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Bush's mystery bulge (BARF ALERT)
Salon ^ | October 8, 2004 | Dave Lindorff

Posted on 10/07/2004 9:40:42 PM PDT by good_fight

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To: good_fight

Ronald Reagan routinely wore a bullet-proof vest, too. Liberals are idiots, there's no other explanation for stuff like this.


21 posted on 10/07/2004 9:50:23 PM PDT by KellyAdmirer
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To: good_fight

Haven't looked at Salon since they started charging.


22 posted on 10/07/2004 9:50:57 PM PDT by RobbyS (JMJ)
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To: good_fight

those new bullet proof vests do show once in a while - he was slumping forward and it shows the to of the back of the vest.


23 posted on 10/07/2004 9:51:26 PM PDT by steplock
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To: bluefish

Can anyone who's said yep to this, verify that they know enough about bullet-proof vests to say with authority that's what it was? I want to be sure before I brave the pinkos at work tomorrow night......


24 posted on 10/07/2004 9:53:18 PM PDT by PianoMan (Don't be polling girlie-men!)
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To: KellyAdmirer

There have been a rash of attacks at Republican offices nation-wide (getting little splash in the press compared to what similar attacks on the Demonrats would bring)so it's not at all surprising that extra precautions are in order.


25 posted on 10/07/2004 9:54:43 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Let US commanders run the war on terror in iraq,)
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To: browardchad

Bullet Proof Vest


26 posted on 10/07/2004 9:54:51 PM PDT by maineman
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To: good_fight

I believe that enyone familiar with television would recognize that as a battery/antenna pack. These support a lapel mike and are used to avoid a lot of wires and other paraphernalia. Nothing mysterious here at all.

I can't believe all these left-wing media fruit baskets don't recognize this.


27 posted on 10/07/2004 9:55:22 PM PDT by John Valentine
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To: PianoMan
That is what it is. The bullet proof vest comments are right in general. What's specifically showing is known as a trauma plate. It is designed to stop stabbing instruments and rifle rounds.


28 posted on 10/07/2004 9:56:19 PM PDT by LiberalBassTurds (Peace is the short interlude between wars.)
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To: good_fight

I'm sure there are a lot more threats against the Pres. than we'll ever know, I'm relieved to see he is wearing a bullet proof vest!


29 posted on 10/07/2004 9:56:32 PM PDT by blondee123 (Proud Member of the FR Pajama Blogger Brigade - New Sheriffs in Town!)
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To: good_fight

If Bush needed to be wired with a receiver, why would it be a 1970's Realistic/RadioShack wear on your back model? There are very simple digital receivers that are no bigger than a hearing aid.

The people that are an audience to this sort of nonsense are the same people that thought Bush should have lept to his feet in Florida and charged out of the classroom upon hearing about the second plane. They have no idea about the security surrounding the President and how things work, nor apparently do they care. He pitched the game in NYC after 9/11 wearing a vest. I doubt he takes it off in public.


30 posted on 10/07/2004 9:56:35 PM PDT by spodefly (Torpidity disinclines me to include a tagline with this post.)
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To: kenth

Remember, John Effin' said that he couldn't bring that gift rifle to the debate ... but who can ever believe him?


31 posted on 10/07/2004 9:56:50 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: RobbyS

Salon's still up? Hmmm. Who knew? Their stock has been flatlined for a while.


32 posted on 10/07/2004 9:57:55 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: John Valentine

The battery packs for the lav mikes are clipped at the beltline in back. I think that's a vest.


33 posted on 10/07/2004 9:58:38 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: LiberalBassTurds

I didn't know about trauma plates - thanks!


34 posted on 10/07/2004 9:59:06 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: good_fight

It is an alien controller, remember the "Puppet Masters".


35 posted on 10/07/2004 9:59:13 PM PDT by razorback-bert
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To: ChuxsterS
You can see it better if you view the negative.

It's pretty clearly the tab of a bullet-proof vest where the ends are velcroed together.

36 posted on 10/07/2004 9:59:33 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: good_fight
That's the latest rumor flooding the Internet, unleashed last week in the wake of an image caught by a television camera during the Miami debate

Seems like Salon gets their information from the loonies over at the Daily Kos

IMO .. if I was to take a guess .. since there were 11 anthrax scares just hours before the debate

I'm thinking he may have been wearing a Vest

37 posted on 10/07/2004 9:59:48 PM PDT by Mo1 (The President's job is not to pass a global test, but to protect the American people.)
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To: bootless
My pleasure bootless. :^)


38 posted on 10/07/2004 9:59:55 PM PDT by LiberalBassTurds (Peace is the short interlude between wars.)
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To: good_fight

Chanelling is exclusively the domain of John Edwards who, in his stint as a trial lawyer, would act as a medium to the spirt world and channelled from his victims to the juries he was attempting to sway.


39 posted on 10/07/2004 10:00:23 PM PDT by Steven W.
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To: PianoMan
Notice location loop/strap on back of vest.


40 posted on 10/07/2004 10:01:42 PM PDT by Salamander (Pirates of the Appalachians)
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