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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (611532)	5/16/2011 4:43:04 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575396

Scott Brown’s Quayle-like goof has Democrats crowing By Joe Battenfeld \| Friday, May 6, 2011 \| bostonherald.com \| Columnists Just when it looked like Scott Brown might be invincible, he pulls a John Kerry. Or even worse, a Dan Quayle. It’s bad enough the Massachusetts senator got caught crowing about seeing an Osama bin Laden death photo — two days after the rest of the country figured out it was fake. The real kicker was his suggestion that he saw it in an intelligence briefing that apparently never took place. All this in a series of TV interviews tailor-made for endless YouTube parodies. Who says Cosmo models aren’t smart? “It tells us something about Scott Brown,” state Democratic party chairman John Walsh told the Herald. “This is the kind of mistake that Ted Kennedy would not make.” This is certainly Brown’s biggest gaffe since entering the Senate, and it comes as several of his potential 2012 rivals are deciding whether or not to risk running against the popular incumbent. It’s the kind of dumb mistake that could prod a more serious contender, such as U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch or even Joe Kennedy, to consider running. Can you imagine if Brown made a similar gaffe during a televised debate? Brown campaign’s response to the Democrats: Change the subject. “With the Sal DiMasi corruption trial going on, I’m surprised that John Walsh has the time to criticize Republicans,” spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said. Good point. But the misstep certainly raises questions about whether the former state senator is really paying serious attention to his job. First of all, how could Brown have thought the bin Laden photo was real? The one circulating around the Internet was proved to be a fake within hours. Shouldn’t one of his aides have told him? And the suggestion he saw the photo in an intelligence briefing sounds more like a line a guy would use to pick up a girl in a bar. Brown did quickly retract the photo claim, but he offered little explanation or excuse, except to say a lot of other people were duped by the photo. True, but U.S. senators are supposed to be a little bit more informed and cautious than the average Web surfer sitting in his basement. And they are not supposed to reveal things they see in intelligence briefings. Did Brown make up the part about the briefing? Did someone e-mail the photo to him and other senators? Or did he, as some suggest, really see a legitimate photo but backtrack because he wasn’t supposed to reveal it? “I can’t imagine what happened,” Walsh said. “Did someone in a responsible position mislead him? These are real questions.” Here’s my advice to Sen. Brown: Be a little more skeptical of what you read on the Internet. If one of your Facebook “friends” sends you an invitation to Farmville, do not assume it’s a great chance to show your support for agriculture. For now, the Brown photo claim is providing fodder for a lot of jokes, but will Democrats really be able to turn it into a serious campaign issue? Probably not. They actually need a good candidate to beat Brown. But at least now they might have a good campaign slogan: “Scott Brown: Dan Quayle in a Barn Coat.”

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (611532)	5/16/2011 4:50:15 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575396

Oh come on, Ted, the biggest difference should be obvious. Consensual affair vs. sexual assault. Also the prominence of the IMF head far outweighs that of any congressional representative who can't even balance one nation's checkbook. But for you, I think I know what the difference is. One is a socialist, the other is an (R). Uh......dude, in my initial post, I never mentioned the guy from the IMF. Its you who brought him up and then tried to make the two analogous.....in that oblique way you have that you think is mysterious and very clever all at the same time. To me, one is French; the other American. One is accused of sexual assualt; the other financial improprieties and bribery. The French one is only significant to the French; the American only to Americans. The American one is getting scant news coverage; the French one a considerable amount. The only similarity between the two is that they are prominent figures. Can you see the differences and the lack of similarities, or are you so committed to your absurd analogy that the differences allude you?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (611532)	5/16/2011 11:19:38 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575396

A poor was on the news tonite. She was whining and complaining about the flood waters in LA. She also was an old and claimed she had lived in the house for 29 years. She started crying when they told her she had to leave. I think you need to fly down to LA and set those people straight. Tell them they should never have moved to LA in the first place and if they were born there, they should have moved away. Since they didn't do either, its too frigging bad about their houses getting ruined by floodwater. You tell them!