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Daschle Considering '08 Presidential Bid
AP via Yahoo ^ | 3/12/06 | JOE KAFKA

Posted on 03/12/2006 11:35:11 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Daschle Considering '08 Presidential Bid

By JOE KAFKA, Associated Press Writer 25 minutes ago

Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, accusing the GOP of spreading a message of fear, says he is considering a 2008 presidential bid.

"I haven't ruled anything out or anything in at this point," Daschle said in an interview Saturday night after a hometown dinner in his honor.

"I'm encouraged by the strong support many people have voiced for my candidacy around the country and in South Dakota. I'll make a decision at some point later on this year," he said.

Daschle said President Bush and Republicans have overemphasized the importance of the war on terror, and he said the U.S. is no safer now than it was before the Iraq invasion.

"This country is not more secure when a president infers that he is above the law and can wiretap and eavesdrop on average citizens," he said. "We're not more secure when we turn ports over to foreign countries."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: 2008; daschle; daschle2008; dasshole; demprimary; hellbedeeplysaddened; helllosesouthdakota; loser; ohpleasedo; tinytom
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To: Sub-Driver

Could we really get this lucky?


21 posted on 03/12/2006 11:44:49 AM PST by 1035rep
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To: hershey
Yes, we can be that fortunate. AlGore, Kerry, Daschle, Hill, Sharpton, Edwards, Biden, Feingold, Dean..who'd I leave out? The line forms on the left.

You can add Hitlery (unless this is covered by 'Hill'), Turbin Durbin and I am sure a few others.

This will be entertaining.

22 posted on 03/12/2006 11:46:28 AM PST by technomage (NEVER underestimate the depths to which liberals will stoop for power.)
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To: Mike Bates

Daschle is DELUSIONAL (DELUSIONAL a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence, especially as a symptom of psychiatric disorder)


23 posted on 03/12/2006 11:46:55 AM PST by sarasotarepublican (Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Daschle is as delusional as the darwinists


24 posted on 03/12/2006 11:46:57 AM PST by caffe (W)
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To: Farmer Dean
Well you know ... he's presently unemployed and needs gainful employment. Nothing pays better than being a politician. He misses the camaraderie of the chicken dinners and the glaring lights of the press. Maybe even a little jealous that others are stealing his thunder. Plus he's not getting any lecture or speech time (Cousin Al's getting it all).

Ahhh, it could be a movie ...
25 posted on 03/12/2006 11:47:21 AM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: NordP

ROTHFALMAO


26 posted on 03/12/2006 11:48:25 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: Wheee The People

Probably. If memory serves me, isn't that's the only state George McGovern won when he ran...?


27 posted on 03/12/2006 11:48:33 AM PST by econjack
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To: Sub-Driver

Tiny Tom? Oh, be still, my beating heart! This only goes to show that I am SO lucky, that I'm going to win the Lotto on Wednesday!


28 posted on 03/12/2006 11:48:34 AM PST by jonascord ("As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!")
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To: Sub-Driver

Tiny Tom? Oh, be still, my beating heart! This only goes to show that I am SO lucky, that I'm going to win the Lotto on Wednesday!


29 posted on 03/12/2006 11:48:36 AM PST by jonascord ("As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!")
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To: Sub-Driver
"I'm encouraged by the strong support many people have voiced for my candidacy

The money is flowing.

30 posted on 03/12/2006 11:49:49 AM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: hershey

I think that the common thread of those people is that they didn't LOSE their respective elections before running.

Daschle did. Even Gore couldn't overcome the loss in 00.
Who would want a proven loser?


31 posted on 03/12/2006 11:53:08 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: hershey

Gephardt is obligatory as well...


32 posted on 03/12/2006 11:56:56 AM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody would have cared if the UAE wanted to buy Macy's...)
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To: Sub-Driver

33 posted on 03/12/2006 11:57:04 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: nuconvert
I don't know if he's up for it but he will certainly come up short!!

"Daschle throught the snow in a one horse open sleigh. O'er the fields we go, laughing all the way....This SoDak is So wacked!

Well thats all my clickees for this day!

34 posted on 03/12/2006 11:57:34 AM PST by Young Werther
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To: Sub-Driver

Daschle/Kucinich '08! Go little Tommy!


35 posted on 03/12/2006 11:58:29 AM PST by Cymbaline (I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stres)
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To: bill1952
My feelings exactly.

Can you imagine the spectacle of HRC, Kerry, Edwards, Gore going at each others throats?

36 posted on 03/12/2006 12:00:16 PM PST by robomurph
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To: Sub-Driver
I need a tissue to wipe the tears away from laughing.

This has to be a joke ... come on ... someone fess up.
37 posted on 03/12/2006 12:00:21 PM PST by MaDeuce (Do it to them, before they do it to you! MaDuce = M2HB machine gun!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh!...That'll be exciting!!!


38 posted on 03/12/2006 12:01:14 PM PST by woofer2425 (Kerry LIED)
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To: operation clinton cleanup
[I'm encouraged by the strong support many people have voiced for my candidacy around the country and in South Dakota.]

They'll go for anything that will get him out of the state.

39 posted on 03/12/2006 12:01:21 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: jazusamo

They never go away,once they've fed at the public trough!!!


40 posted on 03/12/2006 12:01:52 PM PST by Antique Gal (Antique Gal)
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