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Old 03-19-2008, 09:25 AM   #108 (permalink)
Bruce R.
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He demonstrated enough judgment to exclude himself from all of the other accomplices on Capital Hill to the wanton act of profiteering and mass murder that continues to be committed in Iraq. That alone, places him head and shoulders above the other two candidates.
It does nothing of a sort, it just backs up YOUR feelings of that event, nothing more.
Damn near the entire Congress was behind that vote, without that apparently minor point we would not be there would we......


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Non-sequitur alert. Read what I wrote again -- more carefully this time. I suggested that their performance as POTUS could not be predicted by their prior experience.
I read exactly what you wrote, and I stand behind what I stated, your suggestion not withstanding.

What a man has done in the past is an excellent predictor of what he will do in the future. A man that has been a thief for the past 20 years is not very likely to be anything other than a thief for the next 20 years unless he is put in jail.
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