And this guy is President!

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  1. americanmike

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  2. pettyfog

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    Heh.. callow youth!

    I keep trying to tell you guys that there isnt that much difference between the highly placed and the ones expected to vote for 'em.

    Get over the awe of office and realize they's just peepul! And SOME have quirks.

    But here's the thing.. why is that so special?
     
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  3. americanmike

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    Re: RE: And this guy is President!

    Its not special 'fog, just a timely, shallow dig at a very dumb, irresponsible man.

    Oops, there I go again. :roll:
     
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  4. FFCinPCB

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    RE: Re: RE: And this guy is President!

    In all fairness, I'm not sure he is drunk.

    However, watch what you sayMike, or you'll be considered a member of the caliphate. Such a complex word for such a simple minded president. The clock is ticking on his soon to be misuse of it.
     
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  5. NJGlen

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    RE: Re: RE: And this guy is President!

    Mike,
    Agree with everything you say about Mr President but I actually have a little more respect for him after watching hi onthat video. If he acted a little more confident like that at press conferences he wouldn't come across as such a poopiehead.

    Why poopiehead? My daughter has a t-shirt that with a picture of Bush on it that says, "President Poopiehead". She also has one that says, "My parents are big gay liberals."

    (P-Fog...my biggest issue here in the USA is the respect for the office. The president serves us, not the other way around, and he should answer to us. Gore rolled over like a tart because and as soon as Bush was president so did half the country because he is 'Mr President'.)
     
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  6. dcheather

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    Well, one of my professors always recommended a little drink before a speech, but I don't think 20 oz of Jim Beam is what he had in mind. :lol:
     
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    Okay, PCB, now I want to party with NJ Glen!
     
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  8. americanmike

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    Re: RE: Re: RE: And this guy is President!

    haha, in college, my economics professors, a chain smoking, sixty-something, Armenian, used to tell us to study with bourbon and to even have a little before exams if we so wished. I'll never forget that man!

    Back on to the subject, my problem with president Bush is that he frequently comes off looking stupid. I know that is such a broad statement but he can't speak publicly without sounding like some Texas redneck (no offense my lone star staters!). I have no confidence in him and he does treat the public as if we owe him for being president. Yeah, I owe him a slap in the back of the head.
     
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    Re: RE: Re: RE: And this guy is President!

    I bumped this as it links emotionally to the Kerry Faux-Pas.

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    If you think this is a great -for effect- photo op, you should think that the girl's father would know if it was... dont make me quote him.

    I would like to point out to mike, the moaning.. yes on the RW blogs.. that we didnt have someone as articulate and dynamic as Tony Blair.

    Whether Dubya's 'old boy' demaenor is something absorbed in his Texas play-boy days.. or is just 'him' and/or related to a speech deficiency, does it REALLY matter?
    Relate to Kerry... who YOU KNOW DEEP DOWN is devoid of purpose other than gaining power.

    Why is it that Angela Merkel's twitch when Dubya touched her shoulder was a big deal? Or do you think Dubya is Clinton? Or did SHE?

    Face it and you dont have to answer this.... the left is MAINLY FURIOUS that Dubya has a world-view belief and ACTS on it.
     
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  10. HatterDon

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    here's a question: Why is it that the president is the only sibling who talks like he's an extra on a cowboy movie? The whole John Wayne thing is a put on, a show. It's part of that "gee, he's just like you and me" thing that galls quite a few of Mike's "lone star staters."

    The problem with the president's "world-view belief" is that it's ill informed. That's why everything he has done has come unstrung. He developed his world view without a lot of reflection, research, and unbiased information. As a result, he's not perceived as a statesman as much as he is an ignorant bully. And I think that's a fair assessment for the world and for most of this country to have made.

    I have no idea what the photo is about, nor how it responds to Mike's two month old post, but hey, I don't live on the Blogosphere so I don't get about half your references.
     
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    The purpose of the photo is to remind everyone he's a real guy... that he's not just the guy who bumbles through speeches.

    As to the accent, I THOUGHT I just coevred that... relate to time spent in Midland. Maybe who he ran around with?

    And how do YOU know his world view is wrong? Because WHO doesnt agree with it?

    IGNORANT BULLY....Fully socialist world-view related... you cant point ot anywhere he's 'bullied'... but it makes a damn good talking point!

    Oh, yeah... I forgot...if he WASNT a bully, he wouldnt be trying to get Bolton confirmed to the UN... heaven forbid we strong arm THAT stinking cess-pool of leftist and nationalist corruption and inaction.

    {If you're going to comment on Bolton, better bring facts on how the UN is doing a good job.]
     
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  12. ChicagoTom

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    Democracy is a government for the people, by the people and of the people. While George W. Bush was elected by the electoral college in 2000, he was not the choice of a majority of voters. In fact, Gore won the general election, but not the electoral college.

    Anyways, my point is that while I do understand that Bush was elected President two times, as a citizen I feel he has taken advantage of the people in the US and used his rubber-stamped Congress and Senate to make decisions about the war in Iraq, foreign policy in general that do not reflect the way the country feels as a whole.

    I know polls do not mean everything and can be debated until the cows come home, but it says something that Bush's approval rating is around 37% at present time. In addition, more than half the country thinks we should not be in Iraq. How is that a government for the people, by the people and of the people? It does not sound like it to me.

    Bush and Republicans have taken advantage of the power they were given by the voters across the country. They will NOT admit any mistakes they have made on the war in Iraq and continue to think they have done no wrong.

    This is NOT a debate about Democrats and Republicans, it is a debate about a citizen such as myself questioning the use of power from the President and his cabinet. I do not like Bush as you can obviously tell, but myself and likely many other people around the world would cut Bush some slack if he would just admit he made some mistakes in Iraq and in the war on terror. Everyone makes mistakes, but Bush seems to think if he admits a mistake he is admitting defeat, which is not the case.

    Earlier this week all you heard were Republicans hollering at John Kerry to apologize about a comment he made about the troops. After two days, Kerry did. Now, my question is this, why hasn't Bush and his backers apologize to the troops and the citizens of the US for getting us into this mess in Iraq and putting our troops in harms way when they have no business being there?

    Petty, you and I are never going to agree with these things and that is fine. I will not claim to know a lot about politics and I sure as hell won't start reading blog after blog from either side of the aisle. I am a citizen who cares and loves this country. Unfortunately, the way things are going and the way this country is being led at present time does not lead me to believe things are headed in the right direction.

    Until we quit the bickering back and forth between parties and we unite as one country and face the problems of the world, we will be stuck in a rut with nowhere to go but down, down, down.

    We need to resucitate this country in a hurry or it is going to just get worse not only in the US, but all over the world.
     
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  13. HatterDon

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    Ah, now I understand the purpose of the photo. The president is, after all, the very first politician to show affection to a child during a political moment. No Democrat ever did that because they're all elitist America-haters. You're right, after seeing the president hugging the girl while keeping his eyes straight into the camera lens, suddenly I understand. I have been so wrong; how did this ever happen?

    I now applaud the creation of a national debt that will keep that little girl's grandchildren in debt up to their eyeballs.

    I now applaud the cessation of the war on terrorism to settle an old score with someone not remotely connected to 9/11.

    I now applaud the lies and deceptions that brought us into the war in the first place.

    I applaud the massive tax cuts for the wealthy that has had the effect of turning revenues that might have gone to supply our troops with decent body armor into huge mega-million dollar windfalls for our friends in the oil industry.

    I applaud the decision to appoint the chick down the hall to the Supreme Court, and the guy who curry combs the Appaloosa to FEMA. I don't know why I didn't see the genius of those moves the first time around.

    I applaud the decision to be johnny-on-the-spot when the hurricanes hit Florida where the Republicans have a fighting chance to win, but not in Louisiana where the Democrats have a lock.

    I even applaud the rolling blackouts in CA in the summer of 2001 when the whole state suffered because the ENRON cartel decided to withhold power just to punish an entire state for having the audacity to have elected a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators -- both of them WOMEN!

    Yep, just seeing that photograph has made me realize that I really didn't have any right to an opinion that hadn't already been approved by the administration. It's so much simpler just to smile and agree with everything that the president, the vice-president, Karl Rove, and Donald Rumsfeld say, and to listen to Rush Limbaugh every chance I get.

    Life is so much simpler now. All that thinking for myself I was doing was hurting my head anyhow.

    Where's that kool-aid again?
     
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  14. ChicagoTom

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    That was excellent Don! Post of the month and possibly post of the year there!! Bravo Don!!!
     
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    Yep... all that is right.

    What the hell was I thinking!
     
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    Who knew that a revived dead thread could provide so much enjoyment!
     
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