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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 06:56 AM
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Is Lee Hamilton the perfect VP choice?
Adored in Indiana
Kudos from nearly everybody on the 9/11 Commission
CHaired the House Intelligence Committee.

Now an outsider with serious gravitas and boring

Good complement for just about everyone who is running in '08

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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 06:59 AM
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1. Lee Hamilton is part of the problem
just another old whore.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:02 AM
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2. Bingo! We have a winner here. nt
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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:04 AM
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5. WELL the I guess that as sound an argument as I hve ever heard,
WTF???
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:03 AM
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3. Yes, but who'll head that GOP ticket?
He'll be great at whitewashing future Republican scandals. Has 20 years of experience:

Hamilton Chaired the
Iran-Contra
and
9/11 Coverups
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:03 AM
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4. Lee Hamilton's the repugs favorite whitewashing Dem...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hamilton

<snip>
As chair of the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, Hamilton chose not to investigate President Ronald Reagan or President George H. W. Bush, stating that he did not think it would be "good for the country" to put the public through another impeachment trial.
</snip>

:thumbsdown:
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:17 AM
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12. Especially since Poppy and Casey were running
the covert war in Central America for the Knights of Malta. Come to think of it, Casey was a Knight of Malta and Poppy was given his honorary Knighthood for the good job he did there.
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:04 AM
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6. The perfect VP choice would be a seasoned military man who is also
a good diplomat, intelligent and can speak without using a thousand idioms...someone has to get us out of the mess that is Iraq, and who knows, maybe the mess that is Iran. Also a good, solid Dem who is well repsected by his peers and other Dems.

Do we know anyone like that? :) I do.
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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:07 AM
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7. ROFL Gee who might that be.
But VPs don't gey us out of debacles. they apparently can create the however
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:13 AM
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9. Seasoned and ready for roasting... n/t
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:09 AM
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8. We haven't even voted the bastards out yet and you project out
to 2008?:eyes: :spank:


Work for today so there is a tomorrow.
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mazzarro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:14 AM
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10. Not IMHO!
He is too much part of the devious establisment!
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 07:15 AM
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11. Lee "America can't take another failed presidency" Hamilton?
Edited on Thu Sep-28-06 07:20 AM by JHB
Are you talking about the same Lee Hamilton who ran interference for Reagan and Poppy Bush back in the 80's, helping to ensure investigations never turned up all the sorry details of Iran-Contra, Contra connections to drugrunners, Reagan-Bush campaign dealings with Iran before the election, BCCI, etc. (and more recently, the 9/11 omission)

Lee "I surrender and here's my virgin daughters for your enjoyment" Hamilton?

Man, I hope you just forgot to add the " :sarcasm: " tag.
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