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McCain camp seizes on Obama slip-up
CNN ^ | August 23, 2008 | Alexander Mooney

Posted on 08/23/2008 2:25:54 PM PDT by ricks_place

(CNN) – Barack Obama accidentally introduced his running mate Joe Biden as the next president of the United States Saturday, a slip-of-the-tongue the McCain campaign is calling "Freudian."

“Barack Obama sounded as though he turned over the top spot on the ticket today to his new mentor, when he introduced Joe Biden as the next president," McCain campaign spokesman Ben Porritt said. "The reality is that nothing has changed since Joe Biden first made his assessment that Barack Obama is not ready to lead. He wasn’t ready then and he isn’t ready now.”

Another McCain aide told CNN Obama "slipped with the truth that his own experience is too underwhelming to be president."

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: biden; gaffe; mccain; obama; obamabinbiden
Obama calls OBiden the next President of the United States of America. - lol
1 posted on 08/23/2008 2:25:55 PM PDT by ricks_place
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To: ricks_place

That’s impossible! Barack Hussein Obama is far too articulate to make any type of a speaking error.

Uh... err, um, uh...


2 posted on 08/23/2008 2:36:13 PM PDT by impeachedrapist (Ssshh! I'm a liberal plant AND a stalker!)
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To: ricks_place

Obummer may be right. If the Democrats win enough of the 51 elections and it is provable after the electors cast their ballots that Obummer is ineligible to be POTUS, Numbskill Joe Biden would become POTUS.


3 posted on 08/23/2008 2:37:06 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: impeachedrapist

It’s not relevant this year, but it annoys me that when an incumbent President is running for reelection, his supporters will introduce him as “the next President of the United States,” although he will retain his same number.

The best alternative I can think of is, “The next President of the United States to succeed himself.”


4 posted on 08/23/2008 2:39:16 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: ricks_place

and the RATS, take another one in the.................................HA ha!!!

5 posted on 08/23/2008 2:40:25 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

How ya’ figure?


6 posted on 08/23/2008 2:41:36 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: ricks_place

Barack in the US
Barack in the US
Barack in the USSR...


7 posted on 08/23/2008 2:42:17 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: ricks_place

What - no teleprompter ? JB - President of the 57 states . LMAO !


8 posted on 08/23/2008 2:42:33 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: ricks_place
Do our leaders understand that Islam is incompatible with the United States Constitution?
Get your 2008 Truth For Muslims Voter Guide!
9 posted on 08/23/2008 2:45:14 PM PDT by JeepInMazar (http://www.truthformuslims.com)
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To: ricks_place

That’s funny.


10 posted on 08/23/2008 2:47:11 PM PDT by xmission (Democrats have killed our Soldiers by rewarding the enemy for brutality)
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To: ricks_place

And this is the party of idiots who say Bush is stupid? “The chickens are coming home to roost!”


11 posted on 08/23/2008 2:47:15 PM PDT by pke
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To: ricks_place

More than just a Freudian slip, this is fact. Does anyone think for a minute that Biden will ever drink a glass of water while B. Hussein is talking?


12 posted on 08/23/2008 2:49:38 PM PDT by jessduntno (Time to move.)
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To: ricks_place

Hmm, if Barry’s citizenship does disqualify him (after the convention) from the race, Joe becomes the Presidential nominee once the convention is over. Biden&Rodham-rodent would be a tough team to defeat in November!


13 posted on 08/23/2008 2:51:41 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: ricks_place

Joe gets the first 50.

Barack gets the remaining 7.


14 posted on 08/23/2008 2:55:54 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." --- Edmund Burke)
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To: ricks_place
Image and video hosting by TinyPic ABSOLUT FREUDIAN
15 posted on 08/23/2008 2:56:15 PM PDT by omega4179 (Stop Hussein Vote McCain!)
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To: ricks_place

Biden is in the running with Kerry and Gore for the most boring politician there is. Biden certainly talks more than the other two. Ever watch him in committee? They guy can not ask a simple question without giving a 20 minute speach.


16 posted on 08/23/2008 2:59:22 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: omega4179

McCain camp should pitch this as equivalent to driving instructions. Obama the teenage driving student with Biden the instructor sitting in the front seat just in case.


17 posted on 08/23/2008 3:00:43 PM PDT by Swanks
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To: ricks_place

I guess he wasn’t reading his speech from a teleprompter. /s


18 posted on 08/23/2008 3:01:33 PM PDT by stockstrader (CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN--a ticket with two arrogant Washington beltway senators/lawyers /s)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

I thought there were 57?


19 posted on 08/23/2008 3:04:32 PM PDT by Operation_Shock_N_Awe (I'd rather be a conservative nut job than a liberal with no nuts and no job)
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To: jessduntno

“More than just a Freudian slip, this is fact. Does anyone think for a minute that Biden will ever drink a glass of water while B. Hussein is talking?”

I noticed that also.......Its the Obama ego. It has to go some to surpass Biden’s but it certainly does!


20 posted on 08/23/2008 3:04:38 PM PDT by seekthetruth
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To: ricks_place
"McCain camp seizes on Obama slip-up"

They had to because they knew the main stream media wouldn't report it.

21 posted on 08/23/2008 3:07:58 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: ricks_place
"Geeze, doe's this guy ever STFU?"



22 posted on 08/23/2008 3:08:51 PM PDT by vietvet67
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To: ricks_place
Say hello to Joe, Barry.

Hello, Mr President!!


23 posted on 08/23/2008 3:10:11 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (A kid at McDonalds has more real-world work experience than Barack Hussein.)
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To: vietvet67

They're clueless, the eyes give it away.

24 posted on 08/23/2008 3:12:42 PM PDT by rdl6989 (What isn't above Obama's pay grade?)
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To: MHGinTN
Biden&Rodham-rodent would be a tough team to defeat in November!

The Biden/Kennedy power machine would NEVER have Hillary as VP.

25 posted on 08/23/2008 3:13:40 PM PDT by ColdWater
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To: Swanks

Now THAT is a top notch tv commercial.


26 posted on 08/23/2008 3:18:11 PM PDT by omega4179 (Stop Hussein Vote McCain!)
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To: ricks_place
Another McCain aide told CNN Obama "slipped with the truth that his own experience is too underwhelming to be president."
Ironically, the best way to dramatize that fact would be for McCain to name a VP candidate who lacked a big-time political resume but who was black - and conservative. Any controversy over such a VP candidate's credentials would be an opportunity to compare Obama's credentials unfavorably to McCain's.

And the patriotism and respect for America which all conservatives project would be an indictment of the Jeremiah Wright influence on Obama. No one should suppose that such a nominee would attract black votes - but it would get both conservative and "guilty white" votes. Big time, IMHO.


27 posted on 08/23/2008 3:18:18 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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To: ricks_place
INTERIOR RESERVED COMPARTMENT IN THE TRAIN

The boys relax, sitting down on one side of the compartment. They are about to settle down and make themselves at home when first RINGO nudges GEORGE who in turn nudges JOHN. Opposite them is sitting the

LITTLE OLD MAN. He is holding himself stiff, erect and very aloof. The three boys look at him enquiringly but with an elaborate sniff he looks away from them and out of the window.

PAUL catches his eye and winks at the LITTLE OLD MAN. He winks back at

PAUL, scowls at the other three then looks firmly out of the window again.

The boys turn on PAUL crowding around him.

JOHN Eh ... pardon me for asking but who's that little old man?

PAUL What little old man?

JOHN (pointing) That little old man.

PAUL Oh, that one. That's me Grandfather.

GEORGE That's not your Grandfather.

PAUL It is, y'know.

GEORGE But your Grandfather lives in your house. I've seen him.

PAUL Oh, that's me other Grandfather, but this one's me Grandfather and all.

JOHN How d'you reckon that one out?

PAUL Well ... everyone's entitled to two, aren't they, and this is me other one.

JOHN (long suffering) Well we know that but what's he doing here?

PAUL Well, me mother thought the trip 'ud do him good.

RINGO How's that?

PAUL Oh ... he's nursing a broken heart. The lads all look intently at the GRANDFATHER.

JOHN Aah ... the poor old thing. He leans across to GRANDFATHER.

JOHN Eh, Mister... are you nursing a broken heart then?

The GRANDFATHER nods soulfully glares at him, in a way that indicates yes.

PAUL (whispering) You see, he was going to get married but she threw him over for a butcher.

GEORGE A butcher?

PAUL Yeah, she was fickle.

JOHN Aye and fond of fresh meat and all.

PAUL (seriously) No ... it was his sweetbreads. She was dead kinky for sweetbreads. Anyroad, me mother thought it'ud give him a change of scenery, like.

JOHN Oh, I see. He inspects GRANDFATHER carefully.

JOHN (to PAUL) Eh, he's a nice old man, isn't he?

PAUL Oh yeah, he's very clean, y'know.

They all agree with PAUL.

JOHN has been examining GRANDFATHER. He now leans forward to him.

JOHN (in an over-friendly voice) Hello, Grandfather!

GRANDFATHER Hello.

JOHN (delightedly) He can talk then?

PAUL (indignantly) Course he can talk. He's a human being, like. Isn't he?

RINGO (grinning) Well ... if he's your Grandfather, who knows?

The lads all laugh.

JOHN And we're looking after him, are we?

GRANDFATHER I'll look after meself.

PAUL Aye, that's what I'm afraid of!

JOHN He's got you worried, then?

PAUL Him, he costs you a fortune in breach of promise cases. He's a villain and a right mixer as well.

GEORGE (disbelieving) Gerron.

PAUL No, straight up.

GRANDFATHER The lad's given you the simple truth. I'm cursed wid irresistible charm, I'm too attractive to be let loose.

At this moment, SHAKE, a tall man who works with the BOYS, pulls open the door of the compartment.

SHAKE You got on all right then?

BOYS Hi, Shake.

SHAKE We're here. Norm'll be along in a mo' with the tickets.

He sees GRANDFATHER.

SHAKE Morning! (whispers)

Who's that little old man?

GEORGE It's Paul's grandfather.

SHAKE Oh aye, but I thought ...

JOHN (cutting in) No, that's his other one.

SHAKE That's all right then.

JOHN (displaying Grandfather) Clean though, isn't he?

SHAKE Oh yes, he's clean all right.

NORM the road manager appears behind SHAKE.

NORM Morning, lads. BOYS

Morning ... Hi, Norm. NORM

(checking them quickly) Well, thank God you're all got here. Now, listen, I've had this marvellous idea ... now just for a change, let's all behave like ordinary responsible citizens. Let's not cause any trouble, pull any strokes or do anything I'm going to be sorry for, especially tomorrow at the television theatre, because ...

He looks sharply at JOHN who is polishing his nails.

NORM Are you listening to me, Lennon?

JOHN (off-hand) You're a swine, isn't he George?

GEORGE (disinterested) Yeah ... a swine.

NORM (just as indifferent) Thanks...

He sees the GRANDFATHER.

NORM Eh ... . BOYS IN CHORUS

... Who's that little old man?

NORM Well, who is he?

RINGO He belongs to Paul.

NORM (accepting the situation) Ah well, there you go. Look, I'm going down the diner for a cup of coffee, are you coming?

PAUL We'll follow you down.

GRANDFATHER rises.

GRANDFATHER I want me coffee.

NORM He can come with Shake and me if you like.

PAUL Well, look after him. I don't want to find you've lost him.

NORM Don't be cheeky, I'll bind him to me with promises. Come on, Grandad.

GRANDFATHER joins SHAKE and NORM. NORM

(over Grandfather's head) He's very clean, isn't he?

.

28 posted on 08/23/2008 3:24:56 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Now is the time for Fred Thompson to be the GOP veep, to stop Biden cold in the veep debates, exposing that the Dems not only chose a vacuous Marxist for their pres candidate, they added to that foolishness with birdbrain Biden. Fred Knows Joe ... there’s nothing like Thompson’s Senate experience to cold cock a gasbag plagarist obstructionist like Biden.


29 posted on 08/23/2008 3:25:08 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: ricks_place

Obama Bi(nla)den.


30 posted on 08/23/2008 3:31:02 PM PDT by dancusa (For liberals there is no end to their rights and no beginning to their responsibilities.)
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To: Chode

Ha ha ha ha h ah ah ah hha h...I think i peed myself from the visual aids you used. Ha ha ha ha h ah ah ah hha h


31 posted on 08/23/2008 3:35:57 PM PDT by killermedic (Git some, baby)
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To: ricks_place

No slip-up there... To the presumptuous snObama, the Presidency is a fait accompli, so he was just complimenting Biden on being his probable successor.

32 posted on 08/23/2008 3:37:55 PM PDT by mikrofon (JObama bin Biden)
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To: MHGinTN

I don’t understand the fear of Hillary Rodham on the forum. There would be people coming out by the millions just to vote against her. Hell, Her own party turned her down. As for as Biden goes he is a legend in his own mind.


33 posted on 08/23/2008 3:43:12 PM PDT by kempo
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

“Obummer may be right. If the Democrats win enough of the 51 elections and it is provable after the electors cast their ballots that Obummer is ineligible to be POTUS, Numbskill Joe Biden would become POTUS.”

That was exactly my first thought when he said it.


34 posted on 08/23/2008 3:52:24 PM PDT by JavaJumpy (We should be embarrassed by a presidential candidate who's embarrassed by us - Mike Church)
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To: ricks_place

Obama already considers himself president, so as his VP, Biden would succeed him in 2017 (or maybe 2019 since Obama believes he will be in office for 10 years). Therefore, Biden WOULD be the next president.


35 posted on 08/23/2008 4:11:51 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains...)
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To: JeepInMazar

I’d be interested if I didn’t have to sign up and provide my email address.


36 posted on 08/23/2008 4:12:46 PM PDT by Eaker (I'm voting for McCain because he is white.)
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To: AdmSmith; george76; LucyT

hey, it’s true that he’ll be the next presidential candidate — after Obama drops out due to being Constitutionally ineligible...

Obama Introduces Joe Biden as the Next “President”
of the United States - Video 8/23/08
Blogs for John McCain | August 23, 2008 | brianinmo
Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 05:04:06 PM by blogsforthompson.com
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2066845/posts


37 posted on 08/23/2008 4:32:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: MHGinTN; All

You mean the same Fred Thompson who took along time to run for President??? Right.. If McCain asks Fred he might get a response the day before the election.


38 posted on 08/23/2008 4:36:44 PM PDT by KevinDavis (If Obama can't handle a town hall debate, then he can't handle the job of being President.)
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To: mikrofon

Yeah, that’s what I thought too. I really didn’t think it was a slip-up at all, although I can see how people could think that.


39 posted on 08/23/2008 4:39:42 PM PDT by winstonwolf33 ("Two nostrils. Two ears. Two eyes. We clear who's in charge here?"--The Unit)
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To: scrabblehack
They always say that. It's just one of those things you have to suffer with.

While I understand a number of reasons he would, I still can't believe he picked Biden. It's ridiculous in the extreme.

40 posted on 08/23/2008 4:47:49 PM PDT by newzjunkey (YES on CA PROP 4. (Family notification for underage abortions))
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To: killermedic
thx... no matter how many times i see it, it still makes me laugh.
41 posted on 08/23/2008 5:25:59 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: Elle Bee
> "He's very clean, isn't he?"

Thanks so much for posting that clip -- been a long time since I thought about that movie -- great one!!

(I admit, I've always been a Beatles fan...)

42 posted on 08/23/2008 5:50:25 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Eaker
We will probably update the form so that you can download the voter guide without giving your email address. We will do this early next week.

Our organization is trying to balance our interest in increasing our network of people who receive our communication with our desire to distribute the guide as widely as possible.

Do our leaders understand that Islam is incompatible with the United States Constitution?
Get your 2008 Truth For Muslims Voter Guide!

43 posted on 08/23/2008 6:25:47 PM PDT by JeepInMazar (http://www.truthformuslims.com)
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To: ricks_place

‘Boma is going all senile on us


44 posted on 08/23/2008 7:59:25 PM PDT by dennisw (That Muhammad was a charlatan. Islam is a hoax, an imperialistic ideology, disguised as religion.)
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To: Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; Seadog Bytes; ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2066851/posts?page=37#37


45 posted on 08/23/2008 9:52:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv

We need a video that plays Obama’s slip-up next to the one where Biden introduces him as “Barack America.”


46 posted on 08/24/2008 4:58:14 AM PDT by Berosus (I already have a Messiah, I'm looking for a new president.)
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To: ricks_place

Snowedbami introduces Biden as the next president of the United States:
http://www.blogsforjohnmccain.com/obama-introduces-joe-biden-next-president-united-states-video-82308

More Great Utube stuff re the reality of the two losers.

During the Debate Forum, Senator Joe Biden says that he knows that Senator Barack Obama took an AIDS test.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzWYCxjdnY

Beyond the speeches, how much do you really know about Snowbami?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89m0pC_bpY

He Is The One - Barack Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbgTnPm_4dY&feature=iv

Just three hours after the Obama campaign sent out its text announcement, the McCain campaign rolled out its first ad this morning, using Senator Joe Biden’s own words during the primary season about Senator Barack Obama.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/mccain-rolls-out-new-ad-with-bidens-words/

Obama Picks Joe Biden for VP in secret meeting in a DC bar!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIXSqpFNf50

Joe Biden: The Next President is “Barack AMERICA!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKTjlAd-GXM


47 posted on 08/24/2008 8:18:45 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Snowbami, the Oreo Bozo, wants special-ed treatment as an untouchable affirmative action candidate)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Something called the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. Perhaps you should read it.


48 posted on 08/26/2008 6:50:55 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Huh? What? Sorry, ess-aye.
After 3 days my mind was off on something else...
The 25th amendment addresses the succession to the “Presidency”.
Question: When does the “president elect” become “the president”?
Question: When does the “vice president elect” become “the vice president”?
(play: tune to final jeopardy)


49 posted on 08/26/2008 7:15:26 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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