The view in the Bush administration - says this one-time member - was that you should make the broadest claims possible so that the president wouldn't be shackled in the future.

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And they clearly didn't feel shackled by convention.

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Until they get there, I don't want them shackled or scared or paralyzed.

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It is clear that Wall Street doesn't care about American consumers, except to keep them shackled in debt through sky high credit card balances, thus allowing the financial industry to make billions off the high interest rates.

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But these low-level miscreants were then shackled, fingerprinted, and (if they didn't have identification) often held overnight in police cells.

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Thousands of would-be entrepreneurs are itching to start their own businesses, but many are shackled to their current employer by health-care benefits they don't think they could otherwise afford.

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