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Truthbeknown Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:14 PM
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What do you think of a Gore/Kennedy ticket in '08?
It makes sense to me but first we have to fix the voting machine problem.We need to get the voting machine software to be public property like in Australia.In addition there, the programming code was made publicly available for identifying vulnerabilities so the software could be made hacker-proof. Anything less than full public control of our elections, the software included, is un-American and a threat to our democracy. The Founding fathers wrote the Constitution to ensure that We the People would own our own democracy. Voting is the most essential right in our democracy.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:19 PM
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1. Which Kennedy?
:shrug:

And YES! Voting needs to be corrected big time!!
VOTE ABSENTEE!!!

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
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blue sky at night Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:21 PM
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2. Great Question....
funny how when we post, we think everyone is on our same wavelength....my bet is for Bobby, Jr.
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Truthbeknown Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:24 PM
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3. RFK Jr. of course.
After that great Rolling Stone article, RFK Jr. deserves serious consideration. He was also working for Gore, promoting " An Inconvenient Truth".
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:42 PM
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9. Vote Absentee?
Are you sure that it would improve the chance of your vote being accurately tallied?

I'm not.
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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:24 PM
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4. Kennedy doesn't want public office...can you blame him?
If you're talking RFK jr
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Truthbeknown Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:43 PM
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10. I don't blame him at all
Looking at his uncle's picture next to my username but I guess it was wishful/hopeful thinking.This party needs hope. Him being a heartbeat away from the Oval office would be too much for the Kennedy haters.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:45 PM
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11. He's in rehab now!
Do really think he could handle the stress? I don't.
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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:59 PM
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14. I believe the Kennedy in rehab is a different one
The one in rehab is a state office holder. Either way, being a Kennedy is not an easy job.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 11:21 PM
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21. The one in rehab is Ted's
son!! That's why I asked "which one'?
Or do you mean that other Kennedy, from what state?
:shrug:
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Truthbeknown Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 11:01 PM
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15. Shrub is in rehab also
Although Shrub has a physical problem also. He always has his head stuck up his ass or is it in Cheney's ass.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 11:19 PM
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20. re-habitual user, you mean!
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Patchuli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 11:41 PM
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23. I believe you are thinking of Patrick Kennedy
not Bobby, Jr.
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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:57 PM
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13. Maybe for the better if he's not in office
It gives him the freedom to write articles like this and do the work that he belives in.
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Truthbeknown Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 11:07 PM
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16. You're right
Maybe he could also be Gore's ghost writer.Who's writing for Shrub? It sounds like the village idiot.
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:24 PM
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5. Why on earth did you have a revolution to get rid of your monarchy,
only to set up your own friggin' dynasties? It's bizarre and illogical. It started way back with JQ Adams and has led to the lump of aristocratic afterbirth now in the White House.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:35 PM
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6. You ask an excellent question and I really don't understand why....
people seem to want a dynasty. The last thing I want is another "Royal Family" like the Bushes or Kennedys. I want my fucking REPUBLIC back! What part of that is so hard to understand? I don't want "heirs apparent"-I want d-e-m-o-c-r-a-c-y.

Apparently that concept is not as common with my fellow Americans as it once was.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:36 PM
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7. Thank you. The US needs a fresh start.
Mookie, a UofTer living in Washington, DC.
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987654321 Donating Member (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:38 PM
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8. You've got me on the Gore part.
But I'd rather have Gore/Feingold. I think it would be best to have more diversity on the ticket. Gore/Kennedy would be perceived too much as a one issue ticket, even though I know they are both more than that.

I do think that Kennedy would make a great EPA secretary, and he would have the complete support of President Gore to achieve his goals.
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Truthbeknown Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:48 PM
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12. That would be a good ticket also.
I guess I was just giving Bobby jr. some deserved credit for having the balls to go public with his thoughts and feelings on that travesty of an election we went through in '04.
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Truthbeknown Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 11:13 PM
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17. That's it
I'm out of here for tonight.Good night.
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987654321 Donating Member (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 11:16 PM
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19. He had to have balls...
To have to endure the agony of talking to media eggheads like Wolf Blitzer, who interrupted Kennedy every time he spoke but gave the other goofball ample time to complain about all of the supposed fake voter registrations using names like Freddie Kruger. God it hurt me to see what he had to say get so easily dismissed and twisted on just about every program he was on. He still did it because he cared more about the issue than about the disrespect shown to him. That's what I call big huevos! He deserves a hell of a lot of credit.
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Sabien Donating Member (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 11:16 PM
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18. In the words of King George the first
not gonna daahhh
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iconoclastNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 11:23 PM
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22. Gore / Feingold!!!
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lindisfarne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 12:31 AM
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24. Gore/Obama.
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