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mohinoaklawnillinois Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:37 PM
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NBC nightly news just rolled out Pickles
to defend *, in Andrea Mitchell's report. I think they're really getting desperate.
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Blasphemer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:37 PM
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1. Oh brother...
What did she have to say?
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buff2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:38 PM
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2. Sweet Geesus!!!!
I am so glad I am watching CBS!
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:39 PM
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3. ROTFL!!! Did she stand by her man?
...er, chimp?
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mohinoaklawnillinois Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:40 PM
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4. Paraphasing here, but something along this line:
My husband did everything he could, and if anyone else thinks otherwise, they're just plain wrong.

Good God, what a simpleton!!!
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Blasphemer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:46 PM
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5. Barf....
and how the hell would she know? Maybe they should roll out Lynne Cheney instead - SHE was the one in the thick of things.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:47 PM
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6. Silly Pickles
Tricks are for kids.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:53 PM
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9. ROFLMAO
:D
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dae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 01:00 AM
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32. 9.9 on the dae Retort scale.
:D::thumbsup:
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:54 PM
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11. "My husband did everything he could"
"He cleared brush, he got blisters from his new cowboy boots, he sunburned his ears...I declare, it was about the roughest vacation month we've ever had!!!"
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:15 PM
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19. Laura is good for nothing
I'm no misogynist--God knows, I've defended Hillary Clinton often enough, and growing up in a house with an ultrafeminist mother, I'd be shot for any chauvinist leanings.

But Laura is useless. Every picture of her shows her smiling like an ass. I think her teeth are going to get sunburned. She has absolutely no worth as a First Lady whatsoever.
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PaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:27 PM
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24. THis was on earlier...
I had to look at the tv after I heard her voice...sure, she's defending her man..she's likes getting facelifts, liposuction to the gut, thighs, and whatever else.Plus, all those "vacations" out of the country courtesy of the people..Oh, can't forget those shots of liquor either, the best stuff..
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:51 PM
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7. Is it just me?
Or is that woman on heavy medications? She acts like a freaking zombie or robot.
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ezee Donating Member (615 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:52 PM
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8. MY god
Its now a "family affair"....there goes the family value card.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:54 PM
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10. Ken Lay rolled out his wife too
Edited on Mon Mar-29-04 06:57 PM by Mari333
they get desperate and grab the wives to soften their image...not in this case..if anything, all they will do is show her to be a medicated fool spouting off her Prozac riddled mutterings.
this is a majorly desperate move on their part.


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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:54 PM
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12. Right, she attended all of those meeetings
too so she knows for sure he did everything he could. Reading Ron Suskind's book and this woman does not have the slightest idea of what is going on at all. She is as dumb as her husband if not dumber.


She sat on her ass waiting for the taxpayers to pay for her jaunts to Europe to "eat and shop"--that is about the extent of her knowledge of politics and what went on. This is truly a Potemkin goverment. Can't wait until they take theri sorry asses back to Crawford.

She doesn't have a clue--this smells like Karen Huge.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:23 PM
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21. That's it, a Karen Hughes production.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:57 PM
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13. ohoh.....Ma Bush is not far behind, then
When the going gets rough, they send out the enforcers.

First Poppy will get teary and claim how much it hurts to have "our boy" criticized unfairly.

Then Bar will scold America for daring to speak ill of George W.

(Remember, she told new bride Laura that NOBODY criticizes George W. NOBODY.)

Nasty bunch of grifters with their bag of tricks.
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PaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:32 PM
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26. That's right...
was just telling someone today that it's not going to be a long time before old babs rears her ugly face and mouth!
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suegeo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 07:14 PM
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36. Poppy is right on schedule
Just as you predicted...
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4704789§ion=news

Emotional Elder Bush Attacks Son's Critics

Mar 30, 6:22 pm ET

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - An emotional former President George H.W. Bush on Tuesday defended his son's Iraq war and lashed out at White House critics.

It is "deeply offensive and contemptible" to hear "elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail" dismiss progress in Iraq since last year's overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the elder Bush said in a speech to the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association annual convention.

"There is something ignorant in the way they dismiss the overthrow of a brutal dictator and the sowing of the seeds of basic human freedom in that troubled part of the world," he said.

The former president appeared to fight back tears as he complained about media coverage of the younger Bush that he called "something short of fair and balanced."

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BabsSong Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 06:59 PM
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14. EXCUSE ME--they couldn't stomach Hillary because she had her
busy body nose in the government when everyone knows she should have been baking cookies. So is this Pickles admittance that she is part of running the White House. OH MY GOD---she's another freakin' Hillary. Hate, hate hate...come on Stupid White Men of Limbaugh--you tell that bitch to get her ass "outta her husband's business". And if she wasn't there, then the stupid bitch needs to shut the fuck up. Yes..they are desperate.
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GregW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:04 PM
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15. They'll probably rollout Raygun next
I mean, literally roll him out ... then present Nixon in an ashtray

:eyes:
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James T. Kirk Donating Member (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:11 PM
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16. Pickles? Huh?
Maybe I missed a memo or something. Why is she called "Pickles"?
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:13 PM
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17. That's been the subject of some speculation...
...but it's George's nickname for her, so who knows.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:14 PM
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18. maybe she's sour...ewwwww!
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:16 PM
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20. my theory is that is what he uses to get her off with
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LastLiberal in PalmSprings Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:30 PM
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25. 'Pickles' goes back to the campaign of 2000
when reporters made a big deal about * giving everyone a nickname -- not all flattering, BTW. It was part of his "just folks" charm.

It was never revealed what *'s name for Laura was, so Bartcop gave her one: "Pickles"

The name caught on, and now it's become the de facto reference for the Librarian-in-Chief.

Now, do you want to know why Bart calls Paul Harvey "a horse-fucker"?
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 08:04 PM
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27. Yeah, I want to know.
.
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LastLiberal in PalmSprings Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 11:47 PM
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31. Paul Harvey made the statement that you could tell that
* and Pickles were in love "just by looking at them", and you could tell that Bill and Hillary weren't in love "just by looking at them."

Bartcop reasoned that if Paul Harvey could tell about a person just by looking at them, then it was obvious -- just by looking at him -- that Paul Harvey was someone who had sex with horses.

Which became "Paul Harvey, Horse-fucker" in Bartspeak.

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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:24 PM
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22. Whatever happened to her trip to Afghanistan/Iraq?
I thought she said she was going in March? Not a word since.
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Unknown Known Donating Member (829 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:26 PM
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23. This is a sure sign of desperation
when they roll out "the little woman". Remember when they brought out Nancy after Reagan was shot?
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 08:10 PM
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28. Who's "Pickles"??


..pardon my ignorance.
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alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 08:24 PM
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29. It's Bush's nickname for his wife, Laura.
And welcome to DU.
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:35 AM
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33. Thanks for the welcome!!
It's a little hard to know where to jump in, guess it will just take a little time.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 01:38 PM
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34. Hi skooooo!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 04:49 PM
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35. Hey, can you help??? Please post this story on main board!!


I can't create a thread because I'm new, but here's a good one:
==============

Bush Campaign Seeks to Regain 'Compassionate' Image

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040330/pl_nm/campaign_bush_forums_dc_2


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing a tight re-election fight over the next seven months, President Bush (news - web sites) has quietly revived the kind of cozy voter forums that helped craft his image as a "compassionate conservative" in 2000, analysts and Republican insiders say.
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Moonbeam_Starlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 08:45 PM
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30. I've always heard this stuff about
Pickles being on rx meds.....is it just conjecture or based on a story I missed or what?
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