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Fred Thompson: 'Enjoy a good laugh'
Chicago Tribune online ^ | 2 MAY 2007 | Mark Silva

Posted on 05/02/2007 6:05:32 AM PDT by radar101

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To: Petronski

Please.


81 posted on 05/02/2007 4:38:17 PM PDT by RedRover (Defend Our Marines)
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To: RedRover

I’m going to continue to point this out as long as (a) I am here and (b) it continues.


82 posted on 05/02/2007 4:39:53 PM PDT by Petronski (Fred.)
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To: Petronski

Then yours will, I’m sure, be a life well lived.


83 posted on 05/02/2007 4:47:56 PM PDT by RedRover (Defend Our Marines)
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To: RedRover

Please stop.


84 posted on 05/02/2007 4:51:20 PM PDT by Petronski (Fred.)
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To: Aria
I wish he would get an eye job or something....we don’t expect people to look their age anymore.

Then he would be fake. It's not in him to do that sort of thing, from what I have observed.

85 posted on 05/02/2007 5:42:33 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)
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To: radar101

Watching him was a relief. It just sounds like he should be president.


86 posted on 05/02/2007 5:50:31 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Fred Thompson)
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To: AFreeBird
Fred made it clear that he thinks there's "something special going on" and there is a time for the man and a man for the time, and those two points have converged for him.

Really? When and where did he do that?

87 posted on 05/02/2007 6:18:24 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: prairiebreeze
He is known for not having an entourage, so no personal makeup people and Lord knows he doesn’t need a hair dresser! Fred is who he is and won’t put on a “dog and pony” show to impress the types that like that. I believe that that is exactly the “breath of fresh air” we need. (could I get any more cliche’s into this space?...nope)
88 posted on 05/02/2007 6:25:21 PM PDT by Uriah_lost ("build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must." -Fred D Thompson)
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To: RobbyS

We are all his campaign staff and you need to check out all the truly “grassroots” sites that have sprung up for him. Lots of great resouces to be found at all of them.


89 posted on 05/02/2007 6:30:42 PM PDT by Uriah_lost ("build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must." -Fred D Thompson)
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To: Uriah_lost

Something similar happened for Perot, except then there was no internet.


90 posted on 05/02/2007 7:10:03 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Petronski
Posters on WA? LOL

What does "WA" stand for?

91 posted on 05/02/2007 7:13:51 PM PDT by Doofer (Run Fred Run........)
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To: Hostage

Hannity, not O’Reilly - sorry about that, but he definitely said, sort of under his breath, that his health was more important than any campaign “including this one”. You hear it yourself at http://www.foxnews.com/hannityandcolmes/index.html at approx 43 seconds remaining in the interview, immediately following the statement that his family was the most important thing. Have a listen to the truth and get back to me with an intelligent comment instead of sarcasm.


92 posted on 05/02/2007 7:31:24 PM PDT by Northern Alliance
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To: Northern Alliance

He said his health was a non-factor in his decision to run because his doctors have assured him it is not a factor.

He said his family and his health are more important than anything including this campaign.

Of course one puts family and health before all else. But he has good health and a supportive family so they are not preventing him from running.

Your argument is vaccuous. Your point is lost. Hear what you want to hear. The only thing that matters is that Fred Thompson will win a majority, not a plurality but a majority of voters. Those voters will hear Fred and not a voice in their head that says what they want to hear.


93 posted on 05/02/2007 7:52:27 PM PDT by Hostage (Fred Thompson will be President.)
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To: Northern Alliance

Of course he said his family and his health were more important than a campaign.

Among Republicans(if you can call him that), only a sawed off, cross-dressing, lisping, adulterous, ego maniac, girly man like JulieAnnie would think anything different. Real men(i.e. Presidents) don’t dress in drag.

Run, Fred, run!!!


94 posted on 05/02/2007 7:52:59 PM PDT by Neville72 (uist)
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To: mac_truck; Politicalmom; jellybean
>>>Fred made it clear that he thinks there's "something special going on" and there is a time for the man and a man for the time, and those two points have converged for him. Really? When and where did he do that?

Hannity & Colmes interview last night. Where were you? Mom, and jellybean probably have a link to a replay.

95 posted on 05/02/2007 8:08:51 PM PDT by AFreeBird (Will NOT vote for Rudy. <--- notice the period)
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To: Hostage
Of course one puts family and health before all else.

Do the military in the field in Iraq and Afganistan put health beyond all else? Did Tillman put health and family before all else? Should the Commander in Chief put health and family before all else? Hey, read Gates of Fire or go see 300.

Hear what you want to hear.

I watched the interview and the tape I referred to at foxnews.com. How about you? Get back to reality, man.

96 posted on 05/02/2007 9:01:47 PM PDT by Northern Alliance
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To: Northern Alliance

You are just wrong. He absolutely was saying that if he thought his health or family would be threatened he wouldn’t run, but that THAT ISN’T the case.


97 posted on 05/02/2007 9:30:02 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Conservatives want freedom. Republicans want power.)
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To: AFreeBird
Hannity & Colmes interview last night.

Oh, I thought maybe he stood up on his hind legs and made a speech or an announcement or something.

Where were you?

Where I usually am...not in front of a television. Got a problem with that?

98 posted on 05/02/2007 9:52:42 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: pillut48

(sung to the tune of “For What It’s Worth”
as performed by the Buffalo Springfield)

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man dissin’ Fred over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it’s time we stop, Fredheads, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

There’s battle lines being drawn
Thompson’s right, and the leftists are wrong
Fred is out there speaking his mind
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

What a field-day for the bots
All they do is diss Fred a lot
Sayin’ he’s lazy, and then this and then that
Close your eyes and you’ll hear a Democrat
It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

Fredophobia strikes deep
Into your thread it will creep
It starts when the bots are afraid
that Fred will run and blow Rudy McRomney away

We better stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, now, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, Fredheads, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down


99 posted on 05/02/2007 9:57:22 PM PDT by Josh Painter ("The court basically said the Constitution means what it says and I agree with that" - Fred Thompson)
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To: Northern Alliance

Why are you comparing CINC functions to a soldier or marine that is busting into terrorist safe house? The CINC should never be in the line of fire.

Perhaps you think the CINC should act like an enraged suicide bomber?

Health is most important and depending on the cohesiveness of one’s family, health can only be second to family.

Yes, the CINC should put health and family before all else. An unhealthy CINC can be a liability. A CINC that neglects his family should not be CINC.

For example, if President Fred Thompson needs say a surgery, then he would be right to postpone important matters of state until he recovers from surgery and can function at his best.

For example, if President Fred Thompson’s wife or children had a medical emergency, then he would be right to postpone important duties until the emergency was past.

I watched the original presentation and heard the internet stream. He said his family and his own health were most important. Where do you get the idea that this is not reality? And where do you get the idea that what he said is somehow not appropriate?

The answer is you think if he is to be President he should sacrifice his family and health, for what?

You got a problem with FDT, then take up another candidate. You’re in the minority here

AND NOBODY HERE CARES A TWIT ABOUT YOUR RAMBLINGS!


100 posted on 05/02/2007 11:03:14 PM PDT by Hostage (Fred Thompson will be President.)
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