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Killarney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 08:47 AM
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Bush took down Official Bill Clinton Portrait in WH
http://www.wonkette.com/
BREAKING: Clinton White House Portrait Missing?
We're getting reports that all of Laura Bush's lovely Christmas decorations may have bumped some of the White House's usual art out of the building. Like the official portrait of Bill Clinton. A Wonkette operative writes:
"A friend of mine just got the chance to get a White House tour, and she really wanted to see President Clinton's portrait close up. She couldn't find it, and an usher quietly told her that it had been taken down to make room for Christmas decorations. But there was Bush 41 and Reagan still on the wall."
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 08:50 AM
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1. Is anyone surprized?
Its probably in a back office, with the words "BLAME THIS GUY FOR EVERYTHING" above it
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 08:51 AM
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2. W is haunted with the sinking feeling that his predecessor
was a better man than he.
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booksenkatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 08:55 AM
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4. Those nasty old 8 years of peace and prosperity... PTOOEY! nt
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ScaRBama Donating Member (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 08:55 AM
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3. That's ok.....
I don't think Bill would care about hanging around in the Bush White House anyway.
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LiberalinNC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 08:57 AM
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5. Childish!
Taking down ONE president's picture to "make room for decorations" sounds more like an excuse to me. God forbid a democrat take down Ronnie's picture!
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Killarney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 11:45 AM
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11. Exactly. If Clinton took down Ronnie's picture
there would have been an indictment.
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 07:08 PM
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25. Ronnie, Truman, Ike, Kennedy...I don't care. Leave the pics
alone.

They belong there. Dubya does not. They were elected President of the US, Dubya was not.
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democracy eh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 08:58 AM
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6. they will put it back up when they want to blame him for something
or maybe they are making room for a President Gore picture?
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 08:59 AM
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7. If Clinton took down Reagan's portrait, the Regressives would call the
proceeding scandal Reagan's-PortraitGate
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Chandler Stork Donating Member (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 09:04 AM
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8. Wonkette isn't always a reliable news source,
so I have to wonder if this isn't just a rumor, like the Ws being stolen from the WH computer keyboards in 2001. If true, it's appalling. The W administration's repeated willingness to Stalinize American history is disgusting and worrisome.
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Tuttle Donating Member (919 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 09:17 PM
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28. You mean they weren't?
I bought a whole bunch of them on eBay with a COA! Damn!

Tut-tut
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 09:06 AM
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9. & whited-out the "Saddam-Rumsfeld handshake" pics from the history books
Shades of Chairman Mao.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 09:12 AM
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10. well this Bush and Co are pretty tacky.
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Ravenseye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 11:49 AM
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12. I'm sure it's down.
...and I'm also sure that they won't mention it officially at all, and if for some reason it were to come up, they'd make up some excuse about it needing to be cleaned or something, and while it' sbeing cleaned since it's christmas they hung stuff in it's place.

excuses when necessary.
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Radio-Active Donating Member (735 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 11:53 AM
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13. they had to make room for Frosty the Snowman


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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 11:57 AM
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14. So effing petty
:mad:
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Bethany Rockafella Donating Member (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 12:04 PM
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15. That's the Bush's for ya!
Low class and tacky.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 12:08 PM
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16. No good deed goes unpunished. Now if Kennedy and FDR vanished,
then I would give a damn. At least they were true to the party they were in.

Don't forget:

NAFTA

DOMA

DMCA

Monica

Telecom 'reform'

Welfare 'reform' (did nothing to corporate welfare)

Nixing federal speed limit, what with all the oil we have and all :eyes:

The firing of Jocelyn Elders for :gasp: getting people to talk about health issues.

I know there's more, but how much more NEEDS to be said?! Clinton was either an enabler or acting in biparti$anship.
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 12:19 PM
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17. A little trick they learned from the USSR
nt
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 12:46 PM
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19. i have it on good authority that
it has been repaired to the gaming room where it has replaced the dart board
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 12:45 PM
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18. Mouth wide open! When will it end!
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Selwynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 12:47 PM
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20. Who cares?
I'm sorry but I have more important things to worry about then OMG BUSH TOOK DOWN A PICTURE!!1!!!!!1111ONE!1111
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 12:54 PM
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21. It's a symbolic gesture. That's why I care.
It's a big FU to Clinton.

Remember that Clinton made Little Boots look ridiculous at the opening of the Library in Arkansas, as Little Boots attempted to squeeze past Clinton, even though protocol is that Clinton would be the first out the door and head the procession.

I think it's time for me to find a portrait of Clinton and place it in my home, all his misdirected policies and indiscretions aside.
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 06:59 PM
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22. kick
:kick:
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 07:04 PM
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23. Bush is such a little man
I would pay good money to see Clinton kick Smirky's ass in a fist fight.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 07:06 PM
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24. duhbya has the emotional maturity of a four year old.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 07:09 PM
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26. It won't surprise me if Clinton's portrait
Will only sporadically be displayed, if at all the rest of *'s term.
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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 08:59 PM
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27. When it's time for Dubya's portrait to be hung up
It should be in the men's room on a corridor that tour groups use so I can visit the WH and piss on it.
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