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09-16-2008, 05:17 PM
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Captain #EmbraceTheImpossible
Join Date: May 2005
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McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
It's true.
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Originally Posted by McCain senior aide Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Pressed to provide an example of what McCain had accomplished on that committee, Holtz-Eakin said the senator did not have jurisdiction over financial markets then held up his Blackberry, telling reporters: He did this.
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The best way to make America great is to lower the standards!
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09-16-2008, 05:27 PM
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Captain #EmbraceTheImpossible
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
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Originally Posted by Rocky
McCain senior aide Matt McDonald said that the senator "laughed" when he heard the comment.
"He would not claim to be the inventor of anything, much less the BlackBerry. This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer," McDonald said.
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I agree it's a laughable claim, but the question remains, why did the senator's aide make it?
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09-16-2008, 05:41 PM
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Adequately Crumbulent
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
So will "McCain claimed he invented the Blackberry" be a myth for the ages like the Gore Internet thing?
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09-16-2008, 05:42 PM
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Fishy mokey
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
If there's any justice in life, it will.
So, no.
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09-16-2008, 05:46 PM
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Babby Police
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
RIM is a Canadian company, by the way.
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09-17-2008, 01:46 AM
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NeoTillichian Hierophant & Partisan Hack
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
The Blackberry was a RIMjob? Who knew?
Maybe they should have called it the Dingleberry.
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09-17-2008, 02:44 AM
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Member
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Re: It's not the only one
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Originally Posted by D. Scarlatti
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That's what she said!
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09-17-2008, 03:41 AM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
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09-17-2008, 06:47 AM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
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Originally Posted by Angakuk
The Blackberry was a RIMjob? Who knew?
Maybe they should have called it the Dingleberry.
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I guess we know who doesn't clean before he rims!
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09-17-2008, 06:50 AM
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California Sober
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
Gross.
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09-17-2008, 02:23 PM
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Captain #EmbraceTheImpossible
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
From politics to dirty rimjobs... and we come full circle yet again.
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09-17-2008, 02:59 PM
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
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Originally Posted by Zehava
From politics to dirty rimjobs... and we come full circle yet again.
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You imply progression where I only see a static subject.
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09-17-2008, 04:26 PM
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
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09-17-2008, 04:54 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
Hope, stupid.
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09-17-2008, 05:44 PM
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Fishy mokey
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
Good grief, you are a really, really boring and amazingly stupid troll.
We need a new smilie,  is too much for this lame-ass stuff.
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09-17-2008, 06:22 PM
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Spiffiest wanger
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
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Originally Posted by Rocky
oh, and uppitiness
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So, on top of being a vile ignoramus who can't even write more than one or two sentences in his own words, you have now outed yourself as a racist.
Priceless, you little prick.
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09-17-2008, 07:53 PM
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Yo Adrian!
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
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Originally Posted by davidm
Priceless, you little prick.
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You're such a free-thinker
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09-17-2008, 08:38 PM
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Spiffiest wanger
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Re: McCain: "Helped create" Blackberry (RIM)
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Originally Posted by Rocky
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Originally Posted by davidm
Priceless, you little prick.
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You're such a free-thinker |
You probably believe in the Curse of Ham, don't you, Rocky?
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