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So that's "no one here thinks that it's completely acceptable to refer to a female intern as a 'slutbag' if she has the temerity to embarrass a politician in the Democratic party, and no one here thinks it's acceptable for said politicians to exchange sexually explicit messages with high schoolers", then?
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes - Desiderius Erasmus "Does [A'isha] want to end up in a gas chamber, I wonder? Because this is where the whole thing will end" - McHrozni |
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It should be more of a reality/game show format, sort of based on the Find Waldo books. Every week he'll travel to a new place, where he'll take a picture of his junk near a famous place or landmark. Then, from looking at the pictures, the contestants will have to try and guess where he is for cash and glamorous prizes.
You could call it, "Where will Weiner pop up next?" |
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Here ya go: http://www.kickstarter.com/ Get to work. I'm sure he'll be available for work on this after the election. |
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Pre-internet guys like Weiner would be exposing themselves in parks and such.
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Forget about the "sending pics of his junk" thing...the right wing's leading lights are hot on the trail of the real danger Anthony Weiner presents to America.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conten...adist-activity
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Evading my question, I see....
I defended Weiner on the first page, because I thought it was awful for his own party to throw him under the bus. All he did was send racy tweets and lie to reporters. It's not like he put a cigar in an intern's vagina, ejaculated on her dress, lied under oath, and bombed a factory in Sudan to distract the public's attention away from his scandals. The Democrats for sure wouldn't have anything to do with a politician like that. |
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes - Desiderius Erasmus "Does [A'isha] want to end up in a gas chamber, I wonder? Because this is where the whole thing will end" - McHrozni |
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Filthy Filner is in San Diego, not San Francisco. And he's only being "taken to task" because the scandal is public and undeniable. But the party covered for him for decades. As long as they could keep it from becoming public, he had their protection, not their censure.
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes - Desiderius Erasmus "Does [A'isha] want to end up in a gas chamber, I wonder? Because this is where the whole thing will end" - McHrozni |
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The events that I mentioned didn't happen on January 20, 2001. Clinton got to keep his job because his party rallied around him. I'm fine with that actually, but I was just pointing out that the same people who so loudly defended Clinton couldn't throw Weiner under the bus fast enough.
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Sorry, there are enough differences between the Clinton Situation and the Weiner one. One thing is that Weiner was already forced out of office for this behavior, he continued to engage in it, while seeking another office. He knew that it would not be tolerated, and continued to do so. This shows such a monumental lack of judgement, that nothing Clinton ever did even comes close. Although the absolute deal breaker on Weiner for me is the revelation about spending $45k of campaign funds to hire an investigator to find a hacker that he knew did not exist.
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Ummm... are you confused about the difference between holding office and getting elected to office? Or do you just have your dates completely mixed up? Because Clinton most definitely held the office of President after the Lewinsky scandal spilled onto
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No, I'm making the point that he had already been re-elected President before the Lewinsky scandal. But once that already-existing term expired, Clinton, unlike (for example) David Vitter and Mark Sanford, never stood for any other elective office (much less won re-election post-scandal), was never supported as a candidate for anything by the Democrats, and was never even appointed to a government post.
In short, once he was out of office, Democrats did not want him back in, nor let him back in. |
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John Quincy Adams served in the House of Representatives after his term as president, and William Howard Taft was appointed to the Supreme Court as Chief Justice. But as I'm sure you know, it's extremely rare for ex-presidents to seek office and I don't know of other examples.
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BREAKING NEWS: Anthony Weiner has received the official endorsement of NY gubernatorial candidate Jimmy "The Rent Is Too Damn High" McMillan, doubling Weiner's base to two voters.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/0...ner-95048.html |
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Then you should have used different words to describe what you meant. Because ravdin's answer was the correct answer to the question you actually asked.
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Perhaps, but considering that his reputation was such that there were concerns that it could actually be damaging to his wife's political aspirations and various candidacies (with some saying it actually was damaging), I find it doubtful.
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Hee!
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The victims. If they're mostly liberals, it's because Filthy Filner was mostly around liberals and so that's naturally who he victimized. But they came forward because they were victims, and that's not political.
But the political affiliation of the people who covered up for Filner, even threatening others who complained about his behavior to stay silent, well, that WAS political, and it wasn't done by conservatives. |
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I never could understand why Anthony Weiner pronounces his name [wee-nur], while Jeff Weiner CEO of LInkedin pronounces his [why-nur]. I know a family whose name is Fuchs, and they certainly know better than to change it from the perfectly acceptable [fyuks] to anything else.
In German, [ei] pronounced like [eye] as in "fraulein", and [ie] is pronounced like [fee], as in "wiener" (hot dog) in English. I'm not alone in wondering if Anthony is conducting some sort of exhibitionist art project.
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Weiner's weiner
What's the big deal about his back? I thought it was his front that was at issue. Which, if it's anything like his nose, must be an enormous blower. Or, as the case might be, blowee.
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