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Wasn't one of Bill Clinton's crowning achievements known as Welfare Reform?

TAFKASE — 1/28/2008 3:17:40 PM (archived)

And that achievement caused many minority welfare queens to lose their welfare checks.

Now they have to work.

Evil Bill Clinton.

Welfare recipiants have a long memory.

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The whole thread (55 posts)

S. C. - Barack 55%, Clinton 27%, Edwards 18%, 98% reporting. - Bowser - 1/27/2008 2:50:41 AM
- re: S. C. - Barack 55%, Clinton 27%, Edwards 18%, 98% reporting. - TAFKASE - 1/28/2008 2:34:54 PM
  - Clinton and McCain........ - Lindy - 1/28/2008 6:04:53 PM
- Ted, Caroline Kennedy endorse Obama. Robert's kin, Clinton. - Bowser - 1/28/2008 12:52:03 AM
  - Ted? Ouch. (n/t) - TB - 1/28/2008 1:59:32 AM
- CNN exit polls - TB - 1/27/2008 7:59:58 AM
  - White vote - azstrummer - 1/27/2008 4:09:30 PM
    - At this point... - TB - 1/28/2008 12:18:11 AM
- Great speech - Robert - 1/27/2008 5:45:03 AM
  - re: Great speech - TB - 1/27/2008 7:44:24 AM
    - Arkansas- The Clinton's and Huckabee - REB - 1/28/2008 2:36:32 PM
      - This is getting funnier all the time! - Buck Galaxy - 1/29/2008 9:16:02 AM
    - What a low life post - Buck Galaxy - 1/27/2008 9:41:17 AM
      - Hell just froze over - azstrummer - 1/27/2008 4:19:05 PM
        
        History lesson - Buck Galaxy - 1/27/2008 8:05:17 PM
        
        Wasn't one of Bill Clinton's crowning achievements known as Welfare Reform? - TAFKASE - 1/28/2008 3:17:40 PM
        
        Only Nixon could go to China - Buck Galaxy - 1/29/2008 9:28:39 AM
        
        maybe so. - TAFKASE - 1/29/2008 3:28:21 PM
        
        Nice, but what's that got to do with anything? - TB - 1/28/2008 12:31:36 AM
        
        It had to do with azstrummer's comments - Buck Galaxy - 1/28/2008 12:49:58 AM
        
        Got it. I should have caught that. (n/t) - TB - 1/28/2008 1:09:53 AM
        
        NAFTA - azstrummer - 1/27/2008 9:38:10 PM
        
        re: NAFTA - Buck Galaxy - 1/27/2008 10:11:14 PM
        
        Why did NAFTA fail while the EU succeeded? - Raoul - 1/27/2008 9:57:45 PM
        
        NAFTA hasn't failed - Buck Galaxy - 1/27/2008 10:19:56 PM
        
        And the EU hasn't exactly succeeded yet, either. (n/t) - TB - 1/28/2008 12:35:14 AM
        
        That article is flawed from the beginning. - Lee - 1/27/2008 8:44:20 PM
        
        Flawed? - Buck Galaxy - 1/28/2008 12:09:28 AM
        
        From that graph - Lee - 1/28/2008 2:07:32 AM
        
        Whatever - Buck Galaxy - 1/28/2008 2:41:21 AM
        
        Boy, you don't learn do you. - azstrummer - 1/27/2008 9:40:01 PM
        
        Then that shows you have no backbone. - Lee - 1/27/2008 11:34:45 PM
        
        Still no clue - azstrummer - 1/28/2008 1:53:26 AM
  - zzzzzzzzzz... - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 6:06:52 AM
    - Leftist jackals eat their own and never met a friend they wouldn't betray for .... a few ounces of power. Obama .... another Jackal - Yeti - 1/27/2008 6:57:53 AM
      - Well... - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 9:11:42 PM
        
        That you can not find a single candidate to like or hope for - Yeti - 1/27/2008 10:11:37 PM
        
        re: That you can not find a single candidate to like or hope for - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/28/2008 12:41:02 AM
    - Go back to sleep - Eri - 1/27/2008 6:17:51 AM
      - Good luck. - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 6:32:13 AM
        
        That's a nasty remark - Eri - 1/27/2008 3:45:25 PM
        
        Not racist at all - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 9:00:45 PM
        
        Interesting analysis Tech1 - Lindy - 1/27/2008 11:12:27 PM
        
        re: Interesting analysis Tech1 - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 11:51:52 PM
        
        ...and they all lived happily ever after. - REB - 1/28/2008 3:06:59 PM
        
        Clarification - REB - 1/28/2008 3:16:30 PM
        
        It could very well be a happy ending. - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/28/2008 11:30:44 PM
        
        Nicely put......... - Lindy - 1/28/2008 12:14:28 AM
        
        re: Nicely put......... - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/29/2008 4:44:23 AM
        
        ah once again with the Daily Kos - azstrummer - 1/27/2008 9:44:01 PM
        
        Art's right on this one. - TB - 1/28/2008 4:12:46 AM
        
        I find it refreshing - Lindy - 1/27/2008 7:43:43 PM
- Very exciting! - McFly - 1/27/2008 4:31:19 AM
- Newsweek: Advantage Obama, Clinton campaign steps up its spin - Bowser - 1/27/2008 3:11:35 AM
  - I have to admit - Lindy - 1/27/2008 3:19:19 AM

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