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Lord! Just when I think I have seen the WORST GWB can do, I find out more hideous plans. Sounds like he wants to export his “election” system from Florida to the rest of the world so he can manipulate, not just us in the US, but everyone everywhere. He is truly Orwellian. How interesting that HE clings to HIS privacy, destroying service records, refusing to release drunken driving incidents, etc.! Hey George! How about revealing everything about yourself to us? It is only fair. Oops, I forgot, these bastards don’t believe in “fairness.” Perhaps it is, like Jeffeson and Paine thought time for another revolution. I say if GWB screws with the election this year we should shut down the country by taking to the streets until it is overturned and they are up on charges, including their flunkies in the Extreme Court!
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