads like the reading primer I had in second grade.

Which, for him, is about right.

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sabra

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Mon Dec-12-05 04:42 PM
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6. they come to my office, and I show them my perty coloring books :-)

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Canuckistanian

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Mon Dec-12-05 06:57 PM
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22. "We look for things"

If anyone remembers Star Trek TNG.

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Thor_MN

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Mon Dec-12-05 08:00 PM
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30. Brownie does a good job

He makes us strong

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medeak

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Mon Dec-12-05 04:46 PM
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7. "A lot of my job is foreign policy"

So why did he never travel before running for office?

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tmooses

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Mon Dec-12-05 04:46 PM
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8. Wouldn't someone living in a bubble be the last to realize it?

I'm sure the president-elect of Honduras has a better grasp of the English language than this twit.

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Lisa

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Mon Dec-12-05 05:17 PM
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13. yeah -- it's like someone who snores claiming that he would know ...

... if he did snore, so everyone who complains must be lying!

Excellent point!

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Wordie

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Mon Dec-12-05 05:09 PM
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9. LOL...new nickname for Bush: Bubble Boy!

Edited on Mon Dec-12-05 05:17 PM by Wordie

Isolated from the truth, as well as the people. Although I made a joke, it's very sad, really.

And this:
"I'm interested in the news, I'm not all that interested in the opinions."

...is just really scary. Doesn't he know that it's the opinions of those around him that are in large part creating the news? Or is he so isolated that he has come to see the opinions of those around him not as "opinions" but as "facts" that require no scrutiny as to their validity?

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katty

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Mon Dec-12-05 06:19 PM
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20. the boy in the bubble...he's is bubble-trouble

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Olney Blue

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:56 PM
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28. double rubble bubble trouble

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teknomanzer

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Mon Dec-12-05 08:10 PM
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31. Damn, beat me to it!

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Wordie

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Mon Dec-12-05 08:15 PM
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32. LOL...Olberman is going to do a segment on "Bush's Bubble"!!! eom

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shanti

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Mon Dec-12-05 10:42 PM
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42. so basically

he doesn't give a rat's ass what we think or our opinions.....nice. :banghead:

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Wordie

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Mon Dec-12-05 11:39 PM
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44. The entire interview made him look foolish and weak. Its gonna be fodder

for the comics. I'm surprised he gave it. Where was Rove, letting him speak off the cuff like this? Surely they know they can't do that. It only makes it abundantly clear what a complete doofus he is.

Of course, it does change the subject away from anything substantive. Maybe they're that desperate now.

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wordpix

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Tue Dec-13-05 10:55 AM
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47. when HASN"T he looked foolish and weak? Rove's fighting Fitz's indictment

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Wordie

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:28 PM
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53. Am I imagining things?

Tues. AM
I just woke up and turned on the TV to MSNBC, where another segment of the Brian Williams interview with Bush was on. I have not had coffee yet, and am a bit groggy, but I SWEAR I just heard an interchange about the Iraq war that went pretty much like this:

Williams: You had said the troops would be welcomed...

Bush: Well, they were welcomed, they were just welcomed with violence...

HUH?

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colbushwhacker_2000

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Mon Dec-12-05 05:12 PM
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10. Bu$h is not only

the worst President in the history of this country,but has to be the most ignorant and clueless human being ever to occupy the Presidency !

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buff2

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Mon Dec-12-05 05:16 PM
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12. Right on Col.

:hi:

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Nickster

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Mon Dec-12-05 05:15 PM
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11. In other news, Dubya declares "Sky not Blue!"

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donco6

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Mon Dec-12-05 05:18 PM
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14. "And neither of us listen to anything."

"I just talked to the president-elect of Honduras. A lot of my job is foreign policy. And I spend an enormous amount of time with leaders from other countries, and they come right here in the Oval Office and tell me what's on their mind. And I tell them what's on my mind," he said."

Sounds like a lot of "telling" and not a lot of "listening" going on there in that Oval Office.

Whatever you do, don't tell Bush to go pee in a corner.

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Mon Dec-12-05 05:20 PM
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15. He IS a bubble (headed moran)

'Nuff said.

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bigbrother05

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Mon Dec-12-05 05:21 PM
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16. Is this a SNL bit?

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obxhead

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Mon Dec-12-05 06:17 PM
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19. LOL... reminded me of a Murphy Brown one liner

Edited on Mon Dec-12-05 06:17 PM by obxhead

Is that your head or is your neck just blowing a bubble?
:rofl:

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wordpix

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Tue Dec-13-05 10:57 AM
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48. Seinfeld did a show on the bubble boy--good SNL fodder

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elvisbear

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Mon Dec-12-05 05:24 PM
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17. Moops!!!

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gulfcoastliberal

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Mon Dec-12-05 05:57 PM
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18. Brian Williams - advocate of Soviet Pravda style propaganda

Had soem hope for him after Katrina but it was just an act. What a sack of bullshit he is.

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0007

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Mon Dec-12-05 06:54 PM
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21. I'm getting some really good advice from very capable people

Like the "Death Squad Master" and Iran/contra convict....Drum roll please, stage lights on dim, full spot light. Hit it baby! The one and only famous John Negroponte

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godai

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:08 PM
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23. "I would say, 30,000, more or less, have died"

So matter of factly, so cold.

He's insane...case closed. He acts and looks more like Nixon every day.

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godai

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:09 PM
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24. Against torture..."We will be"

WILL BE??

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badgervan

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Mon Dec-12-05 08:30 PM
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33. Torture Semantics

Anyone else catch him change his wording from "torture" to "perceived torture"? He did it real quick, and Williams just kept on blathering without catching it. Interesting.

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cornfedyank

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:15 PM
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26. "i read the news . i just don't read opinions."

that is what the shrub god said today.

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Olney Blue

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:58 PM
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29. Oh, like when Katrina hit?

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wordpix

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Tue Dec-13-05 10:58 AM
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49. yeah, two days after the levees broke, he gets the news from aides

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jazzjunkysue

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:41 PM
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27. The scariest thing is, he really believes he's the president.

With Karl and Condi and Cheney gone, and no one telling him what to do, he really thinks he's running things.

We used to play school all the time, when we were 7.

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Orsino

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Mon Dec-12-05 08:37 PM
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34. "Condi and Rove Told Me to Say I Don't Live in a Bubble" n/t

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seemslikeadream

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Mon Dec-12-05 08:41 PM
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35. Beware!

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area51

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Mon Dec-12-05 08:51 PM
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36. GW Hoover said: "And I tell them what's on my mind,"

Bush has a mind? :evilgrin:

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phillysuse

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Mon Dec-12-05 09:51 PM
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38. George wants to buy Laura a dildo but can't tell Brian Williams

George would like to buy Laura a dildo.
He said it to Brian Williams

"No, I don't feel in a bubble. I mean you feel in a bubble, in the sense that I can't go walking out the front gate and go shopping, like I'd love to do for my wife---although I'm a man, I'm not going tell you what I'm gonna buy her."

C'mon George, What could it be? Perfume, jewelry, lingerie, a book, a fur coat.....

And why "although I'm a man', you can't tell Brian Williams the type of present you might buy your wife.

It's a sex toy, probably a dildo!!!

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AspenRose

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Mon Dec-12-05 10:33 PM
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40. Ewww I did NOT need that mental image.....!

!

:spray:

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buddysmellgood

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Mon Dec-12-05 10:13 PM
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39. And Nixon was not a crook.

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shanti

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Mon Dec-12-05 10:39 PM
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41. WTF???

everything he said was just a bunch of bullshyt!

"I don't feel in a bubble. You feel in a bubble in the sense I can't go walking out the front gate and go shopping like I'd love to do for my wife - although I may, and I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to buy her," Mr Bush said.

he DOESN'T feel "in a bubble", yet he DOES feel in a bubble - wtf does that mean???

what a freakin embarassment to have him as our "esteemed leader"!!!! :(

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kurth

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Mon Dec-12-05 10:58 PM
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43. Bubble Boy: "I don't see no bubble!"

He's not wearing clothes either.

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complain jane

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Mon Dec-12-05 11:55 PM
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45. I couldn't wait to get home tonight and see the threads on this here.

That interview was absolutely incredible. Clueless fool. I can't tell the difference between a real interview with that bumbling asswipe and a skit on SNL.

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wordpix

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Tue Dec-13-05 10:59 AM
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50. it IS hard to tell the difference

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AllegroRondo

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:17 PM
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51. Ironically, if you are in a bubble, you wouldnt know it.

so how can he say "I dont live in a bubble" ??

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Panda1

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:46 PM
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54. He's been in a bubble since birth

He's a liar. Brian Williams is a confirmed tool for BubbleBoozeBoy. That wasn't an interview, it was yet another photo op. Disgusting propaganda and lies!

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reprobate

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Tue Dec-13-05 01:03 PM
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56. It's really hard work.

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