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Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 1 year, 7 months ago in NewsWASHINGTON- President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 7 months ago
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Blackacereturn1 year, 7 months ago
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Yet somehow the talking heads are trying to convince us that this country will vote another Republican in. Wen pigs fly they will. We may not be the smartest nation on earth but we are smart enough to know when we have been hood winked. I have been saying this for yearsssss now "HE IS THE WORSE PRESIDENT EVER." It's now being proven!
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jaspersneed1 year, 7 months ago
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That is PRECISELY the problem... stupid Americans. And in this case, a very specific class of stupidity. How is it that 68% can disapprove of Bush, with roughly the same size subgroup deeming the Iraq war a mistake, yet John Beach Boy 100 Years War McCain, promising a CENTURY'S worth of the same Bush stupidity if he becomes president, now polls about even in a proposed matchup with either democratic candidate? WHAT IN THE HELL is wrong with the people in this country?? The instant McCain was heard singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" the entire nation should have gasped in collective horror and run screaming from the senile lunatic. But no, instead... HE GETS SUPPORT! HE GETS THE REPUB NOD!! WTF!?!??
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mesodude1 year, 7 months ago
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All great questions. I also find it extremely hard to believe that he could be even remotely closed to running neck and neck with either Hillary or Obama. The campaign funding doesn't bear this out and the record numbers of Democrats showing up at the primaries doesn't square with this either. But if we remember how we got into Iraq in the first place, I guess it's not so hard to understand how John McCain could be doing so miraculously well.
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Endoscopy1 year, 7 months ago
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LOL
You libs don't understand the middle America and small town America. You repeat your lies back and forth so much that you believe them. Keep in mind that the Democrat congress still has lower ratings. Then you wonder why McCain's ratings are so high?
Most Americans want lower taxes and smaller government. Look at what your candidates offer. Big increase in government and much higher taxes. The bologna about taxing the rich is ridiculous. They are already over taxed and any increase will mean lower revenues like EVERY other time it has been raised. Kennedy was the last Democrat president that understood that. He lowered taxes which increased revenue.
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mesodude1 year, 7 months ago
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"Keep in mind that the Democrat congress still has lower ratings."
--Lower ratings than Bush's yes. Lower ratings than the GOP, no. Americans are angry at both parties for the perpetual gridlock but they still trust Democrats to run their more than Republicans. That's why Republicans were kicked out of power in 06,' that's why so many more Republicans are retiring (aka under investigation), that's why Denny Hasturd's seat was snapped up by a Democrat, than Democrats, it's why Democrats are raising way more campaign money than the GOP, it's why Speedy Gonzales is unemployable, it's why so many Republicans are repulsed and horrified that you conjobs have poisoned the party and becoming independent or crossing party lines...pheww...I gotta rest...
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mesodude1 year, 7 months ago
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"Most Americans want lower taxes and smaller government. Look at what your candidates offer. "
--Uh...No, look at what the GOP gave us and remember why you're no longer the majority. The largest government in history, Endo. That's a fact you can't deny--brought to you 100% by the GOP majority. And Tax wise you shafted everyone except the wealthy. America knows this. That's why you're lying that Democrats are gonna raise taxes on the middle class and the poor when you know it's Bush's ultra wealthy friends who are gonna have THEIR taxes rolled back. You know this, Endo. The more you conjobs whine about the rich paying too much tax, the more obvious it becomes that your diapers are soaked and you know the Chimp gravy train is gonna be derailed by the Democrats come November. LOL...That's all you're talking about--what's gonna happen to your tax cuts. The sky is falling if Democrats get elected. Hehe...No one believes you conjobs, Endo. Keep spinning and keep lying.
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jaspersneed1 year, 7 months ago
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"--Uh...No, look at what the GOP gave us and remember why you're no longer the majority. The largest government in history, Endo. That's a fact you can't deny--"
There is no such thing as a fact Endo can't deny. He's a full-fledged, Bush/Cheney dead-ender, authoritarian goose-stepper. Nuanced thinking is not his thing.
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dearpru1 year, 7 months ago
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Endoscopy, talk about repeating! "Democrat congress" -- an epithet right out of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity's playbook. McCain's ratings aren't so high, throat scope, and your other info isn't so hot either.
Clinton (Bill) DID lower taxes on your beloved rich, ruling class. (P.S. Are you one of them, or just one of 95% of Americans who mistakenly believe that someday they'll be rich?)
Another point you're flabby on is who is for big gov't. Bush added more to our govt workforce than any other president-ever. He added a whole new cabinet position (Homeland Security - ha-ha), the TSA, a new post to coordinate the wars in Afghanistan & Iraq because neither the Secty of State nor the Secty of Defense could manage the job...he added tens of thousands of contractors to the government payroll (Blackwater, Halliburton, etc.), he dismantled FEMA (before Katrina), firing 1,400, then had to rehire 4,000 FEMA workers to manage what worked just fine before...LOL yourself.
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supercynic1 year, 7 months ago
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Endoscopy--you really have an appropriate moniker b/c I feel like I've been having one for the last 7 years under Bush. Also, why is it that whenever someone criticizes this Administration, folks like you call us "liberals." I'm not a liberal as that term is currently used. Further, you sound like you want smaller government; therefore, you must hate the Bush Administration, which has ballooned the size of government and the deficit.
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mesodude1 year, 7 months ago
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"Also, why is it that whenever someone criticizes this Administration, folks like you call us "liberals." I'm not a liberal as that term is currently used. "
--Because if you disagree with Bush you're a "lib" or you "hate" America or you're "for the terrorists". ;-P
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Lurch1 year, 7 months ago
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McCain`s ratings high?
What have you been smoking?
The reason why middle-class working America is going to boot McCain a new one is because we are sick and tired of high taxes and we know that he is just another special interest puppet willing to sell our prosperity for extreme wealth for a few cronies.
We`re sick of big govt and McCain promises even bigger govt than the record govt of George Bush.
We`re also sick of the Republican bullshi* of pretending that spending does not mean taxes. That may work on the kool-aid crowd, but it sure as hell does not work on thinking Americans.
Bush`s shirking of taxes to states so he could waste more on his corrupt buddies did not go unnoticed. Bush`s shirking of taxes onto our children and the transfer of wealth from working class to idle rich did not go unnoticed.
We need McCain like we need another 9/11.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 7 months ago
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I am hoping GlobalW. I am hoping that you are incorrect, this country maybe; even this planet couldn't endure another bush type presidency in the White House. We are on the verge of economic collapse as it is, to continue down this road would be the biggest disaster in the recent history of our nation. I don't get how you can think that things are good while you are paying almost $5.00 a gallon for gas when OPEC say they haven't slow down production, the chairman of OPEC said this about 2 months ago, your cost is high because your leaders has dictated that it be made high. Shocking to find this under the rule of an oil man. That there is still 28% of the American standing with this fool is shocking.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 7 months ago
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I knew we were in trouble when a friend of mine who is a mechanical engineer grad from OSU said to me over lunch one day, " Bush is smarter than Clinton." I almost choke when I realized that he meant educated, now this is a very smart man that uses the internet and he was shocked to find that Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. You might be correct GlobalW, it's not just the stupid that are voting for these idiots.
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globalwarmer1 year, 7 months ago
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Don't get me wrong, I never said things were going good. Although my business is booming. I'm just pointing out that Bush somehow got elected... twice.
Its in the interest of huge world corporations like Exxon for other world economies to grow. China and India have the potential to far surpass our energy uses and big oil wants to be there to make sure everyone can fill up their cars. Nothing wrong with that but I would rather see the trillions of dollars we'll be sending to China go into the American infrastructure.
I felt there was no way possible that Bush would have been elected a second time so now I just hope for the best.
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jaspersneed1 year, 7 months ago
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"I'm just pointing out that Bush somehow got elected... twice."
Uh, yeah... the key word there being "somehow". Not exactly elected, either time. Electoral corruption is one of the hallmarks of incipient Fascism. We're well beyond that stage.
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Lurch1 year, 7 months ago
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Uh, actually it will.
When the Bushies gave the oil companies a free hand to gauge the American public during a war, did prices and profits go up or down? We all know they went up to new records.
See, where the rubber meets the road those arseholes are corrupt SOBs out to steal from us as much as they can get the politicians to let them. And the Republicans are very consistent at selling out their fellow Americans.
You`ve got to be pretty damn gullible to believe otherwise after the last seven years of the Bush oil industry handouts.
If a Dem becomes prez, I guarantee the price of gas and the gas profits will come down. Guarantee it!
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mesodude1 year, 7 months ago
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You're like a little anti-tax whirling dervish, aren't you, Argo? LOL The Republican Party is over. Don't you get it? Your trickle down elephant crap economics looks, feels, and smells, just like what it is. We've been trapped in this GOP sh*tstorm for the last 7 years and the American people have decided that enough is enough and we want out of it. You can cry and screech and lie about taxes all you want. Americans aren't buying it. We won't forget the Bushco largest government in history, record gas and food prices, Cheney's secret energy co meetings, SCHIP, largest deficit in history, the dollar, the trade deficit, destruction of the military, 9/11, Iraq, Abu Ghraib, wiretapping, waterboarding, GITMO, missing e-mails, macaca, Katrina, Schiavo, sub-prime crisis, Bear Stearns, Enron, Plamegate, Gonzogate, Gannon, Abramoff, Foleygate, Haggard, Hastert, Cunningham, Stevens, Delay, Katherine Harris, 2000 "Election", etc etc...We WILL NOT forget in November. Believe that.
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ArgoNunya1 year, 6 months ago
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First, "dervish" "1 : a member of a Muslim religious order noted for devotional exercises (as bodily movements leading to a trance)"?
Half of the things you list are either false, your opinion, or simply propaganda. There is no way I will waste my time to rebut with fact each of your opinionated and/or false claims.
However, let's look at the wonderful world or Democrats in charge. Start with New Orleans. Yes, just a panacea... And the big Katrina debacle was mainly rooted in the Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, Democrat who refused to allow the National Guard into the state until after the chaos.
How about the "war on poverty". After trillions spent, the data shows nothing has changed.
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ArgoNunya1 year, 6 months ago
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Sure let's try the Dem way again. I don't know about you but I work for a living and am not excited about knowing that with the Democrat plan I am sure to pay more taxes. So is anyone else making $31,000/year and up.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080313/D8VCL...
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Candida1 year, 7 months ago
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Blackacereturn: "Yet somehow the talking heads are trying to convince us that this country will vote another Republican in. Wen pigs fly they will."
I hate to say this, but the race isn't over until it's over. I hope you are right though.
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mcgrievysr1 year, 7 months ago
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Sadly the man will leave office much wealthier than when he came into it and, unfortunately, he will probably not be taken to task for his heinous offenses. What percentage of the American populace will have benefited from his administration? Can't be a very high percentage. In eight years he has managed to dissolve the middle class. He has bankrupted the nation both fiscally and morally. How in the hell does he retain even the historically small number of supporters? He's a total disaster.
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david_nwpa1 year, 7 months ago
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I wonder if people had answered as many surveys during the Hoover administration, whether he would have been rated even worse than Bush. Unlike Bush, Hoover did not use war as a means for improving the economy or lining his own pockets.
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bubba21 year, 7 months ago
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Bush will pay the price if he doesn't repent (yes, depending on your religious beliefs) or otherwise admit to his mistakes and actually regret any of it.
But, meanwhile - WE are all PAYING for it, HARD. And so will our children and grandchildren, saddled with an astronomical national debt and floundering economy along with the consequences of unrepentant corporations that continue to rape and pollute the planet.
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cushi1 year, 7 months ago
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That is the sad truth! I know that nobody's perfect, but Bush is, in my opinion, the lowest of the low and I despise what he has done to our country and our people. He has squandered our children's inheritance with no signs of regret or remorse.
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fourthtunz1 year, 7 months ago
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There is plenty of blame to go around and I blame the American people the most, for their apathy and their willingness to go along with the media.
We are now a 3rd world country and in the next few years the majority of Americans will learn this lesson,in a very painful way, albeit to late to change anything.
Look at the polls, we american fools put up with barack, clinton and McCain!!
These pawns are not going to change anything!!
Ron Paul, the only one that is not owned, cannot get elected.
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blinkers1 year, 7 months ago
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Sadly, I'm of the opinion that President Bush will never fully understand the disasters his administrations have wrought for America.
He will never regret a single decision during eight years of incompetence and waste, clinging to an impervious and complete self righteousnes that advancing years will not dilute.
He will continue to be surrounded by a cohort of sychophants who will guard him from the naysayers, and sit back, self-satisfied, at the ranch -- feet up, swilling beer with his buddies, laughing about the good old days in DC.
All in all, an appalling specter.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 7 months ago
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I believe he should be made to pay. I will do whatever it is that I can to make sure of it. I am talking to likeminded friends about started a grass roots agenda to have them brought to justice by an independent commission. Our plan is to have the website up after the election and we will then send the signatures to our congress. There will be a way to donate so we the people can pay for this investigation hence removing any chance of it being tainted. I am thinking if half the country signs this they will have to listen! We can no longer leave our nation in the hands of the elected officials we (all Americans must endeavor to take our country back from them, I am hoping Obama wins).
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Blackacereturn1 year, 7 months ago
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Thus far it seems he has yet to have taken any of the spoils, I can't say this about the Clinton's! This is an Idea, if you feel strongly about this idea let's talk. I don't have all the answers but I am as mad as all hell and I will no longer stand idle while they walk away with our children's and grand children's future. I am looking for leaders not followers. I have no interest in fame so this is not about being seen it's about justice.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 7 months ago
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I am not a lawyer nor neither are my friends so if you are that would help. it's time we stop sitting on our hands and ******ing and moaning. DO SOMETHING! For all i know i may get into tuns of trouble for saying this but to me it's worth it.
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SFCGuyW1 year, 7 months ago
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Bush & many Republican Congressmen are trying to get a law passed that will give the President and his top administration members immunity from being charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. However, such a law would be unConstitutional because of the many treaties the USA has ratified which demand the prosecution of individuals involved in certain such crimes. These treaties trump any law Congress passes because the US Constitution gives them (the treaties) the same force as the rest of the Constitution. Besides that, making him immune would be spitting in the face of International Law & making the USA a rogue nation, subjecting our Pres. & past Pres. to arrest & trial & imprisonment if they leave USA shores - - the same thing we do to Serbia, Kosovo and several other nations.
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fourthtunz1 year, 7 months ago
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Radio, Bush may be the dumbest ever but they have all perpetrated some pretty heinous crimes for their masters. This is what I don't understand about my own countrymen. How is it that anyone, with the access that we now have to our own history, how can anyone believe that there was ever a difference between democrat and republican presidents? If you work forward from one of the absolute worst Presidents.. Wilson(got us into WW1 and helped the Fed Reserve come into being) how can anyone claim that there is a worst? They have all gotten or kept our country tied up in a war and bent over for the banking interests. They don't want us to agree because we would start a 3rd party and change things, why do people still believe the propaganda?
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getreal11 year, 7 months ago
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He has always known. He just doesn't care. He has more than made his money. It is extremely hard for a lot of people to sit still on this but the Great maker will deal with the greed inside of him. I knew we would be to Iraq when I heard him say during one of his first campaign speeches that he wanted to go to Iraq and that was the first run. Loss of Oil, is loss of money to the Bushes on their personal income. I guess some people got to have it all.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 7 months ago
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''Wrong. There is no "Great Maker".''
well if you say so it must be true then
just like when people tell me there is one
as long as I listen to other people, I'll be OK
PS: I hope they pay for what they've done yesterday
it's sort of been like a slow motion bank heist in broad daylight, everyone watching, everyone powerless to stop them
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Lurch1 year, 7 months ago
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If you extrapolate to the entire population, that means roughly 84 million self-flagellating morons minus the cronies and special interests who are consciously and purposefully selling out our nation while making themselves part of the crony royalty class.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 7 months ago
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I have to agree, even his most ardent supporters all through his reign have stopped their cheerleading everywhere except for a handful of obfuscation devotees here at Net-prop. Even William Cristol (an original neocon and PNAC signer.) says Bush bungled everything. (As if the PNAC plan would have worked if only an idiot weren't in charge?).
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vor1 year, 7 months ago
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Yet the Republicans have a quite legitimate shot at retaining the Presidency in November. Made the point several times that these folks would rather see the nation go down in flames than vote for a Democrat. They put that into practice in '00 and '04.
We try to promote a candidate of real change and he is lambasted at every turn from within his own party and from the Right. Maybe in five years you will look back and realize that you had your opportunity for change and now it is gone not to return for some time. It may be too late by then.
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blinkers1 year, 7 months ago
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"Yet the Republicans have a quite legitimate shot at retaining the Presidency in November" -- I'd certainly have to go along with that point, V.O.R.
But McCain has asserted that he'll be only a one-term president (if victorious), and given his age I'd have to believe that.
Four more years of Bush-brand Republicanism would gift the White House to the Dems in 2012, would it not? If I'm wrong then I'd say America deserves no further opportunity for change.
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Poulenc1 year, 7 months ago
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When I lie in bed at night, sleepless, I sometimes wonder if Bush is truly conscious of his soaring and embedded unpopularity, and thus of his failure.
One wants to cast him in the kind of story in which a wayward, wrong-thinking, or even dangerous figure sees the light, reforms (or at least accepts responsibility for his actions), and becomes "better" for it. The world is righted, and we all feel a bit safer.
Alas, my conclusion is that, given the nature of Bush's defensiveness, his blindness to is own "issues," his insulation from challenge, that disfavor doesn't make a dent.
Nothing has been learned. It's a tragedy without a tragic hero.
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blinkers1 year, 7 months ago
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Sorry, Poulenc, just read your comments now, and realised I expressed a similar sentiment(though far less eloquently) much later than you, but positioned it earlier in the thread.
I fully agree, "disfavor doesn't make a dent" in the president's self image. Nothing has been learned, or will be learned.
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rimbaud1 year, 7 months ago
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This is what you get when you act on principle, without regard for popularity. For 7 years, Bush has been implementing all the things Republicans have been whining for, all these years. Now, even THEY are ballking! They weren't such good ideas, after all? F'em! Bush was tired of this suit-wearing, double-talking gig, years ago, and can't wait to be out of there (the Presidency, not Iraq)! Hopefully, he won't fade into the sunset (of Paraguay or Uruguay), but will be free to speak his mind, without self-censoring himself!
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 7 months ago
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Seems the presidents with healthy libidos are inclined to have actual real sex with consenting adults while their self righteous psychologically retarded counterparts confuse their sex drives with violence and screwing the populous!
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 7 months ago
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I often wondered if lib meant Liberal or libido.
I used to think of Netscape as that place "where they talk about Bill and Monica".
I read a bunch of stuff here for a while before I joined, I kind of learned to leave the thread as soon as the discussion turned to BJ's (usually the first page).
When someone speaks behind an avatar such as "Kick a lib in the nuts"
I think Libido.
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ETproductions1 year, 7 months ago
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Since John McCain has turned himself into John McSame in order to get the man behind the curtain that is the New GOP to let him have a shot at being the Decider Guy, he should carefully parse through those numbers to calculate his odds of success.
72 million registered Democrats and 91% disapprove of Bush/McSame. So the Democrats get 65.52 million of that voting block and the Republicans get 6.48 million.
48 million registered Republicans and 66% like Bush/McSame, so McSame gets 31.68 million votes there and the Democrats pull away 16.32 million.
That leaves about 86 million independents. 72% of them disapprove of Bush/McSame, so the Democrats pick up 61.9 million to the 24 million for McSame.
Bush/McSame: 62.16 million
Democratic Candidate: 143.74 million.
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ETproductions1 year, 7 months ago
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Now of course, not all registered voters are going to actually vote, so those totals are high. But the point they make in the percentage spread (Democrats winning by more than 2 to 1) may not even tell how badly McSame will loose.
The voters are hoping mad and this who are angry that their wages have been slipping against inflation. Massive foreclosures have left many homeless and depressed home values in neighborhoods filled with vacant, shuttered houses. Angry voters turn out at the polls.
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CANYONLIGHT1 year, 7 months ago
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9-11 was Bush's Pearl Harbor and he's been ruleing the country (and the world) by fear ever since. I hope, and it should be, he goes down as the most hated man along with Hitler in history. When he does, I'm sure with his own bone headed selfishness, he won't even notice.
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jamesjajames1 year, 7 months ago
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"Bush also holds the record for the other extreme, in September 2001 in the days after the 9/11 attacks Bush's approval spiked to 90%". To many people have been deeply disappointed by his lies http://mattressz.t35.com/ and his incapacity!"
Seems to me like too many people follow the mob mentality pushed by the media.
It's all about selling papers.
After 9/11 everyone http://mattressx.t35.com/ wanted to read about how great our Country and President was.
Now that we've been at war, everyone http://mattressc.t35.com/ wants to read about how much of an evil warmonger he is.
The fact that so many let the http://mattressv.t35.com/ media lead them into this http://mattressb.t35.com/ mob mentality shows how easily those same people can be controlled.
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joeblowe1 year, 7 months ago
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You can really only blame GWB for the economic problem to the extent that it is being caused by the huge drain in Iraq. Oh, wait, that's pretty much ALL on GWB at this point. War time presidents are very seldom popular after the shine wears off the propaganda, but this sets the bar at a whole new level. He could probably salvage his image - at least somewhat - by FINALLY admitting that A) we have no business in Iraq B) We never really did C) Yes, it WAS a mistake in most respects and D) we are getting OUT starting NOW. We will help them, but essentially they are going to have to solve their own problems.
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Well there he is TV. NAFTA channel 240 direct. It is going to make it hard for Mexicans to work if we make changes in it. What about us? Gains I like to know what gains? Maybe them not us. Tell me this isn't real. Bush just hit bottom as far as I'm concern. What I could say I can not say. As it stands McCain, business as usual, Hillary, things need to be revamp in the NAFTA agreement. Obama, wants to give them driver's license even if they are illegal? George Bush waits till the voters of the primary are at the polls to pull this issue. Never mind the American people and their lively-hoods.
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jamesjajames1 year, 7 months ago
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"Seems to me like too many people follow the mob mentality pushed by the media"
Nothing could be further from the truth. Fact is the President blew it. He had the entire country behind him and nearly all the worlds' http://mattressf.t35.com/ support in pursuing those responsible for the attacks. He could have used that momentumn to start http://mattressg.t35.com/ an effort to drastically reduce our dependence on foriegn oil. But what did he do. Told us to go shopping! And the he morphed the legitimate http://mattressh.t35.com/ effort to capture or kill those that were resposnsible for the 9-11 attack into the http://mattressj.t35.com/ invasion of an oil rich Arab nation that was not involved in the attacks. Then he bungled all the http://mattressk.t35.com/ decisions of the subsequent occupation and created the chaos and a civil war that raged across Iraq killing hundreds of thousands.
That's why his rating as so low, not because the newspaper want to make a profit.
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TrueProgressive1 year, 7 months ago
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Some great posts here, really enjoyed reading them.
Newbie, stop smoking the Republican crack. It's ALL Bush's fault. Like it or not, Clinton left us with relative world peace and a budget surplus. It was as if he left the little bastard the keys to a finely restored classic automobile. Bush did exactly what one would expect of the family delinquent, he trashed the car.
Beyond that, I notice that we have a few sinks to this story. How does one "sink" objective and verifiable fact? I guess that's how the regressive mind works, deny facts, revise history.
hamy, I too notice that the usual group of regressives are absent here. But if you go to one of Alpha's posts, a Focus on the Family hit piece smearing Obama as a "baby killer," you'll find them there. Like flies on sh*t, the righties were all over that one. Nothing to send a bunch of regressives scurrying back under their rocks than the light of truth.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 7 months ago
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Yeah there is a crew here that only submit that substance that flys enjoy so much. I stopped even talking to them as they are not interested in anything but feeding those flys, and it stinks to high heavens on those threads. Best to pay them no mind.
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Lurch1 year, 7 months ago
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I sometimes enjoy going to their fly-attracting boards and shedding light on their nefarious agenda of hate and counterproductive sucking up to the special interests and right-wing extremists.
It can be enlightening, and makes me happy that I was born or raised in such a way that I can use that thing between my ears.
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blinkers1 year, 7 months ago
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But you will admit that it makes for highly entertaining threads when someone takes the time to get among those right-wing stories, and really get stuck in.
Case in point was Mesodude yesterday battling upstream against the Obama smearpiece supporters.
Incendiary stuff with sparkling invective and very colorful repartee!!
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 7 months ago
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BZZZZZ!
I take offence!
It would be so easy to sing in harmony with the choir (even though I can't sing).
I think the folks you are talking about are good people.
I disagree with them about a lot of stuff, but understanding their viewpoint is the thing that keeps sucking me back here.
This Fly on the wall smells maggot infest able Sh!t coming from both sides of the aisle.
Sorry: consider this comment a mental vomit.
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cleare1 year, 7 months ago
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i honestly don't know what anyone who voted for Bush ever expected. the man circumvented his military obligations, and ran several businesses and a sports team into the ground before Karl Rove helped him cheat his way into the governorship, and then the presidency.
i really wonder who those folks are who still support him. surely the percentage who've profited must be small...why else would any one continue to support this colossal idiot???
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 7 months ago
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No doubt! Then they would post some more outrageous lies about Obama on propeller! Let's see, what is it today? Oh Baby killer!
Lets see we already had the disco-homo story (Whose source was a guy in a mental institution), the various hates his country stories, the secret Muslim, the secret racist, the secret elitist, both the fascist and the socialist, yesterday the former professor of constitutional law wanted to do away with guns! These idiots eat every ounce of it up, like flies on a ****!!!!
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hdthehn1 year, 7 months ago
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President Bush visited an elementary school. He began to talk to the children and asked them to define the word ''tragedy.''
"Well," one girl replied, "If my mommy ran over my dog, Rover, that would be a tragedy!"
The President smiled at the little girl and said, "No, sweetie. That would be an accident! Can anyone else give it a try?"
A little boy sitting across the room raised his hand and said, "I know! I know! If our bus driver ran off of a cliff and killed everyone!"
The President shook his head and said, "No son. That would be a great loss! Doesn't anyone know of a good example of a tragedy?"
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hdthehn1 year, 7 months ago
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A small girl raised her hand and said, "Well, Mr. President, if you and Laura were in Air Force One and it was hit by a missile and blown to smithereens, most people would think that that was a tragedy!"
"Very good," he said. "And what was your reason for that answer?"
"Well," she said, "It would not be an accident and it sure would not be a great loss!"
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jovial1 year, 7 months ago
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Hello my fellow progressives. Great story today, huh? The polls are showing what we knew all along. I thought I would share this short flash movie with you I got from Amnesty International. It's recommended reading for those that think that waterboarding isn't really torture. (Like Bush and Cheney)
http://unsubscribe-me.org/films/blipesque-sof-4...
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hdthehn1 year, 7 months ago
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Before the 2001 inauguration of George Bush, he was invited
to a get-acquainted tour of the White House. After drinking
several glasses of iced tea, he asked Bill Clinton if he could use his
personal bathroom. When he entered Clinton's private toilet, he was
astonished to see that president Clinton had a fancy solid gold urinal.
That afternoon, George told his wife, Laura, about the urinal. "Just
think" he said, "When I am president, I could have a gold urinal too.
But I wouldn't do something that self-indulgent!"
Later when Laura had lunch with Hillary at her tour of the White House, she told Hillary how impressed George had been at his discovery of the fact that in the President's private bathroom, the President had a gold urinal.
That evening, when Bill and Hillary were getting ready for bed, Hillary smiled, and said to Bill, "I found out who ******ed in your saxophone.
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jovial1 year, 7 months ago
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A guy walks in and asks the bartender, "Isn't that Bush and Powell sitting over there?" The bartender says, "Yep, that's them." So the guy walks over and says, "Wow, this is a real honor. What are you guys doing in here?"
Bush says, "We're planning WWIII. And the guy says, "Really? What's going to happen?"
Bush says, "Well, we're going to kill 140 million Iraqis this time and one bicycle repairman."
The guy exclaimed, "A bicycle repairman!!! Why kill a bicycle repairman?"
Bush turns to Powell, punches him on the shoulder and says, "See, dummy! I told you no one would worry about the 140 million Iraqis!"
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jovial1 year, 7 months ago
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A lady bought a new Lexus. Cost a bundle. Two days later, she brought it back,complaining that the radio was not working.
"Madam," said the sales manager, "the audio system in this car is completely automatic. All you need to do is tell it what you want to listen to, and you will hear exactly that!"
She drove out, somewhat amazed and a little confused. She looked at the radio and said, "Nelson." The radio responded, "Ricky or Willie?" She was astounded. If she wanted Beethoven, that's what she got. If she wanted Nat King Cole, she got it.
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jovial1 year, 7 months ago
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She was stopped at a traffic light enjoying "On The Road Again" when the light turned green and she pulled out. Suddenly an enormous sports utility vehicle coming from the street she was crossing sped toward her, obviously not paying attentionto the light. She swerved and narrowly missed a collision.
"Idiot!" she yelled and, from the radio, "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States."
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blinkers1 year, 7 months ago
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The president came into the Oval office brandishing his new toy -- in fact, a vacuum flask, something he'd hitherto been unaware of.
"Hey, someone just gave me this flask, it's great" he said to those present. "It keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold"
Someone asked "So, Mr. President, what do you have in it?"
"Well, I got some hot coffee and an ice cream" the great man replied.
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hdthehn1 year, 7 months ago
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g41Qfxw0a3Y
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bluenote15221 year, 7 months ago
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You guys are a bunch of lemmings. The only thing you love about this country is your hatred for Bush. Meanwhile you are in the process of blowing an election that was yours. Dems are a bunch of crybabies without a plan. Obama is not the answer folks!
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ind061 year, 7 months ago
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Considering after eight years the right wing is STILL carrying on about Bill Clinton your cry baby accusation holds little water. The moment I get through a week without hearing a reference to Monica Lewinsky's dress will be the point I buy that the right has something on the left.
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 7 months ago
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Bluenote:
I cast my vote for Obama today:
It was not a vote to a saint that represents all that I think a president should be.
I do not like that he says he will increase the size of the military.
I do not like that he says he will make small business carry the cost of health care.
If McCain should win?
It is cool that he has said he would shut down Gitmo.
I like that he considers the Pharma industry greedy.
I like that he believes that climate change is a real issue.
I placed my vote for selfish reasons.
I get paid well for what I do, but with 2 kids in college and a wife who has stopped working to care for her father (Alziemers). The money I have socked into mutual fund retirement accounts is worth less than what I put in.
I just plain think I will be better off.
I know I was before.
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NoWayMan1 year, 7 months ago
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cons seem to love rasmussen, so you know they'll love their June 2007 poll that asked people to rate past presidents either favorably or unfavorably.
of all the past US presidents, only 2 were viewed unfavorably by at least 50% of respondents:
Richard Nixon
George W. Bush
maybe the cons are right, maybe rasmussen is the most accurate pollster in america.
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Allazi1 year, 7 months ago
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Hey! Pennsylvania exit polls Video Report!
http://yetmorefun.net/mov.php?v=Pennsylvania_ex...
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jovial1 year, 7 months ago
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This is that same nut again that is spamming everyone. He wants you to click on the above link so you can download his trash. Steer clear. Only click on links of people you know. This idiot is relentless. Changes names and tries again. I reported it. I recommend all do the same.
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BronxBomber1 year, 7 months ago
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US Soldiers said that one of the things that's keeping them going, and inspiring them is all the crayon-ladened letters they're receiving from schoolchildren around the country. Then someone explained that those letters are actually from George Bush.
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xiaomian11031 year, 7 months ago
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President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
http://www.laptopbatterymart.co.uk/applepowerbo...
That is an website for replacement laptop batteries, such as apple powerbook g4 laptop battery, dell 9300 battery, which maybe do with these things.
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blinkers1 year, 7 months ago
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I saw a lot of angry, frustrated people, Endo, and a rich and entertaining range of comments expressing views, reactions and opinions on the abyssmal Bush administration currently governing America.
If you only saw lies and hatred then clearly you're one of the 28% who continue to support it.
Why?
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 7 months ago
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Remarkably not honest BlewNote, conservatism by it's nature discourages all new thought, prefering to cling to old established institutions and ideas. Very few creative people are conservative, as creation itself is a threat to old and established ideas.
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quillyregnold1 year, 7 months ago
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Do we really have a choice this year, I think they all suck!!
One good thing, the terrorists leaves the white house!
I am curious if any of the people showering G.W with love have children?? Surely if you do, they are not in the military. It is sad that our young have to die for a lie. What ever happen to the guy who was SUPPOSE to have attacked us?? Bin Laden is laughing at our leadership, as we attack people who made daddy bush mad. This war was about Oil, Money, and Revenge. Anyone who thinks we went to Iraq for weapons of mass destruction are truly as pinheaded as the guy running our country. The great sheep-herder and his nation of idiot sheep.
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2dumbfounded1 year, 7 months ago
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I made a big mistake in 2002. I did not vote. Living in a solidly Republican state, I did not think it would matter, so I have only myself to blame for that outcome. I'm even more ashamed to say that I did it again in 2004, thinking it impossible for lightning to strike twice. No matter how encouraged you may be by the disapproval ratings for President Bush, look at the sad truth. The worst President in our history still has the support of 28% of people polled. I believe they will turn out to vote for a third Bush administration, in the guise of Senator McCain. Please do not make my mistakes in 2008. I won't.
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2dumbfounded1 year, 7 months ago
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I agree, Candida
I think the answer to the implied question about why: "I've often been amazed by how many people can be convinced to vote against their own self-interest." is sad, simple, and true.
Someone else said it a bit differently, but the bottom line is that these sad, simple, voters are WANNABE's. They are not living pay check to pay check, so they think they are WELL OFF. They vote FOR knee-jerk, cliché ridden sloganism.
E.g. TAX AND SPEND DEMOCRATS.
What part of BORROW AND SPEND (BOTH BUSH'S) don't they get?
Only kidding. The BUSH WANNABE'S only want to steal as much as they can, as fast as they can, leaving the Victim's, their Victim's children, and their Victim's children's children to pay off the debt.
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2dumbfounded1 year, 7 months ago
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Just as the Bush WANNABE'S are like THEIR heroes, so, I can only hope, are we.
My heroes shed not only their blood for the rest of us (USA.) They gave their LIVES. Say what you will about John, Bobbie, and Martin.
My heroes shed not only their blood for the rest of us (USA.) They gave their LIVES. Say what you will about John, Bobbie, and Martin. Giving your life for what you believe is a lot different from sucking the life blood out of non-WANNABE'S.
Sound too bleeding heart? Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
It tolls for the bloodless money suckers.
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ChrisTownsendIV1 year, 7 months ago
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Actually, McCain doesn't appeal to the neo-cons nearly as much as Bush did. McCain does have greater appeal the the mainstream republicans however. Regardless of what you think of him, he is a much better selection than Bush, and he will take much better care of the troops as well. He's frequently been at odds with the Bush administration and hasn't been shy about it. I'm not saying he should be elected, just that he's a smart, reasonable man, and is everything that Bush isn't.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 7 months ago
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The McCain of pre-2000 was a decent man, however he has tried very hard since then to reverse this decency. He voted against the last Veterans bill, now reintroducing it with his name on it.... hmmm. I don't believe the McCain we saw before the 2000 election is the same man we have seen since. Best not confuse the two!
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Lurch1 year, 7 months ago
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McCain is a vet-hating vet.
He has already shown his true colors by voting AGAINST military funding of the VA.
He also is against the new GI Bill.
Just like the current crop of Republicans, they`ll spend our money to help get the troops killed, but they`ll fight any spending to help the troops heal.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 7 months ago
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BB- Ex-Governor Bush Called Former President Clinton one afternoon.
"Hello, Bill? It's Dubya. Say, I've been meanin' ta ask ya sumthin'. How did you do so well with the ladies when you were president?"
"I'll tell ya, George. The trick is to dazzle them with charm and intelligent conversation."
"Yeah, but what can I do?" asked Bush.
Clinton paused. "Well, George, if all else fails, try puttin' a potato down your pants. That works every time."
The next week, Bush called Clinton again.
"Bill? Dubya. Laura was in Crawford over the weekend and I got to go stag to the embassy ball. I tried the potato trick, but all the ladies kept their distance."
"I know, I saw the ball on C-SPAN," laughed Clinton. "Next time, try puttin' the potato down the front of your pants!"
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