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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:55 PM
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SURVEY: Which Is The BIGGEST Flip-Flop You've Witnessed In The Past 4 Yrs?

1. Bush espoused free trade; Bush imposed steel tariffs.

2. Bush opposed campaign finance reform; Bush signed it into law.

3. Cheney proclaimed gay marriage a states rights issue; Bush called for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

4. Gore won; Bush took office.




The Bush Straddle

The Bush Somersault

The Bush Cartwheel

The Bush Credibility Gap

Bush v Bush

Flip-Flopper-In-Chief

Flip flopping away, flip flopping away/
You know the nearer your desperation/
The more you flip flopping away



:silly:



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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:57 PM
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1. Bin Laden - dead or alive || We don't care about bin Laden
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:01 PM
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4. a whopper flopper
:silly:

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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 06:51 PM
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29. A Mega Flip and an Awesome Flop
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 08:49 PM
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42. He's an MF!!!
Miserable Failure? Mother Flopper? Mother *ucker?

:silly: :silly:
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:59 PM
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2. We don't need a Homeland Security Dept to We need a Homeland Security Dept
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:04 PM
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5. How about this one!
"When I raise my right hand I'll restore honor and integrity to the White House."

(I think that's the quote.)

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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 08:12 AM
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45. Yes! And it REALLYpissed off the "smaller govt." conservatives
still reeling from Ron Reagan's own hypocritical "bloating" of the fed. govt!
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 06:32 PM
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46. Aren't we a member of the Homeland Securities Association?
:silly:
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nonconformist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:01 PM
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3. My personal fave
"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
- G.W. Bush, 9/13/01

"I want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'"
- G.W. Bush, 9/17/01

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts, 3/13/02


Another good one is his flop on opposing nation building.

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Abelman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:53 PM
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11. Sources
Do you have sources for these quotes? I'd like to show them to some friends and I don't want them claiming I made them up so they can continue living in fairy world.
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nonconformist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 08:34 PM
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14. Here ya go:
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 01:58 AM
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35. how does the song go? "you say we shouldn't worry 'bout bin Laden"
"HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN, BUSH???"

:grr:
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 08:32 AM
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36. Don't worry, be happy?
Bobby "something"
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 02:51 PM
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37. Bobby Mcferrin
In your life expect some trouble
But when you worry
You make it double
Don't worry, be happy......
Don't worry don't do it, be happy
Put a smile on your face
Don't bring everybody down like this
Don't worry, it will soon pass
Whatever it is
Don't worry, be happy

:bounce:

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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:07 PM
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6. This Chalabi affair would have to be high on the list....
This guy was their darling that fed them info that took our country to a war. Now his house is being raided by soldiers? That quite a flip-flop for a guy that holds loyalty in such high regard.
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 12:47 AM
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19. This Chalabi affair
Was that the episode where Mr. French betrayed Sissy?

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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:31 PM
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7. I'm against nation building[]I'm liberating/rebuilding another nation
tied with "I'm against a independent investigation of 9/11." "I'm establishing an investigation into the events of 9/11."
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 07:02 PM
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12. Yup, that's the one that comes right into my mind when I think "flip-flop"
It's a biggie alright. Maybe the Biggest Ever.
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 08:00 PM
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13. Bush didn't flip flop on that one, sorry.
But who knew back in 2000 when he said he was against nation-building he meant HIS OWN!!!

:silly:

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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 09:13 PM
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15. Well that's "Nation Destroying"
I wonder if that makes him a terrorist:shrug:
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 09:35 PM
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16. Well if he's destroying the nation
he could be just a tourist.

You know how they are!

:silly:
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Jawja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:45 PM
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8. * doesn't believe in
"nation building"

Oh yeah?
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:48 PM
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9. This one gets my vote -- on the other hand, he's destroyed far more...
than he's built, but that's the way of imperialism.
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:50 PM
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10. I'm a uniter OOPS! I meant a divider...sorry!
:P
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 09:38 AM
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20. I'm a reformer with results
Well maybe he didn't flip flop on that one ... he did get results, just BAD ones.

:silly:

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ModerateMiddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 07:32 PM
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31. This is my choice too
but perhaps it wasn't a flip flop so much as a big fat lie, eh?
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 12:03 PM
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33. Semantics!
:silly:
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 09:37 PM
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17. I'd say the UN flop by Smirk
First they were useless. Now theyre the main deal in Iraq.
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i_c_a_White_Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 09:42 AM
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21. The U.N. by far
First there was no use for them,
Now the admin. has candy and flowers spread out for them.

I was listening to the Colin Powell interview last night with Monica Crowley. These are the same people (Crowley) who so detested the U.N. a year ago, but now are strangely ambivalent to them.
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No2W2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 09:38 PM
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18. 1. Bush espoused free trade; Bush imposed steel tariffs.
Bush rescinded tariffs because China complained about them.

The rare flip-flop-flip!
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 07:30 PM
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30. He got bruised doing it
Haven't seen the pics yet but I guess we'll all see Monday nite when he makes that speech.

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GreatCaesarsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 09:57 AM
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22. "i'm a compassionate conservative"
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jono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 01:48 PM
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23. 9-11 Commission:
Edited on Sat May-22-04 01:48 PM by jono
creation of and extension for.

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bushwakker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 02:04 PM
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24. The "humble" foreign policy remark in debate w/ Gore
Bush said we needed to be more "humble" in our dealings with the rest of the world and was firmly against nation building. What more can I say...
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EndElectoral Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 02:17 PM
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25. The Money Trail
Bush's assertion after 911 was he was going to go after the money trail and stop the funding going to terrorists.

General Myers just testified udner scrutiny from an Ohio representative in Congress that the United Kingdom was put in charge of watchign the drug trade in Afghansitan. An early crop came in bringing billions of money in illegal drug trade which will find its way into the hands of the Taliban and al Quada.

Why was the United Kingdom given oversite of the biggest funding source for Al Quada? and it was shameful to place the blame on an ally for our own lack of oversight on this while we went Saddam hunting.

There are so so many unanswered question about the money trail it is unbeleivable and yet the 911 commission seems to ignore (at least publicly), and this latest travesty about the early poppy crop in Afghansitan being harvested and it is the Brits fault.

Shameful. Bush preens and barks. He's like that famous commedia character. The cowardly Capitano who has lots of bluff but no guts.
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BabsSong Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 02:22 PM
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26. I'm surprised you guys didn't think of the big one............
How about the ever changing reasons of why we went to war in Iraq!!? The boy has had to go through them like a baby goes through diapers. As each one blew in his face, he dug down in the diaper bag for another. And now all his "'cause we want to bring freedom, democracy to these poor Iraqis who had to suffer under the toture, etc. of Saddam" has been flushed down the royal crapper, too!!! Now that we are one year into this friggin' war/occupation, the asshole needs to invent yet another one. In fact, Time magazine rather suggested that Kerry shouldn't have an "Iraq" policy yet until we know what the hell Bush is going to do because it changes daily. Needs to wait until October to see where things are.
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 06:08 PM
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27. hey, this was supposed to be a multiple choice ...
... tinged with sarcasm, not a "fill in the blank" lol

Can't anyone follow directions!!! (besides the soldiers who beat up the prisoners)


:silly:

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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-04 06:17 PM
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28. REmember how he was going to hold the crooks from ENRON
accountable? Kenny boy is still as free as a bird! Enron is just like the deal with the prisoners who were tortured in Iraq, in that only the little guys pay the price!
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caffefwee Donating Member (475 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 08:27 AM
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32. Remember the 2000 convention
He "showcased" African Americans as if to say the Republicans were for civil rights then he fought affirmative action in the Supreme Court.
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 07:19 PM
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34. The message ...
"I know exactly where I want to lead this country." :scared:

"President Bush. Steady leadership in times of change." :spank:

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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 02:51 PM
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38. I don't believe in Nation Building...
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caffefwee Donating Member (475 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 06:19 PM
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39. The Lying Bush Action Figure!
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greekspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 06:45 PM
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40. "Compassionate conservatism" HA replaced by "kill them all"
ShrubCo touted themselves kinder gentler conservatives. I guess at the sound of those words they expected us all to walk to the polls holding hands and singing Peter, Paul and Mary songs as we pulled the switch for Shrub.

But instead of an auto-harp picking love-in Republican style, we have gotten poverty, the hatred of the world, and a swaggering boob in the White House with both Napolean and Jesus complexes.

How many Americans fell for that BUSHit?
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-04 02:07 PM
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41. His favorite philosopher is Jesus
In the 2000 debate he named Jesus as his favorite philosopher.
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zestfolly Donating Member (220 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 06:59 PM
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43. Restoring honor
He did just the opposite. As Al Gore said today, he's dragged us through the mud.
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napkinz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 03:54 AM
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44. the inmate running the asylum


:silly:
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