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WaPo Reporter Says Bush 'Didn't Pay a High Enough Price' After DUI Revelation
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Posted on 10/09/2012 6:04:48 PM PDT by chessplayer

Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake told CNN on Tuesday that candidate George W. Bush "just didn't pay a high enough price" in the 2000 election for his DUI arrest that occurred more than 20 years prior.

Blake was talking about famous "October surprises," or unforseen events occurring in the month before the election that could be game-changing. The Bush DUI revelation was a hit job planted by a Democratic source that mushroomed into a big story because of the liberal media.


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The same type of jerk who would defend obamas using of cocaine and other drugs in college. The same type of jerk who would say it's racist to talk about obamas drug use. Meanwhile, obamas drug use is STILL a taboo topic in the media.
1 posted on 10/09/2012 6:04:55 PM PDT by chessplayer
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It was the cheapest of smears. Timed perfectly to almost throw the elction to algore.
2 posted on 10/09/2012 6:07:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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Another commie lib with an exploded head.


3 posted on 10/09/2012 6:07:48 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Sorry Algore. It was attitude, NOT altitude.)
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obamas drug use is STILL a taboo topic in the media.

I think anyone that watched the debate is pretty clued in, at this point.

/johnny

4 posted on 10/09/2012 6:08:18 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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I personally think the anti-Bush stuff from Democrats is more likely to backfire. Say what you will about Bush’s policies on the patriot act and other things, but he is definitely one of our more honorable and honest politicians we’ve ever had.


5 posted on 10/09/2012 6:08:22 PM PDT by RaisingCain
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... Meanwhile, obamas drug use is STILL a taboo topic in the media.

That's because obama never stopped ...

6 posted on 10/09/2012 6:10:18 PM PDT by Ken522
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So ..I guess after Big Bird backfires, they dredge up a Bush DUI from the 1980’s ?

That’s a winner for sure / sarc


7 posted on 10/09/2012 6:12:10 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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Bush?

LOL!

Democratic desperation is hilarious!


8 posted on 10/09/2012 6:14:18 PM PDT by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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Just shut up and write accurate copy, Aaron. No one wants to hear your opinion. You’re supposed to report the news, accurately, not insert yourself into the story.


9 posted on 10/09/2012 6:16:17 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Ken522

Neither has the media


10 posted on 10/09/2012 6:16:49 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Hopey changey low emission unicorns and a crap sandwich)
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BDS still alive and well at the WaPo i see... feh
11 posted on 10/09/2012 6:16:57 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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It was the cheapest of smears. Timed perfectly to almost throw the elction to algore.

And it was Fox that broke the story.

12 posted on 10/09/2012 6:19:54 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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13 posted on 10/09/2012 6:20:20 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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A lot of people don’t remember that:

(1) GWB was consistently ahead by about 4-5% in all of the national polls in the weeks leading up to the 2000 election. In the absence of this story, it was not going to be a particularly close election.

(2) The story was originated by a democratic party operative on the Friday before the election, and ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN ran with the democratic talking points all weekend long in a 72 hour negative advertisment against GWB.

(3) The incident was over 20 years old at the time of the election - from the late 1970s.

(4) Despite the way the press still reports it, GWB was never convicted of DUI, DWI or any other alcohol related driving offense. He hit a mailbox, was issued a ticket for reckless driving, and the ‘suggestion’ was that he may have been drinking at the time.

(5) Although driving under the influence was never a good thing, the attitudes towards DUI were MUCH different in the 1970s than they were in the year 2000. The press never put any of this in context.


14 posted on 10/09/2012 6:20:31 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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Has anyone ever done a “Back on the Chain Gang” parody to “Back on the Choom Gang” for Obama? Someone should do that.


15 posted on 10/09/2012 6:20:51 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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Least we forget about this

Rathergate memogate


16 posted on 10/09/2012 6:21:14 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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Jeez Louizze!! Do these people EVER live in the . . . . . I don’t know . . . . PRESENT!!!?????

Bush isn’t running this time and a DUI should not preclude anyone from being POTUS - well, unless we are talking Democrats.

If this is the most important thing on this twit’s brain, he needs another job!! This is ridiculous!!


17 posted on 10/09/2012 6:21:19 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for white collar criminals!!)
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LOL!


18 posted on 10/09/2012 6:22:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Sorry Algore. It was attitude, NOT altitude.)
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Alcohol is still legal. Choomboy committed felonies with weed and coke .


19 posted on 10/09/2012 6:22:15 PM PDT by Renegade
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[ WaPo Reporter Says Bush ‘Didn’t Pay a High Enough Price’ After DUI Revelation ]

On the otherhand Obama has not proven he is NOT AN INDONESIAN CITIZEN..
Which is known proven documented and admitted by Obama..

No records are made available for re-repatriation..
And are probably not possible to produce because he is still and Indonesian citizen..

Therefore a ringer and shill posing as an American qualified to be President.. which IS A FELONY..


20 posted on 10/09/2012 6:23:22 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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