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"Anyway, does it really matter who's president? The position has been pretty much relegated to the status of "figurehead" anyway. Not quite, but close..."
Well, considering he dictates law by executive order, circumventing congress, he's hardly a figurehead. Besided, if it weren't for Clinton being in office, you'd all get to keep quite a bit more of your income.
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Not to mention bombing a few small countries to get attention off his extra-marital affairs...
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Well, 'at's what happens when SCSI doesn't agree with the majority. Or at least Susan B. Anthony. But, then again, she didn't know about Bill Clinton.
I'm sure I'm very arbitrary when I say "Women's Civil Rights, yes, Employment Equality, yes, Suffrage, no."
Just goes to show you how deeply I despise Clinton, and how much I trust exit polls. Maybe I'm wrong, and Clinton engaged in the Daley tradition of stuffing the voting boxes. But there was obviously some variable (other than the recession) that split or was altered in those two elections.
If I seem vain, then Clinton made the executive office a Vanity Fair.
I missed this the first time around. You can't get much more extreme than saying
quote:1. Stop enforcing the military rifle ("assault weapons") ban.
Ah yes, my next door neighbor should be allowed to play target practice with the hand-held rocket launcher he bought from the army surplus store.
This guy makes Pat Buchannan look like a left wing socialist. To be any more righ wingish, you'd have to join the Nazi party.
------------------ -Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."
Tolstoy, on a more objective note.
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I'll give you the variable: Perot. If it wasn't for him, Dan Quayle'd be president right now (and while that may not appeal to some, he'd be better than Clinton). Although Bush screwing up and making a deal with the democratic congress in which he'd raise taxes if they'd cut spending (they lied) didn't help much. He broke his promise of no new taxes, and the tax increase caused the recession. Then there's Bill's ability to lie and rewrite history...
------------------ "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
Advisor 1: Shut the hell up and read what's on the cue cards!
Danny Dumb-boy: But it's a my speech to the...*slowly comprehending* Hey, you yelled at me...
Advisor 1: Damn right I did...and if you're not carful, I'm going to slap ya like a circus moneky!! Here's a scooby snack, you go sit in the corner and read the speech we wrote for ya so you don't mess up this time. I need to decide which coporation to give the biggest tax break to.
Advisor 2: *on the phone* People on the Mall having a rally for aid to the working poor and and another one in front of the White House protesting against doling out coporate welfare?!? Well, Shoot-em.
Danny-Dumb-boy: Mmmm...good scooby snack.
Advisor 1: Hey, this isn't the Senior Tour, Chi Chi. Try to keep up. Here, sign this. It says we're bombing North Korea.
Danny-Dumb-boy: Gee, I don't know. Should we do that?
Advisor 2: Man, he's as vacant as an interview with Posh Spice.
Danny Dumb-boy: *slowly* ....hey....
Advisor 1: Ah, forget it...let's just use the stamp with his signature on it. You know, the one we used to ban endangered "Grumpy Goldfih" cause he was in the way of that hydro-mining company.
Advisor 2: Yeah, there were only two in existence weren't there. Teach them to stand in the way of progess.
Danny Dumb-boy: Can I have another scooby snack?
------------------ Oh, fiddle faddle, everyone knows that our mutants have flippers. Oops, I've said too much..... ~C. Montgomery Burns
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Yeah, but did Dan think milk was addictive? That's the ultimate test of stupidity.
------------------ "...I was just up in Canada, Toronto actually. You know, they really hate you guys [Americans] up there? The funny thing is, they think you hate them back, when in fact, you just couldn't be bothered to care. Now in Ireland, it's a different story. At least we had the common decency to wait until the English invaded before we started hating them. I guess the Canadians are hating you in advance..." -Irish Comic Ed Byrne on Canada-US relations
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Quayle wasn't dumb, he was just a bit of a poor public speaker. I think the former vice-president of the US should get a little more credit...
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Poor public speaker? If he's poor, I'm Tony Robbins.
"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
"Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a --it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation."
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
"You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be." And my personal favorite,
"It's not pollution that's causing problems tou our ozone, it's all the garbage and smog in our atmosphere"
If we give this guy credit, why the fuck don't you guys make whoever's the next guest on Jay Leno's 'Jaywalking' the next POTUS?
------------------ "What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad." - Dave Barry
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Come on. This is the guy who said something to the effect of "there are channels on Mars, and water we think, and that means there is oxygen, and that means we can breathe."
Now I don't care HOW lousy your scriptwriter is, that's just plain STUPID.
as is "It is a terrible waste to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind..."
------------------ "Nobody knows this, but I'm scared all the time... of what I might do, if I ever let go." -- Michael Garibaldi
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It should be fairly obvious what he was really trying to say in most of the above quotations. If you can't figure it out, I'd be happy to help, although knowing the context is probably necessary.
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