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Old 10-27-2005, 10:43   #16
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Auspicious can simply mean 'a good day to make a decision'. (look at dictionary.com before you attack me)
However, Kennedy is an idiot for using a word that is commonly used (mostly in fortune cookies) to describe something lucky or miraculous. I'm sure that this wasn't what he meant, because saying that the 2000th death of a U.S. soldier is ausipicious is political suicide for anybody.

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Actually I did look at a dictionary prior to posting.

"Auspicious
a. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning.
a. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
a. Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things.
attended by favorable circumstances; "an auspicious beginning for the campaign"


What you say "could" be the case but unlikely in the context. I believe Kennedy meant it but someone else caught the political ramifications and squelched it.
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Old 10-27-2005, 10:55   #17
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I firmly believe that even if he didn't mean it as you think he did, he's a total idiot for letting a word commonly used to mean lucky even come to MIND regarding the death of a soldier.

While in a democracy disagreement over a war is healthy and should only be challenged through good argument, it takes a sick, sad person to breed a loathing for the people that protect our country.

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Old 10-27-2005, 11:26   #18
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I think that the death of a soldier means absolutely nothing to the fat bastard except political advantage, and he did consider it an auspicious day.

Just my .02.

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Old 10-27-2005, 16:37   #19
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I think that the death of a soldier means absolutely nothing to the fat bastard except political advantage, and he did consider it an auspicious day.

Just my .02.
We must be in inflationary times because your .02 worth seems to be worth a whole lot more in my opinion.
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Old 10-27-2005, 16:47   #20
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We must be in inflationary times because your .02 worth seems to be worth a whole lot more in my opinion.
Wouldn't that be deflationary?
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Old 10-30-2005, 19:41   #21
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Caught in the act.
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Wouldn't that be deflationary?
I think you're right.
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Old 10-30-2005, 23:36   #22
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He didn't give a sh*t about Mary Jo Kopechne (Sp?) which indicates to me he doesn't give a sh*t about any soldier. Cold blooded, morally corrupt son of a bootlegging mobster!
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