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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Thank You for Smoking!
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 10:57 AM
I didn't watch the Dem debate last night.  But, as Marc Ambinder reports, every candidate except Hillary and Obama said they would favor a national ban on smoking ...

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Pasadena Phil writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 10:58 PM
Paddy
So who's brat is that? Isn't school in session? Shouldn't he be doing homework?
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Tazzmax writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 7:57 PM
Oval office?

Paddy and Phil, that's "Oral orifice"! Ha.
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paddy o'furniture writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 3:31 PM
Phil
OK, sounds good. Now just narrow up that stance a touch and I think we're all set.
Remember, our deal still stands: I get one nuke a year for my personal use....
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Pasadena Phil writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 3:22 PM
paddy
I'm more of a Tijuana Smalls kind of guy. They smell nice and make you look like Clint Eastwood. Can't get more presidential than that!
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paddy o'furniture writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 3:11 PM
Phil
Just remember....after you get elected, no White Owls in the Oval Office....!
You have to appear presidential....
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Pasadena Phil writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 3:03 PM
paddy
I just may take up smoking.
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paddy o'furniture writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 2:15 PM
Phil....
....in that case, they are just doing the smoking Americans won't do....
Apparently, that makes it acceptable....
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Pasadena Phil writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 2:11 PM
So....
What happens if an illegal alien gets caught smoking? Is this yet another law that is only enforceable among law-abiding citizens? Like guns?
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Keith writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 1:03 PM
Robert Heinlein
Once noted that at the beginning of each Congress, they try to repeal all natural laws... Just thought I'd mention that.
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paddy o'furniture writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 12:46 PM
They would have a better chance....
...of passing a national ban on common sense.
At least they could point to themselves as examples, and they've already got a pretty good head start....
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Keith writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 12:39 PM
Makes me
Smokin' mad. BTW they can't do that. It's unconstitutional. And if they actually manage to get an amendment passed, and enacted (good luck with that) just remember the 19th amendment. The tobacco growers in the south and all the import countries will love you.
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Dread writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 11:30 AM
No...
Both parties have quite a few nanny staters in them. They just tend to care about different things.

See Parents Television Council.
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RASHUM writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 11:29 AM
haha
So let me get this straight, liberals want to legalize hard core drugs and ban smoking?

Won't the trial lawyers object? A smoking ban would cut off a large revenue stream for them.
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Jeff_McAwesome writes: Thursday, September, 27, 2007 11:05 AM
And they say the Republicans want to...
...take away our rights?
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