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Default OT RIP Ted Kennedy

blake murphy wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:47:18 -0400, George wrote:
>
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>> TammyM wrote:
>>>>> How long will you be singing the "Bush did it song"? Since the
>>>>> Kennedy name is in play you do know for example that it was Kennedy's
>>>>> brother who got us into the Vietnam War with a planned no win
>>>>> position where the only outcome was lots of military suppliers made
>>>>> lots of money? Nothing new began or ended with Bush.
>>>> Wasn't it the Eisenhower administration that initially sent "advisers"
>>>> to Vietnam? Maybe I'm misremembering that, it's early and I haven't
>>>> yet had my coffee.
>>> Wasn't it also the Eisenhower administration that helped to end the
>>> civil war in Vietnam by dividing the country in two with the promise of
>>> a plebiscite on reunification, and then backed the South's crooked
>>> regime when they refused to hold the promised election because they knew
>>> that the north would win?

>> Its before my time. According to what I know Eisenhower noodled around
>> and Kennedy got the ball rolling.
>>
>> My point being that the "Bush did it" song is really tiring because we
>> have a history of politicians who operate as directed by their special
>> interest owners.

>
> except bush began the problems *we are having now*. maybe that's why you
> hear the 'bush did it' song.
>
> blake


Really? So when Clinton appointed Obamas right hand man Emanual to
Freddie Mac around the time when they started cooking the books there it
was Bushes fault? If your souffle fell would it be Bushes fault?