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The GOPhers Cure For Depression
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/52b96b3d-be83-4467-b225-ac3c06d974f9/E6A573A5-002B-4D92-8D15-5CB7034475FD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/14/gops-inadvertently-fitting-new-slogan/" href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/14/gops-inadvertently-fitting-new-slogan/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.crooksandliars.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/14/gops-inadvertently-fitting-new-slogan/"><DIV id="post-29178" class="storytitle"><A rel="bookmark" href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/14/gops-inadvertently-fitting-new-slogan/">GOP’s Inadvertently Fitting New Slogan</A></DIV> <DIV class="postSubline">By: Bill W. @ 7:20 AM - PDT </DIV> <DIV class="storycontent"> <P><A href="http://static.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/gop-change-you-deserve-2.jpg"><IMG src="http://static.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/gop-change-you-deserve-2.thumbnail.jpg" /></A> Nice catch <A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/12/gops-new-slogan-already-b_n_101376.html">by Jason Linkins at HuffPo</A>: </p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P>In today’s <A href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/house-gop-adopts-change-theme/index.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all">New York Times’ Caucus blog</A>, Carl Hulse reports that House Republicans have got themselves a brand-new slogan: </p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P>It looks like Republicans will counter the Democratic push for change from the years of the Bush administration with their own pledge to deliver, drum roll please, “the change you deserve.” […] </p> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>What the GOP doesn’t seem to realize, because they are idiots, is that “the change you deserve” is the registered advertising slogan of <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effexor">Effexor XR</A>. … also known as Venlafaxine, is approved for the treatment “of depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder in adults.” </p> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>And if that wasn’t funny enough for you, <A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/12/gops-new-slogan-already-b_n_101376.html">as Jason points out</A>, the FDA took issue with the company over the Effexor ad “<EM>saying that </EM><A href="http://www.pharmcast.com/WarningLetters/Yr2007/Dec2007/Wyeth1207.htm"><EM>the company made “unsubstantiated superiority claims.”</EM></A>“</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E6A573A5-002B-4D92-8D15-5CB7034475FD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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