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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: President's health: don't get too comfortable
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 08:54:31 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.oimq6g@erics.infoserv.com>
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- jhsu@ih-nxt05.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason Hsu) writes:
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- > Even though we no longer worry about Quayle being one heartbeat away from
- > the presidency, we must worry about checkbouncer, perk-taker, and Speaker
- > of the House Tom Foley being two heartbeats away. Clinton eats too much
- > fattening food; if anything happens to both him and Al Gore, Foley will
- > become president.
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- When was the last time a Speaker of the House succeeded to the Presidency?
- I'm really losing sleep over this one.
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- > If the people of Washington state didn't like Foley,
- > why did they vote for him during both the Democratic primary and general
- > election?
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- Who says they didn't like him? Besides, "Washington state" didn't elect
- Foley; only his Congressional district did.
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- > And why do voters want term limits while repeatedly reelecting
- > their own incumbents? It just doesn't make sense.
-
- Sure it does. They don't want to take the responsibility themselves;
- they want somebody else to do the dirty work.
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- Eric Smith
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