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Monday, August 23, 2010 at 11:33 am
CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (AP) — Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are helping to honor the 65 servicemen from Maine who have died overseas since 2001.
The former first couple made a surprise appearance Sunday at a lobster bake following an annual run in honor of the fallen.
About 150 people participated in the 40-mile "Run for the Fallen" from Ogunquit to Portland, each running different distances.
Organizers said more than 400 people gathered afterward at a lobster bake at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth.
There, the Bushes paid an unannounced visit and gave thanks to and posed for photographs with families whose loved ones have died overseas.
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If there was any justice Shrub would end up...
being tried along with Darth Cheney for "war crimes". It is too bad one of the relatives did not spit in his face it is after all what he deserves and would have been a great moment in history. Of course we know the Shrubs did not invite "any" that would not agree with them, oh like Pat Tillmans family, that would have been fun to watch. "Chickenhawk Down" should be the title of Shrubs next failing. Good bye and good riddance to that POS.
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Would you like to respond? Login or create a new account. You'll need to verify your account before you can respond.President Obama is Doing an Exceptional Job, Unlike Bush
Republican denial is pathetic. These are people who don't seem to grasp that President Obama is fixing problems that Republicans created. Perhaps Republicans prefer a health care system that features the highest rates in the industrialized world, lowest access, and greatest personal bankruptcies thanks to Republicans protecting insurance companies. If you wingnuts try to argue that we have the "best" health care system in the world, you're saying you know more than the World Health Organization? Apparently on any of topic one choses, Republicans prefer fantasy to reality. Well, given that the last Republican President nearly created a second Great Depression and started two wars, neither of which he could finish, I guess it figures that they can't stand reality. One thing is for sure, anyone who argues that President Obama is "ruining" America is either so far down the Republican rabbit hole that they'll never find their way back to reality from Wonderland, or they are too clueless to get beyond the top of their nose to see what actually happened while Bush was in office. Did you know it was so bad that the CEO of Enron was the person who vetted potential Energy Secretaries? And we wonder why there was no viable spill plan by BP prior to the Gulf disaster. What's wrong with America? Two words: ignorant Republicans.
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Would you like to respond? Login or create a new account. You'll need to verify your account before you can respond.Where does this stuff come from?
Voisine, all your post are talking points from left wing websites. None of your post show any original thinking.
You claim President Obama is doing an "Exceptional Job". Well, let us take a look at how the economy is going since he has taken office. Unemployment is closing in on 10%. It wasn't suppose to go above 8% if the Stimulus package was past. Deficit spending has tripled in less than two years. Wow, and this is what you consider an "Exceptional Job".
Next year, taxes are going up, when this occurs we will see a decrease in revenue to the treasury which will increase the deficit more. If people and business have less money to spend because they are giving it to the government, unemployment will continue to rise.
Also, didn't the Obama Administration give BP and the Deep Water Horizon rig an award.
Sorry, Voisine, "ignorant Republicans" are not the problem. It is those who are uninformed from both parties.
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While George Bush may not have been a great president, he was certainly better than that thing that is in office now. He spends all his time flying around either on vacation or campaigning for someone or something. He can't be gone soon enough for this country.
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I never liked George Bush as President, and Im of his party! George Bush the citizen on the other hand showed lots of class with his wife in what he did here in Maine and its not the first time either !!! Honoring fallen soldiers by him or any other past president is a great thing lets see in two years if President Obama will do the same????
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Would you like to respond? Login or create a new account. You'll need to verify your account before you can respond.This is a Republican Party Ploy Ahead of Midterm Elections
This is all by design on the part of the RepubliCON party. They realize they can't run from Bush's record, so they're trying to rehabilitate him and actualliy revise reality. It's their specialty. There are prominent Republicans appearing on talk shows saying that Bush's economy was fundamentally good, then attempting to blame this economy on President Obama. Had McCain managed to get his hands on power, we'd likely be in a full blown depression now.
As for Bush ...
Whenever Republicans have "power" the USA repeatedly asserts its "right" to intervene militarily against “failed states”, yet ironically the USA itself is well on its way to becoming a failed state thanks to what Republicans have done, beginning with Reagan undercutting the middle class and industrial sector. There are several books that detail many war crimes of the USA in Iraq, and these books explain that by law this means those who ordered them could receive the death penalty. There has been hypocrisy of the US government whenever Republicans are in power.
Every time a Republican administration claims to be fighting to create democracy, they are actually installing brutal dictators. Bush’s friend in Uzbekistan is such a nice guy that, according to a British diplomat, he boils people to death. Republicans have peddled a bogus fear of the Soviet union, and fear of terrorists has been used to sell all manner of unbelievably foul deeds to force other countries to the American will, all for economic motives that Republicans seek. However, as we see by the fact that since 2000, we now have 50% of America's wealth concentrated in the hands of just 10% of its population, the economic policies that Republicans promote are actually at odds with serving the economic interests of the majority of Americans.
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That's sick ... George W. Bush doesn't deserve to open his mouth about America's troops. He treated them like cannon fodder. He didn't even visit the bodies returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq even once. This guy lied American troops into a worthless war for oil in Iraq. That's a truth that ignorant Republicans wish to deny. They live in denial anyway, it's why they fail at everything they touch.
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It is disgusting and after the attitudes on here many of the Republicans lack something which Attorney General John Ashcroft had; that is humanity. As Ashcroft has stated on the record is not close friends with President Bush and Bush was great in dividing a Nation. For the lies Bush should be tried as a war criminal under the general tribunal.
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