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FSogol

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23. True, but maybe that's the one that needs war profiteers. We could pay big bonuses whenever the

Reply to Jamaal510 (Reply #20)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 08:33 AM

Mar 2014

poverty rate goes down. We already shovel obscene amounts of cash at Raytheon, Lockheed, and others, why not get them working on reducing hunger, homelessness, and poverty?

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thank God john mccain is not president. [View all] spanone Mar 2014 OP

Scary thougth, isn't it? CherokeeDem Mar 2014 #1

A bloodthirsty warmonger SummerSnow Mar 2014 #2

A-men. Was there ever a potential war that didn't give him a war hard-on? FSogol Mar 2014 #3

The War on Poverty. nt Jamaal510 Mar 2014 #20

True, but maybe that's the one that needs war profiteers. We could pay big bonuses whenever the FSogol Mar 2014 #23

McCain plays the role of attack dog ... it's his thing. 1000words Mar 2014 #4

i take him at face value. spanone Mar 2014 #9

Hardly. He's overly reactionary and borderline unstable. He's still trying to win the Vietnam war FSogol Mar 2014 #24

I second that. nt bluestate10 Mar 2014 #5

He would have had us involved in a nuclear war long before now. appleannie1 Mar 2014 #6

We would be ashes. kairos12 Mar 2014 #7

I would thank the voters Skittles Mar 2014 #8

It's time that he is put out to pasture. nt sheshe2 Mar 2014 #10

Actually, if we had a totally insane president and the world knew it ... Kablooie Mar 2014 #11

That was kind of the Nixon Theory I thought. Sognefjord Mar 2014 #19

AMEN! oldandhappy Mar 2014 #12

Hillary thought McCain was more qualified to be Pres than Obama... Whisp Mar 2014 #13

Do you have a link for that? n/t pnwmom Mar 2014 #21

Link you requested brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #26

Here: Whisp Mar 2014 #31

Thanks. Yeah, that was a stupid thing for her to say. I guess she thought pnwmom Mar 2014 #32

I think she thought she had it in the bag and could say anything Whisp Mar 2014 #35

Never saw a war he didn't want treestar Mar 2014 #14

Instead we got this guy.. Cha Mar 2014 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author brooklynboy49 Mar 2014 #28

thank God mitt romney isn't president either undeterred Mar 2014 #16

$arah palin would have run his White House just like cheney ran the, yortsed snacilbuper Mar 2014 #17

We'd still be at war in Georgia. moondust Mar 2014 #18

Happy St Patrick's Day from the White House, spanone~ Cha Mar 2014 #22

And then some malaise Mar 2014 #25

Thank Democratic voters, not gawd. nt tridim Mar 2014 #27

+1 dembotoz Mar 2014 #29

And they need to GOTV this year, so we have more to thank them for! riqster Mar 2014 #30

Amen. We have already had one president who had alzhiemers and his cabinet/vp started us on the jwirr Mar 2014 #33

war! war! war! napkinz Mar 2014 #34