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Which is why every silver-spooned American son of a multi-millionaire, with presidential aspirations, knows that to be a successful US president, besides having powerful connections and oodles and oodles of money to buy an election with, all you need is one thing – a big stick!
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He's "Joe Six-pack" insofar as he's running away from his silver-spooned, cheerleading, Skull & Bones background.
Bob Cesca: Sarah Six-pack Needs To Put Country First by Stepping Down 2008
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I could go on, but it makes me sick to think how 6 years with a clueless, silver-spooned, “Christianist”leader has our country angry, and divided and unable to discuss issues or consider compromise.
Think Progress » Path to 9/11 Writer Slams Critics, Defends Movie As Totally Accurate 2006
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The silver-spooned cowboy in the Oval Office just presented a fine new saddle to the nuclear horseman of the apocalypse.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: SOLOMON: George W. Strangelove and the Triumph of Nuclear Faith 2005
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: SOLOMON: George W. Strangelove and the Triumph of Nuclear Faith 2005
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To some men, born silver-spooned, a seat in Parliament comes as
Doctor Thorne 2004
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To some men, born silver-spooned, a seat in Parliament comes as
Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope 1848
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Jack Whitehall has been dismissed as a silver-spooned, posh-voiced irritant - but a rethink may be due.
Evening Standard - Home Bruce Dessau 2011
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His campaign team has deftly discredited Mr. Romney as a silver-spooned corporate puppet and reminded voters in swing states of the Texas model's ugly underbelly.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed KONRAD YAKABUSKI 2011
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Unless, of course, you're lucky enough to be a silver-spooned media dossabout who's paid to muck around in the mire all day, peeling out inanities like "[My garden] seems to be more free and fluid, and nature seems to be more responsive."
Watch With Mothers Hemmerfru 2010
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