# filtered_claims

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obama has declared and repeatedly reaffirmed his intention to meet the president of iran without any preconditions


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iran might not be a superpower but the threat the government of iran poses is anything but as obama says


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a gas tax holiday is a gimmick that every economist says will just go into the pockets of the oil companies


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john mccain is one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill to expand education aid for veterans because he thinks it too generous


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mccain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding and then applauded president bush for vetoing that ban


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nato has provided enough troops in afghanistan because they are still angry about us going into iraq


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obama himself voted against funding our nation veterans and troops in the field during a time of war


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mccain sought the political support of minister john hagee who believes hurricane katrina was god punishment for gay rights and called the catholic church antichrist and a cult


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during the monica lewinsky scandal the clintons brought the rev jeremiah wright to the white house for spiritual counseling


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obama supports expansion potentially putting churches at risk if they preach the truth about homosexuality


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as a state senator he obama even refused to support a measure to stop sex businesses from opening near schools or places of worship


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after reagan took office we did raise taxes and we did cut entitlements what we did was we cut taxes


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obama served on a board with former weather underground member william ayers and that relationship with ayers on this board continued after


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if the stops adding to the strategic petroleum reserve it will lessen worldwide demand for oil and reduce prices


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again today ahmadinejad made light of and said that he not even sure it happened and that people actually died


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he promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of social security


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among his obama pet projects is a bill which would commit the to spending percent of gross national product on foreign aid


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hillary clinton one time late at night when she was exhausted misstated and immediately apologized for it what happened to her in bosnia in


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he positions himself as pro environment but he scored a zero yes zero from the league of conservation voters last year


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as first lady clinton would travel to places that were too small too poor or too dangerous for the president


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mccain plan for the economy is to extend george bush tax cuts for billionaires and give a additional corporate tax cut


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obama spent percent of the pac money percent to be exact on iowa new hampshire nevada and south carolina politicians


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obama did accept donations from lobbyists and pacs and he spent money in this campaign from that through his political action committee


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hillary clinton and barack obama want to raise taxes on dividends a move that would crash the stock market


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the board of a nonprofit organization on which obama served as a paid director granted funding to a controversial arab group


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obama voted for tax subsidies and giveways that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources


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i been standing up against the chinese government over women rights and standing up for human rights


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i spent years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the american dream


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when we got ceos making more in minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year then something is wrong


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a mailer from the obama campaign accurately indicates that hillary clinton would force uninsured people to buy insurance even if they ca afford it


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as has been noted by many observers including bill clinton former secretary of labor my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs


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hillary main extracurricular activity in law school was helping the black panthers on trial in connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent


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rnc version of a hillary clinton valentine roses are red violets are blue i raise your taxes and there is nothing you can do


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on issue after issue that really were hard to explain or understand you voted present and anytime anyone raises that there always some kind of explanation


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i have something in common with my husband he never carried caucuses either he lost all of the ones that i lost


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the last six polls including this week time magazine show that i beat john mccain by six or seven points


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one man sacrificed for his country one man opposed a flawed strategy in iraq one man had the courage to call for change one man did play politics with the truth one man stands up to the special interests


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in the illinois legislature barack obama voted instead of yes or no on seven votes involving abortion rights


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in her short time in the united states senate the senator from new york senator clinton got worth of pork barrel projects


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hillary clinton actually differed with john mccain by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions


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hillary clinton agrees with john mccain by voting to give george bush the benefit of the doubt on iran


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hillary clinton agrees with john mccain in embracing the policy of not talking to leaders we do like


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let not blame president bush for all of this we got a congress who sat around on their hands and done nothing but spend a lot of money leaving us in debt that we passing on to our grandchildren


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every billion dollars we spend on highway construction results in jobs but the fact is the average american is sitting in traffic hours a year


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he told gay organizers in massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even ted kennedy


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mitt romney previously believed that abortion should be safe and legal in this country now he is prolife


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now i also support the bush tax cuts mccain voted against them originally he now believes they should be made permanent i glad he agrees they should be made permanent


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but it was hillary clinton in an interview with tom brokaw who quote tribute to ronald reagan economic and foreign policy


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the were a time of prosperity we created more than new jobs moved people out of poverty and turned our economy around


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says he was the only republican candidate at a prior debate who said workers were being hurt by the economy


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when the fair tax becomes law it will be like waving a magic wand releasing us from pain and unfairness


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i was fighting against those republican ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor rezko in his slum landlord business in inner city chicago


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while i was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at


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if you are in this country today you are likely to have a net worth of about percent of what white families have


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the bush administration has the pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital something that i working with a republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again


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barack obama has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding the exelon corporation which has spent millions of dollars trying to make yucca mountain the waste depository


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says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls


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congress just passed another huge spending bill the democrats allowed less than a day to read all pages and stuffed it with nearly earmarks costing about dollars


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so that energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean renewable energy that why i voted against it


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i proud of the fact that i raised more money from small donors than anybody else and that we getting donations and we done very well doing it that way


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i believe senator clinton you raised more money from those people the oil and gas industry than any candidate democrat or republican


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i took on the worst road system in the country according to trucker magazine when i left they said it was the most improved road system in the country


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you got a building in the cayman islands that supposedly houses corporations that either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record


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the mormon religion has a plan that will see the constitution thrown out and replaced by a theocracy


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barack obama wants the government to take over health care spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone


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there are kids in new hampshire who have health care because i helped to create the children health insurance program


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as secretary of the department of energy under former president bill clinton i created reserves of home heating oil


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some of those tax increases were either or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for such things as roads


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mccain says it was not a mistake to vote against the bush tax cuts but now says the tax cuts need to be made permanent


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average families are spending roughly more a year on energy costs it like a energy tax in just the last seven years more than three times what the typical american family received from the bush tax cuts


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the fact of the matter is that my colleague from new york senator clinton there are percent of the american public that say they not going to vote for her


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i just talked about guns i told you what my position was and what i did as governor the fact that i received the endorsement of the nra


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romney refused to pardon a decorated soldier returning from iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a bb gun when he was


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huckabee granted pardons and commutations more clemencies than the previous three governors combined


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as governor mike huckabee supported higher income taxes sales taxes gas taxes grocery taxes tobacco taxes beer taxes internet taxes nursing home bed taxes


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when obama was sworn into office he did not use the holy bible but instead the kuran their equivalency to our bible but very different beliefs


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obama was enrolled in a wahabi school in jakarta wahabism is the radical teaching that is followed by the muslim terrorists who are now waging jihad against the western world


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i prolife i not going to apologize for becoming prolife ronald reagan followed that same course as did henry hyde and george herbert walker bush and i proud to be prolife


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it used to be the policy of the republican party to get rid of the department of education we finally get in charge and a chance to do something so we double the size of the department of education


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following world war ii war crime trials were convened the japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against american pows among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding


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iranian mullahs took american hostages and they held the american hostages for days the one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which ronald reagan was taking the oath of office


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and you know our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day he had a field manual of prayers


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the estate tax which came into being by republicans like teddy roosevelt and others is there for a real simple reason in america we never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth


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george bush used a signing statement on a fema bill to say i do have to follow that unless i choose to


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if we went back to the obesity rates that existed in that would save the medicare system a trillion dollars


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productivity has risen percent yet wages have stayed flat there are more people in poverty here in our country than there were in


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thanks to president bush policies the income gap is now higher than at any time since the great depression


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five percent of americans pay over half the income taxes in this country forty percent of americans pay no income taxes at all


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for every single illegal immigrant family in this country it costs it costs us in infrastructural costs they pay about in taxes


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a ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the usda but a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the food and drug administration


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the oddest thing is he does want to do for america what he did for massachusetts he did mandate health care for massachusetts which is hillarycare and he does want to do that for america


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senator obama relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last years a campaign spokesman said


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huckabee supported a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate


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he was a member of the iraq study group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in iraq


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i spend a lot of time in iowa and believe it or not in ottumwa iowa this is the heartland the newspaper the regular newspaper for ottumwa iowa is a bilingual newspaper


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supported tuition in arkansas for illegal immigrants if you sat in our schools from the time you or years old and you had become an student among other things


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the mayor said you happen to be in this country in an undocumented status then we welcome you here we want you here we protect you here


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fred never had a percent record on in his senate career the records reflect that and he does support the human life amendment which is most amazing because that been a part of the republican platform since


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gov romney own health care plan in massachusetts requires by law that a representative from planned parenthood sit on the masshealth advisory board


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hillary baby bond proposal would give to each of the babies born in the each year totaling per year multiplied by four years


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the truth of the matter is that during my administration the fbi crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in massachusetts by percent


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if hillary clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals taxpayers would be faced with financing more than in new spending over one white house term


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i believe in tax cuts i believe in being a i cut the income tax i think it was percent we got percent more revenues


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people were hopeless sixty percent of the population percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else by the time i left percent wanted to stay


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america never made up for the gutting of the intelligence services that bill clinton did i think those are former cia director george tenet words that bill clinton gutted american intelligence


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right now an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker that has to change


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we spent approximately of that money on pork barrel earmark projects maybe if we had done it right maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges across the country


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she stood by our national guard and reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved


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rural schools enroll percent of american children but receive only percent of federal education funding


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she stood by ground zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives and kept standing till this administration took action


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hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would and kept standing till kids had coverage


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rural schools face the highest dropout rates the lowest college enrollment rates have the lowest average teacher salaries


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the reality is with a health care budget we spending more on health care nearly percent of our gross domestic product versus percent of gdp on the entire military budget


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he sued gun manufacturers he was supportive of brady he was supportive of things like assault weapon bans


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with those first principles it allowed a fellow like me to get in his truck and go from one end of the state to the other started points down and wound up points ahead on election night


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one man opposed a flawed strategy in iraq one man had the courage to call for change one man did play politics with the truth


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if we manufactured of these windmills across the country we could electrify the entire nation the entire nation


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it does make sense to me to send a day out of our country we can be energy independent and should be


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when i was mayor of new york city i encouraged adoptions adoptions went up percent abortions went down percent


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i opposed this war from the beginning i opposed the war in i opposed the war in i opposed it in and and


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there are babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they carrying those children to term


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mayor giuliani made new york city what known as a city where illegal aliens were allowed to come and he instructed the leaders of the city not to enforce the law not to enforce immigration law


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bill richardson is the only major democratic candidate with a plan to withdraw all american troops from iraq all of the other major democratic candidates support leaving american troops in iraq indefinitely


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john kerry was at percent in the polls in december of and he ended up becoming the nominee of the party


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when nafta was passed there was an acceleration of immigration from mexico because people were in search of jobs


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i would love to see us have in this country what i helped lead in arkansas amendment which says that we believe life begins at conception and that we ought to do everything in the world possible to protect it until its natural conclusion


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in countries that allow gay marriage the rates of heterosexual marriage have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern europe where percent of the children are born out of wedlock


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the that was offered in that senate bill let everybody who here illegally other than criminals stay here for the rest of their lives


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the crime decline in the united states would be fairly small if it was for the crime decline in new york city


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the failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct


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clinton said the surge of troops in iraq was now clinton says the surge failed and that we should the immediate withdrawal of troops


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in state after state polls make clear that the american public understands the kelo ruling is a disaster


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we live in a time of historically low violent crime rates and historically high gun ownership rates nationally


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i the first person who really took up the issue of the war four years ago i said that there was no proof that iraq had weapons of mass destruction and actually did an analysis which disproved the cause for the war


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you know we ca just pull out now the truth of the matter is if we started today it would take one year one year to get troops physically out of iraq logistically


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barack obama supported keeping troops in iraq but now he wants a precipitous withdrawal regardless of conditions on the ground or consequences of a defeat for the united states an rnc radio ad


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hillary clinton was against setting a deadline for withdrawal but now she wants a precipitous withdrawal regardless of conditions on the ground or consequences of a defeat for the united states an rnc radio ad


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let pay attention to kids who are not going to college which ends up being about percent of the kids and get them trained for the jobs that are there because you know there are auto mechanic jobs paying that they ca get filled there are airline mechanic jobs paying a lot of money that ca get filled remarks at afscme forum


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roadside bombs are responsible for percent of casualties in iraq and these new vehicles can reduce those casualties by


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barack obama and hillary clinton have changed their positions on the iraq war withdrawal to follow chris dodd


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i tell you what i can tell this country if they want a president who does believe in god there probably plenty of choices


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democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster it looks like they going to raise taxes anywhere between to percent


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if we increase fuel efficiency standards to miles a gallon we would have to import zero oil from the middle east


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both china and japan have surpassed us with japanese cars now getting an average of miles to the gallon


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for every single scientist that tells you global warming is happening and that it our fault i can stack up another group of reports that say just the opposite


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tommy thompson is the father of welfare reform creating the groundbreaking wisconsin works program in wisconsin that became the model for national and international reforms


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tommy thompson created the first school choice program in the nation giving thousands of milwaukee students the choice of where they go to school no matter where they live or how much money their parents make


